“Under the [“National Service”] plan, 18-year-olds will be given a choice between a full-time placement in the Armed Forces for 12 months or spending one weekend a month for a year [doing community work].
The Tories would also encourage employers to consider those who complete the Armed Forces placement during job applications.
However, the Armed Forces option would be selective – with only around 30,000 placements for ‘the brightest and best’.”
[Daily Mail]
So Sunak’s cockeyed “plan” for conscription turns out to be mainly a plan to have untrained 18-y-o young men and, I presume, women doing a kind of forced labour on one weekend per month for a year. Even by Sunak’s standards, this is pretty silly.
For one thing, the time is unbalanced. Leaving aside any Army/Navy leave or liberty days, it means that those choosing and being selected for the military or naval option will spend 365 days serving. The “civilian” option, though, will only take up 24 days.
Guess which option most young people are going to choose?
Even if you take off maybe 125 liberty days or leave days from the 365, that still only reduces to about 240 days on duty, as against 24. Ten times the commitment.
The idea that employers will give the “military/naval option” cadets an easier ride in later civilian job recruitment could not be enforced and relies entirely on goodwill.
In fact, the year of service (in either case) will set back the cadets or National Service litter-pickers for a year, especially the military/naval cadets, except those planning a Service career anyway.
As for the rest, spending one weekend a month picking up litter, helping clean hospitals, or planting trees, might not be a huge commitment of time, but will be seen by most as a kind of slave or serf labour, even if remunerated or compensated at say £150 per weekend (I have seen nothing so far, though, about any remuneration).
I suppose that, if the 30,000 military/naval cadets were offered pay (£15,000 p.a.?) and a gratuity, on completion, of some not-trifling amount (say £12,000 in cash, taxfree), that might spark some interest.
Over 700,000 or so people turn 18 every year in the UK. That means that 670,000+ will be on the monthly “community service” option.
What happens if the litter-pickers (etc) decide not to comply? Do they get taken to court? Fined? Ordered to comply on pain of imprisonment? What if there is mass non-compliance, or organized civil disobedience?
In fact, in view of the fact that the State has not the resources with which to imprison up to 700,000 young people, the most they could be given might be…unpaid work for a few days a month. Oh…
This has not been thought through by Sunak and/or those around him.
Likewise with the military/naval option. To train recruits to a basic level takes maybe 2-4 months (the British Army takes 14 weeks to basic-train standard recruits, the Royal Navy 10 weeks for ratings; officers are basic-trained for longer, 15-30 weeks), and overall training of those National Service cadets is likely to take a total of as long as 6 months (the British Army takes 44 weeks to fully train an officer).
In other words, after training, the cadets will only be available for deployment for 6 months before their time is up and they either leave or join the regular Army or Navy. Any trained to an officer level will only be available for deployment for a few months, or even weeks.
In other words, the increase in manpower might only be 15,000 or so, or is the idea to have both ordinary recruitment and National Service recruitment? Looks as though the end result would be much the same.
Also, who would choose to join as National Service recruit when he/she could join up with (?) better pay and conditions as a regular recruit and/or as an officer-cadet?
Will the National Service cadets or recruits be put into dedicated units, or mixed-in with regular units?
Again, this really has not been thought through.
The people this crazy scheme is apparently supposed to “help”, or change, or just control and monitor the most, those disaffected 18-y-o individuals who are not at or planning to go to university, nor into a structured career or job of some kind, will be the least likely to opt for the military/naval option, so will “choose” the “one weekend per month” option, and probably either fail to attend, or may do it very unwillingly, like a “community payback” penalty imposed by the courts.
What is the point?
Also, if the government has a force of about 670,000 “litter-pickers” (etc) to deploy, how many older (older than 18) people will thereby be deprived of the chance of doing paid or better-paid jobs doing the same or similar work?
Once again, the consequential effects have not been properly thought through.
Tweets seen
"Net migration in this parliament alone added more than 2 million people to Britain's population —enough for nearly 2 cities the size of Birmingham. This is why so many are concerned about the direction of travel"https://t.co/xMALs7SmZe
The most important problem facing both Britain and mainland Europe.
The entire world economy is under threat due to a glut of cheap Chinese exports, said French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire
“We have a problem with an economic model in which China produces more and more cheaper industrial devices, because this could pose a threat not only to…
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 27, 2024
L’homme qui rit (en Chinois)…
As if the pathetic French government is going to be able to do something/anything about this. The biggest weakness of all French governments is that they mistake making a gesture for actually accomplishing something. Macron is a prime example.
In fact, thinking of the French love for demonstrations and marches, most entirely ineffective, the tendency goes wider than just the political leadership.
The IDF press service publishes footage of an Israeli air attack on a Hezbollah facility in Lebanon pic.twitter.com/oOByd4a4Ks
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 27, 2024
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 26, 2024
Pity that the British Empire no longer exists. Churchill killed several empires, in effect— the German Reich, the British Empire (which died after using its sting to kill the German Reich), and the other European empires, which all eventually succumbed in direct or indirect consequence of what happened after 1939.
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[Central Coast highway, California]
[painting by Victor Ostrovsky]
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🚨NEW: Keir Starmer is attempting to put pro-Israel lobbyist Ruth Smeeth in charge of the Ministry of Defence.
This is what the near future has in store for the UK— a literal Israeli agent as Secretary of State for Defence. Look at ex-MP John Woodcock (now “Lord Walney”), a sex pest and depressive case who is one of the worst Israel/Jewish lobby puppets at Westminster. He is apparently over-excited by the possibility that Israel will have yet another of its main “candidates” at Cabinet level, right in there with the others (Starmer, Yvette Cooper, Rachel Reeves, Liz Kendall, Lisa Nandy etc).
All he wants is power and he'll say anything to get it. Independent Candidate Andrew Feinstein @AF4HSP with a brilliant introduction to the real Keir Starmer. If you let Starmer into Downing Street you'll spend the next five years eating what you ordered. pic.twitter.com/v5Jbs4IntA
All true (about Starmer), but all I myself am interested in, re. the upcoming General Election, directly, is to collapse one of the two main System parties, even at the high cost of allowing the other to become an “elected” dictatorship. Only by unbalancing the “two main parties” system can a social-national alternative arise.
Starmer speech in Lancing near where he grew up in Oxted. A personal speech in which he talks about growing up, his mother’s illness, struggling to make ends meet: A speech in which he tries to explain to voters who he is in order to try to better connect with public pic.twitter.com/PVQzSBXGBZ
Ecce the ****-poor quality of political reportage in the UK. Beth Rigby (the woman with the ludicrous accent or diction on Sky News) thinks that Lancing (West Sussex) is “near” Oxted (Surrey). Near? Well, 65.4 miles by road; as the crow flies, maybe 50 miles.
Steve Baker has, in US parlance, already "checked out"
"Mr Baker … accepted he’s widely expected to lose his 4,500 majority … telling LBC he wasn’t cancelling his holiday plans for the party’s general election campaign"https://t.co/sP6waydW0s
Israel is currently so genocidal that it and its supporters can’t even work out what line of justification to take. It was a mistake! It’s Egypt’s fault! All large crowds are Hamas! Fun fact: did you know that in some cases, killing children is legal? pic.twitter.com/sBvFkcFntc
So the Jewish chief of the Con Party election campaign is being accused of falling down on the job, thus making it even easier for pro-Israel Starmer and his cabal to win said election with a huge majority? I feel a conspiracy theory coming on…
[Addendum, same day: a regular reader of the blog suggests that Isaac Levido is not Jewish. I do not know for sure, despite the name(s) and the look of the said publicist, so am adding this cautionary addendum in the interests of accuracy and fairness].
Having said that, why the voters are turning away from the Con Party is not mainly by reason of poor presentation but by reason of very poor actual government of the country over the past 14 years, and especially the past 5 years.
Late tweets
Left: James Cleverly blames Doctor and Nurse strikes for the rise in NHS waiting lists
Right: Chart from the FT shows the rise of NHS waiting lists since the Conservatives took office in 2010. You see that black arrow on the right? That's when the strikes began pic.twitter.com/U2rqK5aPag
As Schiller put it, “Against stupidity, the Gods themselves struggle in vain“…[Schiller, Die Jungfrau von Orleans].
It is probably pointless to speculate on why those poor people, living on pennies, support the ultra-wealthy little Indian money-juggler. Mental degeneration? Insanity? Congenital mental problems?
Having said that, they are not entirely wrong, inasmuch as the Labour Party under Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper, Liz Kendall etc will probably be as bad as, and maybe worse than, Sunak and crew as far as social security “welfare” in concerned.
What can it be? The Israeli flag is to replace the Union Jack? Unlikely (too obvious). Sunak has resigned and there will be an immediate leadership election? Just about possible. British troops are being sent to fight on the Ukrainian frontlines? In that case, Goodnight Vienna London; it has been a pleasure…
At time of writing, it is —right now— 2229, so back in a minute or so…
2235. Still waiting. The clowns cannot even get their big announcement out on time.
Under the Conservatives, the State Pension had risen by £3,700 – and is increasing another £900 this year.
So that’s at. A desperate attempt to hold on to at least the former Con Party core vote of pensioners. The full registered electorate of the UK is about 45.5M; persons 65+ total about 11M, so about 27% of the electorate. Also, far more likely, traditionally to vote, either by post or in person.
These are pretty much the only people, or at least by far the biggest bloc, still likely to vote Con at GE 2024.
Whether it will make much difference, hard to say. Many pensioners will wonder a. as to whether Sunak will even be there after 4 July, and b. whether he can be trusted. There again, not all vote on the basis of perceived self-interest.
As a “big announcement”, slightly underwhelming, but I expect it will buy at least some votes. Absolutely desperate though, as a tactic.
“ Mom, I'm afraid to die ,” – The children in the refugee tents in Rafah, around which bombs are falling, are the children whom Israel burned. pic.twitter.com/B91AJnGrgF
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 27, 2024
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
…and if you cannot believe what (supposedly; they say; they claim) happened only last year, then how can you believe “them” when they claim that this, that, or the other happened in 1942, 1943, or 1944?
Footage shows a former Israeli soldier harassing a Muslim woman in the US, along with other pro-Israeli members. pic.twitter.com/b15EIq8hYr
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
“They” are very brave when in a group, harassing a lone woman but, if confronted, run away and then claim to be “victims”.
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 7, 2024
A horrible tribe.
Most of Israel's oil is supplied by post-Soviet countries such as Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan , all of which to this day passes along the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan route, and from Turkey to Israel . pic.twitter.com/D0T9OzsJ79
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 7, 2024
Turkey should turn off the tap.
Let them squirm as their tanks and trucks and cars grind to a halt.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
Al-Qassam Brigades showed another video of the destruction of the Merkava-3/4 tank pic.twitter.com/4hBvxamR1U
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
The IDF captured the Rafah checkpoint on the border of the Gaza Strip and Egypt – Israeli flags were raised there … The Rafah crossing was the only land corridor for people to enter and leave the Gaza Strip without going through Israel. … Let us remember that the capture of… pic.twitter.com/Ipxh0uoNDM
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
“The IDF captured the Rafah checkpoint on the border of the Gaza Strip and Egypt –
Israeli flags were raised there … The Rafah crossing was the only land corridor for people to enter and leave the Gaza Strip without going through Israel.
Let us remember that the capture of Rafah by the IDF is precisely the “absolutely red” line that all Middle Eastern players have drawn – from Iran and Qatar to Jordan and Saudi Arabia.”
Well, let’s see if the Arab and other Muslim states take any action against Israel. Frankly, I doubt their resolve.
Marine Le Pen on Macron's decision to send soldiers to Ukraine:
“War is the worst thing that can happen to a people and a country, and I am amazed at the ease with which Emmanuel Macron talks about it. When, with a glass of whiskey in hand, while talking to a singer at three… pic.twitter.com/fXGZf2UR4D
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
“Marine Le Pen on Macron’s decision to send soldiers to Ukraine:
“War is the worst thing that can happen to a people and a country, and I am amazed at the ease with which Emmanuel Macron talks about it. When, with a glass of whiskey in hand, while talking to a singer at three o’clock in the morning, they say: “I’ll have to send the guys to Odessa.”
Yes, I’m talking about ease, because we are talking about the lives of our soldiers. He wants to send troops for the sake of his own ego, personal image.”
I knew it had to be something like that. Pearl Harbor Mark 2.
I attempted an analysis of those events a few days or so after they happened, 7 months ago now.
'I want them to suspend him, pending an investigation.' 'Free speech demands accountability after you've used it.'
After a Green Party councillor shouted 'Allahu Akbar' following his election, the Jewish Representative Council's Simon Myerson gives @NickFerrariLBC his thoughts. pic.twitter.com/PVm2Wxckdi
Lying Zionist and obsessed online social media troll, Myerson, comes up with a repackaging of the brainless old chestnut“you have free speech but not freedom from the consequences of your free speech“. Under such formulae, Mao’s China and Stalin’s Russia had “free speech”…
Why has Myerson himself not yet been suspended, both as Recorder and barrister? He brings both the Bench and the Bar into disrepute. Looks like his thinking skills are also pretty poor.
[Update, 23 September 2024: Myerson was kicked off the Bench and sacked as Recorder —p/t judge— in June or July 2024, but was allowed to present his sacking as a “resignation”. Now the Bar Standards Board is (or so I read) examining, not for the first time, Myerson and his vituperative social media activity in relation to his status as barrister].
Dame Andrea Jenkyns has suggested Britain's illegal migration crisis is costing the country approx. £14 billion a year. I've written previously about the spiralling costs and numbers here 👇👇👇https://t.co/HSpmwDfhfa
We will conduct nuclear strike exercises to verify tactical nuclear weapons carriers. pic.twitter.com/9rr5LBQRNG
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
The IDF now controls the entire Philadelphia Axis along the Egyptian border in the Gaza Strip
This violates the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement, also known as the Camp David Accords.
Under the agreement, Israel is not allowed to station any military units in “Area D,”… pic.twitter.com/KfGbX5nHo3
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
“The IDF now controls the entire Philadelphia Axis along the Egyptian border in the Gaza Strip This violates the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement, also known as the Camp David Accords. Under the agreement, Israel is not allowed to station any military units in “Area D,” which is a narrow land corridor along the border with Egypt.“
They can never be trusted, any more than can most of their regional enemies.
Deputy Mayor of Be'er Sheva and Deputy Chairman of the International Branch of the ruling Likud Party, Shimon Boker, calls on IDF soldiers not to separate civilians from Hammas pic.twitter.com/nk5VrkI4Np
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
Simon Myerson KC is one of those making the loudest complaints about a Green Party councillor’s use of social media. It is inexplicable given his own recent history of social media use. https://t.co/jXU5SrMnHU
“Yesterday, 98 illegal immigrants on 2 dinghies were smuggled into our country by our so-called Border Force. The video shows the illegals being collected mid-Channel where Border Force were waiting to take them onboard & whisk them to our shores. The Home Office alleges that the French prevented 3 ‘events’ involving 71 illegals. The total for 2024 is 8,685 illegals on 178 dinghies. All undocumented. They could be anyone & they’re free to roam amongst us.”
By the end of 2024, it will be about 50,000, maybe more; the calm sea season has not even begun.
Several powerful explosions were heard in Lugansk
they report that there is a fire in the area of the oil depot
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
Fox News: Biden Loses in Every Poll
Biden is losing in all major polls, which is not surprising given that life for Americans is getting worse, Fox News reports. The country is experiencing one of the most painful inflationary periods in history, so the people have lost faith in… pic.twitter.com/aAhklzhKvg
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
Report in Politico: The release of the US State Department report, which was supposed to determine whether Israel violated international law in the Gaza war, scheduled for Wednesday, has been postponed indefinitely
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
The (((fix))) is in…
CIA Director Burns is expected to arrive in Israel today and meet with senior Israeli officials pic.twitter.com/1dMZa3Uw83
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
Actually, looking at that film, I was struck again by how much better-planned or built the Israeli villages and towns are compared to the Arab ones (anywhere). That will not lessen my overall hostility to Zionism and its Western lobby, but one must be objective.
Russia has ramped up its arms production and the US now expects it will produce more artillery this year than all 32 NATO members combined, reports Reuters pic.twitter.com/9l4NBnTsXV
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 7, 2024
#Panorama skewering the government on #immigration numbers, showing that the govt encouraged care workers & students to come to the U.K. with their dependents. The numbers are absurd. Add that to small boats, Afghans & Syrians & you have a disaster. pic.twitter.com/oT2qQvANEQ
Trump, today, now leads Biden by an average 1.7 in national polls & 4.7 in the key battleground states. Reboot my piece: why Trump is stronger than in 2016 https://t.co/yfG6h66bgr
Budanov is a legitimate target for Russian troops , said FSB director Alexander Bortnikov. pic.twitter.com/NCczVykMnK
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 26, 2024
All high-ranking members of the Kiev regime are legitimate targets, most of all Zelensky himself, and Danilov.
Jordanian attempt to attack the Israeli embassy
Last night, hundreds of Jordanians once again gathered in front of the Israeli embassy in Amman and, according to the media, they were planning to attack the embassy, but the security forces dispersed them with tear gas. pic.twitter.com/rMiQCGTJKp
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 26, 2024
Israeli embassies worldwide are not normal diplomatic buildings but centres for every kind of subversion and snooping, even compared to some others which mix diplomacy with an illegitimate amount of espionage and other activity.
London court postpones Assange's extradition to the US
Julian Assange has been granted a reprieve in his fight against extradition to America. London's Supreme Court has ruled that the WikiLeaks founder can take his case to an appeal hearing if the UK and US fail to meet certain… pic.twitter.com/axITft07dc
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 26, 2024
“London court postpones Assange’s extradition to the US Julian Assange has been granted a reprieve in his fight against extradition to America.
London’s Supreme Court has ruled that the WikiLeaks founder can take his case to an appeal hearing if the UK and US fail to meet certain conditions, The Guardian writes.
The court demands that the United States allow Assange to invoke the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which guarantees freedom of speech. They must also ensure that his Australian citizenship will not affect the proceedings, and that the death penalty will not be taken against the whistleblower, the publication explains.
If the court does not receive such guarantees by April 16, the defense will be able to appeal. However, even if assurances are provided, the parties will be able to file a motion before a final decision is made to file an appeal, the article emphasizes. If Assange is denied permission to appeal, he could be sent to the United States within days to face espionage charges.
His lawyers insist that the charges related to WikiLeaks’ publication of thousands of secret and diplomatic documents related to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are politically motivated and the extradition request is illegal.“
A purely political and malicious attempt to silence a truthteller. On a smaller stage, the same happened to me, most recently in 2023-2014.
This now seriously ill man is being tortured before our eyes by a system both sides of the Atlantic that is deeply sick and satanically evil. pic.twitter.com/J7jjwvUMz9
The Tories have pledged to keep the state pension triple lock in place if they win the next election – 72% of Britons think the triple lock should remain in place (including a majority across all generations)https://t.co/Cy60U7qpqgpic.twitter.com/g4WuDEXnLg
NEW. A judge granted asylum to chemical attacker Abdul Ezedi despite concluding he had told a "litany of lies" about his life (The Times). As I wrote at the time, we are being led by foolshttps://t.co/Jbqi7cF4cd
At what point does that sort of thing stop being foolishness (or idiocy) and start to become a form of deliberate treason?
Former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl made an interesting statement:
“The entire political system in large European countries like France and Germany has collapsed. The one who destroyed the political landscape was French President Emmanuel Macron.” pic.twitter.com/oPtimDlSjH
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 26, 2024
McGregor believes that the Ukrainian president, because he has no solution on the battlefield, is ready to take desperately dangerous steps in order to confront Russia in some way. pic.twitter.com/PM0vaNYuvW
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 26, 2024
That seems to be a reference to American ex-officer Macgregor: see
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Well, this week I am back on winning form— 6/10, compared to political journalist John Rentoul’s 5/10. I very nearly got more, but could not bring the answers to questions 7 and 10 to mind for some reason; I had no idea about question 5, and guessed wrong on question 9.
Announcement
Regular readers will please be aware that, despite my trial, conviction, and sentence in respect of alleged breaches of the notorious Communications Act 2003, s.127, this blog will continue to be published.
I shall blog later (probably later today) about the trial (held in November 2023) and sentencing hearing (held 14 March 2024).
The blog will continue to be published, but the style will have to change, inasmuch as my freedom to express views and to explain current and historical events has inevitably been restricted by the trial and sentence.
I am not in fact under any greater legal prohibition now than I was a year ago, but it will be readily understood that my having been convicted does apply somewhat of a chilling effect on my freedom to write what I want, or in such terms as I should prefer.
The “usual suspects”, and their dupes in the police and Crown Prosecution Service, will now be watching and “monitoring” (spying and snooping on) my blog in even greater detail than was previously the case.
They may think that they have scored a narrow victory “on points”, as the sport people say; I say merely that we shall see…
Like Sir Thomas More, I shall express my views and opinions in compliance with current law (however misguided and abused that law may be), so far as I can do so without compromising principle and honour.
Quite apart from that, I think that, in the circumstances of repression and “control” in which we (in the UK and some other countries) live, all social-national people have to look beyond the mere expression of views and the mere analysis of events to actually accomplishing the germinal basis of a different and more advanced society.
[Update, 9 June 2024:I should point out that my sentence, which was called (some days or weeks later) “absurdly lenient” by the malicious and conspiratorial Jew-Zionist group, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (which admits to having pushed for 7 years for me to be prosecuted), was made by the learned (and generally quite fair) sentencing judge on the specific recommendation of the Probation Service officer who met me in mid-December 2023 and later drafted a pre-sentence report for the Court. The sentence itself (a “community order” with 15 “rehabilitation days”) exactly followed the recommendation made in that report.]
More music
Of all the types of music of the Renaissance (and/or as modern-day composers have reinvented it) for me the best is the stately Pavane.
Old England, in the morning of its glory.
Talking point
[from the Daily Telegraph]
“A former Nato commander predicts our future – and it looks terrifying.
Ever since Erskine Childers’s 1903 novel The Riddle of the Sands urged the British government to treat Germany, not France, as the leading threat of the new century, thrillers have often been co-opted as a means of warning policymakers about under-appreciated perils – with the advantage that such a book may be more likely to keep the reader awake than a dispassionate report.
Three years ago, the novelist and decorated ex-Marine Elliot Ackerman collaborated with former Nato Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis on a political thriller called 2034.
The novel imagines – or predicts; we’ll see – that in the next decade a complacent America will suddenly find its military technologies outclassed by those of its rivals, and when pulled into a conflict with China in 2034, will resort to tactical nuclear strikes, resulting in the tit-for-tat annihilation of Shanghai and San Diego.
The book ends on the brink of a new world order, with a truce called but the US and China so badly damaged that India and parts of Africa are able to vie with them for superpower status.
Now, Ackerman and Stavridis have dusted down their crystal ball for a sequel: 2054. This time, the threat facing humanity isn’t nuclear destruction, but the event that keeps futurists awake at night, “the Singularity”, defined here as “an ‘intelligence explosion’, the equivalent of thousands of years of biological evolution crammed into months or even weeks when machine and human learning [will] integrate into a single consciousness”.
The Singularity may bring about such advantages as immortality, if you’re happy to have your brain uploaded into a mechanical super-body: useful in a future in which pandemics are commonplace. But it’s going to be bad news for the enemies of whichever nation or corporation wins the race to develop the tech.“
A question which has concerned me since I first read predictions of what seemed to be possible human/robot melding in then-unpublished manuscripts by Rudolf Steiner and Valentin Tomberg.
As far as I know, the relevant Steiner manuscripts, and probably also the Tomberg ones, are still unpublished. I do not know whether they might be in that online archive. Probably not. I read them well over 40 years ago, in a basement, from dusty files containing brittle old typescript.
Tweets seen
Vaughan Gething set to become Wales’ first minister and first black man in the post after winning Welsh Labour leadership contest https://t.co/y53vV2Vi7L
The Great Replacement. The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan (ignore the pretty blatant vandalistic “editing” carried out by some of “the usual suspects”).
Not that I fully favour Marine le Pen (her father was better), but this has to be a positive move. The “Overton Window” is moving, and it is moving across Europe, except in Britain, where the “usual suspects” have a stranglehold on the mainstream media, politics, the legal system etc.
That is not to say that nothing is happening in the UK, but it is happening under the surface, as in all police states; for that is what the UK is becoming. Not a full police state, as yet; very much (usually) a “velvet glove” (“iron fist in velvet glove”) one.
The direction of travel, though, is pretty clear, looking at what happened during the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic.
Most of the population complied with every last stupid, silly, pointless, made-up-on-a-whim, completely ridiculous “rule” invented by “Boris”-idiot, Little Matt Hancock and the misnamed “SAGE” committee (I always called it “DUMB”, i.e. “Department Under Matt and Boris”): “the Rule of Six”, “social distancing” of 1, 2, or 3 metres, the facemask nonsense etc.
Most people complied with being shepherded about in, or outside, supermarkets by bossy “security” dogsbodies or insolent little shop-girls. How the latter must have hated having had to give up instructing shoppers where to stand and walk, and having had to return to their usual routine of filling shelves and serving customers, rather than barking at them…
Quite a number of members of the public, either from misplaced fear, or from sheer malice, were willing to “report” (denounce, as it was always called in the Soviet Union under Stalin) their neighbours for “crimes” such as taking a ride in the car or on a motorbike, or having a few friends over for a drink at home.
The very compliant ones, and the enthusiastic collaborators, can be written off. Useless people. Our interest, at this stage, is in the non-compliant part of the population. They may still have some fight in them.
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The real situation of the army of the Israel
Yitzhak Brik (Major General of the Israeli Army Reserve) :
Many years ago, I repeatedly warned about the inadmissibility of reducing ground forces in the army, but today everyone is aware of the extent of the error of reduction.… pic.twitter.com/jl1HBW3tV1
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 16, 2024
“The real situation of the army of the Israel.
Yitzhak Brik (Major General of the Israeli Army Reserve) : Many years ago, I repeatedly warned about the inadmissibility of reducing ground forces in the army, but today everyone is aware of the extent of the error of reduction.
The ground army is a small force that does not have surplus forces; in order to strengthen one sector, it is necessary to bring in forces from another sector. The situation is so bad that the army does not have the strength to fight in more than one and a half sectors.“
Please support me through the link on my page My family in Gaza is suffering I beg you to help me 😭https://t.co/AkHyHHqrdb
Former head of the Czech intelligence service: Russia is crushing Ukraine, heading for victory
▪️Russia is systematically destroying the Armed Forces of Ukraine, thanks to its industry and logistics, and the West is unable to oppose it, said the former head of the Czech military… pic.twitter.com/uE7a15Jp5J
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) March 16, 2024
“Former head of the Czech intelligence service: Russia is crushing Ukraine, heading for victory.
Russia is systematically destroying the Armed Forces of Ukraine, thanks to its industry and logistics, and the West is unable to oppose it, said the former head of the Czech military intelligence service, General Petr Pelc, in an interview for “Radio Universe”.
“Russia is crushing Ukraine in a slow and systematic way. We all send it money, part of which disappears somewhere, part does not even reach Ukraine, and thus we only prolong the agony and increase the number of dead people,” Peltz believes. – “
Weapons and soldiers win battles, and industry and logistics win wars. That’s all. The question is what we call a military victory. In two years of this armed conflict, Russia increased the productivity of its military-industrial complex 15 times. We are not for that, of course capable ,” he stated.“
As I have always said, short of a palace revolution in Moscow followed by complete anarchy, Russia cannot lose this war, and will not lose it.
My recent trial and sentencing hearing
Background
On 30 November 2023, I was tried under Communications Act 2003, s.127 in respect of 5 counts of having breached the said Act by having allegedly posted 5 pages of this blog.
In fact, only small parts of those 5 pages were alleged to have been “grossly offensive” (a few comments, remarks and cartoons).
To put the accusations into context, today’s blog post is number 1,799; tomorrow’s will be number 1,800. 1,800 blog posts published since November or December 2016.
Even taking the last few years, there have been blog pages posted almost every day, at least 1,000 in the past 3 years. I stood accused of having posted 5 pages, out of which pages about 2% of the content was supposedly “grossly offensive”.
I do not propose to go into the decade of persecution of me engaged in by Jewish Zionists, pro-Israel Jews. Anyone interested in the background can find it on the blog easily enough via the search box. Suffice to say that there has been a decade of false complaints and reports to police, politicians, professional regulators etc.
The organizations persecuting me (and many others, from Al Jazeera TV to David Icke, to Alison Chabloz, to various social-national political figures) have been the Campaign Against Antisemitism [“CAA”] and UK Lawyers for Israel [“UKLFI”]. The memberships or supporter-cadres tend to overlap to a degree.
I was wrongfully and (as it later transpired) unlawfully disbarred in 2016. I was later invited to re-open the matter, but declined, partly because I might have been re-instated at the Bar but fined heavily; in any case, the Bar is now a dustbin as far as I am concerned.
Various malicious and false (based on lies) complaints were made about me to the police from about 2012. All such complaints were from CAA-connected Jewish individuals. Not one was upheld, but I was subjected to two “voluntary” police interviews and a number of insolent telephone calls from police drones.
The last such lying complaint about me was made in 2021 by one Stephen Silverman, who grandly styles himself “Head of Investigations and Enforcement” at the “CAA”. My account of that can also be found on the blog. That complaint was thrown out by the Crown Prosecution Service [“CPS”] in early 2022, but the “CAA” persisted in trying to get the matter re-opened via the so-called “victim’s right of review”.
In a clear misuse of their powers, the CPS, having informed me that I would not be prosecuted for the (completely untrue) “racially-aggravated harassment” of Silverman (for which there was no evidence whatsoever), dropped that potential charge, but then (a year later) charged me of having posted 5 “grossly offensive” pages from this blog. Though never arrested, I was charged by post early last year, 2023.
The “CAA” are still tweeting and scribbling on their website that they have pursued me for 7 years (in reality, longer), and that my “case” was only brought to court after “Lord” Ian Austin (former Labour MP) wrote directly to the Director of Public Prosecutions to demand that I be prosecuted.
The prosecution of me was purely political.
🇬🇧 Following action from CAA, former barrister Ian Millard appears in court over five offences contrary to Communications Acthttps://t.co/FVWeiwwzJ4
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) June 29, 2023
After CAA action, former barrister Ian Millard found guilty of offences relating to comments about Jews.
Once again, the CPS dragged its feet and only acted after we applied pressure.
So far, in the past days, no tweet from them about my sentence, which they no doubt think too light.
The trial, and later sentencing hearing
The trial took place over one day in November 2023. It was presided over by District Judge [stipendiary magistrate, in the formerly-used title] Greenfield at Southampton Magistrates’ Court. I represented myself.
The old saw has it that “a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client“. Very true words, but I had reasons for doing so. Firstly, I have not been, nominally, a barrister for many years, and not a practising barrister for about 16 years.
I have not been involved in criminal law (except some corporate “crime” and international extradition matters) for even longer, since the early/mid 1990s. I was therefore treated more loosely by the Court, as being a non-lawyer. Also, I have little but contempt for the spineless Bar of today, and would not wish to be represented by one of them, even though in some respects I might have been better off having an advocate who was current on the law and practice of the criminal courts. I undoubtedly made mistakes in my Court presentation etc.
I found the judge to be generally courteous, eminently fair in most respects, and willing to put the rather poor police and CPS case to the test where he felt that it was particularly weak.
The judge was, however, unwilling to listen to argument about why I had even been charged, i.e. the obvious (and now admitted) political pressure brought to bear on the CPS, which had caved in to pressure from the Jewish/Zionist lobby (as the “CAA” itself admits on its website and Twitter/X account).
The judge (fairly enough, in a sense) made the point that I could go to the High Court on a judicial review application, work that I once did as Counsel, about 30 years ago. That would have had the effect of automatically staying the criminal prosecution, possibly for a year or more. Yes, in theory, but someone on his own, without money? Difficult.
Silverman from the “CAA” was in Court, but he was not a witness, and gave no evidence; just sat at the back of the Court. Afraid of being cross-examined, no doubt, and as I had pointed out in preliminary documentation.
I have no idea why the police never charged Silverman with, at very least, wasting police time over his demonstrably false accusation that I had “racially and/or religiously harassed” him in 2021, which brought two police drones to my door (on my birthday, at that) and effectively compelled me to attend two “voluntary” interviews (the first called off for technical reasons when I had already attended).
In my view, Silverman could have been charged with perversion of the course of justice: “Perverting the course of justice and witness intimidation are serious offences that undermine the administration of justice by falsely accusing people or withholding crucial evidence thus potentially damaging police investigations and wasting courts’ time” [Sentencing Council].
As in other aspects of this case, there are serious questions to be answered around the role of Silverman and the “CAA”, and his/their apparent influence over the police and CPS, but as matters stand they remain unanswered and may remain unanswered.
Reverting to the trial itself, I had been intending to make a submission at “half-time” (after close of the Prosecution case) of “no case to answer”, and on at least two grounds, but the judge (very fairly) pre-empted that (because I was treated as a non-lawyer and unrepresented by a practising advocate), and did it for me, in effect, by grilling Prosecution Counsel (instructed by the CPS) for a bit, before retiring to consider the matter over the lunchtime adjournment.
Sadly for me, the judge decided that the case could continue (I think that it was touch-and-go), so it did. I should not have bothered to give evidence but did (a mistake; I was very tired), and was briefly though not much cross-examined.
The judge gave a fairly brief summing-up and, in my now almost-lay opinion, said one or two things that seemed to me to provide possible appeal points, before convicting me on all 5 counts. A short discussion about potential sentence level then occurred between judge and Prosecution Counsel, and I had to get up and politely insist that I thought that another view was possible about level of sentence; and that was that. Adjourned for 3 months.
The matter reconvened in early 2024 and was adjourned after the Prosecution applied to ask for a Criminal Behaviour Order restricting my blogging slightly.
The sentencing hearing took place on 14 March 2024. The sentencing judge (District Judge/magistrate), District Judge Callaway (a former Deputy Chief Metropolitan Magistrate) presided, District Judge Greenfield having in the intervening period been gazetted and appointed to the Circuit Bench as His Honour Judge Greenfield (now sitting at Reading County Court).
I have to say that I found the sentencing judge, D.J. Callaway, to be as generally fair and courteous as had been the trial judge, D.J. Greenfield.
I had drafted in advance a Defendant’s Argument on Sentence, examining the relevant law as well as my own circumstances, which the sentencing judge was kind enough to say “was very well put together“, if I recall his words correctly. Maybe I still have the remnants of the barristerial skills that (if I may immodestly remember) led some (though not all!) judges to commend me in Court all those years ago. A different world…
The cutbacks in court funding led to one farcical situation when it transpired that the sentencing judge had not seen the long email (about various other matters), and which I had emailed about 10 days in advance of the hearing, requesting that it be printed out and supplied to the judge.
Not only that, the very efficient Clerk of the Court was unable to find the email at all. Fortunately, Prosecution Counsel, not present in person but appearing like a disembodied spirit via video link (something I had never seen before), and on a small TV high up on a side wall, was able to forward the email (which I had copied to the CPS as a courtesy).
The Prosecution’s application for a Criminal Behaviour Order against me re. my blogging was refused, the judge agreeing, in effect, with me that the proposed Order had been so badly-drafted that it would be impossible to enforce and anyway added nothing useful.
The CPS really are a bunch of clowns; not even honest clowns, looking at the way I have been treated over the past two and a half years.
My submission on sentence, that it should be a conditional discharge, or small fine, was not upheld by the judge. Prosecution Counsel, who on the previous occasion had intimated that the CPS were looking for an uplift on sentence based on the idea that my case was a “hate crime”, despite there being no actual victim (accepted by the trial judge and the CPS at and prior to trial), agreed with the sentencing judge that a “lower level community order” would be the correct penalty.
I was sentenced to a “community order” (akin to the “probation” of former years), which involves 15 meetings with the Probation Service, spread over 9 months, so about one meeting every 2-3 weeks.
In addition, I am to pay a total of nearly £800 in costs, including a notional “surcharge”. Money that I do not have right now.
Crowdfunder
In relation to the above-mentioned costs, I have just set up a crowdfunder. If anyone can help, either with a money donation, or via sharing the crowdfunder link on social media or elsewhere, I should be most grateful.
I shall blog about the (slightly amusing) aftermath of the trial and sentence tomorrow.
[Update, 9 June 2024:I should point out that my sentence, which was called (some days or weeks later) “absurdly lenient” by the malicious and conspiratorial Jew-Zionist group, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (which admits to having pushed for 7 years for me to be prosecuted), was made by the learned (and generally quite fair) sentencing judge on the specific recommendation of the Probation Service officer who met me in mid-December 2023 and later drafted a pre-sentence report for the Court. The sentence itself (a “community order” with 15 “rehabilitation days”) exactly followed the recommendation made in that report.]
[Update, 13 September 2024: As of yesterday, I do not have to attend any further meetings with the Probation Service, despite not having actually attended very many: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2024/09/13/diary-blog-13-september-2024/. My sentence is therefore effectively at an end. “The usual suspects” ((( ))) will be fuming].
Memory Lane
[me as barrister, London, early 1990s]
[me as “international lawyer”, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 1996]
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[painting by Victor Ostrovsky. I rather like this one; it must remind me of someone…]
"Almost 9 in 10 constituencies in British politics have a preference for lower immigration and tighter controls. Only in 12% of seats is there a majority for more migration and relaxed controls" https://t.co/sNOM3g08QQ
The Jew-Zionists play it differently in France, the UK etc; there, they try to abuse laws of various kinds in order to repress free speech and freedom of expression, while trying to keep a stranglehold on the mainstream media.
The unfortunate population of Gaza suffers and suffers, while the Israeli and other Jew-Zionists mock their suffering in Tik-Tok and other online postings. “They” are laughing (so far).
🇫🇷 Macron: France will very soon finalize the agreement on security guarantees for Kiev pic.twitter.com/7Tm4tUgjse
Poland was then (September 1939) flattened by invasions from two sides, by the German Reich advancing from the west, and by the Red Army advancing from the east (with a few other little incursions in the south as well). France (and Britain) declared war on one invader-state only, the German Reich, and did not actually lift a finger to assist Poland directly.
“The number of Albanians arriving on the small-boats rose sharply between 2020 and 2022, from 54 to 12,301, though is now beginning to fall. Yet at the same time the number of Indian nationals crossing has risen sharply, from not a single Indian in 2018 or 2019 to almost 700 last year.
Some suggest Indians are now the third-largest cohort of migrants crossing the Channel. There are currently more than 51,000 asylum-seekers living in hotels in Britain.
At the end of 2022, the total estimated one-year cost of asylum-related spending on hotel accommodation, asylum-related allowances, healthcare, and school places – along with supporting new bodies like the Small Boats Operational Command (SBOC) and a technical unit specialising in asylum applications by Albanians – is now estimated to be in the region of £3.5 billion.
Put another way, last year the UK government spent three and a half times more accommodating newcomers in hotels (£2.2 billion) than the £630 million spent tackling homelessness in the UK, or spent more money accommodating newcomers than it spent on the latest fund for Levelling-up the left behind regions outside of London (£2.1 billion).“
[Matt Goodwin, on his Substack blog].
In theory, there is almost no limit to the numbers who can claim “asylum” in the UK. The applicable law and rules were passed at a time or times when it was never envisaged that globalization and international disorder might result in huge populations, hundreds of millions of people, deciding to relocate en masse to Europe, including the UK.
If sceptics say, “it would never happen” (that hundreds of millions might strike out for the UK), the present migration-invasion (both “legal” and “illegal”) was never thought, by the average Joe, to be likely to happen, either. I can recall being ridiculed for suggesting that it might happen. That was in the 1970s. Look now…
Matt Goodwin, however, seems to be labouring under the misapprehension (let us politely call it that) that the System is simply incompetent, whereas in fact, amid the general incompetence of the Westminster Bubble types, there are secret and sinister plans afoot, and have been for decades: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan.
The continuing migration-invasion has already pretty much killed off, in most people, the pride in being British felt by most previous generations; it is also, right now, killing off what is left of the idea that the UK is “a nation” or a small group of 4-6 nations in one. It is killing off the Welfare State, the NHS, the idea that the average person without family money can buy a decent house or flat, and much else besides.
There will either be chaos or civil war, or both, by 2050 if not long before that date.
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Why did I just see a video of IDF soldiers trying to break into a Palestinians safe in their houses? Is Hamas hiding in there too?
Is that surprising? Starmer is a member of Labour Friends of Israel (as is Blair, whereas Cameron-Levita, Theresa May, “Boris” Johnson, and Liz Truss are all members of Conservative Friends of Israel. Not forgetting the little Indian money-juggler, Sunak).
“It was her parents who instilled her Jewish faith and the Starmers have continued in that tradition.
Despite Sir Keir being an atheist, the family attend The Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St John’s Wood. A politico from the Jewish community tells me: ‘Keir has fully embraced Victoria’s Jewish practice.’ Their children are said to go to Cheder lessons at the synagogue, where young people learn about Judaism.
They uphold the Shabbat tradition of Friday-night dinners with familyand friends as often as they can, even taking to Zoom prayers – read by Victoria’s father – during the pandemic. Invitations to these dinners are known to be ‘highly prized’…
Her faith may in fact turn out to be significant in a political sense. As towhat her first official foray into politics might be, one Westminster insider suggests that it could be connected with the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM): ‘Giving a speech to JLM would be quite an easy introduction because it is already the community she is part of.’
The group has approached Sir Keir’s office about Lady Starmer’s involvement. At the Labour Party’s annual conference in Liverpool last September, she went with Ruth Smeeth, who has since been nominated for a Labour peerage, and a small group from JLM to Liverpool Reform Synagogue to mark the first day of Jewish New Year.
Another Westminster insider says: ‘She has helped shape Keir’s understanding of anti-Semitism...”
[Tatler]
These human animals should have their British citizenship revoked
I disagree with calling any humans, or humanoids, “animals“. The animal kingdom already suffers so much from humanity, so I prefer not to add insult to injury.
On the “terrorism” point, though, Jews have been going from the UK, France, USA etc to Israel for training and indoctrination for decades. They stand ready to do whatever they are told to do.
Victor Ostrovsky [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Ostrovsky] has said (and written) that MOSSAD and other Israeli Intelligence agencies maintain arms caches in all countries except the USA. So the arms (and explosives?) are already in the UK, as are those Jews who have received military and other training in Israel. Most if not all have UK passports and mostly dual nationality. A ready-made small army…
Is the Security Service complacent about all that? Complicit? The Government actually gives Jewish organizations British taxpayers’ money in order to “assist with security”. Is there any oversight? I doubt it.
Public opinion in the West is finally beginning to understand what the Israelis are up to in Gaza. It has been painfully slow to happen, but when even Piers Morgan realises a campaign of indiscriminate mass murder is being waged against the Palestinians, you know the blank cheque… https://t.co/QrI5RySsuF
Israeli war crimes, cheered on by (it seems, looking at Twitter/X and elsewhere) many, maybe most of the Jews currently resident in the UK, France, USA etc. That, at least, is my own impression (I concede that my conclusion is based on evidence anecdotal or unscientific).
Late tweets
Public see 10000s of young men coming to UK illegally from a safe country, France, put up in hotels at great cost, some absconding, some committing crimes. Then they hear Westminster claim that, because of ‘international law’, we can’t deport them. And they say “Are you serious?” pic.twitter.com/6vXJCVwLYV
“The Tories are failing to provide a serious & effective response to illegal migration while also losing control of legal migration. And now both will almost certainly soar to even higher levels under a Labour government, which has no serious plan for the former and does not care about the latter.
This will further erode public trust in politics, fuel division, cost more lives in the Channel, and undermine the legitimacy of the old politics.
The real losers in all this will be the British people who simply asked for what they were promised in 2016: control over their borders and much lower levels of immigration.
The end result –I suspect– will either be widespread apathy or the emergence of a new politics which finally takes this promise, and the British people, seriously.”
[Matt Goodwin]
First apathy, then perhaps, after the UK slides further into the mire, there may emerge, from the depths of the people, a new wave.
The Israeli army continues to blow up entire residential areas in the Gaza Strip, pic.twitter.com/0oXtEWVY3u
Zelensky began to prepare Western public opinion for total mobilization in Ukraine and the extradition of Ukrainian men: “This is a matter of law and justice. If you are of mobilization age, according to Ukrainian law, you must be in Ukraine. It is a fact. And then you will fight… pic.twitter.com/mwWIpihbDB
“Zelensky began to prepare Western public opinion for total mobilization in Ukraine and the extradition of Ukrainian men: “This is a matter of law and justice. If you are of mobilization age, according to Ukrainian law, you must be in Ukraine. It is a fact. And then you will fight or not fight. You will work.
Without the help of the US and EU, Ukraine will struggle, Ukraine will be weaker and this will be an opportunity for Russia to take over us. And as soon as they capture us, believe me, it will be a war between NATO and Russia.”
[Zelensky]
🇺🇦Zelensky admitted: There are not enough resources in the world to defeat the Russian army pic.twitter.com/IDvMTY7Mfy
Note: Gliere, or Glier, is scarcely known to the public now, especially in the West, but won the Stalin Prize three times, and was the holder of three awards of the Order of Lenin, as well as the Order of the Red Banner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Gli%C3%A8re.
Gliere died in 1956 (the year of my birth), aged 81.
Image of the day
Rafah, Gaza. More young children injured by the Israeli Jews.
Tweets seen
another Leopard 2A4 destroyed…little by little the Russians take the upper hand and the UA is totally helpless. It's very sad to see how the Leopard 2 is on the verge of extinction.😅https://t.co/hs3bhjpcIV
As I have blogged from the start, and speaking strategically, Russia cannot lose this war.
Decades of Neoliberal Capitalism in the #EU have seen the gutting of Public Services + rampant inequality – Yet the EU's priority is Defence spending, instead of promoting Peace – The EU refused to call for a Ceasefire in Ukraine, the EU refused to call for a Ceasefire in #Gaza.. pic.twitter.com/gI49mjOXIS
UKRAINE WAR || A Russian Su-24M front-line bomber is flying a sortie armed with a barraging smart bomb RBK-500 UMPC. From this footage the resembles between a bomber and a beaver becomes apparent, explainig why the Su-24M's are named Beavers in the Russian Army. pic.twitter.com/Mjq3Yqt279
Russian kamikaze drone destroys a Ukrainian P-18 VFU radar in Kryvih Rih, over 90km away from the frontline. Ukraine has large gaps in its air defenses and electronic warfare. pic.twitter.com/a42SHcXkTE
Sources say they are now in talks with the Home Office to house up to 1600 ILLEGAL MIGRANTS there and the manager wants to beat ME up for trying to expose it
Sick of leftie do gooders saying of course RNLI should be in French waters and bringing Muslim men here even though Boulogne nearest hospital. Now Pontins in Sussex is sacking staff to take in 1,600 gimmegrants. This country is over 😡
Frankly, I was always basically anti-Soviet, and still am (in general or in theory, Sovietism having died over 30 years ago) but, in retrospect, this country and the rest of Western Europe would have been better off invaded and occupied by Soviet forces in the 1980s than (as has now happened) being invaded and occupied by hordes of untermenschen, while the “Zionists” exploit our people and repress our freedom of expression.
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[Chekhov and Gorky, c.1900]
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I'm not on a grift but if you are out and about today please consider buying a homeless person a hot drink and some food
A homeless man's body has just been found in the car he was living in in Beeston Nottingham
Even the System administrators in the UK admit that about a million “new” inhabitants (even “net”) are in the UK every year. “Illegal” migration-invasion, “legal” migration and also (not even included in immigration statistics) about 500,000 births to non-whites within the UK. Every year. If you add those, the true figure is about 1.5M per year. White (real British) people are not even replacing their numbers.
The Great Replacement. The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.
The “liberal” and other pro-immigration idiots (and/or enemies of the people) never address the consequences— lack of housing, slow collapse of all civic and social services, fewer opportunities for British youth, lower pay, lower State benefits, and no decent future…
The pro-immigration idiots or enemies just drone that the UK should “build more houses“, meaning hundreds of thousands of dwellings per year, destroying our once “green and pleasant land”, and yet not even keeping pace with the numbers flooding in (and being born to invaders already here).
There are hundreds of millions of blacks, browns, Chinese and others who would like to live in the UK, even as it now is. Many would have, under the outdated “asylum” laws, a legal “right” to live here, if they can blag a way to get here. Imagine the UK with a population of 2 or 3 or 10 times what it now is, so 140M, 210M, even 700M, almost all non-white, non-European.
In reality, our society, and our political system, would collapse into chaos long before the population even reached 100M. Perhaps that is what will happen. If so, the most resilient British survivors may then have to “wade through slaughter to a throne“, in the words of Gray’s Elegy.
The USA may still have enormous military-destructive power, but internally is in a state of near-collapse in terms of the quality of its population. Imagine what it will be like there in 50 years, or even 20.
Ha ha! “They” love “apologies” from anyone who has criticized “them” and then been subject to overt or covert attack by “them”. It gives “them” the opportunity to grind the heel even more.
Well, looks like Elon Musk has been unwilling to “apologise” to “them” for perfectly acceptable remarks about “them”. Don’t expect anything from me, either.
.@Cosmopolitan who claim to be the “largest young women’s media brand in the world” promoted a “satanic abortion” ritual to empower women getting abortions. This is demonic. pic.twitter.com/1CJPXuFcxY
“Let’s talk about rape in France. We all know who is doing the raping, so we don’t have to talk about that. But, let’s prove it by numbers.
In 1971, the rate of declared rapes in France stood at 2.0 cases per 100,000 people. In 2015, when the “great migration” started the rape rate for France was 20.1 cases per 100,000 people.Today, they’re sitting at 39.59 cases per 100,000 people. You’re looking at nearly 94,000 reported rapes a year. About 5,000 to 7,000 of those rapes are gang rapes.
The other day, some migrant raped a 93 year old woman and a 95 year old woman while they were in a hospital.
Yet, many young liberal French women are still encouraging the illegal migration to continue. Do they think they’ll be passed over when a migrant randomly gets horny for something and they’re in arms distance? None of it has to be this way.“
Eventually, what has to be done will be done, but how many White Northern European people will have to suffer and die before the iron necessity happens?
A Joseph Rowntree Foundation report estimates the number of people experiencing ‘destitution’, which it defines as having a very low income or having to go without basic supplies, has more than doubled in the last five years in the UK. pic.twitter.com/uXRuoNoiT3
🇮🇱🇵🇸 The New York Times has produced a detailed analysis of the rocket attack on a hospital in Gaza, debunking the Israeli claim that the rocket came from inside Gaza, and concluding it was fired from Israel.
Rachel Reeves is a horrible woman, completely in the pocket of the Jewish/Zionist lobby, completely dishonest, and a freeloading pseudo-Labour MP of the worst kind.
Rachel Reeves currently poses as Shadow Chancellor, yet she ran up a large debt on her (interest-free) House of Commons credit card, and for a long time refused to repay it. Typical unmerited “entitlement”, and reminiscent of the Blair-Brown “MPs in clover” days. The details of that credit card fraud/freeloading have been removed from Wikipedia.
I heard a droning political address on Sky News this morning, and thought that it was Blair but, when I looked up, saw that it was Sunak! Their voices are almost identical. How is this possible?
In recent weeks, pro-Israel trolls have been flooding Twitter, attempting to hijack debates and use the Community Notes function to undermine posts showing the country in a negative light.
“They” always try to twist everything, and try to take over…
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“Where are the limits of religious freedom?
A blog post published 5 years ago, but since then read by almost nobody. I think that that is a pity, because I think it worth reading. I happened to notice that it had a hit, a single hit, this morning, the first for many months, so thought to republish it by the link below:
"The particular venom directed at Israel has become exceptional.”
The plan to expel UK visa-holders for expressing antisemitic views is a “diversion from the real problem”, says @Fox_Claire. pic.twitter.com/AAPaTO3ybI
Get lost, you freeloading pseudo-intellectual fake.
They really do want to throw away any chance of keeping voters,cut pensioners allowance that they have already worked and contributed to society, but increase the amount of refugees and asylum seekers who contribute nothing
If the Triple Lock is cut down, weaselled away, effectively abandoned, legions of State Pensioners will lash back at the “Conservative” Party. People aged 66+ years are the mainstay of the Con Party (both as voters and as members); if they go, the Con Party has no chance at the 2024 General Election and no future beyond that.
That's what it looks like. They've pressed the self destruct button.
The Con Party (a far more accurate name than “Conservative”) is currently running at 25% in the opinion polls. The proportion of people of 65+ years in the UK is around 19%. The proportion of people aged 60+ is around 23%. Most of both categories vote Conservative. If even half of those abstain, or vote elsewhere, the nationwide Con Party vote might be as low as 15%, or even lower, and the number of Con Party seats after 2024 might be as few as 16 (Labour seats 548).
The two main System parties are both now without purpose. I had thought, a few years ago, that Labour would collapse first. Turns out that it will be the Con Party. Much as I despise most of the Labour MPs, particularly the Shadow Cabinet, and especially Israel puppet Starmer, the Con Party MPs have forfeited the right to live (speaking metaphorically and politically). Completely useless.
Incidentally, despite my now being (since 2022) a State Pensioner myself (hard for me to believe though that is), my views are not much coloured by that. I only receive about a half-pension anyway, having spent so many years overseas.
History comes full circle. Even a Jewish (albeit apparently anti-Zionist) tweeter has echoed my view that the attack on Gaza is most similar to the Reduction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German forces in 1943.
[Jews being led out of the Warsaw Ghetto by Waffen-SS men, 1943]
The German forces of 1943, mostly Waffen-SS, did not use poison gas in attacking the Warsaw Ghetto, and fought against the Jews (many of them armed) on the ground.
On that basis, the Jewish/Israeli attack on Gaza and its 2 million civilians is far more extreme than the German attack on the Warsaw Ghetto.
The Jews/Israelis are using massive air power to demolish whole neighbourhoods in Gaza. Now, if the Middle East Eye and Daily Telegraph reports are accurate, it seems that the Jews/Israelis may use poison gas (from what I have read somewhere or other —admittedly unverified— a cyanide compound similar to the “notorious” Zyklon B) to gas both Hamas operatives and unarmed civilians hiding below ground, and/or will use chemical “sponge bombs” to fill those tunnels, asphyxiating those in them.
History is more than ironic at times.
Having said that, we on the outside must just wait to see what happens. “In war, truth is the first casualty“…
A report today shows that the average student is left with 50p a week to live on after paying rent
Earlier this year, we found that just 25% of Britons believe they could have afforded to go to university if they were an 18 year old school leaver todayhttps://t.co/AFELrS6O7Apic.twitter.com/6q3uDgsZBC
“Rapists could be spared jail from next week as prisons reach breaking point, it was reported last night.
Sex offenders and burglars could be let out on bail rather than handed an immediate custodial sentence, according to guidance issued to judges.
The most dangerous criminals will reportedly have to be held in magistrates’ court cells if they are remanded in custody.
Prisons in England and Wales are on the brink of maximum capacity, with 88,016 inmates last Friday – leaving just 650 spaces spare.
The senior presiding judge for England and Wales, Lord Edis, ordered that sentencing hearings will have to be postponed from Monday, The Times reported.”
[Daily Mail].
There has been a sentencing crisis for years. While many crimes of drunken violence, acquisitive crime etc attract, quite often, non-custodial sentences, other crimes, often very minor, not only result in prison time but in very considerable time.
Look at the political realm. Harmless teenage fantasists who have downloaded online material such as the notorious Anarchist’s Cookbook (which was sold openly in London bookshops in the 1970s, and without the State imploding) have been sentenced to terms of 4, 5, even 7 years, incredibly. Anything (political or otherwise) involving illicit possession of a weapon (even a WW2 revolver) has attracted sentencing as severe, or more severe.
Likewise, there have been sentenced to prison people such as Alison Chabloz (sentenced to a number of months for posting “antisemitic” satirical songs and cartoons online), Jez Turner (a year, for having suggested in a brief speech in Whitehall that Jews should be driven out from England as they were under Edward I in the 14th Century), and “Sven Longshanks” (James Allchurch, sentenced to a very harsh 2.5 years for having posted “antisemitic” material on an internet radio station).
The alert reader will have noted the common factor in the immediately-above three Draconian sentences, but what do you expect when 10 Downing Street has the Israeli flag projected onto its facade? Or when Keir Starmer, posing as Labour Party leader, thinks that the Israeli ethnostate has every right to cut off water, food, and electricity (and everything else) from the 2 million inhabitants of Gaza.
As far as non-political crimes are concerned, one often sees newspaper reports these days about various types of criminal sentenced to, say, terms of 4, 5, or 6 years in prison, when a far shorter term of, say, a couple of years would really suffice. Likewise, people are sometimes —in fact, often— sentenced to a year or more in circumstances where, even retaining a custodial element, a few months would be more than enough.
At the present time, the crisis of available space would easily be solved if judges were to work out carefully, as they are supposed to do, the proper sentence in every case, but then, after all that, cut off a percentage, as an emergency administrative-judicial measure. Say 20%, so that a headline sentence of 5 years becomes one of 4 years, or one of 2.5 years becomes one of 2 years. That would scarcely impact anything other than space in prisons and, within a few months, would start to solve the present problem.
“Captain Sir Tom Moore‘s daughter has confessed to pocketing £800,000 from books written by the NHS fundraising war veteran.
In a tearful interview, Hannah Ingram-Moore revealed how the family received the money thanks to her father – whose lockdown walks raised £39million for the nation’s health service.
Mrs Ingram-Moore said her father wanted them to keep the profits from his three books: Captain Tom’s Life Lessons, One Hundred Steps and his autobiography Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day.
The family is also adamant that people buying the books were never told their money was going to charity.
However, the prologue of his autobiography calls this claim into question and suggests the veteran thought his books were just another way for him to raise cash.
The extract read: ‘Astonishingly at my age, with the offer to write this memoir I have also been given the chance to raise even more money for the charitable foundation now established in my name.’“
[Daily Mail].
I was in the minority of sceptics when the old ex-officer (he spent 6 years in uniform during WW2) started his “crusade”. While arguably wrongheaded, one had to respect the grit of the old fellow, yet the whole thing played into the “scamdemic” propaganda of the time, and even the £30M raised probably did little to help the maladministered NHS.
I could see that the daughter and her husband were basically a pair of freeloaders, if not outright frauds, but people so badly (and rightly) want to believe. In something. In anything. You only have to look at the well-known online “grifters” and frauds around. “Jack Monroe”, “Supertanskiii”, “Man Behaving Dadly” etc. There are dozens, probably hundreds, of them. They destroy trust in society, as do some of the family of the late Captain Moore.
Apparently, the Israeli regime is preparing for a big war.
In the Israeli territories, an underground parking lot is being converted into a hospital with several hundred beds and medical equipment. pic.twitter.com/wCHothy1C8
#Updates: #Gaza Renewed Israeli air strikes on al-Karama neighbourhood in Gaza Wednesday morning UN says Gaza has food and water for 12 days, after Israel cut all electricity, fuel, food and water to the besieged enclave
The Captain Tom debacle is a prime example of how the media can get people to believe anything and of how dissenting voices are silenced by accusations of being unpatriotic
I think that I may start including a random historical note from Wikipedia etc in all my blog posts. It is quite shocking how few British people know their own history, even in outline.
[little boy and his dead cat, following Israeli air attack on Gaza]
Were the atrocities not so terrible, it would be funny to see the UK Jewish/Israel lobby all both pushing out (identical) Israeli propaganda and —at the same time— saying, when asked about the quasi-genocidal Israeli Gaza siege, and mass murder of Gazan civilians, “oh, no, that has nothing to do with us; we bear no responsibility” and “we are just opposed to antisemitism, the actions of Israel are nothing to do with our campaigning in the UK...”.
Etc.
Typical.
Incidentally, I have never seen political fraud and con-man Nigel Farage so pumped-up as when parroting the current Israeli propaganda line in the past few days.
“In the wake of the merciless assault by Hamas, Israel seems to be planning the same approach.
All the signs are that its government is preparing to retaliate on a massive scale, mobilising the country’s formidable armed forces against Gaza, which is controlled by Hamas.
Yet just as Iraq turned out to be a calamitous error, fuelling a lasting cycle of violence, so I fear that – however understandable – any attempt by Israel to exact its vengeance with a savage display of military might could be just as disastrous.”
“…a full invasion, such as Israel’s generals are surely discussing today, would be a bloody quagmire. For Jerusalem, it would mean a conveyor belt of tired soldiers fighting day and night, resupplying with food, water and military hardware, rotating and evacuating casualties, for months on end.
It would chew up thousands of troops for little or no benefit, and poison the Arab world, and to a certain extent the international community, against the Jewish state.
Alas, it looks like Israel is set to take precisely this route.
Already the country has launched a barrage of air strikes, causing heavy civilian casualties – unsurprising given that more than two million people are living in a strip the size of the Isle of Wight.” [in fact, smaller than the Isle of Wight— 141 sq. miles as against 148].
“This bombardment has been buttressed by a siege designed to weaken the morale of the citizenry by cutting off their water and electricity.
Yet what is the ultimate objective? What does ‘victory’ for Israel even look like?”
[Gaza City, already devastated by Israeli air attack]
It would be even more interesting were Israel to face attack or, even more so, invasion from the directions of Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan, and perhaps even (though even less likely) from Egypt, and if the Palestinian Arabs of the West Bank were also to join in the fight.
The immediately-above scenario is unlikely, true, but the Americans must have some reason to have moved one of their fleets closer to the region.
If such a concerted invasion and uprising were to happen, though, Israel could be destroyed, its population fleeing in panic.
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There is such a disconnect between the stories and videos coming out of gaza and what the politicians and most of the media try telling us and I reckon most of the public recognise that no matter how much Margaret hodge talks over owen Jones about it being an obsessive hobby https://t.co/2stCAcLPZo
— any other leader would be 20 points ahead (@anyotherleader) October 12, 2023
I face trial late next month on 5 counts of contravening the notorious s.127 of the Communications Act 2003 (recommended for repeal by the Law Commission). Behind that prosecution, a pack of Jew-Zionists.
I cannot write about all that prior to trial, for reasons of potential contempt of court etc, but one aspect of the case is that I am alleged to have claimed that, in the UK, most of the TV and Press is effectively in the hands of Jew-Zionists (as Rupert Murdoch said years ago— and he is 100% pro-Israel…).
What do you think, blog readers?
be taken to the Gazza strip to see what the Palestinians are having to deal with, each and every day of their lives. We have, in recent years been too sympathetic to Israel, which, I believe we now have an out of control far right Israeli government. I am not, however, /
Margaret Hodge is just another Jew-Zionist liar and hypocrite.
It is now immaterial. It was used by Western media outlets to whip up hatred against the Palestinian people and rally support for Israel's attack on Gaza. This is a method the UK media always employ. I'm an old woman and I've seen it all my life.
— Mairead #HerdImmunityKills#RealSocialistsWearMasks (@imelda_mairead) October 11, 2023
[Nayirah al-Sabah, the lying Kuwaiti bitch at the centre of the faked 1990 Kuwait atrocity story]
I was in New York at the time, in 1990. Those lies (blown up hugely by the Jew-Zionist mass media) were quite effective in moulding the TV narratives and the political conversation etc.
Food, fuel, medicine and water have all been cut off into the Gaza Strip, while the land itself comes under heavy bombardment.
Water cut off, food cut off, electricity and gas cut off; all other supplies cut off, and area bombing and rocketing of civilian areas, in a “ghetto” occupied by 2 million inhabitants, 600,000 of whom live in Gaza City.
Of the 2 million Palestinian Arabs in the Gaza Strip, about 1 million are under-18, and most of that million are young children.
If there was ever a war crime amounting to at least quasi-genocide, this surely must be it.
“Without water, a person can die after 3 days, and usually no one can survive for more than 5-6 days.” [medical website].
Russian President Vladimir Putin was asked if he would step in to mediate between Israel and Hamas if asked.
There goes the very last scrap of respect I still held for Emily Thornberry 🤮🤦🏻♀️ https://t.co/YeCW6nFhUE
— Iris Ex Labour 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇱🇧 #StarmerOut! (@iris_mansi) October 12, 2023
Emily Thornberry, entitled “Labour” hog, with a part-Jew husband and a dozen buy-to-let properties. In fact, the only reason she ever joined Labour was because her well-paid lawyer/journalist/diplomat father abandoned her mother, and the mother had to move to a council property (in Surrey). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Thornberry; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric_Thornberry.
“She was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn and practised as a barrister specialising in human rights law from 1985 to 2005 under Michael Mansfield at Tooks Chambers.”
[Wikipedia]
“Human rights” expert; you couldn’t make it up…
As I mentioned yesterday, the “human rights” lawyers (often Jewish, though she herself is not) seem to have gone AWOL now that Israel is involved…
[Emily Thornberry, some years ago, with (in centre) Mark Regev, then Israeli Ambassador, at a Zionist dinner in London]
If, as voter, you vote Labour now, you get moneygrubbing tools of Israel such as Emily Thornberry (and Rachel Reeves, and Yvette Cooper, and Keir Starmer). Why bother?
Emily Thornberry, “human rights” lawyer (etc), who thinks it justifiable for Israel to cut off water and food (etc) from 2 million people, almost all of whom (about 96%) are non-combatants, half of whom are under-18, and hundreds of thousands of whom are young or very young children.
Douglas Murray says the celebration of the Hamas attacks shows there are "simple supporters of genocide” in the UK.
I used to wonder what Israeli Intelligence had on Murray to make him the unashamed propagandist for Israel and the Jew-Zionist lobby that he is. Now, I tend to think that he is just deeply psychologically damaged.
As for Julia Hartley-Brewer, I think (am unsure) that she is part-Jewish. She is certainly rather ignorant; I had to correct her on a couple of legal points when I still had a Twitter account (a pack of Jews managed to have me expelled in 2018). Instead of thanking me for schooling her, she tried to obfuscate, and then blocked me.
Murray is right with his “flare” metaphor, though. These events have shown what group really pulls the strings of our “democratic” political parties, and System politicians. With a tiny number of honourable exceptions, all puppets of Israel and the Jew-Zionist lobby. From Sunak to Starmer, and from Emily Thornberry to that fraudulent bastard Nigel Farage.
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Consequences of the Russian attack on the train station in Oceretin near Avdejevka. pic.twitter.com/D8N3vY83RV
The war in Ukraine continues, but the Kiev regime now has to play second fiddle to the Israeli regime.
Support for Ukraine is not "unlimited" – White House
"And in Ukraine, as far as financing Ukraine is concerned, we are approaching the end of the rope." Today we announced $200 million and we will continue that assistance as long as we can, but it will not be infinite." pic.twitter.com/QvWakLN9Dg
Lavrov said that Zelensky’s words about the final stage of the conflict with the Russian Federation should be considered a recognition of hopelessness pic.twitter.com/eisjB8lPUa
As often seen in the past, Israel getting its “defence” in first…
Apparently it wasn’t enough for Israel to nonstop bomb Palestine, they’ve also just bombed Aleppo and Damascus airports in Syria. But they’re the victims here according to the US & West. pic.twitter.com/kVrXqsxQ1Q
“BREAKING: Israel bombed the international airports of Aleppo and Damascus in Syria, forcing them out of service. Bombing civilian airports in Syria. Massacring entire families in Gaza. Dropping white phosphorus on Lebanon and Gaza. This is the Israel that Western media tells you is a “victim”…”
If you don’t understand why Dresden was such a big deal, read this book. It might just give you a new perspective on the whole war. pic.twitter.com/LjmxTZjXMo
Zelensky is worried because the help of Western allies is weakening
The Ukrainian authorities want to get a new series of weapons in order to attack Russian positions after the unsuccessful summer counter-offensive, "ABC" writes. "Ukraine is desperate for more weapons to help… pic.twitter.com/WmLWessaIp
“Zelensky is worried because the help of Western allies is weakening The Ukrainian authorities want to get a new series of weapons in order to attack Russian positions after the unsuccessful summer counter-offensive, “ABC” writes. “Ukraine is desperate for more weapons to help its troops take over the positions of Russian units before the ground on the front turns muddy,” the newspaper said. According to the media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, as Kiev is becoming worried about the weakening of aid from the West, which until recently provided constant support to the Ukrainian armed forces.”
Stormy statements of former US intelligence officer about Israel's irreparable failure; Is it time to end the threat of Israel?
Scott Ritter, former US intelligence officer: Israel's ground entry into Gaza means more casualties and damage than Yom Kippur; Hezbollah's missiles… pic.twitter.com/L3JKhcvaq2
Just managed to beat political journalist John Rentoul this week— a poor 4/10, as against Rentoul’s even less impressive “3.5/10”.
I disallowed myself the extra point for question no.10, which I really knew but could not recall. I knew and recalled the answers to questions 3, 5, 8, and 9.
The bourgeois left is so awful on the issue of crime. They think only “reactionaries” are concerned about things like shoplifting and anti-social behaviour. They could not be more wrong. Working-class communities crave stability, says Brendan O’Neillhttps://t.co/qil3aqAftF
As previously blogged, the armed forces of the Kiev regime are running out of cannon-fodder. There are few if any volunteers from Ukraine itself, and the virtue-signalling nitwits and would-be “soldiers of fortune” from the UK, USA etc have either been killed or returned home, and the supply has now dried-up. Thus the regime uses press-gangs to force service upon ever-less-useful categories of recruit: the disabled, the middle-aged, those with various illnesses etc.
“Ukraine” (the Kiev regime) has only one chance— to drag NATO into the war. All their efforts are directed to that end.
“Israel-based solicitor Mark Lewis has been heavily criticised by Mr Justice Nicklin in a recent High Court judgement. Lewis is known for acting for Rachel Riley against Mike Sivier and Laura Murray, and for John Ware against Jewish Voice for Labour and Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi. Lewis also acted for the late Dr Pete Newbon – a director of the notorious so-called ‘Labour Against Antisemitism’ (LAAS) group who was repeatedly disciplined by his employers for his behaviour on social media and was being sued by another of his victims – in his libel claim against Michael Rosen after Rosen had complained about Newbon’s tweeted misuse of Rosen’s famous ‘Bear Hunt’ book to attack former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
In the recent case, Lewis came unstuck when he was acting for Richard Davidoff of ABC Estates, a lettings and leasehold management firm. Lewis was seeking a court order requiring Google to disclose the identities of people with gmail addresses who had left negative reviews about ABC Estates on Trustpilot. The evidence in support of the court order was two witness statement by Lewis. The judge described Lewis’ evidence in general as “nothing more than assertion” and “perfunctory, even desultory” and “simply not good enough” to justify making the court order.
Things then got much worse for Lewis. He had stated that the Trustpilot reviews were “false, fabricated statements which Unknown person(s) know are untrue”. The judge conducted some online research himself and found that one of the reviews was true and based on the findings of another court. The judge said it was:
a matter of very real concern that the Claimants put evidence before the Court, on an ex parte application, that was not true.
The judge did not require Lewis to provide an explanation for the evidence that was “seriously in error” and accepted that Lewis would not have knowingly misled the court. The judge’s explained Lewis’ evidence as being:
because he had simply failed to carry out sufficient (or any) research or to take adequate instructions from his clients.
The judge also stated that there had been a “significant failure” by Lewis to comply with the general obligation of full and frank disclosure. The judge refused all the applications and the escapade is likely to have costs Lewis’ clients tens of thousands of pounds. Perhaps Lewis’ claim against Michael Rosen would have ended in the same way?
Mr Justice Nicklin’s full judgment is available here, with comments about Lewis’s contribution from paragraph 84 onwards.
Mark Lewis is a former director of UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) until his emigration to Israel and was involved in the relaunch of right-wing pro-Israel group Herut UK. UKLFI locked access to a YouTube video in which a panel discussed Lewis’s “very handy way of bankrupting organisations” the group considered to have done ‘wrong’. However, a transcript of the discussion is still available.
In 2018, Lewis was fined by the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority for abusive speech on social media toward a young Labour-supporting critic and others.“
[Skwawkbox]
Some of my blog posts from past years about the egregious Lewis:
Lewis was (is still?) a “Patron” of the malicious Jew-Zionist cabal known as the “Campaign Against Anti-Semitism” or “CAA”.
Incidentally, the title “Patron” does not indicate financial support. When Lewis was censured and fined by the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority a few years ago, his fine was reduced by two-thirds after his Counsel told the tribunal that Lewis’s sole assets were his clothes, a private pension worth £70 a week, and a used mobility scooter! So much for the so-called (sometimes, but only by the naive and ignorant) “top lawyer”! He then scuttled off to Israel.
Here's Mark Lewis formerly of UK Lawyers for Israel, attendee at launch of extremist Herut UK, getting into bother for retailing untrue evidence.
“Richard Davidoff, of ABC Estates, and his legal team bungled a high court attempt to force Google to reveal the identities of online reviewers whose comments they claimed were false and defamatory.
The case unravelled after libel lawyer Mark Lewis, of Patron Law, accused one reviewer of writing a “false, fabricated statement” that referenced the decision by ARMA and IRPM to expel ABC Estates and Richard Davidoff.
Mr Justice Nicklin became peppery in his ruling (below, pp84-89) as his own “basic online research” revealed that this allegation was in fact true…”
“It is a matter of very real concern that the Claimants put evidence before the Court, on an ex parte application, that was not true.
“Mr Lewis has not provided an explanation to the Court for this error (I have not required him to provide one). Nevertheless, I accept that Mr Lewis would not have knowingly misled the Court.
“It is likely that this error occurred because he had simply failed to carry out sufficient (or any) research or to take adequate instructions from his clients. Nevertheless, as a result, he included a statement in his witness statement that was seriously in error. That error was not detected (or corrected) by the Claimants.“
[Mr. Justice Nicklin, in the High Court]
The High Court judge accepted that Lewis “would not have knowingly misled the Court” (but why accept that? Lewis is hardly a credible witness). Still, as the extract shows, Lewis (once again) “bungled” his work…
“The judge [also] said “the underlying claims in defamation are hopelessly weak”.
[Mr. Justice Nicklin, reported by LKP]
Neither Lewis nor the Counsel in the case (also used by Lewis in other cases in the past several years) seem to have taken that last into account.
I agree with some of what Stewart says; in much of it I was there 30+ years ahead of him, though that is not entirely his fault, he being 16-17 years my junior in years.
As I blogged recently, I shall probably buy his latest book used, via Amazon, once its £22 cover price reduces (you can already get a new copy for £16.69, and a used but almost new copy for £16.02). Once it gets down to a fiver…
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Tina's Hospital 🌴🐶🥰
When I was filling in Tina’s grave I had tears in my eyes but I got the manual work done and after a step back took a long deep breath.
My good friend Sybille had been with me at the end and she bowed her head instinctively knowing that it was a time to… pic.twitter.com/essARW0U6C
She says she is much much happier in her new forever home. She is testing out all the nice sleeping spots.
For a street dog to truly relax is the ultimate. No more worry, no more looking for food. No more illness. Told you it would be ok during the journey Num! pic.twitter.com/gl6UfsD6Vn
“In 1907, Dr. Henry Cotton became the medical director. Believing that infections were the key to mental illness, he had his staff remove teeth and various other body parts that might become infected from the hospital patients. Cotton’s legacy of hundreds of fatalities and thousands of maimed and mutilated patients did not end with his leaving Trenton in 1930 or his death in 1933; in fact, removal of patients’ teeth at the Trenton asylum was still the norm until 1960.[3]“
[Wikipedia]
Can you imagine the furore had a German psychiatrist done that during the currency of the Third Reich? It would be notorious and known across the world.
[Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, New Jersey, 19th Century engraving]
[West Entrance, Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, New Jersey, in 2023]
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As usual, there is complete silence in Western media. In contrast, many popular Ukrainian media reported this statement about staggering military losses despite censorship about military losses https://t.co/TGbFzdnGB8
An unusual message "Amazon is burning, the world is burning" appeared in the sky above New York written by drones ahead of the session of the UN General Assembly. It is not known who performed this performance and what exactly the… pic.twitter.com/jKikt7hIeR
The first nationalized property of Ukrainian oligarchs was sold in Crimea for more than 815 million rubles. About 100 such properties will soon be put up for sale, including Zelenski's apartment, the peninsula's authorities announced. pic.twitter.com/iFiKWX3YGN
“The failure of Europe to keep pace with America has taken its toll on living standards. The average EU country is now poorer per head than every state in America bar Idaho and Mississippi.
The latter, the poorest state in the Union, is often referred to as America’s Third World but — with an average per capita annual income of $50,000 — the citizens of Mississippi are better off than their counterparts in France.”
[Daily Mail]
While I am no fan of the EU, the above is a typical example of how journalists twist the facts. Yes, per capita, France is “poorer” than Mississippi, but that is merely a headline figure.
In France, citizens get free and, until recently, quite good education, not only free at primary and secondary level, but also at tertiary level— universities, les grand ecoles, institutes etc. In Mississippi, higher education has to be paid for, either in cash or via student loans.
In France, medical and dental care of high quality is available via a hybrid State insurance system with a safety net for the unemployed, elderly etc. Hospital wards were done away with 40+ years ago. In Mississippi, there are areas without much healthcare at all and, despite Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare etc, health insurance is almost essential, if you or your employer can afford it.
Then there is the finance-capitalist system generally, and how it results in inequality of capital and income. In France, despite inequalities, there are relatively few people in grinding poverty; not so in Mississippi, where the top few percent take most of the money.
Beware of what newspaper scribblers tell you.
Andrew Neil not only should know better, he does know better. Dishonest.
“Residents ‘gobsmacked’ as horse and carts race through Bournemouth.
Footage sent to the Echo shows youths sat on the back of a cart attached to horses in the Lower Gardens, underneath the flyover at Pier Approach.
Concerned residents feared there could have been injuries or even a fatality if the horses had hit somebody, so phoned the police.
One resident, who asked to remain unnamed, was walking around the town when he came across the bizarre sight on Saturday, July 22.
‘I was just concerned because had there been a little child, or pet, or mother with a pram came running down, the horse would have gone into them and there could have been a fatality.’
The man said it was the first time he had seen anything similar in more than 30 years of living in Bournemouth.
However, he didn’t want people to have negative attitudes towards travellers.“
[Bournemouth Echo].
Isn’t that so typical of England in 2023? Nuisances, in this case “travellers” (Irish “tinker” “gypsies”), make life difficult and less pleasant (and potentially dangerous) for normal citizens, but nothing is done about them, the police do nothing, and even the concerned citizen who reported them felt obliged to say that no-one should have “negative attitudes” towards the nuisance group.
The System propaganda, endlessly pumped out by most msm outlets, by schools, by the churches (what’s left of them), and by MPs (especially Labour ones) has seeped into the thinking of many many people.
When I started this blog, nearly 7 years ago, I thought that the UK could be saved; now, I feel less sure every day.
[so-called “travellers” causing chaos in Bournemouth]
HS2 was a wrongheaded concept anyway. The high-speed train idea is OK in much larger countries such as France or China, or very elongated countries, such as Japan. Chile would be ideal. Not in the UK, unless the train were to go London to Scotland, or maybe to Penzance; the present plan is London to Manchester via Birmingham.
The Eastern route (to Leeds) has gone. There never was a Cornish route, and anyway the existing rail line would not be strong enough to take such trains beyond Exeter.
The HS2 project should have been scrapped a decade ago, and the money spent on providing more services and more branch lines in the North.
As it is, the project will be delivered in the 2030s (maybe), at ruinous expense, at ruinous environmental cost. Already the construction has scarred the landscape, destroyed ancient woodland etc.
[HS2 ground preparation scars the landscape near Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, in 2021]
All so that a train currently taking 1 hr 22mins to Birmingham will take 52 mins in the future, a saving of 30 mins. Oddly, the reduction in (fastest) travel time to Manchester will be less— 1 hr 40 mins instead of 1 hr 54 mins, a saving of only 14 minutes.
It is just not worth the money and the environmental damage.
“Lionesses”
Speaking of System propaganda…
The public are currently subjected to endless propaganda for the LGBTQXYZ agenda, masquerading as “sports news”.
I switched on BBC TV News recently, for the first time in a while, only to find that most of the broadcast was taken up with a report about some women’s football game in Denmark.
Women’s football is being heavily pushed by the “usual suspects”. No-one had even heard of women’s football a few years ago, not as a mass spectator sport. It now turns out that many of the women footballers are lesbians.
“Speculation about Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch‘s ambitions was gathering pace last night after a campaign to make her leader of the Tory party was revived.
The Backingbadenoch.co.uk website was quietly updated a few weeks ago, as were the corresponding Twitter and Facebook accounts.
[Daily Mail]
The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan in action. White people, despite still constituting 80% of the UK population, simply squeezed out everywhere, from TV ads and dramas to 10 Downing Street.
“Although a British citizen and born in the UK, Badenoch stated that she was “to all intents and purposes a first-generation immigrant” during her parliamentary maiden speech.
Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke was born on 2 January 1980 in Wimbledon, London.[7]Badenoch spent parts of her childhood living in Lagos, Nigeria and in the United States…She returned to the UK at the age of 16 to live with a friend of her mother’s owing to the deteriorating political and economic situation in Nigeria which had affected her family.”
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If you import a coconut, it does not thereby become a cucumber.
Either Israel will eventually be hit by nuclear missiles from Iran or elsewhere, or it will fall apart internally, and then be subject to an uprising by the ~7,500,000 Palestinian Arabs who live at present corralled in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank areas, and inside the boundaries of Israel itself. The Arabs, as a population, number about the same, or only slightly fewer, than the Jews living in Israel.
"The main thing is that Russia does not participate." Zelensky announced the terms of the discussion of the peace plan in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/IVDqnFdbGL
If he were not so evidently mendacious and evil, Zelensky could simply be called an idiot. Imagine claiming to want a “peace plan” without the participation of the main player!
Wagner PMC fighters may attempt to invade NATO territory
According to the Polish vice-marshal Kaminsky, the "musicians" will carry out a military operation to attack the territory of Poland in order to "test NATO" for a response.
Dangerous territory both metaphorically and literally. If PMC Wagner were to attack Poland, that would presumably be taken to be an incident triggering Article 5 of the NATO Treaty (because presumably an action ordered by the Russian Government). Likewise, were Polish forces to attack official Russian or Belarusian forces, or to enter Ukrainian territory, there might be direct conflict between Polish and Russian forces, also probably triggering Article 5.
Sensible heads must rethink this conflict, and especially the increasingly frenetic NATO aid to the Kiev regime, before all Europe goes up in flames.
The Wagnerians are entering Poland as migrants – claims Polsat News
A new wave of panic gripped Poland. Namely, the local population believes that illegal migrants who are essentially members of PVK Wagner are penetrating the territory of Poland from Belarus, this was said by… pic.twitter.com/rbi7giOqvE
PMC "Wagner" and military personnel of the Belarusian mechanized brigade held a joint training , – the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus. pic.twitter.com/9w1owa0hyK
Ian Robert Millard 