Tag Archives: freedom of expression

Diary Blog, 7 December 2021

On this day a year ago

The attack on free speech continues

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10281755/University-professor-called-students-pathetic-woke-walkout-faces-investigation.html

The victims of such attacks often make it worse by failing to defend themselves against the mob. The professor made the mistake of “apologizing” (for what?) to the mob. He should have faced them down, and also tried to attack the ringleaders in some way.

As for the university in question, either cowardly or treacherous, a phenomenon we have seen before, eg in the Priyamvada Gopal case at Cambridge. Academia is infested with traitors now.

Tweets seen

Does anyone accept that part-Jew, part-Levantine freak as a legitimate Prime Minister?

Greta Nut, the least appealing one-trick-pony (ever)?

The clown speaks (again)… I think that my haiku had it right:

The empty words

from the mouth of “Boris”

seem even emptier now

https://twitter.com/Didgeridoo87/status/1468180676377722888?s=20

Firing squad in the main square…

Firing squad in the local town…

Of course, the Twitter —and other— office bods who do things like that to restrict free speech only do so because they know that they themselves will not have to answer directly for their crimes.

That evil woman is, despite being Prime Minister of one of the least significant states, right at the heart of this transnational conspiracy. She worked for Blair and Brown in London. She favours non-white immigration into New Zealand. She favours repression. Look at that video. She says straight out that her people will “come and get” those who are “unvaccinated”.

A Jew. Again. Again! Every. Single. Time…[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Rogen#Early_life].

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[“You see, my son, here time turns into space!”]

Late tweets

…and the re-annexation of Crimea by Putin and Russia was a stellar example of the dictum of Sun-Tzu: “to win without war is the supreme excellence“…

Whether Labour is headed by caricature socialist Corbyn, or by wealthy Jewish-lobby puppet Starmer is of little importance; both have almost nothing in common with, or to do with, the vast majority of British voters.

The only question is whether “Boris” Idiot continues to mess up so royally that the voters will vote for Labour as the only available alternative. Even though it is a non-alternative, a fake alternative, a useless alternative, and an alternative the policies of which are almost identical, in reality, to those of this corrupt and stupid “Conservative” government.

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Diary Blog, 3 December 2021

Afternoon music

Historical story about Lipizzaner horses in the Second World War

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Covid death “within 28 days of test”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10269921/TOM-UTLEY-mother-laws-death-99-included-daily-Covid-toll.html

Almost exactly the same story as that of my late mother-in-law: admitted to hospital at age 98 or 99, in 2020, with a fracture of the foot; negative for “Covid” at first, but while in hospital, after about 2 weeks, tested positive (i.e. was infected with the virus in one of the NHS’s shambolic and unclean hospitals). No symptoms either before or after the test. Discharged after another week or two, still without symptoms. Died of other causes several months later.

Had she died within 28 days of the last test, my late mother-in-law would have become yet another “Covid” statistic, another faked victim not of “Covid” but of System lies.

We are now seeing untold billions wasted on supposed “vaccines” and “boosters” re. the latest “variant” which so far has killed, in the UK, precisely no-one. Madness. Planned madness…

Meanwhile, the NHS is, at best, a skeleton service, having become a facade “national Covid service”.

I myself had occasion yesterday, though not on my own account, to visit the local medical centre, about a mile or two away.

In normal times, the centre, a pleasant two-storey building with creeper and flowers growing on the outside, is fairly busy. There are about 8 GPs. Now, GPs are apparently rarely seen by patients, and nurses dealing with ongoing routine conditions are seen strictly by appointment made by letter (in this case, 2 months before).

The medical centre reception area was deserted except for a masked receptionist. There was not one patient waiting in the large waiting area. I was there for about 35 minutes, in which time only one patient arrived, and then another just as I left.

That waiting area had been denuded of some of the furniture formerly there, and most of the pleasant large potted plants as well. Rather sad.

Very strange.

Free speech

The Daily Mail carried the following story:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10262791/BBC-broadcaster-warns-freedom-speech-threat-Corporation.html

I do not recall Michael Buerk standing up or speaking up for my rights when a pack of Jews instigated my contrived disbarment (6 years after I had ceased Bar practice!): see

…and neither have any BBC talking heads, or the Daily Mail, or Laurence Fox, or Toby Young, or the “Free Speech Union”, made any comment on my (by now) widely-read account of when —effectively— the same pack of Jews made a malicious and false complaint to tame Essex police about me: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/13/when-i-was-a-victim-of-a-malicious-zionist-complaint/. One of a number of such complaints made about me over the past decade by essentially the same pack, incidentally.

If Michael Buerk is worried about the ending of free speech in the UK, he is at least 25 years out of date, and arguably 50.

Needless to say, neither the Daily Mail nor Michael Buerk (nor the rest) identify the main driver of the repression of free speech in the UK— the embedded Jew-Zionist element.

Repost

I was just looking again at the following blog post from a few weeks ago: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2021/11/13/diary-blog-13-november-2021-including-invasions-without-arms-and-the-coudenhove-kalergi-plan/.

From when the BBC was worth watching (sometimes)…

On this day a year ago

Late tweets

So if Scotland achieves faux “Independence”, it will rely mainly on Scotch whisky, agriculture, and tourism? It will, however, lose its subsidies from the UK (i.e. England). The poor Scots used to emigrate to the lands of the Empire, or to the USA; but now?


Canada has over 38 million people inhabiting it. Is there not even one able to deal with this?…

…which begs the question, if it is OK to “kill” a humanoid robot, is it always wrong, ethically or philosophically, to kill those who are not so much “human” as “humanoid”? An abstract question which, in 50-100 years, may be not entirely abstract.

The madness is now utterly entrenched in the msm, which merely spouts out lies on its “news” broadcasts.

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Diary Blog, 12 November 2021, including thoughts about “stay behind” units in the South of England of 1940

[Churchill, toting an “iconic” Thompson submachinegun with 50-round drum magazine while visiting coastal defences at Hartlepool in 1940]

“Stay behind” units in 1940: an historical note

The Second World War, with its complexities, nuances, twists and turns, and ideological subtleties, is endlessly fascinating. I happened to see a local newspaper story about part of Churchill’s idea of how to “fight on the beaches, fight on the landing-grounds” etc.

Churchill, though a genuinely world-historical figure, unlike Boris Johnson (who tries to ape his style and manner), does have a few characteristics in common with his latter-day copier. One is that he was largely ineffective as head of government when given his head; also, he was a person with, often, very silly ideas. Churchill was no good as a strategist; as for tactics, his ideas were really straight out of boys’ comic books.

The Norway operation in 1940; the British Expeditionary Force in France, also in 1940 (my own grandfather was on the Dunkirk beaches), the idea of invading France via the Cote-d’Azur in 1944, the Fall of France, the Fall of Greece (including Crete), and so on, give some idea of Churchill’s lack of strategic nous.

Now, more information has come to light about the “stay behind” units secretly organized in case of German invasion in 1940: https://www.dorset.live/news/history/nazi-invasion-dorset-auxillary-units-5621886.

Stay-behind units were organized, with the idea that they might not last more than 12 days after any German “reverse D-Day”.

It was presumed that German invasion forces would strike initially at the London area:

Operation Sealion, Hitler’s plan to invade across the Channel, almost saw the German 6th Army land at Lyme Regis in 1940 and push inland to Bristol and Gloucester.

Meanwhile the 9th and 16th Armies were to attack from Portsmouth to Dover, sweeping northwards to capture London and East Anglia, Britain’s breadbasket.” [DorsetLive].

Despite the chilling ruthlessness of their remit, the “Auxiliary Units” had a delightfully Wodehousian aspect:

“Grouped into “operational patrols” of four to eight men, AU members needed excellent local knowledge – making gamekeepers and poachers ideal candidates.

But known members of local patrols include bakers, carpenters, car salesmen, dairy farmers, electricians, fishmongers, miners and train drivers.

The staff of Charborough Park – a country house estate now belonging to South Dorset MP Richard Drax – were also formed into an AU patrol.

The chauffeurs, foresters, gamekeeper and gardener of Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, Mr Drax’s grandfather, moonlighted as would-be saboteurs and assassins.” [DorsetLive].

One almost expects Sir Roderick Spode (a parody of Sir Oswald Mosley) to make an appearance, with a slight ideological twist, perhaps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderick_Spode.

There were, it seems, about 6,500 volunteers in such “stay behind” units, most of whom were organized around the southern and eastern coasts of England.

Had “Operation Sealion” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion] ever been launched into action, the defending forces, including the 6,500 Auxiliary Unit fighters, would have faced an onslaught by 600,000 German troops (100,000 on the first day), backed by 650 tanks and 4,500 horses: https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/17353462.nazi-d-day-made-south-coast-target/. The Auxiliary Units would have been mosquitos biting elephants.

As for the conventional forces defending, “The Germans put the British defences at 320,000 men, with machine gun nests positioned 300 yards from the coastline, artillery guns 1,000 yards inland and another line of artillery and machine gun nests 3,000 yards back.

A line of more than 600 armoured cars and tanks were said to have been positioned two miles inland and a reserve of 50,000 men a further two miles back.” [The Argus].

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion_order_of_battle.

In fact, Operation Sealion was not a ready to roll plan such as had been Fall Gelb, “Case Yellow” (or “Operation Yellow”), the plan for the invasion of France [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manstein_Plan]. Sealion was called Unternehmen Seelöwe, not “Fall Seelöwe“.

My German is poorer than it should be (bearing in mind that I did take German at school, and I did also have a couple of crash courses later, when I was in my twenties), but the difference in designation seems to be that one plan was ready-to-go, while the other was somewhere between that and a contingency plan.

It is known that Hitler wanted Britain, and the British Empire, as an ally against the expansionism of both the Soviet Union and the U.S.A. His preference in 1940 was for an armistice, not for conquest by invasion.

Apart from Hitler’s preference for alliance, there were operational reasons why Sealion never proceeded: lack of total air superiority was one, but another perhaps more important was the lack of carrying capacity by sea of the German navy. There were not enough barges to carry the armies required, and not enough defence for those barges.

If, however, the invasion had happened, “[the Auxiliary Units]…would disappear to their OB, wait for the Germans to go over the top of them and attack the rear...”

Patrols would attack bridges, convoys, fuel dumps and so on, breaking the supply chain and holding up the advance of the blitzkrieg, giving the regular army time to regroup and counterattack.

Equipped with suppressed sniper’s rifles, the fighters would also be expected to assassinate anyone who might expose their underground operations.

Patrols would take out collaborators as well as local policemen and intelligence officers – innocent men, killed just for knowing their identities…

Anyone who stumbled across their OB would also be killed. And if a patrol member was injured and couldn’t get back the OB, they were obligated to shoot him...”

Their life expectancy was just 12 short days – with orders to kill each other and themselves if capture by the enemy seemed imminent.” [DorsetLive]

There were, then, two underlying assumptions or, better said, hopes, on the part of the Auxiliary Units: the first was that the units would survive for 12-14 days; the second was that the main British forces would be able to mount a successful counterattack.

As to whether the stay-behind fighters could survive for 14 days, my assessment is that they could do so easily if they did nothing or very little; once they started to shoot people and blow things up, it would be a different story.

The Germans might not have been able to do much to repress any stay-behind activity in the first confused days following invasion, but once those early days had passed, the Feldgendarmerie and SS would rather rapidly have started to arrest or kill suspects.

It is remarkable that the British plans included the assassination, on a default basis, of British police and Army personnel, or local residents, who knew of their existence! That might soon have backfired, with other such people helping the Germans to eliminate such ruthless persons hiding in their neighbourhoods. We shall never know. What we can be fairly sure about is that the Auxiliary Units would have had little impact on the eventual result, in big-picture terms.

As for the Auxiliary Units as the basis for a possible “British Resistance”, impossible. Limited stocks of weaponry and ammunition, no help from external sources, and the German security grip tightening steadily.

Could British home forces have defeated a German invasion force, had it landed in the numbers suggested? Doubtful. For one thing, the projected German force was to have been 600,000 after a few days; the defending forces would have numbered under 400,000.

Secondly, the quality of German tanks, light weapons etc outmatched the British; the same was true of the fitness of German troops. Red Cross reports of the period (from France) noted that British soldiers captured were often undernourished, stunted, with poor teeth and poor fitness, a result of the social conditions prevalent in the UK in the 1920s and 1930s. The German prisoners taken by the British were found to be, almost universally, in a good state of health and fitness, the result of, mainly, 7 years of National Socialist government.

Another point is that the German forces will mostly have seen action in Poland or France, whereas the British home forces were mostly without recent battle experience.

It is true that large wargames (a major one took place at Sandhurst in 1974) have generally resulted in German defeat following a 1940 invasion of Britain, but those results were based on destruction of much of the invasion force at sea, and failure to execute the invasion plan with sufficient boldness. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion_(wargame).

History is full of examples of invasions that should have failed, but did not. Alexander’s invasion of the Persian Empire, and William of Normandy’s 1066 invasion of England, are but two. Indeed, Hitler’s own experiences in 1939-41 (Norway, France, Poland, the Soviet Union, Greece, Yugoslavia etc show that boldness can bring victory even in unlikely circumstances. Rommel’s victories in North Africa were usually achieved against the odds.

It can certainly be argued that Hitler should have pressed on in 1940, even in circumstances of high risk. Britain would have quickly folded, and then, under new political leadership, found a new role, with the Empire, as a “dual-rulership” of much of the Earth, in collaboration with the German Reich.

On those premises, huge destruction and misery would have been avoided, both in the 1940s and thereafter. The world would have been a far better place now, had that happened.

As to the results further down the line, had a German invasion succeeded, one has to say that, in some ways, perhaps most ways, Britain itself might have been —80 years on— better for it. There would have been no migration-invasion by blacks and browns, and no Jewish-Zionist exploitation. Services such as the NHS would have been available earlier and better.

Incidentally, a German victory in 1940 would not have meant long-term German occupation, certainly not after a few years, and not necessarily a harsh one. The main aim, for Hitler, would have been disarmament or control of the British Army, navy and air force.

Hitler’s preferred ruler of Britain, we now know, was none other than Lloyd George! The Security Service, MI5, was well aware of this, and monitored him closely.

Lloyd George was consistently pro-German after 1923,[169] in part due to his growing conviction that Germany had been treated unfairly at Versailles. He supported German demands for territorial concessions and recognition of its “great power” status; he paid much less attention to the security concerns of France, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Belgium.

[170] In a speech in 1933, he warned that if Adolf Hitler were overthrown Communism would replace him in Germany.[171] In August 1934, he insisted Germany could not wage war, and assured European nations that there would be no risk of war during the next ten years.[172] 

In September 1936, he visited Germany to talk with Hitler. Hitler said he was pleased to have met “the man who won the war”; Lloyd George was moved, and called Hitler “the greatest living German”.[166]: 247  Lloyd George also visited Germany’s public works programmes and was impressed. On his return to Britain, he wrote an article for the Daily Express praising Hitler and stating: “The Germans have definitely made up their minds never to quarrel with us again.[166]: 248 

He believed Hitler was “the George Washington of Germany”; that he was rearming Germany for defence and not for offensive war; that a war between Germany and the Soviet Union would not happen for at least ten years; that Hitler admired the British and wanted their friendship but that there was no British leadership to exploit this.” [Wikipedia].

Well, in the trite but true expression, “man proposes but God disposes”…

Note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lloyd_George

Tweets seen

https://twitter.com/AhirShah/status/1458748076177383432?s=20

Strange. My memory tells me precisely the reverse, as far as the years up to 2010 are concerned. It is a complex picture, but I recall a country where things were OK (speaking very very generally) until 1997 (I was mostly out of the UK that exact year, though), one where a gradual “communitarian” police statism started to develop under Blair and Brown, and one in which (and here I do agree with the tweeter) there was a catastrophic decline in standards from…well, the tweeter says 2010 (i.e. when Cameron-Levita and his clique became the Government), but I think earlier, maybe from 2005 or so (under Gordon Brown).

I recall returning to the UK from France in 2009, having not been here for a year (I had been spending half my time in France since 2005, and was also in a number of other countries during 2005-2010), and noticing the social darkness that had already descended, a year before David Cameron-Levita became Prime Minister.

The (Pakistani?) tweeter is obviously a simplistic Labour Party partisan, who thinks in unsophisticated ways: Labour government 1997— good, Conservative government 2010— bad. If only life were that simple.

Ah. Just looked him up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahir_Shah. Not Pakistani, but Indian Muslim (born in the UK), and a comedian. Britain may be short of housing, energy, water, good jobs, a decent and working society generally, and good government, but we shall never, it seems, run out of comedians. Sometimes there seem to be thousands of them, though few I have seen or heard (on TV or radio) are actually very comic.

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£50,000 p.a. for being “office manager” of an office with few if any other employees? Bob Blackman is the Jewish-lobby puppet always acting as mouthpiece for Israel. One of such puppets, anyway.

I would suggest a solution for this, but prefer not to mention it…

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…championed the importance of freedom of speech“? Not one word from Young about how I was disbarred (wrongfully and actually unlawfully) at the instigation of a certain pack of Jews, some of whom still try (though vainly) to persecute me. Not a word about the persecution and prosecution, by the same pack of Jews, of the singer-satirist Alison Chabloz, who has now actually done time in prison for mocking “holocaust” fakery and hoaxes (fakery almost all done by Jews). Not a word about the fact that Jez Turner, of the now-defunct London Forum, was imprisoned for simply making a speech in Whitehall urging the removal of Jews from the UK.

Now I wonder whether there is a common theme about those cases when Toby Young and the “Free Speech Union” stayed guiltily silent?…

More controlled opposition.

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In 2004-2005, for nearly two years, I lived in a farmhouse in the constituency, near Milton Abbot (6 miles NW of Tavistock), having moved out of Polapit Tamar House, 8 miles away across the Tamar in Cornwall (a lovely place then, though since I lived there split up into numerous dwelling units, and currently on sale for £7M).

Geoffrey Cox became MP for Torridge and West Devon in 2005, but at that time I was too busy trying to make a living at the Bar to take any notice of System politics, certainly did not vote, and was unaware, I think, even of the bastard’s name.

The constituency is hard-core Conservative Party territory, though. All the farmers and landowners vote Conservative (despite being a “subsidized industry” by any other name). Cox received 60.1% in 2019 (LibDems 18.3%, Labour only 17.2%): see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torridge_and_West_Devon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2010s.

[Milton Abbot, Devon. In 2004-2005, I lived in a farmhouse down a private track, just beyond the treeline at the top of the photograph]

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

The fallibility of human memory

We do not have to consider the almost-ubiquitous “holocaust” fakery, hoaxes, or “memories” which simply could not have happened, to understand that human memory often cannot be relied upon. Ignorance of fact can also play a role.

I have just seen a tweet in which the tweeter reminisces about his school trip to the Soviet Union in 1984 or 1985. The trip apparently consisted of a week in Leningrad and a week in Moscow.

Inter alia, the tweeter concerned tweets that he visited the Hermitage (in Leningrad), and walked on the surface of the frozen Volga…

Well, I suppose that the above memory could be accurate, but probably is not. Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) is on the river Neva; Moscow is on the Moscow river or Moskva.

The Volga has a quite convoluted course, and at its nearest to Moscow is only about 85 miles away, at the meeting-place of the Volga with the Moskva-Volga Canal (aka Moscow Canal): https://factsanddetails.com/russia/Places/sub9_9a/entry-7029.html. It goes nowhere very near St. Petersburg.

[Neva river at St. Petersburg (former Leningrad); photo by A. Savin]
[Moscow river in central Moscow]
[Moskva-Volga Canal. Photograph by Ilya Timin]
[river Volga, near Yaroslavl]
[river Oka at Nizhny-Novgorod; photograph by Aleksei Trefilov]

The Moscow river is a tributary of the river Oka, which is in turn a tributary of the river Volga.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neva; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskva_(river); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Canal; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka_(river).

The upshot of the above is that the tweet I saw could be accurate but quite likely is not. The tweeter probably walked on the frozen Neva, or perhaps the Moskva, or the Moskva-Volga Canal.

Memory cannot always be relied upon. My own memory is (I have found) better than that of almost anyone else I have ever met, but is still occasionally inaccurate.

Talking of memories of Russia, I saw another tweet today, which contained a picture of the interior of the GUM complex near Red Square. Marble floors, clean, redolent of luxury.

I first saw GUM in 1993, when most of the shop units were empty, the (then white) marble floors containing wide cracks in places, and a snack bar in the area on the ground floor was doing a good trade in open sandwiches (red caviar on buttered white bread); I had one myself, I think.

When I returned to Moscow in 2007, all changed. Tan marble, everything clean and tidy, and the shops were all occupied; they included Thomas Pink, Armani etc. Not very busy, perhaps because it was a weekday and early evening, or perhaps because of the high prices. In 1993, it was also not busy, though then because there was rather little to buy. I believe that, in Soviet days, GUM was always packed, as was the toy shop Detsky Mir (“Children’s World”) next door (with access then from GUM as well as from the street). In 1993, I wandered in from GUM, out of curiosity. The few outsized soft toys were charged at extortionate prices. Oddly, or perhaps not, no children and few adults there.

Late tweets

https://twitter.com/fionamflanagan1/status/1310690616209289216?s=20

For a moment, I thought that he must have done something really bad, like identifying a Jew as Jewish, but on reflection, that would have required the participation of the “Anti-Terrorist Command”, I suppose…

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Diary Blog, 1 November 2021

Tweets seen

In other words, anyone posting anonymously on the Internet will be tracked down and harassed in various ways, if the poster is deemed “anti-Semitic”. On the other hand, the legion of Jew-Zionist trolls abusing people anonymously should have their identities and other details protected. That is what those bastards (tweeting above) really mean.

Is there any longer doubt that the part-Jew, part-Levantine chancer currently posing as Prime Minister is a puppet of the “New World Order”?

https://twitter.com/HerbertTirol/status/1455126115165614080?s=20

https://twitter.com/AlphaGoII1/status/1455117169713422338?s=20

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[building the Berlin Wall, 1961; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall]
[couple look from West Berlin to East Berlin, 1960s]
[Berlin Wall; de jure, in international law, the DDR extended 5-10 feet outside the Wall in places; any fatalities there, e.g. of fugitives, were therefore, legally, on DDR territory]

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For once, I cannot blame Biden! What is he thinking? Anything? Maybe “they told me I would be the most powerful man on Earth, but here I am sitting listening to some idiot droning on about nonsense, and I cannot —diplomatically— just get up and leave“…

Ha ha! Justin Welby, who has bent over backwards for the Jewish lobby for years, has now blotted his copybook by suggesting that the so-called “holocaust” is not the most significant event, or series of events, or possible events, in history…

That tweeter, Pollard, is editor of the Jewish Chronicle. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Welby#Early_life_and_education.

All in all, Welby is an interesting character, it has to be said: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Welby.

Interesting as far as it goes, that article, but the author, as a Jew, naturally does not mention the most egregious acts of “cancellation” or censorship in the UK in recent years, such as my own nominal disbarment in 2016 for having tweeted 5 entirely true tweets (mostly about Jews and part-Jews). See https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/; and see also https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/13/when-i-was-a-victim-of-a-malicious-zionist-complaint/.

The author of the cited piece says that many dissidents are forced to “keep quiet” in order to avoid being “cancelled”. He does not explore the possibility that some dissidents, “cancelled”, censored, unable to express views, or put forward ideas, might decide to strike back at their imprisoners, or tormentors, or at the self-appointed “leaders” and “influencers” of the very sick society that is developing fast in the UK, USA etc. Action directe?

On the wider point, the people generally, “the plebs” if you like, do not want “authoritarianism” as such; they want “authority”, in the sense of statesmen in charge of government, rather than clowns like “Boris” and his cronies. People who know what they want for the country, and know how to get things done. Look at the part-Jew/Levantine chancer! He can do nothing except to spin fantasy islands, fantasy bridges, fantasy airports etc. Incapable of being a Prime Minister. Totally unfit for his, or any, office. Not that Jewish-lobby puppet Starmer is any better. He is equally useless, simply less colourful.

The people also want TV news that reports facts, rather than the present BBC/Sky propaganda mouthpieces.

The people also want decent and working administration, both at central and local government level.

The people want a proper NHS, a National Health Service, not a “National Covid Service” run for the benefit of those who work in it.

The people also want to be a functioning nation-state, with a basically white European population, not a multikulti, dystopian chaotic mess, kept like that for the profit and benefit of “a certain tribe”.

The above is in fact only part of the entire problem.

A declaration of war on freedom of expression in the UK

Seems that the System’s MPs never learn…

Late tweets

The new Australian biosecurity (and finance-capitalist, and multikulti) police state.

https://twitter.com/Paleocon_USA/status/1455256020914147339?s=20

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Diary Blog, 30 October 2021

Jonathan Sumption was one of the first barristers, in the 1990s, if not the first barrister, to earn over a million pounds per year in fees (albeit that a few pre-WW2 barristers made a similar real amount, in the money of their day). He later became a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, aka a “Law Lord”, i.e. a Justice of the Supreme Court (nb. not Lord Chief Justice— that is something else). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Sumption,_Lord_Sumption.

The above post is factually (and grammatically) inaccurate in that, but not wrong otherwise.

Now, because he has spoken out against the trashing of civil liberties and formerly accepted rights since the start of the “panicdemic”, Sumption is regarded by the System (of which he was, in a sense, part), and the msm, as a “conspiracy theorist” and effectively a crank.

Wake up, England!

Saturday quiz

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I scored only 5/10 this week, same as political journalist John Rentoul, though I really knew one more (question 10) but it slipped my mind. I did not know, therefore, the answers to not only question 10 but also questions 1, 4, 6, and 9.

Tweets seen

Not sure whether Marine le Pen is worth supporting as much as was her father, but almost anything would be better than NWO/ZOG puppet Macron. See https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/09/on-recent-events-in-france/.

Peter Hitchens often fails to get to the roots of problems in UK society because he cannot see (((what))) is behind so many of them. In a word, “them”…

The revolution devours its own children…

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/will-novara-media-now-stand-up-for-freedom-of-speech-

Ha ha! You see the same lack of self-awareness in the Zionist Jew milieu online.

When I was up before a Bar Disciplinary Tribunal (which eventually wrongfully and unlawfully disbarred me in October 2016), one of my defence points was that the (eventually, only 5, out of 150,000+) tweets I had tweeted, and which were adjudged so offensive that I had, supposedly, no right to tweet them, had been tweeted in my personal capacity; also, that my Twitter account made no mention in its profile that I was a barrister.

The Tribunal, and the Bar Standards Board, twisted a very few other tweets to “prove” the contrary. All the Jews applauded both that (and my wrongful/unlawful disbarment).

Later, some of those very Jews, and who are solicitors or barristers, faced the same or similar problems as I had, but made the same plea, that their comments were made as part of their non-professional life. Other Jews weighed in on their side. What a pack of hypocrites they are (too)!

As to Novara Media and the like, see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/01/disordered-and-infantile-people/, and https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/18/some-thoughts-about-venezuela-socialism-and-developing-a-more-advanced-society/.

Novara Media? Idiots, with no political future.

On the wider point, I have been blogging and (before the Jew lobby had my much-read Twitter account removed in 2018), often tweeted about the “privatization of public space” online. That also formed part of my talk to the London Forum in 2017.

On Twitter and other online fora, one has no rights beyond very limited contractual ones. There needs to be an independent appeal process but I fear that the Jewish element would infiltrate that (too), were it ever to exist.

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/01/10/the-internet-privatization-of-public-spaces/; and https://ianrobertmillard.org/2021/02/24/diary-blog-24-february-2021-including-more-about-freedom-of-expression/.

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The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan in action…

As for the £37 BILLION completely and utterly wasted on NHS “test and trace”, how infuriatingly crazy, when that money could have gone to new rail infrastructure, hospitals doing proper clinical work etc.

We need a mixture of ignoring the bastards, exposing them, and rising up against them.

All too many white people (in the UK too) simply accept the agenda being pursued. All too many ignorant and/or ill-intentioned schoolteachers and officials are poisoning the minds of the children, without sanction.

I notice, in that clip, among the most guilty of the school board officials was one “Ziegler”. As they say, “every single time”…

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Against stupidity, the Gods themselves struggle in vain” [Schiller, Die Jungfrau von Orleans]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maid_of_Orleans_(play).

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Diary Blog, 10 October 2021

Honi soit qui mal y pense

Happened to see that a playwright, David Hare [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hare_(playwright)], has said that a man kissing a woman 20 years his junior (as occurs in Hare’s own films known as The Worricker Trilogy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_Eight]), is “disgusting” and “so wrong“. Really?

This is not something about which I have strong feelings either way, but one does not have to turn to the Old Testament to see that liaisons between older men and younger women, even with age gaps of 20 or 30 years, are not uncommon in many parts of the world. In fact, they are not terribly unusual even in the UK and other parts of Europe today. Some such liaisons are sanctified by marriage rituals, others take place covertly.

What occurs to me is that the attitudes of society, at least in the UK, and perhaps mainly among the kind of people who scribble for newspapers, have changed. Today, in the UK, as compared to, say, the UK of the 1970s, 1950s, or 1850s, an approved msm figure (David Hare is Sir David Hare) can describe an age-gap relationship as “disgusting” and “wrong“, but woe betide anyone who used such a description to describe (or condemn) a sexual relationship between two men, or two women, or between persons of radically different races or nationalities…

As for Sir David himself, he is not directly affected by the age aspect, married as he is to a Jewish woman who is one year older than him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Farhi.

In the end, this is a question to which (in my opinion) there is no “answer”, except that given by individuals, and also by the society in which those individuals live. I do not think that there is one right answer for all places and all times.

Tweets on that topic

Other David Hare views

I agree —in part— with Hare about the way in which the BBC gradually lost its Reithian “inform, educate, and entertain” basis.

Hare says that “news” (much of it the BBC acting as a government mouthpiece) has displaced everything else. I hear what Hare says about that, but for me, while I can agree with what he says about BBC News, the BBC long ago put “entertainment” (and pathetically poor much of it is) before the informing and educating of the public.

Whatever. The BBC is now pretty poor and possibly unsalvageable without the sacking of most of its staff.

More news

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10075605/Equality-Human-Rights-Commission-slams-bullying-campaign-Prof-Kathleen-Stock-fired.html

I blogged a few years ago about this aspect of the general craziness that now contaminates society: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/11/15/when-reality-becomes-subjective/.

In fact, the kefuffle at Sussex University, and the general madness around “trans” this or that, is what happens when the anti-free-speech genie is let out of the bottle…

Wales

It seems that the Welsh Government is going to continue to force people in Wales to wear facemasks (and to work from home) until 2022. I think that central (UK) government should cut what amounts to its subsidy to Wales. They (the Welsh Government, not the people) want to make choices that make Wales less efficient? Fine, but the UK will not subsidize the economic consequences of those choices.

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Translation: “I hate free speech and freedom of expression by those who stand up for European race and culture.”

Bethell is a member of the House of Lords because…because his father and grandfather (etc) were. He has been implicated in “cronyism” scandal, and is married to a Chinese woman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bethell,_5th_Baron_Bethell.

Bethell was unable to comply with ministerial standards when he was a junior minister: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58602879. A typical UK System drone.

Bethell’s father was a more substantial figure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Bethell,_4th_Baron_Bethell.

What was that definition of “insanity” again?…

The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan…

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[Shishkin, Forest before Storm]

Diary Blog, 3 October 2021

Greta Nut commentary

Interesting discussion and interview with “cancelled” (msm-censored) historian, David Starkey.

I had better not say what I think of Greta Thunberg, or what might happen in an ideal world. We do not have freedom of expression any more in the UK. I have blogged about her, though, including this from two years ago: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/09/29/greta-thunberg-system-approved-wunderkind/.

If Greta Thunberg did not exist, it would be necessary for the international conspiracy to invent her. Oh, no, wait…

Another interesting video

Tweets seen today

I did not know that that trial had started; if it has concluded, I have seen no report of it. As of today, she is still tweeting:

I hope that the Welsh teaching contingent teach the children of Wales how much better Africa was when Europeans ruled most of it. Especially between 1945 and until European colonies ceased to exist in the 1960s and 1970s. I doubt that that will be taught, though…

Claudia Webbe is ignorant, and as thick as two short planks.

The voters of Leicester East have been unfortunate. First the corrupt and sleazy Indian, Keith Vaz, and now this thick waste of space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2010s.

If people never speak, they cannot spread “subversive” ideas such as free speech, freedom of expression, or the idea that Europe would be far better without (((certain elements))).

I rather like the tweets of @EternalEnglish. I urge any readers with Twitter accounts to follow that account while they can, before (((the usual suspects))) have it expunged. I might not agree with all of what he says, but, adapting the lyrics of “Meatloaf”, “nine out of ten ain’t bad”.

[Update, 3 October 2022: as I feared, the Jew lobby has now had tweeter “@EternalEnglish” removed from Twitter].

When I was a barrister practising from chambers in Exeter (2002-2008), I had contact with some of the Devon (and East Cornwall) hunting/shooting country set. Not necessarily “bad people”, but not particularly “good” either. Overall, just rather backward in terms of attitude, I should say.

Facemask nonsense

(Q: is “laughter the best medicine”?)

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I am no medic, but there has been, from the start, something not right about the whole System narrative around the Covid-19 “panicdemic”.

First of all, in early 2020, we were told that this was something almost akin to the 1970s British TV series, Survivors (no relation to the funny Alison Chabloz banned song of the same name): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors_(1975_TV_series); incidentally, writing this, I notice that Survivors was remade in 2008, still with the same idea, i.e. that a Chinese lab releases a deadly virus, which spreads worldwide, changing everything…makes you think.

So, anyway, we were all thoroughly frightened in early 2020. However, measures such as the facemask nonsense were not implemented in the UK for about another 7 months. In some parts of Europe, notably Sweden, there was no panic, no facemask nonsense, all the bars and offices stayed open, and —quelle surprise— outcomes were better than in the UK and the other panicked parts of Europe (France, Germany, Italy, Belgium etc).

Since then we have seen that, in the world as a whole (even on the very inflated and misapplied statistics used), maybe 5 million people have died of or, rather, with “the virus”, which figure sounds huge but is out of 8 BILLION people. In other words, roughly one person out of every 1,800.

In fact, most of the deceased had other life-threatening problems anyway, many have been very aged (thus with low immunity), and many have become part of the death-statistics simply because they had (unreliable) positive tests for “the virus” up to a month prior to their death (which might even have been in a car accident). Absurd.

The UK is now going to be hit with poverty and restriction thanks to the policies applied for nearly two years by part-Jew chancer “Boris” and Indian “clever boy” Rishi Sunak. Pensioners are going to be hit as far as they can be without alienating their mainly pro-Conservative Party votes entirely; taxes overall will be increased by stealth as far as possible.

Huge amounts that could have been spent improving infrastructure and/or the environment have been just squandered on nothing much, squandered for no reason.

The crazed “furlough” payments and other policies did not come free of charge, though the masses probably, in fact clearly, assumed that they did.

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Interesting. Even less favourable than I would have assumed. A small sample, though.

A far larger sample than with the previous tweets, but once you adjust for the inbuilt Remainer bias on Twitter, the result is, in reality, probably not far off 50-50 again.

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Keep chucking a few msm crumbs at Ash Sarkar and her cohorts, and the System will have no trouble from them, none at all. Give her a regular TV slot, and she will say (and probably do) almost anything…

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/01/disordered-and-infantile-people/.

Meanwhile, and while free speech in the UK is being destroyed by, mainly, Jew-Zionists, the BBC has seen fit to make a TV drama series, Ridley Road, portraying Jew terrorists, gangsters, and other thugs of the 1960s, as heroes.

Britain: the view from New York

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A girl I once knew had a Jamaican record, the lyrics of which went something like “Execute de corruptors!“…

Perhaps it is the right time to supply a few links about Mosley, to redress the imbalance caused by (((the usual))) BBC and other msm propaganda: https://www.oswaldmosley.com/; https://www.sanctuarypress.com/; https://www.sanctuarypress.com/bookshop/civilization-as-divine-superman/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley.

Possible, yes. Also very short-lived.

As Labour is now, its only hope of office is to get to within about 50-60 seats of a Commons majority, and then to make a compact of some sort with the SNP and its MPs (numbering, at present, 45). However, the SNP would only make such a compact on the firm understanding of an early Indyref Mark 2. If that were to happen, and if, then, the SNP won such a second “indyref”, then the UK would break up, the SNP would no longer be in the Commons at all, and Labour as a party of government would be history.

Good point from Hitchens here. The point is valid also in respect of the Second World War. In the UK, great strides were being made in the 1930s in the areas of town planning, housing etc; the Depression poverty of the North was certainly not replicated in the South of England, generally speaking, certainly not in the late 1930s. The War spoiled much of the good that was happening. Britain only started to recover from its pyrrhic victory from or after 1955.

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Diary Blog, 2 October 2021

Saturday thought…

Come with me, and I will show you where the Iron Crosses grow.”

Sometimes we have to pursue things to the bitter end, come what may.

[Germany 1945: “we are fighting for the future of our children”]

Free speech is effectively dead in the UK

The reason? The Jewish-Zionist lobby.

A University of Bristol professor being investigated over comments he made about Israel has been sacked.

Prof David Miller accused the country of wanting to “impose [its] will all over the world”, the Jewish Chronicle reported.” [BBC News]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-58765052

Despite its actions, forced upon it by the Jew-Zionist lobby, Bristol University put out the following weasel words:

It said the university regards the “principle of academic freedom as fundamental” and would like to “reiterate that we take any risk to stifle that freedom seriously”.” Yeah, right…

Doormats for the Israel/Jewish lobby.

Even that tangled conspiratorial web is not complete. Small —but vocal and malicious— Zionist organizations, such as the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”], are absent, possibly because the graphic is a few years old.

Tweets seen today

Looks hopeful, anyway…(though only on one reading)

I have blogged previously about Greta Nut and the Extinction Rebellion crazies: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/09/29/greta-thunberg-system-approved-wunderkind/; https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/08/16/the-extinction-rebellion-levellers/; https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/10/09/extinction-rebellion-greta-thunberg-cressida-dick-and-the-madness-of-protesting-crowds/; https://ianrobertmillard.org/2020/09/08/diary-blog-8-september-2020-including-further-assessment-of-extinction-rebellion-as-well-as-of-tim-crosland-and-plan-b-etc/; https://ianrobertmillard.org/2021/08/25/diary-blog-25-august-2021-with-more-about-extinction-rebellion/.

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Ha ha! I think that I must echo both Griffin’s comment and his exculpa!

Maybe.

Australia (as I have blogged recently) was once (when I was there as child in the late 1960s) officially “White Australia”, a so-called “Lucky Country” of mainly Northern Europeans, near-full employment, decent pay, aspiration (often fulfilled) etc. Now look. A dystopian, multikulti, multiracial mess, with exploitative finance-capitalism, considerable unemployment, and on top of that, now also a viciously-harsh biosecurity police state.

A police force and state like that understand only one thing.

Tweeters @EternalEnglish and @fifi_j are both well worth following, for those who, unlike me, still have Twitter accounts.

Saturday quiz

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Not very good this week. I scored 4/10, though that was still enough to beat political journalist John Rentoul, who scored only 2/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 10.

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An interesting story

Yet another Jewish atom bomb spy: https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-a-jewish-manhattan-project-scientist-quietly-helped-the-soviets-get-the-bomb.

I had not heard of this one until a reader of this blog tipped me off. I have now also seen this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Koval.

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So we are told that “The big picture is, drug companies make their money developing drugs and treatments for chronic diseases that go on and on and on,”?

Is that not what “the virus” is now doing, with ever-more exotic “variants” and, therefore, a “need” for more vaccines and vaccine injections? Makes one wonder…

December 1944 newsreel

Perhaps “unrealistic”, but I sometimes wonder what would have happened if every single German civilian had managed to shoot, using a small pistol such as a compact Walther, one or two of the invading soldiery, particularly on the Eastern Front as it approached and penetrated Germany itself. After all, German civilians outnumbered all invading forces.

Naturally, matters were not so simple as suggested above, but we sometimes think that things are “impossible” when in fact they are possible, but also too painful or inconvenient to do.

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Diary Blog, 5 September 2021

The test for, or touchstone of, whether these msm outlets are for “free speech” or not is whether certain groups can be mentioned, and their behaviour questioned. Above all, Jews and their perceived behaviour, meaning both on the individual basis, and on the group or communal basis.

If a “free speech” outlet, or pressure group, or political party, treats the so-called “JQ” (Jewish Question) as taboo, then it can be binned as worthless. Over to you, Talk Radio! Over to you, Jeremy Kyle!

For example, we have recently seen the emergence of the Free Speech Union. It has a Twitter account, and well-known figures from the “controlled opposition” lead it or belong to it, but the FSU has never once, not one single time, supported the freedom of expression of, say, Alison Chabloz (imprisoned for taking part in an Internet “radio” podcast discussion which mentioned Jews), or Jez Turner (imprisoned for making a speech in Whitehall which mentioned Jews) etc.

My own experiences have likewise never been mentioned by any “Free Speech Union” drone: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/13/when-i-was-a-victim-of-a-malicious-zionist-complaint/; and https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/.

Not one “human rights” barrister, or “free speech” talking head, or newspaper scribbler, supported me by word or deed. Not one was brave enough to do so. Useless venal people.

The following exchange on Twitter illustrates the point about what is or is not free speech:

One still sees, on Twitter (often the online home of the ignorant) the contention that “you have free speech but are not free from the consequences of your free speech“.

The above frankly moronic assertion is not uncommonly seen on Twitter. Even those who certainly should know better (eg the odd law lecturer from a “McUniversity”) are seen to come out with the assertion as if it were a judgment of Solomon.

Naturally, a moment’s thought makes it clear that, if you “have free speech but not freedom from consequences“, then Stalin’s Russia, Mao’s China, even Pol Pot’s Cambodia, or North Korea, had “free speech”. You can say whatever you like, but you may then end up in the “GULAG Archipelago”, or the Cambodian “Killing Fields”.

Not a very plausible assertion.

There should be unlimited free speech on social, historical, and political questions, no matter whether this or that ethnic or religious group feels offended. In fact, it is usually only a tiny part of any minority ethnic or religious group that is disposed to find “offence” or indeed to seek it out.

An obvious example of the above is the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, which purports to represent Jewish-Zionist interests in the UK, yet in fact is a tiny minority of a minority. Somewhere well below 500 members. Its few public demonstrations since it started in 2014 have been attended by 50 to 100 individuals, despite its friends in the msm inflating the figures to hundreds and, in one egregious instance, inflating an attendance of about a hundred or so to “thousands”!

Incidentally, there are about 250,000 Jews in the UK, perhaps more, so the “CAA” membership, thought to be a few hundred at most, is representative of only one UK-based Jew out of about every 1,000 or 2,000.

[Update, 31 December 2022: See also https://ianrobertmillard.org/2022/01/15/diary-blog-15-january-2022-including-an-outline-of-the-failure-of-the-latest-jew-zionist-attempt-to-prosecute-me/].

Tweets seen

https://twitter.com/WoolacombeMosq1/status/1434479881983873024?s=20

The same transnational conspiracy, but taking different forms in various countries.

https://twitter.com/melbprisoner/status/1434460774928244737?s=20

Don’t people understand? Once you set up a system like that, and start incarcerating people on spurious “health” grounds, there is no going back. The system can be repurposed, the camps can be repurposed, at any time. “Health”, “Covid-19”, “spreading fake news”, “wrong attitudes”, “racist”, “anti-Semitic”, “harmful to public order” etc…

Andres Segovia

The father of Spanish classical guitar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Segovia

When Segovia died, his death (and life) was almost ignored by the BBC and other UK msm, because Segovia was not anti-Franco.

Late tweets

https://twitter.com/Partisangirl/status/1434113019164823552?s=20

and I hope will outlive it.

https://twitter.com/GoogleNewsPost/status/1434420226515427331?s=20

https://twitter.com/NoMoreEds/status/1434429433209831424?s=20

https://twitter.com/Partisangirl/status/1434344851361832960?s=20

Aux armes, citoyens!

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Diary Blog, 3 September 2021

The trees that survived the bombing of Hiroshima

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-52459140

I touched on similar themes in my 2019 blog post about evolution and civilization: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/26/the-tide-is-coming-in-reflections-on-the-possible-end-of-our-present-civilization-and-what-might-follow/.

The topic is perhaps particularly apposite today, being the day on which the disastrous Second World War started in 1939, 82 years ago.

Alison Chabloz

Usually-reliable sources report the following about Alison Chabloz, the persecuted singer-songwriter and satirist:

Alison remains well, despite still being incarcerated in Bronzefield Prison near Heathrow.

Apparently, Alison’s room or (to put it that way) cell has a view of a courtyard in which are flowers and cherry-blossom trees. Alison not only sings, but also paints, and is painting the said courtyard scene.

Alison has now been given a (paid) job in the prison, involving arts and crafts, sewing, beading etc; she enjoys such activity anyway.

Breakfast for Alison is, firstly, cereal and milk, delivered to her room along with two flasks of hot water. A full “English” breakfast can then be had elsewhere, together with toast, jam etc. The plentiful supply of snacks said to be available during the day seems almost superfluous. Oh, and the menu for lunch always has six choices, including vegetarian, halal and even kosher! Ha ha! Ironic…

Sources report that today’s lunch for Alison consisted of fish and chips, by reason of today being a Friday. A strange survival from Europe’s monkish past.

Well, of course Alison should never have been prosecuted at all, let alone sent to prison, but it is good to know that she is not quite in the “GULAG Archipelago”…

Perhaps Bronzefield Prison should enter the TV “bed and breakfast” competition, Four in a Bed! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_in_a_Bed. It scores on “value for money”, if nothing else…

At present, Alison is in prison until around the end of the month, but may be released earlier; we shall see.

[Alison Chabloz]

Tweets seen

Ash Sarkar is a joke even by the standards of the self-describing “Left” (pseudo-socialists). Hard to believe that a “university” (albeit a “McUniversity”) actually employed her briefly to teach “Global Politics” (her degree was in English Literature): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Sarkar.

A “libertarian communist“…what can one say?

I blogged, a couple of years ago, about people of, or similar to, her sort: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/18/some-thoughts-about-venezuela-socialism-and-developing-a-more-advanced-society/; and https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/01/disordered-and-infantile-people/.

“Idiocy” seems about the right description.

Actually, to get a measure of the sort of political moronics that support Ash Sarkar and her views, you only have to look at most of the replies to that tweet. Alarmingly thick (and ignorant) people.

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I often think back to the situation in Eastern Europe in the 1980s. I was there a few times in the late 1980s, and travelled there and back by both car and plane; Poland, Czechoslovakia, DDR (East Germany), spending over 90% of that time in Poland. I also had contact with Soviet matters in the 1980s, though did not visit Moscow until later (1993, and then in 2007).

In those 1980s days, despite ramshackle aspects and popular discontent (especially in Poland), socialist rule seemed strongly embedded in Eastern and parts of Central Europe. Eventually, it just fell off like a snake’s skin.

Thinking back further, the Shah of Iran seemed fairly secure on his throne until…well, until one fine day his whole government and society just collapsed.

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Exactly. There is always the understandable temptation to see the best in the System drones and politicos, “doing their best” etc. Sadly, reality then breaks in, and you see the evil iron fist within that “caring sharing”, “liberal” velvet glove.

Part of the deliberately-cultivated lunacy of the times.

Exciting.

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