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Diary Blog, 6 February 2026

Afternoon music

[river Cam at Clare Bridge, Cambridge]

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[“I have a Mandelson anecdote from the time when we both attended the University of Oxford.

The college captain of rugby (Welsh) returned from training to find Mandelson and his crowd of self-declared Marxist-Leninist friends having a tea party (ironic or what?) on the second quad lawn of our college.

He asked Mandelson if they needed more water. He replied that they did.

Our rugby captain went and unreeled a high-powered fire hose and doused them.

Mandelson and his chums threatened unconvincingly from a safe distance to ‘do him’.“]

Incredible. “From tiny acorns, mighty oaks do grow“…

[“In 1962, a 37-year-old man from England named Brendon Grimshaw suddenly quit his job and bought a small island in the Seychelles for about $10,000. The island was called Moyenne and, at the time of purchase, had been abandoned for 50 years. Everyone thought the man was crazy. Brendon eventually moved to the island permanently as its sole inhabitant. While most people tend to buy islands for luxury, Brendon had a broader vision. He wanted to restore the island to its raw beauty, creating a natural paradise completely uncontaminated by man and tourism. For the next 40 years, Brendon lived alone on the island; he managed to plant 16,000 trees by hand, built 5 km of nature trails and attracted around 2,000 new birds to the island. Brendon had transformed a desert land into an island of incredible beauty, Moyenne was so beautiful that Brendon was offered 50 million dollars by a Saudi prince, but he turned it down. Since Brendon died in 2012, the island has been owned by the Moyenne Island Foundation and is now a national park available to all thanks to his efforts. Photos that will restore your faith in humanity: https://bit.ly/3ILWYi4.“]

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

“The power of one”…

Deborah Meaden, like most of those smug Dragon’s Den speculators and merchants, thinks she is so very clever…

White slavery?

A great deal of transnational crime, from massive fraud to sex crime, to organ harvesting and blood harvesting, is based in Israel.

Exactly. I have been blogging for years that, were the UK to leave NATO and form a loose but close relationship with the Russian Federation, British people would be sold Russian gas at or below cost.

The Kiev regime is, however, losing steadily on the ground, and across the entire front.

The Zelensky regime continues to poke the Bear.,..

Odessa should either become a “free city”, or should be ruled by a condominium arrangement.

[stormy skies over the Black Sea at Odessa]

[“US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the situation in Iran:

“We created a dollar shortage in the country. This led to a quick result.

I would say the culmination came in December, when one of Iran’s largest banks collapsed after a mass withdrawal of deposits. The central bank was forced to print money.

The Iranian currency plummeted, inflation soared, and as a result, we witnessed massive protests by the Iranian people on the streets.“]

“War without war”, as Sun Tzu either said or might have said.

The [Israeli] Jews think that (using American money and arms etc) they control, or at least restrain, Egypt. I wonder. I got the impression, in 1998, when I was “not arrested” in Egypt, that the Egyptians would rather like to defeat Israel, if that were possible.

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Maybe Mandelson should book another 4 tickets for his widely-expected fugitive flight to Israel— tickets for Starmer-stein, his Jewish wife, and their 2 children.

Gorton and Denton by-election

My own views about the likely result of the Gorton and Denton by-election have not changed from a day or two ago. Reform seem to be in pole position, and Labour very much on the back foot (every day more scandal), but the Green Party may also be getting not only their own former (2024) voters’ votes (about 13% in 2024) but also votes from both disenchanted English/British former Labour voters and from equally disenchanted Pakistani (etc) Muslim former Labour voters.

That triad of support for the Greens may add up to something formidable, though my money is, I think, still on Reform to win this. For Labour to win would take a minor miracle, the way things are, despite Labour’s 50.8% vote at GE 2024, and despite the history of the area.

Mark Hehir

I am still following the progress of the GoFundMe crowdfunder set up for the “hero bus driver”, Mark Hehir, who was so badly treated by his former employer, Metroline. At time of writing, the crowdfunder stands at not far below £42,000: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-mark-hehir-the-hero-bus-driver.

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Many well-meaning but fatally-naive people still have a sadly-ingrained respect or deference to anyone in a position such as MP, Cabinet minister, certainly Prime Minister (or “royal prince”…). Unfortunately, the past 16+ years have shown that many, perhaps most, are clowns and/or freeloaders and moneygrubbers. Many, also, are little better, if at all, than Israeli agents and/or puppets of the Jewish lobby in the UK.

A victory for Reform (or even for the Greens) would knock Starmer-stein totally off his perch. I doubt that he would resign, though; he is the kind of box-ticking careerist who will cling on to his job even as people are stamping on his fingers. I think he would have to be dismissed by his own MPs.

[“Labour MPs, ministers and party insiders tell me they’ve never seen Keir Starmer so angry, as over Peter Mandelson’s lies about extent of his Epstein links.

But those who know him well say that anger has now turned inwards. That Starmer is, above all else, a man of public service, and will be grappling with his conscious this weekend. Where that ends up, who knows.“]

So tweets Guardian scribbler Pippa Crerar. Starmer “a man of public service“? Ha ha. A careerist box-ticker. Also, how is it that the Political Editor of the Guardian cannot spell the word “conscience”? Or was that a Freudian slip?

Israel-puppet Luke Akehurst, desperate for Israel-puppet Starmer-stein and Zionist agent Morgan McSweeney to stay en poste. Hardly surprising.

Treacherous enemies of the British people.

Not so much a “cult” as a conspiracy. Either organized by MOSSAD or by some other political intelligence agency; an operation run out of Israel.

More news: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/06/labour-minister-intelligence-files-gathered-on-journalists-josh-simons

A Labour minister commissioned and reviewed an intelligence report on journalists investigating the thinktank that helped propel Keir Starmer to power, the Guardian has learned.

The research was ordered and subsequently reviewed by Josh Simons, now a minister in the Cabinet Office, when he was chair of Labour Together, according to sources and documents seen by the Guardian.

Simons is close to the prime minister’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, who had previously run Labour Together and whose own role in the operation to gather material on journalists is under scrutiny.

In an agreement addressed to Simons, drawn up by the PR firm APCO Worldwide, the firm agreed to “investigate the sourcing, funding and origins” of a November 2023 Sunday Times report about the thinktank, in addition to other journalistic investigations into the group.

[Guardian]

Josh Simons“: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Simons. Half-Jew, and whose wife is American, probably Jewish, maybe even a US/UK/Israel triple passport-holder.

“Simons has cited “persistent failure” to tackle antisemitism for his resignation from Corbyn’s office.[4][5] He later contributed to the Equality and Human Rights Commission‘s investigation into Labour antisemitism.”

[Wikipedia]

There is every chance that Simons will lose his Makerfield seat at the next general election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makerfield_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.

Might fly with the electorate. Senior officer (Colonel, but was due for promotion to Brigadier prior to being MP) but still youngish (44; will be 45 in March 2026); MC and DSO; saw action repeatedly in Afghanistan; untainted (so far) by any scandal.

Enlisted, but was commissioned only 3 years later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Carns.

Whether that ex-officer’s election as Labour leader would be an electoral gamechanger, hard to say, but it would be far more popular than having Angela Rayner or Wes Streeting, let alone expenses cheat Yvette Cooper, taking over.

Usually, ex-officers are not much good, politically, but who knows, this one might be an exception. It might not save Labour, but might mitigate the damage.

That MP , a traditional Labour MP-type, has little to lose, his GE 2024 majority having been a mere 18 votes, and his win at Poole having been a fluke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poole_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.

Duncan-Jordan really has no chance of re-election, and is about 60 or so, so is free to be honest…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Duncan-Jordan

Morgan McSweeney is, at very least, an agent of influence controlled by Israel. He may even be a MOSSAD agent, simpliciter. £30,000 just to investigate a few journalists? Where did the money come from? Probably Israel itself, either directly or via cut-outs, rich Jews resident in the UK, a “fifth column” in our society.

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NWO/ZOG drone, William Hague, now, apparently, thinks that British people should not be allowed to express views, or discuss anything on social media. Presumably, the little bastard thinks that people should stay (locked-down?) in their houses, watching and listening compliantly to the sort of System propaganda (complete with rigged “discussion”) churned out by rubbish shows such as BBC Radio 4 Today, Sky News, or BBC Question Time.

Also, what is a “healthy democratic system“?

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Migration invasion news

The Home Office is claiming that 60,000 individuals have either been deported, or have left voluntarily, since Labour came to office in 2024. Perhaps, but in that same time period about 1.5 million immigrants have entered the country, mostly “legally”. Even the small boat invaders have numbered about 100,000, maybe more.

Late tweets seen

Shalom, Starmer and McSweeney— your time is up…

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Diary Blog, 14 April 2025

Afternoon music

[painting by Konstantin Razumov]

Tweets seen

The Jew-Zionist lobby seems to be immune, in this country, from any proper regulation or punishment. So far.

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[“Soft coup in the army of the Israel: mass protest of the Air Force and Navy officers of the Israel army! Journalists and analysts from Israeli TV channels report: The letter from pilots and naval officers demanding an end to the war has caused a real storm. Refusal to serve becomes a strategic threat. The dismissal of thousands of military personnel would be a grave mistake! At the same time, none of the goals of the war have been achieved yet, and everything that is happening is turning into a huge snowball, capable of developing into an avalanche.”]

[“NEW POST. I’ve just returned to Britain from Hungary, where I spent a few days giving talks to students, politicians, and members of the public. Whenever you mention Hungary among a certain group in London —think SW1 Westminster, the BBC, Financial Times, Oxbridge—people tend to lose their minds. ‘Hungary!?’ they say, ‘you mean that rather odd country in Eastern Europe that’s very conservative and falling out with everybody in the European Union!?” I first experienced this reaction last summer when, amid the Southport atrocities, I dared to point out that the country I was visiting and which Western elites like to criticise —a very stable, a very secure, and a very peaceful Hungary—looked utterly different to the country I was returning to. Because unlike Hungary, Britain was on fire. Widespread rioting and protests after the Southport atrocity had become an unavoidable symbol of intense public concern about things that are only significant in Hungary because they are absent —mass uncontrolled immigration, broken borders, radical Islamism, Pakistani Muslim rape gangs, and the murder of children by the descendants of recent immigrants. Nonetheless, my mere suggestion that perhaps Hungary has got some things right that Britain has got badly wrong generated an incredibly hostile response from British elites, reflecting an arrogance and snobbishness that is rife among that class. Indeed, for much of the last fifteen years there’s been an assumption among elites in Britain that something has gone ‘badly wrong’ with Hungary. But based on what I witnessed and was asked at events last week, I’m here to tell you that the opposite is true. Because as far as many Hungarians are concerned, it is Britain, it is England, it is us, who got things badly wrong, who made a series of disastrous policy choices they are determined to avoid, and who are, in the words of one person I encountered, “losing our country”.”]

I certainly enjoyed my week or so in Hungary (about 24 years ago), when I stayed for about 3 days at Szeged (having driven from Turkey through Bulgaria and Romania) and then about 4 days by Lake Balaton.

“British Steel”…ha ha. 3,000 employees. In 1971, it had 200,000.

[“Out with it!” (rest of the caption regretfully redacted by reason of the repression on free speech now in force in England…)]

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[Tiger tanks in action on the Eastern Front, 1943]

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Talking about the USA, but it is at least as true here in the UK…

Accept none, certainly not more than a few defecting spies etc, and start to “remigrate” those already there. Deutschland erwache!

What is the Arabic for “keep calm and carry on“, or “we are still open for business“?

https://twitter.com/SprinterObserve/status/1911858471924093227

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Diary Blog, 11 January 2025, including more by James Wilson on his successful libel action, and on the negligence and dishonesty of fanatical Jew-Zionist solicitor Mark Lewis

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Saturday quiz

Well, this week I score 7/10, thus again beating political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 5, and 7.

Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon (deceased), and Cantor

https://substack.com/home/post/p-154273243

As blogged previously, many times, I pity anyone who has Jewish fanatic Mark Lewis as his or her solicitor (and, yes, I do know that he has been on the winning side sometimes, though usually in open-and-shut cases).

Anyone interested in my views about Lewis (who was wont to tweet pathetic and men tally-disturbed insults about me, for years) can simply type his name into the search box on the blog.

Extract from James Wilson’s Substack blog:

Mark Lewis and Patron Law – Patron Law’s website states that Mr Lewis is the “UK’s foremost media, libel and privacy lawyer”. This is a bold claim. In an email to me dated 1 March 2023 Mr Lewis stated “I do not think that you will succeed [at trial] given that [the person who published the Facebook post originally] has indicated that she honestly held the opinion that you were a weirdo. … However, that is the point of litigation and you might be able to persuade the Court that [she] did not hold an honest opinion that you are a weirdo.

Mr Lewis’ statements make no sense at all and suggest a frightening lack of understanding about defamation law and the issues for trial. That Mr Lewis charges £600/hour for analysis such as this is mind-boggling. In reality: the opinion of the person who published the Facebook post that I was a weirdo, and whether I could persuade the court she did not hold that opinion, were irrelevant. What actually had to be proven – by the defendants – was that the defamatory statements in the screenshot were factually true, or their own honest and reasonable opinion. The defendants’ case here completely fell apart when the person who originally published the Facebook post gave evidence for them at trial. She was a truly awful witness whose evidence the judge found to be “wholly incredible” and “plainly untrue”.

There’s an old joke about Ringo Starr: “Ringo wasn’t the best drummer in the world… Let’s face it, he wasn’t even the best drummer in The Beatles”. Given what is above, the equivalent joke here is: “Mr Lewis is not the UK’s foremost libel lawyer… Let’s face it, he may have been only the seventh best libel lawyer in the Wilson v Mendelsohn case, behind four other libel lawyers and Wilson and Mendelsohn themselves, and they were amateurs.”

[James Wilson, blogging on Substack].

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One of the peculiarities of the modern mindset, seen since the 19thC, is the tendency to believe that those with enormous amounts of money are either giant villains or near-saints, and in both cases hugely intelligent. Not always the case. Many are average or somewhat above-average minds, and may or may not be correct on this issue or that.

Talking point

[Tim Fortescue, former Conservative Party Whip, interviewed on the BBC in 1995; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Fortescue]

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I can think of a very good disincentive but, in our “free society”, would be prosecuted were I to print exactly what I mean…

Tell me about it…

This can only end one way…

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

I had better not write what has come into my mind…

Do Afrikaners think that the South African post-apartheid government ruined South Africa? It is not a matter of what Afrikaners think: the evidence is there for all to see.

There are 120 known murders per day in So Africa,

gender-based violence is horrific,

youth unemployment is around 50%,

sewage runs in the streets, water supplies are erratic,

the police participate in murders and kidnappings when not renting out their uniforms and weapons,

the education system has failed,

infrastructure is not maintained and is collapsing while money is siphoned off,

mafias are holding up construction work and kill for 30% of total cost of the projects,

cabinet ministers are implicated in crime,

pals of politicians (some illiterate), are being appointed as ambassadors,

corruption and nepotism are in every sphere of life,

mafias have been allowed to reduce commuter trains to rubble to benefit the taxi mafia.

There is no concern for the poor and the poorest of the poor, except when an election is approaching.

[South Africa under black rule].

Yet thick-as-two-short-planks Nelson Mandela is still revered as some kind of secular saint and great mind in the UK. Pathetic. Largely the result of the propaganda put about in the 1970s and 1980s by biased idiots such as the BBC’s John Humphrys.

The old South Africa had its flaws, but what is now there is so much worse.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Caplin#Early_life

How long before he claims to be the victim of “antisemitism”?

Diary Blog, 16 September 2022, including thoughts about what happens once the funeral of the late Queen is over

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[Marble Bridge, Tsarskoe Selo, nr. St. Petersburg, Russia]

On this day a year ago

On the blog 5 years ago

Overkill

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11216931/JANET-STREET-PORTER-royals-dont-want-Britain-shut-Queen.html

I agree, for once, with Janet Street-Porter. The whole thing has been overdone. Instead of a quiet, dignified series of events, a mass circus in which good taste and real respect has been —partly at least— left behind.

Tweets seen today

At last the Russian high command is starting to think truly tactically, meaning in this case obliquely.

It will be recalled that the Iraqi Army flooded large areas at one time, in the 1980s and later, both when fighting Iran and when fighting the “Allied forces” (USA, mainly).

I made that point a few days ago on the blog, citing the dictum of Clausewitz about how the ratio “moral” or morale vis a vis the “material” is 3:1.

We tend to forget that, though the southeastern part of Ukraine is a war zone, that does not mean that all areas suffer continuous fighting. Far from it. The Ukraine is about 3x the size of the UK, and nearly 5x the size of England. The southeastern parts known as the Donbass or Don Basin (Donetsk and Lugansk regions) are, together, about half the size of England.

From their foreign correspondents

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/16/when-mourning-ends-reality-will-hit-hard-european-journalists-on-britains-mood

…the foreign media cover this long period of ceremonial mourning with less servility. Hardly any British media, for example, dared comment on King Charles III’s rude gesture of impatience during the acclamation.

[Stefanie Bolzen, in Die Welt]

 “...a new recession, heralded by galloping inflation – the real thief in the night for working-class people, has caught the government off guard, with a new PM who has everything to prove, having been elected by a small number of Conservative members.”

[Rafael de Miguel, in El Pais]

The risk is always that the UK ends up not as Global Britain but Little England. This, too, would have been a nightmare for the Queen.

[Antonello Guerrera, La Repubblica]

[Liz Truss]

Pound sliding, inflation stoking, and recession likely

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62923994

Still think that closing down the economy for almost 2 years (because a virus was supposedly killing one out of every thousand people, mostly aged and/or with serious pre-existing health problems), and while doling out “free” money to individuals and companies via “furlough” payments, grants, “loans” etc, was a good policy? Think again.

A delusionary time, but what happens once the funeral of the late Queen has been held?

The death of the late Queen, and the consequent ritual arrangements and spectacles, is occupying the msm in the UK to an almost (?) unprecedented extent.

It may be that the Diana death hysteria of 1997, about which I have heard, and the Silver Jubilee of 1977, were similar; I cannot say, having been out of the UK when those two events occurred. In 1977, I was in Rhodesia, and in 1997 I was in Kazakhstan.

In fact, I only heard of the Diana incident 2-3 days after it happened, when I attended a regular Monday morning meeting at my office in Almaty, the then capital.

The British Embassy opened a book of condolence, and I was told by one of my Embassy contacts that, out of all the ~70 British residents (in the city) of which the Embassy was aware, I was the only one who had not signed (though not because I was hostile to Diana, but because of simple lack of interest).

My non-signing may have also been noted because, about 10 months previously, I had attended by invitation a royal reception at the Ambassador’s official Residence, where I had met and briefly chatted to Prince Charles, as he then was. Also, because I was at the Embassy quite often, at least a couple of times per week.

I have blogged in the past about how, on my return to London a few weeks later, friends told me about the collective psychosis (?) that had descended (on London at least), with pubs full of blubbing drinkers etc.

I am now thinking ahead to the day, or perhaps two or three days after the funeral of the late Queen (next Monday, 19 September 2022). What then?

We as a nation (insofar as Britain still is a nation) face huge economic problems, as well as ingrained social problems. The cloud of illusion all too obvious this week on TV, in the Press etc will blow away, and the country may come down to Earth with a very hard jolt.

The sentiment around the enormous queues going to see the late Queen’s coffin etc is somewhat illusory. The hundreds of thousands of people shuffling toward Westminster, or lining the Mall, are still only about 1% of the whole UK population. The vast majority, almost all in fact, seem to be English/British, i.e. white, and most (that I have seen in photos, on TV etc), are middle-aged or elderly.

This will all look very different in six months’ time.

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It is not the function of the police to patrol our minds“.

Hitchens knows it, I know it, most other people —I hope— know it, but the police themselves do not seem to know it, and neither does the Jew-Zionist lobby (which exercises far too much influence over some police forces), as witness my own experiences: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/13/when-i-was-a-victim-of-a-malicious-zionist-complaint/; and 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/.

[UK police hurrying to the scene of a possible “anti-Semitic trope”]

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Diary Blog, 27 September 2021

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Tweets seen

Greta Nut, more or less the Tourette’s Syndrome ranting nuisance of global para-politics.