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Diary Blog, 29 June 2025

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Afternoon music

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Better tap the American taxpayer again…

I am surprised that Iran has (apparently) not thought of using 1980s-style Soviet-engineered atomic “suitcase bombs” in both the USA and Israel. The original ones were powerful enough to destroy anything within a radius of about 1-2 miles of the point of detonation.

Quite dispersed. At least 6 or 7 target zones. I have seen tweets suggesting nearly over 500 actual points of impact.

Remember Clausewitz. Concentration of forces. Schwerpunkt.

People generally are pretty tired of that whole hypocrisy of government saying that cuts to disability and other State benefits are somehow being “kind” or “caring”. Not so. At best, callous and aimed at “saving money” (which will then be really wasted, elsewhere). At worst, a refined form of cruelty and indeed sadism. Ian Dunce Duncan Smith, a fraud, an expenses cheat, and a total deadhead, was one of the first to do this.

In the end, some form of Basic Income, even if very modest, must be the way forward. End the bureaucratic nonsense of jumping through hoops, snooping, “assessments” etc.

Starmer-stein— no ideals, no ideas, no decency, no honesty. Just a freeloading, careerist, pro-Jewish lobby, pro-Israel, little bastard. Utterly clueless and incompetent as well.

I too agree. As I blogged at the time of the Brize Norton incursion, had the MOD or RAF had even one dozy security guard or policeman, unarmed but awake, on duty, the protesters would have been scared off or, even if not scared off, easily detained or arrested within a few minutes, once back-up had been summoned.

Only the Jew-Zionist lobby (effectively saying what the Israeli Embassy says) is calling Palestine Action “terrorist”, when in fact they are just protesters utilizing direct action. If they damage anything, then charge them with criminal damage, not “terrorism”. That’s just ridiculous.

Fixing it? Starmer-stein’s little cabal of pro-Israel freeloaders is doing even worse, incredibly, than the brainless “Conservatives” during 2010-2024.

Mark Lewis, very far from the hotshot lawyer persona he has been “cosplaying” for many years, backed by other Jews in the mass media etc. A lawyer at best semi-competent, really quite incompetent, indeed professionally negligent, and utterly dishonest. In fact, just another Jewish fraud. Also, a malicious maker and facilitator of false complaints to police etc.

Previous blog posts about, or partly about, the egregious Lewis:

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
Diary Blog, 20 August 2024, including some more thoughts about and around the recent Mark Lewis/Mandy Blumenthal/Sabrina Miller attempted scam at the Edinburgh Fringe
Diary Blog, 19 August 2024, including more about the latest Mark Lewis scam, aided and abetted by Mandy Blumenthal and (Daily Mail) scribbler Sabrina Miller
Diary Blog, 18 August 2024, including more thoughts about the aftermath of the recent protests, about the overcrowded prisons, about the Starmer-Labour police state, about the Kursk region incursion, and about the latest strange Mark Lewis tale
Diary Blog, 26 July 2024, including the latest news about the unprofessional behaviour of “Mark Lewis Lawyer”
Update re. “Mark Lewis Lawyer”— Questions Are Raised…
Self-Publicizing Supposed “Top Lawyer” Mark Lewis: Full Transcript of Disciplinary Hearing Judgment Now Released by Tribunal
More Details About “Mark Lewis Lawyer” and His Abusive Social Media Presence

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Ah. Interesting. Looks as though the numbers of alleged victims have been edited down. I thought that the Jews/Israelis were still claiming that about 1,000, or even 1,500, had been killed. Seems that (as happened at the “reconstructed” site of the early 1940s Auschwitz camp, where a “4 million victims” sign was officially altered to about a quarter of that figure), the 1,500 supposedly killed by Palestinian Arabs in southern Israel in 2023 is now 378, at least at the festival itself. The other hundreds of victims, if they existed at all, were presumably killed by the brutal Israeli armed forces themselves as “collateral damage”.

None of that, though, explains how the Israeli Jews (and those supporting them in the UK and elsewhere) think that the deaths of 378 Jews etc by a particular paramilitary/political group somehow justifies the killing by Israeli Jewish forces of anything up to 200,000 Palestinian Arabs, mostly civilian, mostly women and children (about half of the victims being under 18 years of age). Retaliation? Revenge? Blood lust? Cruelty and sadism?

The disproportion is incredible.

Bombing, white phosphorus bombing, flamethrower attacks, drone attacks, shooting, grenade attacks, cutting off of medical supplies, cutting off of food, cutting off of water, shooting people lining up for food and water.

“They” are still whining about (alleged) German actions 80-95 years ago, yet look at what is happening now in Gaza, the West Bank, Iran etc!

Of course, the Israeli Jewish game-plan seems to be to kill as many Gazans as possible, and to incarcerate the rest in concentration camps (under some such name as “safe areas”), so that Jews can colonize Gaza again.

I missed that ridiculous jamboree in Venice. Thankfully.

Bezos reminds me a bit of that Steve Jobs character [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs], another one who thought he was a kind of “master of the Universe”, but who died aged 56 of pancreatic cancer which first manifested itself when Jobs was 48.

Bottom line is “you can’t take it with you“…

Make that 2050, at latest…

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

A ceasefire merely permits Israel to catch its breath and to resupply.

[“Israel awakened a sleeping giant when it attacked Iran and this KEY stat proves it “The full magnitude” of Iran’s defense power “has yet to reveal itself,” with JUST A FRACTION of its potential revealed in the recent war with Israel, IRGC deputy commander for coordination Mohammad-Reza Naghdi said. “Less than five percent of our country’s defensive capacity was actually activated” in counterstrikes, the brigadier general revealed. “And by ‘activated’ I do not mean ‘spent’. It merely means that five percent of our defense units became engaged with the enemy.“]

Words. They may be true, they may not be true. We shall see.

That is one quite small area of a large city.

Monte Carlo— “a sunny place for shady people“, as Somerset Maugham remarked.

Too wide, arguably (see the full list). Central Tel Aviv, the Ben-Gurion Airport, and (not targeted, apparently) Dimona would be the prime targets.

Starmer-stein and his Cabinet and whips can hardly, at least credibly, threaten Labour rebels with deselection etc, when all present polling is suggesting that, come the next general election, only about 100-150 Labour MPs out of the present 403 will retain their seats anyway.

https://twitter.com/Timesofgaza/status/1939373211596030171

Another Israeli Jewish war crime.

Seems that even Labour MP-drones, some of them, have some residual decency, and are appalled by the flagrant indecency of the Israeli Jews killing mothers and babies, and the UK Government torturing and effectively killing the sick and disabled.

Or is all of that just a convenient way of dumping Starmer-stein and “Rachel from Accounts and Customer Relations” Reeves?

Surely, the American attack, preceded by the Israeli attacks, has sent a message to Teheran, and the message is “strike Israel and the USA in a way both will find absolutely devastating“. That would not be the intended message, of course, but I think that that is the message Teheran actually received…The Iranian response may not come for years but when it does, it will be something really game-changing.

Only one thing will stop “them”.

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[East Berlin street scene, 1970s]

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Diary Blog, 6 June 2025, including the persecution of Dr. David Miller and comedian Reginald D. Hunter by Jew-Zionists, and a few thoughts about Richard Tice and Reform UK

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Morning music

[Kennet and Avon Canal, England]

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I agree.

Again, I agree. See also:

Diary Blog, 31 May 2025, including thoughts on the continuing “lawfare” abuse of the UK legal system by the Jewish-Zionist “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (private prosecution of comedian Reginald D. Hunter)

[“The head of the Russian delegation at the negotiations in Istanbul, Vladimir Medinsky, informed the president about the Ukrainian side’s attempt to extort funds for holding the next round of negotiations. “Off camera, the Ukrainians have announced that they have no plans to meet again unless they receive a significant amount of money for it. This was a request from their leader — Zelensky.”“]

There is something really quite absurd about the supposedly senior members of the shambolic, corrupt, and brutal “government” of this non-state or failed state making pronouncements of that sort. After all, without EU, UK, and US aid (governmental, NGO, private charitable) , the Kiev regime would not only not be able to continue the war, but would be unable to function at all beyond a very basic level.

I do not have enough information on the subject to know whether 800 missiles could overwhelm the Israeli “Iron Dome” anti-missile system; they themselves may even be only ground-to-air defensive missiles. Interesting development, though.

Kiev.

Tice, of course, is little more than a dissident and pseudo-libertarian “conservative”, scarcely nationalist at all, and certainly very pro-Jew-Zionist, pro-Israel.

The weakness of Reform UK is that it is not a proper social-national party.

Once you start kow-towing to the Jewish-Zionist lobby and Israel, and once you start saying that you are against some immigration (“illegal”) but not much against other immigration (“legal” or “lawful”), and once you say that the racial-cultural composition of the UK is not something you need to be worried about (or do anything about), and once some of your party officers and election candidates are non-European, you may as well surrender to the System, because you have become just another System party.

That is, in fact, more or less where Reform is, but its existence moves the Overton Window, it is at present the only serious game in town and, if it can destroy or mortally wound the main System parties (as is now happening), then it is doing its job, as far as I am concerned.

Later, a real social-national movement can arise.

Listen to what Tice says in that interview. He obfuscates, fails to address the question, blows out some near-meaningless verbiage about the UK being “a Christian nation“, then finishes up with the pathetic “let’s see what happens…”! That is not an answer to the migration-invasion of Britain and the parallel “invasion by births”, which is turning a white European country into a dystopian multiracial chaos-in-the-making.

Does Tice really think that 38 years is a very long time? A would-be political leader should be thinking in terms of hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands of years, not just this year, the next year, or a few years down the line.

The very fact that our European society listens, to some extent, to the ignorant rants of non-Europeans hostile to our culture and civilization merely points out how decadent it has become.

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

https://graziadaily.co.uk/celebrity/news/who-is-narinder-kaur-and-her-link-to-laurence-fox/

…until, or unless, militant Islam migrates and/or breeds its way into even greater prominence in the UK. Then, you will have no choice…

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Amazing. Like something from a James Bond film.

“TCC” is the military recruitment (press-ganging) org of the Kiev regime.

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Diary Blog, 1 June 2025

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Afternoon music

[Bridge of Sighs, St. John’s College, Cambridge]

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1,200+ of the bastards. In a single day. A real UK government would do whatever it takes to stop the invasion. WHATEVER it takes…

Meanwhile, about ten times that number, maybe even twenty times that number, are entering “legally” as (supposedly) “skilled workers”, “students” (who never go back), “tourists” (who never leave), “fiances/fiancees”, “husbands/wives”, “refugees”, “business migrants” etc.

It is not mere hyperbole to wonder how far this can go before the whole society as we have known it collapses into political and economic instability and then some form of civil or social war.

Even the first two are doubtful. Look at the interference in elections in several countries of the EU. France. Romania. Germany.

Starmer-stein’s repressive Labour Friends of Israel government is itself a nightmare. This blog, however, will fight on, against “the lobby” (((them))), whether in government or elsewhere.

If I had to name just one huge change internationally that has happened in the past 50 years, it would be the economic rise of China, and the social and military-strategic changes which have accompanied that.

I wonder what the late Sir Maurice Oldfield would make of it, were he still alive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Oldfield.

[“Hazin: A serious financial crisis will shake the world in the fall Mikhail KHAZIN: The current leadership of the United States, including the rest of the American elite, has a vested interest in bringing everything down as soon as possible. If the Americans try to speed things up, then the financial collapse could happen sooner.”]

Never heard of this Khazin, or Khazar, or whatever and whoever he is. He may be correct, he may not be. On what basis is his prediction made? I have no idea.

Interesting, all the same.

Well, needs must. Could be useful (surely the socks would be better directly over the feet, though? Or maybe one set over the feet and another over the whole ensemble).

City created by ants

Incredible. Fascinating. On the one hand, I commend the research, but on the other the moral question of whether it can be justified to destroy the city and its inhabitants is troubling. It is all very well to say that “they are only ants“, but they are still living creatures and deserve some respect, particularly when they are not posing any threat to humans.

The French historical figure, Saint-Just, said that “no-one can rule guiltlessly“. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Antoine_de_Saint-Just.

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This is where we now are. Some Indian woman openly defends the destruction of the UK by migration-invasion, and all “controlled opposition” Matt Goodwin can say is that a few “Iranian terrorists” are among the millions entering the UK (hundreds of thousands on “small boats”, but millions overall).

The few real terrorists among those millions are a small or limited problem that can be dealt with by police, the Security Service, the Secret Intelligence Service etc. The problems caused by the millions of others — housing crisis, water shortages, congested roads and rail, costs of “welfare”, medical services costs, educational costs, ordinary policing, court costs etc— are less easily dealt with.

Those who support migration-invasion are enemies of the people.

The forces of the Russian Federation continue to advance steadily, if slowly, on all relevant sectors of the overall front.

[“It was announced what Ukraine will demand at the negotiations in Istanbul tomorrow. – Reuters. – Complete cessation of hostilities for 30 days as the first phase of the agreement. – Exchange of prisoners of war on a large scale according to the principle “all for all”. – The return of some “Ukrainian children” who were brought to the territory of the Russian Federation. – Organization of the summit (Zelensky – Putin) as soon as the initial conditions are met. – Creation of an international working group (with the participation of the US and the EU) to develop final conditions for peace. – There are no restrictions on rearming Ukraine. – There is no recognition of lost territories, negotiations are conducted based on the current front line. – Mandatory reparations from Russia.”]

So the war will continue…

The drones were, according to local eyewitnesses, launched not far from their targets. I presume that the FSB (Federal Security Service) will be trying to apprehend and question the drone-launchers.

There may come a time when Putin or those around him decide that the only real obstacle in their path is the city of Kiev. Were Kiev to cease to exist, or be almost destroyed, that would be the end of the Kiev regime militarily, economically, and in pretty much every other way. Of course, the destruction of a city of the size of Kiev would be a tremendous and terrible crime from the humanitarian point of view, a crime on the scale of, indeed on a larger scale than, the WW2 attacks on Dresden, Hamburg, Hiroshima etc by the Anglo-American air forces.

[Hamburg,1945, about 2 years after the British RAF bombed and firestormed the city]
[Stuttgart 1945]
[Dresden 1945]

Incidentally, German policymakers might like to remind themselves of the above before increasing their military aid to the Kiev regime.

…yet it was apparently not a shock to, nor deserving of comment (let alone support) by Toby Young when I was prosecuted for addressing social and political questions on this blog, when Alison Chabloz was prosecuted for singing satirical songs about Jews etc, when Jeremy Bedford Turner was prosecuted for making a reference in a public speech to clearing Jews out of this country, or when Sam Melia of Patriotic Alternative was prosecuted for distributing stickers (which even the prosecution conceded were lawful in their content).

More “controlled opposition”, i.e. in the (((usual))) pocket…

Toby Young is a hypocritical fake, in short.

The delays in the court system have been caused in various ways. One is closure of smaller courts. Many county courts where I myself appeared 1992-1996 and 2002-2008 are now no more; Ilford, Penzance, Poole, Bedford, Bodmin, Bow, Trowbridge, Bromley and (I think) Yeovil among them. Even more magistrates’ courts have closed, and some Crown Courts, including some in London (and in which I also appeared at times, especially in the early 1990s).

Actually, the abuse of the legal system by the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” is slightly mitigated by the present delays. For example, after the “CAA” managed to get the dim Hampshire Police and the clueless “Clown” Prosecution Service (CPS Wessex, based at Winchester) to charge me by post in early 2023, the trial (despite being only in the magistrates’ court) did not take place until mid-November 2023, and the sentencing hearing was not held until mid-March 2024. Had the trial been one on a more weighty basis, requiring Crown Court trial, I should be now still awaiting my “day in court”; in fact, it might not have even happened. Many Crown Court trials are never effective, never take place.

The legal adage is “justice delayed is justice denied“. Often true, but in terms of the present repression of free speech, one could say “injustice delayed is injustice denied“…

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…and about a million others entering “legally”…and maybe half a million or more, arguende, being born to non-Europeans in the UK. Maybe 1.5M per year altogether.

Meanwhile, our white English/British population is not even reproducing itself…

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Diary Blog, 28 May 2025, including a few thoughts about the SDP in 1981 and Reform UK in 2025

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Afternoon music

[Doreen Carwithen, Bishop Rock Concerto; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doreen_Carwithen]
[Bishop Rock Lighthouse, Scilly Isles. I visited the Rock on a small boat once, aged 9 or maybe just 10, in September 1966. The sea-state was a dead calm that day, though. The lighthouse is now automated, like all others in the UK; in 1966, there were still three lighthouse-keepers; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_Rock]

Reform UK in 2025 as against the SDP in 1981

That idiot, Brian Coleman, says in another tweet (by his co-pannelist, Tessa Dunlop), that he “used to be important” and is now “a has-been“. The second point may be so, the first only if you think that having been, long ago, a councillor in the Borough of Barnet (North London) and/or a member of the London Assembly, is “important“.

Wikipedia says effectively nothing about his parentage, background, education, or any work or profession: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Coleman.

Wikipedia does mention Coleman’s membership of Conservative Friends of Israel, and his numerous instances of intemperate and violent behaviour, for at least one of which he was convicted of assault (though given a remarkably lenient sentence, on the facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Coleman#Conviction_for_assault).

Coleman was also a pretty bad expenses-blodger.

One wonders why the Jeremy Vine Show is interested in the comments of such people. His claim that Farage is and Reform UK is a “sideshow” shows Coleman’s complete lack of political nous. He says that he is old enough to remember the SDP, and how, after riding high in opinion polls, it imploded after less than a year in 1981.

He seems to think that the voters will somehow go back to the “Conservatives”. Really? I doubt it.

Yes, I too recall the SDP [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(UK)], I being nearly 5 years older than Coleman. The reasons for its failure were several, but to my mind the main one was that its policies were pretty much the same as those (much of) the Labour Party, the Liberal Party, and even the non-Thatcherite part of the Conservative Party.

Another point is that the SDP (rumps of which struggled on until 1988) was led by people who were the opposite of charismatic.

Leaving aside policy, the key difference between the SDP in 1981 and Reform UK in 2025, 44 years later, is the surrounding socio-political background. While the UK in 1981 was suffering from mass immigration, and on a large scale, the scale of that immigration was still minor compared to that of the past 25 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_immigration_to_the_United_Kingdom.

In fact, even that alarming graph does not tell the true or full story. For one thing, the pre-1945 figures would include those white/English/British people born in parts of the British Empire; also those born in various parts of mainland Europe.

Again, the later parts of that graph, showing a steep rise, are yet not entirely showing the true racial/ethnic picture, because huge numbers of blacks, browns, Chinese etc (or half so) are now being born here in the UK to parents either recent immigrants or themselves born here, and those millions are not “foreign born” in that sense.

Not even just migration-invasion; also migration-occupation.

Another point is that living standards, though suffering a blip in the early 1980s recession, were not steadily declining, as is now the case for most people. Also, society had not collapsed in other ways in 1981, or the later 1980s, contrary to what is now the case. The monarchy, armed forces, educational standards, police, courts etc were still broadly as they had been for decades, indeed to a fairly large extent as they had been since late-Victorian times. Look now!

As to Parliament itself, it may have been flawed in 1981, but still worked more or less as it had done for the preceding century. MPs had not become total “grifters” and expenses-blodgers, because that system was not yet in place to the extent it later was.

Also, MPs were mostly either from trade union or teaching/academic backgrounds (Labour) or armed forces/landowning/business backgrounds (Conservative). A different ethos. For most of them, politics was a field they had come into from somewhere else. The present-day MPs are, many of them along the lines of: Oxford/Cambridge PPE or similar degree, political adviser, a bit of fake charity work maybe, maybe a bit of local councillor activity, then MP. Result— rubbish.

In a word, the voters are very angry with the state of everything in this country. They know Farage is a bit of a snake-oil salesman, they know Reform UK MPs are unpolished, inexperienced etc (and have not had the training of many System MPs). The voters, however, are voting in anger against the System parties rather than for Reform as such. They know that Reform is merely the best of a bad bunch. They are voting for change, too, not for specific Reform policies. Indeed, in supporting remigration/repatriation etc, the voters are well ahead of Reform UK, well ahead of Farage, well ahead of Matt Goodwin.

In other words, that Coleman character has completely misread the situation.

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Well, I can agree with Coleman on that point.

Again, similar story as in other recent polls: Reform 368 MPs, Labour 126, LibDems 59, SNP 38, Cons 30: https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html.

Those and many other criminals need to be put up against a wall.

Here, I part company with Goodwin. After all, M&S has just posted a pre-tax profit of over £300M for the past financial year, and the other big supermarkets are in a similarly-fortunate position. Fewer staff, more self-service etc. Am I really supposed to get upset over those huge organizations losing out on even higher profits?

When it comes to small shopkeepers, it is different. The shoplifting upsurge really is hurting them.

The problem with making “minor” thefts punishable by harsh penalties is that it blurs the distinction between minor and major crimes, as in early 19thC England: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_Kingdom#Background. The adage was “hanged for a penny, hanged for a pound” (not completely accurate— the threshold triggering the death penalty was in fact, until 1832, not one penny but 12 pence, i.e. one shilling).

Incidentally, shoplifting did attract the death penalty 200 years ago, if the value of the goods stolen was high enough.

Goodwin and Reform seem to be drifting, in recent statements, into a kind of George Osborne, Dunce Duncan Smith dead-end, a position not far from that of the Con Party. Probably a mistake. If Reform starts to look like a copy of the Con Party, it will falter and fail.

Similar, yet again, to all recent polling.

That would place, inter alia, both Moscow and Petersburg within range of heavy missiles fired from Kiev-regime territory. Germany is asking to be devastated yet again. Why? Is the NWO/ZOG infliuence in German politics that strong? Must be…

There comes a time when you need to stop “poking the Bear”, because the Bear will not tolerate it, or you.

The world is not without kind people…

More about Macron

Many readers will have seen my 2019 assessment of Macron, contained within the following now six-years-old blog post:

On Recent Events in France

In that blog post, I go into Macron’s background etc. Now, I have been referred to recent tweets about him:

[“I used to have a flat in Paris and a chateau near Albi, and my children went to school in France after Hill House in London, so I know the French scene from a native perspective. I am also blessed with friends in Switzerland, Italy and Germany, and it has to be said, Brigitte Macron’s frustrations, which have recently been on display as a result of the camera capturing her pushing her husband in his face in Vietnam, have been a source of understanding amongst the political classes for some time. This is neither the time nor the place to delve deeply into the Gay Paree scene, to which only Noel Coward could do justice. My YouTube channel, on the other hand, allows me to penetrate more deeply into the hard partying of Emmanuel Macron and his circle of elite and very handsome gays, including Gabriel Attal, whom he appointed as Prime Minister and who now heads up his (political) party in the National Assembly, and the renowned counter tenor Philippe Jaroussky. If anyone cares to pick up this thread, I’d suggest tuning in to my YouTube channel at 4pm this afternoon.”]

[from Lady Colin Campbell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Colin_Campbell].

[Macron and (?) friends]

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Very interesting.

[“Allies of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz have reacted sharply to his words about lifting restrictions on military supplies to Ukraine, writes Politico. ” The chancellor has come under fire from within [his] own ranks for vague statements about whether Germany is ready to provide Ukraine with long-range Taurus missiles that can strike deep into Russian territory ,” the publication said.“]

I should think so. For Germany to supply the Kiev regime with ever-more-powerful weapons might eventually result in Germany again becoming a battlefield, or even a charred and irradiated ruin.

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[Yuryevets, Ivanovo Oblast, Russia, a town on the Volga: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuryevets,_Ivanovo_Oblast]
[The Volga at the town of Yuryevets]

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Diary Blog, 26 May 2025

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Afternoon music

[BDM girls —Bund Deutscher Maedel or League of German Girls— ride through a wood, in the 1930s. The BDM was akin to the Girl Guides in England etc]

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Ghastly. They also enjoy watching the bombardment of Gaza while they stand, or sit comfortably and safely on chairs and sofas, some miles away:

As someone once said, “the simulacrum of the human“…

You cannot believe a word said by Starmer-stein or any of his cronies.

Brigitte Macron is some kind of lunatic, and may now also be slightly demented by reason of age. In fact, the relationship has always been extremely odd: see my 2019 assessment

On Recent Events in France

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[painting by Vladimir Volegov]

A good cause

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/25182434.sweet-peas-play-cafe-fareham-attacked-hacker/

“Sweet Peas’ role play cafe in Fareham, was targeted by a hacker who changed the banking information on the till system at the start of May, stealing £3k from the system.“

[Southampton Echo]

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-sweetpeas-Fareham

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Even some Jews now find the direction of travel of the Jew-Zionist ethnostate, Israel, distasteful.

After all, how can you pose as a “victim” of supposedly “evil” “Nazis” (80, 90, 100 years ago), and claim present-day privileges and immunities on the back of that, when you are turning cities full of people into charred holes in the ground, bombing hospitals, when you are burning, shooting, bombing and starving civilian populations, and cutting off food, medical supplies, even water? When you have killed 200,000 people, mostly women and children, in only 18 months?

Also, when your Jewish state is itself now creating new long-term concentration camps for Palestinian Arabs…

Also, when the remaining cities containing Palestinian Arabs are being ethnically cleansed, and the Arabs subject to mob intimidation…

[Berlin 1945— Marshal Zhukov inspects the ruins of the Reichstag]

Meaning, be careful what you wish for; be careful what you do…

Germany is playing with fire, literally…

More about vicious pro-Israel social media troll Pete Newbon

Many readers will know something about Pete Newbon, the social media troll who committed suicide during the civil trial in which he was one of three defendants, Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon, and Cantor.

Newbon had neglected to tell his wife about his activities and about his (then upcoming) defeat in that case, which meant that she would have been unaware that their family home was on the line, largely because Newbon and the other defendants had been misled, either deliberately or negligently, by the Jew-Zionist solicitors and Counsel in the case, in particular the egregious self-publicist, Israel-based Jewish solicitor, Mark Lewis (re Lewis, see blog posts passim via the blog’s search box).

The political site Skwawkbox has now published more material about Newbon:

Widow of anti-left troll sanctified by Israel lobby says she feared for her kids’ safety if left with him

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Diary Blog, 15 May 2025

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Morning music

[painting by Vicente Romero Redondo]

Tweets seen

(Connolly, not “Connelly“, though).

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Russia will eventually have a different state-form yet.

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“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery“…

Pretty pathetic, Starmer-stein’s fake “conversion” to stopping the migration invasion his party, and he himself, have both promoted for decades, half a century in the case of Labour-label.

Starmer and fake Labour are getting desperate. As for the “Conservatives”, irrelevant, and may well reduce to fewer than 50 MPs next time.

The once-great Conservative Party is now either a lame duck or a dead duck.

Time was, when I would have defended the BBC and its non-commercial funding, albeit while recognizing that it needed radical reform to get it back to its founding Reithian principles (“inform, educate, entertain“…in that order), but it has become a politically-correct, “woke”, anti-British, anti-white-Northern-European monstrosity. I just want it gone now; either that or very radically changed, pared back to about a tenth of its present size, and not paid for by the so-called “licence fee” (tax).

Ha ha. Not very polite, but that resident is not wrong.

As for the canvasser, just a pawn. People like Starmer-stein, Rachel Reeves, Liz Kendall, Yvette Cooper etc are making careers and very large amounts of money out of their political life, and pawns like that local canvasser tramp the council estates and other mean streets of decaying England trying to sell a Labour Party which is merely one dishonest face of NWO/ZOG globalism, and which does nothing for the British people.

In fact, tweeter StacyWright/”@Stacywr2277″ is quite wrong about Mandela. He was not locked up for saying anything. He, at the time a middle-aged —46-y-o— failed black law student, was tried (very fairly, too) for having planned a race war in South Africa. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivonia_Trial.

All those on trial were blacks or Jews. One of the Jews alleged to have been involved was discharged by the trial judge at the close of the prosecution case, while another was acquitted. Four others escaped from prison custody.

Incidentally, not only were most of the defence counsel in that trial Jews, but so was the chief prosecutor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Yutar.

Mandela, as thick as two short planks, was a failure as a would-be urban guerrilla and revolutionary, but a race war against Europeans was certainly his objective; he was arrested before he, and the other blacks (and Jews) involved, could put their plans into effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivonia_Trial#Charges.

London. Zoo.

https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/lewisham-teenagers-stabbed-man-12-31639006

“Two teenagers who stabbed a young man 12 times over a family feud have been found guilty of his murder. Ryan Wedderburn, 18 and Kirk Harris, 19, attacked 21-year-old Robert Robinson on Carteret Way, in Surrey Quays, on June 6, 2024 after chasing him down the street with knives.”

[My London]

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[LibDems 13, Greens 7]

Well, same story as in other recent polls— Reform well ahead of Labour, with the Con Party trailing miserably. This poll, though, shows Reform again (for the second time) cracking the 30% “barrier”.

Electoral Calculus suggests, on those numbers, Reform having 334 MPs (an absolute majority of 8, but a working majority of 18). Labour 180, LibDems 58, SNP with only 28 MPs yet still ahead of the Cons (23 MPs).

So once again, the Con Party predicted to be in only 5th place, and with only 23 MPs. Terminal, probably.

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[Shishkin, 1884, Gathering Storm]
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Diary Blog, 6 May 2025

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Morning music

[Jose Malhoa, Praia de Macas]

Tweets seen

Even 6 months ago, the Jewish government of Israel (occupied Palestine) was describing this as a mere and “antisemitic” conspiracy theory. Well, here we are and it seems as if, like so many “antisemitic” “conspiracy theories” and/or “tropes”, this one is, in a word, true.

Looks as if the Palestinian Arab population of Gaza is going to be either entirely killed off or (the survivors) moved God-knows-where into desert camps. It is like a reverse engineer of the foundation myth of the (original) Jews: from the land of milk and honey to a barren desert, possibly in the Sinai Peninsula.

Jewish “human rights” lawyers (of which there are many) will no doubt continue to claim that what the Jews of Israel are doing to the Gazan population is “not genocide“, but that kind of discussion is really akin to the mediaeval Scholastics debating as to how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

One might add that the Jew-Zionist fanatics outside Israel/Palestine, in the UK and elsewhere, themselves claim that as many as 95% of Jews in the UK, France etc support Israel, and that most of those Jews support what the Israeli government has done, is doing, and plans to do in Gaza and other parts of Palestine still inhabited mainly by Arab populations.

“Jack Monroe” (Melissa Hadjicostas)— latest

I missed this, from 2 months ago:

Regular readers of the blog will be aware that, several years ago, when I first mentioned “Jack Monroe”, the so-called “Bootstrap Cook”, I was fairly neutral, even slightly sympathetic to her. As I found out more about her, about her entirely invented “backstory”, and about how she had lied about almost everything to do with her life and work, I became more critical.

I also discovered that “Jack Monroe” was making thousands of pounds monthly, indeed tens of thousands at times, from hundreds of well-meaning mugs, who were sending her regular donations via the Patreon website. That was in addition to TV, radio, and other appearance fees, book advances and royalties, and money gathered in from other mugs online on the premise that she was going to sue various public figures, such as the MP Lee Anderson.

The above can all be found via the search box on the blog.

Look at that tweet above. “Jack Monroe”, who frequently extracted money from mugs by claiming to be starving, near-homeless, unable to feed her child (who was, in any event, apparently not looked after by her anyway, most of the time), was (despite vast sums having, so to speak, gone up her nose or down her throat) able to offer the vendor of the said property £157,000 in cash.

Look also at how she is, it is said, now working in some (well-remunerated?) role at Southend Council (Essex). Her father, a Greek Cypriot by origin, was a senior fire officer in Essex, and once got her a job answering calls, before she discovered how easy it was to get many times the money from mugs as an outright fraud. Her father is or was also a property rental-owner of some significance in that town, and may be (presumed but I do not know for sure) a freemason. Join the dots.

Essex, particularly South Essex, is a bit of a “rotten borough” in some ways. The County Council was cheated out of £600,000 by a Jew called Simon Harris (aka “Man Behaving Dadly”) a few years ago. Neither he nor “Jack Monroe” have ever been brought to book for their “grifting” and worse.

More:

I made the same points on the blog, and some months in advance of the above…

Many people seem to —shall I say, politely?— echo the blog content in their own online commentaries.

The first tweeter was right, though. “Jack Monroe” is now recognized by most people as a fraud, a con-woman and a total fantasist whose recipes are themselves a fraud, poor in terms of nutrition, far more expensive than claimed, and often looking like a dog’s dinner. All of which I started to notice years ago. What was not so years ago is that the whole “Bootstrap Cook” thing has now been dropped by the msm. Only complete mugs now give “Jack Monroe” any credence whatever.

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Walls. Squads. End(s).

“Political power comes out of the barrel of a gun” [Mao Tse-tung]

Eerie.

That airport seems to be Israel’s Achilles’ heel. Of course, they could use other airfields or airstrips, but I daresay that many civilian passengers would not be comfortable with that; a perception of peril etc.

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[John O’Connor, 1872, York Watergate and the Adelphi from the River, London]
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Diary Blog, 13 March 2025

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Morning music

[painting by Volegov]

Tweets seen

https://twitter.com/FrankHighgate/status/1897637475679445020
https://twitter.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1900121575103361299

[“It’s now crystal clear that despite a surge of support for Trump, AfD, Le Pen, etc., there is a huge section of the Left that not only refuses to compromise on immigration issues but wants to become even more fanatically pro-immigration in response to national populism.“]

It is now also crystal-clear that, the way things are going, the matter will probably be settled, across Europe, including the UK, not by rigged elections but, at least partly, by some form of civil war.

https://twitter.com/WarriorSpeech28/status/1900118911120507215

[“Kemi Badenoch is less popular than Keir Starmer, which is saying something …. Net ratings Keir Starmer -32 Kemi Badenoch -34 YouGov, yesterday.“— YouGov/Matt Goodwin]

https://twitter.com/TimesRadio/status/1899838719508558288

[“It shows a basic lack of humanity.” The government’s reported plans to cut welfare spending by £6 billion will be “absolutely devastating”, Labour MP @BrianLeishmanMP tells @HugoRifkind.”]

Starmer-stein’s Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment.

Let’s hope that Runcorn and Helsby voters send a message to this rotten excuse for a Labour government. Reform can win it if enough disaffected 2024 Lab voters join with 2024 Reform voters and those former Con voters who realize that Con Party has no chance of winning the by-election. Those 2024 Con voters can prevent Labour from winning the by-election if they vote Reform.

https://twitter.com/JR4Reform/status/1899212665962074154

[“Starmer echoes Liz Truss on reform of government, @ChrisMasonBBC writes.“— BBC News]

[“Russian troops have liberated Sudzha and two other settlements in the Kursk Region, the Defense Ministry said. TASS has gathered key details of the situation: https://vk.cc/cJFPk0“— TASS]

[“The military buildup plan for Europe, approved by the EU summit, is designed to incite war, Maria Zakharova stated: https://vk.cc/cJFPM5“— TASS]

We see the war propaganda everywhere, spread by the usual globalist NWO/ZOG puppets— Macron, Starmer, Tusk, Sikorski etc.

The stupid thing is that, without US backing, none of the European states —not even the UK and France as nuclear powers— can stand up to the Russia they keep pushing.

If push came to shove, and if the push and shove went nuclear, as would probably happen, the USA would stand back, as would China, and the terrible devastation would be only be in Europe and Russia, mostly in Europe, because Russia has about 6,500-7,000 nuclear weapons, whereas France has about 290, and the UK about 225 (about 120 deployable by submarine launch).

The French nuclear force was the force de frappe, changed in the 1960s to force de dissuasion. Deterrence, not challenge to the then Soviet Union, an expansionist power with an expansionist and militant ideology —Marxism-Leninism— at least on the surface.

Russia today is not the old Soviet Union, and its ideology is simple and rather inconsistent Russian nationalism, not one of world conquest.

The fact is that, while the UK and France could badly damage much of Russia in a nuclear match, Russia could wipe out the UK, France, and all other European powers.

These games of “poking the bear” are very stupid and quite likely to light the touchpaper of a major war.

https://twitter.com/tassagency_en/status/1900173549735665764

[“Russian forces struck UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) assembly and storage sites of the Ukrainian army over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported: https://vk.cc/cJG55K“— TASS]

Putin appeared, unusually, in a kind of military combat attire, yesterday. Akin to the Zelensky “cosplay”, but with rather more weight behind it.

Trump has put Zelensky in his place. Z. is a “state beggar”, in effect. Without American arms, money, ammunition, intelligence assistance, “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime) cannot continue to fight this war. Trump has therefore been able to railroad the Ukrainian side.

The Kiev regime cabal have little choice, and even their brief show of defiance was based on the hope, a forlorn one, that the UK and EU powers might plug any gap left by the American departure (if it were to happen or continue).

Russia cannot be much pressured by Trump. Therefore, the war will continue unless the Kiev regime at least accepts the minimum reality— that Crimea, and the mainland regions of Donetsk, Lugansk etc (and, a fortiori, that of the Russian oblast of Kursk) will remain Russian in perpetuity. Failing that, the war will continue, and Russian tanks will be in Kiev by 2026.

Russia has its military-logistical problems, but nothing compared to those facing the Kiev-regime side, which is losing hundreds of soldiers daily, and large areas of territory too.

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Not so sure about the Churchill bit…

Waitrose was driven into the ground by a West Indian woman whom they employed as CEO. Madness. It used to be such a good place to shop and, I believe, treated its employees well; gave them a modest cut of the profits as well. Now, like the rest of this country, it is going straight down (I refer to, inter alia, Parliament, the courts, the police, the armed forces, the Royal Mail and Post Office, the social security safety net, the monarchy, the countryside…you name it).

A couple of things strike me about that latest opinion poll. Firstly, that the polls are now quite volatile, especially as to whether Labour or Reform is more popular; secondly, that the Conservative Party is pretty much finished now. Few people see it as offering anything to 90% of the population, its policies have now been taken over by fake Labour under Keir Starmer-stein, and it is now not really even seen as relevant. That is so even if you discount the fact that it is now led by a Nigerian woman who was not even living in the UK until she was at least 16.

Incidentally, those opinion poll results would indicate a House of Commons with about 238 Reform UK MPs; 165 Lab; 123 Con; 58 LibDem; SNP 37; Greens 4 (etc).

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

So probably a Reform government backed by Con MPs’ votes. Not ideal, but if it failed to satisfy the British people, a real social-national movement (in or out of Parliament) might well emerge.

You see the deficiencies of our FPTP voting system there. Greens on 10% of the popular vote, but with only ~4 MPs, rather than the 65 that the 10% opinion poll would suggest would be fair. Reform, on the other hand, would be overcompensated, getting a notional 238 MPs instead of the mathematically-indicated 175.

[“More than half of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s cabinet have urged his chancellor, Rachel Reeves, to rethink her plans to scale back welfare and spending, in an extraordinary sign of growing concern“— Bloomberg]

[“@YouGov polling for @TrussellUK shows that 77% of people claiming Universal Credit and disability benefits have gone without essentials in the last six months“— Robert Peston]

[“Nigel Farage and Reform averaged 26% of the national vote across all polls this week, are 5-pts clear of the Tories and just 6-pts short of what they need for a majority in the House of Commons.”— Matt Goodwin]

[“N.S. Lyons is one of my favourite writers right now: “A nation is not a corporation. A nation is a particular people, with a distinct culture, permanently bound together by shared relationship with place, past, and each other. A house becomes a home through the relationship with the family that lives in it, a connection forged out of time and memory, between the concrete particularity of place and the lives of a specific group of people present, past, and yet unborn. We can say this house is home because it is our home. In much the same way, a country becomes our homeland because it is ours — and the we of that “ours” is the nation, which transcends geography, government, and GDP.”— Matt Goodwin]

Which is why the Jewish element tends to be hostile to anything truly national in Europe.

At present, a ceasefire would only impede the advances of Russian forces on all fronts.

Talking point

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[painting by Levitan]

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Diary Blog, 26 February 2025

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[please note that the previously-encountered problem, of tweets not embedding properly, is back; to read the tweets, click on the links. I have no idea whether this is merely a technical problem with Twitter/X or WordPress, or whether it is some form of sabotage]

Morning music

[photomontage of Adolf Hitler and Unity Mitford]

Tweets seen

https://twitter.com/LibslovecensorZ/status/1894594102551089646

It takes courage —or desperation— to vote for something revolutionary, or even anything really radical. Germany is, even now, not ready for national revolution; neither is Britain.

Germany and Britain are both nearly ready to support something fairly radical— AfD in Germany, Reform UK in Britain (leaving aside the fact that Reform, at least, is basically “controlled opposition”), and we shall see what happens in the next 4 years. After that, social nationalism will be the only way to go. Either that, or complete collapse of the societies, followed by some form of authoritarian multikulti near-Communism.

We have not only to “drain the swamp” but clear the swamp…

https://twitter.com/UltraDane/status/1893810214157361227
Home

https://www.oswaldmosley.net/origins-of-the-buf.php

https://twitter.com/UltraDane/status/1894549341781856589

Talking point

https://twitter.com/UltraDane/status/1894487548938088916

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https://twitter.com/tassagency_en/status/1894591080991011000
https://twitter.com/Alex_Oloyede2/status/1894675920943767735

“Wow, Putin was right. Macron, Starmer, Zelensky, the President of Poland, Duda even waited 1,5hr outside the oval office for a 10min talk with Trump.”]

https://twitter.com/JayTC53/status/1894811471634215365

[“I’m not going to make security guarantees beyond very much. We’re going to have Europe do that,” President Trump says regarding the potential Ukraine deal.“]

I think that we can now take it as read that, barring accidents, Russia and the USA will not be getting into a nuclear war. Whatever one may think of Trump, in that respect God must be with him, to put it in conventional terms.

That leaves the European powers. The only ones of significance are the UK and France (mainly because of their nuclear weapons), Poland, and Germany (Poland because of the size of its army and its probable morale, Germany because of its large amount of up-to-date transport, armament etc).

The UK and France would be mad to try to threaten the use of or, a fortiori, deploy in combat nuclear weapons. Any nuclear response by Russia would destroy Britain utterly. As for France, the same applies, except that France is nearly 2.5x the size of the UK.

I think that what we are looking at (unless there is a real armistice Russia-Ukraine, which is unlikely) is a continuation of the war, with the UK, France, Germany supplying even more arms, armament, and money to the Kiev regime, but probably failing to plug the gap left by withdrawal of most American assistance.

If the Americans also withdraw their intelligence aid to the Kiev regime, Russian forces will find their progress in the war easier.

The Kiev-regime side is now very short of actual “boots on the ground”. It is even thinking of extending the draft to those aged 18-24, so far immune from conscription.

I cannot see the Kiev regime lasting much beyond 2026.

https://twitter.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1894804056612155488

[“British MPs have taken down another picture of Nelson, the greatest naval commander in history, a man who died for his country, and put up a picture of Yvette Cooper who cannot even control our borders. It is a powerful symbol of all that is wrong with Britain.”]

If I were an MP, I should put my boot through Cooper’s portrait.

https://twitter.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1894787229936996627

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Diary Blog, 16 February 2025

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Afternoon music

[Alhambra— panorama]

Migration-invasion news

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14401525/Syrian-man-stabs-boy-death-wounds-four-knife-rampage-Austrian-town.html

“A 14-year-old boy has been knifed to death after a Syrian refugee randomly stabbed passersby in the Austrian city of Villach today, leaving four others injured.”

[Daily Mail]

Get rid of them. Get rid of them out of Austria. Get rid of them out of the UK. Get rid of them out of Europe.

Tweets seen

https://twitter.com/Dr_TheHistories/status/1890684311822897648

“In 1943, amid the devastating final years of World War II, the Berlin Zoo was heavily bombed, leaving much of the zoo in ruins and many of its animals in grave danger. Among the survivors was a Shoe-billed stork, an unusual and majestic bird recognized for its unique, shoe-shaped bill and stately demeanor. With the zoo’s facilities destroyed, the stork found an unlikely refuge in a nurse’s bathroom, a small but safe haven where it was cared for during the chaos of war. The nurse’s bathroom became a sanctuary for the bird, symbolizing the compassion and determination of those who worked to protect the zoo’s animals despite the dire circumstances. The stork’s survival depended on the care it received in this improvised setting, where it was fed and tended to with limited resources. This poignant scene of a wild, exotic bird in a domestic, human space emphasized the extraordinary lengths people went to preserve life during a time when destruction seemed all-encompassing. The survival of the Shoe-billed stork and its temporary shelter in the nurse’s bathroom became a powerful symbol of resilience and hope amidst the horrors of war. While much of the zoo was destroyed and many animals were lost, stories like this highlight the small acts of care and humanity that endured even in the darkest hours. The stork’s journey is a testament to the enduring bond between humans and animals and serves as a reminder of the fragments of hope that can emerge even in times of overwhelming devastation.“

Thus proving, yet again, that “Boris”-idiot never does his homework…(and always talks rubbish)…

Stray thought

Though I cannot claim huge numbers of readers on any one day, or most days, the blog does have hits from almost all of the states and territories of the world, even places such as Antarctica, Greenland, Burkina Faso etc.

Today, so far, UK, USA (those two by far the bulk of hits), but also Canada, Kazakhstan, Russia, and New Zealand.

Are they all supporters? Probably not. Enemies also snoop on the blog, but no matter— “one human soul is a big audience“.

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“The subterranean city of Derinkuyu, located in Cappadocia region of Türkiye, an extraordinary historical site with the capacity to house an estimated 20,000 to 60,000 people, including their livestock and supplies. Its discovery occurred unexpectedly in 1963 when a homeowner accidentally broke through a wall in his basement, unveiling an ancient and intricate underground structure hidden for centuries. Derinkuyu is an impressive multi-level complex, descending over 200 feet below the surface and consisting of at least 18 levels, though only a portion of it has been fully excavated. The city features an array of functional spaces, including living quarters, kitchens, storage areas, wine and oil presses, stables, and even chapels and schools. Ventilation shafts and a sophisticated water system ensured the city’s inhabitants could survive underground for extended periods. Defensive mechanisms, such as heavy stone doors that could be rolled into place, protected the city from invaders. Historians and archaeologists believe Derinkuyu was initially constructed by the Phrygians or Hittites in the early centuries BCE, though it was later expanded and used by various groups, including early Christians, as a refuge from persecution or attacks. Its design reflects the ingenuity and resilience of the civilizations that relied on such cities for survival during times of conflict or environmental challenges. The discovery of Derinkuyu has spurred interest in Cappadocia’s extensive network of underground cities, many of which remain unexplored. These ancient marvels continue to captivate researchers and visitors alike, shedding light on the innovative ways humans adapted to their environment and safeguarded their communities.“

“Recruits to the castle-convents scattered across Teutonic territory primarily hailed from Germanic regions such as Franconia, Thuringia, the Rhine, and other German territories. These knights, often aristocrats but also comprising lower-ranking members, were stationed in commanderies housing anywhere from 10 to 80 individuals. Similar to other military orders, recruits pledged monastic vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Joining offered prospects of spiritual rewards, adventure, career advancement, and even basic amenities like regular meals and shelter. While German settlers were permitted entry, they typically served as priests or half-brethren. Each castle-convent also accommodated local crossbowmen, as well as non-combatants like servants and craftsmen. Although officially international, the order predominantly drew recruits from German lands. Membership numbers varied, influenced by battles and territorial shifts. For instance, Prussia counted 700 members in 1379 AD, 400 in 1450 AD, 160 in 1513 AD, and 55 in 1525 AD. The total knightly roster likely never exceeded around 1,300. The order’s revenue stemmed from wartime spoils, captured territories, trade, land rents, and donations in cash, goods, or land. Some brethren paid an entry fee, while taxes on local populations were imposed in Teutonic territories by the 15th century AD. As recruitment challenges grew, the order increasingly relied on mercenaries, necessitating financial support. Commanderies not only offered training, residences, and retirement options but also extended aid to local communities through hospices, hospitals, schools, and cemeteries. Additionally, the order constructed churches, providing ongoing maintenance and fostering artistic endeavors for embellishment.“

I once knew a German lady from East Prussia, one of whose several historically-distinguished ancestors was a Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights in the Middle Ages.

https://twitter.com/histories_arch/status/1891132251389174234

“The Lion Man – An Ice Age Masterpiece : The Lion Man is a masterpiece. Sculpted with great originality, virtuosity and technical skill from mammoth ivory, this 40,000 year-old image is 31cm tall. It has the head of a cave lion with a partly human body. He stands upright, perhaps on tiptoes, legs apart and arms to the sides of a slender, cat-like body with strong shoulders like the hips and thighs of a lion. His gaze, like his stance, is powerful and directed at the viewer. The details of his face show he is attentive, he is watching and he is listening. He is powerful, mysterious and from a world beyond ordinary nature. He is the oldest known representation of a being that does not exist in physical form but symbolises ideas about the supernatural.

Found in a cave in what is now southern Germany in 1939, the Lion Man makes sense as part of a story that might now be called a myth. The wear on his body caused by handling suggests that he was passed around and rubbed as part of a narrative or ritual that would explain his appearance and meaning. It is impossible to know what that story was about or whether he was deity, an avatar to the spirit world, part of a creation story or a human whose experiences on a journey through the cosmos to communicate with spirits caused this transformation. Obviously, the story involved humans and animals. Lion Man is made from a mammoth tusk, the largest animal in the environment of that time and depicts the fiercest predator, a lion, now extinct, that was about 30 centimetres taller than a modern African lion and had no mane. Distinct from other animals through their use of tools and fire, humans were nonetheless dependent on some animals for food while needing to protect themselves from predators. Perhaps this hybrid helped people to come to terms with their place in nature on a deeper, religious level or in some way to transcend or reshape it.

Archaeological discoveries in other caves in this region include small sculptures as shown in the British Museum’s 2013 exhibition Ice Age art: arrival of the modern mind. They were found in caves with large quantities of stone tools and animal bones that indicate people lived in the shelter of the daylight areas of these sites for repeated periods of time.

Stadel Cave, where the Lion Man was found, is different. It faces north and does not get the sun. It is cold and the density of debris accumulated by human activities is much less than at other sites. This was not a good place to live. Lion Man was found in a dark inner chamber, carefully put away in the darkness with only a few perforated arctic fox teeth and a cache of reindeer antlers nearby. These characteristics suggest that Stadel Cave was only used occasionally as a place where people would come together around a fire to share a particular understanding of the world articulated through beliefs, symbolised in sculpture and acted out in rituals.

Lion Man is the oldest known evidence for religious beliefs and Stadel Cave suggests that believing and belonging have a deep history crucial to human societies and originating long before writing. In 2017, UNESCO acknowledged Stadel Cave and other Swabian localities as World Heritage Sites of importance to all humanity and now Ulm Museum has loaned this important sculpture to the British Museum for the exhibition.”

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1891104547625419134

“The candidate for Chancellor of Germany Alice Weidel has called for the restoration of relations and economic ties with Russia The election program of Alternative for Germany includes points about the need to lift sanctions on Russia to allow free trade. Additionally, according to members of the AfD, it is necessary to repair the Nord Stream pipeline, which supplied Russian gas to Europe. “We want to end the sanctions policy, which primarily harms our country,” Weidel said. She reminded that just two years ago, Germany was buying cheap natural gas from Russia through Nord Stream, but now the country has “the highest energy prices in the world.”

The AfD is not fully social-national but is still clearly the best choice for German voters at present. Deutschland erwache!

I thought, when he was not nominated (plainly at his own request) for a fake peerage that Johnson, aka “Boris”-idiot, had it in mind to stand for leader again.

Were Johnson to get some sympathetic Con MP to stand down in his favour, Johnson might well win a safe-seat by-election.

Why would any MP do that? In return for a promise of getting a peerage later. That would not require Johnson to be Prime Minister, because the Leader of the Opposition also has peerage-nomination rights.

Johnson would then have to wait (probably) until November 2025 before at least 15% of Con MPs send in letters of no-confidence in “Carpetbagger Kemi” Badenoch. That means 18 MPs, as matters stand. That would happen. Con MPs know that Kemi Badenoch is a total turn-off for most voters, sure to lose the next general election and, thus, a number of seats.

Then, all Johnson would need would be a small number of MPs (in the 2024 leadership election, the number was 10 MPs) to nominate him as a candidate (quite likely possible).

Opinion polls of 2024 Con-voting people show that Johnson is far more popular (despite his evident unfitness to hold office, despite his total incompetence) than Kemi Badenoch.

I may even place a bet on “Boris” to be next Con Party leader. The odds, though, are not too generous, below 5/1. Maybe I shall lose my money elsewhere…

https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/politics/market/1.235470805.

As Matt Goodwin says, though, Johnson was disastrous as PM (and, before that, as Foreign Secretary), and at present the Con Party is hovering around or below 20% in the opinion polls.

Quelle surprise…Stella Creasy cannot spell “supersedes“. Ignorant woman.

https://twitter.com/montie/status/1890845340825506045

“Nearly every other day I learn that someone I know in Wiltshire, in Westminster or in my wider Conservatiive network has left the party – and about half the time they join Reform too. Today two have jumped. Give it time, say Tory diehards but even under new leadership the Conservative Party simply isn’t healing or recovering. Its decline is continuing. I am not finding Reform membership easy but don’t regret my move nor leaving a party that is now so divided and adrift. It’s sad to watch.“

https://twitter.com/NorthBritannia/status/1890848756926386400

“I don’t know one lifetime Tory that still supports them personally, i wont ever vote for them again. They’re bad coalition where no meaningful policy happens, migration we had since Cameron was mostly low skill we are paying 70 yr high tax to subside that migration . Waste is massive, they were funding most of the things they said they didn’t support. to be honest Tim looking at the state of this country I’m wondering did they do anything in 14 years, everything in England is broken, GPS, dentists, NHS, councils, police, judiciary, child services, mental health services, prisons, social care, we have gone backward and it’s frightening to watch.“

Semi-literate, but surely accurate.

It has been forecast in the past and not quite happened, but I truly feel that the once-great Conservative Party is now finally going the same way as the old 19thC/20thC Liberal Party. Terminal decline.

The Con vote in (?) 2029 (and assuming that a nuclear war has not happened by then anyway) may be as low as 15%.

That could see the Con Party reduced to 20 MPs (if Con 15%, Lab 25%, Reform 30%, LibDems 15%, Greens 10%): see https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html.

It would also mean Reform UK getting 330 Commons seats, an overall majority, and thus being able to form the next Government of the UK. If that then ended badly, social nationalism could finally arise. God mote it be.

Late news and tweets

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2pddvwgg8o

“Lord Walney has called for more action to protect the public from “the menace of extreme protestors”, after his role as the government’s independent adviser on political violence was scrapped.“

[BBC]

Ha ha. Good news.

Translation: “useless sex pest, depressive case, and puppet of the Israel lobby “Lord” Walney (aka John Woodcock) has been sacked.”

The bastard is also an egregious moneygrubber, taking money from lobby groups and oil, gas, and armaments interests. Evil little bastard.

See also:

Diary Blog, 9 February 2021, including an assessment of “Lord Walney” (John Woodcock)
John Woodcock, Barrow and Furness and the General Election 2017

Other Israel-lobby puppets and useless types, including notorious ex-MP “Lord” Ian Austin, and notably cultureless and useless ex-MP and one-time Culture Secretary Ed Vaizey (now “Lord” Vaizey), have been tweeting in support of said bastard. Many others feel differently, though.

(((Because)))…

I nearly missed Woodcock/Walney’s sacking. That would have been a pity. I now feel quite cheered-up (after the pathos of having watched the film of Doctor Zhivago).

https://twitter.com/Sarahhuniverse/status/1891208272725643303

Late thought

Earlier today, I caught literally the last 30-60 seconds of an interview (I think on Sky News) with, I also think, a junior Labour minister whose name I did not get. What a typically smug, pleased-with-himself bastard! A System political drone with, in the short piece I saw, nothing to say beyond the sort of bland propaganda soundbites all too common over the past 25 years.

No wonder the British people are turning off from System parties and politicians. Reform UK is but the next step on the road, not the ultimate destination. Anger and frustration is growing.

Late music

[Monet, Sunset on the Seine in Winter]