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Thought for the day
The so-called “Glorious 12th”, start of the grouse season. A “sport” of which I disapprove, so good luck to all grouse today.
There are those who claim that shooting helps conservation of a number of species [see, e.g. https://www.sykeshousefarm.co.uk/news_stories/why-grouse-is-becoming-more-exclusive-than-ever/] but I feel that there are other ways to do that. In the end, I just feel that to take pleasure in shooting a creature, a warm-blooded one at that, is morally wrong.
In the years 2002-2008, when I was a barrister based in Exeter and (2002-2006) living on the Cornwall/Devon border, prime shooting territory, several of my colleagues in chambers shot. I recall one incident when one member of chambers shot a pheasant which then fell on the head of either his wife or someone else’s wife (I think the latter), the lady in question being knocked out as a consequence.
I cannot now recall whether the shooter was or was not the person who later had an affair with the lady in question, who later left the one barrister for the other (causing a big kefuffle in chambers, as might be imagined; however, this being England and not Texas or the Caucasus, no-one opened fire on anyone else, and no blood was spilt).
Awkward, and I quite liked all three members of chambers involved (one involved simply as another gun on the fateful day; the lady involved was not a barrister, though I think that I did meet her once).
In fact, as someone who does not interfere with other people if it can be avoided, and because in those years I spent half my time at my then home in Finistere, or elsewhere, I was apparently the only member of Chambers for some time unaware of the personal upset that had occurred (though I had heard about the earlier, pheasant-caused, injury).
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For once, I agree almost entirely with everything Andrew Neil says there.
“They” dislike any of their activities being exposed to the light of day. Not only in the Middle East; in the UK and elsewhere as well.
Terrible. I spent several days at Canakkale town in 2001, having driven from England (and then on to Mediterranean Turkey), a more difficult drive at that time than it now is, Turkey, in the past quarter-century, having constructed all sorts of motorways and bridges where none previously existed. Also, most of the states of Eastern Europe were then not in the EU or the Schengen Zone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87anakkale
…and the number of “legal” migrants is about 20x that, so at least a million altogether, in about a year…
Disastrous.
Talking point
[“American woman says “I’ve had enough” of the white hate pushed on the population “We’re the only ones that are constantly having diversity shoved down our throats. We are a global minority being replaced in our own countries. And I’ve had enough” “If you would have asked me like nine months ago if I would ever be making pro white content, I would have looked at you like you were insane. Like, the idea of a white person being proud to be white is so foreign to most of us. And it’s really only been conflated with evil and hate and maliciousness. And it’s like you stop and you think about that. White people are really the only ones that are taught to hate ourselves, or the only ones that are blamed for every and all atrocities across the planet over all of time. We are the only ones that are taught to be colorblind. We’re the only ones that are constantly having diversity shoved down our throats. We are a global minority being replaced in our own countries. And I’ve had enough.”]
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“The Theory of (Political) Relativity”, if you like: The Labour Party is ebbing away, especially among real British people, but the equally fake Conservative Party is ebbing away even faster.
Enough for a modest Reform majority.
Only 17% think the present government competent, and only 25% think it is even trying to “do the right thing”…
Mass immigration is the key issue, because it affects all other issues.
[“Great scoop on the procession of Brits bending the knee to the genocidal Ms Hotovely. Lots of interesting names in the disclosed diary besides the names mentioned in the story. Some highlights: The ever repellent Douglas Murray; Jonathan Sacerdoti had a 30 minute briefing with Hotovely on 17 October 2023. He has worked for the Zionist Federation, the Campaign Against Antisemitism and been a member of the Board of Deputies as well as other genocidal Zionist groups; Hotovely had dinner with Lord Bew, the former ‘Marxist’ from the north of Ireland who went on to advise Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble, and the Zionist fanatics at the Islamophobic Henry Jackson Society; Neil Blair had a phone call with Hotovely. He is the fanatical Zionist who oversees JK Rowling’s business empire and keeps her on the Zionist path, as he does with many of the other clients he acts for. Sir Mark Rowley, Commissioner of the Met Police met Hotovely on 14 November 2023. The Met have since done their duty to embed Zionist ideology in policing decisions and to enforce Zionist demands to whip up hysteria about ‘antisemitism’; Dean Godson of the Islamophobic Policy Exchange had breakfast with Hotovely; Matt Jukes, Assistant Commissioner at the Met Police bent the knee in August 2024; A dinner with Beit Halochem was held in the Dorchester in September 2024. It is a British charity sending cash to support the IOF. Andrew Wolfson of the Wolfson family runs it. They own Next, Fatface and Reiss; Remember, whenever you hear a leading Zionist speak, you can be sure their words are authorised or authored by an outpost of the Zionist regime. #DismantleZionism.“]
Interesting. Quite a coup, to get hold of the diary of someone as well-guarded as that.
The Jewish/Israel lobby, though very active even in the 1980s and 1970s, was not then the powerful and corrupting force it is in 2025. Not just in politics and law, either. You see the cultural aspects of it in magazines, newspapers, and on radio and TV etc.
Ukraine news
“In what may prove to be a major breakthrough for Vladimir Putin, Russian sabotage and reconnaissance units punched through exposed defences in eastern Ukraine, slipping as far as six miles behind the front line in just 48 hours, according to battlefield reports.
Kyiv has diverted special forces units to confront the insurgents on the ground in an attempt to prevent any more of Ukraine falling under Russia’s control before the summit in Alaska.
The location, near Dobropillya in Donetsk, is strategically significant. If Moscow’s forces are able to establish a foothold, the breach could allow Russia to cut off the city of Kramatorsk, one of the most vital strongholds in the Donbas still under Kyiv’s control.
If the city falls, it would give Putin almost full control over the Donbas and strengthen his negotiating power when bargaining over Ukraine’s fate with the Trump administration.“
[Daily Telegraph]
As predicted on the blog, the Kiev-regime front is fast crumbling.
Appalling-looking bastards, many of them.
Evil shows itself, sometimes.
Slowly slowly catchee monkee…
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“Currently, according to Bild military observer Julian Repke, the fate of 29% of the territory of the Donetsk region, which remains under Ukrainian control, is being decided.
North of Pokrovsk, the depth of the front breakthrough is already about 18 km, and the Ukrainian armed forces have only a few days to hold their positions before Russian drones and mechanized units are transferred there.“
[Daily Telegraph]
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