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Diary Blog, 25 March 2026, including some thoughts about NHS dentistry, prescription medicines etc

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[“My toothache got so bad to the point it hurts to even swallow water, the left side of my face has ballooned to the point where I look like I’m morbidly obese and I was up all night with a temperature that I have needed to get medical intervention.

Rang the emergency dentist many times and couldn’t even get through

called 111 and was met with “I’m not medically trained enough other than to give you a text message of what you COULD do”

called the doctors and had to say that I have a learning disability in order to even be able to speak with someone. Then was met with “we don’t deal with teeth” despite explaining that I only needed some antibiotics currently as a dentist wouldn’t touch my teeth anyway until the infection cleared and I can’t get help from them.

pharmacy won’t touch me given it’s not classed as a minor infection

ended up going to A&E to then be told I’m better off at another building on site

they have said they MAY be able
to prescribe me antibiotics given the severity of the situation but they don’t generally do it due to the same rules as the doctors and now I have to wait to see if I can get them

All of these steps could have been avoided if I was already registered under an NHS dentist.

Neglecting dentistry services is damaging the entire NHS ecosystem and partly causing wait times to soar.

The government seriously needs to address this.

There are also people who are not as pushy as myself who would have just given up and likely developed a very serious infection if not treated.

The thought that people could be potentially dying of a tooth infection in a first world country is absolutely appalling.“]

[Sophie Meaden]

A similar problem occurred a couple of years ago, when the only NHS dentist in our wider area (about a 10-mile radius) let down my wife over a Friday afternoon appointment without notice, its reception staff then giving us completely incorrect information about NHS A&E, and also lying about having sent a cancellation in advance.

Fortunately, there was one (only one) private dentist open the next day, a Saturday; about 10 miles away. My wife therefore spent a night in great pain, but was dealt with the following day by the private dentist, and very satisfactorily. We then both de-registered with the NHS place, and registered at separate private dentists, both of which are very good.

All well and good, but what if we had not had the option of going private? The cost was not enormous (I think that my wife’s immediate treatment was about £250 or £300) but I have certainly had times in my own life when I might not have been able to raise that sort of sum (which to many people may seem a trivial amount; but that is, of course, only so if you are not short of money).

On the wider point, I have always questioned why one needs a rubber-stamp from “a man in a white coat” to access medicines at all. Yes, there is a risk when members of the public self-prescribe, so advice should certainly be available, but it is almost ludicrous that one needs a “prescription” from an authority-figure (doctor, dentist etc) in order to get things. State dictatorship (supposedly for people’s own good).

British people (and other people) often tend to assume that the way things are done in the UK (or wherever) is the only way they can be done.

When I lived for a year in Almaty, Kazakhstan, I needed a few things which, in principle, required a doctor’s certificate or similar. Believe it or not, vitamin C was one! I had run out of multivitamins (bought in London), and found that (at that time, 1996, maybe now it is different) you actually needed a prescription to get some!

I don’t usually put up with bureaucratic nonsense like that if I can avoid or evade it, so I pulled a couple of strings, and managed to have provided some very inadequate Soviet-style capsules, red fluid, which contained about a tenth of the vitamin C of ones easily bought in any supermarket in the UK.

The same happened when I had a sudden and very inconvenient ear-wax problem. In theory, I should have gone through a whole rigmarole to get treatment, but the wife of a Russian colonel I knew took me to an almost deserted large hospital, and had me seen at once, no questions asked.

The third such incident was not really medical at all. I wanted to swim in one of the public pools, and that apparently required a medical examination first! Again, though, a little light influence got me in, though in the event the pool was rather crowded, so I only swam there once.

Actually, the Kazakhs, heir to Soviet rule, loved their rubber stamps. They even had a government office called the Bureau of Rubber Stamps. I had to deal with it once when I needed a rubber stamp for my work. You first had to verify your existence by means of official letters, visas, and certificates, after which you submitted a (suitably verified and stamped) design, after which (if approved), you were directed to places considered suitable to produce the stamp.

On that occasion, I did go through the “proper channels” (in case some later bureaucrat checked), but a colleague with a similar problem just said “**** it!” and had one sent from London.

As I said, though, that was 30 years ago (incredibly); I doubt whether any of that would apply in 2026.

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If there is a massive nuclear war, the proportion of European/white people will be even smaller, because Europe, Russia, North America will be the areas hit worst.

Is that why “they” (((the usual suspects))) are pushing for war with Russia?

A 5-min interview, in all. Worth seeing, especially the naive English idiot at the end, who “only sees the good in people” but wants to emigrate.

I blogged about all that the day before yesterday.

As with many topics in the UK (Muslim takeover by numbers, Jewish exploitation and takeover by other means, and what should be done with most MPs and journalists etc), we are “not allowed” to express our uncensored thoughts these days.

I am surprised that Kemi Badenoch is still the leader of the now all-but-irrelevant “Conservative” Party; thought they would have dumped her by the end of 2025. Seems that the Con Party has lost its once-famous killer instinct.

For me, leaving aside the Israel lobby cover-up, what is astonishing is that (on the facts as claimed) someone walking down Whitehall, the very centre of UK government power (such as it now is) can have his telephone snatched without, it seems, the police even being aware at the time, let alone actually apprehending the culprit. Yet we hear all the time that “London is OK, London is safe“…

Trump is over, anyway. In June, he will be 80-y-o and, by the time of the 2028 Presidential election, 82 but, more importantly, he shows signs of mental deterioration. Biden’s dementia was concealed (though not very well), but Trump is filmed saying things, constantly, and many of those things are the reverse of what he said the day before, or will say the next day.

Kemi Badenoch is a Conservative Friends of Israel member, and puppet of the Jewish/Israel lobby. Is she going to re-ignite public interest in what was plainly an Israeli Intelligence operation (the Epstein/Lolita Express/Lolita Island matter)? I think not.

Translates to a Commons with about 320 Reform UK MPs (6 short of overall majority), 83 Cons (weak official Opposition), 66 LibDems, 57 Lab, 50 Greens, 45 SNP [etc].

As with other recent polls, on those figures Starmer would lose his own seat.

Quite. “They” are always the “victims”, in their own warped minds, even when killing children or harvesting the organs of real victims.

A perennial whine…

[“They had me fired. Arrested 4 times. Suspended my medical licence. Smeared me in every paper.

Now the British zionist jewish lobby is attacking my fundraiser!

It cost me £90,000 to defend my licence. I live on what remains of my life savings.

I set up a Chuffed fundraiser to tackle police harassment and keep me on my feet. Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) is now threatening Chuffed with police action.

They want to destroy me.

I am a Palestinian and a British citizen. I have never had a patient complaint. Never broken the law. Worked for 7 years in the NHS. Cared for my fellow British citizens. Paid my taxes.

My crime?
I opposed genocide and jewish supremacy. Exposed their grip on Britain.

That’s it.

My response:
{فَٱقْضِ مَآ أَنتَ قَاضٍ ۖ إِنَّمَا تَقْضِى هَٰذِهِ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَآ}So do whatever you want! Your authority only covers the ˹fleeting˺ life of this world. Qur’an 20:72

I would do it all over again. Everything I did was to save the lives of the Palestinian people being murdered by the jewish occupation. And to stop the British government from using my taxes to arm them.

May justice and truth prevail.
We fear God only.

Free Palestine and Britain from jewish supremacy.”]

[Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan]

The Daily Telegraph is totally (((occupied))).

https://chuffed.org/project/dr-rahmeh-vs-the-lobby-and-the-state

https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/help-me-fight-the-israel-lobby/

[“What is happening to this bloody country!!! My daughter has been informed by school that her TWELVE year old daughter (my granddaughter) has been found on a ‘stab list’.

So the son of recent African immigrants, who has only been here maybe a year and has been caught at least twice with a knife at school, has now created a list of girls he intends to stab for shunning his advances.

He is STILL in school. This madness has to end. Either the establishment are on the side of good people or good people will take things into their own hands.

She’s 12yo for gods sake and has to now walk around school with the threat of being stabbed at any moment.“]

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[“Iran will close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in case of a land invasion of its territories, including the islands, writes the Iranian agency Tasnim citing a military source.

“The Bab el-Mandeb Strait is considered one of the strategically important straits in the world, and Iran has both the will and the capability to pose a real threat to it; therefore, if the Americans want to solve the Strait of Hormuz problem with foolish measures, they should be careful not to add another strait to their problems and difficult situation,” he said.
Bab el-Mandeb is located between Yemen and Eritrea, connecting the Gulf of Aden with the Red Sea. Many ships passing through the Suez Canal go through this strait.”
]

If that were to happen, and it is not unlikely, the economy of much of the world will plummet.

Doubtful as a real deal; more likely is an American withdrawal packaged as a “peace deal” for the American domestic TV audience.

[“Incredible discoveries by Alexander del Valle, geopolitical expert on the current situation in the Middle East:

Israel is running out of time: Israel does not have much time left; supplies of defensive missiles and equipment are running low. Trump must come up with a solution to end the war as soon as possible!

Iran has the capability to disable the defense systems of Israel and countries in the region. Due to the exhausting war and the huge number of drones, their weapon supplies are nearing depletion.

Every day we become aware that Iran, surprisingly, possesses many more drones and missiles than previously reported. These factors are key reasons why a way to end the conflict must be found, which is also Mr. Trump’s goal.“]

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

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[painting by Serge Marshennikov]

Diary Blog, 7 May 2025

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[Nymphenburg, Bavaria]

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That ghastly little “Conservative” (?) scribbler and talking head, Harwood, really deserves some bad luck to come his way. Pro-Israel, pro-globalist finance-capitalism, in favour of cuts to public services and social security, in favour of unrestricted housing development. A System puppet, retailing “controlled opposition” rubbish.

[“48% of Britons say that immigration is one of the top issues facing the country, the joint-highest level since the election Economy: 52% (-2 from 26-28 Apr) Immigration: 48% (+4) Health: 36% (-1) Crime: 22% (-1) Defence: 20% (-2) Housing: 20% (=) Environment: 15% (-2) Tax: 14% (-1) Europe: 13% (+2) Welfare: 13% (+2).”]

Maybe the British people are at last beginning to wake up.

Defend? Against what? There is a concerted attempt to push for war with Russia, which would be both mad and pointless, Russia having no interest at all in invading central or western parts of Europe.

Ukraine was always part of Russia; as for the Baltic States or pribaltika, while I respect their rights to self-determination and their own cultures, that respect would not outweigh the right of the UK, France, and Germany etc not to get into a nuclear conflict with Russia over that small part of Northern Europe. In fact, the only reason Russia is now overshadowing the three Baltic states is because they have joined NATO. The same is true of Finland.

Present-day Russia is not like the old Soviet Union. It does not have the expansionist drive that came out of Marxist-Leninist ideology. It is also far less efficient in terms of military power (and secret intelligence etc).

European culture and civilization is threatened not by that fantasy “Russian invasion” but by migration-invasion from backward parts of the world, and I see very few and very weak attempts being made even to slow it, let alone stop it.

“Boris” Johnson— part-Jew and pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, and a Conservative Friends of Israel member; Starmer-stein likewise— pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, not himself Jewish (as far as is known) but with a Jewish wife, and with children being brought up as if fully-Jewish, Starmer being a member of Labour Friends of Israel.

Join the dots. Both Starmer-stein and “Boris” Johnson were fanatically in favour of the police-state measures brought in under cover of the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic, both funneled British taxpayers’ monies to “Ukraine” (the mainly Jewish regime in Kiev), and both encouraged and still encourage mass immigration into Britain, while having English/British dissidents and protesters arrested. Both also want to allow (((developers))) to build on what is left of the “green and pleasant land”.

As I say, just join the dots.

Once again, we see where that Harwood bastard is coming from. For him, British politics and society is all about the (((money))). Same goes for GB News generally (and, even worse, the “no-one watches” Talk TV).

Interesting that Harwood and GB News, supposedly small-c “conservative”, now start to defend Starmer-stein, i.e. now that his fake Labour (((government))) is collapsing amid public hatred of it and him.

Tweeter “@benonwine” should consider what percentage of the UK population is now non-European (non-white). About 20%. Not all of that bloc vote, and not all of that bloc who vote, vote Labour, but most do. Question more or less answered.

As to Goodwin’s tweet and YouGov’s polling, according to Electoral Calculus [https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html], those numbers would be enough to give Reform about 345 MPs, and a goodly-sized Commons majority (19, but in practical terms about 30 or 40. Other significant parties: 143 Labour MPs, 71 LibDems, SNP 38, Cons 23.

On that basis, the once-great Conservative Party would be reduced to a very small rump of 23 MPs, and would be a very poor fifth party in the Commons, after Reform, Labour, LibDems, and the SNP. It would be the end of the Conservative Party, bar the shouting about the whys and wherefores.

Sending Kemi Badenoch back to Nigeria at once, or at least sacking her (asap), might save some of the present Con Party MPs, but not most, I think. The tipping point may already have been reached. Every time I see the woman on TV, I think, “can anyone really see that as a Prime Minister?“.

Talking point

I missed this when it was published last year; it is very good, very true (both posts):

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Certainly, I have found that to be true. Many who have tried to attack me over the course of my life (I am now 68) have hit hard times, and some (quite a few) have died. Not exactly The Consolation of Philosophy, but rather heartwarming nonetheless…

Someone is about to have a bad day…

Not so sure about that last comment from “@elias_baa”…

Surprising, yet not so surprising. Labour has done rather little for the people of Scotland in the past several decades. The SNP is only supported by, at most, half of the electorate. Reform may be the banner to which anti-SNP voters will flock.

I think I had not previously heard of that one. Rosie Wrighting. 27 years old. Sounds like a total bimbo. Selected/elected as MP aged 26. Had a job with ASOS for what seems to have been months not years. Never done anything else. Studied (Mickey Mouse “degree”?) fashion, we are told…

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

This country is so screwed…

Looking at the 2024 result at Kettering [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettering_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s], I think that Ms. Wrighting will fairly soon be looking for another job.

The present “elected” dictatorship in the UK is evil.

Aux armes, citoyens“…

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[Victor Ostrovsky, Rendezvous]

Diary Blog, 24 September 2023

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I remember watching that French TV series about Robinson Crusoe when I was about 7 or 8 years old.

Battles past

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12553151/HUGH-OSMOND-staff-Gen-Z-snowflakes-not-fault-Blame-universities-schools-heads-nonsense.html

Our society should look again at the purposes of education, at all levels from primary, through secondary, to tertiary and beyond. The whole mediaeval-derived “degree” system in particular, with its “first degree” (“apprentice”), “Master’s degree”, and “Doctorate”. More suited to 1523 than 2023.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/meandmymoney/article-12552243/Fashion-designer-Karen-Millen-talks-MONEY.html

The ups and downs of life; quite interesting.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12552471/NHS-chiefs-cruel-ban-drugs-treat-chronic-pain-condition.html

It really is time for the NHS to be treated as a useful service that however needs urgent and radical reform and improvement, rather than a quasi-religious object of devotion or something operated mainly for the benefit of its employees.

Peter Hitchens

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12552809/peter-hitchens-lucy-letby-not-guilty.html

Worth reading. I did not follow the trial closely, and have no feeling either way about the rightness of the jury verdict.

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The Wall Street Journal:

Russia has adapted and corrected many of its mistakes, even as the Russian military’s poor performance in the early days of the war shocked many in the West.

Moscow has spent months preparing a strong defense against the current Ukrainian counter-offensive in the south. The use of drones has become more frequent and efficient; changed the tactics of using the Air Force, now successfully avoiding Ukrainian air defense at low altitudes; added guidance capabilities to old aerial bombs; moved deeper into the front and dispersed warehouses, equipment and command posts; began to better protect our own soldiers and equipment; improved electronic warfare; according to Western officials, it increases the production of tanks (from 100 to 200 per year) and artillery shells (from 1 to 2-3 million per year).

On the battlefield, “the difference since the beginning of the war is colossal.

I recall, even 30+ years ago, when I lived in New Jersey, the increasing problems caused by Hispanic migrants, mostly illegal, mostly from Central America. God knows what parts of the USA are now looking like.

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[SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler at the Berghof]

You carry in your blood the holy inheritance of your
fathers and forefathers. You do not know those who
have vanished in endless ranks into the darkness of the
past. But they all live in you and walk in your blood upon
the earth that consumed them in battle and toil and in
which their bodies have long decayed.

Your blood is therefore something holy. In it your parents gave you not only a body, but your nature. To deny your blood is to deny yourself. No one can
change it. But each decides to grow the good that one has
inherited and suppress the bad. Each is also given will
and courage.

You do not have only the right, but also the duty to pass
your blood on to your children, for you are a member of
the chain of generations that reaches from the past into
eternity, and this link of the chain that you represent
must do its part so that the chain is never broken.

But if your blood has traits that will make your children
unhappy and burdens to the state, then you have the
heroic duty to be the last. The blood is the carrier of life. You carry in it the secret of creation itself. Your blood is holy, for in it God’s will
lives.”

[SS Verlag— material for instruction of the Hitlerjugend]

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Part of the ever-more-obvious transnational conspiracy.

Ha. Very true.

Suella Braverman is another Priti Patel: all talk, no action (and also herself non-European).

Of course, she is completely correct in what she says above. Jewish-lobby puppet Starmer is a waste a space, but seems about to become Prime Minister simply by default. The invaders will then simply be funnelled into the UK less conspicuously.

Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.

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I used to have that CD, or maybe it was on cassette, long ago.

More from the newspapers

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/posh-market-town-residents-hire-31016400

Residents in a posh historic town have clubbed together to hire their own private security firm to patrol the streets with dogs after burglaries soared.

Locals in Kimbolton, rural Cambridgeshire, decided enough is enough after a spate of robberies back in 2019. They say a police presence is almost non-existent and want to fend off criminals after houses in the neighbourhood started to be targeted five years ago.”

[Daily Mirror]

There is probably a link to —shall we say?— “caravan-dwellers” in that area…

All over England, communities are having to create private police forces, because, when it comes to ordinary everyday crime, the police (or as Sherlock Holmes always referred to them, “the official police“) are now usually completely useless. Many of them waste their time snooping on social media, “monitoring” tweets —or blogs such as mine— and generally playing at “counter-terrorism” and being a kind of poundland KGB or Stasi.

Even H.M. Inspector of Constabulary, Andy Cooke, recently said something quite similar.

See also: https://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/20141826.we-not-thought-police-says-new-chief/.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12554821/Joe-Biden-polling-trump-speech-gaffs-cbc.html

A new poll from the Washington Post showed disastrous numbers for incumbent President Joe Biden, who is now 10 points behind former President Donald Trump in in the latest measurement of the US electorate.

[Daily Mail]

Goodnight Vienna Kiev…

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The world is not without kind people” [Russian proverb].

In fact, I have a lot of time for the Turks, overall. I have spent about 5 months altogether in Turkey, and have seen the behaviour of the Turks, and (with very few exceptions) been quite impressed by them.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had to convince the American public about the possibility of occupying Russian territories so that his allies would not stop supplying him with military aid, said Scott Ritter.

The statement about the possibility of occupying Russian lands is political. It is necessary in order to continue the help from other countries ,” explains Ritter.

According to his words, Zelensky is very well aware of the true situation on the front, but the Ukrainian leader simply has to deceive the West.”

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[painting by Monet]