Some quite difficult questions again this week. I managed 6/10, thus beating political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 4/10. I knew the answers to questions 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 10.
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I noticed that the following blog post from nearly 7 years ago, which received a few hits yesterday and today, has stood the test of time quite well:
NEW: Western assessments prior to Trump’s Iran war noted likely scenarios in which the Iranian regime remained in place and the IRGC became more assertive against Western and Gulf interests, launching widespread attacks across the Gulf and seeking to wreak havoc on the global…
As I wrote this morning. Blatant cover-up. If we don't get to actually see the material messages relating to Mandelson's appointment the disclosures are irrelevant. https://t.co/HjEDachkYm
There are now 6 B-52 Stratofortress bombers and 12 B-1B Lancers conducting bombing missions on Iran from UK bases. We are told by the Government these strikes are solely "defensive" in nature. https://t.co/9DQUdtpnOw
According to The Wall Street Journal, Iran has begun mining the Hormuz Strait — the world's main oil corridor. U.S. officials have confirmed that Tehran has placed about ten naval mines in this strategically important waterway.
[“According to The Wall Street Journal, Iran has begun mining the Hormuz Strait — the world’s main oil corridor. U.S. officials have confirmed that Tehran has placed about ten naval mines in this strategically important waterway.
These are specialized munitions that can operate at shallow depths. Some mines are just 90 centimeters below the water surface, while others are anchored to the seabed at depths of up to 50 meters. The warhead of most of these devices contains between 50 and 120 kilograms of explosives — enough to seriously damage a large tanker or surface ship.
The goal of the mine warfare operation is not mass destruction of ships. The mere threat of mines’ presence can paralyze movement through the strait. History shows that this is one of the most effective and cheapest means of pressure on maritime trade. Since World War II, naval mines have caused more damage to U.S. Navy ships than any other weapon.
The paradox of mine warfare is that inexpensive weapons are capable of causing colossal economic consequences. Even a few mines placed in a narrow strait can stop the flow of tankers carrying about 20% of the world’s oil and trigger a global energy crisis.]”
What that says to me is that the Iranian leadership have recognized (how could they not?) the air and sea superiority, indeed supremacy, of the US and its “tail wags dog” “ally”, Israel. The Iranian leadership may therefore be resigned to losing much, perhaps all, of their own oil production and transit as part of the damage from the war, and so have decided to go all-out to close (now, or soon) the Strait of Hormuz, in order to bring down the international economic order.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan: «We are very cautious about the conspiracies, traps, and provocations that are trying to drag our country into war
The ancient state wisdom of Turkey, which dates back thousands of years, and the 23-year experience of our government in… pic.twitter.com/RPCFIIzi9f
Tehran has entered the active phase of eliminating the American military presence.
The US military base in Kuwait faced a massive kamikaze drone attack. Reports of more than 50 "Shahid" drones simultaneously in the air.. pic.twitter.com/0fp7dcF33K
Apropos of nothing (?), I have never yet met a Kuwaiti that I could, even marginally, like, trust, or respect. Dishonest, unclean-looking, and unpleasant even by the low standards of the Gulf Arabs generally.
At the moment, power outages, dense fog, and dust in Tel Aviv are creating an apocalyptic atmosphere in Israel. pic.twitter.com/rNj5g0M5H7
Iran has allowed India to pass 2 LNG tankers through the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for the release of 3 Iranian oil tankers, which were seized by India under US pressure earlier this year. pic.twitter.com/caKzLQqoi0
Jeremy Scahill, American journalist: Deploying ground forces to Iran would be the most foolish and pointless mission possible; it is neither Syria nor Libya, you are dealing with a modern nation whose ground battle will result in massive numbers of American soldiers returning… pic.twitter.com/yIsfg2Tkeo
While I imagine it would be possible for American forces to take and make a bridgehead on some shore, or offshore island, and possible even keep that area occupied for a considerable time, the USA has not the strength, or the will, and certainly not the airlift capacity, to invade Iran and occupy it, or a large part of it.
Iran is the 17th-largest country by area in the world (Iraq is the 58th-), has about 93M inhabitants (Iraq has about 46M).
The land area alone is vast: about 7x the size of that of the UK, 3x the size of Ukraine and, while of course smaller than that of the USA (Iran is about a 6th of the size of the whole USA), still about the size of Alaska or, to put it another way, 4x the size of California 10x the size of Florida, or 12x the size of the State of New York.
Bottom line— the USA, were it to attempt invasion, would be unable to occupy or hold more than a small part of Iran. Kharg Island, maybe, but only at the cost of constant drone and rocket attack on that island and on all ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
The Iranians seem to be repeating their mistake of 2025, attacking all over the place rather than concentrating their resources on a few key targets (which to me would be the ben-Gurion Airport, central Tel Aviv, and the Dimona nuclear area. That would leave many other potential targets unattacked, but not everywhere can be attacked with sufficient force. It was once said that “to govern is to choose“; same applies.
All the same, as far as one can judge, the attacks on Israel, so far, seem to be more like minor nuisances to the population as a whole, rather than the wholesale destruction and carnage the Israeli Jews have visited upon the people of Iran, Lebanon etc. Certainly, had the Iranian missiles and drones hit any schools or hospitals, and killed any children and/or patients, you can be sure that UK/US TV and Press would have screamed unceasingly about it.
Following the missile attacks by the US and the Israel on civilian locations, one of the warehouses containing medicines for special patients and infant formula in Hamedan was hit and burned. Officials announced after this attack that people should not worry about medicines and… pic.twitter.com/E7VtLJkuTk
CafeDowntism—a beloved refuge in Tehran where people with autism and Down syndrome found purpose and community—was destroyed in a US and Israeli airstrike. pic.twitter.com/FSagaduGj9
As always, Trump is like a big child, doing something that has unexpected consequences, then wailing for help from its parents.
I suspect that over the next few days it will become apparent that instead of “standing up to Trump” Starmer has in fact authorised the most intense US bombing campaign from British soil since World War Two. https://t.co/Y58R09MKj4
Well, after all, (((who))) do you think pulls puppet Starmer-stein’s strings? The (((you-know-who))) element, as usual.
THE tube. Saturday morning. Nobody seemed bothered. I tried to help this person. They were alive but dead to the world. No @TfL staff anywhere. London -amazing city; awful decline @policylailapic.twitter.com/yiosRzIND0
How strange that Isabel Oakeshott, apparently paid hundreds of thousands of pounds annually (and tax-free, because she holds UAE tax residency), and whose personal partner is multi-millionaire businessman and MP, Richard Tice, should choose to travel by the London Underground. Makes me think she must be mega-“tight”…
I lived for many years, on and off, in London, though not (thankfully) for the past 25 years.
Had I 10,000 men and pleins pouvoirs, I could restore order, permanently, to London within a month.
In the specific situation shown, the first volley would take down 90% of the untermenschen, and the rest would either flee or be detained easily enough, having once seen what happened to their “friends”.
Every woke middle-class feminist who talks about every cause under the sun except the women & girls who are being brutally murdered and assaulted by mass immigration should read this ⬇️ https://t.co/B1OuQFjWMV
They’re no longer front of mind or relevant and even the so-called sensible ones say silly things these days. I’ve heard some utter rubbish on Iran from senior people I used to respect. The policies are suicidal, the attitude nasty, the leader unelectable, they’ve just sunk.
That judge should be put up against a wall. Her judgment on sentence makes no sense at all from the viewpoint of protecting the public in Canada.
Ukrainian troops have lost approximately 1,135 soldiers over the past 24 hours in the special military operation zone, the Russian Defense Ministry said:https://t.co/GXrEkcuCw4pic.twitter.com/yCN6wBCUcP
In a proper society, the invaders (probably Congolese) would be put up against a wall.
You cannot move society to a higher form when it is increasingly composed of individuals of lower race and culture. In fact, on that premise, you cannot even maintain society at its present level of culture and development.
We are struggling for a better society, a better way of life, higher living standards, and a European population.
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White people on the right seriously need to get off the capitalist plantation.
🚨 BREAKING :Child Hala Abu Rweida was shot and injured by Israeli forces near Al-Saha junction in Gaza while heading to buy Eid clothes. pic.twitter.com/ZQ6IrK3TQC
[“Matt Lucas signed the ‘No hostage left behind’ letter to Joe Biden as Biden participated in the genocide in Gaza.
The letter repeated the Oct 7 atrocity propaganda of ‘women raped, families burned alive, and infants beheaded’.
A British man saw Lucas giving him a funny look on the tube so he said Free Palestine and questioned Lucas in public. 30 second interaction. Lucas lied in the video and smacked the man’s phone.
The press claimed Lucas was harassed because he is jewish. The man did not know Lucas was jewish.
The man lost his job after 3 weeks.”]
It is what “they” do—typical of “their” (((their))) behaviour.
🚨Amid Israel’s ongoing genocidal war on Gaza, children in Southern Gaza Strip are turning to music to cope with the trauma.
A newly formed girls’ choir is singing among the ruins, using their voices as a small act of hope and resilience in the face of a war that has not stopped pic.twitter.com/ZCUz1S16tM
A woman who did her legal training in Israel is the British Justice Minister who abolished the 800 year system of Jury trials. The majority for the crime was provided by Scottish Labour MPs though Scotland is not affected. Democracy: isn’t it wonderful. @MoatsTV#GeorgeGalloway… pic.twitter.com/zxqUXfxLxw
[“Sheldon Adelson saved Trump. In the 80s and 90s the whole Trump empire was collapsing because the Atlantic Trump Casino was in financial difficulties, but the structure of his company meant that he would lose all his properties.
And it was Sheldon Adelson who put together some like-minded pro-Israeli billionaires that saved him.
So he owed everything, if you like, to that group of Israeli billionaires. They saved him, and he’s been repaying them in kind ever since.’
-Alastair Crooke, the former Middle East Advisor to the EU Foreign Policy Chief, on Going Underground”]
Yes, these events are reported, at least in the UK and mainland Europe, maybe not or not much in the USA, but “somehow” the news is always less intense when it comes to Israeli-perpetrated atrocities like that, whereas when someone tries to shoot a few Jews in the Netherlands, or Michigan, that is reported upon far more heavily than families wiped out in Lebanon, or schools bombed or rocketed in Iran, with hundreds of children killed and wounded. Most people in the USA, and a great many in the UK, get their news from outlets owned or influenced by Jews.
Our animal friends. We must do everything we can to save them and help them.
A couple of months ago a senior No.10 advisor told me to "reflect" after calling Keir Starmer a liar. After the past week, I have reflected. Keir Starmer is the worst Prime Ministerial liar of my adult lifetime > Mail on Sunday > https://t.co/LhGNPAXZxo
Even compared to “Boris”-idiot? I suppose that Starmer-stein is a rather more polished liar, anyway.
Boris's saving grace, perversely, was that nobody — including Boris — was under any illusions about what he was. The transaction was transparent. Starmer's entire political offer is integrity. Remove that, and there's almost nothing left, which is why the charge lands so much…
Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Senator: American taxpayers spend nearly one billion dollars daily to finance Trump's illegal war in Iran
Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress claim that we do not have the financial ability to fund education, childcare, housing, or healthcare services. It… pic.twitter.com/xtxhQh8qS4
Look for the (((reason))), America; it is all around you. In the political world. In the legal profession. On Wall Street. At AIPAC. At the Israeli Embassy. Elsewhere. A hydra-headed enemy.
Video of sped-up footage reveals continuous Iranian and Hezbollah rocket attacks lighting up Israel since the start of the war
Reports from Kuwait's Public Authority for Civil Aviation, Kuwait International Airport was targeted by several drones, which struck and damaged the airport's radar system pic.twitter.com/wG8bcGt1Ze
Israel has informed the United States this week (as of mid-March 2026) that it is critically low on ballistic missile interceptors, specifically systems like the Arrow family, which defend against long-range ballistic missiles from Iran.
People argue as to whether or not Palestine is “occupied”. They should look closer to home.
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🇸🇾 The host of Syrian state television, Safa Ahmad, was killed in an Israeli attack on Damascus , Syrian state television announced. pic.twitter.com/SBAFQFHgDc
Tonight, Israelis in several cities are celebrating the invasion of Lebanon, shouting: "Lebanon is ours! And this is just the beginning pic.twitter.com/LlNPegY3ek
An indictment, not only of Liz Truss herself, an idiot-on-a-stick who only became an MP in the first place on her back, but also of the “Conservative” Party and the whole political system of this country, that allows idiots to attain to the highest office: David Cameron-Levita, Theresa May, “Boris” Johnson, Liz Truss, the little Indian money-juggler (Sunak), and now the latest Israel-lobby puppet, Starmer.
Look at the candidates left in the contest to become “Conservative” Party leader: all Israel-lobby/Jewish lobby puppets. One Nigerian woman (Kemi Badenoch), one low-IQ half-African (James Cleverly), one part-Jew former chocolate soldier (Tugendhat), and one oddly-promoted and completely corrupt money-grubber married to a Jewish woman lawyer (Jenrick).
Even the mainly ignorant and/or naive public does not want them.
The idea seems to be that, as fake “Labour” messes up, the “Conservatives” will return to public favour. Don’t count on it. At GE 2024, 8 out of 20 eligible voters refused to vote at all. Also, 2 out of 20 voted for underwhelming Reform UK, despite its flaws and despite the fact that the FPTP voting system makes it hard for any non-established party to get anywhere.
In the circumstances, Reform UK did well to get 5 MPs (yet the LibDems got 72 MPs despite getting far fewer actual votes than Reform UK).
I’d personally be absolutely happy with the Star Of David being shoved so far up Robert Jenrick’s and Liz Truss’s arses that they’d both have six pointy teeth. https://t.co/90rmdRHyh3
Terrorist Robert Jennrick at a friends-of-killers event in an ‘incitement hoodie’ wants the Star of David on all UK borders: over our dead bodies pic.twitter.com/qIYMgWf2lS
There is no Star of David it’s the star of Moloch the god of child sacrifice.. Israel operates the largest sex child trafficking ring in the world… Rothschild created Israel 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Migrants will be stuck in hotels for 3 years at £4m a day because the backlog is “worse than expected.” I’ve been writing about immigration for decades. The one common theme? The asylum backlog is always “worse than expected.” https://t.co/oVyK7L3oOP
Not “stuck“. They could just leave, and return to France or elsewhere. Suggestion (only semi-serious)— parachute them over France (or send over the Channel by MTB) with a golden farewell of, say, 1,000 Euros in their pockets. Better than most of them deserve, but #MoralHighGround.
"migrants to be housed in hotels for up to 3 more years because of the asylum backlog", says The Times. That's about 4.6 BILLION –more than enough to cover winter fuel payments for 10 million pensioners …
You can see why Starmer and his cabal became hysterical when the recent protests occurred (not “riots“…pushing a few wheelie bins over, or setting fire to them, is hardly a “riot”…). Starmer is frightened not of what happened, but what might happen over the next 4-5 years. He wanted to frighten potential future protesters now.
The Times reports, in a briefing from Home Sec Yvette Cooper, 3 disturbing facts; 1) There are now 225,000 migrants waiting to be granted asylum. That’s the whole Doncaster and Chelmsford combined. 2) Starmer’s pre-election promise to have all migrants out of hotels in 12…
“The Times reports, in a briefing from Home Sec Yvette Cooper, 3 disturbing facts; 1) There are now 225,000 migrants waiting to be granted asylum. That’s the whole Doncaster and Chelmsford combined. 2) Starmer’s pre-election promise to have all migrants out of hotels in 12 months is bollocks. Three years away at least. 3) Another 25,000 migrants have arrived by boat this year, 10,000 since Labour came in. She could have added 4) We don’t care as we view every migrant 80% more likely to vote Labour than any other party. And I could add 5) It’s this attitude which means you are a one term government.”
If you feel concerned about immigration you're not the fringe minority –you're the forgotten majority pic.twitter.com/6ojXsbJ64Z
Naturally, we must oppose the migration invasion, not only the “small boats” invasion but also the —superficially— “legal-migrant” invasion, and also the third kind of “invasion”, births to non-Europeans within the UK.
Paradoxically, though, with every migrant-invader that arrives on our shores, the possibility of a social-civil war down the line becomes more plausible, as does the case for real social nationalism.
NEW POST. The economic case for mass immigration is collapsing. It should not be controversial to suggest that the kind of immigration we are encouraging is making us poorer –because it ishttps://t.co/YfJLepuIUk
In the Netherlands, only British, French, German, Scandinavian, North American, Australasian, Southern African (whites), Argentinians, Japanese, Singaporese, (maybe) Italians and (maybe) Indians contribute anything. The rest are a millstone round the neck of the Dutch people.
I have seen, via family friends and personal visits over the past 50 years, how the Netherlands has declined, both economically and socially. Shocking.
The UK has gone much the same way, but the Netherlands was such a prosperous and peaceful little country, when I first saw it nearly 50 years ago, that the contrast is greater, arguably.
"The British people are being pushed by incompetent elites into a big debt, big state, big spending, big tax society that will increasingly be defined by masses of low-skill immigration from outside Europe and even worse public services than we have now" https://t.co/D15jEIENjj
I would not mind most of the first part of that; the problem lies with the second part.
The evidence from other countries is overwhelming. The VERY kind of migration the UK is encouraging -low skill, low wage, non-EU- is the most costly. The only people who haven’t realised is the elite class https://t.co/cXawNmaMFJ
“You, the British taxpayer, are being forced to pay for this failing project of mass immigration while the elite class refuse to show you data on what impact it is having and then call racist or misinformed for asking questions. It’s unbelievable” https://t.co/cXawNmaMFJ
• Promotion of the nuclear family. • Mass deportations and remigration. • Embracing and harnessing White identity. • Ending global Jewish influence. • Dismantling the big state.
'The Israel so many of us have admired for so long is being pounded into smoke and gunfire…'
'Israel has killed so many people in Gaza, and now in Lebanon, that it has created a circle of hatred around itself', says @AndrewMarr9, as the IDF prepares for war in Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/sSxzxPjWnO
Well, I never “supported” or “admired” Israel anyway, of course, though I have always recognized that it has some features which compare well to the surrounding Arab/Muslim states. However, its behaviour has gone from bad to worse, and the (Israeli) Jews are now totally out of control.
Gavin McInnes becomes "antisemitic" after a "brainwashing" tour of Auschwitz. pic.twitter.com/WXGeBCZpXM
Even then, much of what the speaker was shown (eg the film mentioned) was not from Auschwitz in the first place, but from elsewhere, and post-1945.
This is unprovoked, as far as I can tell. It seems like Iran is going to retaliate against Israel. Tbh, I'm so disgusted with DC, at this point. They don't even try to mask their subservient ZOG allegiance, even as they indulge in blatant genocide. It's like they have no souls. https://t.co/dWZsNPLqeo
US warns Iran against launching ballistic missile attack on Israel. Shouldn't the US also warn Israel not to indiscriminately bomb Lebanon like this? pic.twitter.com/pKPJQNyWA3
Were I an Iranian strategist, I should probably concentrate my missiles on, firstly, the Israeli nuclear weapons facility at Dimona [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon_Peres_Negev_Nuclear_Research_Center], secondly at any known nuclear weapons storage facilities, thirdly at known IDF air bases and the civilian international airport, and only then at concentrations of population, and even then mostly on Tel Aviv itself.
Apart from anything else, this Iranian attack will collapse a good deal of the Israeli economy, especially if the main international airport is put out of action.
I have no idea what proportion of Israel’s economy relies on tourism, but I imagine that it is fairly high. Who will be visiting now?
As to exports, I suppose it will depend on what ports, airports, and transport infrastructure is hit, and what damage, if any, is done.
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— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) October 1, 2024
(((The usual suspects))) have been mass-reporting the David R. Morgan Twitter/X account. It is what “they” do…I myself suffered the same hit in 2018, since when I have not had a Twitter or Twitter/X account.
Tell me who was the father of terrorism? In July 1946, Irgun blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, where the British administration headquarters were located, killing 92 people.
Millionaires love asylum seekers, their Labour is incredibly cheap. It's poor people who don't like them, because they keep their wages low due to huge supply side increases quarterly. https://t.co/puiWCkGDWk
Hard to know whether the “Supertanskiii” type of online regurgitater of pseudo-liberal bs is sincere or not. I mean beyond being an obvious money-seeking “grifter”. Does “Supertanskiii” operate according to some obscure pseudo-socialist agenda in which she really believes, or is she just bloody stupid? Both? Discuss.
The story of how Liz Truss and Woollyhead Trussbanger (Kwasi Kwarteng) derailed the train of state in a mere 7 weeks. Interesting read.
Among other things, it confirms my view of several years that Liz Truss was (she’s finished politically now) a Poundland Thatcher, but with none of Thatcher’s real grit and steel, and none of Thatcher’s incisive political brain (whatever the several faults of the “Iron Lady” may have been). A Poundland Thatcher to match “Boris”-idiot’s Poundland Churchill.
The Times: Four figure casualties during counteroffensive in German-trained Ukrainian brigade that had around 4.000 soldiers & Leopard tanks Bradleys: "Meanwhile, in the 15 weeks it took the 47th Brigade to advance eight miles to capture Robotyne, medics attached to the brigade… pic.twitter.com/WBUF7hNTZd
“The Times: Four figure casualties during counteroffensive in German-trained Ukrainian brigade that had around 4.000 soldiers & Leopard tanks Bradleys:
“Meanwhile, in the 15 weeks it took the 47th Brigade to advance eight miles to capture Robotyne, medics attached to the brigade say that the unit’s casualties have run into four figures. The 47th Brigade, trained in Germany and equipped with Bradley armoured personnel carriers and Leopard tanks, was eulogised by Ukrainian and western media even before the offensive began…
Early hopes that the operation could be carried by Leopard tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles to have a decisive impact by the end of the summer now appear forlorn.” https://archive.ph/mYY86#selection-1013.0-1013.165.”
There's a sub rosa conversation going on in foreign policy circles about negotiating with Russia. It should become public. https://t.co/0wiQcM5iJt
"Ukraine is facing a future with upward of 20,000 amputees, many of them soldiers who are also suffering psychological trauma from their time at the front. Europe has experienced nothing like it since World War I, and the United States not since the Civil War."… pic.twitter.com/DN0fDWnNuX
Abusing both the law and law-making, as happened during the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic. The slide to dystopian dictatorship.
In pursuit of Net Zero, Tories plans to criminalise home owners, landlords and businesses – only the Conservative Party’s last remaining core voters mind you.
The “Conservative” Party seems intent on destroying the dwindling blocs of voters still willing to vote Con-label. Look at the latest “Net Zero” nonsense— taking away the right of rural communities to block huge onshore wind projects (which are mainly a profit/subsidy-making boondoggle for certain greedy farmers and businessmen.
Why should villagers vote for “Conservative” MPs whose party is taking away their right to veto unwanted and pointless pseudo-eco projects next door to their villages?
“A polite beige consensus: are these really Britain’s best new buildings?
Do you like your bricks in red, brown or grey? And do you prefer your buildings in north, south or east London? Those are some of the limited choices facing the judges of this year’s RIBA Stirling prize for the country’s best building, in one of the most homogenous and metrocentric shortlists in the award’s 27-year history.
Looking at the six contenders, you would be forgiven for thinking British architecture had converged into a polite beige consensus.”
“A drug dealer who called the police to report someone had stolen his ‘crystals’ in a burglary ended up getting arrested himself.“
[Oxford Mail]
What would the police do if most criminals were not incredibly stupid?
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If you would like to help us continue our work please donate if you can. Even £1 makes a difference! We are over half way and would love to reach our target soon 💜https://t.co/uPCKhhDKhFpic.twitter.com/XPq8pbCwat
The final week of Conservation Club delved into Minibeasts 🐝 🦋
Our new Conservationists created beautiful homes for all kinds of creatures, they'll now be looking out for clues to identify the new resident creepy crawlies 🕸️ 🐛 🐞 pic.twitter.com/JerSn32oK9
The latest, and almost secretive, move to a dystopian “woke” police state. Energy-use monitoring, ULEZ, “15-minute cities”, sub-dermal microchips, fake “scamdemics” and “panicdemics”, online censorship etc.
Labour will do all in their power to prevent the change Britain needs and to push ahead, faster yet, with it's destruction. https://t.co/o2rMBnMr7x
Don’t ask me what is going through my head as I see that group of wannabee dictators walking in a group through Westminster…
As nasty as Carole Malone can be she does make a decent point. There are no consequences for under performance or failure anymore by politicians or people running companies. Just look at the woman from Natwest, she had to resign for fucking up yet still got a £2.4m payout
One of many examples: Paula Vennells of the Post Office Scandal, Dido Harding of the incredible “test and trace” fiasco (she having already proven herself incompetent in previous roles) etc. How do they get those million-pound a year jobs? They just “know the right people…
Stalin would have had them shot; Hitler would have consigned them to a concentration camp. In the contemporary UK they are paid millions, and awarded fake titles and honours.
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One of the most insidious long-term @ADL programs is feting, junketing, threatening and infiltrating US law enforcement to coerce them into sharing closely held information with the Israeli government, which has a long history of espionage, smuggling, unregistered foreign… pic.twitter.com/5rIhxFNsWo
— Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (@IRmep) September 5, 2023
cf. UK-based Zionist groups and their suborning of the naive and easily-led UK police forces.
"You look at this and you’d think, is it really the case that MI5 and MI6 are so bought into Zionist narratives that they can’t see any potential national security problem with this?"@Tracking_Power on Cellebrite's relationship with the British police and the British Foreign… pic.twitter.com/010LevENBk
Professor Miller forgot to add “6. Jewish groups that promote the migration-invasion of Britain” and “7. Jewish groups involved in promoting the ahistorical ‘WW2 holocaust’ farrago in various ways.”
Voting is pointless when all the parties are the same and work for the same master.#PMQs#wef#Uniparty
At best, useless parasites; more likely to get involved in criminal activities or, in a smaller number of cases, terroristic plots.
Well done These cameras are illegal Taking them down is not vandalism Julia Hartley Brewer Vandalism is mindless destruction This is a fight for freedom https://t.co/pG3pqWp1Xa
Once the theatre of #PMQs was over and everyone had stopped arguing about concrete, @ABridgen asked @RishiSunak if he was “proud” of his parties lockdown catastrophe, Sunak said that he had “put his arms” around the nation. His hands round unborn taxpayers throats, more like.… https://t.co/Nk54926HM9pic.twitter.com/VMLagMKTen
Hungary may block Ukraine's attempts to join the European Union — Politiko
"Ukraine's position towards Hungarian minorities is unacceptable." Until this problem is resolved, we cannot support the EU enlargement process towards Ukraine. This is a firm position," said Prime… pic.twitter.com/RHoqasw2Ui
U.S. allocates $1 billion in new aid to Ukraine, including $665 million for military purposes – Blinken
Earlier, the Pentagon announced the transfer of tank shells with depleted uranium to the Kiev regime to enhance the combat potential of Abrams tanks. pic.twitter.com/tXD3OKBRLh
Women have had quite enough of this gaslighting by the media. A male offender. A male’s crimes. And have these offences also been recorded as by a woman? An insult and a lie if so #NotOurCrimeshttps://t.co/s7crPL1yJu
Yes, my studies also show that this is most likely outcome of #ukrainewar. This is why its peaceful resolution is better to Ukraine and Ukrainians than continuation of the war with nearly zero chance of winning by Ukraine. But who actually cares about Ukraine and Ukrainians. https://t.co/JEhd2AY7pl
2/ Historically speaking, an analysis of centuries of warfare indicates the side with the most troops available, most artillery, and in past 100 yrs the side w most tanks will win. Russia possess an advantage in all those categories.
4/ To continue ignoring these facts and blindly support Ukraine "for as long as it takes" is most likely to condemn the ppl of Ukraine to a futile death that likely won't change the outcome.
6/ Refusing to take such an admittedly very difficult decision will likely not prevent an eventual Russian victory; it'll just cost more for Ukraine to reach a negotiated end to the conflict.
“Germany and the US will send armoured fighting vehicles to Ukraine, the White House said, in a move that will deliver a big boost to Kyiv’s offensive capabilities.”
“Joe Biden and his German counterpart Olaf Scholz have agreed to send infantry fighting vehicles to help Ukraine fight Russia, a day after France said it would supply its own armoured vehicles to Kyiv in an attempt to create a breakthrough in the 10-month war.
The joint announcement followed a phone call between Biden and Scholz and amounts to a step change in western military support for Ukraine, which has asked for up to 700 armoured vehicles to help force the Russians out.
Ukraine has repeatedly said it needs 600 to 700 infantry fighting vehicles plus 300 tanks from from the west in order to give its military a chance of breaking through the increasingly fortified Russian positions along the frontline.
Until now, however, the US and Germany have been wary of supplying Ukraine with Nato-standard armour, because they feared it would be interpreted by Russia as escalatory. But the decision to supply western armoured vehicles is significant, even if both countries stopped short of sending tanks.“
[The Guardian].
At what point does Russia decide that it has no choice but to use massive force (nuclear or conventional) to raze Kiev and Kharkov to the ground, so that the area of Ukraine east of the Dnieper (about a third to half of Ukraine) can be later rebuilt, and occupied by Russian settlers?
That may sound almost impossible but is actually similar, arguably,to what happened centuries ago when the Cossacks were formed as a group, or connected groups, around the various rivers in southern Russia and Ukraine— Don Cossacks, Zaporozhye Cossacks, Volga Cossacks, Dnieper Cossacks etc.
Whatever the possibility of the above, there is no doubt that the supply of armoured vehicles, advanced missile systems, and tanks, to the Kiev regime constitutes considerable escalation.
In fact, one need not go back too far in history to find examples of Russian forces all but razing cities to the ground, then rebuilding them and filling them with the troops and civilians of loyal satraps: see Grozny in the 1990s— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grozny#After_the_wars.
“Afterwards, the Russians slowly entered the empty city and on 6 February raised the Russian flag in the centre. Many buildings and even whole areas of the city were systematically destroyed. A month later, it was declared safe to allow the residents to return to their homes, although demolition continued for some time. In 2003 the United Nations called Grozny the most destroyed city on earth.”
I read, re. Ukraine in 2023, that Russia has huge numbers of troops not “in theatre”, i.e. not (yet) in Ukraine. That may be because those troops are not trained enough yet, it may be because there are logistical problems in supplying them. If Russia can train them and supply them by next Spring or early Summer, then a vast offensive might be possible, to take Kharkov and even Kiev itself, though if the latter it would be a bloody battle, akin to Stalingrad in 1942-43.
In the end, Russia needs to take Kiev, Kharkov and, if possible, Odessa, along with surrounding territory. If it can do that, then it can write off Western Ukraine and its cities (chief of which is Lvov). That would mean continuing conflict with a regime which would be based on Lvov, but there would be little the Zelensky regime or its successor could do, with almost all Ukrainian cities of any size in Russian hands.
At this point, Ukraine is not a functioning state.
Those “FBPE” tweeters are nearly always absolutely stupid, and often rather unpleasant as well.
The idea that “Jack Monroe” has “worked tirelessly” on behalf of anyone other than herself is ludicrous.
I agree. Criticism and asking genuine questions is not abuse. The same things being called trolling this last week has now been addressed by the publisher and Trussell Trust. The book doesn't help poor people, it just makes middle class people feel better.
Tweeter “@codfather” is the usual “Jack Monroe” partisan: wilfully blind, a certain age (reading between the lines), reasonably affluent (ditto) and certainly not “poor”. Also, vituperative.
In fact, and as I started to understand some time ago, many of the pro-“Bootstrap Cook” tweets are actually from…”Jack Monroe” herself, pretending to be other people. So-called “sock accounts”. Not all, and I think not “@codfather”, but many others.
Jack Monroe continually claims to be the *only* voice for people living in poverty. Her ego knows no bounds. I'm staggered that she's STILL claiming to have made a significant difference to the lives of people currently experiencing hardship. Where's the evidence? #ThriftyKitchen
The sheer delusion that many “Jack Monroe” partisans seem to live in has to be read to be believed; look, for example, at the tweet belkow, from (supposedly) a “professor emeritus at Bristol [University]”:
What the professor fails to see is that “Jack Monroe” has only one achievement (two if you include persuading large numbers of msm people that her whole story is true) — making a pretty good living for herself mainly by tweeting personal trivia, and recipes which look as dire as they are deficient in nutrient.
As for “measurement of food price inflation“, the ONS has made clear that their one meeting with her (at her request) had no effect on any of their work, and was not even noted or recorded. The “Vimes Boots Index”, supposedly being “worked on” by “Jack Monroe”, does not even exist, in reality. So what is left is the commonplace observation that the cost of basic foods has risen faster than that of luxury items.
Once again, a “Jack Monroe” supporter turns out to be a “woke”, and comfortably-off virtue-signaller, in this case an academic, or retired academic.
As I have blogged before, I have so far seen not one “Jack Monroe” supporter who is under 30, is “poor”, or who has ever been in circumstances of real financial difficulty.
Interestingly, also, I see not one “Jack Monroe” supporter who is black, brown, or Chinese. As someone who wants the UK and all Europe to be European, that in a sense is not a problem for me, but is still an interesting thing to note.
My take on that is that the ethnic minorities are too down to earth (and many also with too recent an experience of actual poverty) to take “Jack Monroe”/”Bootstrap Cook” seriously. Also, many would not look twice at the kind of swill she seems to produce much of the time.
Honestly, this is one of the most shocking reversals of the truth I’ve seen in a while. Our government absolutely hates its own citizens. They despise us. And they use our taxpayers money to remind us of it in public spaces everyday. Shame on you @MinBZK. Shame on you, @MinPres.
Incredible!! As someone who cares about the planet. This is what I want to see. Not the #netzeroscam.. our environmental groups who cared about pollution and micro plastics have been hijacked by net zero fanatics pic.twitter.com/w8EoeLZW8j
The same is true in most areas. Politically too. Lenin was just one of a small number of marginalized exiles; Hitler was just an individual who was told to take a look at a tiny party, then joined it as member (possibly committee member) no.7.
Acorn—oak etc.
BREAKING: the Ontario College of Psychologists @CPOntario has demanded that I submit myself to mandatory social-media communication retraining with their experts for, among other crimes, retweeting @PierrePoilievre and criticizing @JustinTrudeau and his political allies.
It is an incredible fact that (what is left of) the print newspapers in the UK are still churning out “editorials” or “leaders” which hardly anyone reads and by which even fewer are influenced.
Ha. Back in the early 1980s, I knew a lady, a civil servant, who rented her basement flat near Central London to an actor well-known then in Australia, but obscure in the UK— Bruce Barry. I got to know him slightly.
At some point, maybe in 1984, Bruce auditioned for the part of Crocodile Dundee in the eponymous film. He told my friend, his landlady, that he had been shortlisted. The only other contender was… Paul Hogan. And the rest is history, as they say.
Bruce had spoiled his chance by going to the final meeting with the film people, at the Ritz in London, beautifully dressed (according to the lady I knew) but then enjoying “a liquid lunch“…
Bruce was fussy about food, living off wholefoods, nuts, avocado, and I think the occasional Australian steak, but drank too much. Drink and women were his downfall.
Not a bad fellow, though rather neurotic, and rather intense, in my view. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Barry_(actor). Bruce had come to London at the age of ~46 to try to break into musicals. His divorce in Australia had left his wife (or one of them) and teenage sons in the family home, apparently a palatial house with grounds going down to the waters of Sydney Harbour, while Bruce himself was left with little.
In London, his first part was the male lead in The Biograph Girl [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Biograph_Girl], a musical about Lilian Gish [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Gish], which closed after (I now see from Wikipedia) 57 performances (I had thought, until today, after only a couple of weeks). Bruce had described it in hardnosed Australian fashion to my friend, the Civil Service lady, as “a bum show“, i.e. not much good.
I recall seeing Bruce on stage a couple of times, once at the Adelphi, in the Strand, where he was the second male lead in Marilyn! He played Andre de Dienes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_de_Dienes (though I cannot have been paying attention because until today I had thought he played Arthur Miller).
Bruce had very kindly given me two free tickets; I invited my mother, who lived in Surrey, and she enjoyed it. Musicals are not really my thing.
The other time I saw Bruce Barry in performance was at the Australian High Commission in London. I think that it was called An Evening with Bruce Barry, and was very good. I attended with the Civil Service lady, and met the real Australian Cultural Attache, who perhaps unsurprisingly was a very pleasant diplomatic fellow, and not a bit like “Sir Les Patterson” as portrayed by Barry Humphries [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Les_Patterson].
Bruce had a girlfriend, a tall Australian dancer who had been a member of the Bluebell Girls ensemble in Paris. One day, Bruce returned to his flat to find her in flagrante with a third party. The end of the affair.
Bruce toured a bit around England with well-known stars such as Rula Lenska and Elaine Paige. I believe that that was in Evita. One star he disliked intensely, though, was Barbara Windsor. He was, apparently, not alone in that. Several disliked her tie-ups with gangsters etc.
In the end, Bruce Barry, having not quite broken through in the way he had hoped, returned to Australia, remarried, and had parts in quite a few TV shows, including The Flying Doctors [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Doctors], where he played a landowner, I was told (I myself never saw it, though the series was shown in the UK).
The last I heard of Bruce Barry was that his second (or third) wife had divorced him, taken his home off him (as I heard it), and left him to drink and regrets.
Disgusting. And I'm talking about the craven masses who keep voting in parties and politicians who oversee such amoral cesspits formerly known as societies across the West
Don't you dare lecture me about the hypothetical dangers of political extremism as you tacitly endorse this https://t.co/bG1lK5RCNN
Said Eritreans should have been executed by firing squad in the main square of Stockholm; it would have been a deterrent to other migrant-invaders (prior to their mass deportation). Sweden is even more mad than the UK.
UK charities watchdog ‘assesses concerns’ about Campaign Against Antisemitism – https://t.co/6CaK4ug59y Commission opens ‘regulatory compliance case’ after complaints that the charity is politically partisan
Jack Monroe threatened and crowdfunded to sue Lee Anderson because he claimed she makes a fortune from the poor. Her talent agency today showed £10-£15k fees she charges for appearances etc. Tell me how what Lee Anderson said was libellous. #GriftyKitchen#ThriftyKitchen
In any case, why would “Jack Monroe” even go to the Grenfell Tower fire? She was never in the fire brigade, except as a civilian office bod answering the telephone in Essex (about 50-60 miles from Grenfell Tower) for a year or so, and years before the Grenfell Tower blaze. If she did go to Grenfell Tower (which I doubt), it could only have been as a “rubbernecker”, and the police would certainly not have “waved her through the cordon” as she claimed. She’s a fake, a total fake.
I’ve been reading @AwfullyMolly’s blog and have had my eyes well and truly opened! I feel for those who donated to Jack’s Patreon and didn’t receive anything in return, and refund requests have largely been ignored. #shameful
Someone should make a series on con-men, con-women, “grifters” etc. Hour-long episodes, each covering two or three perpetrators, a bit like the very interesting In Suspicious Circumstances presented by Edward Woodward [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Suspicious_Circumstances]. A favourite series, presently being repeated on satellite TV.
To be fair to Monroe, she does say in the book she adapts other recipes. Other recipe writers also use a similar process. The issue in this case is apparently targeting the book at less well off people and charging them for something they can get for free. pic.twitter.com/4GuXe8yZU2
At a guess, I should say that copies of Thrifty Kitchen will soon be on sale in charity shops for about 20p. At least “the poor” will then be able to read the book, should they be so misguided.
Prince Harry should be ashamed of his sorry self for that book.
Somehow he managed to go from a Prince to a whiny bitch in two years.
Men, watch how you marry. That Meghan girl got him all the way messed up in the brain.
Prince Harry, who constantly complains about the press invading his privacy, releases a book giving details about how he shagged some woman behind a pub, his drug taking, physical fights with his brother, and what his penis looks like. 🥴
Ha ha. Just thinking again about the very idea that “the poor” need to be advised (very negligently) that, if they have a can without a ring-pull, and cannot find a can-opener, that they should use a hammer (or mallet?) and large knife! “Jack Monroe” obviously thinks that “the poor” are all completely brainless, and either cannot think of that on their own, or think of how to get an opener (less than £1 in some places).
She might as well “advise” people to invest in a Swiss Army Knife (mine has a can-opener which does work, though it’s hard work). The worst “investment” is to buy her book, in my opinion.
Bluebird has issued a statement regarding “potentially risky” hacks and tips included in Jack Monroe’s latest book Thrifty Kitchen, confirming that changes are being made post-publication.
Once the book appears for 10p (at a stretch, 20p) in charity shops, which will be soon, I shall probably buy a copy just to give myself a laugh or two before I chuck it away.
That's not what she is saying. Jack Monroe has not been poor for a decade, but sells books full of ridiculous 'thrifty' (not) hacks and recipes that don't save money!! She's not authentic.
Shes admitted a lot of that is lies, eg she withdrew the prostitute story and changed it by several years. It was a fantasy she wrote for Pink News. Even accused Kris if being a client. Vile. Also withdrew the autism diagnosis story. Absolute congenital liar.
No she's from a millionaire family, her dad didn't put her out on the game as she disgustingly insinuates, nor is Kris a deadbeat dad she often libelled him – resulting in a settlement requiring her to print a retraction, which she did with an article praising him.
…and, so far, despite 3-4 months of Twitterstorm and offline criticism, her Jewish lawyer, Mark Lewis, a resident of Israel, and with whose name (by implication) she used to threaten people who called her fraudulent, has not once emerged from his kennel.
How the bloody hell does washing no frills spaghetti hoops make you a celebrity chef 🤦♀️ Jack Monroe still grifting. pic.twitter.com/V9g6GFZIjS
People bashing Jack Monroe for writing about her lived experience, sharing tips for free online, writing some books, fundraising to send 1000s of copies to foodbanks, and earning a few quid (royalties rarely make a living) clearly haven't heard of Michelle Mone.
a. much of her “lived experience” written about has been fantasy or lies; b. her “tips” are mostly worthless, or actually dangerous to health, or are obvious (eg “buy the budget range at the supermarket“); c. her royalties total around £100,000 to date; d. the monies from “fundraising to send thousands of books to foodbanks” seem partly, perhaps largely, to have been diverted into her own pocket; e. then there was the “sue Lee Anderson” crowdfunder scam; and f. the continuing Patreon scam, bringing her maybe £6,000 each month.
In addition to the above, it seems that, last year, “Jack Monroe” did a number of events, and getting, it seems, up to £15,000 each time.
Not exactly “earning a few quid“…
In any case, should a small-time robber get off just because a big-time robber down the road has committed a bigger crime?
She admitted its all a pack of lies years ago by leaking this photo, and others, but then goes back to the lie. Classic Jack. pic.twitter.com/jwNH0qYaDE
Some types of bungalow do have a room upstairs, of course. #MoralHighGround.
She tried to distance herself by the above quote by saying she was manipulated by a journalist into saying it… and then an audio recording of her actually saying it during a speech in Parliament emerged. Lots of forgetfulness.
Yep! There's a literal recording of her saying it. She went quiet after initially going off an a woe is me rant about her young naiviety and cruel journalist manipulation.
Calorific content. I care because there are genuine poor people out there who deserve a voice that is being taken by someone pretending to be poor. I care because if someone is lying they should be called out on it regardless of what they are lying about. I care because…
She keeps being held up as an activist… but what has she actually, genuinely done? There are charities that do amazing work, that deserve the profile being given to JM. I care because, if you are poor and desperate, buying a cookbook is the last thing you’re going to do.
Fine on £20 a week. Which is false, because her recipes never come to £20 a week, that’s also a lie. I care because I have morals. I care because I’ve known people to struggle. I care because even the trussel trust keep distancing themselves from jack monroe ffs.
Truth: Jack Monroe's dad was not just a firefighter, but a senior manager: https://t.co/AJVs5FR7xs Previously, he was in the armed forces and served in the Falklands. As a veteran, he would/will receive a pension for this on top of his salary.
Just looking again at the Twitter profiles of those who are the angry supporters of “Jack Monroe”: “professor emeritus” (ie retired academic), “noise consultant“, “retired HR lady“, “small businessman“, “writer“, “writer and photographer“, “part of brilliant Marketing Team“, “Pagan…therapeutic counsellor“, “#ACAB #BLM, Rape/Cop apologists blocked, TERFs blocked“, “novelist“, “High Profile hard left twitterer“, “Mother of Mayhem, Psychology student, Not Jack Monroe, Maybe“, “I’m a doctor but not working clinically” [i.e. another “grifter”], “fandom old, makes various media“, “BSc Psychology. History MA. Labour Party Member. MA Creative Non Fiction“, “Widower, autistic, stroke survivor. Tofu eating, Woke Corbynista“, “Labour & Co-operative MP for Oldham West & Royton | Chair, Co-operative Party | Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs” [n.b. if he cannot see through the “Jack Monroe” nonsense, Jim McMahon is unsuitable as MP and possible government minister], “Academic, political theorist, educationalist, former Pro-Director Education at LSE, HoD Department of Government LSE. ‘Woke Realist’ in a good way. Grandfather“, “Writing, blogging married mum of two boisterous boys..Tweets powered by Diet Coke, Earl Grey and wine“, “Educator/Writer/Student“, “Bristol based Graphic Designer. Gets giddy over lovely paper and buttons“, “*Producer|Cam|Editor *PhD #VR@ExeterDoctoral (yr 3, on hold) *Support Worker (#autism)“, “Nature, landscape, holloways, streams, printmaking. Wild swimmer & pluviophile“, “Founder & M.D of the Rabble Chorus, a lovely crowd of 350 community singers, open to all who fancy a bit of music on the side. Environmental activist, musician“, “Books. Music. Language. Science. Theology. Family. Talk. Think. Opinions my own. Pilot and PhD researcher (human factors and linguistics)“.
And so on.
Taken in a line. Just look at them. Not a steel worker, nurse, bus driver, train driver, cleaner, carpenter, plumber or the like among them. The “working class” seems to be absent.
Certainly not absent are the Guardian-readers, small business owners, suburban housewives (who prefer some other designation), well-paid freelancers, retired people (who used to be academics or working in reasonably-paid office jobs etc).
Also well-represented are various species of “Looney Tunes”.
Also absent is anyone likely to be “poor”.
As blogged previously, all her partisans are pseudo-socialists and/or “poverty tourists”, most if not all rather comfortably-off, many either retired or otherwise economically inactive (though not short of money); and quite a few with obvious mental health “issues” and/or problems with rational thinking. Also, various loony “trans” supporters.
Disturbing to see a Labour MP in there too, one Jim McMahon [Lab. and Co-op; Oldham West and Royton].
Ian Robert Millard 