Russian troops struck energy infrastructure used by the Ukrainian army and enemy deployment areas over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/m0pU7gkOzlpic.twitter.com/soCnIiHF30
The EU Council has formally approved a full ban on supplies of Russian liquefied natural gas to the European Union starting January 1, 2027, and on pipeline gas – starting September 30, 2027, according to a statement released by the EU Council:https://t.co/YJJ19zuBUgpic.twitter.com/83OHMcLIZR
[“1945, Belorussky Station (Moscow)— the first train of victory arrives in Moscow“]
Every war, every side in every war, has its rights and wrongs. No side has a monopoly on good or evil, either. That is why historical revisionism is so important, and why laws purporting to criminalize historical examination and debate are so wrongheaded.
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USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group has just been spotted the south east of Oman. pic.twitter.com/tq1krfZ3j2
[“The law is black and white, but it’s also subjective which is influenced by current social norms and the political climate.
This is why the Overton window being pushed is so important so speech “offences” get harder and harder to be policed.
People have not been able to talk this freely online – or publicly hold the views that they have – for quite some time. It wasn’t even that long ago you could get banned from social media platforms – or have a knock on the door – for simply stating men can’t become women.
We are obviously nowhere near out of the woods yet with all of this but Elon Musk buying X has most certainly bought us some time with fixing everything going on here in England, Europe, and the Anglosphere.
In my spare time, I have spoken to quite a few people who have been persecuted by the State for speech offences who probably wouldn’t even get a knock on the door these days for the most part.
Hearing these stories has been tough and what they have gone through for “thoughtcrimes” is abhorrent.
Independent thought isn’t a crime, and these silencing tactics is Bolshevism 101.
Our government has a lot to answer for for what it’s done to their citizens for all these years. This is straight up treason.“]
A law student from Plymouth, I think.
Strange co-incidence. I just happened today upon an old email (from well over 20 years ago), sent to me by a girl law student from Plymouth, and thanking me for talking with her and answering questions she had had. She wrote that her talk with me had decided her to continue with her degree course and to go into the practice of law.
I had forgotten about meeting that girl (at an evening reception put on by a university law faculty at a yacht club in Plymouth, and to which a number of barristers, solicitors, and judges had been invited).
I just looked up the individual’s name, to see whether she was mentioned as either solicitor or barrister (I should add that her name is rather unusual). Turns out that, after starting out at the Bar, she had switched to the solicitors’ branch, and is now a partner in a fairly large UK/international law firm, specializing in corporate/commercial work.
Life’s long and winding road is straighter for some than for others.
I don't see how Reform can really argue with the narrative they are becoming a dumping ground for Tory retreads now. And I'm not entirely sure how that helps their brand with the wider electorate.
I have been saying exactly that for months, even years. Farage and Tice cannot see it, because they themselves are really conservatives of a kind, and see nothing wrong with making common cause with unpleasant idiots such as Nadine Dorries and Robert Jenrick.
Britain needs social nationalism, but there is no credible party; in fact, there is no party at all.
Reform now has Boris Johnson’s… – chancellor (Zahawi) – communities sec (Jenrick) – culture sec (Dorries) – attorney general (Braverman) – political sec (Kruger) – skills minister (Jenkyns) – Northern powerhouse minister (Berry) – health minister (Caulfield) – parliamentary…
Many years ago, in 2015, when Burnham was standing for Labour leadership, I described him as “the best of a very poor bunch” (of 4 candidates). Yes, better than the others, but still a System puppet.
I wonder how many white British people are MPs, high-ranking civil servants etc in India, China, Nigeria, the Caribbean, Pakistan etc. That’s right— there are none.
WEF Whistleblower @desireefixler helped build the WEF…but is now speaking out against its Great Reset. Unbelievable moral clarity and courage. Pls like / share, watch in 1st reply: pic.twitter.com/bTlXaN68Se
Interesting to think that one nuclear missile at the right time would eliminate hundreds, thousands of major global conspirators, but of course that will not happen.
Officials in Gulf countries expect a major American strike against Iran, and that the American president will most likely target the Iranian political leadership. pic.twitter.com/75cR7ArELK
In that case, Iran might as well fire all of its missiles at Israel, immediately, before the Americans and Israelis can destroy them; the missiles would have to be preceded by thousands of drones to take out the Israeli anti-missile missile defence matrix.
🇺🇸 U.S. Central Command:
The Lincoln Carrier Strike Group is currently on a mission in the Middle East to promote security and stability. pic.twitter.com/4rWLJU0brO
Rubbish, but look at that clip. American naval power is awesome.
Incidentally, the flagship (aircraft carrier) appears to be flying a Ukrainian flag from its bridge.
Europe is definitely losing its independence by banning Russian gas imports, however you want to frame it, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said:https://t.co/7Q3D69HSt7pic.twitter.com/VvSiz7z3Gd
Moscow is being asked not to strike Ukrainian infrastructure, while drone attacks on Russia continue, President Vladimir Putin told Leningrad Region Governor Alexander Drozdenko:https://t.co/4QRQcwI3ZLpic.twitter.com/AScT10DcMB
On 20 July 1944, military and civilian backstabbers, with varying motives, attempted to kill Adolf Hitler, and to take up the reins of state in the German Reich.
The plotters varied both in their motives and behaviour, some principled and, at least in their own minds, patriots of a sort, others unprincipled and/or out-and-out traitors. Some exhibited courage, others cowardice.
History is not black and white; it must be open to discussion, dissent, and revision, which is one reason why the quasi-mediaeval laws banning such revision in several EU and other countries (sub nom “holocaust” “denial” laws) are so wrong.
Today is only the 19th of July, but I may not publish a blog post tomorrow; we shall see.
Well, this week, a narrow victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10; I scored 6/10, and did not know the answers to questions 1, 3, 5, and 10. Annoying that I got no. 5 wrong, having been there myself a couple of times.
Reform UK people are, inevitably, inexperienced in the procedures of central and local government. Is Rentoul then saying that the fake Labour and fake Conservative parties are so wonderfully efficient etc because of their long experience in government? If so, Rentoul should think again.
A year on, and Sue Gray is entirely forgotten by the public. She has been put back in her box, the lid of the box has been firmly shut, the box has been put on the shelf, and the cupboard door locked. Sic transit gloria mundi…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Gray,_Baroness_Gray_of_Tottenham.
A useless box-ticker and “cover-ass” bureaucrat. Never give power to people of that sort (SIS/MI6 and MI5 please note).
That was always my biggest problem with her – she’s a bitch. Tory MPs tweet and talk about nothing but Muslims, immigrant predators & terrorists 24-7, have no positive vision, look mad & unpleasant and are led by a bitch. That results in toast. You’d have to be stupid not to see…
They wanted a “conservative” “diversity hire”, and they got one…
I was just listening to that podcast:
Pathetic, listening to Michael Gove, the former MP and Cabinet minister (Israel puppet, Jewish-lobby puppet, expenses cheat etc) trying to bolster “Carpetbagger Kemi”. Gove is now Editor of the Spectator.
The contribution of Tim Shipman, political journalist, is more interesting, as is that of Luke Tryl, a pollster.
Incidentally, Gove’s choice as Con Party “rising star” is one Katie Lam [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Lam], a Jewish or half-Jewish woman aged 33, who, prior to election as MP in 2024, had been both a Goldman Sachs banker and a public relations person.
The cry of an American journalist after visiting the home of one of the Iranian nuclear scientists pic.twitter.com/iK4vNKN2iP
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) July 19, 2025
Of course, in Tel Aviv “they” will be laughing. For now…
Former White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan:
The recent US military incursion into Iranian territory was not only unnecessary but also failed to stop Iran's nuclear program. pic.twitter.com/dO176VDGTK
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) July 19, 2025
It must have taught the Iranian authorities a lesson, but not, I think, the lesson that the Americans thought that they were teaching…
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) July 19, 2025
One of the biggest problems Australia has always had, especially since the retirement of Sir Robert Menzies [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Menzies] has been the very poor quality of its senior (and other) politicians.
Menzies, above all, supported suitable European immigration to Australia after WW2, but opposed non-European immigration, a wise dual-aspect policy that was changed by and after Gough Whitlam’s government of the 1970s. Disastrous.
Not that, in retrospect, Menzies himself always made the right decisions. Even Menzies made very bad strategic errors, really.
Transporting injured soldiers from battles in the Gaza Strip to Asuta Hospital in Ashdod pic.twitter.com/oxKinulztZ
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) July 19, 2025
Seems that “the reduction of the Gaza ghetto” is not going so well for the “Israelis”.
Essex Police Assistant Chief Constable Stuart Hooper said police officers were assaulted and their vehicles were damaged during a protest at a hotel used to house asylum seekers in Eppinghttps://t.co/pnXrZgfve6pic.twitter.com/EVMx9vIdch
So…will the man who was (from what one sees on Twitter/X) run over by a police van, deliberately, be charged with criminal damage to a police van by having been run over?
I recall a prison escape by bank robbers in the 1970s, in Leicestershire. When recaptured, one of the robbers was seen to have had the s**t kicked out of him, his face black and blue. Believe it or not, he was then charged with “criminal damage to a police boot” (using his face or head)! Talk about adding insult to injury.
I have no idea whether that ludicrous charge was later dropped. Maybe. Things like that happened sometimes in the days when the police were the charging authorities, i.e. before the Crown Prosecution Service was invented (1986).
Incidentally, my own (and only) contact with the underwhelming Essex Police was in 2017, when the usual malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” Jew-Zionist(s) made a typically false/malicious complaint against me. It went nowhere, of course (though was inconvenient…so the bastards owe me one…not the only one, though).
This is the email where Mark Lewis of Patron Law queries with Beth Grossman of Doughty Street about disclosing evidence which would fatally undermine their client’s application.
Ha ha! Mark Lewis is basically a fraudster, in lay terms. Negligent. Dishonest. Hopeless.
The answer to Lewis’ concern about the judge – Master Davison – being “distracted” by the evidence is: “Yes, the judge would be distracted by crucial evidence, that’s a judge’s job”.
The real question is why Lewis and Grossman hid crucial evidence from the judge.
I had not previously heard of that idiot/lunatic. This is him: “Roca is openly gay, and his parliamentary candidacy was supported by the LGBT+ LabourChris Smith List.[12]” [Wikipedia].
“They bring their Afghan ways with them.” “You’re a complete dinosaur, I’m afraid.” @IainDale hangs up on caller Liz who claims her grandchildren will be “a minority in their own country” if the UK provides a place of refuge for Afghan families after the data leak. pic.twitter.com/rE5a5ZStc2
Iain Dale, another complete puppet of the Israel lobby/Jewish lobby. Quelle surprise— he is one of the System “conservatives” (he was selected as a Con Party candidate in 2024, but chickened-out) who think it OK that the UK is swamped by backward people(s) from all over the world.
Another “conservative” in hock to the Jewish lobby (LBC itself is owned by Jewish interests), who (in his case) lives in a luxury farmhouse in East Anglia, has a comfortable home in London as well, and makes hundreds of thousands of pounds per year. Yes, his own life will not be impacted by the migration invasion. He therefore prefers to be a traitor to the British people and their future.
Dale’s discussion there reminded me of the “Mrs Duffy moment” that sank Gordon Brown at the 2010 General Election. Both Brown and Dale refuse to see what is right in front of all our noses. Who, in that radio discussion, is the “dinosaur“? Dale, I think. Either dinosaur or cliche ostrich, head in the sand.
Does Dale have any idea about what is happening in the country, the UK, on which he purports to comment?
Incidentally, the appalling behaviour of many Afghan men (especially) is not confined to the Taliban; indeed, some of the Taliban are better than some of the others.
“THE heartbroken family of a man with Alzheimer’s say they feel ‘betrayed’ after a woman they employed to care for him stole ‘treasured’ and ‘irreplaceable’ items from the family home.
Rachel Goodman, who has a similar previous conviction, was said to have ‘exploited the family’s vulnerability in the most callous way possible’ after she admitted stealing sentimental items.
The defendant avoided immediate jail time when she was sentenced at Weymouth Magistrates Court.
Goodman, 54, was employed by Louise Woollam to care for her husband Richard, who suffers from Alzheimer’s, at their home in Shillingstone, near Blandford.
A court heard how the incident had such an impact on the family that Mr Woollam, a former RAF pilot, had to be placed in a care home.
The court heard Goodman stole items such as a diamond engagement ring which belonged to Mrs Woollam’s mother, earrings brought for Mrs Woollam by her husband, sunglasses, a watch, a snorkel, bedding, a throw, money – and a 250-year-old family heirloom.
Goodman, of Eastland Road, Yeovil, has 13 previous convictions, which includes conning an elderly woman out of £3,500 and for which she received a suspended sentence.
A victim impact statement read out in court by prosecutor, Christina Norgan, on behalf of Mrs Woollam, said: “My trust and security has been completely shattered by Rachel Goodman. Alzheimer’s is a cruel disease which has already taken so much from us.
“She exploited our vulnerability in the most callous way possible. I could not go to work as I could not trust another carer in my home. I feel betrayed and broken-hearted.”
Kenny Sharp, mitigating, said: “Maximum credit for an early guilty plea. This is a person who is struggling to come to terms with the reality of what she did. Immediate custody would have a significant impact on her two children.“
The defendant was handed a 12-month custodial sentence suspended for two years. She must also complete 12 Rehabilitation Activity Requirement days and 200 hours of unpaid work.“
[Bournemouth Echo]
Was that “justice”?
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British surgeon Nick Maynard: “These children are being targeted almost as if it’s a game… One day they’re all shot in the head, the next day in the neck, and another day in the testicles… There is a clear and deliberate pattern to the injuries.” https://t.co/HGjJuD4iva
Israeli-Jew psychopath cowards. Still, “what goes around comes around“. Seems that some never learn.
This is a decades long tradition. Snipers aim at children’s genitals and kneecaps from a distance. At the end of the day a winner is declared. Next day the competition starts again. pic.twitter.com/Pxg3ZnAQMv
Even the better section of the Israeli msm admits it.
Those Israeli soldiers are members of the same group that whine constantly about alleged atrocities supposedly committed against their ancestors in the 1930s and 1940s, nearly a century ago (and “they” often make up all sorts of tales to embellish the same).
Gaza Ministry of Health:
🔵 In the last 48 hours: 98 martyrs and 511 wounded have been brought to hospitals in the Gaza Strip. 🔵 Since October 7, 2023: the number of victims of Zionist aggression has reached 58,765 martyrs and 140,485 wounded. 🔵 From March 18, 2025 to today:… pic.twitter.com/nX2cXUclub
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) July 19, 2025
Literary note
There is a mediaeval legend, called “thelegend of Ahasuerus (or Ahasverus)”, about a king who is unable to accept the divinity of Jesus Christ, as a result of which he is condemned to reincarnate always in the same race-type, unable to progress.
“While elites would find the idea of a white Briton declaring themselves ethnically Pakistani absurd, this doesn’t stop them from trying to have us believe anybody can become English. The English are the only group denied an identity of their own”https://t.co/izm9nUOhCG
People argue as to whether or not Palestine is “occupied”. They should look closer to home.
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I didn't sleep for several days and nights, I will take a little break due to lack of sleep, the other days and events were difficult, they will be even more difficult. All of you who appreciate and support my work, thank you from the bottom of my heart. Bye 👋 pic.twitter.com/T5k35znH0c
🇸🇾 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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This account has been throttled into oblivion, so going forward I’ll be focusing on building my new account and creating my own original content over there. I am not abandoning this account but the new project will take priority. Follow @NewRightRising to stay in touch. 🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/XF4joc2OU6
— 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.
1/2 @spy_historian If anyone in London had wanted to avoid war, they would have done everything they could to disabuse Poland of its fantasy that Britain and France would come to its aid when it was attacked by Germany. https://t.co/m91v8gaFhm
And you @spy_historian must know that the Polish Guarantee *did* hand Poland carte blanche to drag Britain into war, and that it did do so. Need I remind you that Britain declared war on Germany because Germany invaded Poland? Before the guarantee, we had no such obligation. https://t.co/WiCwMXaXIZ
Churchill’s actions triggered a war which destroyed not only the German Reich but also the British Empire, and the similar empires or overseas colonial arrangements of other European powers (French, Italian, Dutch, Belgian, Spanish), in the end. The net result has been war, civil war, terrorism, environmental degradation.
Generally, @spy_historian, the British way is resolutely to reserve the title 'doctor' for medical practitioners. Any other use in this country (outside the academic industry) tends to be tinged with irony. https://t.co/hzLEDzYeXZ
Hitchens is right. I have blogged, en passant, about this. In the UK, “Doctor” is reserved for a few (though Hitchens is too restrictive): medical practitioners (even if, in fact, not actually Doctors of Medicine), persons in holy orders who have a doctorate in theology or the like, and bona fide academics.
It weakens the rank or status to have stray persons calling themselves “doctor” just because they have a “doctorate” in some McSubject from a McUniversity. Examples that come to my mind are the tweeter and “antifa” cheerleader (she does little else, I think) “Dr.” Louise Raw, whose doctorate is in one 19thC industrial dispute, and “Dr.” Julian Lewis, an MP whose doctorate is in Strategic Studies; among others (eg “Dr.” Therese Coffey, the present DWP Secretary in the Cabinet).
Part of the problem in the UK is that huge numbers of people now go to institutions called universities, where all get “degrees”‘; not a few go on to get higher degrees, including doctorates.
On the mainland of Europe, especially Germany, the conventions are different. Use of “doctor” is ubiquitous and accepted. For example, Dr. Goebbels, whose doctorate was in History and Literature [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels#Early_life].
[Dr. Goebbels]
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10% of all farmland given over to rewilding. Let nature to its own devices as much as possible.
Just finished reading Rebirding by Benedict Macdonald @Rebirding1 and I have to say its absolutely brilliant Ecosystem restoration and #rewilding are not anti-economy, anti-job market or anti-rural culture. In fact, they promote the economy, job market and rural culture (1/2) pic.twitter.com/fpY4iUzh1m
When it comes to achieving net zero climate change targets, rewilding the ocean is just as important as reforestation, according to a new report from the Marine Conservation Societyhttps://t.co/aWaLNldM8Wpic.twitter.com/rKyrtde49G
— Climate Save Movement (@climatesavemvmt) May 13, 2021
Join Chinnor and Thame Friends of the Earth – https://t.co/BZqCBojCgb Chinnor and Thame Friends of the Earth invites you to join them to hear a talk from environmentalist and wildlife campaigner Jan Stannard, about the importance of rewilding.
If rewilding ever takes place on a planetary scale, I can think of some good sources of fertilizer, but I think that I shall not cite them here, not just yet…
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Here (below) we see another holder of a Ph.D, but in his case an academic at a recognized university, tweeting incorrect rubbish about the law in England and Wales (and Scotland):
Holocaust denial has been successfully prosecuted in UK under the offence of "sending grossly offensive communications" (see R v Chabloz). It's staggering then that a minister could consider HD worthy of free speech protection. BoJo's ministers are such poor calibre.@simon_schamahttps://t.co/qiSp4YnFgt
In fact, the Crown Court judge (H.H. Judge Hehir) in the Alison Chabloz appeal last year, and the district judge (magistrate) in her most recent case (heard in late March 2021) both made the point(s) that
“antisemitism” is not a crime in this country; and that
“holocaust” “denial” is not a crime in this country.
No doubt, were the matter to be considered and pronounced upon by the higher courts, the same conclusions would be reached.
Alison Chabloz was convicted because the tenor of what was posted was “grossly offensive” (and she is presently appealing that), not because posting historical revisionist or “antisemitic” views (including so-called “holocaust” “denial”) is grossly offensive per se.
What is “staggering” (see the “@DrDMiles” tweet above) is that someone who claims to be knowledgeable about the law can publish such a misunderstanding, and so vehemently.
The Miles character has made rather a fool of himself, in short.
In fact, the said Miles, apparently the author of a book on “constitutionalism”, is, so his Twitter profile says, a “University teacher” (at St. Andrews: https://st-andrews.academia.edu/DavidMiles). Law as such, however, is not his subject. He evidently misunderstands it as applied (misapplied in his case) to so-called “holocaust” “denial”.
Ah, I see now what the said Miles believes in: censorship…
Never mind protecting it, it should be a crime as it is in most European countries.
Surprising that someone with such a limited and narrow mentality should be teaching at a university such as St. Andrew’s but that is Britain in 2021, I suppose.
I believe, subject to correction, that that person used to work at Lloyds TSB, selling financial products of some sort [https://uk.linkedin.com/in/mrdavidjmiles].
Here’s a crank singing the same song:
#holocaustdenial is an offence on the 2003 Communications Act if it's communicated. See R vs Chabloz. So whatever you do deniers, don't tweet about it. What kind of fucked up country behaves like this? https://t.co/B4corWWsrQ
— Jonathan (Katie) Brayshaw 🌍🌎🌏🇬🇧🇪🇺🇩🇪🏳️🌈 (@ModerateUK) May 13, 2021
Another one who has simply misunderstood the law. Claims that she is an “ex-journalist/commentator“. Yeah, right…
Another couple of cranks:
What is wrong with this country?
Some 17 million people were killed during the Holocaust, but in the UK deniers are now being protected under free speech..
Simplistic and kneejerk; no real thought, no nuance, no real understanding of the issues or the real world in general. How does someone like that hold down even a minor academic teaching post?]
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