Just as the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale, has apparently been rather sidelined in UK school history teaching by some Jamaican woman called Mary Seacole, who, inter alia, ran a teashop for officers during the Crimean War.
Mary Seacole, who described herself as “a yellow woman“, i.e. some kind of Creole or mulatta (her father was a Scottish officer, and she also called herself “Creole“), was not a nurse, as such, or as we would understand the term, but primarily a businesswoman in the Caribbean/South American region; she ran hotels etc: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Seacole.
Wikipedia, while giving that information, yet describes Mary Seacole (in the headline description) as “a Black British nurse“! In fact, she is now described in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia piece simply as “…a British nurse“. An example of the faking of history which is now so widespread.
Mary Seacole’s mother was a “doctresse” (traditional healer) in Kingston, Jamaica, who taught her daughter basic healing and therapy.
Mary Seacole’s life is interesting enough without needing to be put through the process of “woke” hagiography.
Whatever one may think of Lord Ashcroft, the actions of the Imperial War Museum are, at the least, ungrateful.
I believe that the Imperial War Museum, which I visited once or twice when I was often in the neighbourhood in the early 1980s, has now given over much of its space to the Jew-Zionist WW2 “holocaust” farrago.
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Heβs not finished all his nasties yet. Then theyβll let him go off to more rewarding pastures like Kinnock and Blair did.
The Labour Together sleaze scandal is now engulfing Keir Starmer. And the reason is because Morgan McSweeney forgot the first rule of Fight Club is you never talk about Fight Club > Mail on Sunday > https://t.co/0iRRWDicyF
[“It is not racist to demand migrants speak English fluently It is not racist to demand migrants do not commit crime It is not racist to demand migrants contribute to the economy It is not racist to demand migrants do not live on welfare It is not racist to demand taxpayer-funded housing goes to taxpayers It is not racist to prioritise your own citizens Labour and the Left want you to think entirely reasonable and legitimate policies are βracistβ They are not. Reject the narrative.”]
…and whether or not someone or other calls something “racist” is actually irrelevant. What is important is what is right, whether or not it be called “racist”…
Another poll finds no significant change in Reformβs support since Indefinite Leave to Remain
There is yet again an enormous gulf between legacy media/Labour who cry βracist!β & the British people β¦
…and, as I noted on the blog yesterday, what is important is that Reform seems to have captured the settled voting intention of about a third of the electorate, somewhere between 28% and 36%. So long as the old System parties, or “legacy” parties are all below 25%, that leaves Reform in the dominant position, likely to have a plurality of Commons seats, and quite possibly a majority.
What Labour fail to see about Indefinite Leave to Remain is that nobody in this country ever voted for it. They were lied to, misled
By fixing this mess, Reform is the only party serious about restoring public trust in politics
Huge numbers of non-Europeans have been granted “indefinite leave to remain” over past decades. Most should never have been granted such leave, and the same applies to all the “family members” that later joined them. Raus!
None of the rich Ukrainians are getting drafted. Rich kids of Ukrainian politicians partying in big cities of Europe. Corrupt Ukrainian officials becoming ultra rich within few years! But only poor Ukrainians are getting caught from the streets !
— ΰ²ΰ²¨ΰ³ΰ²¨ΰ²‘ΰ²Ώΰ² Virtually Tangible (@Virtuallytangib) September 28, 2025
RUSSIA launched barrage of drones estimated to be 500β650 drones and over 60 missiles including up to 55 Kh-101 cruise missiles, 8 Kalibr, 2 Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, and several Kh-59s at UKRAINE pic.twitter.com/S0Y2l7xSPN
In 2014, when Ukrainians were jumping up and down on the Maidan and calling for the slaughter and hanging of "Muscovites," I wrote that this was war and Kiev would lie in ruins.
The gloves are coming off, but neither side should be directly targeting civilians.
It is unclear, though, whether or not some or all of the damage to residential buildings in Kiev was caused by botched Kiev-regime air defence missile launches.
Before CNN and BBC blame Russia for hitting residential buildings in Kiev:
Surveillance footage shows a Patriot missile launch, with one missile accelerating before veering off course into residential areas. pic.twitter.com/WgnZMdcxOO
βSince the start of the year, the share of 2024 Tory voters who are switching to Reform has nearly doubled, surging from 16 to 31 per cent, in the very latest YouGov polling.βhttps://t.co/U6hJJhYhCK
The Conservative Party will probably end, or near its end, at the next General Election in (?) 2028 or 2029. Even if Kemi Badenoch goes and is then replaced by Jewish-lobby puppet Jenrick or another substitute.
As matters stand, any former Conservative (or other) voters wanting rid of Starmer-Labour will have to vote Reform, certainly in most English constituencies.
Vladimir Zelensky announced plans to conclude a "mega deal" with the United States for the supply of weapons to Ukraine, including long-range systems, the newspaper Politico reported:https://t.co/J8IRERvxxNpic.twitter.com/R6uX1B5fMm
It is easy to forget that “Ukraine” (Kiev-regime Ukraine) only has, in broad-brush terms, whatever monies and weapons are supplied to it by others.
If Zelensky and his cabal look like they are going to launch powerful missile strikes on targets deep inside Russia, particularly Moscow and St. Petersburg, then I would not rule out a nuclear-weapons response from Russia.
Moscow wants to rule eastern Ukraine, including Kiev, not destroy or poison it, but there may come a point where a “devil’s balance” comes down too heavily on the one side of the scales.
Netanyahu: Israel knows the location of the 450 kilograms of enriched Iranian uranium.
β‘οΈNetanyahu: I will not confirm whether Israel will strike the Iranian uranium site. pic.twitter.com/Wjr8SCv5Or
The approval rating of the UK Prime Minister Starmer has fallen to a record low β poll results
βͺοΈAccording to a new Ipsos poll, only 13% of the population approve of his work as Prime Minister, while 79% are dissatisfied. βͺοΈHis rating is even worse than Rishi Sunak's in Aprilβ¦ pic.twitter.com/lVS8la8W4C
Trevor Phillips gives his take as a poll has revealed more than half of Labour members do not want Sir Keir Starmer to fight the next election as party leader. pic.twitter.com/1naHqttY2d
The migrant-invaders are at best mere parasites; most are also involved in some form or forms of crime and illegality beyond being in the UK in the first place; a small (?) minority are also terrorists or supporters of terrorism.
The contest is basically over. With serious implications for Keir Starmer. This is a proxy leadership election. And heβs being routed. https://t.co/za7bxufuPM
π¨π₯ WATCH: Andy Burnham says Keir Starmer has created a "climate of fear" within Labour
βHow do we reconnect with the public if an MP loses the whip for trying to protect disability benefits or scrap two-child benefit capβ¦ when debate is closedβ pic.twitter.com/UOw8lbG6dX
Starmer has been comprehensively exposed as a wooden puppet of the Jewish lobby and Israel. He has no leadership abilities at all, and nothing at all interesting or useful to say to the British people.
Well, this week I scored 5/10, the same as political journalist John Rentoul. Different questions, though. I got the answers to questions 4, 6, 7, 9, and 10.
The foul allegations of rape have been dropped by the Israeli government. The forty beheaded babies has been downscaled to one dead baby, not beheaded, and killed by persons unknown. Two thirds of Israelis killed on October 7 were military personnel. The killers of the remainingβ¦
“The foul allegations of rape have been dropped by the Israeli government. The forty beheaded babies has been downscaled to one dead baby, not beheaded, and killed by persons unknown.
Two thirds of Israelis killed on October 7 were military personnel. The killers of the remaining one third are definitively revealed to have been in part the Israeli armed forces themselves.
Those with influence who spread the propaganda to the contrary stand exposed as War Criminals and now much blood stains their character for ever. It is a spot which will not out. #Gaza_War#GazaCeasefire#GazaHolocaust#GazaHospital.”
Send it to Douglas Murray.
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You really have to be life-threateningly stupid to hang around with Tommy Robinson these days. Everyone knows what he is. It's possible his hangers-on don't care that he's an agent provocateur – they just want a fight.
Imagine an ethnic version of Covid that only infects Arabs or Chinese with a 50% fatality rate. Israel and the US Govt have been working on this for decades. China and Russia have recently raised the alarm that the US Govt is developing ethnic bio weapons. Hitler 2.0 β£οΈ pic.twitter.com/UDSMSqVoLQ
Ha. While not endorsing that tweet particularly, the point about the uselessness of the “security and intelligence” bods echoes my blog over the years. Not just SIS and MI5, but also the armed forces. What are they for, now? They cannot even stop the cross-Channel migration-invasion, let alone the wider mass immigration influx. The prospect of war with France, Spain, Germany, Denmark has receded into history. So what are the Navy and other forces for? To ferry yet more invaders to our shores?
As for SIS, and MI5, they still seem largely stuck in the era of “burgling the War Office safe”, or that of the key spy or defector (Penkovsky, Lyalin, Gordievsky etc), the existence of which will change everything (but never does).
Irrelevant in a fast-changing world.
The Israeli army surrounded Al-Quds, Al-Shifa and Al-Rantisi hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip , – Al Arabiya
The publication reports that Israel attacked water tanks at the Al-Shifa medical facility. pic.twitter.com/q6ZS7iuJUs
American youth are disappointed in democracy and are not proud of the United States – The Hill
The country is experiencing a sharp decline in support for constitutional democracy among the younger generation, the publication reports. And there is every reason for this.
This time, the US President could not figure out where to go after the wreath-laying ceremony (today Veterans Day is celebrated in the US). pic.twitter.com/hMX3dJDGdO
(but what is now happening in Rostov and elsewhere right now strikes me as more like the rebellion of the Streltsy in the 17thC than the opening of a second Russian Civil War; we shall see). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streltsy_uprising.
Well, this week brings another victory over political journal John Rentoul. I scored 7/10 as against his 4/10. I did not know the answers to question 5 (actually, I “hit the post” with the name), or questions 6 and 9, and I pretty much guessed numbers 3 and 7, if truth be known.
“The Home Office is planning to house hundreds of migrants in marquees across the country.
The government’s plans come as today it was revealed that the number of Channel crossings by people in small boats so far this month is now higher than the number for June last year.
According to official figures, 312 asylum seekers were intercepted in eight boats by UK officials yesterday.
[“Intercepted“? You mean “ferried to the UK”].
This brings the official number of migrant crossings this month to 3,303 in 68 boats – an average of 49 people crammed into each inflatable dinghy or other small craft.
More people thought to be migrants arrived in Dover earlier today as people smugglers took advantage of the weather of low winds and no rainfall.
Border Force vessel Ranger was spotted this afternoon patrolling the 21-mile Dover Straits after dropping a group of migrants at the port.“
[Daily Mail]
Get that— the “Border Farce” vessel (taxi service for migrant invaders) dropped off a group of invaders at Dover, then went out looking for more “customers”…
“Iceland suspends annual whale hunt in move that likely spells end to controversial practice.
Decision comes after a government report found the hunt does not comply with Icelandβs Animal Welfare Act.
Icelandβs government has said it is suspending this yearβs whale hunt until the end of August due to animal welfare concerns, a move that is likely to bring the controversial practice to an end.
Animal rights groups and environmentalists hailed the decision, with the Humane Society International calling it βa major milestone in compassionate whale conservationβ.
Shocking video clips broadcast by the veterinary authority showed a whaleβs agony as it was hunted for five hours.
The country has only one remaining whaling company, Hvalur, and its licence to hunt fin whales expires in 2023. Another company stopped for good in 2020, saying it was no longer profitable.
Icelandβs whaling season runs from mid-June to mid-September, and it is doubtful Hvalur would head out to sea that late in the season.
Annual quotas authorise the killing of 209 fin whales β the second-longest marine mammal after the blue whale β and 217 minke whales, one of the smallest species. But catches have fallen drastically in recent years due to a dwindling market for whale meat.
…but why call her (“Jack Monroe”, alias Melissa Hadjicostas) “they“? It’s not “their silence” but “her silence”. Proper English.
Jack Monroe is an out and out fraud.
Russian insurgent forces are spreading in all directions. Volgograd, Krasnodar, Moscow, you name it. No serious resistance is reported.#Russia#Couppic.twitter.com/5lCy7HA6Rt
Is that so? Truth or speculation? I do not know at present.
Thinking ahead, what happens if the present Russian Government is toppled? What replaces it? Would that be one willing to (in effect) surrender to the NWO/ZOG cabals, or one willing to really take the fight to Zelensky in Kiev?
Nothing firm is known as yet.
π¨ Russian aviation is conducting strikes on Wagner PMC columns moving toward Moscow on the M4 highway. pic.twitter.com/JNGK5Uu2uC
Truth is, of course, the first casualty. Speculation abounds, and of course the “usual suspects” are stirring everything, as are other pro-Zelensky tweeters.
I imagine that even the Russian overseas diplomatic missions do not know what is going on, not even the SVR and GRU.
π¨LATEST COUP UPDATES: PUTIN SPEAKS, PRIGOZHIN RESPONDS, HEAVY CLASHES BEGIN NEAR MOSCOW
– Putin FINALLY made a speech in which he mentioned βtreasonβ and βmutinyβ twice, talked about Russia βfighting hard for its futureβ, labelled the events as an βinternal mutinyβ and a βstabβ¦ pic.twitter.com/dXVeG72cw6
"We will only move towards Moscow. We ask the Armed Forces not to resist us" – Wagner PMC pic.twitter.com/2ZodCwkdMY
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) June 24, 2023
Again, who he? I have no idea. Is he a Wagner operator, or merely someone pretending to be one? If it is true (as claimed by many on Twitter) that official checkpoints are merely waving Wagner units through without check or opposition, then that mirrors what happened in previous Russian upheavals, from the Yeltsin and Gorbachev eras right back to the two Russian revolutions of 1917.
A huge Wagner / renegade Russian army convoy is in Voronezh oblast and on the way Moscow. I counted no less than 72 vehicles and the camera was several times not pointing at the road. Could be 100 or more.#Coup#Russia#Voronezh#Moscowpic.twitter.com/rbjHg9H5TE
Reportedly, Medvedev was evacuated from Moscow region together with his family and assistants.
Previously there was information that a helicopter allegedly with Putin on board left for Valday. pic.twitter.com/hixuuqtXfn
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) June 24, 2023
What now? Is there time (and the requisite high-level military support) for Putin to order a massive and unrestrained strategic missile attack (a last-ditch and bitter action to achieve battlefield victory) on Kiev, regardless of the Wagner Group situation? We have to just sit and wait to see.
Navigation on the Moskva river, which runs through the Russian π·πΊ capital Moscow, was temporarily suspended on Saturday amid a mutiny by the Wagner mercenary group, the state TASS news agency TASS reported, citing the authoritieshttps://t.co/Qg18KzpHCohttps://t.co/tcL4MsKyqF
Well, if Prigozhin actually topples Putin, then he follows in the tradition of Russian revolutionary leaders (and others) having (in the Russian word) “sat” in prison. Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky etc. They were there mainly for political crimes, though, whereas Prigozhin was imprisoned for crimes of acquisition: fraud, theft, robbery, burglary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin#Early_life. He did 9 years altogether.
Also, the conditions of confinement for the Bolshevik leaders were comfortable, once they arrived in Siberian exile. Houses in remote villages, not much restraint on their liberty, and Lenin was even allowed a hunting rifle with ammunition, as was, I think, Stalin!
Prigozhin’s 9 years of Soviet-era prison must have been far less easy. He’s a tough ex-con, among other things.
At any rate, it looks at present as if PMC Wagner is the Praetorian Guard of Russia now. Tomorrow? Maybe, maybe not— “tomorrow is another day“…
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Sadly not as she has a Patreon and gigs about once a month and a tipjar still rattling and royalties truckling in. She relies on passive income. Time was when we had to work through the night battling FMs. Now crickets. She can't come on here even to talk about ice cream flavours
(the “FMs” refers to “flying monkeys“, the term used by “grifter”/fraudster “Jack Monroe” for her fanatical supporters, many of which have mental problems).
Average Β£11pcm per rage nan so still Β£4,500pcm for lying in bed stoned.
https://t.co/1OlfSsQwzn She survived the siege in part cause her family were theater set designers and always had plenty of carpenterβs glue lying around. During the worst times they smeared it on bread and ate it like jelly. Someone tell #JackMonroe.
Ha. If “Jack Monroe” were to eat glue, at least she might be unable to utter more lies. Well, it’s a thought…
All & any of which would equally testify as to my legitimacy & my intentions in the ongoing quest to expose Jack Monroe for the thief, liar & fraud that she is. I am sure that i can count on @frugally_minded to confirm that she knows my real name 4/.
“Jack Monroe” is still, as of today, being sent between Β£3.50 and Β£44 a month by each of 414 utter mugs. Thousands of pounds being sent to her monthly, in cash, and for absolutely nothing.
I cannot see Reeves successfully running a bath or even a corner shop, given the depth of financial competence & judgment needed to plan, run & rescue the sliding post-Tory Bexshit UK capitalist economy so it works sustainably again for the many as well as the few. So. GIGO.π΅πΈπΊπ¦
If the opinion polls are correct, Labour may form the next government, but when people vote “Labour”, they are actually getting pro-Israel careerists and money-grubbers such as Rachel Reeves, who is little different, though possibly better-educated, than the likes of Iain Duncan Dunce Smith.
Labour is now just a label; some of its own MPs have said as much.
Early this morning, #Trantifa clashed with protesters of a childrenβs drag event at the Honor Oak Pub in south London. One of the #Antifa hit a woman on the head with a stick. Antifa are furious police werenβt there to protect them at around 6 am. pic.twitter.com/3z5DfOV09d
Seldom have I seen anything this surreal. Tanks on streets, snipers kneeling waiting for the imminent arrival of the Chechen units in what may be one hell of a battle.
And the people of #Rostov seem to be blissfully unaware or determined not to move from their front row seats! pic.twitter.com/GQKJMx9EAi
Slightly reminiscent of the staged “popular uprising” against Ceausescu in 1989. Not that it was not popular in the sense of many, probably most, Romanians liking it, but it was not popular in the sense that the “plebs” took an active part. It was a stage-managed thing, and many of those on the streets were aware of that. They knew that they were just “spear-carriers” in a show put on for the overseas and domestic TV audience.
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Don't think I've ever seen Jack as "positive". All I see from her are snark, bullying and threats.
Poor people know more about cooking on a budget than a scrounging middle class grifter such as Jack Monroe. Poor people don't need condescending advice, they need money. Jack is called out for missing charity money, unfulfilled patreon subscriptions, and missing legal funds
It really is incredible how many people (at least on Twitter) think that saying “effing Tories” and making the right noises about the cost of living under them (with the assumption that fake “Labour” would be much much better, of course) constitutes something massive. As for those “recipes”, have you seen them? I should prefer bread and cheese, or just bread…
“Jack Monroe” is not the only one making a fairly good living out of Twitter “activism” of that sort. There are a number of others, e.g. “@supertanskiii”. Completely useless pseudo-activists who are basically “grifters” (at best).
That useless NIgerian parasite, “@FemiSorry”, is another one.
Her recipes are frequently debunked as inedible, unworkable or nutritionally devoid.
Its all an act from Jack Monroe, her entire back story falls apart at the lightest scrutiny, and she's been caught lying and grifting too many times to be credible.https://t.co/zM5NRDPC8P
The lack of real ideology (going beyond vague nationalism and fawning over replicas of pre-1917 Russianism such as the Orthodox Church) in Putin’s Russia worked only so long as there was relative peace and prosperity. Now, the peace and much of the prosperity has gone or is going, and hope with it, and that leaves a vacuum. Russians need more than bread alone.
Over the past decade, ideas I have had for a long time (rewilding, a “wildlife grid” etc) have become almost mainstream. I am glad to see it. Both charities and wealthy individuals are leading the way. People with fewer resources are also joining in, in various ways (by keeping part of their private gardens “wild”, by not using pesticides and herbicides etc), and their numbers count, bearing in mind that the UK has anything up to 10 million acres of private gardens.
Before and after pictures have been released showing how rewilding and habitat restoration have transformed a once barren landscape in the Trossachs over a 25-year period. pic.twitter.com/edUUpuJZpP
Glen Finglas estate was a hill farm that had been heavily grazed by sheep when it was taken over by the Woodland Trust charity a quarter of a century ago. pic.twitter.com/MQkxARWWBg
Over the years more than one million native trees have been planted at the site, creating some 1,800 hectares of new woodlands. pic.twitter.com/agvv35Eg28
The Tory line trotted out on the Universal Credit cut, 6 not 2 hours work are required to make up the difference. (Nearly 6 day week) #bbcqtpic.twitter.com/9J3tJhtTQ6
As to BBC TV Question Time, I have not bothered to watch that rigged circus for years. Seems that last night featured the Jew fraudster and MP, Shapps; also, the System-approved black MP David Lammy, as well as Kate Andrews, the mouthpiece for System-“libertarian” views. She is American, Lammy Caribbean black, while Shapps is of course a Jew-Zionist.
In fact, that kind of terminally-tired 1940s or 1950s-style “Brains Trust” kind of show has little to offer now, especially when the “brains” have poor brains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brains_Trust.
The last politician or politician-manque on that show yesterday was one Munira Wilson. I admit that I had never heard of her. “Obscure” seems to best describe her. East African Asian, an ex-Muslim turned C of E Christian, and with a British husband: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munira_Wilson.
Seems that, as on previous occasions, the “outsider” (non-Westminster bubble) panellist was the most sensible. Walker was the only one, from the Question Time clips I have just seen, seemingly capable of “running a whelk stall”, though Iceland is rather bigger than that! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland_(supermarket).
Exactly. Now we see a similar phenomenon in the UK, as those who fight back, even with words, against Jewish-Zionist influence and control over our country, being called “far right” “extremists”, and in some cases prosecuted as “terrorists”, even without having done anything.
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While researching on Wikipedia today, I noticed that the now long-deceased aunt of a one-time girlfriend had once been one of the governors of the BBC. I knew that she had been a life peer, but not that she had been on the BBC Board of Governors. Saw a few other things about her that I did not previously know. In some respects an intellectual pioneer. She would have been interesting to talk to, but died in the Spring of 1981, before (though not long before) I met her niece. Pity.
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Jake Brown, a 27-year-old former non-league footballer, founded Avro Energy in 2014 while studying law at Birmingham University
The collapse of Avroβs consumer division on Wednesday was the biggest failure yet seen of a household supplier
Avro Energy expanded rapidly by offering families cheaper electricity and gas. Its turnover soared from Β£80 million in 2017 to Β£390 million in the 18 months to June 2019. However, a small profit slumped to a Β£28 million loss
“A pair of female thieves dubbed the “Rolex Rippers” have seemingly struck again after a wealthy elderly man had his watch stolen….
On Tuesday, the man in his 80s became the latest victim of two women who are targeting men in affluent areas and close to exclusive golf clubs across southern England.
The theft is believed to be at least the 21st incident, with the duo, thought to be in their 20s, targeting men in Dorset, Hampshire, Surrey, Gloucestershire and Sussex.
In many cases, the women have posed as charity workers with clipboards and have stolen watches from their victims without them realising as they sign a petition.
However, other times they have been less subtle and simply ripped the expensive timepieces off the men’s wrists.
This time the pair approached the man outside his home in Links Road, Poole, which is next to Β£2,000-a-year Parkstone Golf Club, at lunchtime on Tuesday.
They asked him to sign a petition and then one of the women thanked and hugged him. He did not notice until a few minutes later that his watch had been taken.
βBe mindful of being approachedβ
A spokesman from Dorset Police said: “It is believed that these females are responsible for a series of similar thefts across Dorset this year and the public should be mindful of being approached in this manner or engaging in conversation with the individuals.”
The pair are believed to have struck in Dorset at least seven times before in Poole, Wimborne, Wareham, Ferndown, Highcliffe and Poundbury.
Hampshire Police said they have at least 10 victims, and two brothers, aged 85 and 91, were targeted 80 miles apart in Gloucestershire and Surrey.
Both women are said to be aged in their 20s or 30s and between 5ft 2ins and 5ft 9ins tall. They both have dark hair and Eastern European accents although some victims have believed them to be Spanish.
The spate of robberies are thought to have begun on May 19 at Stoneham Golf Club near Southampton.” [Daily Telegraph].
I am glad, in a sense, that I no longer have (or have the means to have) Rolex watches. Mine were all Rolex Seadwellers. Now I no longer have need of any watch. Relative poverty, but also relative freedom…
Oddly enough, I was just looking, not long ago, on Google maps and Google Earth, at the area of Sydney, Australia, where I lived, in the late 1960s, for 2-3 years as a child of 10-13 (Ellalong Road, Mosman/Cremorne and, for the first 6 months or so, Wyong Road, Mosman). Also, the area around the nearby little school that I attended at first (Middle Harbour PS, at Macpherson Street, Mosman; I was later at North Sydney Boys’ High, a few miles away, for 7-8 months).
Many changes. I notice that quite a few roads, including Ellalong, have been made into dead ends to prevent through traffic. A good move. Other changes? Well, quite a few houses there in the late 1960s have been demolished and replaced by much larger ones; larger houses, smaller gardens. Google Earth shows that almost every house in that neighbourhood now has a swimming pool. In 1967-69, not many did.
I notice a change in street vegetation. Far more small trees and flowering bushes, as far as I can recall. Fewer palm trees, though. There seems to have been, perhaps, a move to native species, and to more green/flowering trees, though the tall imperial palms near my old school are still there.
Overall, I should say that that neighbourhood is rather more scenic now, because of the flowering abundance, though with far more cars, both moving and parked on the street (if I remember aright, street parking was unusual when I lived there). Looking at the pictures, an impression of greater wealth overall, perhaps.
That was also true of Balmoral Beach (which was the nearest convenient beach to us, about 5-10 mins in the car). Many cafes, and a more manicured look generally.
β‘οΈ91.1% out of 1,797 recovered Covid-19 patients produced detectable levels of antibodies β‘οΈThese levels hadnβt declined four months after diagnosis β‘οΈThe immune response was higher among older people and those who had the worst symptoms https://t.co/x7TubWd5gRpic.twitter.com/zrcqYgpVof
For now, there are very few cases of confirmed reinfections, suggesting they may be rare. Some doctors also believe that most relapses will be milder than the first infection https://t.co/x7TubWd5gRpic.twitter.com/y4GN3YPqDi
The Protocols of Zion are not (as Jews always assert) “a forgery” or “Tsarist forgery” but literary fantasy clothing reality and a real agenda pursued by real cabals. One has to ask why the Jewish lobby, in particular, is always so keen to dismiss the Protocols, and ban their sale etc, if they are just a silly forgery which no sensible person could believe…
#OtD 3 Sep 1934 65,000 textile workers in North Carolina joined the strike of workers in Alabama against pay cuts. The strikers used their cars to drive to working mills and spread the strike. Learn more in this history of the dispute: https://t.co/4lTuXls1MOpic.twitter.com/zBt8hl7qSk
No doubt the cause was just, but I had to laugh too: “the strikers used their cars to drive to working mills and spread the strike.” Imagine, say, similarly and indeed far more downtrodden workers in that year in, say, the Soviet Union. No cars for the workers, and any workers brave or foolish enough to attempt a strike certainly arrested by the NKVD and probably shot (some might be “lucky” enough to get 10-20 years in the brutal labour camps run by the GULAG administration).
Slightly off-topic, not many people in the West know that, as late as the 1980s, a black in South Africa had a statistically higher chance of owning a car than a citizen of the Soviet Union. Somehow, the BBC never did explain that to its audience.
Even more off-topic, I was listening to BBC World Service last night, and some on-message drone was referring to “the racist apartheid regime” of South Africa under white rule. In the 1980s that became the invariable BBC way of referring to South Africa. Biased journalists such as John Humphrys.
The idiot on the radio last night then went on to describe the South Africa of those days as “totalitarian“, which is just silly and inaccurate.
“Totalitarian” has always proven a difficult word. Orwell himself got slightly muddled using it in one or two essays and, in the film version of John le Carre’s book, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Claire Bloom’s character refers to DΓ£o as “a totalitarian wine” (because Portugal was at the time a semi-“fascist” dictatorship, akin to that of Spain under Franco). Dictatorial yes, “totalitarian”, no.
Brexit
Govt just changed law to grant emergency planning permission for it to build βtemporaryβ [up to 5 years] no trade deal Brexit lorry parks in 29 council areas citing no space for infrastructure needed by year end, & pandemic βmay have affected ability of port operatorsβ to build pic.twitter.com/RsfoKpq6Bx
I favoured Leave, and still favour Brexit, in principle, but it has been criminally mishandled by at least two Prime Ministers now, and shows every sign of being what Johnny Mercer MP called “a shitshow“. If he thought that of Theresa May’s term of office and her handling of Brexit, what can he think, secretly (?), of Boris-idiot?
Jessica Krug
Weird story of the day: Jessica Krug, a white woman from Kansas, has been pretending to be Black for her entire professional career, and now sheβs apologizing for it:
The only reason Jessica Krug finally admitted to this lie is bec on Aug 26th one very brave very BLACK Latina junior scholar approached two senior Black Latina scholars & trusted them enough to do the research & back her up. Those two scholars made phone calls & reached out to…
A professor whose work focuses on Africa and the African diaspora has said she lied about being black. Jessica Krug admitted she is a white Jewish woman: βI have built my life on a violent anti-Black lieβ https://t.co/zDMaS2nJEJ
Well, “white” had better be put to one side. Let’s just say that Jessica Krug (of whom I had never heard until yesterday) is just another Jewish fraud. Not old enough to be a “holocaust” fraud or hoaxer (though plenty get sympathy and/or make money by claiming to be the offspring of “holocaust” “victims” or “survivors”). Google “holocaust frauds” or “holocaust hoaxes”.
Some people just want to be part of something of which they are, in reality, not part. “My father/grandfather/uncle/friend/man I met in a pub/someone or other… liberated Belsen“… There are hundreds on Twitter alone that claim that.
Another example, more niche perhaps, is mentioned by ex-SAS personnel in their memoirs, to the effect that hundreds of people, even ex-soldiers, claim to have taken part in the Iranian Embassy siege assault in 1980. In fact, about 30-35 SAS personnel were there, either assaulting the building or in other roles.
Memory can be faulty over time, even where no fraud or dishonesty is involved. Some of the SAS soldiers who were at that incident have fallen out over who did what. I was thinking back to where I was on that day. It was a warm sunny day, and I was in a pub in Whitehall. I remember (quite mistakenly) being in that pub in the late afternoon when the assault took place. In fact, my memory (often described as far better that that of others) is faulty here, because the SAS assault actually started later, in early evening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Embassy_siege#SAS_assault. I also “recall” it being a Sunday (it was a Monday).
This latest hoax or fraud, by Jessica Krug, may not be quite on the “Anne Frank diary” scale, but she was doing OK out of it until exposed. Now she hopes to make more by recounting her (compelled) “confession” on TV etc. She will probably even write a book about it.
Every single time…(you know what I mean…).
In fact, the whole black/white question in the USA is a mass of contradictions. One of the absurd aspects is how a “half-caste” or mixed-race person is always “black”; and so Barack Obama, whose mother is or was a white Northern European by origin (Scottish, German etc) was “America’s first black President”.
Obama made a big thing of it, writing a pretty dull short book about having gone to Kenya in search of his “roots”, but he never did that in respect of his (Scottish or German etc) European roots…Yet, when you think of it, from where came Obama’s cultural landscape, Europe or Africa? It’s not really even a question.
Everything that Obama had came to him from European ideas, jurisprudence, ethics, but through an American prism. Africa contributed nothing, really. What could it contribute?
Trump
Interesting opinion piece. The author is anti-Trump, whereas I myself am both anti-Trump and equally (if not more so) anti-“antifa” and the anti-Trumpers…
I can see the potential for some kind of civil war in the USA, but for a war you need two (or more) organized sides. I say “or more” because sometimes a war even in one region or one country involves several different sides.
One reason why the war in and around Bosnia was so poorly reported on (not only in the USA but the UK) was because there were a number of warring parties even within Bosnia, and reporters and their organizations were unable or unwilling to explain the complexities to perceivedly dim and/or ignorant readers, viewers and listeners in the USA and UK.
So far, the USA has not reached the “civil war” threshold. If it ever did, the stance of the US military machine would not only be important but in every way determinative.
More tweets seen
Below: when a TV or radio presenter thinks he knows who is being “stupid” (etc…)
I was in London today and amazed at the amount of people going onto buses without face masks on. I canβt understand how stupid some people are being, we are still in the middle of a pandemic, itβs so unfair putting us all in danger.
I warned this day was coming. They once compared us to Holocaust deniers for suggesting covid was like the flu. Now they are using the fact that we were right against us. Flu is now the new threshold for masks and social control https://t.co/tq4jsn9u5F
It is no good saying @huwharries that their 'purpose' is x, when you cannot show that they achieve x. You may say tht you *think* so. But you cannot say (as you did) that it *is* so. Why do victims of mosern education find it so hard to tell their opinions from facts? . https://t.co/MTW6ypRUVr
To be 'incontrovertible' @HuwHarries, you'd have to have a proposition, based on hard objective experiment, testable and falsifiable, which I was then unable to falsify. In fact, you have nothing. HM Govt admits it :The evidence of the benefit weak, the effect likely to be small https://t.co/MTW6ypRUVr
The original 1999 cover of βThe Abolition of Britainβ , derided then, rejected by modish agents and major publishers but still in print more than 20 years later. Signed copies of the latest edition available from Blackwellβs in Oxford 01865 792792 pic.twitter.com/7XxsC771bX
It is not often understood that, in the world of publishing, there was, until the advent of the Internet, a stranglehold over what was published, exercized by publishers, agents etc. Many if not most were (and are) Jews. Now, self-publishing is easier, but the Jewish influence is still pervasive and has been worsening. For example, many well-known works, as well as obscure ones, are now “not available” from Amazon and other outlets (e.g. Abe Books). Why? I think that you can guess (((the reason)))…
I recall giving my (as yet unpublished) work, The End of the Millennium and the New Age of Alexander to a reader at, in American terminology, a very “preppy” literary agency with an office in Fifth Avenue, New York. I recall the personable Ivy League fellow who saw me; Brooks Brothers clothing, and expensive-looking spectacles. I am not sure, though, whether I still have his eventual letter which said, in part (and in rather Anglophile language), “Thank you for letting me have a crack at it. It is the most extraordinary work I have ever read…[but]…it will never be published in New York.” Again, I think that one can guess (((why))).
That was nearly 30 years ago. Were I less lazy, I should have put my book on the Internet, or self-published, but so far have not done either. Perhaps I should. Still, it exists in the Akashic Record, and for me that is the most important thing.
More than 80 years since we began the Phoney War that would lead to a Phoney Victory, dare we look at these events with clear eyes? Signed copies of βThe Phoney Victoryβ available from Blackwellβs in Oxford 01865 792792 pic.twitter.com/8qbnvr866i
Next time anyone tells you thereβs a βWar on Drugsβ, hereβs proof that there is no such war. A history of our national surrender to the legalisation lobby. Signed copies available from Blackwellβs in Oxford 01865 792792 pic.twitter.com/By9KEYBGPC
Hardly surprising when you look at the present Cabinet, full of drug abusers such as Boris-idiot and that little expenses cheat, cocaine abuser, drunk and Jews’ doormat, Michael Gove.
More relevant than ever in these times. Signed copies can be ordered from Blackwellβs Oxford bookshop 01865 792792 , overseas +44 1865 792 792 pic.twitter.com/YVDgcRXjjX
As ever, I suppose that I should point out again that I am neither follower nor fan of Peter Hitchens; he is however one of the few msm scribblers and talking heads to point out the “emperor’s new clothes” emptiness of contemporary politics and society. My assessment of him from a year or so ago: https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/05/19/peter-hitchens-and-his-views/
Amusing snatch from Netflix's series 'The Crown', the episode about the Great London Smog. 'Masks are bloody useless. They're just for show. To make it look like the government is doing something.' Perhaps they'll cut it out in re-runshttps://t.co/AgzzLG4S3Y
The difference being that, in the 1950s, no government would have dared to make facemasks or muzzles compulsory, even in those more “authoritarian” days.
What is it about these American politicians?! Biden thinks that a black invented the light bulb (I suppose that blacks have invented some things…or maybe not). Dan Quayle could not spell “potatoes”, Hillary Clinton said that she had been fired at in Bosnia, while Al Gore “invented the World Wide Web”, which must have surprised Tim Berners-Lee.
Is it because they are American, or because they are what Hitler called “dirty democratic politicians“?
Incidentally, an Englishman, Joseph Swan, invented the light bulb parallel to Thomas Edison. The pair set up a company together in England: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Swan
Mad respect for Hans Buhr, who built a working model Antonov An-225 *and* a glide-functioning model Buran Soviet space shuttle, then strapped them together and launched one from the other pic.twitter.com/VVEcqKIFoL
I was listening to the news on BBC Radio 4 in the early evening. A litany of the absurd. First of all, the news that air travellers from Portugal and parts (!) of Greece who arrive in Scotland and Wales will (suddenly) now have to “self-isolate” for two weeks on arrival, but not if they arrive at an airport in England or Northern Ireland!
So…if an aircraft is going to, say, Manchester, but gets diverted to, say, Glasgow, the passengers, instead of going home, will have to go into quarantine? Or will they just be allowed to go home, but have to “self-isolate” there for two weeks? If that latter is the case, the passengers would go to their homes whether the plane lands at Glasgow or Manchester, but in the one case, they will be prisoners in their own homes for 14 days, but in the other case they will be free to roam!
Johnny Mercer was right to call Theresa May’s administration a “shitshow”, but he says nothing about this ******* circus! Of course, he has a Government job now (junior minister, Defence): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mercer_(politician). At one time I thought that he must be a rare honest MP, but then all his moneygrubbing came to light. Shameful…
In that same news broadcast, we were told that “local lockdowns” were being lifted in some parts of the Manchester area, but not in Bolton!
Political Kafka.
Also, how does anyone in “authority” (if that term now has any meaning) know that the hapless “self-isolaters” are actually complying? Do police check? Once? Twice?
An egregious example, but I believe that there is a general emboldenment of the non-Europeans and especially the blacks, triggered by the “BLM” nonsense. Not only in the USA; Britain too.
From the horse’s mouth
βProfessor Nathan Abrams sheds light on how Jews transformed the British entertainment industries, creating some of the most iconic characters and images of the 20th Century, including James Bond, Doctor Who, Carry On, and many others. In so doing, British Jews infused their creations with hidden Jewish themes.β
I always wondered why some TV and film series are pushed more, in the msm, than others…
Of course the absurd “James Bond” fantasy meshes with the whole WW2 and post-WW2 SOE/OSS narrative. SOE [Special Operations Executive] was in reality a shambolic mess that (even from the Allied perspective) accomplished little (and got a very high percentage of its agents and its own officers killed), but you would not believe that from the huge msm industry of books and films that has grown up around it, especially in recent years.
SOE mentored the OSS, as did SIS/MI6. SOE was disbanded with almost indecent haste once Germany was defeated, but that fatal seed of amateur SOE bungling, once planted in the OSS, carried on germinating and then thriving in the successor to OSS, the CIA.
That seed of gung-ho paramilitarism, sown in the Second World War, has in fact been responsible for most of the CIA’s debacles, from the Bay of Pigs, through Iran-Contra, to the support for and then betrayal of the Kurds; other situations too, such as arming Osama bin Laden and other fanatics in Afghanistan during the time of Soviet or pro-Soviet rule in the 1980s.
You see it in Hollywood films too, the idea that secret intelligence is largely about blazing machineguns, firefights featuring operatives capable of using martial arts and (maybe even at the same time!) flying a plane and making safe the mechanism of a nuclear bomb (etc). Not that such films are always unentertaining, but “Jason Bourne” is not so much a “secret agent” as a superhuman ninja warrior gone West.
Not all of the inferior races (or, within those races, individuals) treat animals cruelly (and our own record is far from perfect), but it is a matter of degree: the Northern European peoples, though they are at only the start of their evolutionary journey (in big-picture terms), are at least on it, whereas most of the other racial and ethnic groups in the world are either static or are regressing, so falling into decadence and evil.
Nancy Pelosiβs San Francisco. The Hoodie Hoodlums taking advantage of a policy wherein theft of a $1000 or less is not charged. https://t.co/fS8PhkNByH
A “chimp-out” in San Francisco. Think the UK, say London, Birmingham or wherever, is any different? Think again. Once the restraints are off, this is the result. You cannot have a civilized society without a civilized population. Fact.
What many find hard to accept, or understand, is that quite a high proportion of those at or near the top of this society are actually and even wittingly servants of evil, sometimes members of evil secret groups planning to reduce the civilized people of the world (and all the peoples of the world) to decadence and destruction.
Think what you want, accuse me of what you want. But when you get a tribal hate factory coming at you, you can be sure youβve touched on some truth that they want to keep suppressed.
If the mob in Portland and elsewhere are not soon mown down by police, National Guard or Army, then the white people of Oregon are going to have to prove that the “Constitution” they talk about so much actually means at least something, and that their much-vaunted “right to keep and bear arms” means something more than showing off weapons to their friends and shooting empty beer bottles off fence-posts in the boonies…
Youβre supposed to pretend itβs not happening, which is what every mainstream reporter is taking as his or her approach. https://t.co/3sZvCBStJM
So where are the “alt-Right” wastes of space in Portland and elsewhere?
In fact, where is Trump? Where is the huge machinery of U.S. government repression? Unaware? No. Complicit? Maybe…
Where are the non-antifa white people in Portland, where are all the “guns” they value so highly? A mere few would be able to clear away those untermenschen. As Dietrich Eckart said, “the rabble need to hear the rattle of machineguns…to get fear into their pants!“
As I have always said, most of the “nationalist” elements, in the US and UK too, are a waste of time and space. That particularly applies to the “alt-Right” and other wastes of space.
In fact, the multikulti or cultureless items of detritus on the streets are merely an unpleasant symptom. The disease is seated elsewhere, behind the camera, behind the reporters’ notebooks. The “journalists”, editors, owners of TV stations, radio stations, newspapers, Hollywood studios. These are the ones harbouring the disease.
Can ANYONE explain the logic of shutting down pubs to contain a virus less dangerous than normal flu, for which the only cure is herd immunity & which is overwhelmingly in a population that doesn't drink alcohol?
Note that a female “Black Lives Matter” bully shouts continually at the old lady, “PUT YOUR MASK ON, BITCH!, PUT YOUR MASK ON!“. Could the reasoning (the real reasoning) behind the facemask-wearing nonsense be made any more clear? It is a bullying of the individual, to intimidate the individual, forcing that person to conform, to do what the mob demands.
For myself, I just wish that someone had protected that old lady, and the best way of doing that would have been to shoot the mob down, starting with the black shouting in her face, then next prioritizing those cowards filming and photographing the horrible scene, followed by the shouting woman in the background. Then the rest of that mob. Then moving to those who are triggering all this by buying TV ads to support it, by reporting on it favourably, and also those bending the knee in sign of fealty or surrender to it all…
What starts on the West Coast of the USA often arrives next in the UK, after a year or two. Be warned. Be ready.
The lack of elementary security for citizens and the protection of private property forces society to return to the tribal era. It is a move back of civilization by several thousand years. It is happening before our eyes.
The BBC?! Ha ha! I support public service broadcasting, but the BBC trashed that years ago. The BBC now is almost akin to Soviet TV and radio. The BBC news broadcasts on TV have become unwatchable, just government propaganda lies, especially about “the virus” etc. Endless boring “interviews” on Skype with people droning on from their homes. I often wonder how many people now watch BBC News at all. Few, I think. It has become hugely boring. Not that that matters much to BBC staff who, like their 1980s Soviet counterparts are hugely overpaid for not rocking the boat…Meanwhile, the public is forced to pay for it all.
It will end in tears, with BBC staff forced to clean the pavements with their toothbrushes.
And this is an organisation supported by, and funded, by many high profile companies and the Labour Party. Our police and politicians kneel to them. What a sorry world we inhabit.
When things really (to use the contemporary phrase) “kick off” in the USA, UK, across mainland Europe, those who think that they can control the agenda and events because they —now— gang up on and denounce people to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, the police etc, will find no hiding place themselves. Their Lilliputian binding ties will no longer protect them.
Chief nurse at Shrewsbury hospital warns staff over poor care in leaked letter https://t.co/N0DRlUDsJM
“Protect the NHS”? How about “Protect the patients of the NHS”?
Leader of Oldham Council has said a local lockdown would be catastrophic. Funnily enough, a week ago at Tommyfield Market, most people had long come to that conclusion already: https://t.co/NSvqtD6Zdk
Just west of the East Coast Main Line, just south Peterborough station, the lonely remains of Sir Cockerellβs experimental βtracked hovercraftβ stand silent. It was the prototype for what was intended to be Britainβs 250mph tracked hovercraft network. https://t.co/lknyUu94gtpic.twitter.com/7UM6F1iA28
Britain in the 20th and 21st centuries has not much honoured its inventors. Sir Christopher Cockerell belatedly got a knighthood (surely the most devalued honour?) and a prize of Β£5,000 (worth ?Β£500,000 today) in the late 1960s for inventing the hovercraft.
How sad that hovercraft are now built in places like China, but not, as far as I know, the UK, where they were invented and also first built and first used as passenger transport.
Hovercraft are still being updated and built in China and elsewhere. A story repeated a hundred times in the past. Is there any need to repeat a long list? The man (British) who invented the wind-up radio, not the most stunning invention but extremely useful all the same [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Baylis] made lists of all the inventions invented by British people in Britain, but which had then been exploited mostly by others, whether in the USA, Germany, or latterly in China.
British people are often poor at blowing their own trumpet. From the World Wide Web to DNA and DNA fingerprinting, the hovercraft, the jet engine, radar. Just hundreds of things.
People will say, “well, what about Dyson?” and it is true that, if anyone has had the benefit of his own ingenuity, it is Dyson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dyson] but he is one inventor out of many; also, it is sad that he prioritized profit over continuing to manufacture his products in the UK, though I should not want to be too churlish: Dyson has ploughed back some profits into research and education.
Tweets seen this evening
Oh no it doesn't. One superannuated leftist slapper & and a few anti-white racist bigots certainly don't speak for a whole town. pic.twitter.com/IDSO5Z28Cr
Pity about the decommissioning of those cross-Channel hovercraft. They would have been useful in dumping the migrant-invaders back on the beaches of the Pas de Calais. The invaders could be kept in the hold for the 40 min crossing, and hovercraft need no port facilities, just a suitable beach. Out you get!
Name these βdeniersβ @piersmorgan. Produce referenced direct quotations. Btw, how many civilian casualties were there in UK 1939-45? https://t.co/1YQOCvRTKj
Hitchens is right. For one thing, the number of deaths from or even “with” Coronavirus has been massively inflated. Even the government of clowns’ own advisers have admitted that (though still claim 40,000+). Secondly, direct civilian casualties in the UK from bombing and other enemy action during WW2 numbered around 67,000, so Piers Morgan is mistaken even in that respect, even taking the official, very inflated, “Covid-19” statistics as correct.
Piers Morgan is just a System mouthpiece.
Yes, and perhaps consider that this major change in the laws of England was made without proper Parliamentary scrutiny. @elliotgreeniphttps://t.co/IWd5p304J5
Quite. This is not the proper role of law in a free society, in that it also makes a previously lawful and normal action (entering a shop or a train without a muzzle) into a crime. https://t.co/I6sd8xkkKK
I've had my differences with Allison Pearson but she has written an article for today's Telegraph (surrounded by 100-foot-high paywalls) in which she satirises quite beautifully the bilge, tripe, and simple misunderstanding of reality, which the BBC nightly presents as 'news'.
As I have blogged earlier, both today and on other days, the BBC News on TV is pretty much unwatchable now. Bias and boredom. The “bias and boredom corporation”?
I think that that article would be well worth reading, but it is behind a paywall.
My little evening excursion
I went out to get fish and chips, something I do only once every couple of months. There is a shop on the rural/suburban A-road not far from me, about half a mile away, in a strip, or what an older generation called a “parade”, of small shops. While waiting for the fish to be fried, I bought a few Thunderball tickets at the nearby convenience store (there are about 6 or 7 small shops there, 3 of which sell takeaway food).
I noticed that the florist shop was closed up, with what I took to be (did not go to read it) a legal notice pasted on the window. The little video rental shop was also closed and dark (though it was always open at 7 in the evening), so it looks as though that has, in the old phrase, also probably “gone West”, as has, I suspect, a shop which sells, or sold, curtains and other soft furnishings. So out of about 7 shops (I think that another one closed a while ago), only 4 are still operating: fish and chips, a Chinese/Malay takeaway, an Indian takeaway, and the convenience store (part of a nationwide chain).
The economic depression (using the term in a lay sense) caused, not by “Coronavirus”, butby government action and stupidity has not yet fully hit. The effects are beginning to be seen, however. Dire. The headlines scream about Marks & Spencer or Debenhams sacking thousands of workers, but the real story (or another real story) is the above, but multiplied countless times across Britain. Small shops and other businesses closing down, probably forever.
What is the betting that, when unemployment soars into the many millions, it will be the mask-wearing fanatics, and the “lockdown” enthusiasts, and the typical Twitterati mob, that will be screaming about how the masses are suffering from low pay, no pay, low benefits, lack of decent housing (as the migrant-invaders flood in) and an NHS which is allowing untold thousands to die because undiagnosed and untreated?