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Diary Blog, 26 May 2026

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That first tweeter is a former “Conservative” now gone over to Reform. Sounds like she is pro-Jewish lobby, probably pro-Israel, and not really even anti-immigration.

No wonder Reform’s rise has flattened, when many of its people are like that.

Neither Reform nor Restore is “the answer”; it is merely a question as to which can trash the Con/Lab System scam best or quickest.

Real social nationalism must rise up.

Elections are only one way forward, and not the most important.

Wrong use of “decimated“, but…yes.

Our animal friends.

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[Trevi Fountain by night]

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It is not, for me, a question of “hating” non-whites, but of providing a platform for the evolution of consciousness, for the eventual development of what might be called a “super-race”, in the sense of a people whose capacities would be seen by us, today, as “superhuman”.

Only the European people, speaking ethnically, can provide that platform and foundation for the later development. That is why we must oppose importation of non-whites into Europe, not because we “hate” them as such but because, primarily, their presence in Europe makes more likely a mixed-race population, which would make further evolution impossible.”

[from a blog post of early 2024, citing one published years earlier yet]

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[the sacred Swastika, symbol of evolution, including the evolution of consciousness]

Diary Blog, 25 May 2026

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Hyde]
[painting by Joyce Norwood]

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I do not “support” Reform UK (or Restore Britain) as such, but what matters now is that Labour loses at Makerfield, and that cannot happen if the anti-Labour vote is split in any substantial way. I fear that, as things are developing, that may happen, and that Jewish-lobby System puppet Andy Burnham will “blag” his way to an unmerited by-election victory.

14 words.

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I was just looking at a blog post from about 9 years ago. I still think the same.

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Yes, but what if the surrounding state is so hostile that it uses violence or the law (in the sense of fossilized state violence expressed as “lawfare”) against that white-northern-European community? What then?

Berg“? That must be an “antisemitic trope” (or the truth…).

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Wall. Squad. End.

The NHS needs radical reform, just like much of UK society. Ring-fenced funding from taxation, but also a cull of the bureaucracy and the “woke”/”anti-racist” and other propaganda, and a clear hierarchy.

Our animal friends.

Even Lenin liked cats.

[Lenin with cat, Moscow region, early 1920s]
[Lenin and cat in the Kremlin in 1920; also Krupskaya, and Lincoln Eyre, an American journalist]
[library cat]

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[“The Fuhrer as friend of animals“]

I agree with her.

That first tweeter, “Angloid” seems to believe that if only “nationalists” never “offended” anyone (Jews, blacks/browns/Muslims, “antifa” loonies and cretins, bien-pensant “normies” etc) then the mass of “normal” Brits would inevitably see the light and the “nationalist” side would triumph almost without having to struggle (no doubt at a “free and fair” general election before which the msm would present the “nationalist” case completely fairly on TV and in the Press)…

They want not only their daily bread but also their daily illusion“, as Hitler said in the late 1920s.

Well, that tweeter, “Angloid” is apparently 19. When I was 19, I also had some wrongheaded ideas (as well as some correct ones), so I should not wish to be too censorious but, when one is 69, as I now am, such naive thinking has or should have given way to a more realistic outlook, as St. Paul noted.

In an animated cartoon, a bell would, at this point, sound in or above someone’s head…

I am not someone who immediately sees a conspiracy in every situation, but I am inclined to think that both Restore and Reform are “controlled opposition”; however—in the absence of open revolution, or invasion by another state– the existing System parties can only be reduced to unimportance by the rise of a new party, or new parties.

Of course, two parties with (as it might be) 30%-40% of the popular vote split 2 ways are far less powerful a challenge to the System than one party with 30%-40% of that same vote.

Also, yes, that party or those parties may morph into System parties, as I predicted quite long ago would happen to Reform UK, but a Reform triumph (or Restore triumph) would still be far better than a continuation of the old “two/three main parties” scam, because Lab and Con would go, and with them much of the stability of the System.

I hear what Hodges is saying, but I see no evidence that System puppet Andy Burnham actually has any of the supposed great popularity anyway. Burnham may be more popular than both Starmer-stein and Kemi Badenoch, but that is not so difficult, after all. Also, Burnham has been effectively absent from public exposure (at least, for anyone more than 50 miles out of Manchester), so familiarity has not bred contempt…yet.

It does highlight how poorly the UK is provided with socio-political vision, though, that a mediocre fellow such as Andy Burnham is presented (by the msm and/or System) as some kind of Great White Hope.

Both of those tweets have a point.

I thought that that clip was a parody for a brief moment.

That character in the red jacket is a not-atypical kneejerk Labourite, the type to be found, even now, all over the North of England and, at least until a decade ago, in Scotland (I believe).

Look at him! Lives in a rubbish area, wears cheap rubbish clothes, may or may not even have a job, and has probably voted Labour at each and every opportunity.

Makerfield has had a Labour MP uninterruptedly for 43 years, since the seat was created. For 15 of those years, it has also had a Labour government, yet what good has that done for that long-haired “anti-fascist”? He’s still living in a rubbish area, still wearing the cheap shoddy clothing, still probably penniless… (and, voting Labour, probably has a n*****r for a neighbour!)…

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[Victor Ostrovsky, Moment of Truth]

Diary Blog, 24 May 2026

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[Regis Bouvier de Cachard, View of Tower Bridge]

Talking point

Bouvier de Cachard, by Colin Wilson

https://johnkersey.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/bouvier-de-cachard.pdf.

Worth reading.

[Regis Bouvier de Cachard, Fleurs sur le Port St. Tropez]

Tweets seen

As often said on the blog, neither side should be directly targeting civilians.

I not only agree, but also have always said so, both on the blog and generally.

As regular readers of the blog will know, I have little time for Reform UK ideologically, but see it as the only game in town in terms of destroying Lab and Con by 2029. To that end, I think that people in this by-election —specifically— should hold their noses and vote Reform.

A split anti-immigration (etc) vote at the Makerfield by-election will just let in fake-Labour Jewish-lobby puppet Andy Burnham, and that would substantially reduce the chance of Labour getting near-wiped out whenever the next GE is held (in or before 2029).

This country is so screwed…absolutely unbelievable.

The traitor-politicians of the System have imported millions of untermenschen trash of that sort. They should all be put up against a wall.

Please also refer to previous comment.

Stray thought

Just watched a very short Twitter/X clip of Andy Burnham, and had an immediate and unexpected feeling that, if he wins the Makerfield by-election, and if he then takes over the Labour Party, that…Labour will be finished.

I have no logic behind that; I have to admit as much; it was just a feeling, though undeniable.

[will work it out logically another time].

I suppose the fact is that Labour is washed up whichever careerist clown becomes its leader.

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Nihil novi sub sole

[Ecclesiastes 1:9]

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[“I created a parliamentary petition to stop the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre being built in the beautiful British Victoria Tower Gardens—located within a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

It was rejected.

The reason being that: ‘it requests action at a local level.’ The current status of the memorial: In January, the ‘UK Holocaust Memorial Act 2026’ became law and:

– Disapplied section 8 of the London County Council (Improvements) Act 1900 which legally required the park to be kept strictly as a public garden.

– Formally granted the government the power to use public funds to construct and operate the memorial and underground learning centre (estimated around £147m–£150m).

Important information: The applicant for the project is the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government: Steve Reed. – Steve Reed: • Member of Labour Friends of ‘israel’ (LFI) • 2 funded trips to ‘israel’ • £155,200 from pro-‘israel’ billionaire Lisbet Rausing • £1,800 from pro-‘israel’ jewish billionaire Trevor Chinn.

Reed works closely with the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation (UKHMF) as the expert advisory board appointed by the government to steer the project. The UKHMF is formed from ‘The Prime Minister’s Holocaust Commission’—launched in January 2014 by then-Prime Minister David Cameron.

The UKHMF is led by two Co-Chairs: The Rt Hon Lord Eric Pickles and The Rt Hon Ed Balls. – Eric Pickles: • Current Chairman of the Conservative Friends of ‘israel’ in the House of Lords. – Ed Balls: • Was an active, long-standing member of LFI throughout his time as a Member of Parliament and Shadow Chancellor.

Other members of the board include the following zionist jews: – Chief Rabbi (Genocide) Ephraim Mirvis Incorporates religious zionism into his official leadership role. – Sir Gerald Ronson CBE Major donor to prominent zionist charities. – The Rt Hon the Lord Feldman of Elstree Closely aligned with Conservative Friends of ‘israel’ (CFI). – Sir Lloyd Dorfman CBE Funds major institutional and cultural projects in ‘israel’. – Lord David Alliance Maintains extensive business and philanthropic ties with ‘israeli’ institutions.

Since the ‘government’ is the applicant, the next step is for a designated Minister to make the ‘independent planning decision’. That minister is: Samantha Dixon MBE MP, the Minister for Building Safety, Fire and Democracy.

Dixon can make one of the following decisions: 1. Approval with Conditions: Granting permission but imposing strict requirements (e.g., specific building materials). 2. Refusal: Denying the planning permission entirely, forcing the government to find an alternative site or fundamentally alter the project. 3. Call for a New Public Inquiry: If new evidence or massive public interest demands it, ordering a fresh, formal public inquiry before making a final determination.

What we can do next:

1. I am resubmitting a national petition The first was rejected as a ‘local’ issue. The new petition will demand national action: calling on the Government to halt public funding for the project and order a fresh, independent Public Inquiry. I will post the link as soon as it is live.

2. Object directly to the decision-maker Minister Samantha Dixon is legally required to review public objections before making her planning decision. Anyone can submit an objection: • Where to write: Email the Planning Casework Unit at MHCLG (pcu@communities.gov.uk). • What to say: Focus on valid ‘material planning considerations’ so it cannot be ignored. Cite the loss of Grade II-listed public green space, visual disruption to the UNESCO Westminster World Heritage Site, and crowd security risks next to Parliament.

3. Demand a Public Paper Petition from your MP If you collect physical signatures on a paper petition and hand it to your local MP, they can present it on the floor of the House of Commons. This legally forces the government to issue a formal, written ministerial response to our concerns. Victoria Gardens is one of Europe’s ‘Most Endangered’ heritage sites Spread the word. Protect the gardens.“]

Even some Jews, indeed even some Zionist Jews, oppose the building of this ugly piece of degraded architecture, an expression of Jew-Zionist supremacism, which will look like a cross between a public loo and a subterranean car park, and many also oppose its being built on the Gardens right next to the Palace of Westminster.

The project shouts out “Look! We are here! We rule! We own this country!

Notice how “they” use non-Jews as figureheads: corrupt politicians and ex-MPs— Pickles. Balls. A few years ago, that corrupt little pissant Robert Jenrick, too.

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

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https://twitter.com/warfareanalysis/status/2058249788047470831

[“If a non-jewish British citizen said that the pro-‘israel’ jewish lobby controls the police, government, media, national agenda, policies, and law—they are doxed, fired, and arrested.

Yet Campaign Against ‘Antisemitism’ boasts about it openly. And raises £1 million for it.

CAA is a de facto enforcement arm for ‘israel’ on British soil. And it does so while being granted charitable status. Receiving tax breaks. Gift Aid.

Meaning British taxpayers subsidise CAA’s activities.

Our money literally funds their lobbying and legal action against us.

This is how emboldened these zionist political militias are in Britain.

This is why British sovereignty, national independence, and civil liberties are contingent upon shutting down the pro-‘israel’ lobby.“]

Exactly.

Also note how, at a time when many, maybe most, real British people are struggling financially, “they” are able to give, whether as individuals or as families, untold thousands of pounds, adding up to half a million pounds, to support the malicious and perjuring “CAA” Jewish sub-terrorists.

Erratum: the above cartoon was drawn with the US in mind; in the UK, the figures would be about “...80% of billionaires are despite being <0.5% of the population“, so the situation is even more pronounced in this country.

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Oddly, some may think, I agree with much of that, even though it is obvious that the lady’s “Moderates” fantasy political party does not exist and, even if it did, would get nowhere. I suspect that the only members she has are the bottles or empties in her cellar or kitchen.

The Triple Lock is a matter of survival for many over-65s. To want to remove it is not only harsh, even cruel, but also political suicide. Surprising that the ex-wife of a former Conservative MP cannot see that.

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[Victor Ostrovsky, Mystery. She seems strangely familiar…]

Diary Blog, 22 May 2026

Announcement

Regret to announce that, by reason of a technical problem, my usual personal email is currently inoperative. Those readers who occasionally email me will therefore have to hope, as I do, that I shall be able to read emails again soon.

The (full) blog post itself will be published later today.

Afternoon music

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ina_Boyle]
[painting by Volegov]

Tweets seen

As often noted on the blog, neither side should be directly targeting civilians.

Stray thought

Happened to see an old, several years old, episode of the Celebrity Chase quiz show. One contestant was current affairs presenter (now on BBC Question Time), Fiona Bruce. Embarrassingly ignorant (as were most of the rest). She did not even know which ocean one crosses when travelling from Brazil to South Africa! Yet such idiots presume to present themselves as knowledgeable (and get paid a million or half a million a year). The British people deserve more from both the msm and others (notably, politicians).

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Wall. Squad. End.

As for an England that one cannot recognize, I have felt that way, to some extent, for about 25 years or so.

Time for more walls, squads, and ends…

System monkey-on-a-stick and political cretin.

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Quelle surprise

The house is, apparently, in the most expensive part of Dulwich.

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

Our animal friends.

“UK Lawyers for Israel” was the named pack of Jews that procured my wrongful and actually unlawful disbarment in 2016. UKLFI colluded in that with the connected pack of Jews called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”].

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and

What comfort that tweet must bring to the citizens of London at ground level, who would be incinerated during any real war…

The powers of the cat

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[Victor Ostrovsky, Le Chapeau]

Diary Blog, 21 May 2026

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Tweets seen

Amusing.

Axel Steier— Verrater.

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[Kreisleitertagung auf der Ordensburg Vogelsang vom 22.-29.04.1937]
[SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler at the Berghof]

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Hundreds of thousands of non-whites, mostly parasitic or criminal, and 90% or more of which are useless whichever way you look at it, are entering the UK every year. At the same time, a smaller but still considerable number of real English/British people are leaving. The “net migration” figure may be officially 171,000 (which is still enormous) but what it really means is that a couple of hundred thousand real Brits left, and half a million blacks, browns, Chinese etc flooded in.

Thoughts out of season

It may be that the salvation of our civilization lies not in its preservation, or its preservation as it is, but rather in its transformation into something totally different. A burial and then a resurrection or, to put it another way, a burial and then the germination of a seed of the future.

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That type of fake “libertarian” bs and money-worship needs to be stamped into the ground.

The reason that mass immigration is so important is that the migration issue impacts all other issues of importance: housing, taxation, education, pensions, crime, road congestion, crowded railways, and the NHS; even water shortages and energy security.

Well, import the pests, import also their ways of doing things.

[“The jewish Marks, Sieff and Sacher Families (Marks & Spencer Dynasty) were the primary architects of the economic and institutional pro-‘israel’ network in the UK.

After they ousted the son of English co-founder Thomas Spencer from the company, they used their wealth to fund ‘israel’s’ development and the IOF.

They were tightly interwoven through marriage: Israel Sieff and Harry Sacher married the sisters of Simon Marks—son of M&S co-founder and Polish immigrant Michael Marks—Rebecca and Miriam, respectively. Together, they formed the core of the ‘Manchester School of Zionism’ and:

  • Acted as the primary handlers and aides to Chaim Weizmann, the Russian jew who went on to become ‘israel’s’ first president.
  • Built the political machinery that lobbied the British War Cabinet, directly resulting in the 1917 Balfour Declaration.
  • Created a London headquarters at Great Russell Street, noted by historians as the physical ‘heart of the UK’s pro-‘israel’ lobby’.

After the Nakba in 1948, they systematically worked to repair the diplomatic damage left by the jewish terror on Britain during the Palestine Mandate by leveraging the immense economic clout of Marks & Spencer.

Michael Sacher became the primary financial force behind the creation of early political briefing groups. He bankrolled the British ‘israel’ Public Affairs Committee (BIPAC), which directly laid the logistical and structural foundation for what would become the Conservative Friends of ‘israel’ (CFI) in 1974.

M&S built ‘israel’s’ modern textile and agricultural industries through exclusive massive supply contracts with ‘israeli’ firms like Delta Galil. This injected hundreds of millions of vital foreign currency effectively making the British high street a major financial pillar of early ‘israeli’ entity survival.

Former M&S corporate spokespersons have said ‘We have a history and a background with “israel” that we are very proud of’.

M&S executives direct personal connections to ‘israel’:

  • Simon Marks (Lord Marks) was a close lifelong friend of Chaim Weizmann. During World War I, the British military officially detached Marks to direct Weizmann’s London headquarters, effectively allowing him to run early zionist political operations alongside his growing corporate empire.
  • In 1948, ‘israel’s’ first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, personally requested Lord Marcus Sieff (the future chairman of M&S) to help defend the new entity. Sieff temporarily joined the IOF, advising the ‘israeli’ Ministry of Defence on logistics, transportation, and supplies. He openly coordinated M&S goods and corporate finances to bolster the colony during its early aggressions on Palestinians and surrounding countries.
  • In his 1990 book, Management: The Marks and Spencer Way, Sieff explicitly wrote that one of the fundamental corporate objectives of M&S was to ‘aid the economic development of “israel”.’

They used their wealth to build the settler colony and to influence British politicians to forget the massacres of the British troops and civilians by jewish terrorist groups and become pro-‘israel’.“]

Of course, that may not reflect the present position of Marks and Spencer. Blue chip companies of that sort are now often owned, beneficially, more by impersonal capital-blocs such as pension funds.

Dr. Aladwan’s crowdfunder: https://chuffed.org/project/dr-rahmeh-vs-the-lobby-and-the-state.

The RAF should not be “poking the Bear” at all, and certainly not in the Black Sea region, which has nothing at all to do with British interests. Let the brutal, shambolic, and corrupt Jew-Zionist regime in Ukraine fight its own war…if it can.

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Forget the “left/right” stuff. Apart from that, though, I certainly agree.

More or less controlled by the Jewish lobby.

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[Victor Ostrovsky, The House]

Diary Blog, 20 May 2026

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[King’s College Chapel, Cambridge]

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The Starmer-stein Labour Friends of Israel government seems to do everything and anything that makes life more difficult for the British economy and people. Hopeless.

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[“I’m genuinely perplexed at how the ignorant horde of Reform shills could possibly go after this program.

“taxfunded horserides” – for severely disabled children, who are typically going to be in the realms of non-verbal, or will have other severe issues.

This is for children who struggle with any emotional depth, the animals are used to give them an emotional bond that they can extrapolate to other social situations.

There aren’t hordes of falsely diagnosed children riding horses for free, this is an utterly bizarre myth from Reformcels.”]

Many Reform UK candidates and voters are the same idiots who, from 2010 onward, voted “Conservative” because it suited them to believe that poor people on State benefits were somehow responsible for the economic problems of the UK.

There is only one reason to support Reform UK at all, and that is to ensure that the Lib-Lab-Con rigged political system is trashed by 2029; even though Reform is itself now —as I long-predicted on the blog— well and truly infiltrated and controlled by the Jewish-Zionist element, via Tice, Farage etc.

Once Reform is in government, and then (inevitably) fails at almost everything, real social-national forces can rise up…

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i.e. “they” are often the gravediggers of (purely-) European race and culture, and also usually want to control society (wherever they may live).

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They were right, but almost no-one was listening…

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Asians_from_Uganda#Aftermath

In 1972, thinking people were appalled at the prospect of an influx of 50,000 Ugandan Asians. In the end, about 27,000 arrived (the remainder going to other countries).

In 2026, there are more immigrants than that (27,000) arriving in the UK in any single month; indeed, about that number every week or so.

Exactly. (both tweets…).

If that “Darren” idiot believes all that, he has no business being in government. We could have all the gas we could possibly need from Russia quite cheaply and, if the UK were to leave NATO, that would or could be ours at or below cost price.

Incidentally, I drove through the now-very-odd town or “city” of Brighton the other day, the first time I had seen it since I appeared as Counsel in the County Court there about 19 or 20 years ago. Driving along the seafront, I noticed that the view now includes a whole line of ugly offshore wind turbines in the distance. Horrible.

I say “odd“, by the way, because I have not seen so many peculiar people on the streets since I was last in Oxford. It is as if some social magnet has attracted tribes of “weirdos” to those cities.

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An extreme example of the police once again prioritizing the repression of fake or non-crime (a white boy uttering a supposedly “racist” word or two) over dealing with real crime (an untermensch stabbing said white boy).

It might be said that the police did not acquit themselves well in that incident— on the one hand too brutal (the policeman who kicked a prone detainee in the head), on the other hand completely useless (the women police crying like little girls), but there is surely little doubt that the defendants were guilty. I wonder what was the racial/cultural make-up of the jury (I can guess…).

A horrible tribe.

Incidentally, that Biblical reference (the correct form is Revelation 3:9, not “Revelations” 3:9…) is this:

Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

Translates to a Commons with about 281 Labour MPs (45 short of a majority), 210 Reform UK (strong official Opposition), 60 LibDems, 49 Cons, 19 SNP, 8 Greens [etc].

That really puts the cat among the pigeons. Labour would have to make an accommodation with the LibDems. Even so, that coalition —or whatever— would still have a mere 15-MP majority.

On those figures, the Greens would really be put back in their box. 8 MPs; only +3 compared to their position now.

As to the Conservatives, on those figures Kemi Badenoch would lose her seat, and her party would have fewer than half the MPs it retained at GE 2024.

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Diary Blog, 17 May 2026

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[Russian special forces operatives deploying at high altitude and in winter conditions]

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Our animal friends.

For once, Piers Morgan says something correct, if unoriginal.

Who on Earth would vote “Conservative” now? I presume only people aged 70+ and who take little interest in what is actually happening in the UK, or in what has happened over the past 16+ years.

I am presuming that that half-Jew has been promised a peerage in return for facilitating Burnham’s return to Parliament. If it happens.

Britain must become, or revert to being, an ethnostate, before anything else. That will not solve all of our problems, or solve any of them 100%, but it will solve most of them 95%. Start from there.

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Our animal friends.

History, not fake history.

True. The betting market is a poor guide to the likely result of a by-election in particular.

[“To get a license to drive a black cab in London, you have to memorize 25,000 streets, 20,000 landmarks, and the fastest route between any two points in a six-mile radius of Charing Cross. It takes most people three to four years.

A British neuroscientist asked the obvious question nobody had thought to ask. What does that actually do to a human brain?

Her name was Eleanor Maguire. The study changed neuroscience forever.

The exam is called The Knowledge. It was introduced in 1865, and the format has barely changed since.

Applicants ride a moped around London for years with a clipboard strapped to the handlebars, tracing every possible route between every possible pair of points in the city.

They get tested in person by an examiner who can ask them, on the spot, for the shortest legal route between any two addresses in a database of tens of thousands. Half the people who attempt it fail.

The ones who pass have spent an average of four years studying full time and have taken the test 12 times before getting through.

Maguire was watching a TV movie about it in 1995 when she had the idea. These were not ordinary people. They were people running one of the most extreme spatial memory training programs that exists anywhere on Earth.

If the human brain could be reshaped by experience, this was the cleanest natural experiment anyone was ever going to find.

She put 16 of them in an MRI machine.

Their posterior hippocampi were significantly larger than the brains of matched controls. The longer a driver had been working, the bigger the difference got.

A 40-year veteran had a measurably more developed hippocampus than a 5-year veteran, and both had more than someone who had never driven a cab.

Here is why that finding broke a century of consensus.

Until 2000, every neuroscience textbook in the world taught a version of the same idea. The adult brain is essentially fixed. You are born with a set number of neurons. Childhood is the window where the wiring gets laid down. After puberty, the structure freezes, and the rest of your life is just slow decline.

Maguire’s study was one of the first pieces of human evidence that this was simply wrong. Adult brains physically remodel themselves in response to what you ask them to do. Not metaphorically. Structurally. With grey matter you can measure on a scan.

The skeptics had an obvious objection. Maybe people with bigger hippocampi were just more likely to become taxi drivers in the first place. The brains were not changing. The job was selecting for brains that already looked that way.

So Maguire ran the experiment again. Properly this time.

She recruited 79 trainees who were just starting to study for The Knowledge and 31 controls who were not. She scanned all of them at the start. Then she waited four years. Of the 79 trainees, 39 eventually passed the exam and 20 failed. She scanned them again.

The trainees who passed had grown larger posterior hippocampi over those four years. The trainees who failed had not. The controls who never studied had not. The brain change was not selection. It was construction.

The act of memorizing the city had physically rebuilt the part of the brain responsible for spatial memory, and the rebuild only happened in the people who actually did the work.

There is a quieter finding from this research that almost nobody quotes, and it is the one I cannot stop thinking about.

The drivers had a bigger posterior hippocampus, but they had a smaller anterior hippocampus. The brain had not magically expanded. It had reallocated. Tissue that was being used for one type of memory had been compressed to make room for another.

When Maguire ran follow-up cognitive tests, the cabbies were measurably worse than controls at certain visual memory tasks unrelated to navigation. They had paid for The Knowledge with something else. The trade was real.

She also ran a second control experiment that is the part of the story most people never hear. She scanned London bus drivers. Same hours behind the wheel. Same city. Same traffic. Same stress. The only difference was that bus drivers follow fixed routes. They do not have to navigate. Their hippocampi looked completely normal.

The cab drivers had not grown bigger hippocampi from driving. They had grown them from the constant, active, effortful retrieval of spatial information from memory.

That distinction is the entire study.

Then in 2020, McGill researchers ran the inverse experiment. They tracked 50 regular drivers and measured how often they used GPS. The participants who relied most heavily on turn-by-turn navigation had measurably weaker spatial memory. When the researchers retested a subset of them three years later, the heavier GPS users had declined fastest.

The hippocampus, the same region the cabbies had built up by ignoring shortcuts, was being slowly hollowed out in everyone else by accepting them.

The mechanism Maguire spent 25 years documenting works in both directions. Brains grow what you make them grow. They lose what you stop asking them to do.

The taxi drivers were running the most intense spatial memory training program on Earth. Most of the rest of us are running the opposite program without realizing it.

Maguire died in early 2025. UCL’s tribute described the cabbie study as a stroke of creative genius. She had spent her entire career on a single question. What does it physically take to remember something, and what changes inside a person who remembers a lot of it.

The answer is the part that should change how you live.“]

Russian (Siberian) village life in 2026

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[Arnold Bocklin, Ruins by the Sea]

Diary Blog, 15 May 2026

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[public statuary by Arno Breker; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Breker]

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Our unconquerable children!

[“No, Ayesha. Spare us the condescending history lesson from someone whose family rode the post-war immigration wave into a nation your ancestors could never have built.

This is our island.

The English, the British peoples forged it through blood, genius and endurance.

Your smug “adapt and cope” is the language of replacement, not coexistence. We built this; we will reclaim it.

Your hospital anecdote is peak immigrant entitlement.

Yes, the NHS has around 21% non-British staff, one in five, with doctors at 36% and nurses at 30% foreign.

That’s not proof of British inadequacy. It’s proof of catastrophic policy failure: chronic under-training of our own people, welfare dependency that keeps native working-class youth out of rigorous professions, and an open-door policy that floods the system with cheaper imported labour while British graduates face debt and delays.

The NHS Long-term Workforce Plan admits over-reliance on overseas recruitment leaves us exposed – exactly as we warned.

Britain ran hospitals before mass immigration.

We invented modern medicine and public health.

We can staff them again by prioritising our own: expand medical school places, reform welfare to incentivise native work, and stop importing the world’s problems.

Britain a “tiny island” that “couldn’t manage on its own”? Laughable revisionism.

This “tiny island” led the Industrial Revolution, dominated global trade, and created the modern world with predominantly native ingenuity.

The Empire wasn’t plunder, it was a civilising force that spread law, language, infrastructure, abolition of slavery (while your Islamic forebears were still trading slaves), and prosperity to places that lag to this day.

India’s railways, administration, and parliamentary model? British. Pakistan’s very existence as a modern state? Carved from British India.

We gave more than we took, and colonies volunteered in both world wars because the alternative, Axis domination, was worse.

WW2? Britain stood alone in 1940 against the Nazi onslaught while your part of the world sat it out or collaborated.

Empire troops were vital auxiliaries Indian Army magnificent, no doubt but the strategy, navy, air force, intelligence, and industrial backbone were British.

We invented radar, broke Enigma, held the Atlantic, and led D-Day.

Without us, the Empire contribution wouldn’t have existed.

Don’t rewrite victory as dependency.

Manufacturing decline? Not because “we don’t want to work.”

It’s globalisation, cheap foreign competition, EU regulations, unions, energy costs, and yes – mass low-skilled immigration that suppressed wages, discouraged training apprenticeships, and let businesses avoid investing in British workers.

Cheap Pakistani and Indian factory labour in the 50s-70s papered over cracks instead of modernising.

Result: hollowed-out heartlands, welfare underclass, and now you lecture us for noticing.

High immigration hasn’t revived manufacturing; it’s correlated with stagnation, housing crisis, and strained services.

Your people’s “future generations” aren’t “resented for not being subservient.”

They’re resented for forming parallel societies, demanding sharia, delivering grooming gangs on an industrial scale in Rotherham and beyond, and polling consistently higher support for Islamic law, jihad sympathy, and rejection of British norms.

UK-born Muslims are growing fast – higher fertility, chain migration – projected to reshape our demographics while native birth rates collapse.

That’s not enrichment; it’s conquest by womb and welfare.

Half UK-born now, yet integration metrics on free speech, women’s rights, apostasy, and loyalty remain dire. You don’t assimilate, you expand.

The time for your entitlement is over.

Britain owes you nothing beyond the rule of law your forebears never extended to dhimmis.

We owe our children a secure homeland.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.”]

Do not agree with all of that, but can agree with 90% or more.

Wall. Squad. End.

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Electoral politics may, after 2029, be over, but national revolutionary politics will then rise up to exterminate evil.

Deport?” He should be put up against a wall. In public.

[“We’ve had free speech in the UK for a very very long time”. That’s what Keir Starmer said to President Trump. But now look at what just happened in the UK in the last 48 hours alone.

Starmer’s government is pushing ahead with plans to scrap jury trials that will trash our ancient traditions, despite these never appearing in the Labour manifesto.

Starmer’s government is pushing ahead with plans to impose Digital ID – a naked power grab – despite this also never appearing in the Labour manifesto.

Starmer’s government is pushing ahead with plans to impose EU single market rules and laws which will cost the people billions of pounds while stripping us of our sovereignty, going against the democratic Brexit vote, and leaving us unable to influence EU decisions.

And Starmer’s government just BANNED conservatives from entering Britain on the grounds they are “not conducive to the public good”…As I explain in my newsletter below, contrary to what Keir Starmer tells you this is all happening. We face a sustained attack on our freedoms. And so the quicker not just Keir Starmer but this authoritarian Labour government is removed from power the better. They’ve never understood the British people. They’ve never understood our ancient traditions. And they’ve never understood our country.“]

The [Israeli] Jews (with support from the worldwide web of Jews in other parts of the world) did that, but “what goes around comes around“.

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[“Professor Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago – on the fact that there is no doubt about Russia’s victory now:

I think there’s no doubt that the Russians took a pause. And I think there’s no doubt that the Ukrainians recaptured a tiny part of the territory, but that doesn’t matter in the big picture. And the Russians are now advancing again. It’s absolutely obvious. And although they’re not capturing territory as I think we expected two or three years ago, largely due to the presence of a huge number of drones and problems, there’s no doubt that they’re moving forward.

And I believe that in the near future they will eventually capture Donbass. Who will win this war? I think the Russians will win. They will get 20% of Ukraine and a frozen conflict. So I think there’s no hope that Ukraine will regain all the territory it lost in the eastern part of its country. It’s just not going to happen.
So the only interesting question at the moment is – how big a victory will Russia achieve? Will it capture all the territory in these four regions that it annexed? Or will it capture only a part of this territory?
“]

Well done!

[“Kirill Budanov stated that the volunteers in Ukraine have run out, and now there are only millions of draft evaders left. According to him, it’s impossible to completely stop mobilization, as it’s unrealistic to fully staff the army without it.

The only thing that can be attempted to reform is the manifestations of inhumane treatment during forced conscription. Not the act of conscription itself, he emphasized.

At the same time, over the past 3–4 months, the number of TCK( military hunters) groups has increased by 40%, and their staff has been expanded. The groups work daily according to orders and have the right to conduct notifications on public transport, in the streets, and at work and residence places.“]

It may be the world may, and sooner than we may think, be reduced to a tenth, or even a hundredth, of its present population. Even if that surviving population were a thousandth of the present population, and even if white Northern Europeans were only a thousand of that thousandth (i.e. ~8,000 people), so long as those ~8,000 people were the right type, in every respect, we should be able to build a new order and a new world on the skulls and bones of the old.

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[The Wicker Man (1973)]

DNA studies prove that most of the present population of Europe is descended from only three men (and possibly many more women) of the Bronze Age, and that about half of the present echt-European population may be descended from only one man (but probably many women). Makes one think…

The stars in their courses fight on the side of the just” [ancient Chinese proverb].

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Diary Blog, 12 May 2026

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[Palace of Westminster]

Craig Murray

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

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Incredible. Shabana Mahmood only worked for about a year, and at the lowest level, as a “gopher” in a provincial firm of solicitors, before becoming an MP. Now she has millions? How? Lammy, that ridiculously-ignorant creature, apparently has amassed £5M. How?

There is something wrong here.

Our animal friends.

[“Love for animals— the Fuhrer has that before everything else!“]

That must have been years ago. That backing by Hodges and other msm scribblers was of course the message sent by the Israel lobby but, as said, years ago. Now that the Jewish/Israel lobby has seen that the present, Labour Friends of Israel and Starmer-led, government is fast failing, and that the Kemi Badenoch bad joke Conservatives are not cutting through with the voters, the Jewish/Israel lobby has switched its support to Reform UK, and particularly to their main Trojan Horse in Reform, Tice.

Quite. See also:

…and I am sure that the fact that the “Ukrainian” (Kiev-regime) government is basically Jewish is a completely irrelevant fact…

When Labour and Conservative parties say that they are “Friends of Israel”, they mean it! (if by “friends” is meant “sell-outs”).

[“We are in trouble.

We are surrounded by people who seek to curb our free speech and our right to assemble and they have weaponised antisemitism to do it.

The problem is, our top cop, Prime Minister and an assortment of compromised politicians, media outlets and bought ‘patriots’ all support it.

Even typing this could find the police at my door for the second time in a week.

They are dangerously over-zealous in their obedience to Israel and our citizens are paying the price.

It is not antisemitic to say Israel is ‘running the UK’.

It is anti-Zionism and that is protected in UK law.

Don’t conflate the two, that’s antisemitic.

British people are not a priority in our own country.

Our politicians, police and media are compromised.

These people are Israel First and they are harming us“]

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Michelle Dewberry

Happened to see an episode of the Celebrity Chase quiz show, one “celebrity” being Michelle Dewberry, of GB News: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Dewberry.

Incredibly ignorant.

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“Chuck-up”? I thought that that dim half-caste puppet (or “muppet”) had disparu from “British” politics forever. As for “Change UK”, I blogged about it quite a few times (always very disparagingly) back in 2019, prior to its utter meltdown at the 2019 General Election: https://ianrobertmillard.org/?s=change+uk.

If that freeloading, moneygrubbing careerist rat is leaving the sinking Keir Starmer, then the ship is certainly about to go to the bottom.

Blast from past

[from a blog post dated 29 October 2021]

[“@Marshmyst They just don’t care about white children, but they couldn’t take to their knees quick enough for BLM and the scum george Floyd.

It doesn’t look like many Labour or opposition MPs turned up to Conservative @_RobbieMoore debate on a public inquiry into the disgusting grooming gangs in Bradford, there are 3 Labour MPs in the area and not one bothered to turn up for the debate!“]

[from tweeter @havingagiraf]

[“…and both Jewish-lobby puppet Keir Starmer and thick-as-two-short-planks Angela Rayner got down on one knee in fealty to the alien mob. Never forget that.

“Labour”-label needs to disappear forever. So does the “Conservative” Party, but one System monster at a time. Labour first.”]

[from this blog in 2021]

[“never forget“… Starmer-stein and Angela Rayner on their knees in 2021 in fealty to the “Black Lives Matter” international conspiracy nonsense and socio-political scam]

Bin them.

(in the present unfree climate of censorship and lawfare “control”, I cannot say what I should prefer to say).

Reminds me of those old 1970s “bank manager in the cupboard” TV ads. “The Prime Minister in the cupboard” (or would that be “Cabinet“— or, indeed, “closet“?)…

Exactly. If Starmer wanted to say “**** you!” to Labour MPs, he could call a general election at which he, and all but a handful of Labour MPs, maybe 50, would lose their seats. What, however, if he were to call for an election but most Labour MPs were to refuse to vote for it, and refuse dissolution/prorogation?

[“BREAKING — Reporting restrictions have finally been lifted on the first Filton case, concerning a Palestine Action raid on an Elbit Systems factory in Bristol.

The media is now allowed to report that the activists can be sentenced with regard to a “terrorism connection”.

The jury was not allowed to know that this “terrorism connection” could be applied at sentencing, and found four of the six defendants guilty of “criminal damage”, with one of them also convicted of GBH without intent.

Being sentenced as terrorists means the activists could face significantly longer prison sentences and would be listed as terrorists upon release.

The other two defendants, Zoe Rogers and Jordan Devlin, were found not guilty.”]

“They” —and I do not mean anti-Israel protesters— destroy any society where they hold power or exercise significant influence.

The second tweet of course defines “arrogant“.

[Update, 13 May 2026: Looks as if the second tweet has been deleted].

Tim Stanley is a complete idiot. Starmer has always been arrogant and stubborn, as witness his over-reaction to the 2024 protests.

Incidentally, many people, such as Stanley there, confuse stubbornness with strong will. Mrs. Thatcher was a prime example of someone mainly stubborn, not someone with a strong positive will.

Example of someone strong-willed? Hitler, of course, at least until the immensity of imminent defeat in 1945 made him merely stubborn in the final weeks; also Lenin, who was able to change tactics while continuing with an inflexible overall strategy.

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It’s as if both the Kiev regime and the German Government prefer to ignore the fact that Russia has 6,000-7,000 nuclear weapons…

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Diary Blog, 10 May 2026

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[Neuschwanstein]

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Thesis–antithesis–synthesis.

Market capitalism/Leninism/National Socialism–synthesis

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Shocking.

Only white English/British persons should be MPs, elected officials, judges, barristers, armed forces officers etc.

A big anniversary is not so far off now— 1933-2033.

[“I am now under investigation for a ‘Racially Aggravated Public Order’ offence following an allegation of ‘Holocaust Denial.’

This is a calculated conflation designed to criminalise my anti-Zionism by falsely framing it as Holocaust denial and ‘antisemitic.’

I have been hesitant to share anything on social media recently, as I am currently navigating the immense weight of an oncology referral. For weeks, I have existed in a state of torturous limbo and psychological paralysis – teetering on the edge while awaiting medical confirmation.

Last night, I was met by police upon disembarking the train from an Oncologist appointment in London. A passenger (who had apparently overheard a conversation I was having with another passenger) reportedly contacted the British Transport Police by text, stating they felt ‘uncomfortable’ because they claim I had allegedly made reference to – and specifically ‘denied’ – the Holocaust.

I will state categorically: I have, for some time, absolutely expressed my deeply held anti-Zionist beliefs in criticism of a nationalist and racist ideology. I continue to draw a clear, vital distinction between Judaism and Zionism.

This is not ‘Holocaust denial.’

As I stated to the police, my own grandfather was Jewish.

We are living in the prophecy. The Orwellian enforcers are no longer fiction. Free speech is dead. Two-tier ‘justice’ is the new standard. And eventually, the hammer falls on everyone. I am living the warning, and have been for 6 years: once you’re in their sights, the cycle is eternal.

That said; I am not, in any capacity, a racist or ‘antisemite.’ I have spent over half a decade relentlessly fighting for truth, justice, peace, and freedom for all people – regardless of faith or race.

While I am drowning in the weight of a constant, killing obligation – a life spent tired, broke, and broken by sacrifices that the system uses to bury me… I still continue the fight.”]

In fact, as blogged for several years, and as repeatedly declared by the courts in England, neither “holocaust” “denial” nor “antisemitism” are crimes in England.

One of the major problems in this country is that the police, particularly at ground level, are often unaware of what the law is, and so what is either lawful or unlawful. On the face of it, the above tale illustrates that.

We saw, in the whole national nonsense-panic of the “Covid” scam of 2020-2022, how the police (infected by the Common Purpose cancer) tended to take it upon themselves to make up laws and make up new powers for themselves, and so attempt to stop people from going for walks, or sit on park benches, or use the roads, or go shopping etc. Some police woodentops even examined people’s supermarket purchases to “check” whether they were “reasonable”! This is not “conspiracy theory”. It happened. It happened in this country. It happened only 4-6 years ago, at that.

At an educated guess, the passenger who called the police in the above story was yet another of the often seen Jew-Zionist troublemakers, one who (as far as one can see from the tweet) did not wait around to say anything in person.

My educated further guess, therefore, is that he/she will never testify in court as to any “anxiety” or whatever that he/she may pretend to have suffered as a result of having eavesdropped on the conversation of others. In any case, as already stated, neither “holocaust” “denial” nor “antisemitism” are, without more, crimes in this country.

It does remind us what sort of semi police state we now live in, though, and what types are behind most of that.

The lady tweeter seems to be under the misapprehension that “holocaust” “denial” and/or “antisemitism” are crimes in England. They are not.

Someone should tell that lady as much, in view of the fact that she, suffering from a diagnosis of possible cancer, is also now suffering by reason of the operation of the present toytown police state made worse by Starmer-stein and his satraps.

[“Are people like myself and @CoviLeaks safe in London where our police chief, Sir Mark Rowley, has meetings with Israeli assets and lobbyists?

@metpoliceuk These two cops showed up at my door this week claiming I had been reported for ‘anti-semitism’ on my ‘Golders Green’ report. They were confused about the whole thing, including whether the person who reported me lived at my address! They didn’t know if the allegation against me was true or not (it wasn’t) but they were still sent out to threaten and intimidate me on my doorstep. They wanted to come in. I said no. In part, because my dog was kicking off at their presence but also because I knew my neighbour’s ring camera would capture the whole thing – and it did. Last night @CoviLeaks was met by a police officer when she exited a train because some a-hole took offence to her zionist-questioning conversation.

@10DowningStreet these are attacks on our free speech on behalf of a foreign state but you can bet your life that the ‘Free Speech Union’ won’t be interested because the man running it – Lord Toby Young – is a director of British Friends of Israel Ltd.

@toadmeister We are a captured nation and this week I will be taking action. I will not be scared into silence.“]

Brava!

Another example, on the face of it, of uninformed police people sent on a mission the aim of which seems to have been socio-political intimidation by “the usual suspects”…

Again, though, there seems to be a background belief that “holocaust” “denial” and/or “antisemitism” are crimes. No. They are not crimes, as such, not in England.

Starmer-stein’s recent pathetic kow-towing to the Jewish/Israel lobby was a blatant attempt to keep his undeserved position as, or posing as, Prime Minister, and to do that he was willing to remove even those few free speech rights left to the people. An evil little bastard.

The present Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is now apparently doing the same at his lower level, so seems to be another enemy of the people.

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[Black and Tans search a suspect at gunpoint in Ireland c. 1920. Note that the private soldier, his long weapon standing alongside, appears to be using the officer’s service revolver, already cocked, to cover the suspect, as the officer (wearing Sam Browne belt) searches the man’s pockets. Alternatively, the officer himself may have a pistol or revolver in his right hand as he uses his left to go through the suspect’s pockets. Note also that there is the body of a woman lying in the roadway behind]

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_War_of_Independence]

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Looks like not very many turned up, looking also at other tweets. “What if they held a demonstration against ‘antisemitism’ and nobody came?“…so to speak.

GB News Irish reporter-drone talks about “thousands” attending in Whitehall. Looks to me more like hundreds. When you think that Jews in the UK number 250,000-300,000, and that most live in the London and surrounding (Hertfordshire/Essex etc) area, not a very impressive turnout.

One of the few photos showing much of the crowd at that Jew-Zionist demo. Hundreds, yes, thousands, no.

I expect the TV news shows will play along, though, and talk about “thousands“, or even “tens of thousands“…

Out of well over 200,000 Jews even in the London area…

Seems that the Nigerian woman presently “leading” what is left of the Conservative Party was at that Jewish demonstration.

Also, seems that Tice was there. Reform UK was underwhelming even before it became overtly pro-Israel and pro-Jewish lobby. Now, it is dead for me, except that it has the potential to kill the rigged Con/Lab political system over the next 2-3 years, so I support its rise on that basis. Later, we’ll see.

Buffoon LibDem, Ed Davey, also turned up to pledge allegiance to “them”…

Noticeable that no mainstream political commentators are bothering to tweet about that Jewish demonstration. Underlines how marginal or peripheral it is.

Allison Pearson is a sadly-dim msm drone and scribbler; writes about “free speech“, and whines about having had the police at her door, yet makes common cause with the Jew-Zionist lobby which is behind most of the assault on free speech and freedom of expression in the UK.

…and there we have yet another non-European Reform UK candidate and now office-holder. It feels at times almost as if Reform is “taking the p***”.

Apparently a South Korean immigrant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Kim.

[“I have a lot of Jewish friends and none of them voted Tory this time. She is part of the antisemitism problem – she backs Netanyahu no matter what and refuses to recognise Palestine. That is a complete break with long-standing Tory policy. As for “outperforming”, she suffered catastrophic losses – in my area losing control of 2 county councils and she was beaten in her own backyard meaning she is likey to lose her seat. CCHQ seems unhinged.”]

Labour’s supposed Great White Hope, Burnham, is not even an MP, so if Starmer-stein goes, and a leadership election held so, Burnham will not have the locus standi to contest it. If someone else takes over, then Burnham may find a seat but (unless willing to trigger yet another leadership contest), be unable to become Labour leader prior to the next general election.

There is also the point that, while it is not mandatory to hold a general election merely because a prime minister has stepped down, not to do so gives an impression to the voters of illegitimacy, that the new incumbent is afraid to hold a general election, and that he or she is clinging to an office not fully-legitimately occupied.

The problem for Labour is that, even if Burnham were to be anointed as Leader of Labour, any general election in 2026 would probably still be disastrous for them. Maybe not as disastrous, and leading to maybe 150 MPs rather than the 100 or fewer predicted by present opinion polling, but still pretty poor.

Typical. Former (?) little cocaine-abuser Toby Young, who runs the fake “free speech” org called “Free Speech Union”, suddenly does not want free speech or reportage, or comment, if the speech, reportage, or comment says anything critical (honest, accurate) about the Jews and/or Israel.

Needless to say, Young’s fake free speech org also said not a word to support my free speech, or that of –to take a few examples out of many— Alison Chabloz, Jez Turner, Sven Longshanks, Nick Griffin etc.

Toby Young. Hypocrite. Puppet.

Cat fight?

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Not so much the worship of the Golden Calf as worship of the gold-plated bullshitter…

I can only think of one good thing to say about Angela Rayner: she did not turn up today at the Israel/Jewish lobby protest in Whitehall.

Were I to say what I really think of Starmer-stein —unexpurgated version— I should probably have to endure the boredom of having to interact politely with the ground-level operatives of the new “British” toytown police state, at my door once again, so I leave it to the imagination of the readers of the blog.

If Starmer-stein is replaced, his replacement will face a dilemma— either call a general election to validate the change of Prime Minister, which is not constitutionally “necessary” but is politically necessary, or just hang on until the polling looks better for Labour, which will probably never happen.

The latter must be tempting, but has not worked out well in the past for those in such situations; Sunak, Gordon Brown, James Callaghan etc.

That dilemma is made more difficult by the fact that, on present polling, Labour might well, in a 2026 general election, lose all but a relative handful of MPs (some polls indicate that the survivors might number as few as 37, and few if any polls have Labour with more than 150).

At present, Labour has 403 MPs out of 650. In other words, if a general election were to be called this year, the likelihood is that at least 253, and possibly 366, would lose their seats.

Basic Income is one necessity or at least near-necessity.

Well said.

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[Arno Breker, Lion Bastion, statuary by the shore of the Maschsee, Hanover; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Breker]