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Diary Blog, 8 November 2026

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[1930s commemoration in Munich, honouring the fallen and wounded of the Beer Hall Putsch —aka Hitler-Ludendorff Putsch— of 8-9 November 1923]

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British society, or UK society, is gradually sliding to dystopia.

In the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, stabbings happened, but were relatively rare. Now they are a daily occurrence, are often fatal, and occur even in supposedly “good” areas of the country. Most, though far from all, are committed by blacks and browns.

The victims, accosted in the street, fight for their lives. They know that front-line service in the army of the Kiev regime is a death sentence, as also is to be sent to the prisons and torture-centres of the regime.

This is what the governments of the UK and EU are supporting and funding— a brutal Jew-Zionist/Ukrainian thug dictatorship.

If some of the Gazans behave monstrously, this is one example of the reason why— the behaviour and actions of the Israeli Jews over years, indeed decades, and particularly in the past few years.

If, as widely claimed, Jews have been expelled from over 100 states and territories throughout recorded history, it is surely relevant to ask why.

Meanwhile, I am seeing tweets from UK-resident Jews mocking the Palestinian Arabs suffering like that in Gaza…

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Diary Blog, 7 November 2026

Morning music

[Petrograd, March (new style) 1917]

Today marks the 109th anniversary of the Bolshevik seizure of power in October (old style) 1917, arguably the most significant single event in the Europe of the 20th Century.

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Saturday quiz

Well, this week 5/10, thus trumping the 3/10 scored by political journalist John Rentoul. I knew the answers to questions 3, 4, 5, 9, and 10. I just missed getting the answer to question 8 as well but, in the old saying, “a miss is as good as a mile“…

Tweets seen

Ridiculous Andy Burnham is continuing with the “we stand with Ukraine” nonsense, funnelling money to the Kiev regime dictatorship while Britain sinks under inflationary pressure. Unsurprising. He is just another performing monkey, not an organ-grinder.

Talking point

From my old Twitter account. A pack of Jews conspired to have me expelled from Twitter, which happened in 2018. Ironically, the expulsion meant that I was saved from yet another politically-motivated prosecution such as that which happened later (in 2023-2024). The Jewish lobby shot itself in the foot.

A few of my old tweets are still extant, in the Twitter/X timelines of Jew-Zionist trolls.

Another old tweet:

Still true, perhaps more obviously so in the circumstances of 2026.

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[“Powerful explosions in Riyadh and an urgent warning from the United States

A second wave of powerful explosions rocked the capital of Saudi Arabia this morning. At the same time, the United States warned its citizens in the kingdom about the possibility of “large-scale and significant attacks” in the coming hours.

A representative of the coalition led by Saudi Arabia, confirming the rocket attack on Riyadh, stated that one of the missiles was intercepted. Earlier, he also reported an airstrike on Riyadh and the interception of a drone.“]

Ha.

I hope that the easily-misled American public understand which (((element))) is instigating this war (and most of the others)…

“Memories may differ”.

Leaving that aside, there is a lot of nonsense talked about WW2 rationing.

Recent studies drawing upon contemporaneous records etc have shown that, for about a third of the population of the UK, they were actually better-fed during wartime rationing than they had been in the 1930s.

Quite a few food items were not rationed at all, including fish (and seafood generally), though availability was a problem; potato; carrot; parsnip; bread (only rationed after the end of the war); game, including game birds and rabbits; honey; fresh fruit grown in the UK (however, often unobtainable in shops); and booze (though only beer and cider were widely available, and not always so).

Naturally, those best-off were farmers and growers, especially the larger country landowners who would have had game (rabbits, deer, freshwater fish such as trout), unrationed chickens (and so, eggs, which were also otherwise rationed), other domestic or wild fowl (duck, geese etc).

Such people would also have had kitchen gardens and glasshouses in which to grow food; also orchards etc. They might well also have had cellars containing —otherwise almost unobtainable— wine.

Furthermore, such fairly or very affluent people would also very likely have had stocks of tinned food (fish, meat, vegetables) stockpiled since the late 1930s (as recommended, inter alia, by famous author and journalist Dennis Wheatley, in his late 1930s newspaper columns).

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

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_Kingdom#Second_World_War_1939%E2%80%931945

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_garden#Britain

and

https://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20200524-victory-gardens-a-war-time-hobby-thats-back-in-fashion

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[“My medical licence was suspended in November 2025. For 15 months. As a result of my advocacy for Palestine. At the behest of the UK pro-‘israel’ and zionist jewish lobby. Today, I had my second six-monthly review with the @gmcuk and @the_mpts.

For my submission, covering any updates since the last review in May 2026, I told the panel:

– 4,797 Palestinians have since been murdered by the jewish occupation in Gaza. 1,490 of them were children. That is 31%.

-Bombing and massacres occur daily. – Palestinians continue to be held hostage, kidnapped, and tortured. – ‘israel’ continues with impunity, without justice for the Palestinians or the British citizens they massacred.

The GMC counsel described me as ‘unrepentant’ in my social media activity, giving this as one reason to continue my suspension. I affirmed that I am indeed unrepentant in speaking out against the genocide and the system of supremacy that the UK government continues to fund and arm. That is anchored in my belief in the sanctity of life and the belief that God created all humans equally.

The suspension continues, of course. The GMC will have to apply to the High Court in February if they want to extend it further.

I miss my job and career. I miss practising medicine, caring for patients and the British people. My words, spoken or shared, were against their crimes. Their barbarity. To be unrepentant in this is my duty as a human, a Muslim, and a doctor. Free Palestine and Britain from zionism.”]

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

Late tweets

Strange, unpleasant, and seemingly pointless incident. I myself have been in that square a number of times, though long ago (1988 and 1989). In fact, I was best man at a large wedding held in October or November (I think October) 1989 at the famous Basilica of St. Mary, which itself is in that same square.

[Basilica of St. Mary, Krakov]
[Main Nave, Basilica of St. Mary, Krakov. I remember well standing there in 1989 when best man at a large wedding, the crowds of unconnected onlookers kept behind a rope somewhere behind where I was standing in front of the main altar, near the marrying couple and the priest]

[“China Purchased 26 Tons of Gold in One Month

In October 2026, the People’s Bank of China increased its gold reserves by approximately 25.8 tons. This marks the 24th consecutive month that China has been purchasing gold.

With this purchase, the total amount of gold acquired by China since the beginning of the year has reached approximately 129 tons, and the country’s gold reserves have exceeded 78 million troy ounces.

Meanwhile, global gold prices fell by approximately 7% in October, representing the worst performance for the month since 2008.

China continues to replace the dollar with gold, taking advantage of the price decline to strengthen its strategic reserves.“]

Thought

[I claim no great originality for the thought, and in fact have published it in the past on the blog]

Some, perhaps many, of the Gazans behave in a monstrous fashion (towards both animals and people), but at least some of that is because they have been made monstrous over decades by the behaviour of the Israeli Jews.

Not all of the behaviour of the Gazans is the fault of the Jews, because I have seen how many Arabs from other countries behave; backward people, overall. However, the appalling behaviour of the Israelis, particularly in recent years, has coarsened the group-mentality of the Palestinian Arabs, especially those in Gaza.

I am actually wondering if it would be better were both groups not to exist. Still, that is not the world we are presently in.

“Thoughts out of season”, unsettling and unconsoling…

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelmine,_Margravine_of_Brandenburg-Bayreuth]
[Rembrandt, Man in Armour]

Diary Blog, 5 November 2026

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[Schlosspark Nymphenburg, Germany: the Great Cascade]

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[“Vance accused Netanyahu, in secret meetings, of being “wrong about everything” regarding Iran.. and warned multiple times that the war could cost the Republicans the elections. And Trump was considering striking Iran before the elections, under pressure from Netanyahu who wanted to act before the vote.. but he decided to wait.

Let me give you the new insights.. because the secrets will start leaking after the defeat:

“Axios” reported from sources that Vice President JD Vance led, over the past months, a push within Trump’s circle toward an agreement to end the war, and directed his criticism of Netanyahu behind closed doors. And most of the senior officials surrounding Trump shared Vance’s position.. but the president remained inclined to resume the war.

And did the disagreement stop at striking Iran?

No.. the report says that Trump, despite the advice of his top advisors, backed Netanyahu in last week’s Israeli elections. Meaning the president did not take their advice in supporting Netanyahu electorally.. as for the military decision, it remains open.

Okay.. what did the mediators ask before the American elections?

An informed source said the mediators asked White House officials: What will Trump do if he loses? And his advisors could not give a confirmed answer in any direction. And an American official mentioned that they informed everyone that they first want to know how the elections will end for them.

And after the loss.. where have the moves reached?

American officials say the military is completing its preparations for the possibility of resuming large-scale combat operations in Iran, including sending more capabilities to the region. And in parallel, Qatari mediators are working to secure support from Washington and Tehran for a draft agreement that prevents a return to fighting, and may allow the resumption of direct talks in the coming days.

And there’s another factor that could influence the decision.. Tehran’s joy over Trump’s loss:

Mohsen Rezaei, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, considered the result a political defeat for Trump in Washington, alongside what he described as a strategic defeat in the field and Hormuz. But diplomats involved in the mediation, Trump advisors, and experts told “Axios” that this celebration may increase the likelihood of his return to war.“]

They are enemies and invaders. They should be shot down and/or sunk in the Channel. Feed the fish.

Those guilty of facilitating the migration invasion, whether in Parliament, TV studios, newspaper offices, or NGOs, should also be eliminated.

I have no objection to any student being able to learn Ukrainian, but it is really only a dialect of Russian, so why would anyone not also learning Russian choose Ukrainian over Russian?

Stupid Lucy Powell talks about Ukraine’s “rich culture and heritage“, but look at both that and and Russian culture (of which Ukrainian culture is an offshoot). No comparison. Russia really does have an amazing culture and history. The literature alone…

Seems better than most System MPs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Hinder.

We have to get rid of the Israeli “fifth column” which infests our society.

Toytown police state, but at what point does the toytown police state become a real police state?

…and all because “our” political parties are occupied, every bit as much as Gaza and the West Bank…

We need to clear out backward populations from this country, from all Europe.

Late tweets

Just stop fuelling the Kiev regime: cut off arms, ammunition, intelligence, and money.

[“Co-chair of “Alternative for Germany,” Tino Chrupalla:

  • A lot has happened in recent years. Sometimes I feel uncomfortable that the federal chancellor, who, as far as I know, has never been to Russia, feels entitled to judge it. To understand the other side, you must, first, engage in dialogue, and second, visit that country. I believe this is important, and that’s what I expect from the German federal chancellor. All his predecessors acted in this way, striving for dialogue. Even Olaf Scholz visited, and also found opportunities to talk on the phone. Although it may not be easy, it is necessary to assess the interests and demands of the other side. In this case, the side opposing Ukraine. This is necessary to ultimately return to constructive coexistence in Europe. I believe the main task, which serves Germany’s interests, is to prevent the escalation of the conflict in Europe.“]

Ah, yes…Priti Patel, the East African Indian agent of Israel, and member of Conservative Friends of Israel.

Every. Single. Time.

Final thoughts of the day

Bomb threats against airlines, refrigerators ceasing to work properly across mainland Europe. Are these just random events, unco-ordinated? I wonder.

Back in the 1970s, 1980s, it was claimed by Soviet defectors that, should a major war break out again in Europe, that the Soviet Union would precede any hostilities by a kind of smokescreen of odd events: sabotage of infrastructure, assassinations of major political and other figures, and so on. The aim would be to destabilize Western Europe.

Is that what we are seeing here? Or maybe a “dry run” for a later campaign of the same type (but far more intense)? I do not know, but I have to say that I find these recent unexplained events unsettling.

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[A.N. Pilipenko, Two Lonelinesses Meet]

Diary Blog, 3 November 2026, including more about the malicious and dishonest “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (“CAA”) cabal

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[“Pits, dungeons and unofficial prisons are commonplace in Ukraine, and the authorities in Kiev are well aware of their existence, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik told TASS.

On Monday, Ukrainian media outlets reported that armed men were detaining about 40 people in the basement of a private house in a Kiev suburb.

TASS has summarized the key details available so far: https://vk.cc/d3xOa1“]

https://tass.com/politics/2212297

The Jew-Zionist/Ukrainian thug Kiev regime is a shambolic and corrupt dictatorship which, without the endless billions being pumped in by the US, EU states, and the UK, would be finished within a week or two.

Ukraine, at present, is a fake state, not really a state at all.

Russia cannot lose this war, and will not lose it.

[“Tehran Threatens to Missile U.S. Bases in Europe

IRANIAN MILITARY DECLARES READINESS TO EXPAND “GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE OF MILITARY OPERATIONS”

Around Donald Trump, three camps have formed: Vice President J.D. Vance and the Persian Gulf monarchies advocate for a deal with Iran, while Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demand a continuation of strikes. The leadership of the State Department, the Treasury Department, and the CIA call only for continued economic pressure.“]

Are the Iranians thinking of dispersing their attack-power even more?

Concentrate on Israel itself. Schwerpunkt.

Zelensky deserves what all evil tyrants deserve.

[“In Germany, the scandal involving the torture of soldiers near Kyiv has become a question for the Chancellor.

Alice Weidel, co-chair of the “Alternative for Germany” (AfD) party, has demanded that Friedrich Merz discuss the issue with Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Mobilized soldiers and military personnel who had deserted their units were reportedly held in a private house used by the National Guard. Relatives have reported instances of beatings. Four soldiers with injuries were hospitalized. The National Guard denies the allegations of torture; an investigation is underway.

This issue has now become more than just an AfD agenda item. Fabio de Masi, co-chair of the “Union for Social Justice and Economic Prudence,” linked the scandal to forced mobilization and corruption. He believes that the poor are sent to the front lines, while the wealthy can buy their way out. The Berliner Zeitung published evidence of beatings and document forgery during mobilization back in January.

This is a test of consistency for Friedrich Merz. Berlin demands respect for human rights from other countries. Is he prepared to ask the same of an ally?”]

Kiev-regime Ukraine is no “ally“; it is a beggar-state, a criminal bandit fake state run by Jews and Ukrainian thugs and gangsters.

As for Merz, he is a joke, a bad German joke.

I had forgotten about his latest political adventure. I assessed him (as well as Brendan Bracken and Dominic Cummings) on the blog 7 years ago:

Seems that he is on the back foot in the California gubernatorial election. latest polls give him only 34% of the vote.

An amusing spat…

Regular readers will be aware that I have been attacked and, in a word, persecuted, by the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] for about 12 years, in fact ever since the bastards started, and even before the small but (((well-funded))) organization was officially established.

At the end of this piece, I shall post again some of my own experiences with the “CAA”, and a few comments thereupon.

However, for the moment, I repost a series of tweets just noticed. The irony is that the tweets are not from those persecuted by the CAA (which would, apart from me, include singer/satirist Alison Chabloz, Jewish anti-Zionist Gilad Atzmon, celebrity intellectual dissident David Icke, and many many others), and not from other anti-Zionists or “anti-Semites” but from a Jew, indeed a Zionist Jew, who himself has been, I believe, assiduous in targeting supposed “anti-Semites” from his home in West Wales.

The tweeter in question was one of two Jewish activists (the other was from North London) who continually pressured the police in Wales until the police arrested and the CPS charged a young man (24-y-o) called David Morgan with “antisemitic” incitement.

Apparently, after political pressure, the young man’s tweets were eventually passed to the Anti-Terror Command of the police. You could not make it up. Ludicrous.

Morgan pleaded guilty (I think mistakenly) and was shown no mercy by the System judge sitting: 20 months in prison, though I believe that Morgan may have been released recently, having served 10 months.

I think that Morgan would have been better pleading Not Guilty, and taking his chance with a Welsh jury.

So that is the background. Here are the tweets just seen:

(the word “work” appears to have been left out of that first tweet; arguably ironic, but let’s leave that aside)

Yes, I have to say that, on a dull day, it has at least marginally amused me (“delight” I shall save for yet better news).

Incidentally, I do not endorse, indeed I oppose, the street-baiting of those “black hat” (or any other) Jews, whether to get online clicks or for any other purpose. Serious socio-political activists should not behave in such a way.

Of course, honesty has never been associated with the “CAA”. Their self-styled “Director of Investigations and Enforcement”, one Stephen Silverman (I think “Slitherman” is a better name), has been making lying complaints about me (and others) for years, not least to (until recently, far too-compliant) police in various parts of the country. In 2021, Slitherman made up a completely-invented story, which he retailed to the police in Gloucestershire (where he now lives), about how I had been “racially harassing” him.

That was an out and out lie. At the time, 2021, I was unaware that Slitherman had moved from his “native” Essex to Gloucestershire, and I was unaware of his location even broadly, let alone his address (I never knew his address in South Essex, either). His general location has since been broadcast on Sky News.

I was (and am) unaware of Slitherman’s telephone number, email addresses etc.

I had never seen Slitherman in person until I saw the horrible bastard for the first time when he came to gloat at my free speech trial in 2023, and have never spoken or otherwise communicated with him.

Slitherman’s complaint to the police (in Gloucestershire, but then passed to the police in Hampshire where I myself live) was not only an out and out pack of lies, but an open and shut case of both wasting police time (which the police never seemed to notice) and, more seriously yet, an attempt to pervert the course of justice, an offence which carries, upon conviction, a maximum penalty of life imprisonment and a normal sentencing range which can go as high as 7 years in prison.

The matter can be explained in more detail in the following blog posts:

That was Slitherman’s first attempt to put the manacles on me (to quote the late Sir Roger Hollis). It happened in early 2017, just after he and his “CAA” colleagues had been involved in the operation —conducted with Jews from “UK Lawyers for Israel”, some of which also belong to the “CAA”— to have me disbarred, an operation that started in 2014, and concluded in late 2016, and which I have chronicled (with updates) on the blog:

“They” like to kick people when their victims are down…look at what has been happening in Gaza for 3 years now.

So what about Slitherman’s attempt to pervert the course of justice (on that occasion)? It happened in 2021 and I blogged about it in 2022:

Despite the tame police doing whatever the “CAA” wanted, the CPS decided not to prosecute me on that occasion, but the “CAA” and their non-Jew doormats in the political world eventually got me into the dock, on different and cobbled-together charges, in 2023 (Slitherman turned up to gloat):

…and he turned up to gloat again at the sentencing hearing in March 2024 (but scuttled off very quickly once he realized that I would not be getting imprisoned, or even a suspended sentence, nor even a week or two of unpaid litter-picking):

Leaving aside my own experiences for a moment, the “CAA” (i.e. Slitherman and his colleague Gideon Falter (self-styled chief of the tiny “CAA” apparat) have had “trouble” having their testimony, even their sworn testimony, believed by judges and others.

Falter, of course, made up a pack of lies about being harassed in the street by the Metropolitan Police a few years ago. The “CAA” wanted to get rid of the Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, Rowley (he’s still there, though, as far as I know).

Even before that, and before the “CAA” was even set up, Falter was disbelieved by a judge in relation to his attempt to have a Foreign Office diplomat, Rowan Laxton, convicted of making comments of an “incitement to racial hatred” “antisemitic” nature. Falter was just not believed, despite having sworn on oath. Laxton is still at the Foreign Office, and now holds ambassadorial rank.

As a matter of fact, both “antisemitism” as such, and “holocaust denial” (historical revision in relation to supposed events of the early 1940s), are —neither of them— crimes under English law, a fact repeatedly confirmed by English judges in English courts.

Even Jews, indeed even Zionist pro-Israel Jews, have over the years realized that the “CAA” and its leading lights are a pack of liars. Incidentally, I should be interested to know what, if any, salary Slitherman gets. It is certainly a full-time occupation for him, and a year or so ago, wealthy Jews gave the “CAA” £600,000+.

He is also sometimes (though not as often as a few years ago) on Sky News, and even BBC News, and much more often on the joke pro-Israel news outlets, GB News and Talk TV. The fact that Slitherman was once a notorious Twitter troll using the pseudonym “Bedlam Jones”, and was harassing mainly women online, does not seem to have made him unwelcome at GB News or Talk TV as supposed “expert” talking-head on “antisemitism”.

When will this poor country really start to wake up?

Finally, I had to laugh at the “CAA” tweeting today about how their lawyers might take on, in legal battle, the Good Law Project, which is going to apply for judicial review about the Labour Friends of Israel-instigated idea of censoring anti-Israel discussion in schools and universities.

I have little time for self-important Jolyon Maugham and his Good Law Project, and actually the “CAA” for once made a good point in their tweet about how the “GLP” is, in effect, a machine for collecting donations from mugs, but of course people in glass houses should not throw stones. The “CAA” has been collecting millions over the past 12 years from wealthy Jewish mugs, and for the same reason.

Finally finally, here is that news report about David Morgan, the young man imprisoned for posting some tweets:

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/twisted-welsh-loner-able-spread-32962872

I wonder whether I should, even at this late juncture, make my own complaint, this time against Slitherman, and on the basis of his unquestioned attempt to pervert the course of justice in 2021-2022. Let’s see. In theory, there is no time limitation (though there is for “wasting police time”— 6 months from date of offence).

Ah…look at what someone posted only a day ago about “Slitherman”:

GB News and Talk TV should wake up, no matter who owns them…

Incidentally, Slitherman is lying again in that piece about “the Big Lie”. Hitler was talking (writing) about the System he opposed (the Weimar Republic, largely influenced by Jewish interests) and its methods. They were the ones using the “Big Lie”, not Hitler himself.

Ironic…

Just saw more on the basis for the initial tweets seen:

More tweets seen

Don’t forget the billions thrown away propping-up the Kiev regime and supporting the Israeli and other Jews.

Voting, tweeting, blogging etc will not rid us of the enemies of civilization.

So how to get rid of the traitors when the whole political system is rigged?

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

Jewish, of course.

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[Lenin with cat, Moscow region, early 1920s]

Diary Blog, 2 November 2026

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[St.Peter’s Basilica, Rome]

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Talking point

Tweets seen

[“Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer.

Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.

To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha.

The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.

And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final.

We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it.

Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.

They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making.

One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.”]

That, if it were to happen, would let the genie out of the bottle.

Since 1945, the use of nuclear weapons has been a consensus taboo. If the Americans attack Iran with nuclear weapons, they can hardly then censure others doing the same. For example, if Russia uses tactical nuclear weapons to clear the crumbling Kiev-regime front-line, destroying a large part of the most active Kiev-regime forces, and so allowing the Stavka to order a general advance, perhaps including air drops north and west of the existing overall front-line.

That would benefit all sides, unbelievably. Russia would get paid for its gas, and the consumers of the EU would benefit from lower prices, but even the Kiev regime would benefit, because its EU bankrollers would have more funds to funnel to Kiev. Strange world…

The UK should be getting reparations from Jamaica etc for our having to have put up with the “Windrush generation” and those who came later, and their descendants.

Late tweets

The Kiev regime is a total disgrace. It should cease to exist.

Translates to a Commons with about 337 Labour MPs (smallish majority), 128 Cons, 103 Reform, 30 LibDems, 28 SNP [etc].

These people are a joke, like almost everything now.

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Diary Blog, 31 October 2026

Afternoon music

A very nice version of the symphony, “The Bell” (Khatchaturian).

On the blog 3 years ago

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Saturday quiz

Well, 6/10 this week, thus trumping the 3/10 scored by political journalist John Rentoul. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 4, 5, and 6.

Thought out of season

Not so long ago, Britain had a great empire, at peak (after 1919) controlling a nearly a third of this world. Britain took on and won —albeit not alone— great (if unnecessary) wars against both the second German Reich and the later Third Reich (in 1914-1918 and then 1939-1945) and, still later (in the post-1945 Cold War) the Soviet Union.

Now look. Brought down, or being brought down, by a ragtag “army” of blacks and browns (etc) that are not even, most of them, under arms. Migration invasion, and the consequent societal parasitism, cultural collapse, and racemixing (ethnic collapse).

All co-ordinated —at a high level— by those who are the enemies of the future of Britain and the rest of European and European-origined humanity.

While that happens, the mass of the British population are amused by TV game shows, televised spectator sports, gossip about supposed “celebrities” etc.

Pathetic.

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Hopefully, the Ukraine war will have ended by 2030, but Russia needs a gamechanger; the present attritional advance is far too slow.

As previously and repeatedly blogged, Britain should leave NATO, not rejoin the oppressive EU, and should develop better relations with Russia. Cost-price gas, and a huge market for British products and services.

[“Several Middle Eastern media outlets have published maps of Iranian strike targets, covering eight countries.

It is stated that the “zero hour” strikes will occur within 24 hours of the start of a new attack by the United States and/or Israel.

The targets are located in Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, and Jordan, and include ports, airports, power plants, water treatment facilities, underwater cables, hotels, and shopping centers.“]

The Iranians are more than justifying the historical reputation of Persia for cunning and subtlety in diplomacy. Despite having only a tiny fraction of the military-destructive power available to the Americans, or even the Israelis, the Iranian leadership has been able to all but cripple the economies of the Gulf mini-states, and badly damage that of Israel.

Moreover, the whole security situation in the Gulf is affecting the economies of various parts of the world: parts of Asia, Europe, and the USA itself.

Meanwhile it is clear that Saudi Arabia is also in serious trouble via the attacks by the Yemeni Houthis.

Talk about “wipeout”! Good grief…

As a child of 10-12, I used to think that the waves at Manly Beach (Sydney) were big sometimes, but that clip is another level.

The police are not, or should not be posing as, a poundshop KGB or Stasi.

Our animal friends

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16254847/Heroic-puppy-cheated-death-bravery-award.html

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Exactly so…

Is Paris burning? Apparently so.

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Diary Blog, 30 October 2026

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[Vladimir Volegov, Listening to Chopin]

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Interesting piece by Tucker Carlson. Huckabee is effectively an agent of Israel. Hopefully, he will soon follow Lindsey Graham up the chimney.

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Well, at least Trump has not, as yet anyway, launched a war against Russia. That is his best point, and arguably his only good point.

Stray thought

I happened to see a few minutes or so of BBC TV News. Almost all about the recent Spanish rail crash. As on previous occasions, I fail to see the interest here, in the UK, in an unfortunate but foreign national or Spanish-regional matter. The same thing occurred after the Lisbon tram crash a couple of years ago. That dragged on for days.

With all the serious international news around, one would imagine that rail or tram crashes in other countries would be a fairly low priority.

I also have often wondered why the British TV always puts crashes of light aircraft on regional if not national TV news. After all, fatalities are usually one or two, no more than in car crashes, which happen daily. Are air crashes, crashes of Cessnas etc into ploughed fields, thought more newsworthy? I cannot see why.

Another thought, this time about Jews and Gaza

I see the usual UK-resident Jews prolific online still whining about how the mass slaughter in Gaza is not, they claim (for hairsplitting technical reasons) a “genocide”.

Well, the [Israeli] Jews have destroyed virtually all the houses and flats which housed about 2 million Gazans (not “6 million”, because there are only 2 million people there). The same [Israeli] Jews have also killed about 75,000 Gazans, of which the vast majority were civilians (at least 21,000 having been under the age of 18). They have also horribly wounded and/or mutilated hundreds of thousands, including large numbers of small children and babies.

The guilt devolving upon the Israeli Jews, the pro-Israel Jews living outside Israel/Palestine, and the pro-Israel non-Jews, from all that (and more) is not vitiated merely because a few Jewish lawyers say it is “not genocide”. Whether it be so labelled is actually irrelevant. They have done what they have done, and must —and will— bear the consequences of their sin.

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Interesting viewpoint, with at least a grain of truth in it.

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I hope that he lives long enough to discover that in person.

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Diary Blog, 27 October 2026

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[Statue, Freedom of the Human Spirit, Birmingham, Michigan, USA]

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The states of Scandinavia and the Baltic region must row back on their recent extreme hostility to Russia.

At first, the Yemeni Houthis were regarded by many in the West as a bit of a joke, unlikely to be militarily effective, and reminiscent of the adoo of the 1960s and early 1970s in Dhofar, but they are now a very significant force in the region, and their actions are having effects globally.

“Who will rid me of this troublesome priest fake Prime Minister?“

The UK msm reports only from the Kiev-regime viewpoint.

Reminiscences by James Allchurch (Sven Longshanks)

A recent talk by free speech martyr James Allchurch, aka Sven Longshanks:

See also: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/15/uk-white-supremacist-jailed-over-racist-podcasts.

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Meanwhile, the government of little twerp Burnham is cutting the cost of gherkins by a few pence. It’s almost (?) insulting.

As I said on the blog recently, Burnham majors in minor things.

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Diary Blog, 25 October 2026

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Is that why, or partly why, we see constant “prepare for emergencies, prepare for black-outs, prepare for food and water-supply disruption” propaganda in the msm, and from government now?

This is all being driven by the Israeli Jews… so, if the USA launches another massive attack on Iran, the Iranian forces should concentrate most of their response on Israel, particularly on central Tel Aviv, the Dimona nuclear complex, and the Ben-Gurion international airport. After that, on the fake mini-states— Dubai, Qatar, Kuwait etc. Collapse them. They are a waste of space.

“Them”. Again. It is (almost) always them…

When “Boris”-idiot and others used to talk about importing “skilled workers”, I assumed —I thought maybe too cynically at the time— that what was meant was “Indians that can work a computer” (as I put it on the blog).

Even I, though, was not cynical enough to think that the “skilled worker” visa designation would or could be perverted to the extent that blacks and browns etc whose only skill is flipping burgers or delivering takeaway curries would be called “skilled workers”, and allowed into the UK on that basis. Mad.

Probably planned, though. The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.

This country is so ****** now, that only methods consisting partly of a mixture of Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, and Dzerzhinsky are likely to be able to save it, or to salvage a future from the wreckage.

[“Having spent two years attending marches around central London during 2020-22, I can assure you they achieve absolutely nothing.

Nobody will hear about them, if they’re reported at all it will be inaccurate, nothing will change.

Focus on building parallel systems outside of centralised control. New systems of culture, economy and even governance are the way forward.

And don’t expect anyone to do anything for you. Especially not the state.”]

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I happened to see online a recent 7-minute Sky News clip about a place on the front-line between Russian and Kiev-regime military formations. 2,000 out of the original 100,000+ population were still living in the partly-ruined city.

One man stuck there was describing life as lived in that place and said that people were (in the translated words) “eating grass“. That was used in the headline as well.

Well, I could understand some of what he was saying, and the word used was not (in Russian anyway) the word for “grass”, but something called “portulak“. I looked it up. Turns out that the English word is “purslane“:

“Portulaca oleracea (common purslane, also known as little hogweed, or pursley)[3] is a succulent plant in the family Portulacaceae. All parts of the plant are edible raw or cooked... All parts of purslane are edible raw or cooked. The seeds can be eaten raw or used to make flour.[30]

The plant may be eaten as a leaf vegetable.[31] William Cobbett noted that it was “eaten by Frenchmen and pigs when they can get nothing else. Both use it in salad, that is to say, raw”.[32] It has a slightly sour and salty taste and is eaten throughout much of Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Mexico.[5][33] The stems, leaves, and flower buds are all edible raw or cooked.[34] Purslane may be used fresh as a salad,[35] stir-fried, or cooked as spinach is, and because of its mucilaginous quality it also is suitable for soups and stews.” [Wikipedia]

Still a terrible situation for those unfortunate civilians, of course, but is it really so hard for Sky News, with all their resources, to get it right?

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Warn them off. If they ignore the warning, sink them.

[“Putin: Western companies were leaving Russia crying.
When some companies were leaving under pressure from Western European governments, our friends from those countries were almost crying. Russia provided Western companies with a large market, and Moscow has many friends in Europe, said Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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I saw, when I was last in Moscow (2007) that some Russians, working for large Western companies and firms, had hitched their wagons firmly to the Anglo-American horse. When sanctions were applied, those Russians were left out in the cold.

[“Grushko: The EU’s stance on the parameters for resolving the conflict in Ukraine excludes Europe from the negotiation process.

“If you want peace, you must first stop supporting the regime. In fact, the position they have expressed regarding the final parameters for resolving the conflict essentially excludes Europeans from that negotiation process,” said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko.“]

Ah…that rings a bell. Grushko…

Just checked. Yes, and as I was just surmising, that Grushko is the son of Viktor Grushko (1930-2001), the one-time colleague and boss of Oleg Gordievsky, the intelligence officer, spy, and then famous defector of the 1980s. They both served at the same time in the First Chief Directorate of the KGB (now the SVR), and Grushko senior became its Deputy Head, right up to the official disbandment of the KGB in 1991, and transition of the First Chief Directorate into the SVR (External Intelligence Service).

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

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

Ironically, in view of his risky espionage against the KGB, and his famously perilous interrogation and later escape, Gordievsky (1938-2025) outlived Grushko by many years, dying at age 86 as against Grushko’s 71 years. Seems that being a “double agent” is sometimes not as risky as vodka, smoking, and Soviet careerism (presuming —I do not, in fact, know— that Grushko senior indulged in all three).

Incidentally, I was just looking at that “Stalin skyscraper”, the Russian Foreign Ministry building, shown in the tweet; a building now dwarfed by the “capitalist” skyscrapers behind it in the Moscow International Business Center, aka Moscow-City, hardly any of which existed when I was first in Moscow in 1993, or even when I was again in the city in 2007.

[Moscow International Business Center, aka Moscow-City; also showing the Foreign Ministry building at far right of photograph]

I think that, of the cities I have visited, Moscow has changed the most over the years, with the single exception of Doha (Qatar), which in 2026 is a completely different city to the one(s) I visited in both 2001 and 2008.

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Diary Blog, 24 October 2026

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Warlock]
[Pieter Claesz, Vanitas Still Life]

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Well, a pretty poor week, only 4/10, though that was still enough to beat political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 3/10.

I knew the answers to questions 1, 2, 4, and 10.

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“They” are a horrible tribe.

…and which (((element))), Goodwin, has been behind most of that indoctrination and brainwashing? Yes, “them” (again).

Incidentally, a goodly (and increasing) proportion of the “younger generation” in both France and the UK are really neither French nor British. Non-whites born in France and the UK.

…and her first degree was from the University of Manchester…

If it is “war”, as people of that sort often claim, then in extremis they themselves can be executed in the field (in the streets of Paris).

https://nypost.com/2026/10/20/world-news/french-student-lola-fleur-whittaker-mocks-owners-who-lost-stores-in-riots

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[“The Church has been in schism since the mid twentieth century. People are only now realising it.

There is the Catholic Church, which rose from Sacred Tradition, with the deposit of faith, celebrating the Mass of the Ages.

Then there is the New Order, which sometimes goes by Holocaustianity, replacing Tradition with novelty, so subtly most people do not notice until it is too late. Like a frog in increasingly boiling water. High altars gone, nave tables in, the Sacrifice gets demoted to a Jewish meal. They revert to the passover which was fulfilled in Christ; the Mass of the Ages is suppressed; prayerful posture such as kneeling and receiving communion on the tongue is discouraged; homosexuality and women in positions of leadership is encouraged, by act if not decree; universal language of the Church is replaced with a thousand vernacular dialects; good priests are silenced, their obedience weaponised, whilst bad bishops are promoted, the very ones who push lgbtq; the catechism is infected with just enough vagueness and ambiguity to sow confusion.

The Church cannot change her teaching. Yet, the New Order will be quiet on issues they should speak out on, and vocal on issues they should remain quiet on. The New Order hierarchy uses enough abstractions to make it seem like the Church has “modernised,” where she cannot and should not. From the mass migration of Mohammedans, to the death penalty.

Modernism is the enemy of the Catholic Church, and the fruit of the New Order.

Lefebvre’s warnings were prophetic.“]

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Can it be said that any one of those territories is better-governed now than during the days of the British Empire? No.

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