Tag Archives: Israel

Diary Blog, 17 October 2026

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[V.B. Tautiev, Launch of a Kalibr missile from the Caspian Sea]

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Mad.

Saturday quiz

Well, this week a narrow victory over political journalist John Rentoul. His 4/10 was trumped by my 5/10. I knew the answers to questions 3, 4, 5, 9, and 10.

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The late Lindsey Graham was a complete and willing agent of the international Jew-Zionist conspiracy; always warmongering for NWO/ZOG.

Though I concede that there is no direct (and publicly-available) evidence for it, it is also possible that MOSSAD had compromizing material on him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsey_Graham#Personal_life.

Notwithstanding the maxim de mortuis nihil nisi bonum, Graham was a very negative force in international relations.

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

“A war hawk, Graham advocated an interventionist role for the United States and was a prominent supporter of Israel, Ukraine, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.“

[Wikipedia]

Like many people from his part of the world (South Carolina), Graham died of a heart attack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsey_Graham#Death.

I recall reading, on one of my own visits to Charleston long ago, about how the subtropical climate and (very tasty) Low Country cuisine combined to make people from that part of the world susceptible to heart attacks and strokes.

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

Golly…

System scribblers such as Dan Hodges continue to promote Kemi Badenoch, the “Great Black Hope”, ludicrously. She is not even British in any real sense.

Late tweets seen

That is French history. Around a quarter of the population of France is now non-European, not French in any real sense. They have no real connection to French history. The same applies, mutatis mutandis, to the equivalent populations in the UK.

The rioters are either non-white or (and/or) are extreme proponents of a multikulti society. They should all be shot down in the streets, regardless of race, age or condition.

[“You can grieve for what’s happening in France – I do, I’m half French, I grew up between here and Paris. But beware who you’re RTing – plenty of MAGA and Marine Le Pen peeps are on here salivating at the division they can drive. Lowe exploiting it too. The only side you should be on is architecture, shops and Macron’s and I think, even as a fan, he needs to pull his finger out. Devastating carnage across the country, toughen up the response.“]

The lady (ex-wife of an ex-MP (Con Party); she often tweets about her fantasy political party called “the Moderates”. Apparently, her idea of “moderate” is someone pro-EU, pro- the Kiev regime dictatorship, pro-Jew (though not Israel after the Gaza slaughter, so credit to her for that at least), pro some social security, but anti the Triple Lock and pensioners having financial security, and pro massive (and unnecessary) defence spending…

She also calls anyone even marginally nationalist “fash” (i.e. “fascist”), just like the “antifa” crazies.

Incidentally, I always thought she looked, on her Twitter/X pictures, somehow not entirely English.

Even she, though, sees that the response to the disorder is and looks weak.

Open… fire!

[“𝗙𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗛 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢 — A rioter who was trying to loot the LOSC shop in Lille saw the shop window collapse on him.“]

Ha ha! Brilliant! Love it.

Unfortunately, that Edginton person, in other tweets, quotes the malicious goblins of the Jew-Zionist org ,”Campaign Against Antisemitism”, effectively a semi-volunteer arm of the Israeli Embassy in London, which org is run by Jewish liars and perjurers, which engages in “lawfare” against British people such as me, and operates against free speech and freedom of expression.

Anyone who quotes, approvingly, the “CAA”, is probably going to be a waste of space.

[“The Trump administration is reportedly proposing to Europe that it resume purchasing Russian gas as part of a peace agreement regarding Ukraine, which would allow Moscow to earn billions of dollars in revenue and restore its economic influence.”

This was reported by the New York Times, which claims that Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff discussed the possibility of resuming the operation of Russian gas pipelines through Ukraine and the “Nord Stream” pipelines, noting that American investors could also receive a portion of the profits.

However, Germany is actively opposed to this, warning that “resuming dependence on Russian energy sources could threaten European security.” The publication notes, however, that the most popular party in the country, “Alternative for Germany” (AfD), supports the restoration of imports in order to lower energy prices.“]

Good, if that means that Israel and the Kiev regime will have to do without.

“French”? Ha ha…

A good caption might be “French ‘anti-racist’ girl gets schooled by life as the non-European looters push past her to take what they want.”

France! réveillez-vous!

England, wake up too! They may be born here, they may be [semi-] educated here, they may speak some kind of English, they may have British passports, but they are not English nor, in any real sense, British!

[Germany 1945— “We are fighting for the future of our children!“]

A magnificent creature. Thank God he is all right.

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Mosolov]
[Akademgorodok, Western Siberia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akademgorodok]

Diary Blog, 16 October 2026

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[Elizabethan Garden, Yale University, USA]

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Presumably a joke of some kind.

Can anyone point at even one good aspect of having Pakistanis in this country (especially in such huge numbers)?

Good.

About 50 miles north-east of Kharkov, the second-largest city in Ukraine.

I presume bulletproofed. If not, over-priced, arguably…

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho_Vladigerov]
[Arctic Express]

Diary Blog, 13 October 2026

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On “British” TV etc, you only see the Ukrainian conflict from the Kiev-regime side.

[“MBS IS FINISHED: THE HOUSE OF SAUD FACES TOTAL COLLAPSE Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector and Marine intelligence officer, warns that Mohammed bin Salman has entered a death spiral with no way out. A war launched in 2014 for quick military glory has become a 12-year nightmare that is now physically dismantling Saudi oil production. The American umbrella has failed, allies will not ride to the rescue, and the kingdom is losing decisively. The only remaining question is how fast the collapse arrives.

THE CORE VERDICT

Ritter states the demise of Muhammad bin Salman is inevitable.

“He’s finished.”

If lucky he catches the last gold-plated 747 out of Riyadh to a London hideaway or the United States.

If not, his head is removed by sword amid shouts of Allahu Akbar.

“It’s the end of the House of Saud.”

THE 2014 STRATEGIC ERROR

MBS tried to earn his military spurs with a fast victory over Ansar Allah.

The campaign turned into a 12-year nightmare.

His later decision to expand the war by striking Sanaa airfield only accelerated the destruction.

There is no political off-ramp left and no salvation coming.

THE OIL DESTRUCTION

Ansar Allah is no longer limited to blocking Bab el-Mandeb or hitting pipelines and storage.

They are now attacking production facilities and the wells themselves.

“This is the end of Saudi Arabia.”

Without oil the entire Vision 2030 fantasy collapses into what Ritter calls a Bedouin-infested sand pit with nothing left.

NO ALLIES WILL SAVE HIM

The American security umbrella proved nonfunctional.

Saudi forces are ineffective, overweight, proxy-driven and overmatched.

Pakistan faces massive Imran Khan protests and will not send tens of thousands of troops into a losing desert war.

Turkey has no interest in dying for the Saudis.

The Mecca Pact is a joke of maps and chalkboards with no real troop movement.

THE RIYADH PREDICTION

If MBS is removed and internal fighting follows, Ritter says Ansar Allah columns could drive through the streets of Riyadh.

Saudis have feared this outcome since 1990.

“Saudi Arabia is losing this war decisively. And there’s nothing that can be done to save them.”

The world will experience the same shock that hit when the Shah of Iran fell in 1979.

THE BOTTOM LINE

Scott Ritter sees MBS as toast and the House of Saud heading toward the same abrupt end that surprised everyone in 1979. Energy production is being dismantled, no outside force will intervene, and the collapse is already underway. History is about to deliver a shock that almost no one in the West has priced in.”]

Refers to Burnham’s stupid comment to the effect that Russia somehow procured the 2016 Brexit Referendum vote. Now Burnham admits that he has no evidence whatsoever to back that. He is pathetic.

[“Historic Milestone in Florida as Over 80 Orthodox Jewish Families Move Into New $100 Million-Plus Community and Schools Open

More than 80 families from New York have moved into Lakefront Estates, where schools have now opened. Dozens more families are expected in the coming weeks, following reported investment of hundreds of millions of dollars in the project.

Located in Glades County near Lake Okeechobee, Lakefront is a purpose-built residential community. The broader development plan calls for up to 1,000 single-family homes and 300 rental units.

The vision goes beyond housing: plans include synagogues, mikvahs, boys’ and girls’ schools, a yeshiva, a kollel, kosher shopping and medical services. Developers are targeting families seeking more space and an alternative to soaring housing costs in established Orthodox neighborhoods.

Hatzalah South Florida has also begun organizing a local branch, meeting with prospective responders who will serve Lakefront. With families arriving and classrooms opening, the focus now shifts from construction to building the services a growing community needs.“]

It has been suggested that there may now be some variety of superinjunction in place, an injunction which prevents being published even the fact of its existence. I wonder. The msm deletions would seem to support that theory, but how can such an injunction cover even the fact that a woman has not only been charged but has been committed for trial?

Apart from that, I have nothing further to say at this time about Lola Salem and the horrible little degenerate, Gove, having said it all in the past few days on the blog, and previously.

Relations between Russia and Japan continue to deteriorate.

If the next general election does not move things in at least a generally social-national way, the British people will be fully justified in taking whatever action is required to save this country.

Latest Nick Griffin blog post

https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/in-englands-heart-a-rural-craft-is

About hedge-making etc. Well worth reading.

Incidentally, I noticed a 1942 film about hedge-creation:

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Tubin]
[Jerry Vanderstelt, Rivendell]

Diary Blog, 12 October 2026

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I blogged about this a day or two ago.

Burnham can fool some of the people some of the time, but those crediting him will be steadily decreasing after this winter…

I noticed it over 50 years ago.

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Bealtaine Cottage vlog

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I never liked her, from what I saw of her on TV etc. A would-be dictator, if given the power.

Idiot.

Why is Britain so cursed with total idiots in ministerial and prime-ministerial positions? It must be the MP selection process and the whole decadent Westminster Bubble thing.

Britain should be doing the same.

You can see what is coming down the tracks, and we shall be lucky (or not, maybe) to live through it.

[“Farage to “carefully examine” the issue of UK support for a corrupt Ukraine – Politico.
The leadership of the Reform UK party will “carefully examine” the issue of UK support for Ukraine, said Nigel Farage, the leader of the right-wing party.
He stated that Ukraine is “one of the most corrupt countries on earth,” and he is “very concerned” about where some of the British funds have gone.
“]

Kiev-regime Ukraine is a corrupt, shambolic and brutal dictatorship, a fake state which, without the endless EU, UK, US and other “help”, could not exist for more than a couple of weeks.

Hero

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Diary Blog, 10 October 2026

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[residential sector, Akademgorodok, Western Siberia]

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Saturday quiz

Well, this week 7/10 (admittedly including one educated guess, i.e. question 1); political journalist John Rentoul scored 4/10. I did not know the answers to questions 8 and 9, and could not bring the answer to question 6 to mind, though I really knew it (in the back of my mind).

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[“RUSSIAN DRONE ATTACKS REPORTED ACROSS UKRAINE — JET-POWERED DRONES REACH LVIV*

Overnight, Geran-type drones reportedly targeted Dnipro, Mykolaiv, Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lutsk, as well as the Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Lviv and Poltava regions.

Reports also indicate that Geran-4/5 jet-powered drones reached Lviv for the first time. The extent of the damage and any casualties require independent confirmation.

  • The reported expansion of drone attacks toward western Ukraine highlights the challenge of defending a vast territory. Faster jet-powered variants could further complicate interception efforts and increase pressure on Ukrainian air defenses.

The key question is whether Ukraine can sustain nationwide air defense as the threat evolves in both range and speed.“]

I suggest that the Russian side leaves Lvov unattacked. Lvov is an ancient and interesting city, at one time within the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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

Once Russia achieves victory and supremacy over Eastern Ukraine, and once Kiev ceases to be the capital of a fake state, a real Ukrainian rump state, autonomous but disarmed and neutral, can be centred on Lvov.

As European societies collapse…

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/christian-zedig-police-officer-denmark-37757950

“A convicted rapist who punched and killed a police officer at a World Cup fan zone has been jailed for just one year.”

[Daily Mirror]

[defendant]

Wall. Squad. End.

The occasionally-seen (in fact, becoming now “often-seen”) cases of that sort are the tip of the iceberg.

The European societies, including UK society, are slowly (?) collapsing via both —scarcely controlled at all— the mass migration invasion and then also the soon-upcoming demographic collapse (European people having few if any children).

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Either insane or just a total idiot.

Glad to read now that —contrary to many ill-informed tweets— the tiger, an Amur tiger from the former Soviet Far East, was unharmed and, as it appears, will not be killed.

The Amur tiger is the world’s largest and one of the rarest.

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

Zelensky— RAUS!

Can you believe that that woman is head of foreign policy for the EU? It is ludicrous. The personification of geopolitical irrelevance.

Burnham’s recent announcements will have bolstered Labour’s chances. The fact that Burnham’s announcements are mainly hot air, and will never be implemented, will not become apparent until 2027, 2028, 2029, or later. As yet, they are likely to be attractive to many voters who may perhaps regard them as something real and viable.

On that basis, a general election this year might be a possibility. However, Reform might do better than expected. It all depends on how turned-off the voters are with the main System parties.

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Svetlanov]
[Victor Ostrovsky, Showing Heart]

Diary Blog, 7 October 2026, including thoughts about Gaza

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Historical video

Thanks to the blog reader who sent me the YouTube video below:

Talking point

I see that the Jewish lobby is loudly whining and wailing today about the Jews killed on this day 3 years ago in Gaza.

Well, I concede that the incursion into “Israel” from Gaza should not have happened in quite the manner it did, and that some of the acts done by HAMAS were incorrect and insupportable, but the response of the Israeli Jewish state has been brutal, inhumane (indeed, inhuman), and as close to genocide as makes no real difference.

Almost complete devastation of Gaza, most homes destroyed, hundreds of thousands killed or injured, many injured very badly (loss of limbs etc), and most of those killed or injured women and children.

It seems that many of the Jews killed three years ago were killed (via free-fire protocols) by the Israeli forces themselves. The total Jewish death toll was somewhere around 1,000, a tiny fraction of the number of Gazans killed and wounded in vindictive retaliation by the (Israeli) Jews (egged on by many Jews living overseas, including in the UK).

One has to ask, when on Earth will the Jews (of Israel, and those supporting the slaughter and cruelty from overseas) have had enough blood (in Gaza)?

[part of Gaza City before the (Israeli) Jews devastated it]
[part of the same area after Israeli bombing, shelling, white phosphorus bombing etc]
[part of Gaza City in 2007]

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I find it curious that the Russian missile and drone strikes take place mainly after dark. I should have thought that during the day would be better tactics, in order to cause far more chaos and disruption to transport and to economic life etc. It may be that countermeasures are more effective during daylight hours; I do not know.

[“Royal Mail has announced plans to cut up to 2,500 jobs by the end of 2027.

When billionaire Daniel Křetínský’s takeover was approved in December 2024, the government presented the deal as one that would help “secure jobs”, while Jonathan Reynolds said: “We have negotiated something that secures the long-term future of Royal Mail.”

Less than two years later, thousands of jobs are set to disappear.

Britain has spent decades selling off essential national infrastructure on the promise that private ownership would make it leaner, cheaper and better. Too often the result has been the opposite: jobs cut, services hollowed out, prices pushed up and private owners protected, while the public is left carrying the risk when the model fails. Royal Mail is starting to look like another example of the same failed experiment.“]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_K%C5%99et%C3%ADnsk%C3%BD

The present Labour government is very little different from the Con Party governments of 2010-2024, or from the Blair/Brown “New Labour” ones. System…

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They really are a disgusting tribe.

As far as I am concerned, there is no decent party or, as far as I know, candidate, standing.

The Greens are up against it, now that Galloway is standing. Splits the avowedly anti-Zionist vote.

Last poll I saw had the Cons on 17% nationwide. Would mean they might get as few as 50 MPs, less than half even compared to their present depleted complement.

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

Diary Blog, 5 October 2026

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[Volegov, Delicate Amble]

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Every. Single. Time.

Does that apply also to U.S. naval forces? I am presuming not.

[“Iranian ballistic missiles can reach the United Kingdom; there is no need for a terrorist bomb at RAF Fairford.

This is just the “demonstrated” range of Iranian ballistic missiles.

Some ballistic missiles in Iran’s arsenal, although few in number and not yet fully optimized, almost certainly have the range to reach the United States.“]

Not a complete answer, of course. A “terrorist” attack can be denied; it is deniable; not so with a strategic ballistic missile attack.

[“European gas storage facilities are only 72% full, which is the lowest level ever recorded for this time of year, compared to an average of 88% in 2021-2025. In Germany, this figure currently stands at 57% — The Economist.

In a truly harsh winter, a government official from the energy ministry warns, “prices may not have a ceiling.“]

Macron has done his job for NWO/ZOG and the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan; he can now be dispensed with. See my assessment of him, and his background, written in 2019:

I do not know what is the financial position of the RNLI, but I expect that, once it became clear that the RNLI was ferrying migrant-invaders to our shores, the “useful idiots” of Twitter/X and Blue Sky Social all donated but, at the same time, millions or ordinary British people who oppose the migration-invasion of our country switched off. I suspect that the latter effect will be greater over time.

The RNLI is but one of many British institutions, both governmental and non-governmental, that have been captured by the forces of decadence and treachery over the past 30 years.

[Freikorps]

Whatever one may think of Burnham and/or his announced policies, those Conservative Party rank-and-file members are really weird, with one or two exceptions, arguably (the blonde woman and the old man who distrusts “Fabianss”, though even they seem slightly “not all there”, with the blonde regarding arrogant and wrongheaded Kemi Badenoch as her great black hope). Several interviewees are non-white, and —as has been the case for many years— the young English ones are like wet-behind-the-ears geeks or nerds out of a TV sitcom, or youthful copies of Michael Gove. Utterly pathetic.

I myself think that Con Party support, presently around 17% or so, will decline to 15% or even 12% within a few years, well within the maximum range of this Parliament. The late middle-aged and elderly (both the mainstay of the Conservative vote and almost half of those that vote at all) are defecting to Reform or elsewhere. Many are dying off, too. That might leave the Con Party with only a handful of MPs next time around.

https://tass.com/politics/2197553

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Our animal friends.

Blunkett is a horrible person who is, or was, by reason of his blindness, cut much slack by people, certainly when he was an MP.

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

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly_Quinn_(journalist)#Personal_life

Well, not a fan at all (politically; I have never read his books) but de mortuis nihil nisi bonum…

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

[“An Afghan migrant who stabbed Wayne Broadhurst to death after attempting to murder his landlord in a ‘random, frenzied and entirely unprovoked attack’ has been handed … a hospital order !

Uber driver Dawood Safi arrived in the UK illegally six years ago.

Mr Broadhurst’s beloved spaniel Harry kept vigil by his body as he bled to death in front of horrified neighbours.

Like millions of British people, I am beyond sick and tired of this, of the utterly ridiculous judgements that follow, and of the deafening silence in Westminster.”]

The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan. All those complicit in it, whether Government ministers, MPs, TV talking-heads, newspaper scribblers, fake “charity” officers and employees, police chiefs…whatever…must be both identified and punished.

Also, never forget the “community” mostly facilitating the invasion. Clue: it is not, mainly, the Muslim community.

The point is that even an “Iron Dome” (or “Britannia Shield”) would not —could not— protect the UK from missiles (I suppose the idiots are talking about Russian ones), if only because Russia has 7,000 nuclear weapons alone (mostly, I think, missiles), let alone non-nuclear ones. Most are too fast to be intercepted by any presently-available anti-missile-missiles.

In any case, the UK should be joining, at least informally, with Russia, leaving NATO, and opening up new markets in Russia for British goods and services, as well as buying oil and gas at cost price.

They know, or fear, that Kiev’s days may be numbered.

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C5%ABcija_Gar%C5%ABta]
[Victor Ostrovsky, Moment of Truth]

Diary Blog, 4 October 2026

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Arutiunian]
[VDNKh, Moscow, after rain]

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[“Medvedev: The most important event for Russia will be victory over Western and NATO forces.

He told Iranian state television that he was referring to the forces that are using Ukraine against Russia.

He particularly emphasized that Ukraine, if it wants a political solution, must officially recognize its neutral and non-nuclear status, abandon its nationalist course, and recognize the territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, as well as the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions as Russian territories.

He also stated that Kyiv must stop the persecution of the Russian language and return to the principles outlined in the Ukrainian Declaration on Sovereignty from the 1990s.“]

Idiot. How did he ever get to such a high position?

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

I suppose he or his family knew the right people.

Worth watching/listening to that. Appalling behaviour by Israeli Jew operatives (MOSSAD etc).

Israeli/Jewish influence/power in the USA (and the UK is not very much better, though at least the public is waking up at last).

The American and British taxpayers are subsidizing their own oppressors. In the UK, it becomes more blatant every year.

I doubt that anyone would vote for that dim careerist woman; anyway, the Conservative Party is probably going to lose even the seats (maybe half of them) that it has at present.

Should be taught in schools, both in the USA and UK (but of course will not be, so long as the System rules).

Of course, the money is just a way-station. Power is their objective; to rule the world via money, via the money power.

cf. The Ring of the Nibelungen, and Lord of the Rings.

Interesting travel vlog

As before with those vloggers, there is a certain naivety. For example, they buy two baseball-type military caps with Chinese red stars, and wear them for a while. They would not wear caps with swastika emblems, nor even hammer and sickle emblems, probably.

What always strikes me about such vlogs about China is the scale of the engineering and architecture. The airports and railway stations put Europe, certainly the UK, to shame, frankly. The hotels and cafeterias as well. While I always have in the back of my mind the disregard the Chinese often seem to have for animal welfare (and, sometimes, human rights as well), it cannot be denied that China has leapt ahead in the past 20-40 years.

Another thing that struck me, but about the vlogging couple themselves, is how dependent they are on their mobile telephones. They pay for almost everything, from taxis to hotels, to railways and airline tickets, to food, even snacks such as crisps, using their telephones. One wonders where they would be were they to lose the devices, or have them stolen. Seems insecure, somehow. They even have apps or whatever to interpret for them in various languages.

Of course, I am a sceptic: I had a mobile telephone before most people, in 1993, and I had to have one when I worked as a barrister, but for the past many years have not had one, and do not really need one (I hope). My car has an emergency help facility built in, if I were to break down (unlikely) or have a crash. Have never had to test that out though; hopefully, it works…

Taiwan looks almost deserted in that vlog, despite having 23M people in a country half the size of Scotland. I suppose the main populations live in or around Taipei, in the north. The vloggers are in the west, having arrived from mainland China on a small ferry.

Ah, I see now that I mistook where they were, not on the main island of Taiwan at all, but on Kinmen Island, a very small part of Taiwan that is only about 2 miles from mainland China.

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

Interesting that the mainland Chinese have not invaded that small island. They must be following the maxim of Sun Tzu, “to win without war…this is the supreme excellence“. A saying we in Europe might ponder. There is no overt Chinese aggression towards Europe, but we do see increasing numbers of Chinese living in parts of Europe, not least the UK. Millions of them.

I believe that border areas of Russia, in the (once Chinese) far-eastern parts known from the 1930s to the early 1990s as the Soviet Far East, have seen seepage of Chinese (farmers, traders etc) coming to live there.

Another vlog from the same couple

As with their previous vlog posts about Iran, interesting to see aspects of everyday life there not usually seen on the UK/Western mass media.

Incredible carpet shop in Isfahan. Even less expected, a great hotel (albeit rather glitzy) in the same city.

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All such rioters should be executed in the field, as soon as seen and designated.

So people earning £100,000+ per year are in need of State-subsidized childcare? The Nigerian idiot is even more of an idiot than I had previously thought. £100,000 p.a. (pre-tax) is scarcely a fortune, but it is still 2x-3x what most people are paid in the UK, and 8x-10x what many have to live on.

Also, the lady tweeter is right. The nexus “work hard/high pay” is not at all as firm as many believe.

Kemi Badenoch thinks that all the unemployed are “feckless drunks“. She was caught saying it. Not only very arrogant and dismissive, but actually wrong. Only a small minority are feckless drunks.

I think that you can see there the Nigerian woman’s background coming out. She, after all, is not English and, except that she has a British passport because her parents came to have her born in London so that she could later get a Brit passport (as the law was until 1982), is not in any real sense British. She was brought up in Nigeria and then the USA. She only came here as a teenager of 16-17. Her attitudes are basically pseudo-“libertarian” American, not British or indeed European.

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[“Ivor Caplin, former defence minister under Blair during Iraq, and best friend of @peterkyle, has registered as homeless in Hove, after his company went bust with £100,000 debts. The former chair of @JewishLabour blew a fortune on crystal meth while allegedly sexually assaulting a young person in a homeless in a hostel in Brighton. Many @bhlabour members know a lot more than they have told @sussex_police.“]

Links to Mandelson, and therefore to Epstein and Israeli Intelligence.

Already there for many people. Also, it will become very difficult, almost impossible, to live a normal life without being plugged-in to the System matrix via mobile telephones, computers etc. That is almost the case already for many.

The Israeli Jews continue to kill and maim civilians in Gaza and elsewhere and, via their fifth column of Jew-Zionists and suborned non-Jew pro-Israel drones in the UK, to interfere with British political life and freedom of expression.

In 1948, a monster was born.

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Diary Blog, 3 October 2026

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[girls of the Bund Deutscher Madel ride through a German forest in the 1930s]

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Saturday quiz

Well, my 5/10 this week once again trumped the 4/10 scored by political journalist John Rentoul. I knew the answers to questions 1, 3, 4, 8, and 9.

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Trump might do anything. One cannot predict it, because he is the personification of random unpredictability.

Europe slides ever-faster down the slope of utter decadence.

Would not be surprised to find that the Israelis, in conjunction with the Jewish lobby in Argentina, are behind this.

So who is in favour?

[“On this day two years ago. Don’t say @s_m_marandi didn’t warn you.

“If the United States gets involved, have no doubt, the US will be swept out of Iraq by the resistance and all its assets in the Persian Gulf will be destroyed. All these regimes with US bases will be destroyed and the oil and gas markets will cause a situation where the global economy will collapse, so be careful about making stupid mistakes.”]

Marandi is an Iranian academic.

Whatever you give “them”, (((they))) will complain, demand more, and turn on you in the end. Not just “Israel” and nominal Israelis, but also the type as a whole. Look at the behaviour of Zelensky.

Burnham is even a member of Labour Friends of Israel, just like Starmer-stein.

Israel— a rogue state, which has a very wealthy and influential “fifth column” in this country (as in some others).

Whatever the arguments, the fact is that pensioners will be worse-off under Labour after 2030 (when Burnham says the Triple Lock will go) and, quite possibly, before then. Result? 99% of pensioners (a third of the electorate, and maybe as much as 50% of the actually-voting electorate) will not be voting Labour. Largely but not just because of the Triple Lock being dumped. It is the whole direction of travel.

Late tweets

That funny woman tweeter is obsessed with, inter alia, cutting off Triple Lock money going to pensioners. Yes, only 12% of people of 65+ years vote Labour. That will now shrink to about 1%-2%, I expect. That means that 98% of those 65+ will vote somewhere other than Labour. Probably Reform, most of them.

The point, though, previously also made on the blog, is that people aged 65+ mostly actually vote. The other age-groups vote in far smaller numbers, proportionately.

The 65+ age group is about a third of the electorate, and must be at least 40% of those that actually turn out to vote (or vote via postal ballot). Maybe even 50%

Labour will therefore not be getting the votes of anything up to 50% of the total of those (of all ages) that vote, even before taking into consideration the votes of the <65 age groups.

Burnham-Labour has already alienated the under-24 age group by the recently-announced benefit cuts and changes.

Anything can happen in politics, but it would take a near-miracle for Labour to get to 35% of the poll, and that is surely their minimum if they want to be sure of a Commons majority.

That latest poll translates to a Commons with about 342 Labour MPs (so a majority of seats), 155 Reform (official Opposition), 55 Cons, 51 LibDems, and 20 SNP [etc].

Uncertain now how accurate such predictions are. Restore may only be getting 3% of the opinion poll votes, but that is enough to badly damage Reform in marginal seats. As to Labour, I doubt whether its present relative popularity will continue, but there is no doubt that many of Burnham’s recently-announced policies are quite popular:

I myself agree with all but three of the policies listed there.

My feeling right now is that Reform, though so disappointing (pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, pro-finance-capitalism and —in some respects— globalism, is still the main game in town in terms of at least pseudo-national populism. I can see many more presently Conservative votes going to Reform.

If I am right, and the Con vote reduces to, say 12% by 2028/2029, and the Reform vote rises to, say, 30%, then the post-election picture would be very different: that would give Labour maybe 265 MPs (far short of a majority), and Reform would have more MPs than Lab, 281. The LibDems would be on 53, the SNP 23, Greens 3 and the Con Party only 2. Near-wipeout. That would effectively finish off the Con Party.

As to government, Reform would be unable to form even a workable minority government despite having a plurality of MPs, but Labour would just about be able to function as a minority government with LibDem and SNP [etc] support.

I agree with that lady tweeter on that subject. For many years I broadly supported foxhunting as a colourful historical spectacle with long roots in England, but for many years now I have strongly opposed it (and most other field sports) by reason of my love for animals and, in minor key, also my dislike of, or distaste for, all foxhunters that I have ever met (at least as an adult).

[me aged about 2 (?…I am hopeless at judging ages), late 1950s, happily standing amid the foxhounds somewhere in Berkshire]
[late 1950s, also amid the hounds, though looking less happy, or more thoughtful]

I have to say that the bridge attacks are a brilliant tactical move by the Russian side.

Kiev is on both sides of the Dnieper, but the more important part of the city is on the western or right bank.

Late muse

I happened to see a travel show presented by an American of whom I had not previously heard, one Stanley Tucci [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Tucci]. Apparently a well-known film-maker and actor (well, I cannot know everything…). A New Yorker whose grandparents or great-grandparents emigrated from Calabria to America before the Second World War or, possibly, before the First World War.

It seems that the show was made in 2021, so 5+ years ago.

The programme showed him in Tuscany, then in Sicily. Mostly about the Italian regional cuisine(s). Not terribly dull, though hardly riveting, but of course this is an area covered many times in similar vein (think Rick Stein, Jamie Oliver, and many others).

When in Sicily, this Tucci expressed the view that immigration improves any society! Very wrongheaded. What many now call a “luxury belief” held by those (usually the affluent) who prefer not to see the downsides of mass immigration from backward parts of the world such as black Africa, North Africa etc.

Even without having to hear his wrongheaded views about the migration-invasion of Italy, I have to say that I found the aforesaid Tucci not someone to whom I warmed. He lacked the charm of some similar TV tourists.

Never mind. It filled an empty hour.

History as rarely seen

An historical and historic film sent to me today. Worth hearing or reading (subtitled)

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[Finland, the Northern Lights]

Diary Blog, 1 October 2026

Afternoon music

On the blog 3 years ago

I think that that blog post stands up well, three years on; not in all details (I overestimated the speed of Russian advances in Ukraine), but overall.

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Tweets seen

They really are a horrible tribe.

…and the criminal arrested was…African…

Migration invasion…

Get rid of them, either by dumping them in North Africa or by just eliminating them. Sterilization is vital, in the meantime.

Never had a non-political job. Is not qualified for any profession. Has no background in economics beyond her back-of-postcard PPE degree from Oxford. Member of Labour Friends of Israel. Believed to be or have been involved with lobby activities on behalf of China.

A stupid drunken moneygrubber, in short.

[“Congratulations to everyone celebrating the end of the triple lock.
You won nothing.
You will be pensioners one day. Many of you will be renting in retirement. Your private pension won’t touch what today’s pensioners have.
Cutting the triple lock doesn’t hurt today’s pensioners much. It hits you. Compounding, year after year, until you retire into a system even more inadequate than the one we have now.
As Sam Coates explains here, you just cheered for your own poorer retirement.
Own goal.
“]

Exactly right.

The same is true of cuts to social security/”welfare”, in most cases.

Thoughts out of season

In my view, taking the electorate overall, the voters knew what they were doing in 2024. They were binning the Conservative Party. What were were not doing, in intention, or primarily, was voting for a Starmer-Labour government (which has now become a Burnham-Labour government).

In 2024, the only way to bin the Conservatives led by little Indian money-juggler, Sunak, was to vote against the Conservative candidates. In some constituencies that meant voting Labour, in others for Reform, in yet others LibDem or even Green.

As frequently blogged about over the past 2.5 years, out of every 20 people eligible to vote, 8 did not vote at all, 4 voted Labour, 3 voted Conservative, 2 voted Reform, 2 voted LibDem, and 1 voted Green.

Rough figures, obviously. Reform scored about 600,000 more votes than the LibDems, even though the latter ended up with 72 MPs, and Reform only 6, by reason of the absurd voting system in the UK. Likewise, the Greens did not get anywhere near 1 out of 20 potential votes (or 1 out of every 12 cast), but closer to half a vote out of every 20.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election#Full_results

In short, Starmer-stein had no real mandate. Only 4 out of 12 actual voters voted Labour; 4 out of every 20 potential/eligible voters.

Even if you take it in terms of those that actually voted, Labour was only voted for by about a third of those who voted.

Burnham may be marginally more popular than Starmer-stein, but not much more.

Nature abhors a vacuum. The Cons were binned by the voters mostly voting elsewhere, or abstaining. Labour will probably go the same way. However, Reform is so underwhelming (pro-finance-capitalism, pro-Jewish lobby, pro-Israel) that its ceiling is probably, at highest, 35%, and its popularity presently stands somewhere around 25%.

What matters is not just Reform UK’s popularity, but the unpopularity of, in particular, Labour. I think that most people who want rid of Labour will vote Reform (if they are anti-immigration), or LibDem/Green if they are not very anti-immigration and/or want to rejoin the EU.

How high can Labour’s polling go? It could get up to 30%, but it may well stick, in the end, say next year, around 25%. Hard to see it going as high as 35%.

More tweets

Underwhelming…yes. Unlikely to really be able to do what is necessary…yes. However, much better than LibLabCon…also yes.

I think a majority or at least plurality of voters will take the same view.

Britain in 2026…

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16174789/Heavily-pregnant-woman-refused-emergency-accommodation.html

“A heavily pregnant woman has been left homeless after a council that houses more than 3,500 migrants refused her emergency accommodation, a charity says.

Homeless Project Scotland posted on Facebook claiming the 34-week-pregnant woman, who said she had fled an abusive relationship in London, was snubbed by Glasgow City Council.

The charity’s chief executive Colin McInnes described her plight as one of the most ‘horrific’ he had seen.“

The charity’s chief executive and co-founder described how staff there called the council’s social services helpline and a taxi was sent to collect the woman.

But she was later returned to the night shelter in a taxi after what Mr McInnes described as a ‘four-hour interrogation’.

He said: ‘I explained the situation that there is no way that this lady should obviously be in our shelter – we are at full capacity and this woman cannot sleep on the streets.

‘They told me, “Unfortunately this lady is going to have to sleep on the streets because we won’t be accommodating her.

At that point, I said the rights of every child is important and this child needs to be protected with its mother and the words that the woman on phone said to me and I quote, “An unborn child does not have rights”.’

Mr McInnes said the woman then spent the night sleeping on a mattress on the night shelter’s floor before leaving for the streets the following morning. 

But volunteers later found her and directed her back to social services, he added.

Mr McInnes said: ‘This is not how we behave in the United Kingdom and certainly not how we behave in Scotland that we would leave women who are 34 weeks pregnant lying in the streets.’

Michael Robinson, executive director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, said: ‘Whatever happened to the SNP’s compassionate society?

‘This is a truly chilling and callous response to the plight of a heavily pregnant woman and her unborn baby.’“

[Daily Mail]

Late tweets

[“The President also reminded that Russia did not start the war in Ukraine, and linked the collapse of the USSR to the naivety of Soviet leaders who tried to please the West, which in turn was only pursuing its own interests. At the same time, the Russian leader noted that “we experienced the collapse of the state system, which was a real tragedy for tens of millions of people.”

Following this, Putin again emphasized the risks:

“The moment when nothing can be changed may come very quickly and unexpectedly for everyone… […] A policy of escalating hostilities and sanctions is never one-sided; destructive actions by one side are always followed by a response from the other…”

The President of Russia also stressed that “armed conflicts, unfortunately, exist and will exist; they are an integral part of human existence,” and that now it is necessary to raise the issue of the rules of conducting such conflicts.“]

Most are not even European, let alone “French”. Shoot them down in the streets.

Bizarre.

Spectacular.

It never had them in the first place, not even in the 1990s.

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