Overnight, air defenses intercepted 107 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported. TASS has compiled key details on the impact of the massive attack:https://t.co/Y6Qm3KL2Owpic.twitter.com/9w6F7hDseA
US Strategic Command (Stratcom) commander Air Force Gen. Anthony J. Cotton has sounded the alarm about the need to rapidly modernize America's nuclear triad pic.twitter.com/ksyq3MHPzc
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 4, 2025
Putin's special representative Dmitriev made a number of statements following his trip to the United States:
◾️ US companies are ready to occupy the niches left by European companies that have left the Russian Federation ;
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 4, 2025
The head of the US Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, General Timothy Ho, has been dismissed from his posts , the Washington Post writes pic.twitter.com/6TmvGK7OmB
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 4, 2025
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The Israeli army announces an expansion of the ground operation in the northern Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/Jkypt8t5PD
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 4, 2025
When will “they” finally decide that they have had enough revenge?
NEW POST. Britain’s small boats crisis is getting worse —not better—under Labour. And it’s become a powerful symbol of the wider failure to manage immigration, integration and multiculturalismhttps://t.co/IoJpXj3qvu
Unless Labour urgently change its strategy on the small boats one think tank says another 60,000 illegal migrants could arrive this year https://t.co/RMvY4Onmhx
Whatever the exact figures (recent opinion polls have varied much), the direction of travel is clear. The main System parties are both out of favour with the public.
The Runcorn and Helsby by-election, set down for 1 May 2025, thus takes on an even greater significance.
🚨EXCLUSIVE Inside British Steel, the UK's last remaining primary steelmaker. First footage of the blast furnaces in half a decade. With the plant's Chinese owners preparing for its closure, this might be the last glimpse of virgin steelmaking in the country that invented it👇 pic.twitter.com/c8jj0aLbJ5
Very true, but behind all that is something very different. Starmer-stein marches to yet another very different drummer…
If you don’t understand how the legal system really works, here’s something you need to know:
Apart from giving your name and address, your only words to the police should be: “No comment.” Let your solicitor do the talking – that’s what they’re there for.
[“If you don’t understand how the legal system really works, here’s something you need to know: Apart from giving your name and address, your only words to the police should be: “No comment.” Let your solicitor do the talking – that’s what they’re there for. The system pressures people to plead guilty for a lighter sentence, even when they’ve done nothing wrong. It’s designed that way – quick, easy, and cheaper for them. But it leads to countless miscarriages of justice. And once you plead guilty, even if it becomes clear later that you were treated unfairly, you’ve usually lost your right to appeal. Know your rights. Don’t be bullied by the system.“]
I was wondering whether (presuming that it was so) the person in that first tweet pleaded guilty, thinking to receive mercy, if not justice. Not in a “political” case…
Interesting that the police (obviously, or presumably, posing as “anti-terror” plods) got the man’s credit/debit cards barred, thus forcing him to return to the UK rather than extend his stay, move elsewhere etc. Thus we see the dangers inherent in the looming “cashless society”. If your only money is stored in electrical impulses on a screen, it is controlled, monitored, and can be cut off, centrally. Be warned.
Talking point
“Two-tier Keir”…aka “Starmer-stein”.
Runcorn and Helsby by-election
I would ask the voters at Runcorn and Helsby, for their own sake, to vote Reform, whatever its flaws. Hit out at fake Labour and fake “Conservatives”, hit out at the System (while you still can).
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Russian troops liberated eight communities in the Donetsk area and the Zaporozhye Region over the week of March 29 — April 4 in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Friday:https://t.co/TMAB13XNBhpic.twitter.com/lujto6xgcN
According to Maariv, Iran has prepared more than 1,000 hypersonic ballistic missiles to attack Israel's infrastructure in the event of a possible attack. pic.twitter.com/WcIZEvEy5l
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 3, 2025
Norway will increase military support to Ukraine to $8 billion in 2025 , Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said, noting that this is a "significant contribution to peace and stability" in Europe. pic.twitter.com/1VzpM8WaeL
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 4, 2025
The political system in Norway is basically a ZOG/NWO set-up.
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 3, 2025
The Pentagon chief will for the first time ignore the meeting of the international coalition to provide military support to Ukraine, scheduled for April 11 in Brussels
Defense News notes that Hegseth does not plan to join the meeting, either in person or remotely, and that the… pic.twitter.com/kMYxHKGYxK
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 3, 2025
Kharkiv under massive drone attack. There were 14 strikes on the city in 40 minutes pic.twitter.com/CjPR9sOGcC
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 2, 2025
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 2, 2025
French Foreign Minister Barrot threatens Iran with war: The window of opportunity to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue is narrow. If negotiations fail, military confrontation will be an almost inevitable price to pay at the cost of destabilizing the region. pic.twitter.com/WNT2wQj3t3
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 2, 2025
"Iran will disappear by September"🤦
The US expects to defeat Iran by September if it rejects the deal and dismantles its nuclear program, the Daily Express claims, citing an unnamed source in the US administration. 🤦🤦🤦 pic.twitter.com/weXy5O17la
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 2, 2025
Europe should declare neutrality in respect of all current wars and other conflicts; however, it seems to be going the other way…
NWO/ZOG…
Putin is a dictator?
Meanwhile in Europe:
France 🇫🇷: Marine Le Pen sentenced and barred from running in the elections. Romania 🇷🇴: Elections canceled, winning candidate arrested and imprisoned. Germany 🇩🇪: Preparations for a similar scenario against the AfD party. Slovakia 🇸🇰:… pic.twitter.com/gTp0To4U4p
[“Meanwhile in Europe: France— Marine Le Pen sentenced and barred from running in the elections. Romania— Elections canceled, winning candidate arrested and imprisoned. Germany– Preparations for a similar scenario against the AfD party. Slovakia— assassination attempt against anti-war Prime Minister Robert Fico. Hungary— Continued attacks against Orbán and pressure to exclude Hungary from EU decisions. Estonia— 25% of Russians barred from voting in the elections.”]
❗ By effectively equating any form of engagement with Russia with a potential offence, the UK authorities have further cemented Britain's status as one of the most unfriendly Western jurisdictions.
— Russian Embassy, UK (@RussianEmbassy) April 3, 2025
[“By effectively equating any form of engagement with Russia with a potential offence, the UK authorities have further cemented Britain’s status as one of the most unfriendly Western jurisdictions. The move leaves little doubt that the UK intends to further escalate its confrontation with Russia. http://t.me/RusEmbUK/2086“]
“More than half of LabourList readers expect Labour to lose the Runcornand Helsby by-election and anticipate the party will lose a “significant number of seats” at the local elections, exclusive polling by Survation for LabourList has revealed.
Around 53% of those surveyed believe Reform UK candidate Sarah Pochin will win the first Westminster by-election of the parliament, taking place on May 1.
Less than a quarter said they expected Labour to hold the seat when voters go to the polls, with around one in five (19%) unsure as to which party will emerge the victor.”
[Labour List]
[“No, wait! I have always voted Labour! My parents, grand-parents and great-grandparents also always voted Labour in Runcorn!“]
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its not really failing as they never had any intention of addressing it
Tomorrow, I’m publishing the latest bonkers stats on how Keir Starmer and Labour are utterly failing to control immigration, the borders and, by extension, our country. Get it straight to email (free)https://t.co/liUeIhMiRY
It’s going to be a type of referendum on labours performance
— Common Sense Is Dead (@commonsense1191) April 3, 2025
Israeli media publishes a list of possible targets for a strike on Iran in the form of infographics: it includes military bases, nuclear and other strategically important facilities pic.twitter.com/idNNoHcRcL
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 3, 2025
In Russian translation; includes Teheran and Isfahan.
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 3, 2025
The editor-in-chief of the Middle East Eye warned about the consequences of a strike on Iran, stressing that such a war would be existential in nature , and Tehran would strike with everything it has .
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 3, 2025
Israel continues massive bombing of residential areas in Gaza Strip. Middle East channels sadly note that Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip have ceased to be covered by international media. pic.twitter.com/yhFERPCKDg
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 3, 2025
NATO Commander-in-Chief Cavoli said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were incapable of launching a major offensive pic.twitter.com/RQ5sOAamWd
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 3, 2025
As frequently said before on the blog, Russia cannot lose this war and will not lose this war.
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[Akademgorodok, near Novosibirsk, Western Siberia]
Quite. Look at the Allison Pearson case. Oh, wasn’t she shocked when the police came to her door and questioned her about a few online comments. Yes, shocked. She put all her outrage in her next newspaper column scribblings, and the “usual suspects” in the “free speech” milieu all formed up to march behind her— Toby Young, the “Free Speech Union” he put together, the Spectator, the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail etc.
As a matter of fact, I myself think that the police behaved outrageously in that instance.
Where, though, was Allison Pearson when others suffered from similar or worse behaviour at the hands of the police and those behind the police, and indeed Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), who have wormed their way into positions of influence, sometimes having suborned those stupid “elected” Police and Crime Commissioners brought in a decade ago by David Cameron-Levita.
Much of such backstairs manipulation can be lain at the door of the very malicious Jew-Zionist org known as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, a pro-Israel pressure group (effectively a volunteer arm of the Israeli Embassy in London) whose self-styled “Director of Investigations and Enforcement”…well, let’s just call him “Slitherman”…is not infrequently to be found broadcasting his lies and propaganda on the “usually, no-one watches” Talk TV and GB News and even, sometimes, on Sky News.
At the foot of this part of the blog can be found a few blog articles detailing some of my own experiences. First, though, let us look at Allison Pearson’s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Pearson] experience.
[“In November 2024, Pearson was visited at home by Essex Police asking her to undergo a voluntary interview after a complaint that she had incited racial hatred with a tweet posted in November 2023. During a period of scrutiny on British policing of pro-Palestinian protests during the Gaza war, Pearson had posted a photo of Greater Manchester Police officers standing besides supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan‘s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party waving the party’s flag. However, despite the flag including the word “Pakistan”, she called the flagbearers “Jew haters” and misidentified the officers as Metropolitan Police officers, citing an incident where that service had not met with an Israeli-advocacy group. These errors were corrected by a Community Note and Pearson deleted the tweet.[15][16]
After the visit, Pearson wrote a Telegraph column criticising the incident and saying that the police had said it was a non-crime hate incident. Essex Police reported The Daily Telegraph to the Independent Press Standards Organisation, saying that it had body camera footage proving that they had never said it was a non-crime hate incident.[15][16]
You see from that Wikipedia article that Allison Pearson criticized people as “Jew-haters“. She herself is not Jew, or even (as far as I can see) “part-” or “crypto”. A provincial scribbler by origin, who blagged a poor 2:2 in English at university and, as “journalist”, gets most of her facts wrong.
Allison Pearson has made common cause with the “CAA” snoopers and “lawfare” abusers. She said nothing when the Jewish lobby abused law and professional regulation to have me wrongfully and unlawfully disbarred in 2016; neither did she speak up for me when I was on trial for writing this blog (on trial in late 2023, sentenced in March 2024).
The police have been at my door about 5 or 6 times since 2013, always because some Jew or other has made up a contrived complaint. See the blog articles posted below. A few telephone calls too. The last time was only about a year ago, when some policeman at the door confronted me with Twitter/X posts, which (apart from the language used, which never could have been from me) were from, I think, 2024, and I have not posted on Twitter/X since I was permanently “suspended (expelled) in 2018, when —once again— a pack of Jews combined to “complain” about me.
Seems that the police (posing as a poundland KGB or Stasi) think that I am the only Ian Millard in the world, or in the UK, or posting online. Are they really so ineffective and unthinking? No wonder (real) crime is exploding.
Allison Pearson has also never said a word supporting other victims of Jew-Zionist lawfare, such as Alison Chabloz (imprisoned for posting satirical songs and cartoons), Jez Turner of the now-defunct London Forum (imprisoned for making a short speech in Whitehall saying that Jews should be removed from the UK), or Sam Melia of Patriotic Alternative (imprisoned for distributing completely lawful stickers).
The same is true of other controlled opposition types—Toby Young, the Free Speech Union, GB News, Talk TV, Farage, “Prison Planet” Watson, Matt Goodwin etc, not to forget Katie Hopkins herself…
Ms. Hopkins has never said a word in support of me (or any of those others mentioned).
Come for the vulnerable and disabled yet again and they will rightly come for you. They might not have anything left under Labour but they have a vote. https://t.co/WxTeWffLwf
The first test of that will be the by-election at Runcorn and Helsby on 1 May 2025, i.e. 4 weeks this Thursday.
Only total dummies are going to vote foe Starmer-stein’s fake Labour, but there are plenty of dummies out there, especially in the North of England where many vote Labour automatically, even today (because their great-grandfather always voted Labour…).
Leaving dummies of that sort aside, though, who will vote Labour now? Pensioners? Hardly! The young (under-30s)? Doubtful. Anyone on any State benefits? Very doubtful.
Not that Con is any sort of alternative, now that Labour is doing what the “Conservatives” used to do, and worse…
Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride wants to ditch the Triple Lock on State Pensions, so the over-60s voting “Conservative” would be turkeys voting for Christmas.
Reform is really the only game in town in the by-election, if one were to take seriously the “democratic” Schauspiel.
That wasn’t in the Labour manifesto either. More police they promised. Instead, devastating cuts in the capital.
Met Police to lose 1,700 officers and staff in £260m shortfall – BBC News https://t.co/rOoQic5Arf
[“REVENGE— Get down there, where you wanted to send me, you unclean spirit!“]
Thus perish all my enemies.
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Who is still voting for the Conservatives after 14 years in power? Has everyone memory-holed the Boriswave, highest tax burden since WW2 and the increasing crime rates that happened under their watch?
I find it hard to believe that any or many would vote Lib, Lab, or Con after the past 15-25 years…
These latest figures would translate to a Commons with 223 Con MPs, 170 Reform, 130 Labour, 56 LibDem (SNP 43 etc). Underwhelming. Con minority govt. (supported by Reform?).
Still, would be good to see so many “Labour” careerists culled.
Among those kicked out would be that horrid little bastard Stephen Kinnock, Angela Rayner, Mary Creagh, Ed Miliband, Wes Streeting, Rachel Reeves, Liz Kendall, Sarah Champion, Kim Leadbeater, Torsten Bell, Lisa Nandy (it just gets better!), and Emma Reynolds.
That one would mean Lab 197 MPs, Reform 194, Cons 141 (etc), so maybe a minority Reform government.
What is holding back Reform is that it is not social-national, just conservative-national.
We always lecture Russia on democracy – and now they have thrown this lesson back at us like a boomerang, said Marine Le Pen, who was disqualified from running in the French presidential election by a court ruling pic.twitter.com/wziVOi7pTE
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 2, 2025
Aux armes, citoyens!
A Ukrainian model of the M901 launcher of the American MIM-104 Patriot air defense system, equipped with a container for PAC-2 missiles, is towed by a KrAZ-260V pic.twitter.com/uNDuOuaaUU
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 2, 2025
British media write that they received a sensational leak from the Pentagon : the US will not help Europe in the event of a Russian attack. The US Department of Defense document says that Europe should not depend on the White House in the event of a Russian invasion. pic.twitter.com/TMgger0CPp
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 2, 2025
NATO’s days are numbered.
Johnson: Europe is heading for war with Russia, but it has neither the military power nor the resources to do so
Larry JOHNSON: The main reason for the aggressive policy towards Russia is the loans that France, Great Britain and Germany gave to Kiev. If Ukraine is defeated, that… pic.twitter.com/ATC5AxBCAm
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 2, 2025
[“Johnson: Europe is heading for war with Russia, but it has neither the military power nor the resources to do so Larry JOHNSON: The main reason for the aggressive policy towards Russia is the loans that France, Great Britain and Germany gave to Kiev. If Ukraine is defeated, that money will disappear. And the Russian army will destroy all foreign forces that find themselves on the territory of Ukraine. All those soldiers will be dead. All that will remain is to count their bodies After the summit of the “coalition of the willing (to help Kiev)” held in Paris on March 27, French President Emmanuel Macron said that several members of the coalition plan to send “deterrence forces” to Ukraine. As he emphasized, these forces, which will operate under the direction of Paris and London, will allegedly not replace Ukrainian troops and will not become peacekeepers. Their task will be to contain Russia, and they will be deployed in strategic locations agreed in advance with Kiev.“]
Israel Channel 14:
Following the attack on Iran, Iran is also expected to carry out large-scale missile and drone attacks deep inside Israel. pic.twitter.com/030gt2X1C4
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 2, 2025
How about tax cuts to parents so that the mother can actually stay at home for the 1st 5 years of their child's life to raise them, instead of handing over their 6 month old baby over to strangers so that they can work & pay taxes. All you want is both parents working so you can…
— Heather Louise Navin 🟣 (@ZoeWill26686182) April 2, 2025
[“How about tax cuts to parents so that the mother can actually stay at home for the 1st 5 years of their child’s life to raise them, instead of handing over their 6 month old baby over to strangers so that they can work & pay taxes. All you want is both parents working so you can get as much tax as possible. Scientifically babies are not supposed to leave their mother at all until the baby is 3 years old. Exactly the same as Apes. This is an attack on the nuclear family.“]
At first, I thought that that tweet from Zoe Williams was uncharacteristically sensible, but soon realized that this is a different Zoe Williams, not the very silly Guardian scribbler [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoe_Williams].
another black hole for the diversity chancellor to fund
— Nitrocellulose Doormat (@NitrocelluloseD) April 1, 2025
“Germany could ban far-Right politicians from running for office. Draft agreement seeks to ensure convicted extremists from parties such as the AfD cannot contest elections.
Far-Right politicians in Germany could be banned from running for office under plans by the incoming government, echoing a decision in France to block Marine Le Pen from a presidential bid…“
[Daily Telegraph]
Well, there it is. NWO/ZOG cabals are planning to remove even the fig-leaf of “democracy”.
Of course, “convicted” is but a (not-very-cunning) lie. All that that means is that the System will ensure that troublesome dissidents are indeed convicted, under some or another repressive anti-free-speech “law” or other. Then, abracadabra!, they are barred from standing in elections in the supposedly “free” countries.
Well, if implemented (whether in Germany, in France, or elsewhere) that will only leave action directe as a way forward, as President Kennedy noted about 65 years ago…
Russia’s Battlegroup Center inflicted up to 435 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed a tank in its area of responsibility over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday:https://t.co/IEUy5a9JA3pic.twitter.com/w5Xu1NrbIx
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 2, 2025
US expands military presence in Middle East to put pressure on Iran and strike Yemen's Houthis, media reports pic.twitter.com/p5IyRuNjzH
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 2, 2025
Those American aircraft carriers are incredible, both in themselves and as global power-projection tools. I once met an American carrier commander in the Caribbean. He and his wife were on leave. A funny little man to look at, a bit like the Penguin in the 1960s TV series, Batman, he carried his rank and responsibility lightly. I used to have a few drinks with them once the sun was going down.
On this day in 1933, the German Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, granting Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers to confront the existential threat of Judeo-Bolshevism. pic.twitter.com/OqBnzAuuWb
— Institute for Historical Review (@HistoryinReview) March 24, 2025
Russia's Federal Security Service has arrested an employee of one of the country's regulatory agencies on charges of state treason, the agency's press office told TASS:https://t.co/7j15yAfqe2pic.twitter.com/domS33GiBY
Russian forces struck Ukrainian military airfields, ammunition depots and UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) launch sites over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/RWmoieYCPzpic.twitter.com/KWGjNVurNY
I had thought that Matt Goodwin would use the by-election to launch a front-line political bid. Maybe he thought it too much of a risk, but risk is the lifeblood of politics.
Still, that lady has every chance of becoming an MP soon.
Ahead of the Spring Statement, only 25% of Britons say the government should make spending cuts
Likewise, only 18% say the government should increase taxes, and 8% back increasing borrowing
“They want not only their daily bread but also their daily illusion...” [Adolf Hitler, on the way the Germans of the Weimar Republic refused to face realities].
The only thing to do in England now is to make a complete revaluation of society.
Talks between US and Russian delegations in Saudi Arabia resume after second break
Without taking into account breaks, the negotiations have been going on for about eight hours.
After the meeting with Russian representatives, the US plans to hold another meeting with the… pic.twitter.com/yDnQ0ew3bA
New FBI Director Kesh Patel said the agency's activities will focus on restoring public trust, fighting violent crime and eradicating gun use in government agencies. The department's main function – counterintelligence – is being pushed into the background. pic.twitter.com/5eACg6pSYZ
Not sure how accurate is the contention that counter-intelligence is the “main function” of the FBI; not much, I think. The FBI was set up or, rather, re-established under J. Edgar Hoover (“the New Bu‘”) to deal with the wave of interstate criminality that arose after the First World War.
Counter-intelligence and counter-espionage was not its main role then, though Hoover did try to counter both Soviet espionage and, from about 1941, German espionage and sabotage. He had some successes, but was always likely to do whatever led to favourable headlines in newspapers, even if that might prejudice delicate investigations.
🇺🇦 Zelensky's office contains images of the burning Kremlin and Ukrainian soldiers in Russia, The Times reported. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova commented on the decoration of Zelensky's office as a "hospital for psychiatric patients." pic.twitter.com/csYgeTeVHV
The Gaza Strip Ministry of Health has published data on children killed and wounded since the start of hostilities on October 7, 2023, to March 23, 2025. In total: 15,613 children killed, 33,900 injured to varying degrees pic.twitter.com/dfyBydKbni
All in retaliation, persistent and inhuman retaliation, for an attack by Gazans on southern Israel about 18 months ago, during which hundreds of Israeli Jews died, though many from the “friendly fire” of their own armed forces.
Despite Zelensky's statements, the Kiev regime continues to deliberately attack energy infrastructure on Russian territory, including international energy, the Ministry of Defense emphasized. pic.twitter.com/OdoSNprtEU
Over the past few days, Ukraine has assaulted Russia’s energy infrastructure. TASS has gathered the key information about Ukraine’s attacks on Russian energy infrastructure:https://t.co/aJogWEsGJFpic.twitter.com/vMc6RAY1aJ
🇬🇧 The British military considers Starmer's plans to send peacekeepers to Ukraine "political theatre" , writes The Telegraph. pic.twitter.com/KhAIEbQKT9
Starmer-stein is a joke, a bad joke, as are Liz Kendall, “Rachel from Accounts” Reeves, Angela Rayner and the rest; Lammy is (arguably, and in a tight field) the most out of his depth, though. The “diversity hire” dummy posing as Foreign Secretary.
[Philby on a 5-kopeck late-Soviet commemorative postage stamp, and described as “Soviet Razvedchik“, a term which might be translated as “intelligencer”, rather than the grubbier-sounding “spy” (in Russian, “shpion”); “razvedchik” is a more polite or dignified term]
“Secret surveillance of Britain’s notorious double agent, Kim Philby, made public for the first time in archived documents, reveals how keenly the Security Service wanted to confirm or disprove early suspicions of his high-level treachery.
In daily bulletins submitted to MI5 in November 1951, undercover operatives describe how Philby, codenamed Peach, moved about London.
They said he gave “no outward sign of being either nervous or on the alert, but your well trained man should not do so; every movement is natural – again as it should be”
[Guardian]
The whole Philby thing has always been hugely overblown. Philby himself has been over-rated, too. Superficially well-educated, yes, but really a rather dogmatic Marxist-Leninist who, under other formative circumstances, might have been like some of the other basically mediocre professional-level bourgeois Englishmen I have met in my life, and who were not in secret-intelligence work but, variously, Roman Catholic converts, and/or military officers or barristers or other activity.
Philby was certainly no great mind, though he evidently thought himself very clever. Likewise, he was a bit of a plodder ideologically.
I recall that Philby wrote in his supposed memoirs (possibly part-ghosted by KGB helpers), My Silent War, or elsewhere, that “you choose your side and stick with it“, i.e. rather as others do to the Labour or Conservative parties, or to (the contemporary British obsession) football clubs. Unthinking loyalty. Stick-in-the-mud loyalty.
The puffing of Philby as the “masterspy”, or even “spymaster”, suited both sides in the Cold War: the Soviet side getting the gloss of having not only suborned Philby and other “Establishment” Englishmen to the Marxist/Soviet cause, but also having outplayed Western intelligence agencies in the spy game.
As for the British part of the Western side, Philby’s prominence could be presented as an example of why pervasive “security” (and the whole Cold War stance) was necessary. Also, his supposed “brilliance” in a way bolstered the reputation of institutions such as the more expensive English schools (Philby was at Westminster School) and, of course, the supposedly elite universities, in particular Cambridge.
The whole “Cambridge spies” story tends to puff the reputation of SIS and MI5 (despite their having been outplayed) by making their role seem terribly important. One scribbler even penned a well-known book called Philby— The Spy Who Betrayed A Generation, as if the Cambridge Spies were pretty much the centrepiece of British history since the 1930s, rather than an obscure footnote to it.
In the 1930s (when Philby started to work for Soviet organizations), there was (in the first half of the decade) the Great Depression, and the initial triumph of National Socialism in Germany. In the middle of the 1930s to 1939, the Spanish Civil War, while in Britain itself, the economy was recovering and society changing .
Then, in the early/mid 1940s, there was the titanic Second World War (in the Soviet Union, the Great Patriotic War).
In Britain, after 1945, there were the great social changes of the 1950s and 1960s. By that time, the “Cambridge Spies” were mostly not even in the UK. Maclean and Burgess had fled in 1951, and Philby was in journalistic exile in the Middle East. The economic and social changes in the UK were the main events, together with the start of the disastrous migration-invasion of non-whites into the UK, and Britain’s retreat from Empire.
The “Cambridge Spies” were not even footnotes to much of that. Near-irrelevant, despite the obsessions of the Westminster Bubblers and newspaper scribblers.
What damaged Britain in the 1940s through to the 1960s, and then on to today, was not a few spies passing on information to the Soviet Union, but the abandonment of Empire, the importation of blacks and browns in vast numbers, the cultural decadence etc.
You often see Philby and his fellow Cambridge spies described as “upper-class” or even “aristocratic”. In fact, not one was of “aristocratic” background, though all (except Cairncross) were affluent or wealthy. Philby’s own father was from an affluent government-connected family [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John_Philby] but a fact generally ignored or covered-up is that Philby’s mother, Dora, was half-Indian, a so-called “chi-chi” (pron. “shi-shi”), which may have subtly affected his loyalties.
General Kalugin, in his memoirs, describes how his superiors had the idea of using Philby, then in Moscow, as a kind of lure for potential agents in the West, by showing that he was respected, had a good life etc. His first meeting with the shambling drunken Philby makes a memorable picture.
Incidentally, Philby never learned to speak or read Russian beyond a rudimentary level, and had English-language books supplied to him via the KGB (presumably via people at the London embassy, and the diplomatic bag).
In the early 1990s, sometime around 1994, I was slightly acquainted with a Russian businessman living in London, and with an office in Regent Street, who had some legal business (I was a barrister at the time). We had lunch at least once at my Inn (of Court), Lincoln’s Inn. I recall that the Spanish waitress was very taken with “Ed” [Edvard] and his rather Scandinavian looks (he was from the Baltic regions) and even asked me later if I might effect an introduction for her (that never happened).
“Ed” was quite open about the fact that, prior to his taking to capitalist business activity, he had been in the KGB, though that would only have been, at a guess, for a relatively few years. He recalled having been at a lecture or two given by Philby in Moscow (he said that that had been at the Lubyanka).
Incidentally, those comments in the Guardian from the MI5 surveillance directorate in 1951 do tend to beg the question; after all, if a surveillance target is acting naturally, then either he is not guilty, or is literally acting (and/or has been trained to act) naturally, so in fact may be guilty. If, though, the target looks nervous, looks for reflections in shop windows etc, does that mean that he is guilty, or is he just a nervous wreck and/or afraid of being thought guilty? Wilderness of mirrors.
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This is getting obscene now. How do you give people greater dignity by removing their ability to wash below the waist and get in and out of the shower. https://t.co/Htcx53yS2A
The sheer hypocrisy of the Labour Friends of Israel “Labour” government is simply unbelievable. Surely Liz Kendall, Rachel Reeves, Torsten Bell, Starmer-stein etc can see that? Or are they so removed from truth and decency that they cannot see it? That might be even more alarming.
A new MP for Runcorn? Bring on Reform, say disillusioned voters | Reform UK | The Guardian https://t.co/EgBKUoNgaE
I should imagine that even Labour-inclined voters will be voting Reform UK (or staying home) at the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, in order to send a message (and/or a kick) to this horrifyingly callous and irredeemably incompetent misgovernment.
As to Conservative Party loyalists in the area, I should say that the Cons have no chance— so vote Reform in order to stick it to fake Labour.
From “tepid bath of managed decline” (really offensive) to blood bath. On top of 30,000 NHS England jobs. We are the party of work, it’s in our name, says Starmer! I don’t think you are. What a disgrace and totally counterproductive in an already struggling economy. https://t.co/HNL1ZdmhUP
“Given that there is a lot of talk about changes to special educational needs provision and reform plans for the NHS, we should worry about what the government might focus on next. Equally alarming, it seems to me, is a belief in Downing Street that reviving the UK demands embracing the wonders of artificial intelligence, which Keir Starmer believes will have an almost magical effect on everything from social work to education, and realise his new dream of “totally rewiring government”. Because this is an administration so lacking in everyday humanity, that is a much more scary prospect than he and his colleagues seem to realise.“
[John Harris in The Guardian]
I should not be surprised to find (if I am still around) that, somewhere down the line, in 5+ years’ time, the members of the present Cabinet will find themselves up against a wall.
A super piece. I simply don't take Kemi Badenoch seriously. She will never be Prime Minister. I rate her 1/10. Keir Starmer, who I rate 3/10, surely can't believe his luck. Even so, tangentially, I increasingly wonder how much longer Starmer is PM? He'll be gone well before 2029.
Russia and the US have a long way to go to resolve the situation in Ukraine, and there is no point in deceiving ourselves about imminent prospects, said Russian Presidential Press Secretary Peskov pic.twitter.com/SmBOg59npJ
Sumy Oblast or region is in NE Ukraine. Sumy city is NNW of Kharkov; about 150 miles from Kharkov by road but only about 90 miles as the crow flies. About 200 miles east of Kiev.
So Russian forces are in Sumy Oblast now. There seem to be Russian advances in all material parts of the overall front. Kiev-regime forces are falling back.
I don't think people properly understand the extent to which Labour is now the party of the rich. In 1997 the Tories led Labour by 10 points amongst the most affluent AB social class. But Labour led the Tories by 23 points amongst C2s, and 38 points amongst DEs. In 2024 Labour…
Why do many think it impossible that “the lion will lie down with the lamb” in a future age? All things are possible.
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Instead of addressing the root causes of the Ukrainian conflict, Europe is only exacerbating them by increasing military spending and considering the deployment of its troops in Ukraine, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said:https://t.co/g3iz7sEnq1pic.twitter.com/JlZGOa4D4b
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If you want the full story about Beth Grossman of Doughty Street, Mark Lewis of Patron Law, and Daniel Berke of 3D Solicitors, here it is:https://t.co/02BP64b6sl
I think it was Daniel Berke’s firm 3D Solicitors who acted for Pete Newbon in relation to Northumbria. Maybe it was them who advised him not to make the agreed apology?
As to why they gave that advice, my theory is that the plan was to sue Michael Rosen and making the apology…
For those who are unaware of the outline of James Wilson’s (now-successful) libel case against three defendants (all Jews; in one case, possibly only a part-Jew), the defendants were advised and/or represented by Jewish solicitors and barristers who seem to have been, all or variously, professionally negligent and/or incompetent.
Mark Lewis and Daniel Berke were the main solicitors for the defendants, Beth Grossman of Doughty Street Chambers was the barrister (possibly the only barrister; I do not know, and only heard of her recently, via Wilson’s Twitter/X account and Substack blog).
Are people reading your Substack blogs?
— Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 (@MichaelRosenYes) March 21, 2025
I get about 900 views per piece on average. And the daily visits keep going up so far.
I definitely have some very committed readers in the legal field.
I expect they know Mark Lewis professionally and are keen to see his antics finally exposed?
“Lewis’s reputation“? Ha ha! Only ignorant fools think that that is worth more than a plugged nickel. I have blogged many times about him, over many years; he has never once threatened to sue me (no doubt partly by reason of my impecuniosity, but truth as defence –or other defences— may also have much to do with it).
Feel free to republish any of my blog posts. After all, I was a barrister until a pack of Jews procured my wrongful and, it turned out later, actually unlawful disbarment (in 2016): see
Success and failure are never certain. The great Stephen Sedley tells a funny story about when he started as a barrister doing work for North Kensington Law Centre. pic.twitter.com/TC4nydR6P6
Ha. Amusing. As a matter of fact, I myself appeared as Counsel in the High Court several times before Sedley, a High Court judge at the time (early 1990s), notably in a case involving a former member of the Angolan Secret Service.
I doubt that there are many barristers who have never suffered excruciating embarrassment in open court. For example…
A good time To Remind you of the ‘Benefits’ Liz Kendall is entitled to on her £150,000 a year MP Job.. & yes, she takes advantage of every fucking penny, including £352 a month on her Utility bills on her multiple properties, all paid for by YOU. pic.twitter.com/DYCgfrBNlj
Liz Kendall and Rachel Reeves are emblematic of a political class completely disconnected from the reality of this country.
Kendall lives in £4 million London property, and has her heating bill paid by the taxpayer. And she wants to talk about a ‘culture of dependence’? pic.twitter.com/XovgBvFMGA
Liz Kendall, a thick, hypocritically-bleating member of Labour Friends of Israel. One of the worst of the Starmer-stein Cabinet of utter cretins.
I have not yet discovered whether Liz Kendall and/or Rachel Reeves are part-Jew. Possibly; not necessarily. I await further information.
Evil Ghoul Liz Kendall says Disabled People Have Had It Too Easy For Far Too Long. I say Liz Kendall, in her £5m house, free parking, free heating, massive lunch allowance, and freebies has had it easy for far too long. Do You Agree? pic.twitter.com/LMV6D6knio
— Sam The Long Covid Unicorn (@CounsellingSam) March 19, 2025
.@IanByrneMP: "Does the secretary of state really believe it is fairer to balance the books on the backs of disabled people & the poor rather than introducing a wealth [tax] on the super rich"
The Guardian's politics coverage is just… so birdbrained. According to John Crace, Liz Kendall's benefits cuts are as much of a surprise to her as anyone.
That'll be the same Liz Kendall who ran for Labour leader in 2015 backing benefits cuts, yes? pic.twitter.com/hTKV64vUth
Ignorant scribbler Allison Pearson, another puppet of Israel and the Jewish lobby. Quelle surprise…
Champagne socialist kendall a millionaire who lives in the poshest part of London with a multi-millionaire boyfriend. She is robbing the poor & disabled to pay for illegal immigrants to stay in 5-star hotels. Why not STOP the boats instead of stopping benefits for UK citizens?
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has declared that his country may veto the European Union's adoption of new sanctions against Russia, according to the TASR news agency:https://t.co/riiqade52wpic.twitter.com/fW0ViZkP73
At least 26 people died and dozens more were injured after Israel’s raids on the northern and southern parts of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, the Al Jazeera television channel reported:https://t.co/DRW6oFPzJ2pic.twitter.com/bRNdXnAa8E
Russia’s Battlegroup East destroyed five Ukrainian drone control centers during the past day, the battlegroup’s spokesman Alexander Gordeyev told TASS:https://t.co/6iCi8a9m05pic.twitter.com/3ui60pFoww
Russian forces struck a military train with ammunition and armament for the Ukrainian army over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Thursday:https://t.co/yy2G8y1Tg8pic.twitter.com/fo8JGjRjN3
When “they” try to smile, it looks even worse. It rings false. A kind of automatic (or deliberate) rictus. A phenomenon often noticed in the past.
☝️ “Did Macron completely lose his mind? He is going to send French troops to fight our army. He looks like a Gallic rooster. He has frightened all of Europe How should we react to this?” – the journalist.
If the NWO/ZOG cabals foment a real war (again), they must personally suffer the consequences.
It turns out that the dim-witted Macron calls the outcast Zelensky every half hour. Having solved all the issues in France, he is now solving Ukraine’s problems. The approval rating of the greatest president in French history should now rise from 7% to 8%. pic.twitter.com/LcaUH1xUqZ
Note the token English/white man in the white shirt (and a couple at the back). The “Conservatives” are a political dead duck; they have just not realized it yet.
This Frenchman indicates to a migrant that there are public toilets for use 😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/46gyKBpvIA
Only a small number of NATO states really want Kiev-regime Ukraine to join the alliance. Maybe France, maybe the UK, the Baltic states, Poland, maybe a few of the Scandinavians. Out of 32 states, maybe 10-15. It will never happen. It was never going to happen, once the war started.
In any case, every NATO state has a veto. So, even leaving aside the USA (the most important of all, and the only NATO state with both nuclear and serious non-nuclear forces), Hungary would veto, Italy too, Slovakia too. Others as well, if push came to shove.
What makes the cruelty and brutality of the Israeli Jews worse is the fact that those they victimize have little or no way in which to defend themselves, at least not really significantly.
We see it time and again— the Jew-Zionists always think that they are the “victims”, even when attacking defenceless civilian populations from the air.
Former Israeli Supreme Court Chief Justice Aharon Barak:
If Israel as a state were to disappear, the rest of the worldwide web would be far more easy to eliminate.
How Kiev stopped receiving Russian gas via Slovakia
▪️Ukraine has stopped using Slovak infrastructure in the east of the country to receive Russian gas, which Kiev purchased from foreign companies, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said.
The Kiev regime “Ukraine” is not a real state at all, more like a shambolic and brutal criminal conspiracy.
The EU's military presence in Ukraine includes not only ground troops, but also the air force and navy, writes Bloomberg.
▪️According to a preliminary plan by a number of European countries, British and French "peacekeepers" are to be deployed in cities, ports, and critical… pic.twitter.com/MBrq1I0KnT
Yes, I saw the images from Odessa, and they highlight a growing problem. Russia keeps ramping up drone production and launches more Shahed drones every month, now averaging almost 150 per day.
This trend shows no sign of slowing down, meaning Ukraine’s air defense systems will…
As for Goodwin, I recently flagged the possibility, no more, that he might be on the following trajectory— win a by-election (Runcorn & Helsby?) as a Reform UK candidate, take over from Farage the leadership of Reform (with Farage’s support), and then (once Reform has become the largest party in the Commons after the next general election ) become Prime Minister.
It might just happen.
However, as that tweeter “Serena Brown” notes, either the UK becomes again a homogenous society, or it does not. There would be no point in a Reform UK government if it were unwilling to take the steps necessary.
This is not merely about immigration, and certainly not only about that relatively small part of immigration which comes in via the infamous “small boats”. It is about the non-whites already here, who are breeding much faster than the English/British, who themselves are not even reproducing their own numbers.
When we see Reform, we notice that it is ideologically in hock to the Jew-Zionist lobby, and pathetically adherent to Israel and Israeli interests.
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Shabana Mahood's justice system . Look how it's going is this fair is this justice …… https://t.co/EVlYYjgiFC
I have blogged previously about the bad joke that is Shabana Mahmood as “Lord Chancellor” and Secretary of State for Justice— a Pakistani woman whose total legal experience has been a 12-month Bar pupillage (decades ago), followed by a year as a salaried “gopher” at a firm of solicitors. Use the search box on the blog to find out more.
I polled a nationally representative sample of the public to test for attitudes to deportations, beginning with violent criminals, far from being a ‘very online’ fringe, it has overwhelming popular support: — 83% of all voters and 100% of reform voters https://t.co/QP2yY5oGPTpic.twitter.com/eeIY340YJc
Sexual offences – similar popular support. And notably not just with the general public but near unanimous support from reform voters — 84% of all voters and 100% reform voters would support removing migrant sexual offenders pic.twitter.com/zVdEYsXzw0
I cannot comprehend how *any* MP can believe that lowering the (relatively modest) rate of LCWRA is going to incentivize a measurable number toward employment.
The idea of 'mitigations' doesn't cut it either; the entire group is 'severely disabled.'https://t.co/6affz0ut1D
Starmer-stein is not a Labour prime minister (even of the Tony Blair/Gordon Brown type); he is a Labour Friends of Israel prime minister, and that applies, mutatis mutandis, to virtually his entire Cabinet.
Starmer-stein and his Cabinet should face real resistance from the British people.
Meanwhile, Starmer-stein continues to try to play the “world statesman” and would-be war leader, and looks ever-more pathetic as he makes that attempt.
NEW POST. NHS Insider — We should train more British young people to become doctors instead of importing less well qualified doctors from abroadhttps://t.co/ZJggUPTtLI
When simply noting the totally obvious sounds radical…
That influx of non-white doctors has another consequence: by reason of the high pay received by doctors in the UK, any offspring are automatically given a better life-chance than most white English/British children. The knock-on result is that more non-whites are going to be placed into the higher socio-economic groups in the UK, thus further weakening our civilized European culture and society.
“Last year, the General Medical Council registered 9,285 doctors who had been trained here in the UK and … get this … 19,279 doctors who had trained abroad” https://t.co/xN9e92K0JR
Yes we know… but what will @reformparty_uk actually do about it? All I hear is watered down rhetoric, political impossibilities…. Where is the solution – isn’t that how you win? Give us a credible solution, not garner votes out of the good British publics desperation.
Exactly. Reform is the last hope of many, but it is also the last chance for the System itself to survive. If Reform is squashed or disappears, we are looking at quite likely civil war, or social war, and the national revolution, down the line. However, if Reform manages to be either the largest or second-largest party after 2028 or 2029, or even in government with a Commons majority, but then fails to take the steps necessary, we shall also be looking at not-unlikely civil/social war.
We must not forget that the Jew-Zionist element is embedded in Reform. One only has to look at the pronouncements of Farage, Tice, and now Goodwin.
Still, at present, Reform UK is the only game in town:
Phenomenal growth for Reform in just 8 months:
-14% to 26% in national polls -160,000 members (220k total) -465 branches set up -30 events across country -will stand in ALL local seats
Hopefully, that little bully will be found and prosecuted, but of course his punishment, if any, will be slight, in the present society.
When the law ceases to be respected, or enforced (by reason of weak and/or politicized police, prosecutors, courts), such lawlessness leads, in the end, to the public taking the law into their own hands, and meting out more condign punishment to evildoers.
Not for nothing has “the Bailey” (Central Criminal Court, London) the following inscription on its facade: “Punish the evildoer, and protect the children of the poor“…
A deeply unpopular left wing prime minister or a man propped up as the anti-immigration right wing candidate by the same media that pretends to oppose him. Voters like Farage because they are told he is on their side, but what they want and who he actually is could not be further… https://t.co/xv0zF75ukM
It will be recalled how warmly Starmer-stein welcomed Farage into the chamber of the House of Commons for the first time.
Look at Canada. Similar story in UK. Mass immigration imposed while productivity flat lining. Why? Bc as I wrote here mass immigration is bad economics and pushing us into “population trap”. Economists were wrong https://t.co/KPXX4VnTqTpic.twitter.com/yTTHkO2ytX
The Council of the European Union has approved the payment of 3.5 billion euros to Ukraine under a macrofinancial assistance program, according to a statement:https://t.co/OrgTP4YbSopic.twitter.com/XbLFdcp8zP
The conversation between Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin scheduled for March 18 is indeed being prepared, Dmitry Peskov said at a briefing in response to a TASS question:https://t.co/RXmzAXunMHpic.twitter.com/kCNZN8pbKt
Russian forces fully liberated the community of Stepovoye in the Zaporozhye Region over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Monday:https://t.co/zHeKGo2sgApic.twitter.com/pQbyH8kaw4
What? Apparently the incoming President of the International Olympic Committee Sebastian Coe visited Epstein’s Island 11 times!! pic.twitter.com/HebCwV40u5
'State pension is a benefit not entitlement – what you get is up to Starmer' https://t.co/TmQ2ELIFtJ I worked from 16 to 65 and never missed a payment as did my wife you piece of shit . Whilst you piss money up the wall on Ukraine and you lunatic green policies
Over £7.5bn in universal credit is spent on foreigners as more than one million non-Britons claiming benefits. Also when given leave to remain, they also qualify for state pension!
There is your savings @RachelReevesMP NOT the sick, disabled and vulnerable UK nationals !!
These penguins were stuck in a dip and were freezing to death, so this BBC Crew broke the rules stating they can't interfere to save them pic.twitter.com/jjicLNeq8o
Who makes up stupid rules like that anyway? Small-minded people who think that the natural world is not connected with humanity. Glad that those BBC people broke the “rules” laid down.
I often break rules, and feel good about doing so.
If the most significant event in my life was an extramarital affair with Britain's least successful prime minister, I would simply not write an autobiography. pic.twitter.com/t3vvxxRj8W
Runcorn & Helsby is the 144th most 'Reform-friendly' seat in the country.
If Reform can win there it can make enormous inroads across Labour-held territory in northern England, Yorkshire and the Midlands https://t.co/BhN57QraEs
“The government says it wants to make significant savings on welfare payments to the disabled and help the disabled into work. The point, say all ministers – led Sir Keir Starmer – is not to harm the disabled, but to free them from a life of dependency. That, they claim, is why this is a truly “Labour” reform — and not just brutal cuts engineered by Rachel Reeves because she needs billions in savings so as not to breach arbitrary, self-imposed fiscal rules on the assessment date of 26 March. Is any of this plausible?
The first thing to say is the point of fiscal rules should be to help focus minds in government about how best to share scarce resources between different important resources. They should not set hard deadlines for making decisions with potentially profound consequences for the lives of millions of people.
We’ve already seen an example of the political dangers of trying to rush through changes to personal independence payments (PIP) and the health related elements of universal credit – because one element that was particularly upsetting to Labour MPs has already been dropped, namely a one year freeze on PIP payments.
But as my colleague Anushka Asthana has been exclusively disclosing for the last ten days, this was only one part of the welfare reform package. The other elements were to restrict entitlement to personal independence payments, while cutting the health-related universal credit payments and recycling those UC savings into an increase in the standard rate of UC. You can see in this the simple story and perhaps simplistic story about welfare payments to the disabled that the government believes and is trying to tell.
First, that hundreds of thousands of people receive cash to help with their living and mobility costs, but don’t “deserve” it.
Second, that the structure of UC payments provides too great an incentive to disabled people to sign themselves off work to get the health-related benefits top up.
Starmer will doubtless take comfort from the fact that – according to polling by the Good Growth Foundation – 60% believe the system provides too much support to people who don’t want to work and 39% think that it’s too easy for people to get benefits who don’t need them. But popular belief does not make it true. And before going further into the nitty gritty, it is worth doing a quick economic reality check. It is a fact that the proportion of British people in employment has fallen since Covid and, unlike many other rich economies, has not recovered to 2019 levels. But the proportion of British people who are working remains high by international standards. According to the OECD, in the third quarter of 2023 the UK ranked fifth in the world, with an employment rate of 74.9%, well ahead of the US for example, and behind only Iceland, the Netherlands, Japan and Germany
Even if it is a laudible ambition to encourage more people into work. The UK’s is not an economy whose failure is that too few people are working. The grotesque failure of the British economy is hardly a mystery.
It is that living standards for those in work have barely increased for more than 15 years and too many of those in work receive too little to pay even for food, energy and other essentials.
Pretty much every competitor country whose employment rate has recovered to pre-covid levels has higher productivity and higher wages than the UK. Which might tell you that Britain’s problem is not that its benefit system is skewiff but that it’s the labour market itself that is broken, that remunerated toil in Britain delivers inadequate incentives. And by the way, we don’t have a benefit system in the UK that is remotely generous or lavish by international standards.
Research published only last week by the National Institute for Economic and Social Research showed that we spend less on welfare as a share of GDP than the average for developed nations.
Also when it comes to the so-called replacement rate – what any unemployed person receives as a proportion of earnings from employment – only the unemployed in Australia and the US receive less.
Unemployment payments are significantly higher everywhere else in Europe, for example.
And another thing. As the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has shown, standard universal credit does not cover the costs of basics and essentials, for families or single people. “Ah ha!” you may exclaim, especially if you are the PM or chancellor. Surely this proves that there is a unhealthy incentive in the UC system for any claimant to prove that he or she has “limited capacity for work or work related activity” – to be diagnosed as unfit for work – so that their UC entitlements would go (for a single person) from £400 to £823, a month. But is an extra £106 a week the kind of incentive that would persuade a vulnerable person to permanently shut down their availability for work?
And if it were cut and partly offset by a rise in standard universal credit – which is what Starmer plans – would that persuade the vulnerable person to look for jobs?
That doesn’t feel compelling as an argument – especially in a world where most employers are reluctant to employ disabled people, let alone retain them on their books.
So another concern about the timing of these welfare changes is they come well before the findings of an equally important government review, that by former John Lewis boss Charlie Mayfield about how employers can be helped to retain and hire disabled people. Later this week he will publish his “discovery” document, about why employers struggle to keep in employment those who start to feel unwell, especially those suffering from mental ill-health. However Mayfield is still months away from recommendations.
In other words, it feels cart-before-horse to take cash from the disabled before a new support system is in place for employers to keep on their books those who are struggling.
As for the proposal to increase the threshold for those claiming the PIP, this will have an impact both on new claimants and those in receipt who are subject to review. How many disabled people could see their PIP payments reduced or withdrawn altogether?
Very large numbers indeed, according to the Resolution Foundation if it remains the Treasury’s aim to find net savings of up to £6bn by 2029-30. Louise Murphy of the Foundation estimates that more than 600,000 people, most on low incomes, would lose £675 a month on average.
Obviously this is all still hypothetical. Proper judgement awaits publication of the Liz Kendall’s policy paper tomorrow. But a change in entitlement on that magnitude will generate massive anxieties in those who both receive PIP and may need it in future.
None of this is to argue that any government should ignore the forecast that on current trends the cost of PIP is set to rise by £15bn by 2029 or that large numbers of especially young people are being excluded by disability from the world of work too young. It is to suggest that reforms that could reduce benefit bills in the long run will require large expenditure in the short term on mental health provision, skills, rewiring coaching and job search at the DWP, occupational health support for companies and so on.
A rational approach would see the costs of supporting the disabled rise in the short term. It would be an investment programme, not a cuts programme. With the supposedly all-important fiscal assessment looming, we’ll see if that’s what Starmer , Kendall and Reeves unveil. 2/2“
[Robert Peston]
A long comment, but important.
For me, the answer to all this a a “basic income” system, whereby all citizens (note, citizens, not any African or Afghan or similar just off the boat) get some modest amount of income regardless of any factor such as contribution, need, or “deservedness”.
That would also save vast amounts by enabling the shutdown of 95% of the DWP bureaucracy.
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[“Come with me, and I will show you where the Iron Crosses grow“]
Starmer-stein is out of his depth. Useless in every way. Personally, I do not care whether Trump comes to the UK or not, but (as with Tony Blair and others) it is just pathetic to see what poodles British prime ministers are when it comes to the USA (and Israel).
What a piece of work Rachel Reeves is. The UK economic contraction was for January when markets were still riding high and before Trump’s trade war even started. She’s pinning the blame elsewhere when it lies firmly with her and Labour’s catastrophic economic policies. Worse, her… pic.twitter.com/pz3GGOvAsV
[“No, wait! I voted Labour in 2024!” cried the poor mug as Liz Kendall, Rachel Reeves, and Keir Starmer-stein ordered the execution by stealth of the old, sick, and disabled]
The UK economy tanked from 0.4% to 0.1% at the start of the year. We are going backwards. This is what happens when you cling to a Big State, Big Tax, Big Debt, Big Net Zero, Big Immigration model that is stifling growth and prosperity.
Not sure I agree with all of that, but certainly agree about the net zero and mass immigration aspects. I wonder whether Matt Goodwin is positioning himself to become leader of Reform UK and, therefore, potentially, Prime Minister by 2028 or 2029?
As to the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, it is now surely Reform UK’s to lose, looking at the utterly disastrous Starmer-stein Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment. I have already covered the by-election on the blog:
Incidentally, Lord Ashcroft or his employees should learn to spell: “likelihood” is not spelled “likelyhood“.
That opinion poll is interesting, though. Labour support in the constituency seems to have almost halved since the 2024 General Election. In a way, however, the fact that a third of Runcorn and Helsby voters are still inclined to stick with fake “Labour” despite both the thuggishness of the former MP and the actions of Starmer-stein’s useless and unpleasant government says something, arguende, about the intelligence or nous of the average voter!
The fact is that the Conservative Party has no chance in that constituency anyway, so the way for Con or former Con supporters to stick it to Labour and/or Starmer-stein is to vote Reform.
As for disenchanted Labour or former Labour voters, they can protest against Starmer-stein’s and Rachel Reeves’ (and Liz Kendall’s) utter betrayal of everything for which “Labour” used to stand by voting Reform or, failing that, or if they cannot countenance that, by just staying home, abstaining from voting.
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“A revolution without firing squads is not worth much” [Lenin]
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Ukrainian soldiers are suffering heavy losses in their attempts to evacuate damaged NATO equipment near Sudzha in the Kursk Region on orders from their military commanders, a source in Russian defense circles told TASS: https://t.co/CJtYn6l8Okpic.twitter.com/9EDqyW3On9
Incidentally, I just saw a Daily Mirror report about Kiev-regime drone strikes on Moscow yesterday or overnight. It included the classic error that one Ukrainian drone had hit an oil refinery near Moscow, “only 55 miles” from Putin’s palace on the Black Sea. Well, the nearest place —let alone palace— on the Black Sea from Moscow is about 865 miles away. The “British” msm is just full of absolute bs.
Only unexpected if you're called Rachel Reeves & are a disciple of this traitorous government. Anyone else saw it coming a mile off. Rachel from Accounts is not up to the job. She's in "good" company, though, because from #2TierKier down, none of them are. #StopLabour
I agree with that tweet, but I also agree with this:
At present, the UK is importing about a million so-called “legal” immigrants every year, as well as 50,000-100,000 illegal ones. There is no indication that Starmer-stein, “Rachel from Accounts” Reeves, or Liz Kendall see any of that as the existential peril for our society that it is.
As for Rachel Reeves’ idea of building millions of hutches for people (many of them migrant-invaders): first of all, who will build those “houses”, in a situation where even poorly-trained artisans are in short supply? Secondly, few will be able to afford to buy or even rent the dwellings. Most will be subsidized. How will that save government money, or much stimulate the general economy?
More pathetic System-drone bs, in other words.
In my latest piece, I analyse whether Mark Lewis of Patron Law knowingly misled the High Court with his evidence in my case.
I think it is possible that his conduct amounts to contempt of court.
If you follow the link in my bio, you will see my latest on Mark Lewis of Patron Law.
Something to bear in mind when you are reading it: this is his signed statement of truth on his witness statement dated 16 December 2022. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/rWQ2ZEaChj
The above half-dozen tweets all relate to the libel action won by the tweeter, James Wilson, an academic from the North East of England, who won against a swamp of dishonest Jew-Zionist lawyers and perjuring or “unreliable” witnesses (every last one a Jew-Zionist).
Simon Myerson was a witness for the defence in that case. Myerson, a barrister based in Leeds, was later sacked as a part-time judge for other reasons, at least officially (his malicious and vituperative tweets and other social media comments). In the case in question here, Myerson’s testimony was given very little, if any, weight by the trial judge.
As for the defendants, one, a vicious pro-Israel social media troll called Pete Newbon, committed suicide before the trial had ended, he having failed to inform his wife that the libel case was happening, and that their family home might be on the line.
Another defendant, one Cantor, was (as it appears) either negligently or, quite likely, deliberately misled by the Jew-Zionist solicitor and Israel-lobby political fanatic Mark Lewis. It seems that Cantor will now lose his family home by reason of Lewis’s default(s), in order to satisfy the court-ordered legal costs of the successful claimant, Wilson. Not that I personally have the slightest sympathy for Cantor or any similar individual.
I do not know, but it seems not unlikely that, the defendants or surviving defendants having now a legal obligation to pay Wilson’s costs (though they are but a fraction of those that would have been claimed by the lawyers of the defendants, had they succeeded at trial), those surviving defendants will almost certainly end up suing Lewis and probably also Patron Law, the mainly Jewish law firm (based in a mews side-street in Notting Hill, West London), which is Lewis’s legal foothold in England (he is now, and has been since 2018, an Israeli citizen supposedly living in Eilat, Israel).
Good grief! Can you imagine that drunken and/or drugged and/or crazed shambles negotiating with Putin, or Zelensky, or Netanyahu?
There really is something wrong with the allegedly “democratic” process, both in the USA and the UK, when some creature like Kamala Harris can become Vice-President, and nearly become President, of the USA. In the UK, look at David Lammy, Angela Rayner, and most of the rest of Starmer-stein’s Cabinet.
Everybody’s to blame except the people who are actually in charge of the economy 🙄 pic.twitter.com/tIZgBCSVlr
Even after the past 15 years of chaotic mismanagement, the government of Starmer-stein is something else…Look at them! “Rachel from Accounts” Reeves, Liz Kendall, Angela Rayner (!), David Lammy (!), Yvette Cooper etc. Starmer-stein himself. What a crowd of cretins!
This is interesting.
The top issue for ALL voters in Runcorn & Helsby, not only Reform voters, is immigration and asylum.
As frequently said on this blog, immigration affects everything when it is on the present Biblical scale— housing, pay, benefits, pensions, traffic, rail travel, crime, the environment, culture. You name it.
A convicted Ghanaian criminal deported from Britain 12 years ago, has been allowed to return under human rights laws because he is DEPRESSED…
Can you imagine?! That is a “judge”, according to the UN! “Lydia Mugambe”…
We cannot afford to be too complacent, though. How long before we get something similar here, sitting in judgment over native Brits? When we look at the Bar, the lower ranks, and some at higher level, are in part already like that…
Population of snow leopards increases from 10 to 87 in Russia over ten years, reported the Chairman of the general meeting of the interregional association "Irbis", Ali Uzdenov:https://t.co/mScdPM35Dqpic.twitter.com/xADb2h0jQn
There are some enterprises, some kinds of economic enterprise, that should be in public ownership: water companies, major rail services, large-scale electricity production and distribution, large-scale domestic-use gas production and distribution; some other activities.
Some other things, relating to the State and/or wider society, should also be run by the State itself, or by a quasi-State authority: Royal Mail, prisons, National Lottery; some others as well.
Talking point— a “free speech” thread on Twitter
Free speech is free speech, Alex.
You can’t complain about it by shutting it down.
‘The left’ are not outraged. Normal folk are not comfortable with outward displays of Nazism.
What the fuck does that sign have to do with Jewish communities? Disgraceful to bring them into this. Defamation needs to be untrue – Musk literally did a Nazi Salute and then supported a Nazi like party in Germany the AFD.
Have any UK-based Jewish-Zionist organisations complained? – They're habitually the most litigious when it comes to being "grossly offended" over e.g. satirical songs.
By the way, have any of these same NGOs complained about Tory Lord Hamilton "Jews have lots of money" remarks?
GB News, looking at its output, is very obviously permeated by “the usual suspects” (((“them”))) and paid puppets.
Also, I only noticed today that reply by what purports to be a Twitter/X account of persecuted satirist and singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz. If so, good to see her back on Twitter/X.
Alert regular readers of the blog may have noted that it is exactly a year (14 March 2024) since I was sentenced as a result of my free speech trial in November 2023.
Amazing. A whole year has elapsed since the sentence, and about 16 months since the trial itself. I repost my accounts of the trial, sentence, and aftermath here below:
I was able to continue blogging right through the process, and am still blogging almost every day, about 25-30 times per month.
As previously explained, I am under no greater legal constraint now than I was in 2024, 2023, 2022 (etc).
I have no doubt that the malicious Jew-Zionist element will continue to try to destroy the freedom of speech and expression not only of me but also of all British and other people. However, one must stand up for free speech and expression.
As far as I am concerned, “one human soul is a big audience“.
Late tweets seen
The Ukrainian soldiers in the Kursk region will be ruthlessly destroyed, if they refuse to lay down their arms, said Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council:https://t.co/KET8kbZoB8pic.twitter.com/vJvgHkBUln
I recall my own visit to the Kremlin in 1993. A tourist visit to the Kremlin, in effect, though I was in Moscow on business. Most of my time, though, was my own.
I paid my few roubles early one summer morning, after having swum, as usual, at the Moskva swimming pool at Kropotkinskaya. I would have been the first visitor that morning, had I not gone to sleep in the sun while sitting on a low wall by the little ticket kiosk (now replaced by a modern visitor centre); a Russian family thus bought their tickets ahead of me. In fact, it was their arguing with the ticket lady that woke me up.
My komplekt of tickets entitled me to visit all parts of the Kremlin open to paying visitors (other areas are closed off for the exclusive use of the Russian Government; the Kremlin is more or less like Whitehall, but inside a walled fortification). I visited the Kremlin churches (I was the only visitor, in fact, at that hour). I also wandered around other parts and saw, from above, the green Land Rover of the British Ambassador arriving, Union Jack bravely flying in the slight breeze.
[“On this day of Covid reflection I reflect on how there was no pandemic, Covid was a hoax and the lies of the state inflicted uncounted numbers of deaths and injuries upon the world.“— Neil Oliver]
You still see a few facemask loonies about, here and there.
There is still a disinclination to understand that the “scamdemic” or “panicdemic” was a massive psy-op right across the world. So many people still believe that there was a genuine and deadly “global pandemic”…
Now there is a real public health danger, as millions fall victim by reason of the “vaccines” having caused serious medical problems, especially heart problems. Huge numbers of people, often healthy young people, worldwide have just dropped dead.
One aspect of the years 2020-2022 was the way in which a combination of repressive pseudo-public-health “measures” (invalid laws, regulations made superficially under those laws, and State propaganda, amplified by very well-paid “useful idiots” such as Piers Morgan, James O’Brien etc), enforced compliance.
Any dissidents were labelled, in the Press, on radio etc, “Covidiots” for saying (as I did, on the blog) that people camping on deserted Welsh hills, or walking in the Peak District, or taking a spin on the empty roads on their motorbikes or in their own cars, were not thereby “killing people” etc.
Some people even got prosecuted and convicted for such terrible crimes as having a picnic, though most of such convictions were later overturned when the hysteria had somewhat abated.
The police were particularly stupid during the “Covid” panic. In fact, I should say that the present contempt for the police in the UK, though it had been developing for a number of years, is mainly a reaction to the memory of police shouting from helicopters at elderly couples walking on hills, and examining people’s shopping to adjudge whether purchases were “reasonable” or not (!), which is and was not the job of the police; neither are they authorized by law to do that.
The reach of the State has extended, partly by reason of the craven response of most of the public to the dictatorial measures imposed during the scamdemic/panicdemic. For example, you can now not only be arrested, charged, indeed imprisoned, for owning a copy (hard copy or online copy) of such a work as the 1970s Anarchist’s Cookbook, but also even for simply owning a machete or the like, even if kept in your own home. Some such laws that existed prior to 2020 (eg about supposed “terrorist materials”) are now seemingly used more often, indeed often against young people (sometimes still at school). Socio-political hysteria.
Just as well that the Rhodesian Army panga (a kind of machete), in a handsome light-tan thick leather sheath, which I brought back from my visit to Rhodesia in 1977, was later stolen by the staff of the Kazakh removals company which moved my personal possessions (at least, the ones they did not steal) from Almaty to London 20+ years later.
Well, the “panicdemic” is now history, though attempts are still made to revive it, and with it the control-State of 2020-2022, but new panics have been substituted. At present, the panic all over the mass media is around the non-existent threat of Russian invasion of Western Europe, including the UK. It’s rubbish, of course, but the unthinking part, maybe a majority, of the public seem ready to believe that “we” “have to” fight Russia quite soon.
More tweets seen
A former BBC executive & head of BBC News said this today:
"Entrenched in the BBC is a liberal view of the world, now acknowledged by its chairman: a well-meaning metropolitan air which is inescapable in its dramas but lurks within the news division too.
[“A former BBC executive & head of BBC News said this today: “Entrenched in the BBC is a liberal view of the world, now acknowledged by its chairman: a well-meaning metropolitan air which is inescapable in its dramas but lurks within the news division too. Hence the lack of comprehension of Leave voters in the EU referendum, and the continuing tendency to treat Reform supporters as an exotic and dodgy species different in their being to the people who vote for Emily Thornberry in Islington South” (the Telegraph). He’s not wrong. I wrote about what happened to the UK media class, not just the BBC, here: https://mattgoodwin.org/p/the-media-class-doesnt-represent“— Matt Goodwin]
From the Pakistani paedophile who used the ECHR to claim his "right to a family life" in the UK to a Caribbean lady who claimed her husband might not like "tropical food" if she was deported, our immigration system, backed by the ECHR, has become a joke https://t.co/QCJ6lkZZb5
[“From the Pakistani paedophile who used the ECHR to claim his “right to a family life” in the UK to a Caribbean lady who claimed her husband might not like “tropical food” if she was deported, our immigration system, backed by the ECHR, has become a joke.“— Matt Goodwin]
So according to now-sacked p/t judge, and barrister, Simon Myerson, a fanatical Jew-Zionist, out of 13 million Jews worldwide, all but about 100,000 support not only the existence but also the evil behaviour of the Israeli state? Well, there it is, from the horse’s mouth…
Russian forces struck Ukrainian manpower and military hardware in more than 150 areas over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/rEncOpPFB0pic.twitter.com/6kybm5mBCZ
[“Russian forces struck Ukrainian manpower and military hardware in more than 150 areas over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported: https://vk.cc/cJyaIU“— TASS]
[“#politicslive some women have large families but we vilify them for this. Seems to me they are birth rate heroes and should be treated as such. Stop the talk of ‘don’t have children if you can’t afford them’, acknowledge the reality & support these families to succeed“]
If ever the UK had a Prime Minister incredibly out of touch, it is Starmer-stein.
Starmer thinks that his pathetic attempts to play the world statesman resonate in this country. No, they do not. Why? Partly because his foreign affairs activities only underline how weak and divided are the European states, partly because Starmer has no credibility at all as a statesman, partly because everything is falling apart in this country. It seems that only Starmer and his Labour Friends of Israel cabal are unaware of how bad things are getting. Policing, NHS, the ever-more-mean benefits system, falling real take-home disposable income, the courts, prisons and, above all, the continuing migration-invasion (1,000-2,000 illegals every week, and also tens of thousands of “legal” immigrants, every week).
Late thoughts about Starmer, Rachel Reeves, and their Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment
Looking at the words of Starmer, Reeves, and various other nonentities now in Cabinet, particularly about their threatened cuts to the State benefits of the disabled, sick and others, can it really be said that the present fake “Labour” government is different in any way at all from the “Conservative” governments of 2010-2024 and, especially, that of 2010-2015? I see no difference at all.
This “Labour” (Labour Friends of Israel) government offers the British people nothing, nothing at all. Both evil and stupid.
Well, a modest 4/10 this week, though still more than John Rentoul’s 2/10. I knew the answers to questions 4, 5, 8, and 9. Rather hit the post, as people say, on question 1. Had never heard of it, and guessed —wrongly— Red Leicester.
[“NEW POST. “Why should I fight for Britain? Anonymous Zoomer on how our hapless political elites have created a two-tier society, plagued by mass immigration and broken borders, which hates young men like him.”— Matt Goodwin]
It is not even a question of young men (and, in these days, in theory, women) “fighting for Britain“. More accurately, fighting for the New World Order (NWO) and Zionist Occupation Government (ZOG) cabals. Not for Britain. Not the British people. Not the future of the British people.
[“Russia’s Battlegroup Center made Ukraine lose up to 600 troops in the past day, battlegroup spokesman Alexander Savchuk said: https://vk.cc/cJsIvX“— TASS]
[“Poland will be seeking to gain access to nuclear and other non-conventional weapons, including through participation in the French nuclear umbrella initiative, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said: https://vk.cc/cJrSHF“— TASS]
Mad.
A halal slaughter is a horrifically cruel and painful way for an animal to die – that brutal suffering is simply not justified.
Animal welfare must overrule halal slaughter.
In my view, as a farmer, animals must be slaughtered as humanely as possible, without unnecessary pain.
[“A halal slaughter is a horrifically cruel and painful way for an animal to die – that brutal suffering is simply not justified. Animal welfare must overrule halal slaughter. In my view, as a farmer, animals must be slaughtered as humanely as possible, without unnecessary pain.”— Rupert Lowe MP]
Don’t forget the similar, and similarly cruel, Jewish kosher slaughter.
Greece just banned barbaric Halal meat butchering, ruling that religious slaughter doesn’t override animal welfare laws. The UK should follow suit ASAP. Shame on us all that the UK is still allowing this brutality of animals.
[“Why not provide a full breakdown on nationality/immigration status for criminals? It would highlight the uncomfortable truth we all already know. Uncontrolled mass immigration has made Britain a FAR more dangerous place.“— Rupert Lowe MP]
[“This International Women’s Day, #MI6 pledges to ensure that our brilliant female staff of now and the future can thrive with us. No one gets a job in MI6 except on merit. But we men, as allies, can help our female colleagues achieve the success their talent deserves. We have yet to have a woman as Chief so there’s still a glass ceiling to shatter. #AccelerateAction“— Richard Moore, Chief of SIS/MI6]
“I was a sniper..I know WAR… what's going on in P٨L€STINE is not a war ,its a G€N0CIDE…this is wrong…the US taxpayer is paying for this… This needs to stop”