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Diary Blog, 10 August 2026

Morning music

[“Sweet Thames” at Newbridge, Oxfordshire; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Bridge,_River_Thames]

Morning thought

Heard some idiotic woman from a quango on BBC Radio 3 news while driving. Blaming “climate change” for Britain running short of water. No mention of the fact that “we” (the System authorities) are importing about a million unwanted blacks and browns every year, some of which are breeding. Might that not have something to do with the water shortage? (he asked, rhetorically…).

Tweets seen

Our animal friends.

Our animal friends.

[“The Fuhrer as friend of animals“]

Our animal friends.

The use of the outdated “right”/”left” labels is just not useful these days.

There is at least an arguable position that what might be called “World Jewry” has a long-term plan to use Argentina as a kind of bolthole or secure base while war (nuclear war), and famine ravage much of the rest of the world, war and famine which the Zionists themselves are doing much to bring about (Ukraine, Iran, Middle East/Mediterranean).

Conspiracy theory? Possibly, but then look how many of those “conspiracy theories” have proven to be accurate analyses in recent decades.

In many ways, Galloway is a clever man, but in some ways he is stupid and hopelessly —indeed wilfully— ignorant. Hitler and National Socialism (and the crimes of Stalin and the CPSU) are blind spots for him.

A grade-A “grifter” too, of course.

Galloway tweeted against me a couple of times many years ago.

[“The ‘vetting process’ of populist parties exists to screen out people who are simultaneously intelligent AND honest. Honest idiots can be tolerated because they are easy to manipulate. And intelligent psychopaths can too, because they will agree with the corruption.

But honest and intelligent people are poison for them.”]

Once again, well-said by Yerbury. I myself have made the same points often, on the blog, on Twitter (before a pack of Jews had me expelled in 2018), and elsewhere, over the years.

I recall an old friend, now-deceased, saying to me and a couple of others in the 1980s about how “any one of us could be an MP for any of the [then] three main parties, were we willing to sell our principles for a career, and to tolerate the bullshit”. Very true.

Basically, just a horrible tribe.

Still, what goes around comes around…

Just a horrible tribe, as said previously.

Typical. There have been, over the years, thousands of such faked “antisemitic” attacks, including quite a few in the UK. A Jew lawyer in Scotland —Glasgow, I believe— was convicted some years ago of faking “antisemitic” attacks; unfortunately, his sentence was far too lenient. I think that he was even allowed to continue working as a solicitor.

Par for the course. Look at “Mark Lewis Lawyer” and his cronies, a whole pack of dishonest Jew lawyers. Lewis has more than once cheated his own clients, and has contrived a number of fake “antisemitic” incidents over the years, both for Zionist propaganda purposes and to make money for himself, his present wife, and others. He’s a criminal.

[“Pastor Mitri Raheb has warned that, if current conditions continue, the Palestinian Christian presence in the West Bank could disappear by 2050, amid worsening economic conditions, escalating settler violence, and growing restrictions and military checkpoints. According to Raheb, more than 200 Christian families have left the West Bank since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, while church leaders report that thoughts of emigration are becoming increasingly common, particularly among young people.

These concerns are especially evident in Taybeh, east of Ramallah, the last entirely Christian town in the West Bank. Churches have documented the departure of more than 15 families since October 2023, alongside attacks targeting the town’s lands and residents’ property, as well as its holy sites.

While the Christian population in the West Bank is currently estimated at between 40,000 and 45,000, their share has fallen from 6% in 1967 to just over 1% today. Warnings are growing that continued emigration threatens the presence of the “living stones” in a land to which they have been connected for two thousand years.”]

Devils.

Blast from past

I wrote the following words in July 2024:

“Regular readers will know that I have blogged recently about the fact that Starmer-Labour has no real mandate. The electoral system of the UK has been broken beyond easy repair.

At GE 2024, out of every 20 people eligible to vote, and in very rough terms, 8 did not vote at all, 4 voted Labour, 3 voted Conservative, 2 voted Reform UK, 2 voted LibDem, and 1 voted Green.

That is Starmer’s and Labour’s mandate— 4 out of 20. For pedants, arguably, 4 out of 12. Not much of a mandate either way.“

[IanRobertMillard.org blog: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2024/07/28/diary-blog-28-july-2024/]

In retrospect, plainly correct, if I myself say so; the point, though, is that, if that was Starmer-stein’s very inadequate mandate, how much less of a mandate does Andy Burnham have?

Andy Burnham has no real legitimacy at all.

More tweets

Burnham and his clown Cabinet are planning to send even more arms and cash to the Kiev regime.

After only three weeks, Burnham already looks well out of his depth, though his quasi-electioneering has resulted in a limited “Burnham bounce” in the opinion polls.

An interview with Nick Griffin

https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/a-volcano-ready-to-explode-war-civilisation

Well worth seeing/reading.

Late tweets seen

I should think that a hung Parliament is quite likely, on present polling. Labour will fall back, the Con Party stay back, while Reform looks to have shot its bolt by being too pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, by failing to be truly hardline on migration invasion, and by being far too sleazy as well. Still, Reform will get votes by not being LibLabCon; a default choice, if you like. Restore? Slightly better, ideologically, than Reform —but not much— and even more of a one-man-band than Reform. Greens? Hard to say. Will its odd alliance of “antifascist” oddities and pro-Islamist Muslims last? Maybe, maybe not.

[“If you enjoyed the Autochrome of artist Claude Monet, which I shared with you in June, you may be interested to learn that I’ve found this new one of the great man, taken in 1917 by Étienne Clémentel in Monet’s garden at Giverny.
I’ve given it a good clean-up for you! I have to say: for an artist renowned for his use of colour, he is dressed surprisingly drably! Nevertheless, this is a very rare colour shot of the great man. It was taken using an early colour glass-plate process and isn’t colourised.
“]

Late music

Diary Blog, 8 August 2026

Afternoon music

Saturday quiz

Well, a modest 5/10 this week, narrowly beating political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 4/10. I knew the answers to questions 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9. I should really have also known or brought to mind the answers to numbers 2 and 10, but did not.

Tweets seen

The situation in the UK is getting out of control.

[“At least five girls under 14 have reportedly been treated in Ceuta after suspected rapes.

This comes just days after thousands crossed from Morocco, overwhelming shelters and leaving authorities struggling to identify and protect minors.

We still don’t know who committed the assaults. But this is what border chaos looks like.

When a government loses control of the border, ordinary people, and the most vulnerable, pay the price.“]

Looks like both the Spanish and the British need a few walls, squads, and ends…

How brave “our” police are (when facing those too weak to defend themselves). Disgrace.

[“For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn!

With all due respect to the Americans, Israel must make it clear to the entire world that the blood of our sons and the security of our citizens are not forfeit. All of Lebanon must burn. Our supreme duty is to protect the citizens of Israel and the soldiers of the IDF, and this commitment takes precedence over every other consideration.

I told the Prime Minister, even in our private meetings: For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep.“]

A tweet from crazed sadist/psychopath Ben Gvir, an Israeli Jew-Zionist government minister.

Not all Jews, even in Israel, are as bad as that, by any means, but the fact is that such horrible attitudes run through the Jewish-Zionist mental state. You only have to read the Old Testament to see that.

[Ben Gvir]

Needless to add, perhaps, Gvir himself never served in any military force. Indeed, even the Israeli state regarded him at one time as a potential or quasi-terrorist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar_Ben-Gvir#Early_life.

Untermensch.

Milei, another lunatic.

[“Robin Hood is more than an outlaw in green. He is one of the great figures of English folklore, a legend passed from generation to generation for centuries.

Whether he was a real man or a blend of many stories, Robin Hood became a national myth – the free English archer beneath the oaks of Sherwood Forest, standing against injustice and living close to the land.

His story reminds us that a nation is held together not only by recorded history, but also by the legends, songs and traditions that shaped the imagination of our ancestors. These old tales are part of our inheritance, connecting us to the England that came before us.

To know the stories our forefathers told is to know something of ourselves.“]

[“Sadly, Oldspeak Bookshop is closing its physical shop doors. Over time, it became increasingly difficult to maintain a welcoming environment due to the constant hostility I experienced. The uncertainty around which customers were genuine, made it hard for me to greet everyone warmly, and my customer service suffered. To every one of you who has supported me, thank you from the bottom of my heart. I’m sorry for letting you down, but we can still stay connected!! I am remaining fully online and will be offering a wider range of harder-to-find books, imports, and similar. I’ll still be available for events, of course, and I look forward to meeting both new and familiar faces there. I am also searching for premises in a friendlier location. If you know of a place that might suit, please do get in touch. Special thanks to

@vaubanbooks

@FantinaVienna

@DrDStarkeyCBE

@NewCultureForum

@acadofideas

@lotuseatersnews

@davidmoore2283 for your invaluable support along the way.“]

I recall that, in the 1970s, the Black Flag anarchists under Stuart Christie relocated to Orkney, where harassment (in their case, from the State directly) was more limited than in the large cities.

Ha ha! Brava!

[Every. Single. Time.]

“TFR” = “Total Fertility Rate”: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate.

“From antiquity to the beginning of the industrial revolution, around the year 1800, total fertility rates of 4.5 to 7.5 were common around the world.[2][1] After this TFR declined only slightly and up until the 1960s the global average TFR was still 5.[3] Since then, global average TFR has dropped steadily to less than half that number, 2.3 births per woman in 2023.[1]

The United Nations predicts that global fertility will continue to decline for the remainder of this century and reach a below-replacement level of 1.8 by 2100, and that world population will peak in 2084.[3]“

[Wikipedia]

Fertility is still high only in parts of Africa and in some parts of Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan etc).

Wall. Squad. End.


[“Jason Arday was never trained as a sociologist.

Jason Arday has no degree, no Master’s and no PhD in Sociology. None. Zero.

His entire formal academic training is in Education and Physical Education: BA in Education Studies and Physical Education MA in Education and Pedagogy A second Master’s in Education PhD in Education — specifically on peer-mentoring among student teachers training to become PE teachers.

That is a doctorate in physical-education teacher training. It is not sociology. It contains no sociological theory, no sociological methods, and no sustained engagement with the core literature of the discipline.

Yet within a few years the same man was: Appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Durham. Put in front of students teaching modules called Sociology of Education and Societies in Transition. Then made Professor of the Sociology of Education at Glasgow. Then made Professor of the Sociology of Education at Cambridge.

Students were paying close to ten thousand pounds a year. Some of that money was buying teaching and supervision from a man whose highest qualification in the subject he was employed to profess was nothing.

He had never studied sociology as an undergraduate, never taken a Master’s in it, and never written a doctoral thesis in it.

The word “Sociology” appeared only in the job title. Institutions simply accepted the re-description. A PE-and-education academic was re-labelled a sociologist and students were charged elite university fees to be taught by him. That is not an academic career progression. That is a category error that successive universities chose not to notice.

My mind has been blown by this revelation. No wonder his students report him leaning on desks talking about celebrities and inequality! He appears to have known absolutely nothing about the subject he was teaching!“]

You can see the enemies of the people embedded in places such as the University of Cambridge; they were gleeful (until recently) that a total n*g with a joke “degree” (indeed, series of degrees) had been appointed “Professor” at the supposedly “elite” “white” university…

The whole society needs a purge akin to those of some countries in the 1930s.

Not least, the educational sector needs a purge.

Late tweets

[“Professor Ted Postol, advisor to the Pentagon on nuclear issues, physicist, and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT):

The warheads of Iranian “Fattah” missiles generate enormous kinetic energy.

The “Fattah” warheads possess such destructive power that the United States is not prepared to counter.
The explosive effect of a “Fattah” impact is similar to that of a warhead containing 4,000 or 5,000 pounds of powerful explosives.

Impacts at extremely high speeds, exceeding 3 kilometers per second, multiply the destructive energy, which means that “Fattah” warheads weighing 1,000 kilograms have more power than larger missiles, such as the “Horramshahr.“]

Surprised that the Czechs are nowhere to be seen.

Well, that certainly lays it on the line…

Late music

Diary Blog, 3 August 2026

Morning music

[Aldo Balding, Lily Orange]

British justice in 2026

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/violent-north-east-youths-subjected-34385476

“Violent youths subjected a man and a woman to a shocking unprovoked city centre attack over a “harmless” comment. The victims walked past some teenagers sitting in a doorway and the woman remarked that they had a nice cool place to sit on a hot night.

Some of them took umbrage at that and it quickly escalated into violence, with then-16-year-old Thomas Courtney and two girls attacking her and leaving her injured. Courtney and then-15-year-old Lincoln Hudson then subjected her friend to a brutal attack in which he was repeatedly punched and kicked, including to the head after he fell to the ground, leaving him unconscious

Newcastle Crown Court heard both victims have been badly affected by the attack, with the man having become so depressed he tried to kill himself. However Courtney and Hudson have now been spared immediate custodial sentences after the court heard they have turned their lives around in the three years since the attack.“

[Chronicle Live]

Regular readers of the blog know that I am not a “hanger and flogger” (usually). Is that result justice for the victims, and/or for society, though? I think not.

Even if, as their Counsel claimed —and which I doubt— those youths have “turned their lives around” in the (absurd delay) three years since the attack, the court should have ordered them both to pay ongoing compensation for life to the victims. £10 per week to each victim, and from each defendant.

Admittedly, it is now 18 years (2008) since I was in active Bar practice, I was never really a serious criminal practitioner (though I did a number of Crown Court trials and many many magistrates’ court ones in my early days, meaning the early 1990s) and I concede that I do not know whether the courts even have such a power, in those exact terms, but if not they should have.

Well, there it is. Britain 2026, in which people are still being prosecuted and even imprisoned for tweets and other online comments…

Incidentally, I was just looking at other sentences handed down by the Crown Courts of the North-East. One was a man who shook his own child, a baby, so violently that it suffered “catastrophic and lifechanging injuries“. He had taken cocaine, and drunk no less than 11 cans of lager. He failed to summon timely medical help. Sentence? 4 years (so out in 2 years, or less). This is not justice.

Tweets seen

Water supply, on the large scale, should be a nationalized industry, and the chief director of it should certainly not be paid more than half a million pounds gross (pre-tax), if that.

The featured woman fat cat was not even the director of all UK water supply, just that of one region of the country.

I think that there is a case for capping all salaries at some level to be determined, which might be something like £200,000 or £300,000 net (i.e. post-tax etc). That includes other kinds of remuneration.

Here she is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liv_Garfield.

[“In the 26 companies that operate a third of all of the care homes in this country, 200 MILLION pounds leaks out of that sector in the form of management fees for private investors. That’s an astronomical sum that is not going to improving care or paying workers a fair wage, but is instead lining the pockets of wealth investors, often from overseas.

Social care is not a cash cow. It is a critical public service, limping along as its lifeblood is drained by private interests. Getting profiteers out of care is not a nice-to-have measure. It is a crucial starting point that any meaningful reform of the sector must build from.”]

As the Americans say, that surely is a “no-brainer”. I featured, some time ago, on the blog, a news report about some inept armed robbers who targeted the house, in the wealthy Sandbanks neighbourhood of Dorset, of a director/owner of a number of care homes.

The robbers threatened the man’s wife and daughter (he was at work) and, though unable to force the women to open the safe, still got away with about £300,000 in cash and jewels. They were caught not long after that, and had left enough evidence behind them to ensure a conviction and long sentences of imprisonment.

What interested me about that report, apart from the great ineptitude of the criminals, was the fact that despite having been unable to access the safe, they still escaped with hundreds of thousands of pounds, much of it in cash. Does that not raise a number of red flags?

These exploitative private care homes, that charge the elderly or their families huge amounts yet pay their staff peanuts (and often offer residents poor food and care), are a social crime as far as I am concerned.

More British justice (?) in 2026

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/machete-thugs-jailed-intimidating-violence-11079872

“Two men who attacked a frail 82-year-old antique weapons collector in his own home have been jailed. Andrew Paull and Nathan Flower burst into the home of the pensioner, who is now 85, as he slept in bed.

Truro Crown Court heard Paull, 49, and Flower, 33, struck him multiple times with a machete as he tried to get out of bed. The pair demanded they wanted his safe keys, believing he had gold and cash in it.

In fact, the safe was empty and the elderly man was pushed down the stairs at his property in Penrice Park, St Austell, in April 2024. They fled with £350 in cash, bank cards and some keys.

The victim suffered cuts to his face, hand and wrist and was left in what a judge called a “quite pathetic state” and a “broken man”. Paull, of no fixed abode, and Flower, of Basset Road, Camborne, admitted wounding.

The court heard drugs had blighted the lives of both defendants. Judge James Adkin jailed them both for 27 months and said they used “intimidating violence against a vulnerable individual in his own home”.

[Cornwall Live]

Can anyone reading that report think that a mere 27 months was a suitably severe sentence for having broken into the home of an 82-y-o pensioner as he slept, hit him repeatedly with a machete, threatened him, robbed him, then pushed him down a flight of stairs?

Frankly, that sentence is a travesty, a disgrace, and that Judge Adkin, whoever he is (I had not previously heard of him), should be ashamed of himself.

I have no idea what the defendants’ “previous” might have been, but odds-on they both have records as long as the arm of the law [used to be].

What makes that wholly inadequate sentence even more disgraceful is that the convicts will actually serve no more than half of the headline time, so about 13 months, and very likely even less than that.

I have, as previously noted, never been a “hanger and flogger” but, as far as I am concerned, such vicious crimes deserve a flogging, and a mercilessly harsh one. (yes, of course I know that our laws do not now provide for such a sentence; they should do, in cases of such viciousness).

More?

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/man-rams-another-car-beats-11068072

“A thug driver lost it and rammed another man’s car before proceeding to beat him up repeatedly during an unprovoked attacked, court papers have revealed.

Paul Scrafton used his black Seat Ibiza as a weapon to ram his victim’s vehicle three times.

During the unprovoked incident in Mountlea Drive, Par, near St Austell, on December 17 last year, Scrafton, “savagely beat the victim with eight blows”.

At a sentencing at Bodmin Magistrates’ Court on Friday (July 17) of the 50-year-old from The Mount in Par, magistrates described the attack as a “brutal and sustained assault” leaving the victim with broken glasses and his car shunted across the road.

Sentencing Scrafton to 52 weeks in prison, suspended for two years, the magistrates said: “This was an unprovoked attack of a serious nature. It was a horrific incident, where a vehicle was used as a weapon to ram the victim’s vehicle three times.

“The defendant then savagely beat the victim with eight blows, breaking his glasses, which was a brutal and sustained assault and the victim’s car was shunted across the road with a vehicle being used in dangerous manner.

“The victim suffered physical and psychological harm and has been impacted dramatically and continues to suffer anxiety.“

[Cornwall Live]

A suspended sentence, for that? Unbelievable.

Not that I believe in over-sentencing, though. In fact, over-sentencing is the major cause (apart from this poor country being swamped by non-Europeans) for the serious shortage of prison space. Time after time I see (in the newspapers) people getting 2, 3, even 4 years for crimes which really merit months not years (if any time at all); and that is so regardless of the fact that most prisoners now serve only 50%, 40% or, in some cases, 30% of the headline sentences.

Tweets seen

[“CABINET MINISTERS’ CRIMINAL RECORDS TO BE KEPT SECRET FROM THE BRITISH PUBLIC. Good morning to the millions of everyday, hardworking Brits waking up on this Monday! You honestly cannot make this level of establishment cover up up!

A legal tribunal has just ruled that the British public will be banned from knowing which Cabinet Ministers declared past criminal convictions during their vetting process. This secret ruling comes after Louise Haigh was forced to resign over a hidden fraud conviction for making a false police report, only for Andy Burnham to bring her straight back into Cabinet as his right hand woman! Everyday British citizens are subjected to ruthless criminal background checks just to get a basic job in teaching, healthcare, or security. Yet the politicians wielding immense power over your life get special legal protection to hide their criminal convictions from the very voters who pay their salaries. They demand total transparency from you while running a secretive two tier system to protect themselves.”]

As previously said, neither side should be directly targeting civilians. The Kiev-regime side is at least as culpable in that regard as is the Russian side and, moreover, has been doing it for far longer, since 2014 in fact.

[“What is happening in the Middle-East around Palestine, and its knock on effects in Europe, are overwhelmingly a direct consequence of Zionism.

Zionism is not simply Jews existing. Zionism is a political force that exists to further the interests of the state of Israel, and works to impose a world order based upon the supremacy of that state, and the enslavement or destruction of everything else. It is an inherently genocidal force in the same way that ISIS and its vision of a global caliphate cleansed of unbelievers was genocidal.

It is not a political force that British people, or any other people, can co-exist with and it cannot be permitted to organise here.“]

Quite right.

You heard it first here. I have been blogging for years about how Labour would “solve” the small boats invasion by rubberstamping entry for the fake “refugees” either in France or even in their home countries.

As it is, 80% of “asylum” applications are approved. Burnham and his cabal will raise that to 95%. The rest will either be deported, or not, but will probably return down the line with different cover stories.

Same goes for the “asylum hotels”. They are being shut. Fine, but to where are the migrant invaders being transferred? To private rental properties, and to social housing which should be for British people only.

Even beyond that, 90% or 95% of the migrant-invaders are here superficially legally, as “tourists”, “family members”, or as “students”, or on work visas (mostly granted on fraudulent applications), and/or as fiancees, spouses etc.

Another aspect of the invasion consists of births to non-white women and to stupid white women impregnated by non-whites.

Talking point

τιμωρία γάρ ἐστι τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς μὴ ἐθέλουσιν ἄρχειν τὸ ὑπὸ χειρόνων ἄρχεσθαι

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”

[Plato, The Republic]

“The passage above is drawn from The Republic, Book I, 347c–e.

Here Plato has Socrates set forth why the best men enter political life, that is, why they enter into the life of the polis, the city understood as a body politic. Politics, in the Greek sense, is not reducible to factional struggle. It concerns the ordering of the common life.

To withdraw from it entirely is to become, in the older sense, an idiōtēs, from which the modern word “idiot” ultimately derives: the merely private man, severed from the obligations of citizenship and the responsibilities they entail.

For this reason, rule properly belongs to those with the capacity to govern. Such men cannot withdraw from civic responsibility without permitting a greater injustice: the rise of inferior men who possess neither the strength of mind nor the force of character required to govern.“

[https://chadcrowley.substack.com/p/on-political-duty]

Well worth reading the full article.

More tweets seen

[“Kashin: The way things are going, we will have opportunities for new plans in Ukraine that we couldn’t even dream of. AT THE BEGINNING OF 2026, THE WEST LAUNCHED A MAJOR MILITARY-POLITICAL OFFENSIVE AGAINST RUSSIA IN UKRAINE. They achieved a certain effect. However, they received the opposite result. The Russian population, which felt this “influence,” responded not with calls for peace, but with calls for even more serious strikes. Therefore, the escalation from our side is underway and is quite convincing. It is clear that bombing alone will not bring a victory in the war. That is why we are limiting the growth of Ukrainian military production, significantly increasing the costs for Europe of maintaining the Kyiv regime, and increasing pressure on American air defense arsenals, which are in a critical phase of depletion due to Ukraine and the conflict in the Persian Gulf.“]

Kashin: The way things are going, we will have opportunities for new plans in Ukraine that we couldn’t even dream of. AT THE BEGINNING OF 2026, THE WEST LAUNCHED A MAJOR MILITARY-POLITICAL OFFENSIVE AGAINST RUSSIA IN UKRAINE. They achieved a certain effect. However, they received the opposite result. The Russian population, which felt this “influence,” responded not with calls for peace, but with calls for even more serious strikes. Therefore, the escalation from our side is underway and is quite convincing. It is clear that bombing alone will not bring a victory in the war. That is why we are limiting the growth of Ukrainian military production, significantly increasing the costs for Europe of maintaining the Kyiv regime, and increasing pressure on American air defense arsenals, which are in a critical phase of depletion due to Ukraine and the conflict in the Persian Gulf.

Kashin: The way things are going, we will have opportunities for new plans in Ukraine that we couldn’t even dream of. AT THE BEGINNING OF 2026, THE WEST LAUNCHED A MAJOR MILITARY-POLITICAL OFFENSIVE AGAINST RUSSIA IN UKRAINE. They achieved a certain effect. However, they received the opposite result. The Russian population, which felt this “influence,” responded not with calls for peace, but with calls for even more serious strikes. Therefore, the escalation from our side is underway and is quite convincing. It is clear that bombing alone will not bring a victory in the war. That is why we are limiting the growth of Ukrainian military production, significantly increasing the costs for Europe of maintaining the Kyiv regime, and increasing pressure on American air defense arsenals, which are in a critical phase of depletion due to Ukraine and the conflict in the Persian Gulf.

[“The United States of Israel

If Section 219/1217of the NDAA becomes law, we will have surrendered our Constitutional Republic to the Zionists. It will literally be the end of our country as we know it. When I was travelling to Israel on a regular basis back in the mid- to late-1990’s as part of my duties with the United Nations, I was always struck by how closely many Israelis identified with the United States. On national holidays, many Israeli motorists would fly two little plastic flags from the windows of their cars—one the blue and white Star of David, and the other the Stars and Stripes. “We see ourselves as little America”, my Israeli host would explain when I pointed this out. The reality was far different. The Israelis conspired against their American counterparts behind their backs, and the US intelligence and security services viewed Israel as a threat to US national security. Read more: https://scottritter.substack.com/p/the-united-states-of-israel“]

Quite right. His parents may or may not be a disgrace (sounds as if they are). He should set up a GiveSendGo crowdfunder if he has not already done so.

Again, seems that he has already done so.

Yes, here it is: https://www.givesendgo.com/fund-austin-franco-after-jewish-doxxing

…whereas the Jew Aaronovitch (who used to tweet against me, years ago) does not. What a surprise…

Late tweets

At one or another time, both Reform and Restore looked promising, but neither is social-national, so both are now deflating, though Reform may still become either the Government or the Opposition after the next general election, though not via its own merit but by default.

What is required is not to shrink the State but to utilize State assets and tax monies properly.

[“Professor Marandi (Tehran):

  • Piers, allow me to offer some advice. I’m not going to debate who is right or wrong – Russia or Ukraine – right now. That’s not the point. I simply want to say that your media outlets have been misleading the public for two years, constantly claiming that Ukraine is winning. And then suddenly, it turns out that it is on the verge of collapse. Imposing false narratives ultimately becomes a disaster for yourselves – for the people of England, Europe, and America. Your endless wars, which are based on these false narratives and disinformation, create massive waves of refugees that are overwhelming your own countries. And all of this is happening because of your own actions.

Late music

Diary Blog, 31 July 2026

Morning music

[The Motherland Calls, Volgograd (Russia)]

Tweets seen

Incredible but not unbelievable, paradoxically…

Europe has not even started to defend itself against the migration invasion that might well kill it.

Kiev, not “Kyiv” or (as the BBS prefers) “Keeev”…

“Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad“…

Forget legalisms. This is an invasion, and will have to be dealt with by military or para-military methods.

Please refer to previous comment.

Presumably a kind of gallows-humour reference to the Israeli/Palestinian situation.

Forty thousand of the bastards…

A horrible individual: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_George#2007_false_imprisonment_and_assault_of_escort.

Readers are invited to use the search box on the blog, where they can find many references and assessments of Lewis, who usually takes on high-profile but open-and-shut cases which give him easy money and tend to boost his unmerited reputation (puffed by sympathetic Jewish/Zionist scribblers in the msm). In difficult cases, his record is poor; fundamentally, he is both negligent and dishonest.

Monkey-on-a-stick.

“We…” nothing! It is the Jewish lobby, aka Israel lobby, that is behind 99% of the anti-free-speech tendency, and laws, and cases, in this country. The same lobby that Andrew Neil almost always supports.

The Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment.

This is probably an attempt to repeat the success of the fake “people’s march” to invade the then Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara) in 1975. Franco would have shot them down, but he was on his deathbed at the time. The rest is history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Sahara; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_March.

Amazing. I have been there quite a few times over the past 16 years. I agree with that tweeter.

Looks like I was right to see that incursion as a form of gun-boat diplomacy without the gun-boats by Morocco.

Why does Spain want to keep those two tiny enclaves anyway? Chuck them (and the black migrant-invaders who arrive) to Morocco, and give the Moroccans the problem.

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[painting by Vicente Romero Redondo]

Diary Blog, 28 July 2026

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[Sally Rosenbaum, Summer Glow]

Tweets seen

Our animal friends.

Such terror attacks on Russian civilians are rarely reported in our “free press” and “free mass media”…

I sense that the Russian side is tiring of fighting the war as it has been fought, and of the constant escalation from the Kiev-regime forces, and may turn to far more destructive attacks on Kiev itself.

I wonder how many wars and lesser crises “they” have caused, historically?

[“WARNINGS FROM A FORMER BRITISH DIPLOMAT AND MI-6 OFFICER
Kruik: The West will not defeat Russia, and a defeat in Ukraine could lead to the collapse of NATO.

Alistair Kruik: “What will failure look like? How will it affect NATO? What state will the alliance be in after the Ukrainian conflict? Well, I don’t think it will come out of that conflict. I think it’s already fracturing, and it will continue to fracture.”

The unity of the bloc is currently maintained solely by the political will of Brussels and the NATO leadership, although the escalation around Ukraine has become a way for the alliance to justify its continued existence.“]

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

[“Support for war with Iran among US citizens has dropped to one-third.

Support for a war with Iran has fallen to one-third among US citizens, which is the lowest level recorded since the start of the US conflict with Iran, according to a Reuters report on July 27th.

When asked if Trump had clearly explained the goals of US military involvement in Iran, 69% said no, including four out of ten Republicans.

According to the same poll, Trump’s approval rating stands at 37%, three points higher than the previous month, when it reached its lowest level during his presidency. The approval rating for the war itself remains below 40% since the US and Israel began strikes against Iran on February 28th.“]

That may be, but the American people have no say in what happens. Look at who is going to visit Trump (again)— the Jews Zelensky and Netanyahu…

Talking point

Evading the press-gangs of the Kiev regime

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/28/ukraine-hunt-for-draft-dodgers-becomes-battle-on-the-street

Diary Blog, 23 July 2026, including more thoughts about Britain’s latest “unelected” Prime Minister

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[Русская красавица]

Three years ago on the blog

Still stands up quite well, I think.

Andy Burnham— semblance over substance?

[“The Conservatives brought in the £2 bus fare cap to encourage people back onto public transport following Covid.

I could talk about Somerset and the fact that few areas have what is considered to be a useful bus service, outside of the towns there is very little.

But I know that even in towns and cities bus services are often not helpful, it’s why Son1 who lived in the centre of Manchester asked to take the car up once he started his clinical placements because he couldn’t get to half of them by bus at the times he needed if at all.

If it’s not going to increase bus provision then it’s really not much use.

The original purpose of the £2 bus fare is no longer necessary and whilst the rise in cost when it was raised would have been a noticeable increase to regular users it’s going to benefit a very small number of people for a very large cost.

Those of us in rural areas will still face the continued fuel price rises to get to work and children to school – and for many that is incredibly punitive.“]

Well, as we know, “Smersh Never Sleeps”, and I think that I already have the measure of Burnham.

So far, everything Burnham has announced by way of policy has but one aim— bolstering the Labour vote.

Burnham has apologized for Starmer-stein’s blatant slavery to Israel (and, by implication, the Jewish lobby, though Burnham —a member of Labour Friends of Israel— has not addressed the issue of a Jewish “fifth column” in the UK). Thus some of Labour’s splintering Muslim vote may now not splinter.

Burnham has ranted on about Hillsborough, the football stadium disaster. That was in 1989, no less than 37 years ago! Still, his words may attract support from the less-intelligent sort of Labourite “up North”.

Burnham has scrapped Digital ID. A good move, one which is easy to implement, one which costs nothing and —most important of all— is popular.

Burnham now makes no mention of extending bus services in rural or other areas, but simply caps the fares of existing services. A kind of “look at me; I am doing the right communitarian things“.

Burnham talks about rent controls, thus attracting at least the desperate support of the millions of exploited private tenants in this country. However, no mention of the primary driver of high rents— the migration invasion.

The same across the board: popular noises, but very little substance.

Tweets seen

America, land of freedom. Oh, no, wait…

[“Section 219 is a transfer of power not a merger. Israel intends to rise as the new world superpower.

They will have a world military acting as a police force for global citizens with AI surveillance off every man, woman and child on the planet.

Greater Israel will become a supercontinent reaching across North Africa, the Black Sea into Ukraine and beyond.

This is only just the beginning.“]

There is, however, a solution…

What a horrible tribe they are.

One still sees endless tweets from Jews claiming that there is no Gaza genocide, that the Israeli devastation of Gaza was really not so bad etc. What we are observing is the moral schizophrenia of an entire nation, indeed a global ethnicity— the Jews.

They cannot admit, even when the evidence stares them in the face, that the behaviour of the Israeli Jews has been appalling and, indeed, sub-human, and that the behaviour of the Zionist Jews outside Israel/Palestine —i.e. the vast majority of Jews, perhaps as high as 96%— has been at best moral blindness, hypocrisy and, at worst, complicity in terrible and continuing crimes against humanity.

From the horse’s mouth, nicht wahr?

Everything we have been brought up to believe in— law, fairness, “democracy” etc, is a facade. As soon as a serious alternative exists, the masks drop, and we see this society for what it is, and also see the (((evil))) behind much of it.

My enemy’s enemy is not necessarily my friend, of course.

An exception to Burnham’s usual “is it popular?” position, but of course that is trumped (no pun intended) by the demands of the NWO/ZOG US/Israel cabals.

Both good points, Yerbury’s especially.

One caveat: sometimes “controlled opposition” can morph into something which actually advances the revolutionary tendency, as happened with Father Gapon’s movement in prerevolutionary Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Gapon.

The sheer cheek of the bastard! Born in South Africa, spent most of his life in Israel/occupied Palestine, went for a while to Ireland too, before washing up on British shores. He has no right to demand anything of us (the British people).

What goes around comes around…

Our animal friends.

As I said earlier on today’s blog, Burnham has no real policies, no real ideas, just what may be popular and play well in the mass media at any particular time. Blairism regurgitated, but even less credible.

Final word

Brave young man David Morgan may be released from prison next week (if not delayed by Burnham’s latest U-turn). He was sentenced to 20 months for posting cartoons etc and comments on Twitter/X. He has spent about 7 months in prison. A savage sentence in all the circumstances.

Someone who knows him should set up a gofundme or similar crowdfunder for him to aid his resettlement (GiveSendGo is a good one and is not vulnerable to Jewish-lobby pressure because based in the USA and protective of free speech).

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Diary Blog, 22 July 2026

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Tweets seen

Somehow, life goes on. The resilience of the human spirit.

More tinker/”traveller” nuisances. A permanent solution must be found.

Many are not genuine students anyway.

One of the few honest Congressmen, one of the few not controlled by the American Jewish/Israel lobby.

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

If only the Second World War had ended differently…

Migration invasion by untermenschen.

“They” always do that— back both main sides, e.g. “Labour” and “Conservatives” (and now also “Reform”) in the UK.

Go beyond the individual case, beyond the individual victim, beyond the individual convicts responsible, to the social background, meaning the overall tinker/”traveller” menace, which has become a major problem in this country.

If you imagine that the “threats” to the UK come from Russia, or from Muslims in the Middle East, rather than from the migration invasion, and the social-cultural collapse of our society generally (i.e. mainly, threats from within), then you have no business putting yourself forward as a potential prime minister.

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[“Come with me, and I will show you where the Iron Crosses grow.“]

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[East Berlin, 1979, over a decade after The Spy Who Came In From The Cold]

Diary Blog, 20 July 2026

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Gipps]
[the living fields…]

Stray thoughts

I happened to see a film on Channel 4, Wicked Little Letters, a kind of comedy-drama based (very loosely) on actual events in the 1920s. Apparently, the film has been popular.

Well, like not a few films, this one had much going for it —famous actors and actresses, and good locations— yet, in the end, was underwhelming.

The subject-matter is hardly new— poison-pen letters causing turmoil in a small town, in this case on the South Coast of England.

The plot is derivative, and the denouement could be seen coming down the track long before it arrived. The acting, though skilled, was (presumably deliberately) overplayed. Apart from that, the anachronisms were several.

At one point, Timothy Spall’s character reads in his newspaper and comments about the Suffragettes’ campaign going on while “the boys” were fighting in France. Well, the film is set in the 1920s, and we hear that the War has been over for some time. Women of 30+ were given the vote, in principle, in 1918.

Another anachronism: one of the main female characters has a West Indian boyfriend living with her, very unlikely in the 1920s, if only because there were very few blacks in England at the time.

Then we see that one of the local women is also West Indian. In Littlehampton, Sussex. In the 1920s.

The first ever appointed local policewoman, who detects the truth, turns out to be Indian, again very unlikely in that era.

A policeman seen towards the end of the film is a West Indian; in reality, the first black policeman in England joined the (Metropolitan) Police only in 1968, I believe.

Finally, the judge at the eventual trial is also black!

This is more than unintelligent casting; it is cultural sickness.

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

Tweets seen

A repentant sinner…

What a surprise…or maybe not. I have been blogging about this for some time.

I think not.

Beria’s mother was of Georgian noble stock, and a devotee of the Georgian Orthodox Church. Though it is not completely impossible that his father was a Jew or part-Jew, he was a landowner in Mingrelia and was a Mingrelian (a minority inside Georgia). Again, a Jewish background is highly unlikely.

Why did a German newspaper in 1952 describe Beria as Jewish? Probably part of the early Cold War propaganda output pumped out at the time by the West German intelligence agency called the Gehlen Organization (a CIA ally). A good way to counteract Soviet propaganda etc in postwar West Germany would be to say that Beria was a Jew (many Communists were, of course).

The Gehlen Organization was based at Pullach, near Munich, which makes my theory even more likely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehlen_Organization.

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

See also:

More tweets

Interesting philosophical and political exposition

https://chadcrowley.substack.com/p/the-slave-on-the-throne

More tweets

That tweet shows the problem. Politics is not, or should not be, a game. Those Hitler called “dirty democratic politicians” in the 1920s however regard it as a game, in which “approved” players get careers, money, prestige (even if they “lose” the “game” in relative terms). For the British people, though, this is no game. It concerns their lives, the future of their children etc.

You see the same pathology, or a similar one, in scribblers such as Peter Hitchens, or scribblers-turned-politicians such as Matt Goodwin, when they talk about there being a “debate” about the migration invasion etc. This is no “debate”. It is an invasion and a war.

So far, I concede that Burnham has done two things of which I approve. The first was to ditch the Digital ID policy of Starmer-stein. It had to go, and was not only ludicrously unworkable but also a dystopian intrusion into “the lives of others”.

Liz Kendall has been flying well above her true level (county council or local council) for years. She has no business being in national politics. Thick as two short planks despite her paper education, and an Israel-loyalist (Labour Friends of Israel) as well. She has a history of trying to make the disabled and needy etc poorer, yet she herself lives with an Old Etonian asset manager worth untold millions, and in a house worth millions:

“Kendall is currently in a relationship with Old Etonian and global head of multi-asset solutions at Santander Asset Management, James Ind. She lives in Notting Hill in a Victorian home purchased for £3.9 million in 2021.”

[Wikipedia]

I think that Liz Kendall is at least part-Jew, but have so far been unable to find direct evidence of that.

She is 55 now, so her dismissal probably marks the end of her political career beyond being a backbench MP.

Still, good riddance, as far as it goes.

Lammy gone too. Brilliant. He demeaned every office he held. A thick-as-two-short-planks “diversity hire”.

Not to forget:

Rachel Reeves too. Good news. Another hard-faced Labour Friends of Israel puppet.

Why would that be? The recent history of women in such roles has not been very positive. Dan Hodges is a woke joke.

If the System wants a war, it will get it, but maybe not the war it wants…

Hey, wait a minute! My own birthday is the 2nd of September…

So far, I have liked what little I have heard from him.

The Kiev regime is pushing Russia too far. I now cannot rule out a nuclear attack on Kiev.

Brief word about 20 July 1944

20 July 1944: an attempt to assassinate Hitler, and to take over the reins of power in the German Reich.

I have made comment about that almost every year since the blog was inaugurated a decade ago. I do not feel inclined to add to what I have said on previous occasions, but readers can use the search box on the blog should they wish to see my previous comments.

Late music

[Mikhail Germashev, The Coachman]

Diary Blog, 14 July 2026

Afternoon music for Bastille Day

Tweets seen

Britain has many problems but one particular policy (which I cannot specify here) would get rid of one enormous obstacle to the progress of this country.

[“This is who lobbied the British government to ban the IRGC:

  • Jewish Leadership Council (JLC)
    -Board of Deputies of British Jews
  • Campaign Against Antisemitism(CAA)
  • We Believe Alliance (merging We Believe in Israel and National Jewish Assembly)
  • Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis
  • Conservative & Labour Friends of ‘israel’

The British public voted for none of these subversive foreign agents.“]

I myself do try to keep to the maxim de mortuis nihil nisi bonum (“of the dead, nothing if not good“), but historical truth must come first. Graham was a total puppet of the Jewish/Israel lobby worldwide.

The Downing Street “Nudge Unit”, collaborating with the Army’s 77 Brigade. That bastard Tobias Ellwood, the former MP for Bournemouth North, is one of its key Reserves officers (Lt. Col.).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)

I am expecting (((Josh Simons))) to get a fake peerage sometime in the near future.

First of all Trump/U.S. said that the Iranians should not close the Strait or charge transit fees, but now the Americans are purporting to do exactly the same thing!

Trump will, by the end of his term, have achieved precisely nothing, mainly because his word cannot be relied upon from one day to the next.

Our animal friends.

Our animal friends.

I used to love the little hummingbird which came every morning, as soon as dawn broke, to the bushes on the terrace while I breakfasted (on a Caribbean island where I lived and worked for a little while nearly three decades ago).

I would eat my toast and scrambled egg in the relative cool of the early morning, drink a black coffee, and muse on the state of the world.

Someone once described “them” as “the simulacrum of the human“. I have never heard a better description of them.

Russian-operated Iranian-manufactured drones attacking Kiev-regime shipping in the Black Sea.

The weather does seem to be going mad but, in my opinion, this is not primarily by reason of the use of fossil fuels. In fact, even if it were by reason of fossil fuel use, it would change nothing for the UK to reduce such use (the “Net Zero” craziness); that would be so even were the UK to disappear entirely, because the UK only creates 1% of “emissions” caused by such fuels. Other countries create 99%. India and China are still building coal-fired power stations. I believe the Chinese construct one per week, incredibly enough.

Horrible…but Russia must have such weapons-platforms asap, for use against the forces of the Kiev regime.

[“It’s not fair to ask the Boriswave to leave Britain”, say the Left.

Do you know what’s not fair?

Moving 2.6 million people into Britain with no democratic mandate from the British people.

Including care workers who brought as many as 15 relatives with them.

Allowing these people in despite them being a net fiscal cost to the UK economy, taking more out of the state then they are putting in.

And then charging the British people some £600 BILLION for a policy they never even voted for in the first place.

That’s what is unfair.“]

All’s fair in love and war.

Andy Burnham’s government will crash and burn by reason, mainly, of those issues.

When Britain has a real government, “Boris”-idiot must be one of the first put up against a wall.

(the Ann Widddecombe matter).

Hodges worked for that hateful Jew/”antifa” cabal until he found that System scribbling for the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph paid better. He never had to struggle financially, though; he and his dependants lived with his mother, famous actress and politician, Glenda Jackson, in her large house in Blackheath.

Oh, that’s a good way for Labour to lose the support of the only age-demographic still supporting them…

ps. yes, they cannot vote (this year), but will be able to vote in 2028-2029.

That lady (the ex-wife of an ex-MP) still seems to be pushing the line that there is a party or tendency called “the Moderates”, basically Conservatives who do not want to stop immigration. I have blogged before as to my belief (my guess) that the membership of the “Moderates” numbers about the same as the empty bottles in her cellar or kitchen.

She wants to “take off the unaffordable triple lock day 1“.

First of all, the Triple Lock is not “unaffordable“, and only appears so because this country is wasting vast amounts on supporting the useless lives of black/brown immigrants and the offspring of previous waves of non-white immigrants, and wasting other huge amounts on the Jew/Ukrainian-thug regime in Kiev, among other wastages (e.g. military procurement in order to confront Russia, when we should be growing closer with Russia).

Secondly, any party which says it wants to (or does) dump the Triple Lock loses, automatically, the votes of 95% of those over age ~60. That demographic comprises about a third of the entire effective electorate, i.e. the electors who actually bother to vote.

The lady in question seems to be pro-immigration, pro-multikulti society, pro the crazed war against the German Reich 1939-1945, pro increased benefits for some (but not pensioners).

Of course, she herself is rather affluent (her ex-husband employed her at Westminster using Parliamentary expenses, and probably paid her rather well (no-brainer, surely?), she may well have other income streams, and she seems to own two properties, one near Hastings, and one in the Holland Park Avenue area of London.

That is what always astounds me— how out of touch these Westminster Bubble people almost always are.

Incidentally, the lady in question did put herself up for election as MP once; she stood as “Fiona Syms, Independent” in the Richmond Park by-election of 2016. She scored 0.4% of the vote (173 actual votes out of 41,283) behind the LibDems, Zac Goldsmith (standing as Independent), Labour, and the Monster Raving Loony Party…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Park_(constituency)#Elections_in_the_2010s

I have no idea why she persists with this fantasy “Moderates” party. A hobby? Something to tweet about?

She seems to think that a so-called “centre” or “moderates” party can appeal to the mass of voters including those who never vote. My own conclusion is exactly opposite: people will eventually want a government which can “do de business”, whatever it takes. WHATEVER it takes.

Well, there it is.

Actually, though I disagree with that lady on most things, I rather like her spirit, and she at least opposes the satanic slaughter and torture etc being imposed by the Israeli Jews on the Arab Palestinians, especially in Gaza.

Talking point

Rather like me. I expect there are quite a few others as well.

Talking point

Starmer-stein will get his funeral on the Mount of Olives yet!

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Ecce the great negotiator and deal-maker… ha ha…

Russia cannot lose this war and will not lose it.

[“Dawood Safi should never been allowed into Britain.
He was an illegal.
He should then never have been allowed to stay in the country.
He should have been deported.
He then murdered Wayne Broadhurst, who just went for a walk with his dog.
Now Safi gets a manslaughter plea due to “mental health”.

Vote Reform.
Wayne, we will not forget.
“]

All illegal migrants should be herded into concentration camps in remote rural areas, where they can be guarded and undertake agricultural, horticultural, or dendrological work (such as forestry, or rewilding) until they can be dealt with one way or another.

Ha ha. Surely a gold multi-branched Jewish candlestick would be better…

Migration invasion case study: Roundhouse Hotel, Bournemouth

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/26276951.roundhouse-hotel-bournemouth-vacant-later-year

That hotel was once a decent 3-star place. I remember it even from the 1970s, when I rode past once or twice on my tiny and underpowered Vespa scooter when aged 16 or 17.

I also recall seeing it a decade or so later, when I was staying in another hotel nearby with my girlfriend and a Soviet dance troupe.

Well, in recent years it has been occupied and trashed by migrant-invaders, paid for by the British taxpayers.

After numerous instances of criminality, the migrant trash are going to be relocated, perhaps to social or private rentals near you (and still paid for out of your taxes).

Incidentally, that hotel is one of hundreds beneficially owned by a Jew called Langsam, who is “worth” £400M or more, and who came as a so-called refugee from Austria as a small child in 1938 or 1939. He has made untold millions from this country’s migration-invasion crisis: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Langsam.

Every. Single. Time.

Late thought around BBC Newsnight and Andy Burnham

For the first time in years, watched the first few minutes of BBC Newsnight. Oh dear…It started to be rubbish when Kirsty Wark took over (about 30+ years ago). Now, it seems that dull Paddy O’Connell is the presenter.

Terribly dull.

I saw that Andy Burnham gave his first speech in the Commons since his return. Oh my goodness…he focussed on the bloody Hillsborough thing, which some people “up there” (Manchester, Liverpool, mainly) have been drivelling on about since it happened. Yes, it was terrible, yes, the police were incompetent and dishonest, but it happened 37 years ago!

In a way, that so sums up what Britain now is. It is obsessed with past glories, past tragedies etc. Hillsborough. The 1966 World Cup. “The War” (and “our” Pyrrhic victory over the German Reich) etc.

Backward-looking. Provincial. Even parochial. Second-rate (at best).

Burnham had a chance here to really set out a strategy, his ideas. Well, now we know— he has none.

What Burnham has done is to have thrown some red meat to his Manchester (call it Manchester and 50-mile radius) power base. Same with his “deport the Paki-stani child sex criminals“. Nothing wrong with that, but he is only doing it, now, because it buys cheap popularity, especially “up North”. Until recently, he was just part of the Labour Party cover-up.

So that is Burnham. Useless (as I suspected). It is also Labour going, going, gone in a year or three…

I think that we can already see that Burnham will trash what is left of Labour’s support even more than has Starmer-stein.

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[Russian Imperial family, Tsarskoe Selo, 1915]
[Pechersk Lavra, Motherland Monument, and river Dnieper, Kiev]

Diary Blog, 5 July 2026

Morning music

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Alfv%C3%A9n]

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The Israeli Jews, and those supporting the Israeli state in countries such as the UK, carry a karmic burden of guilt which, sooner or later, will have to be expiated.

Resign from what, though? So far, Burnham is neither Labour leader nor Prime Minister. He may become both soon, but I doubt that he will last very long or be very (if at all) popular.

That opinion poll translates into a Commons with about 295 Reform UK MPs (over 30 short of a bare majority), 98 Lab (weak official Opposition), 71 Cons, 53 Greens, 52 LibDems, 45 SNP, 12 Plaid [etc].

So a Reform UK minority government, only able to do anything via the votes of the Con MPs. Also, the Cons, Labour, LibDems , Greens, and SNP all having between 40-100 MPs.

A useless Parliament of that sort might help to pave the way for a social-national upsurge, whether electoral or, more likely, otherwise.

[“father was close friend with Nathan Rothschild backed Jewish immigration into England 1922
as Colonial Secretary he pushed Balfour Declaration creating Israel
refused Hitler’s peace offers after France fell 1940
led England to a prolonged, ruinously expensive conflict that accelerated the empire’s collapse
Strakosch (jewish financier) paid his £40k+ gambling debt 1930s
famously said “My heart is full of sympathy for Zionism” in Jerusalem
“]

I do not agree 100% with the second tweet above, but do agree maybe 70%. Europe’s path and the consequences of taking that path since 1945 cannot be laid completely or solely at the door of one prominent individual, though Churchill does carry a large measure of guilt.

Starmer-stein may end by getting an Israeli state burial on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, like the otherwise unlamented Robert “Maxwell”.

Bickering, and petty power-plays, and egoism/egotism plays, are the natural situation, until the next historic wall of faith arises.

Ha. The wheel of Fate and fortune is turning.

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[Botanical Gardens, Uppsala Castle, Sweden]

An abandoned homestead in Ireland

As blogged previously, in the early 20thC Ireland only had 1% tree cover, which has now, over the past few decades, increased to over 11%, perhaps over 12%. The potential, though, is huge.

The old Anglo-Irish, Protestant Ascendancy Irish, owned old castles, or Georgian houses; many still do. On the other hand, as I noticed when I was first in Ireland in the 1970s, the Roman Catholic Irish who are the bulk of the population preferred to live, given the opportunity (i.e. the funds), to build modern bungalows and other —usually quite ugly— houses, often with little in their gardens beyond lawn. Practical, in that climate, though. Roofs that keep out the rain; central heating…

My parents were friendly, long ago, in the late 1970s and 1980s, with a number of Irish people who lived in the counties around Dublin; they were all involved with racing, or other equine activities, in some way. One couple were involved in training horses, and the husband, whose name I forget (thanks to Google help, I recall now) was Tom Taaffe, who rode the Grand National winner, Quare Times, in 1955. I never met him, but did meet his very charming wife in England; that would have been late 1970s, maybe 1977 or 1978. Sometime around then.

I recall visiting, in 1985 or 1986, the home of one family of that circle; my parents were staying there at the time. Punchestown House, near Naas, County Kildare. The family, Doyle by name, were wealthy Roman Catholics involved in all sorts of business. They also owned a stud farm there.

Their home was a very comfortable large modern house, and what interested me was that, right there, a stone’s throw away, stood the ruins of the original house, 18thC but totally taken over by Nature. No roof to speak of, and no window glass. There was even a big tree growing through the remains of the roof area.

I suppose that English people in that position might try either to rescue the old house (if at all feasible), or build a modern copy. Perhaps, anyway.

Triggered by that memory, I just used incredible Google AI to bring back the detail I had forgotten. I see now that that one of that hospitable couple’s sons, Jack Doyle, an Olympic showjumper sponsored by Kerrygold, and whom I met (mid-1980s) in both England and Ireland, is still involved in all such activities— showjumping, stud farm etc.

Google AI is an incredible resource. I just fed in a few details about how my father and I drove to visit a lady (friendly with that Doyle family) and who lived at Baltyboys House, Blessington, County Wicklow, not very far away, a house previously the home of famous ballerina Ninette de Valois. Our hostess filled us up with Irish whiskey in mid-afternoon, and was very hospitable. I knew no more of the background until today, and now only thanks to Google AI.

Turns out that that lady, an Australian, was the wife of famous racing trainer Vincent O’Brien. I had no idea until today. I thought at the time that she was probably a widow. Turns out that Vincent O’Brien lived mainly elsewhere, in another large house, in Tipperary. I also had no idea that, at one time, one of the daughters of the O’Brien couple also lived there, and was married to one of the producers of the James Bond film, Thunderball, someone called McClory, whom I now see led a very adventurous life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McClory.

You live and learn…

More tweets

[“I have a regular customer who is very senior within the NHS. She said that racism is massively on the rise, and it seems to be all she deals with now. But, she said, its not racism from white British people as the impression is given in these reports and surveys, its cross-ethnic racism.

There are fractions between different Asian groups that refuse to work with each other, or within African groups that bully each other, or the Asians won’t work with the Africans, or abuse against the East Asians like Phillipino or Vietnamese. And then, of course, the British nurses that get abuse from non white ethnic groups, both patients and staff.

Widespread racism in Sandwell and Birmingham maternity care, review finds – BBC News”]

Multikulti societies rarely if ever work, not for long anyway.

Utter dystopia. Not in 100 years’ time, or 50 years, or 20 years. Now.

Late film-history video

Late music

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C5%ABcija_Gar%C5%ABta]
[prehistoric praying mantis trapped in amber]