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Diary Blog, 26 August 2025

Afternoon music

Tweets seen

Chris Bryant [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Bryant] is, in lay language, a traitor. Member of Labour Friends of Israel, pro-Israel warmonger, and supporter of mass immigration into this country. A very sleazy ex-Church of England priest, former Common Purpose employee, and also an expenses cheat, effectively a fraudster. Appalling in every way.

People such as Bryant get money, honours etc in our degraded country. Just disgusting.

A sterilization programme should be high on the agenda (probably not necessary in the case of Bryant, though).

The voters of Rhondda, now Rhondda and Ogmore, have been too silly in the past to see that Labour (since 1997, at least) gives them nothing, and have voted Bryant in, repeatedly, despite everything about him saying “no“. However, Reform must at least be in with a chance next time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhondda_and_Ogmore_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.

The Kiev regime has shown itself capable (both in moral terms and practically) of carrying out quite sophisticated attacks akin to terrorism in and around Russia. What it cannot do is to win where it matters— in the battlefield space. Russian forces continue to make steady if unspectacular progress across Eastern Ukraine.

[Lindsey Graham, among others]

I think the next UK General Election has probably just been won.

Raus!

This is what happens when you commit mass ethnic cleansing, drive out the original inhabitants of a country, then repopulate that country with the sweepings of the ghettos, prisons, and labour camps of Europe.

Then the courts will have to be dealt with. We are getting into the glacial mess that characterizes American politics, whereby the executive power is trammelled by politicized judges (on the Supreme Court of the USA in that country, and by various higher courts in the UK).

Salus populi suprema lex esto— the welfare of the people is the highest law [Cicero].

As for that lady tweeter, she is fatally out of touch with the English/British heartlands. She has founded an offshoot of the Conservative Party she calls #Moderates. Her ex-husband was MP for Poole, turfed out by a mere 7 votes at GE 2024, and she was employed by him at about £50,000 a year via his Parliamentary expenses, “a nice little earner” (until it stopped).

I do not know whether the pseudo-Conservative “Moderates” exist outside the lady’s own mind (I suspect not); neither do I know whether they are the product of a bottle of whatever the lady may habitually drink.

In any event, the “Moderates” idea goes nowhere. UK politics (as this blog has always predicted) are becoming more “extreme”. People want clear and radical policies to —and I use the word advisedly— save this country at a very late hour.

At a guess, an educated guess, I should say that the policies for which that lady advocates (pro-immigration, getting rid of the Triple Lock, rejoining the EU, supporting the Kiev regime etc) would, as a compendium, probably attract the votes of, at best, 5% of the population. At best. Totally out of touch. In any case, there is already a party that pushes such policies— the LibDems (currently around 10% in the polls, but mainly because they are a default choice or “dustbin party”).

At, again, a guess, I should think that the membership of the so-called “Moderates” consists of the lady herself and however many bottles she can line up.

See also:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2449197/Fiona-Natasha-Syms-Wife-Tory-whip-sacked-reshuffle-attacks-Cameron-Twitter.html

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2013/oct/11/robert-syms-firing-lioness-attacks

If “Rachel from Accounts and Customer Relations” Reeves scraps the Triple Lock, almost all voters from about age 50 or 55 will scrap her and, with her, Labour. At a time when Labour are running at about 20% in the opinion polls, that would be the final nail, if not already hammered home, in the Labour coffin.

As noted previously on the blog, a little judicious “racism” would have saved untold thousands of young English girls from being raped, exploited, and/or impregnated by non-Europeans. Unfortunately, System “education” in the UK (and other European countries, such as Norway and Sweden) does not teach young white English/British girls only to have relations with white English/British/real European men. On the contrary, it encourages race-mixing.

[BDM (League of German Girls) riders in the forest, 1930s]

How much longer can the exhausted army of the Kiev regime (those troops not killed, captured, or badly wounded) keep the front-lines intact? Not long, I think, no matter how much money and materiel the EU and USA send to Zelensky.

The poor taxpayers of the EU and UK are having billions of Euros wasted, thanks to Starmer, Macron, Merz, Ursula von der Leyen etc throwing money at the Zelensky regime.

I should not be surprised were the Jew Zelensky not to end up like Mussolini or Gaddafi; having said that, he will probably flee to California, Florida, or Israel.

I would not usually repost something from such a Jew-Zionist fanatic, but truth is truth, and his tweet there is completely correct.

Like something from a dystopian sci-fi film. The karmic weight on the (Israeli and other) Jews will be backbreaking.

A good idea. After all, turning it around, what stops Russian tanks also stops those of Western Europe. The Soviet Union would have been defeated in 1941 had it had decent roads. I like the restoration of Nature anyway.

Late music

[Soviet T-34 tank in action on the Eastern Front, 1943]

Diary Blog, 16 June 2025

Morning music

[Vatican interior]

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Say what you like about Nick Ferrari (and I myself disagree with his views on several topics) but now that Paxman and Andrew Neil are effectively inactive, he is the only interviewer really able and willing to hold entitled freeloading System political idiots with their feet to the fire.

I believe that Emma Reynolds is yet another member of Labour Friends of Israel, though Wikipedia does not mention it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Reynolds.

Emma Reynolds is but one of hundreds of useless MP-drones. Just listen to that interview! She even makes Diane Abbott (famously a previous victim of Ferrari) look or sound competent.

Churchill once remarked that “democracy is the worst system of government— except all the others“, but cretins like Emma Reynolds test that proposition to destruction…

I myself was at the Bar of England and Wales (among others) until a pack of malicious Jew-Zionists procured my (both wrongful and unlawful) disbarment in 2016. I know what many many barristers and judges are like, their attitudes etc.

In the past, the USA has bombed embassies, eg the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade about 26 years ago: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_bombing_of_the_Chinese_embassy_in_Belgrade.

It made me laugh to hear on BBC News that Netanyahu has been whining about Iranian missiles killing and injuring civilians in Israel. Someone should remind him of what the Israeli Jews have been doing in Gaza for the past 20 months.

“They” have no real ability to put themselves in the shoes of others. Can a whole nation show signs of psychotic behaviour? A subject for someone or other’s doctoral thesis in mass psychology, perhaps.

First blood was drawn by Israel, by its unilateral decision to launch attacks on Iran. The UK and other European states should leave the whole conflict to the direct participants. Sadly, the usual (((influence))) over UK and EU politicians is huge…

Perhaps the Iranians will send a missile to Netanyahu’s luxury villa somewhere on the coast north of Tel Aviv.

[“Iran’s latest missile strikes have shattered Israel’s illusion of security, breached US-Israeli shields and hit critical targets Early this morning, at least 100 Iranian ballistic missiles, some of them hypersonic, hit targets in Haifa, Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak and the Negev Desert. Numerous powerful, successful hits bypassed US-Israeli air defense systems, reached their targets and caused widespread fear among the settlers, some of whose bomb shelters collapsed. The hits were marked:

Tel Aviv: Several buildings were damaged, including a strategically important building and several residential towers.

Haifa: Power plant hit by hypersonic missiles, strikes on the Bil Habel building, major electricity and oil infrastructure, the Bazan chemical complex (200,000 barrels per day) and the Haifa refinery (10 million tons per year).

Ramat Gan: 22-story building destroyed. Neighborhoods: Bnei Brak, Petah Tikva (municipality center), Pardes Katz, Nayot and Ayalon.

Negev: Nevatim airbase and other facilities.

Galilee: Israeli army camp attacked. Central region: problems at power grid facilities led to widespread power outages.“]

Israeli Jew government minister stating that civilians in Teheran will “pay the price“. An unconscious reference to The Merchant of Venice? Whatever the truth of that, targeting civilians is obviously a war crime.

Bye bye, blackbird…

In time, the Israeli attack on Iran will become written and rewritten as an Iranian attack on Israel motivated by “antisemitism”. They might even invent a new religious holiday to commemorate it.

Israelis like to bomb or rocket hospitals. Look at what they have done in Gaza.

Yes. It’s a bit different when you are on the receiving end, nicht wahr? Maybe you (((Levy))) should stop smugly calling for others to be bombed, rocketed, or shot…

Those secret/underground Iranian bases are incredible; apparently, some are as deep as a mile under mountains etc. They put me in mind of the James Bond films I saw on the big screen when they came out in the 1960s, e.g. You Only Live Twice, seen by me (aged 10 or 11) at a cinema in Manly (Beach), Sydney, in 1967.

…and what about this scene of ninjas storming Blofeld’s secret base under a volcano, fast-roping en masse? Amazing.

If true, then I am thankful not to be in his shoes, whether guilty or not.

Ironically, the quarantining of Russia has led to a point where the sanctioning states (US, UK, France etc) look more like the sanctioned. Russia is doing OK economically by comparison.

Who would have thought it? The taxpayers and fuel-consumers of Western and Central Europe saved by the —unwanted-by-EU— intervention of a couple of small and previously marginal states.

Idiots such as Penny Mordaunt are just puppets of the Jewish/Zionist/Israeli lobby. Why is she on TV anyway? The voters dumped her in 2024, she is no longer an MP, and she now lives on (probably quite generous) largesse from a tobacco company (for doing p/t “work”). Aged 52, she is now politically washed-up. So why the TV appearances? It is not as if she really knows anything, either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Mordaunt#Post-parliamentary_career.

The Labour Party is compromised. Without non-white voters, its ~20% to ~25% vote share would be about 10%, 15% at most. Also, “anti-racism” is ingrained in the Emily Thornberry/Jess Phillips/Yvette Cooper/Starmer-stein types. That is to say, “anti-racism” except against English/British people.

Sooner or later, there must be “walls and squads” to punish the guilty.

Perhaps Yvette Cooper etc might at least admit that the so-called “far right“, “racists”, and/or “extremists” were right and, in a word, “very wellinformed”? We usually are…

I do or did (he now seems to be not so active) agree with much, not all, of what Nick Griffin said or did. He always seems to be a basically decent fellow, overall.

Talking point

Late tweets seen

Marshall is one of the better-informed journalists, but I have to say that I find him insufferably big-headed. More pro-Israel than anti, if I am not mistaken.

In any case, Shapps (who is nothing but a dishonest Jew fraudster) is talking nonsense. The RAF, even if deployed in Israel’s defence, could not, in all likelihood, stop Iranian hypersonic missiles from hitting their designated targets. RAF planes, if so tasked, could stop some of the other missiles, drones etc attacking Israel, but the Israeli Iron Dome and other systems have shown themselves well capable of doing that anyway. The Israelis are already doing that themselves, in other words.

I am pleased, especially, that those Jews and/or any non-Jew pro-Zionists who have dual nationality, and the young Jews who go from the UK to get paramilitary training, are now stuck there, awaiting their fate. I suppose that, in principle, those ones could leave, but how, when the main international airport is shut down?

If those fanatics want to “fight for Israel”, well, here’s their chance! They can just pack a Desert Eagle, or an Uzi, and hole-up waiting for their enemies to arrive.

I begin to wonder whether, after the initial Israeli successes, Israel has not bitten off more than it can chew (without American help).

[“Israel tightens censorship, banning the filming or publication of any footage of the landings. An outright ban has been imposed on journalists filming the landing sites. Al Jazeera has been put under pressure. People cheering on the Iranian strikes and people wearing “No War!” T-shirts are also being persecuted. It is also reported that due to the problems with leaving Israel by air, there has been an increase in demand for leaving Israel by sea.“]

Looks as if the loyalty of many Jews (with UK, French, US, Canadian etc passports) is only skin-deep. They are scrambling to get out.

I believe that there are regular ferry services to Limassol in Cyprus from Haifa; there may be others.

Late music

[“At the end stands Victory!“]

Diary Blog, 31 May 2023

Morning music

[Wilanow Palace, Warsaw, part of which I visited in 1988]

Battles past

Tweets seen

https://twitter.com/AshleaSimonBF/status/1663153688255295490?s=20

All most of them understand is the sjambok. The country has had a harsh history, not all of which was the fault of the white settlers.

Southern Africa, in fact all of Africa, is not for the white man any more, not in the medium-term at least. It is slowly descending back to savagery.

Guess (((who)))? The (((you know who)))…

Ha ha! I like it!

The “Overton Window” is moving our way, I believe…

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

Can you imagine what sort of useless ****-up will get that job?! Ha ha!

“They” see it in their stars…

Houston Stewart Chamberlain vindicated?…[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Stewart_Chamberlain].

See also: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/scientists-reveal-jewish-history-s-forgotten-turkish-roots-a6992076.html.

A giant of the past

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

[Houston Stewart Chamberlain in 1895]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Stewart_Chamberlain#Hitler’s_mentor

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It would be funny if those latter-day Sinn Fein idiots, nearly 30 years after the end of the main “Troubles”, ended up being stood up against a wall…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12136305/Trove-Jeffrey-Epsteins-emails-calendar-entries-reveals-pedophiles-network-power.html

Russian forces must hit strategic military and infrastructure targets, not civilians.

Once such laws are passed, in any country, the Jew-Zionist element abuses them via “lawfare” to shut down free speech.

More music

[John Lavery, The Chess Players]

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As fraudster and “grifter”, “Jack Monroe” is in a league of her own.

James Bond

The James Bond character was of course absurd, albeit brilliantly so, and Ian Fleming knew very little about real intelligence work, despite having been made, via his family connections, Personal Assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence (and given an instant naval officer rank) during WW2: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming#Second_World_War).

Fleming was an early example of the type of which we now see frequently, especially in UK politics. Talked a good game, full of unmerited confidence (born of his family money, Eton education etc), but pretty ignorant, and more of a bullshitter than anything.

Having said that, the James Bond character of Fleming’s books, twisted and moulded by the film-makers, took on a life of its own (the James Bond of the books is a rather unpleasant and bitter character, more like Fleming himself, in fact).

The films, at first very loosely based on the Fleming books (though later not based on any books) have become, over about 60 years, a quite major industry; they reflected, however distortedly, a definite Englishness. Now, like England itself, the James Bond concept and character has pretty much been stamped out of shape. A pity, in a way.

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Affected“, not “effected“. Never mind. The point is made.

Mines can be dangerous for decades, if left. There are still actively-dangerous mines in Egypt left over from WW2, 80 years ago, as an officer of the Mukhabarat told me over Arab coffee when I was “not arrested” in 1998: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/03/07/when-i-was-not-arrested-in-egypt/.

Late tweets seen

One Jew(ess) defends another Jew. Entirely typical. One sees it constantly on Twitter, and in the Press. 99% a “clan” attitude. Where one goes, the rest usually go, like a shoal of fish.

“They” (((a certain alien element))) took over the UK msm long ago…

Sooner or later, a ground-to-air missile given to the Kiev regime by a Western state, then sold on, will take down an airliner in the UK, USA, France or Germany. Odds-on.

The Kiev regime is running out of infantry.

“The land of freedom”?

I do not recall having to show ID when I lived in New Jersey and bought beer, albeit that that was 30 years ago. Maybe Georgia has different laws.

Late music

[Akademgorodok, Western Siberia]

Diary Blog, 19 August 2020

Self-help

When the State fails to protect the people, the people start to protect themselves…https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8641517/Migrant-20s-attacked-moments-coming-ashore-dinghy-Kent-beach.html

Britain’s moral collapse

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/family-slam-ghouls-who-filmed-22542104

The blacks emboldened by “Black Lives Matter” nonsense

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/elderly-man-sweeping-path-sucker-22538815

An egregious example, but I believe that there is a general emboldenment of the non-Europeans and especially the blacks, triggered by the “BLM” nonsense. Not only in the USA; Britain too.

From the horse’s mouth

Professor Nathan Abrams sheds light on how Jews transformed the British entertainment industries, creating some of the most iconic characters and images of the 20th Century, including James Bond, Doctor Who, Carry On, and many others. In so doing, British Jews infused their creations with hidden Jewish themes.”

I always wondered why some TV and film series are pushed more, in the msm, than others…

Of course the absurd “James Bond” fantasy meshes with the whole WW2 and post-WW2 SOE/OSS narrative. SOE [Special Operations Executive] was in reality a shambolic mess that (even from the Allied perspective) accomplished little (and got a very high percentage of its agents and its own officers killed), but you would not believe that from the huge msm industry of books and films that has grown up around it, especially in recent years.

SOE mentored the OSS, as did SIS/MI6. SOE was disbanded with almost indecent haste once Germany was defeated, but that fatal seed of amateur SOE bungling, once planted in the OSS, carried on germinating and then thriving in the successor to OSS, the CIA.

That seed of gung-ho paramilitarism, sown in the Second World War, has in fact been responsible for most of the CIA’s debacles, from the Bay of Pigs, through Iran-Contra, to the support for and then betrayal of the Kurds; other situations too, such as arming Osama bin Laden and other fanatics in Afghanistan during the time of Soviet or pro-Soviet rule in the 1980s.

You see it in Hollywood films too, the idea that secret intelligence is largely about blazing machineguns, firefights featuring operatives capable of using martial arts and (maybe even at the same time!) flying a plane and making safe the mechanism of a nuclear bomb (etc). Not that such films are always unentertaining, but “Jason Bourne” is not so much a “secret agent” as a superhuman ninja warrior gone West.

Tweets seen

The whole thread is well worth reading. To read it, click on the tweet.

A caution to the Jew-Zionists trying to censor Twitter and other online media platforms:

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Not all of the inferior races (or, within those races, individuals) treat animals cruelly (and our own record is far from perfect), but it is a matter of degree: the Northern European peoples, though they are at only the start of their evolutionary journey (in big-picture terms), are at least on it, whereas most of the other racial and ethnic groups in the world are either static or are regressing, so falling into decadence and evil.

Slava!

A “chimp-out” in San Francisco. Think the UK, say London, Birmingham or wherever, is any different? Think again. Once the restraints are off, this is the result. You cannot have a civilized society without a civilized population. Fact.

What many find hard to accept, or understand, is that quite a high proportion of those at or near the top of this society are actually and even wittingly servants of evil, sometimes members of evil secret groups planning to reduce the civilized people of the world (and all the peoples of the world) to decadence and destruction.

If the mob in Portland and elsewhere are not soon mown down by police, National Guard or Army, then the white people of Oregon are going to have to prove that the “Constitution” they talk about so much actually means at least something, and that their much-vaunted “right to keep and bear arms” means something more than showing off weapons to their friends and shooting empty beer bottles off fence-posts in the boonies…

So where are the “alt-Right” wastes of space in Portland and elsewhere?

In fact, where is Trump? Where is the huge machinery of U.S. government repression? Unaware? No. Complicit? Maybe…

Where are the non-antifa white people in Portland, where are all the “guns” they value so highly? A mere few would be able to clear away those untermenschen. As Dietrich Eckart said, “the rabble need to hear the rattle of machineguns…to get fear into their pants!

As I have always said, most of the “nationalist” elements, in the US and UK too, are a waste of time and space. That particularly applies to the “alt-Right” and other wastes of space.

In fact, the multikulti or cultureless items of detritus on the streets are merely an unpleasant symptom. The disease is seated elsewhere, behind the camera, behind the reporters’ notebooks. The “journalists”, editors, owners of TV stations, radio stations, newspapers, Hollywood studios. These are the ones harbouring the disease.

Note that a female “Black Lives Matter” bully shouts continually at the old lady, “PUT YOUR MASK ON, BITCH!, PUT YOUR MASK ON!“. Could the reasoning (the real reasoning) behind the facemask-wearing nonsense be made any more clear? It is a bullying of the individual, to intimidate the individual, forcing that person to conform, to do what the mob demands.

For myself, I just wish that someone had protected that old lady, and the best way of doing that would have been to shoot the mob down, starting with the black shouting in her face, then next prioritizing those cowards filming and photographing the horrible scene, followed by the shouting woman in the background. Then the rest of that mob. Then moving to those who are triggering all this by buying TV ads to support it, by reporting on it favourably, and also those bending the knee in sign of fealty or surrender to it all…

What starts on the West Coast of the USA often arrives next in the UK, after a year or two. Be warned. Be ready.

The BBC?! Ha ha! I support public service broadcasting, but the BBC trashed that years ago. The BBC now is almost akin to Soviet TV and radio. The BBC news broadcasts on TV have become unwatchable, just government propaganda lies, especially about “the virus” etc. Endless boring “interviews” on Skype with people droning on from their homes. I often wonder how many people now watch BBC News at all. Few, I think. It has become hugely boring. Not that that matters much to BBC staff who, like their 1980s Soviet counterparts are hugely overpaid for not rocking the boat…Meanwhile, the public is forced to pay for it all.

It will end in tears, with BBC staff forced to clean the pavements with their toothbrushes.

When things really (to use the contemporary phrase) “kick off” in the USA, UK, across mainland Europe, those who think that they can control the agenda and events because they —now— gang up on and denounce people to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, the police etc, will find no hiding place themselves. Their Lilliputian binding ties will no longer protect them.

“Protect the NHS”? How about “Protect the patients of the NHS”?

Beaver re-introduction

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/beaver-trust-mammal-river-wild-otter-devon-law-native-species-a9674246.html

Britain and inventors

Saw this:

Britain in the 20th and 21st centuries has not much honoured its inventors. Sir Christopher Cockerell belatedly got a knighthood (surely the most devalued honour?) and a prize of £5,000 (worth ?£500,000 today) in the late 1960s for inventing the hovercraft.

How sad that hovercraft are now built in places like China, but not, as far as I know, the UK, where they were invented and also first built and first used as passenger transport.

Hovercraft are still being updated and built in China and elsewhere. A story repeated a hundred times in the past. Is there any need to repeat a long list? The man (British) who invented the wind-up radio, not the most stunning invention but extremely useful all the same [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Baylis] made lists of all the inventions invented by British people in Britain, but which had then been exploited mostly by others, whether in the USA, Germany, or latterly in China.

British people are often poor at blowing their own trumpet. From the World Wide Web to DNA and DNA fingerprinting, the hovercraft, the jet engine, radar. Just hundreds of things.

People will say, “well, what about Dyson?” and it is true that, if anyone has had the benefit of his own ingenuity, it is Dyson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dyson] but he is one inventor out of many; also, it is sad that he prioritized profit over continuing to manufacture his products in the UK, though I should not want to be too churlish: Dyson has ploughed back some profits into research and education.

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Pity about the decommissioning of those cross-Channel hovercraft. They would have been useful in dumping the migrant-invaders back on the beaches of the Pas de Calais. The invaders could be kept in the hold for the 40 min crossing, and hovercraft need no port facilities, just a suitable beach. Out you get!

Hitchens is right. For one thing, the number of deaths from or even “with” Coronavirus has been massively inflated. Even the government of clowns’ own advisers have admitted that (though still claim 40,000+). Secondly, direct civilian casualties in the UK from bombing and other enemy action during WW2 numbered around 67,000, so Piers Morgan is mistaken even in that respect, even taking the official, very inflated, “Covid-19” statistics as correct.

Piers Morgan is just a System mouthpiece.

As I have blogged earlier, both today and on other days, the BBC News on TV is pretty much unwatchable now. Bias and boredom. The “bias and boredom corporation”?

I think that that article would be well worth reading, but it is behind a paywall.

My little evening excursion

I went out to get fish and chips, something I do only once every couple of months. There is a shop on the rural/suburban A-road not far from me, about half a mile away, in a strip, or what an older generation called a “parade”, of small shops. While waiting for the fish to be fried, I bought a few Thunderball tickets at the nearby convenience store (there are about 6 or 7 small shops there, 3 of which sell takeaway food).

I noticed that the florist shop was closed up, with what I took to be (did not go to read it) a legal notice pasted on the window. The little video rental shop was also closed and dark (though it was always open at 7 in the evening), so it looks as though that has, in the old phrase, also probably “gone West”, as has, I suspect, a shop which sells, or sold, curtains and other soft furnishings. So out of about 7 shops (I think that another one closed a while ago), only 4 are still operating: fish and chips, a Chinese/Malay takeaway, an Indian takeaway, and the convenience store (part of a nationwide chain).

The economic depression (using the term in a lay sense) caused, not by “Coronavirus”, but by government action and stupidity has not yet fully hit. The effects are beginning to be seen, however. Dire. The headlines scream about Marks & Spencer or Debenhams sacking thousands of workers, but the real story (or another real story) is the above, but multiplied countless times across Britain. Small shops and other businesses closing down, probably forever.

What is the betting that, when unemployment soars into the many millions, it will be the mask-wearing fanatics, and the “lockdown” enthusiasts, and the typical Twitterati mob, that will be screaming about how the masses are suffering from low pay, no pay, low benefits, lack of decent housing (as the migrant-invaders flood in) and an NHS which is allowing untold thousands to die because undiagnosed and untreated?

Midnight music