The msm campaign to push blacks in everything intensifies. Sky and Channel 4 now has “Black History Month“, despite the fact that “black history”, when set against the rich real history of both Europe and Asia (not to mention the pre-Columbian Americas), is at best peropheral.
I happened to be in Waitrose recently, and glanced at the magazines on sale there. There was one entitled Exploring History, which featured ancient Egypt. The headline? “Explore Africa’s iconic civilization“. Africa? Geographically, yes, but culturally, ethnically, racially, no. Again, there is a deliberate attempt, and has been for about 20-30 years, to call the North African countries, the countries north of the Sahara, simply “African”, when in most respects there is a fairly sharp dividing line between the countries and cultures of North Africa and those of “black Africa” south of the Sahara.
As a matter of fact, when scientists conducted DNA tests on the remains of Tutankhamun and others, it was discovered that their DNA was fairly similar to that of modern Europeans, speaking in broad terms; however, those ancient Egyptians had little DNA in common with the Egyptians of the present day.
If one spends time in Egypt, especially away from the cloistered tourist hotels, it becomes very obvious very soon that the modern Egyptians have little in common with their great ancestors…
Look at any police-connected Twitter accounts: all “black this, black that”. Propaganda from what is now a State/System militia.
Tweets seen
Palestinian kids help a cat drink from a public fountain on the Temple Mount.
Jews have been prevented and barred from drinking at this fountain several times, only muslims are allowed to drink from it.
Part-Jew, part-Turk/Levantine, a scribbler and public entertainer. Not a real Prime Minister at all. Not even a halfway-decent human being.
Another Trump supporter shot dead & the left cheer
Remember they want you jobless, broke & dead
They have rendered me jobless & broke. Antifa doxxing my home address & calling a nazi is encouraging that last one to take place. Then they will cheer
All this isn't accidental. What sort of people are behind all this? If you can't answer that, isn't it time you did some digging, thinking and judging? pic.twitter.com/RBIvgPTZ9O
Obviously, I have no time for the “QAnon” people, but I do like their motto: “Where we go one, we go all“. Ungrammatical perhaps, but the sentiment is great. If only the best white British people really lived up to that, we the people would be defended, our enemies exterminated, and a decent future secured.
‘I wear this to protect you’ – Yeah, selflessly discarded muzzles found on Cornwall’s coastline. pic.twitter.com/3vY51iGvno
Been some bizarre stuff in politics over the past few years. But this is now the weirdest I’ve ever seen. Almost no-one in Government – Ministers, MPs, advisors – thinks the current Covid strategy is working, or will ever work. But it carries on anyway. Government by auto-pilot.
The Muslims in Europe and the Jews in Europe (as groups, not individuals) differ in their aims: the one group wishes all Europe to come to Islam; the other (as a “tribal” or ethnocentric religion) has no such aim, but wishes to control Europe for reasons of group profit and benefit.
If there were an enemy dictator waiting for the right moment to strike, this would be it. Peak madness (?). Frightened young rabbits afraid to dance face to face even while wearing facemasks or muzzles.
Man regurgitates government propaganda. The whole thing was a mistake from the start, and there is not one half ounce of evidence that any of it did any good at all. Tons f evidence that it did great harm . @entoprofhttps://t.co/3OXCKluZNx
'The mad shutdown measures are visibly not working, because you might as well seek to control the wind by law as try to control a virus by shutting pubs or wearing a damp nappy on your face.'https://t.co/EWHJ6iWshX
As you awake on this fine Sunday morning in the land of muzzles, job loses, home imprisonment, and national cowardice. I’d like to remind you of a life you once had, just earlier this year. A life now taken from you. Welcome to Sweden! 🇸🇪
The Tories have passed a Bill giving themselves powers to legally murder their political opponents – thanks to Sir Keir Starmer who ordered Labour MPs to abstain #StarmerOut#StarmerOutstandinghttps://t.co/MiHtQF3htm
Twitter account “@SocialistVoice” (Scott Nelson, who was in the Labour Party until the Jew-Zionists had him expelled) often used to retweet me (until the Jews had me expelled from Twitter in 2019). He seems still popular on Twitter (about 75,000 “followers”).
I might not agree with everything that “Socialist Voice” tweets, but I think that he is basically a decent person (and the Jew-Zionists hate him, which is a good sign).
We see the way that this is going: new laws beefing up the powers of police, officials, security and intelligence agencies; pay rises for police and medical profession etc. A germinal police state arising.
More diabolical threats from the ´Health’ Secretary: Matt Hancock warns cancer patients will only be treated if Covid-19 stays 'under control' https://t.co/94b1ESMron
Is it really so amazing? Starmer is a complete puppet of the Jewish/Zionist lobby. Since he took over the Labour Party, the Zionist lobby (in the msm, and in Parliament) has pretty much stopped its attacks on Labour, which were constant during Corbyn’s leadership. There again, look at the Boris-idiot government of clowns…
Just as the “Conservative” Party won the 2019 General Election by default, the “Labour” Party is now challenging the Cons not on Labour’s own merits but because the clownish incompetence of Boris-idiot and his bad joke Cabinet is so impossible for the public to miss.
Unite General Secretary, Len McCluskey, explains to #Newsnight why there will be reductions in funding from Unite, Labour's biggest donor, to the Labour Party.
'Peer review is a flawed process…with little evidence that it works…It is likely to remain central to science …because… scientists and editors have a continuing belief in peer review. How odd that science should be rooted in belief.' https://t.co/eUpsT3ecke
'People have a great many fantasies about peer review, and one of the most powerful is that it is a highly objective, reliable, and consistent process.' https://t.co/6GowGzKbzF
'There are several ways to abuse the process of peer review. You can steal ideas and present them as your own, or produce an unjustly harsh review to block or at least slow down the publication of the ideas of a competitor. These have all happened' https://t.co/eUpsT3ecke
Sadly, not all scientists are objective great brains searching for truth and new ways of looking at the physical world, just as not all priests and prelates are holy, not all academics are scholars, and not all politicians are wise and well-intentioned statesmen.
Rolling prohibition does indeed create an opening for shebeens. Criminals will fill the opening, but so should members of our community. Great funding opportunity & a long term way to deprive the corrupt elite of taxes they'd only waste on something wickedhttps://t.co/UIy0JRNtHV
Quite. Rupert Murdoch said, a few years ago now, that “the British Press is controlled by Jews” (and went on to say that Jews in the msm should be even more pro-Israel!).
One can say, with some truth, that ordinary political activity is not the only, or even best way forward, but it remains an important aspect of the whole. Young people (especially) may or may not join this or that party, but will still be influenced by what they read and hear on the website of any party which is social-national. That must be positive.
Law, @codaca, is made in this country by a strict and lengthy Parliamentary procedure. It is not made by overnight decree. Read the link. https://t.co/nBomSAkmRr
Oh, God! Professor Ferguson again! That idiot! Apparently, he is not even a medical man, let alone a virologist or epidemiologist; a physicist, it seems! The best thing he can do is shut up, go away, and focus on screwing his married “ho”. Stalin would have had him shot by now.
My debate on the future of the family with Polly Mackenzie of Demos: 'I ask the victors in the culture wars if they have got what they wanted. On what measure do you think “our children” are “doing so much better than they did back then”?' @wearebrightbluehttps://t.co/wtCwcjapyT
The problem with such people (the ones who regard anything before 2000 as a Dark Age, in the face of all evidence) is that when you argue or discuss society with them, you are not having an argument or discussion with someone whose world-view is based on facts or —still less— reality, but with someone who is both deluded and self-deluded, someone who prefers fantasy to reality.
As Hitler said of the Weimar Republic, “they want not only their daily bread but their daily illusion“…
Every time you see some liberal journalist spouting poison about Russia and #Putin, remember this. It's not the only reason for this epidemic of #Russophobic propaganda, but it's an important one in a West now twinned with Sodom & Gomorrah.#SundayServicehttps://t.co/9fa824KeFu
Salmon pens match oil wells, wave machines in the Channel to stop migrant boats, gender fluidity in primary schools, letting cancer rip to try to stop a virus – the political elite has lost all touch with reality.#strongdelusionshttps://t.co/qb2SPHrzV8
In a sense, it is incredible how a people as traditionally (though maybe not so much now) educated and intelligent as the Scots can take petty dictator Sturgeon and her unpleasant little SNP pack seriously. I suppose that the blame lies with the (other, older) System parties: “Labour”, “Conservative”, “Liberal Democrat” (all very much misnamed).
The Labour Party lost all credibility in Scotland, finally grinding to a halt under System drone, Jewish lobby mouthpiece (and now Tony Blair-salaried “gopher”), Jim Murphy, a man who spent 13 years as a university student without even getting a degree! Not forgetting Kezia Dugdale, another “never had a job” drone, idiot (and now newspaper-scribbling lesbian).
The Conservative Party is making minor inroads in Scotland by default, i.e. because they are neither Labour nor SNP (nor LibDem), but I cannot see that getting far, bearing in mind the Boris-idiot government in London and the upcoming economic tsunami triggered by government policy around “the virus”, as well as by badly-mishandled Brexit.
The SNP is only “faux”-nationalist, tolerant of mass immigration (perhaps because Scotland has as yet not been affected as much by it as has been England) and very much in the pocket of the Jewish lobby. Indeed, what sort of “Independence” would it be, if Scotland were still in the EU, NATO, and under the international conspiracy-consensus (NWO, ZOG, Bilderberg etc)?
Still, if Scotland wants “Independence”, let it go its own way, by all means. The rest of Britain can then turn to real social-nationalism.
Here is my own assessment, from last year, of Mike Stuchbery: https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/10/23/a-few-words-about-mike-stuchbery/. He keeps tweeting that he has been “libelled” by me and various others (including some Danes, apparently), and that he is “keeping track of all the libel“. He often tweets about how anyone exposing him better get good lawyers and/or that he will “clean out” anyone who tweets or writes about him.
Well, here is a piece of totally free legal advice from an ex-barrister: Stuchbery now has exactly 16 days in which he might start legal proceedings against me in libel in relation to my blog post about him. I am not quaking…
How does beggaring the rest of the defence budget to build two vast floating car parks achieve that @drchrisparry? Our size and location cannot be changed. If we are to cease to be broke, then we are going to have to learn how to spend our money more wisely. https://t.co/IZBcZVA8uU
I hope that that tweeter, “@DrChrisParry”, knows more about defence than he seems to know about UK strategy more generally. His view seems to be that the UK having a couple of aircraft carriers will push the UK to the top of the tree in terms of world power. Well, the U.S. Navy has 11 aircraft carriers; China has 2 (building another at present, with 6 planned in all); Russia has 2, with 2 more in the pipeline; Italy has 2; France has 1; and so on.
The tweeter noted seems to think that spending money in vast quantities on an aircraft carrier or two will arrest the relative decline of Britain, which has been a fact since 1918 and especially since 1945. This is hardly worth arguing… As for “resisting the power of totalitarian regimes“, the only power constantly intimidating Britain and its corrupt politicians is the USA, our supposed ally… and American military-destructive power dwarfs that of the UK.
Ah, I see that tweeter “@DrChrisParry” does indeed know about defence, at least in its tactical aspects, he having been an admiral and a commander of ships in actual warfare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Parry_(Royal_Navy_officer). Sadly, it remains true that, just as the environment cannot be left to farmers (because of both self-interest and blinkered viewpoints), defence strategy cannot be left to the generals and admirals, however distinguished.
Oh, the sheer pleasure of being able to slowly advance in that vehicle, watching the horror slowly dawn on the bitch’s face as she realises that she is going down. Would she try to run or jump away in the last split-second, or would she just utter a last scream as the “tank” rolls over her?
Stanley Johnson. Part-Jew, part-Turk, but “sanctified” as a True Blue Brit and “gentleman” by reason of having attended Sherborne School and Oxford…
Blood is destiny. Look at Stanley Johnson’s offspring: Boris-idiot, public entertainer, scribbler of rubbish, and poseur, presently doing a tragi-comic reprise (in miniature) of Winston Churchill; Jo Johnson, politician and former newspaper scribbler specializing in finance; Rachel Johnson, scribbler, editor and TV talking head; Leo Johnson, who is described by Wikipedia as “entrepreneur and film-maker“. Need one say (((more)))?
Tomorrow is often unexpected
I happened to see this:
When I visited the DDR (East Germany) briefly in 1988, the impression I received was that it was more like a stage set of a state than a real one, but I had no idea that, as little as a year or so later, that state would not exist.
Who knows, really, how long any state, even one as longlasting as the UK, will last?
Why did the DDR collapse? Why did the Soviet Union collapse? Many causes, but overall because they decayed internally. That was the number one cause.
Now look at the UK. It may continue for decades, or even centuries. More likely, it will pass into history within a few years from today.
Music
Late tweets
Yes, it seems as if most of the media are providing a sort of smokescreen for the government, preventing proper scrutiny where it actually matters – the policies themselves, not the way in which they're administered.
Grotesque, unconscionable, cruel and unbelievable. These are the horrible things people do when they think they are doing good. I really do not know why we put up with this. Where is the Opposition? Where is Parliament? Where are the BBC? Where are the courts? https://t.co/fZmL8QMBDe
Peter Hitchens still (perhaps) thinks that the UK as a “nation” (no, it is not really a nation any more) exists and that its old and now ramshackle institutions (courts, judges, Parliament, “free” Press, BBC) still have value. “Where are they?“, asks Hitchens, despairingly. They are now but “whited sepulchres”, almost-ruins.
Once again, a nice, well-behaved, civilized English person who thinks that we need “debate”. I think that we need something quite different (though true facts are always useful).
Peter Hitchens is right. The Conservative party hates its voters and is the opposite of conservatism.
The “Conservative” Party does hate most of its voters. Look at the Parliamentary Party, the Cabinet, the [person posing as] Prime Minister! What do we see? Jews, Mischlingen, wealthy Indians, token blacks and half-castes like Cleverly. As for the white English and Welsh “Conservative” MPs, most are either greedy speculators like Jacob Rees-Mogg, idiot backwoodsmen in it for the pay and expenses (like Peter Bone), or lobby fodder —and (((lobby))) fodder— without an original thought in all their heads combined.
Don;t pretend to be naive @76dart1. When you're trying to panic Parliament into renewing a despotic law the claim of hospital admissions 'doubling every 8 days' cranks up fear and wins headlines. 'Going up a bit', by contrast, does not. https://t.co/GdYioxFQ9D
'The secret of good government is to let men alone'. Governments that make normal ligfe illegal will destroy freedom. My latest conversation with @Iromg Mike Graham on @TalkRadio https://t.co/3wLdbGdX04
'The conservative, patriotic people of this country are entirely unrepresented by our existing political parties. The Tory Party has no fundamental political beliefs at all.' My latest conversation with @Iromg Mike Graham on @TalkRadio https://t.co/3wLdbGdX04
Tripe marinated in bilge @marperrodr. People are entitled to choose what risks they take. Even if HMG’s figures were not wild exaggerations and misrepresentations, which they are, many of us feel that some things are more important than total safety:Live in a cocoon if you wish. https://t.co/8NNiMRy2Ef
Trump: whatever one’s general view of him, he has proven his point. He is 74, overweight, has a poor diet (we are told), has contracted “the virus”, yet has spent only a few days in hospital (and mainly out of his doctors’ caution). His wife, also infected, has just been resting at home.
Conclusion: this is not the plague, most people are not even aware that they have “the virus”; few die from it (in relation to those infected or the population as a whole).
The UK “panicdemic”: the government is simply afraid to tell people “we got it wrong; this is nowhere as bad as we have been saying for 6 months“.
UK finances: now it is becoming clear that either there will be even more public spending cuts, reducing the UK to the backward status of a third-rate power (complete with “diverse” population), or there will have to be steep tax rises for the majority of the population.
A kind of semi-dictatorship, hard to define but somewhere between an oligarchy and what someone wittily termed a “wallygarchy”, is being put into place, not overnight but in Lilliputian steps; many small binding ties. The unnecessary fear the “government of clowns” has injected into the population makes that process much easier…but destroys almost everything else.
Many complain about the Jewish lobby bias on some topics covered in Wikipedia. This is why— Jews recruited to censor articles and distort both current events and history:
Can you edit @Wikipedia pages? We need your help to keep information about #antisemitism accurate and up to date!
Expect Wikipedia to be even more pro-Zionist from now on, its pages on many socio-political topics contaminated and distorted.
Incidentally, do not be misled: the bias goes far beyond “information about #antisemitism“, as claimed. Pages on modern and ancient history, religion, geography, biography, political organizations etc.
Wikipedia should be aware also of the fact that, in the notice above, Jews are specifically asked whether they are able to edit Wikipedia; in other words via their own private Wikipedia accounts. Wikipedia will have no idea whether an edit is honest or whether it is part of this co-ordinated campaign by a very malicious group of Zionist Jews.
Burley on Sky saying poll results show more than half want a stronger lockdown. (The poll results were released about 2hrs after new restrictions were announced.) Probably a Sky poll of a few hundred targeted customers..
Little Matt Hancock tries to joke his way out of one of the many absurdities of what now passes for “policy” under this toytown tyranny of an “elected” dictatorship.
Sunak accused of 'disrespect' after Kate Forbes learns budget scrapped on Twitter. @alisonthewliss adds Sunak's announcement does nothing for 3million people: "freelancers, PAYE, women on maternity have had not one penny piece from this govt for 6 months" https://t.co/6JdB9ufATE
I hope that the poor saps who criticize me occasionally on Twitter are noting how often I have been proven right since I started writing this blog nearly 4 years ago. I was blogging over a year ago, maybe longer, about how almost everyone, misled by the msm, was thinking of Boris Johnson as a strong leader-type, when his whole history shows the reverse, a weak man without ideas, principles or resilience, untrustworthy, incompetent and without leadership qualities.
Yes, now trhat the National Trust has moved into Trotskyism, I am thinking of setting up a body called the Workers' Revolutionary Front whose aim will be to buy up and preserve stately homes, and to offer tea and walnut cake in chintzy cafes to visitors. https://t.co/vLBwIZAufb
Thank you @parkessiddique . Please encourage others. This is time-sensitive, as the major vote on the Coronavirus Act takes place on Wednesday 30th. https://t.co/8MK6sbp5C1
@micolajane50. Why was 'lockdown' a mistake? Because it destroyed the economy, led to many needless deaths, gravely damaged liberty and achieved precisely nothing. More detail available on application. https://t.co/u81ZO5NW1S
Incredible that there are people who apparently need to ask “why was ‘lockdown’ a mistake?“, but there again, if you are fairly comfortably off, do not need (for whatever reason) to work for money, perhaps live in the country or outer suburbs and have little social life, you may not have been affected much if at all by the stupid “lockdown” imposition.
Indeed, you may have enjoyed the sense of peace and quiet as society all but shut down, as Nature reasserted itself. If you are or were in that position, your life was not much strained, assuming that you have at least some income. Deliveries of food and drink, ordered online; other shopping ordered online; books, DVDs etc. For those with higher incomes and better properties, there was always the swimming pool and tennis court in which to while away the days…and so on.
Such people can selfishly (not necessarily consciously selfishly) turn blind eyes to the shutdown of industry and commerce, to the terrible shortages affecting charities such as animal charities, among others, and to the socio-economic disaster created but which has not yet arrived (that will be in 2021-2022). They can also, perhaps, ignore the cost in pain and death of the semi-closure of the NHS, which has affected those with non-Coronavirus conditions.
1/2 Great that Tory MPs are awaking from their six-month slumbers. https://t.co/v0Dg7VvaA6 . But not good enough. Write nwo to your MP briefly, politely, acidly: 'You are not representing me. You are not scrutinising government. You are not earning your large salary'
Well, writing a letter or email may have some limited effect. I can only think of one fairly recent event that got the MPs off their chairs pretty excitedly, but having no wish to be bored by police nuisances at my door (again, it having happened a few times in 2017-2018), I do not think that I shall cite that event here.
Interesting video seen
Memory Lane
I hope that the readers of my blog do not object to the inclusion of some personal reminiscences. Having Saturn in Scorpio, I do tend to think back rather a lot. As the Germans say, “Ruckshau“.
I was just recalling former times, triggered by an email from someone.
Many many years ago, I had a —now-deceased— friend, a lecturer at the language centre of the University of Westminster, who lived in the London Borough of Barnet (I think he was within that borough— North Finchley). A good fellow, a noted translator of Dostoyevsky, called Ig Avsey: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/dec/09/ignat-avsey-obituary
In the late 1980s, I occasionally stayed overnight there (on a very uncomfortable and ancient leather sofa in the drawing room, a cold room decorated with Ig’s collection of massive railway clocks). When Ig remarried in 2000 (a very unsuitable match, to a youngish Russian woman resident in Latvia), the couple came and stayed overnight at the large country house of which my wife and I had a lease, in Cornwall. That was in 2002, I think. Once was enough, to be frank! Sadly, “there’s no fool like an old fool” when it comes to women…
Ig lived in a small close called Wolstonbury, which backed onto a golf course or land near a golf course. A strange menage. For a while, a fellow we both called “Uncle John” lived there too, a former student of Ig’s and an Oxford grad, but middle-aged and, like Ig, divorced. They always reminded me of “The Odd Couple“:
“Uncle John” was a very English person, who was still under the thumb of his ex-wife, Alla Figoff, a Leningrader by origin, and who was in fact another of my occasional teachers (Russian Conversation, I think). Alla lived in their former marital home, an apartment in Devonshire Place (in the West End), while Uncle John was living in one room at Ig’s place…and their two children were both at expensive schools paid for by Uncle John (Marlborough, I think; maybe also Bedales or Benenden, I cannot now remember).
Alla was killed, years later, in a fall from her balcony when she was full of whisky. Uncle John then met and married a very wealthy woman and resumed his place among the palatially-housed.
Ig was a good fellow, whose translations of Dostoyevsky were much-praised (one or two had, amazingly, never been translated previously, such as In the Village of Stepanchikovo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_of_Stepanchikovo).
Ig had been born in Latvia, his family having fled Russia during the Revolution and Civil War of 1917-1922. Fleeing Soviet forces again during the Second World War, he spent time in Germany before ending up in Britain when aged about 14, sometime around 1952.
Ig Avsey was the kind of Russian (or part-Russian: he was always rather secretive about his family) who is able to work at a project devotedly for years, without pay or plaudit; one thinks of Mitrokhin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Mitrokhin.
Ig took a year’s sabbatical in order to translate The Brothers Karamazov for Penguin Classics. A decision which brought honour but was financially pretty disastrous. The year, taken on full pay with the blessing of the University, became a second year in which the University reduced his salary to half-pay, then a third on no pay at all. The money paid by the publishers did not begin to make up the shortfall. Ig was a perfectionist who wanted to get it right. For him, Dostoyevsky was the greatest of the Russian writers, I think. He would not compromise.
At the same time as Ig was translating Karamazov, at least two other translations came out, but they were little more than potboilers, produced carelessly because the market seemed to be hopeful. One even used Americanisms such as “district attorney” and “chief of police”! In pre-revolutionary Russia! In fact, Ig did consult me about a couple of odd things (to do with such designations).
The University eventually had enough of the endless absence and Ig was more or less forced into retirement. I do not think that his Penguin contract was very generous either. He was only getting pennies for each volume sold; how many pennies, I cannot recall.
Society needs people like that.
More tweets seen
A stupid argument, @p___m___b I know as much as Matt Hancock and 'Boris' Johnson do about viruses. Why does *their* lack of specialist nowledge not trouble you, when they have destroyed the economy, whereas mine does, when I seek only to prevent further damage? https://t.co/Kkxo6pvtBT
So the BBC is now trying to make heroes out of the Jew thugs, gangsters and terrorists known as the “62 Group”…
The BBC is infested, contaminated.
#Labour doing what is does best: putting foreign interests before the British people.#KeirStarmer repays the lobby that shoved him to the top of the greasy pole. pic.twitter.com/CllGMs4QE3
Saw Doctor Zhivago for the first time in a few years; on BBC Four, the only good BBC TV station. Still a magnificent film, despite the relatively few flaws which could easily have been remedied by better pre-filming research, e.g. Communists calling non-Communists “Comrade“, which is erroneous (it would have been just by name or via the title “Citizen“).
Dear @HMAMelanieR, not all speech is protected. s127(1) of the UK Communications Act 2003 criminalizes sending by via a public electronic communications network a message that is grossly offensive or is indecent, obscene or menacing.Alison Chabloz was convicted of this in 2018. https://t.co/81k23rtNPk
Indeed. British diplomats are fond of talking about free speech in other countries, while forgetting the constraints that now exist in the UK: Alison Chabloz, persecuted and prosecuted for posting satirical songs about Jews (particularly “holocaust” frauds) online; Jez Turner, imprisoned for making a speech in Whitehall; Ian Millard (me), disbarred at the behest of a pack of Jews for 5 tweets about politicians and events.
One diplomat unlikely to make that mistake is Rowan Laxton [https://www.gov.uk/government/people/rowan-james-laxton–2], who successfully appealed his conviction for shouting about the evils of Jews and Israel. The judge who heard the appeal disbelieved the only prosecution witness, Gideon Falter of the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”]. Falter’s testimony has proven contentious in other cases since then.
Laxton was reinstated at the Foreign Office and is now High Commissioner in Cameroon (though note his postings: Cameroon, Somalia etc, not Moscow, Paris, Washington…).
Why is it that only now is the consensus shifting, so that it is generally obvious that Boris Johnson is simply out of his depth as PM? I have been blogging since I started in 2016 about his unfitness for public office,and was tweeting the same for years before that. Those who had known and/or employed Boris-idiot were saying the same or similar, yet the msm has been promoting Johnson for nearly 20 years. He is of course part-Jew, and pro-Israel. I suppose that the answer lies there.
As Israeli Embassy official Shai Masot said, when being secretly filmed, “Boris is good…he is solid on Israel. He’s an idiot…[…of course, but suits the Israel/Jewish agenda]”:
What a shock. People are reconsidering whether a cup of sugar-loaded weak coffee is really worth several pounds out of what, for many, is a pretty low disposable income.
Britain should have joined with the German Reich to rule most of the world. Second-best option: stay out of the conflicts in Europe and not declare war on Germany (81 years ago, on 3 September 1939). Once that disastrous war had started, it should have been halted by honourable armistice after Dunkirk, in mid-1940.
This is a VERY significant picture: police remove helmets in a show of sympathy for the protest against the WHO #lockdown and the Merkel regime. pic.twitter.com/bqHdFriq5e
Get the picture? Huge amount of recent testing for “Coronavirus”, huge increase in people found to be infected, but virtually no deaths from it, because most people tested have few if any symptoms, and are in no real danger from it. The same is true of anyone they might infect.
Well, @droneelectronic perhaps all those people who like to sing 'Britons never never never shall be slaves' on one night each September might gird their loins a bit, and actually behave as if they meant it. https://t.co/9vOcDuPGAs
1/2 German Railways (Deutsche Bahn) actually researched whether anyone had caught Covid on their extensive network. “We see remarkably few infections in trains. No infections occurred in persons on board with a stay of less than ten hours….
2/2 '… Not a single contact tracing has been identified in Germany and Austria as having been triggered by an infection on the train journey.'Source https://t.co/tVh4xL7XHC
The RRSB (Rail Safety and Standards Board) actually surveyed the Covid risk on trains. They found there was 1-in-11,000 chance of contracting COVID-19 on trains https://t.co/Lvh8WebWzG
This is true. I thought the original Gina Miller case against the government had merit (tho' the prorogation was overblown) but was struck by the rhetoric of many on the left against Johnson. Yet the same quarters are now silent about a far more significant assault on liberty. https://t.co/UJBWJDCfaT
The most invidious fact of all in that regard is that not only does Britain have a government of dictatorial clowns but also an Opposition consisting of those whose policies are in most respects identical. A non-Opposition.
Oh, much, much worse than that. You cease to be free. And the intimidation and control of the population *become* proper police work. https://t.co/EsIjya6l4e
Among other important bits in @TimHarford's excellent Daily Mail article today https://t.co/XJ7LRSP4Oa, is comparison with Fukushima panic in Japan, where people were 'rescued to death in' excessive reraction
Because almost everyone else in the commentary businesses chooses to be wrong. Anyone who wishes can see what is wrong with this Panicdemic, and say so. But they don’t. Jonestown before the Kool-Aid must have been a bit like this. https://t.co/XeEwpPN57M
Something incredible just happened. My doorbell rang and I answered to find an older woman I've never met before. She politely said, "I'm trying to find a place to sleep tonight. My sister used to live here. Can you call her? I might be listed as a missing person."
Click on that to read the whole thread. Not just an amazing story but disturbing. The police, who have recently had so much time to swagger around bullying the public, checking on what people are saying on Twitter and Facebook, simply could not be bothered to make a couple of telephone calls to give a person in need of immediate real help.
Incidentally, I thought (assumed) that the above happened in the UK. Apparently not. Texas. Still noteworthy.
The “holocaust” narrative is the binding thread which has created a false sense of identity and nationhood out of disparate elements.
Prime Minister’s Questions
I heard only the Radio 4 highlights of PMQs. Disastrous for Boris-idiot. Keir Starmer might be in the pocket of the Israel lobby, but in terms of domestic policy he is “mainstream”. For Boris-idiot to accuse a former Director of Public Prosecutions of being a sympathizer or apologist for the IRA (by proxy, because Corbyn was Labour leader for 4 years) is just absurd. Not even Oxford Union level. Eton College debating society, maybe.
Boris Johnson left flailing as his limitations become clear for all to see
Rather than being seen as the man with the winning touch, many Tories are waking up to the fact that the Prime Minister is a liability
Johnson is too far down in the polls to be re-elected. The Tories are beginning to realise that he is bringing them into disrepute – they will be remorseless in showing him the door. He has become a liability to the party. His PMQ's performance was his swan song.THE DirPP an IRA! https://t.co/uuD2ex2Xgr
The problem the British electorate faces at present runs parallel to that pertaining to the USA: a false choice between unworthy candidates.
Having said that, even were Keir Starmer brilliant, he would be no nearer office. On paper, Boris-idiot is there maybe until as late as November 2024.
I predicted after the 2019 General Election that any real or serious opposition to this government would have to come from within the ranks of Conservative MPs themselves, given the 80-seat majority.
I also made the point that there was a false question being asked during the 2019 campaign. Many were writing in the msm, “Boris has the ability to be PM, but does he have the principles?“, to which my answer was “when has Boris proven that he has the ability?“, but answer came there none…
Now the Conservative Party MPs, pro-Conservative newspapers and websites etc are having to wake up to the fact that they have promoted and puffed a total clown as “Prime Minister in Waiting”, in some cases for 20+ years.
Well, they put him there, and there he sits, incapable of doing anything effectively, having shut down the economy and society, listened to idiots like Professor Ferguson (he of the “800,000 Coronavirus deaths” prediction). Soon there will be millions of unemployed wanting solutions.
“Boris” and his record: Economy and society shut down for about 6 months. Ludicrous facemask policy adopted. Absurd local “lockdowns” implemented. Migration invasion worse than ever (over 400 yesterday alone, and that’s only on the beaches; what about all the others?). Unemployment soaring. DWP and HMRC even less efficient. Nothing done to stamp out exploitation by (((predators))) such as Philip Green.
The Chinese characters for “crisis” are said to mean “danger” and “point of change” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_word_for_%22crisis%22]. Appropriate, at this time when the great Chinese nation has emerged to challenge the West for world supremacy.
Was “the virus” a planned release, posed as an “accident”? We may never know for sure. Some may say that such a speculation is a “conspiracy theory”, but if so, it is one supported —or not dismissed at any rate— by some pretty well-informed people.
Sir Richard Dearlove, one-time SIS chief, seems to believe that the virus came from an accident in a named Chinese lab, and was not an accident of and in the natural world and/or a market.
I personally (obviously not an expert in scientific subjects) find it very strange that the outbreak in Wuhan was contained very easily in the end, and there was quite swiftly an end to “lockdowns”, “social distancing” and facemask wearing etc. Only about 3% of the population of Wuhan was infected (some sources say); the official death rate was a tiny fraction of 1%, being around 5,000 people in a city of 11 million (about 1 death for every 2,000 inhabitants); and most parts of China were completely unaffected.
Meanwhile, in Germany, Austria, Italy, fast-spreading outbreaks. Was there a deliberate planting of material there?
Reverting to the main theme, 31 years ago socialism dissolved all over the world. I have blogged about it before. The fact that the Chinese government still pretends to be “Communist” or socialist carries no weight. “Communist” is just the name on the outside of the box.
Neither does the fact that there are a few pitiful failed “socialist” states here and there prove the survival of socialism as a significant ideology rising beyond the level of a small political cult. North Korea, with its bizarre pseudo-socialist “monarchy” (by any other name); Cuba, which without Soviet subsidy has become what one would expect of a Latino dictatorship ruling over an island populated mainly by blacks and those of mixed race. Ramshackle, its roads potholed, its railways scarcely functioning, its capital full of condemned and collapsed buildings.
As I have blogged previously, in the UK whatever existed of socialism or even social-democracy soon dissipated. The Labour Party deleted Clause 4 from its constitution and socialism was dead in Labour as well as everywhere else.
Corbyn’s rise was resistance against the finance-capitalism then riding triumphant despite the 2008 crash. It was, however, unsuccessful. Now we see Labour just a pale copy of Blairism, run by a former prosecuting lawyer who is, like all his Cabinet, completely tied in with the Jewish/Israel lobby.
Social nationalism, in terms of parties and organizations, has rarely been so weak. A consequence of the globalist finance-capital trend since 1989. The BNP started to gain some traction before 2010, but in the end failed, just like Corbynism.
Now we see widespread discontent, but nowhere (in the UK) amounting to even a real hard protest, let alone any kind of “revolution”. Even the recent dictatorial “control” “laws” [invalid, fake, laws] could not raise much of a protest. Maybe 10,000 in Trafalgar Square, listening to speeches.
When the economy really tanks, when neither Government nor (fake) Opposition can offer the then-suffering British people anything, then social-nationalism might have a chance, but only if it has developed by then (meaning 2022) at least the nucleus of a disciplined party organization.
2022 will bring in an era of change across the world. The world between 2022 and 2055 will be as different from the world 1989-2022 as that now is when compared to 1956-1989.
Tweets seen
Exclusive: Civil Servant recruited through Dominic Cummings' "misfits and weirdos" blog was sacked from the Cabinet Office after suggesting police should use 'live rounds' on Black Lives Matter protesters. https://t.co/OrmTcqKbWH
Or to put it another way, “truth not required on voyage”…
This sounds extremely snobbish, I know, but you need a financial barrier to membership. To sift out the Nazis and hardcore communists on the right and left respectively.
“Dr. Tim” (of whom I have blogged in the past: see https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/07/18/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away-ha-ha/) thinks that now-misnamed “Labour” should make it difficult for anyone of modest means to join. He wants Labour Party membership to be restricted to the rather comfortably-off. Says it all about Keir Starmer “Labour” really. No shekels, no membership card?
Actually, I rather like the idea. Destroy Labour and people might start to look for a real alternative to the equally-misnamed “Conservative” Party.
For the last 2 months our mail has not been delivered several days each week by @RoyalMail They found £6 million to pay CEO Rico Back a 'golden hello” plus a 'golden goodbye' when he quit after 2 years. So they could afford extra staff to cover deliveries during staff sickness
Privatisation looting + manual for low-density 'renewables' = powe blackouts. That's what you get for letting ideology & greedy vested interests determine policies on essential utilities.
For the last 30 years our MPs and business leaders have promoted a Britain that is 'open for asset-stripping'. No other country would allow quality businesses to be sold off for short term profit by a wealthy elite. So much for 'taking back control' https://t.co/FPwqOKHJej
#DefundTheBBC "Just do it!" Stop forcing taxpayers to finance an anti-British nest of Marxists and institutionalised child-molesters! pic.twitter.com/NJHhLaCluT
If (which I doubt, frankly) that report is accurate, then at last Boris-idiot will have done something worthwhile. I support public service broadcasting, in principle, but the BBC is not that, not any more, if it ever was (certainly not after some admittedly indeterminate point in the past; maybe 1980 or so). I now hate the BBC despite it still having a few good things showing (mainly on BBC Four).
We see here how swiftly our new order, based on fear as the justification for huge state power, is wiping out centuries of law and liberty. Australia today, Scotland soon, England not long after. https://t.co/i8MB84XDx9
Leave aside the revolting treatment of the woman involved (if you can), what is happening here is the actual suppression of the freedom to protest ( see also the lawless fining of Piers Corbyn without due process) https://t.co/i8MB84XDx9
There's a weird inversion of conventional opinion, by which the arrest of a pregnant woman, in a formerly free country, for calling for a peaceful protest is seen as normal, while those who are opposed to such things are seen as weirdo conspiracists.
Hitchens is right. All across the world, and perhaps especially in those jurisdictions which for long have considered themselves “societies under law”, with civil rights and reasonable freedoms, there has been a stunning abrogation of liberty, moreover an entirely (from the public health point of view) unnecessary abrogation of rights and liberties. Incidentally, if anyone reading this cannot see the difference between “a society under law” and a mere “society that has laws”, all I can do here is request (for your own sake) that you research that difference.
Also, take a look at Twitter. Most of the pseudo-socialists, “antifa” twits, most of the Jewish element, are applauding the dictatorial measures being employed in Australasia (New Zealand is almost as bad as Australia, though less confrontational).
As I have blogged previously, the ideological unsoundness of the self-described “Left” (I myself avoid the “Left”/”Right” meaninglessness) is shown by their wish to be controlled and ordered about by the State. That is why these people have no political traction. They have no real core belief beyond various “anti” positions.
Such laws @oz_uk are of doubtful validity, and ought to be challenged in the courts. But if police powers can be used against peaceful protest today, they can be used to suppress elections tomorrow. A line has been crossed and you don't care. You will care,but too late. https://t.co/6Xx02mmRzp
Note the stated “position” of tweeter “@Oz_UK”: “socialist“…and pro-Corbyn, and his “avatar” is that of a photograph of the girl I call Greta Nut.
People like that do not change the system, let alone lead or take part in revolutions. Their main aim is to see those with whom they think they disagree hurt in some way, by others or by the State apparat. In the old Soviet Union, they were called Homo Sovieticus…[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Sovieticus].
It is very strange and I am trying hard to explain it. I think the western world has been afraid of liberty for some time, lacking any compass with which to navigate it. To a growing number of people, a more parental state is actually desirable. They don't want to be free. https://t.co/8AQT9GNrJc
WEll, @brian_in_dorset, I think we all finally have your measure now – someone who supports the handcuffing of a pregnant woman in front of her children for calling for a peaceful protest. No free country could make or enforce such a law. https://t.co/NVmqehkWbX
Looks like a record day for illegal Channel crossings.
See footage of Dover Harbour rammed full and 28 people landing at Shakespeare Beach. Public anger is growing and rightly so. pic.twitter.com/DouXp1Qzdq
The only word for today is invasion, which I predicted would happen months ago. A record day, perhaps as high as 400. The nation is being humiliated and the government does nothing. pic.twitter.com/YjXlbUCYn1
Confirmed: 409 illegal immigrants landed in Britain today on 27 boats. This will get worse and confidence in the Tories taking back control is collapsing. pic.twitter.com/GrQlO2hdal
I regard Nigel Farage as “controlled opposition”, but I repost his tweets here because his are the best record today of the migration-invasion happening. 400+ in one day!
What use is a Royal Navy, a Royal Air Force, a Border Force that cannot stop this invasion of untermenschen by any and all means? Do you say “because the armed services are there to stop Russian invasion“? If so, you are very foolish.
The Russia of today is not the old Soviet Union, and has no ideology that differs much from that of “the West”, beyond a certain nationalistic outlook. The Russians are far less expansionist than the Americans these days. The USA is the brute force behind the New World Order [NWO] expansion in Eurasia.
Russia has neither the means to invade the UK nor any interest in invading the UK but, speaking frankly, I should prefer a Russian invasion to one by these hordes of (mostly) near-savages. At least I should be able to speak the language!
No Gerard, as you very well know. I just find it interesting that you choose to pick out black and brown skinned migrants, rather than encouraging integration generally regardless of skin colour.
If my white Northern Irish parents worked in Japan and I was born there ,Am I Japanese ? No I'm not I'm an Ulsterman born in Japan . Same goes for minorities here they ain't English Scottish Welsh Northern Irish .
Plus do we want our green and pleasant land covered in housing, schools, new cities, etc., to allow for the extra millions of migrants, legal and illegal? I for one do not. I enjoy our countryside, eating food grown here and these options will be gone.
What hope was there for UKIP, when its own former leaders are unsure whether, had they been born in Japan (eg in transit), or lived there, they would be Japanese? What a bunch of clowns!
Looks as though Batten needs to look at the Nuremberg Laws (the real ones, not the Jew-Zionist “edited highlights”…
UKIP is of course on a very different page vis a vis my own ideological basis. It never was social-national, and was never heavily attacked by the Jew element in the msm, a very bad sign (individual Jews tweeted etc against UKIP, but the core Zionist element was untroubled by it). UKIP was always given Press coverage, TV coverage; Farage the con-man extraordinaire was forever on Newsnight, Question Time, the TV news etc. Permitted opposition. Controlled opposition.
When UKIP was still a functioning party with a real chance of forming a small House of Commons bloc, I tweeted about it quite frequently. I am talking about between 2010-2015. After 2015, I understood that UKIP’s chance had gone (in fact, it peaked around 2014), cheated as it was by the UK’s pseudo-democratic electoral system: 12.6% of the national vote but only a small fraction of 1% of the MPs, in fact only 1 MP out of 650 (and he was a defected Conservative Party MP anyway).
I did blog a little about UKIP in the runup to the 2017 General Election. I knew that it would sink like a stone. The only reason that I now blog about it (for the first time in about a year) is because I saw those absurd Batten tweets. I was not going to blog today, but I can tack this bit about UKIP onto the start of tomorrow’s blog post.
UKIP has almost fallen into obscurity. Its not-bad 2015 General Election percentage (12.6%) fell to 1.8% in 2017, under the dim Paul Nuttall; that was the first decline in national vote-share that UKIP had ever suffered since its foundation. The 2019 General Election result was even worse: under the ludicrous Patricia Mountain, UKIP’s vote fell to 0.1%, i.e. one vote out of every thousand.
How far do such facts take you? I was once a guest at a private tennis club in North London. I had gone out of politeness. Despite having played occasionally since childhood, I still scarcely know the rules or how to play properly; anyone who knows me knows that I am not very sport-oriented. I did once score a direct hit from some distance with a tennis ball, on the bottom of a Ukrainian lady who had stooped to pick up another ball, but that hardly counts!
That London tennis club was rather formal. You had to wear the right clothing etc; it also had a pleasant bar, from which one could watch people playing. I saw a doubles match and, to my untutored eye, they looked not much different from the professionals who play at Wimbledon. Of course they were different, and that is the point. There was a far greater gulf between my inept level of play and the doubles-players than there was between them and the Wimbledon champions.
Champions, or the top people in every category of activity, are ipso facto better than almost all others. However, they may not be much better than a mass, perhaps a vast mass, just below that championship level. It is that tiny amount of edge that makes the difference.
Applying that to races and, yes, in big-picture “scientific” terms the DNA of the Northern European is very very close to other peoples, and even to the most backward peoples. It is that tiny difference that, all the same, matters.
“In your nothing I hope to find my everything“; “In deinem Nichts hoff ‘ ich, das All zu finden“[Goethe, Faust; Faust answering Mephistopheles, who has said that Faust’s belief is nothing].
Well, leaving such observations and reverting to the mundane world of UK politics as it is, and UKIP, I notice that even Wikipedia has found little to say of some of the post-Farage “leaders” of UKIP. In one case, that of someone called Wauchope, apparently (never heard of him), even the year of his birth is uncertain!
UKIP is said still to have 25,000 members, though I doubt that.
I see that one Freddy Vachha is now the “leader” of this embarrassing joke of a party. An Indian accountant. The tide has gone out, leaving some odd bits and pieces on the sand.
I think this was the moment the BBC deserved to lose its licence fee income, a thing I had always resisted before. The harm it has done since March is incalculable. https://t.co/8KMfLTAbgh
I think this was the moment the BBC deserved to lose its licence fee income, a thing I had always resisted before. The harm it has done since March is incalculable. https://t.co/8KMfLTAbgh
I always supported public service broadcasting. Still do, but the BBC is incurable. Defund the BBC and wipe it out.
Numbers of what are beginning to tick up here @brexitfreddy? Deaths peaked on 8th April and have been decreasing ever since. Don’t tell me you are fooled by meaningless ‘cases’ of healthy people who are not ill? What do they teach them in these schools?? https://t.co/K7HfIq9Lel
@janders31262652 I did. As to what others have done, the spirit of independence and the spirit of liberty have been dying for some time in what used to be the west. This may be the end of them. https://t.co/WRmFkicL7k
We read or hear that semi-lunatic “adviser” Dominic Cummings wants Sunak to impose spending cuts. Now that millions more face being dependent on State benefits by next year, that could just be the flame which, applied to the blue touchpaper of the present developing situation, could trigger the social-national revolution.
Finance-capitalism is failing. Old-style Marxist or Marxist-influenced socialism has already comprehensively failed, in the UK and across the world. The people will be ready to clutch at our straw. Not yet. Soon, though.
Britain’s “cuck” police bend down before non-Europeans (again)
On the contrary @philw52534128 I am quite sure they are stupid. I have met many politicoians in my life. Had you done so, you would know that they could not organise a glass of water. https://t.co/nbV64cdI4c
@Charlotte3003G @simondolan@ClarkeMicah Nine out of 10 people in England live in areas that haven't seen a Covid case in a MONTH and fresh lockdown based on 'dodgy data' is not needed, professor sayshttps://t.co/8yMQhTtISF
Proud crank as I am, @TomRidleyUK, I rather thought that it was amateur virologists who had devised the UK's mad national self-harm policy of strangling the economy, shutting the schools and harassing the population with fearmongering propaganda. We cranks were against that . https://t.co/6m2a8s76H3
Regular readers of this blog will recall the encounters I had with a couple of similar brainwashed would-be lecturing idiots a while ago.
If staff in businesses, or anyone else, act like cartoon labour camp overseers or prison guards, then they must expect to be laughed at.
Resist the facemask nonsense! Only wear a facemask if you really have no choice, and if you do wear a mask, make sure that you do so in a manner that makes it clear that you mock the nonsense and the government of clowns. Laugh at those who take it all seriously. Laugh at the rabbits!
The Army, Navy, Marines are all recruiting now on TV. They are finding it hard going to recruit many. I wonder why? Could it be that potential recruits realize that the armed services have become a joke? Also, that they abandon their people once their useful service has ended?
Take a look at Twitter. The Jewish-Zionist cabal on Twitter constantly tweets in favour of the migrant-invaders, “generously” wanting more to invade us. Yes, that Jewish mob on Twitter are all wonderfully generous with other people’s money, State funds etc, wanting the UK to take in anyone who manages to get here, no matter how hostile or useless. The same is true of “refugees welcome” dimwits and hypocrites such as Gary Lineker, Yvette Cooper, Lily Allen and all the other usual suspects.
Batten is too late. Regular readers of my blog will know that I suggested at least a year ago that Harry and the Royal Mulatta should (and would) relocate from the UK to Southern California.
I went on to suggest that they become a “reality TV” sitcom mix, perhaps living a pseudo-“royal” life in a little house; just Harry, the Mulatta, their baby, the dog (if not abandoned) and a butler, a Benson type. “Royal Married with Children“, with the Mulatta running her henpecked “cuck” husband ragged with impossible demands, as she tries to be a contender for political positions.
Sometimes I think that I am a male Cassandra, always predicting accurately, but rarely listened to…
Well, “historian” (TV presenter) Neil Oliver may be belatedly speaking up for some free speech now, but I seem to recall that he tweeted against me years ago when I still had a Twitter account. I have never seen anything from him supporting me, eg when I was disbarred for posting 5 tweets (out of 150,000+) on socio-political matters. I likewise did not see him support Jez Turner (imprisoned for making a speech) or Alison Chabloz (persecuted, prosecuted and convicted for singing satirical songs).
I also recall how biased Oliver was when some matters involving WW2 came up on his TV show, Coast.
Scotland does seem to be even worse on free speech than England. The combined influence of Jew-Zionism, freemasonry, Common Purpose (Police Scotland is riddled with both of the last two) and post-socialist SNP petty authoritarianism.
Ironic. What does Batten think that UKIP were? Quite. Controlled opposition. Just like Brexit Party, Tommy Robinson, Breitbart, “Prison Planet” Watson, Katie Hopkins etc.
Only machineguns can sort out this upsurge of madness in the USA. What it says to me is not “there is disorder now” but “if the US system ever weakens greatly, which is quite possible, there will be civil war“. Those unpleasant scenes may well be just the start.
I noticed in Waitrose that Ben & Jerry’s icecream is not selling, and has been reduced in price as a consequence. Don’t bother to sabotage it. Just boycott it.
Why does @ChtyCommission allow Zionist groups to ‘police’ UK citizens using tactics synonymous with The Cheka police. How long before ‘volunteers’ claim leather coats on expenses? Make no mistake #Chekism is alive and well just watch Joe Glasman’s video. https://t.co/zZvuGe5HWg
Just how did batshit 🤪Gavin Williamson get to be where he is? His story is even more puzzling than we could have ever imagined. Deadhead MPs, An Occasional Series: The Gavin Williamson Story https://t.co/kwWOfvwx83 via @ianrmillard
Hard to know what to think. The Greenland ice cover is vast and deep, certainly, and Wikipedia says that “If the Greenland ice sheet were to melt away completely, the world’s sea level would rise by more than 7 m (23 ft).“
If that were to happen, a scenario that has interested me since the late 1970s (along with the possible melting of polar ice proper, both from Arctic and Antarctic), then most of the major cities of the world would be drowned, situated as most are on or near sea-level.
A rise of 23ft would flood much of London, New York, Tokyo, St. Petersburg, to name only a few of the most obvious.
On the other hand, we know that Greenland has been at times warmer than it now is. The Vikings farmed there; there are remains of farmsteads from quite ancient times, certainly from the first millennium AD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland#History.
Not all of Greenland is ice and snow, however. In that vast land, over nine times the size of the UK, there is farming, in the southern part, by the coast.
I doubt that humanity can do much to change the climate in a significant way, but the issue is naturally one of utmost seriousness.
Less seriously, I just read that “Greenlandic coffee is a “flaming” dessert coffee (set alight before serving) made with coffee, whiskey, Kahlúa, Grand Marnier, and whipped cream. It is stronger than the familiar Irish dessert coffee.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland#Cuisine. After a few of those, the sting of living in Greenland must at least be made less painful!
If you went, as orchestral conductor, or as ordinary tourist, to another country, and then tried to trash the traditional festivals of that country, you would be jeered at and quite possibly attacked or deported. In Britain, all sorts of oddities arrive, aided by traitors in the BBC etc, and want to disrespect us. I know that Rule Britannia is now simply an expression of an Empire that no longer exists, but it does stand for part of the national psyche. The part not yet contaminated. It must not be blotted out by the “woke”, the non-whites, the cosmopolitan Jews etc. As performed at the Proms, it is both emotional and fun. It must remain.
Just one “small” news story, one that did not get much reported in the national Press or on TV news…
We are sad to announce that Birmingham Museums Trust has entered a period of redundancy consultations as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Around half of our staff have been placed at risk of redundancy.
— Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (@BM_AG) July 24, 2020
“Niels de Vos, chair of the trust, said: “Since April a large proportion of our staff have been furloughed and with this scheme coming to an end, we sadly can’t save everyone’s jobs. Only when visitor numbers and spend return to pre-coronavirus levels will our business model break even again.”
Visitor numbers will never return to pre-panic levels while those visitors are forced to wear facemasks. Forget it.
I wonder how many other “small” stories, unreported stories, there are right now, stories about 100, 200 or however many people losing their jobs, unable soon to pay rents, make mortgage payments etc… and mainly because of the present government’s panicked reaction to the “Coronavirus.
10 deaths (from or with “the virus”) out of 65 to 70 MILLION people…
The more testing a country does the more “cases” will be found. It’s all but irrelevant. There is no country I know of where mortality is rising. https://t.co/d6112LxglH
The BBC has just reported that about 16 million people worldwide are thought to have been infected with (almost all not died with) Coronavirus since the scare started. That is about 1 person out of every 500. Not died from or with; been infected with. The death rate overall (which has varied wildly from country to country) seems to be around 2% of those infected. So, on that basis, 1 person out of every 25,000 people in the world has died with (partly from?) “the virus”, so far.
That tweeter, “@CanuckUK”, personifies the mentally unstable type that goes around masked even when the law —supposed “law”; it may not be lawful (valid), in fact— does not require it. I even saw a photo from a few months ago showing some stupid woman wearing full barrier-nursing kit: swathed in plastic from head to foot! What was she doing that required such protection? Working in an intensive care ward? No. Shopping in what looked like Oxford Street!
Boris-idiot and his latest idiocies
Boris-idiot (that clown presently posing as Prime Minister of the UK) has just announced more stupid policies and proposed laws. For one thing, he and his ministers have imposed a quarantine on visitors from Spain (and that includes returning Brit holidaymakers). Result? Apart from misery and inconvenience for those presently there on holiday or booked to go there, the likely collapse of the package holiday and airline industries.
I have to say that I find it odd that anyone actually wants to holiday in Spain at present. The “lockdown” and facemask nonsense has been far stricter in Spain than in the UK (which makes one wonder why Spain has had a “surge” in cases anyway, in view of the months of facemask muzzle-wearing and strict “lockdown”…We are told that such measures prevent such surges…).
I hear that in Spain, at present, a visit to a restaurant means wearing a facemask even at the table unless actually eating! I view the whole idea as somewhere between Monty Python and the Twilight Zone. Suffice to say that I shall not be going to Spain or anywhere else under such conditions. I doubt that I am alone in this. Then quarantine for 2 weeks on return? Forget it.
Who now will book a holiday or trip anywhere? The crowd of clowns posing as a government in the UK (backed by their “experts”— you remember, those medics and scientists who said that 800,000 might die in the UK…) are quite likely, soon, to quarantine arrivals from other countries as well, not just Spain.
About 90,000 people work for UK-based airlines; about 77,000 work for travel agencies, tour companies etc. There are still over 4,000 travel agency shops in the UK.
I wonder what the figures will be in 2021 and 2022?
Reverting to Boris-idiot’s government, little Matt Hancock has announced new health measures in respect of obesity. Certainly a serious issue (in fact, I could stand losing a few stone myself!), but these measures are either underwhelming or silly.
For example, restaurants will be compelled to have the calorie-count of each dish marked on the menu. That might work for businesses where the menus never or hardly ever change, such as fish and chip shops, McDonald’s etc, but in a restaurant with a changing menu, it places a huge burden (and so cost) on the restaurant.
I can see most restaurants closing down: fewer customers, more costs, less profit…Same with pubs.
These measures (laid down by Boris-idiot and his crew) show the clear signs of having come from people who really have little knowledge or understanding of how people think, of how businesses work (and that does include Indian “clever boy” Rishi Sunak), or of how to dig themselves out of the hole into which they have dug the UK.
I always said, from when the “virus” scare started, that there would not be a “V”-shaped recovery, but something like an “L”-shaped non-recovery. The “experts” mostly disagreed (then) but I feel even more certain that the economy is about to tank. The facemask nonsense just adds an extra burden.
More tweets seen
Government uses your money to force you to endorse its destructive,failed, disastrous policy on Covid.The face-mask is the symbol of this whole Canute-like farce. To wear it is like wearing a huge badge saying 'I ❤️ BORIS'. If you want to, OK. But if you don't? Compelled speech. https://t.co/mXISkyhquQ
USA. UK. Two very different countries, but with some similar trends and problems. I have lived in the USA, long ago, and am legally qualified there (Bar of the State of New York), but my main focus is the UK.
Looking at the UK, it is clear that there is really no functioning “democracy” worthy of the name (nor a population capable of sustaining one). All the trends that I see point toward an eventual culture war, which might become a kind of civil war.
Twitter
Seems that most aggressive Jews and their dupes or slaves have decided to boycott Twitter for 48 hours. The air seems fresher already!
Incidentally, I notice that one such boycotter is Layla Moran, the buck-toothed lesbian (she prefers “pansexual”) who is the latest leader of the fading LibDem rump.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layla_Moran.
What makes Layla Moran’s kow-towing noteworthy is that she is half-Palestinian.
[update: same day: a reader of this blog corrects me to say that Layla Moran is not yet LibDem leader. Quite right. My mistake. She is only the candidate most likely to win at present. What does it say about the LibDems, though, that it has taken them 7 or 8 months to elect a leader and yet are still not there? Pathetic rabble.]
The meaning of numbers
We are hearing about upsurges in Coronavirus. These are being used to justify police-state measures in the UK and elsewhere. Strange times. The “upsurge” is entirely (certainly entirely in Europe) because testing is being done now on a fairly wide scale.
Yes, more people are now “officially” infected, simply because more people are being tested. Many show no symptoms; most, in fact, require no treatment; none, or almost none, will die or even become seriously unwell.
The actual number of deaths from (or even with) Coronavirus is dropping not only in the UK but worldwide. In the UK it is now down at or below 10 individuals per day, even on the basis that anyone dying with Coronavirus is deemed to die of Coronavirus.
Despite the above, BBC Today Programme and other shows preferred not to focus on the fact that the death rate is close to zero. Oh no, their choice was to feature some Scottish pilot who was hospitalized while flying for an airline in Vietnam!
The said Scottish pilot was the only patient in Vietnam likely to die of/with Coronavirus. and the Vietnamese were desperate to save him, and did. He was unlucky to have become infected, but the fact is that the unfortunate fellow is a statistical freak. He is now slowly recovering in the UK.
The BBC used the above case to claim (as did the unfortunate pilot) that Coronavirus is a huge threat to everyone, whereas it can be seen that that Scottish pilot was a one in a million or one in a hundred thousand statistical anomaly.
English schools— the Great Replacement
34% of primary school pupils in England are now from an “ethnic minority” (the vast majority non-white). Scroll on 39 years. What then? 50%? More?
This is the “Great Replacement”, or “White Genocide” if you like. Most MPs, msm drones, others too, are evil criminals who have deliberately caused this existential crisis.
Or so England was, before it became a toytown police state…
Sad to read: '“Britons, sing, that all the world shall know we are free!"
Note that part about freedom.We really were brought up to believe we were the freest people on earth.We were proud of that, proud that our police were unarmed & our courts were …'https://t.co/9hnF3UthMr
Are you a govt spokesman @colinhewetson1? 1984 Act was intended to quarantine the sick, not the healthy. It’s been stretched miles beyond its purpose and a decent judiciary would have stopped that by now.We are being ruled by decree. Parliament is in a coma and the courts supine. https://t.co/Tp4aB0wz0S
Correct @lonsdalekeith. I suspect the government cast around for something, anything on which they could base this law. I remember at the time the great difficulty of getting the government to tell me what law its actions were based on. https://t.co/3RFu7Yx3ol
No, it is an escalation. Given the bizarre timing of the introduction of the muzzle edicts, when even official stats show the virus fast diminishing, when can it possibly be withdrawn and under what circs? This is intended for the long term. https://t.co/fTs0iUfl5q
To fan the embers of a cooling burnt-out panic. The social psychologists and other hidden persuaders know how to herd a flock. Brilliant stroke to claim that muzzle-wearing saves lives of others, so making it a communitarian action, and dissenters into cruel inconsiderate people. https://t.co/d8OU3gOozY
For not above the 20th time, an interference with free choice in this scale requires far more persuasive evidence, both of the scale of the alleged danger( vastly overstated) and the effectiveness of the measure ( vastly overstated) https://t.co/IQlhadLs1m
I doubt @louise2097, that they know anything of the kind. Vaccines, especially of this kind, are very hard to develop quickly. Johnson has no idea what he is doing and says whatever comes into his head. By Christmas he will be floundering in the economic crisis. https://t.co/VH9ayB0HSI
Would it be good manners to lie that I supported a government policy that I believe very strongly to be stupid, wrong and designed to spread fear? That is what muzzle-wearing entails..@whiggjohn. https://t.co/BpavGcGPwH
‘Clinical abandonment’ – Care homes were advised by Scotland’s health secretary and chief medical officer not to send residents to hospital if they were ill with coronavirus, documents have revealed.https://t.co/aRmgcRwqjp
— TimesEditorScotland (@magnusllewellin) July 22, 2020
Peter Hitchens is right to keep “banging on” about all of the lies and mistakes around the “Coronavirus” situation in the UK. The virus itself is scarcely even an issue now, in reality, but the repressive measures taken to (supposedly) contain it are being strengthened even as the virus ceases to be present in much of the country; in fact, in many parts of the UK, “Coronavirus” has always been something happening to other people in other places, and read about in newspapers (if anyone still reads them), or seen on the —now terminally-boring— BBC News propaganda.
Thought about the UK and the whole “Western” world today…
“We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.” [G.K. Chesterton]
I have so little confidence in the cultural level of most British people today (I take no direct interest in most of the other rabble tribes that live on these islands) that I suppose that I should link to Wikipedia in case some people have no idea who G.K. Chesterton even was…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton
[G.K. Chesterton]
Some other tweets and news seen today
So, I climbed my 'mountain' yesterday. The Michaelsberg, near Cleebronn, is a very special spot. First a Celt sacred site, then a Roman temple honouring the moon, then an Alemannic church, it finally ended up a Capuchin monastery. pic.twitter.com/TCQUHVcQpf
.@MLewisLawyer confirms he has been asked to represent Panorama's John Ware and others in a possible legal action against @jeremycorbyn following the Labour leader's statement today.
It was obvious from the start that Keir Starmer is totally in the pocket of the Jew/Israel/Zionist lobby. His wife is a Jewish lawyer, and their children are being brought up as Jewish. I understand that they have “buy to let” properties.
Oh, this is Lewis on Twitter, by the way:
[above: some of the abusive tweets that got Lewis into trouble with the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority]
Please refer to the above-designated blog posts to learn more.
More about Labour
Under Keir Starmer, Labour has recovered from the Jew-orchestrated msm anti-Corbyn barrage of last year, which led to Labour’s opinion poll ratings bumping along the bottom, hugely behind the misnamed “Conservatives”. However that may be, Labour is still 5-10 points adrift.
I see little popular enthusiasm for Labour, even as this most incompetent government lurches from lie to stupid policy to muzzling the population to scandal to more lies. Indeed, Starmer has nothing to say except to say that the “Conservatives” should do what they are doing, but harder and better. Underwhelming.
Prospects in UK politics
It is clear that, despite a government so incompetent that even its own party members are disgusted by it, the Boris-idiot/Dominic Cummings regime is here to stay, at least for the next couple of years. The 80-seat Commons majority guarantees that, pretty much.
The Labour Party, like the Conservative Party, is now back under what amounts to Jewish lobby control or strong influence. Labour is now just a rubbish “alternative”. That was in most respects true under Corbyn, but at least Labour was to some extent anti-Zionist.
I think that my assessment of Corbyn, 4 years ago, has been proven correct: yes, anti-Zionist, but still willing to play the Jews’ tune when it comes to the “holocaust” farrago. Weak. Corbyn was also willing to see the UK swamped by the non-white “ethnics”.
Corbyn was at root not sufficiently or properly ideological. His academic record was poor, his work record almost non-existent. Apart from a couple of years bumming around aged about 19, mainly in Jamaica, Cuba and South America, he knows little of the world, as far as can be seen.
Also, Corbyn’s economic and social knowledge is very shallow. One of his ex-wives says that he rarely if ever reads a book. Any book.
Starmer? Well, as noted above, in effect a fully paid-up member of the Friends of Israel cabal, though he seems not to be on their official list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Friends_of_Israel#2016_onwards; probably a freemason too. He is an enemy of the British people from the start.
As it stands, Labour supports almost all the policies of the Boris-idiot government of fools. Hard to think what of substance Labour would change, were it in power, though Starmer is probably a better administrator than Boris-idiot. Well, that after all would scarcely be a difficult challenge!
Boris-idiot has no real ideas beyond schoolboy ones such as bridges across the sea etc. “Boris” has no idea how to administer anything at all, and has never done so. He is basically a part-Jew public entertainer whose jokes are rapidly falling very flat with the public.
The economic hit which is coming, largely because of the “lockdown” and facemask nonsense supported by both Government and Opposition, will strain the rivets of the society and state to the utmost over the next 2+ years. The NWO/ZOG System does not much care, controlling as it does the 2-3 “main parties”. The ZOG idea is “where can they (the voters) go?”
In principle, the answer should be “we need a social-national party”. The problems are that, first, the anti-democratic laws and institutions Blair laid down (Electoral Commission, Equalities Commission etc) make it almost impossible to have a functioning real social-national party.
Beyond that, one has to look at the British people. They are not at present the material from which a real party, such as the NSDAP of the 1920s, could be formed. They are mostly interested in those new opiates of the people, sports and msm “celebrity” nonsense. In some ways, we are in “Weimar”, but in other ways not.
I have, in earlier blog posts, set out my view, that the social-national elements need to concentrate in one area of the country, creating a Schwerpunkt. That may include the creation of a party, whether registered as such or not. A political party, however, cannot be the sole focus.
Alison Chabloz on Bitchute internet radio
An interesting discussion, conducted with Alison Chabloz and others, on one of the few social-national internet platforms of any value:
Some of my blog readers will have read my previous blog posts about the lengthy persecution, by a Jew-Zionist cabal gathered around the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”], of the satirical singer-songwriter, Alison Chabloz.
It now appears that the latest malicious CAA attempt to get Alison sent to prison, this time for “breach of condition” (the condition being part of her 2018 suspended sentence) has failed. I shall be blogging more fully about this victory for Alison. In the meantime, it is now confirmed that the Crown Prosecution Service [CPS] has decided not to offer any evidence against her at the appeal which had been set down for hearing at Derby Crown Court on 10 July 2020. The matter will now be withdrawn from the list. In other words, the CPS has given up, and Alison has won.
“They” will be tearing their hair out! I do not mean the CPS, primarily, but (((them)))…
[above: satirical singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz at the piano]
Robert Jenrick
That little pissant, Robert Jenrick, he of the many houses and the Jewish corporate-lawyer wife, is now in trouble again, having already been caught out in Conservative Party-linked corruption in respect of the Jew billionaire Richard Desmond.
Once again an ultra-weathy Jew, this time with an Israeli passport:
“Labour has called on the beleaguered housing secretary, Robert Jenrick, to explain a ministerial meeting with a “family friend” who had a financial interest in the future of a rival mining project that Jenrick was overseeing.
The Guardian revealed this week that Jenrick met the Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer while the then exchequer secretary to the Treasury was considering a request for financial support from Sirius Minerals for a mining project that would have rivalled Ofer’s own firm Cleveland Potash.”
“Labour has already reported Jenrick to parliament’s watchdog over separate claims about his relationship to the Conservative donor Richard Desmond while serving in his current role as housing secretary. Jenrick appeared to have acted “on direct instruction” from Desmond, Labour said, saving the property and media tycoon tens of millions of pounds on a £1bn property development in east London.” [The Guardian]
“As exchequer secretary, [Jenrick] presided over Sirius Minerals’ application for financial support for at least six months after meeting with Ofer, before handing responsibility for the project to Liz Truss in early 2019.
In March 2019, one of Ofer’s other UK firms, the Mayfair-based Quantum Pacific UK Corporation, donated to the Conservative party for the first and only time, giving the party £10,000 in March 2019.
Ofer has said the request for the donation came at the behest of Conservative Friends of Israel and was not discussed with Jenrick, who is a member of the group.
Six months later, in September 2019, Sirius Minerals revealed that the government had refused to provide financial support, a decision that in effect left the company on the brink of financial collapse.
Sirius was eventually bought out in a cut-price deal by the mining firm Anglo American in January 2020, wiping out the shareholdings of hundreds of small investors. Some lost most of their life savings because of the collapse, which Sirius Minerals said would not have happened if the government had supported the project.” [The Guardian].
So…Jewish financial manipulation, leading to small (non-Jew) shareholders losing their investments and in some cases their life savings. Now where have I heard that before?…
Somewhere like that, I expect…
So Jenrick has a Jewish wife, children he is bringing up as Jewish, and he belongs to both Conservative Friends of Israel and to a Cabinet in which most of if not all of the ministers are Jewish, part-Jew, pro-Israel, members of Conservative Friends of Israel, and/or have worked as bankers in the past. Added to all that, it seems that Jenrick’s “family friends” are all ultra-wealthy Jews as well!
Even Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, itself now under the Jew-Zionist thumb, has started to criticize Jenrick. I suppose that he has gone too far.
After all, the Israelis themselves have, in the recent past, tried both the President of Israel and its Prime Minister for corruption. A race of con-men, to a large extent.
Free speech and freedom of expression
Yesterday, I touched yet again on the important subject of free speech, by which I mean freedom of expression on social, political, religious and historical topics. I noted that Oliver Kamm was a hypocrite and, in my opinion, a liar, in constantly saying that he supports free speech, when he applauded my 2016 disbarment (I was disbarred for having spoken the truth in tweets), and when he thinks that platforms online and offline should be closed to anyone deemed “anti-Semitic”.
Well, here’s another example.
This is important, if you care about free speech. If you accept your view may not be the only view . If you abominate mob rule I urge you to read it.
I refer not to the writer of that article, nor to tweeter “Thane Prince”/”@ThanePrince”, but to one Matthew Scott, a barrister who tweets under the name “@Barristerblog”. This Scott today retweeted the above tweet and article. So far so good. However, when I was disbarred, not only did Scott join in the (mostly Jewish) mob pile-on, attacking me, but went out of his way to insult me when I took up the matter with him on Twitter (I had a Twitter account then; the Jewish cabal on Twitter finally managed to get me expelled in 2018). Scott, among others, was gratuitously rude. Yet here is Scott, just like Kamm, pretending to support free speech. When it suits…
Another bloody hypocrite… It’s pervasive.
Politicized police
More accurately, “socio-politicized police”, who are most at home on “Pride” marches, or bending the knee in sign of fealty (or surrender) to the mob (so long as said mob is black, brown, or multikulti). Oh, but give them a “hate crime” (someone speaking the truth) on Twitter or Facebook, and they are out of their kennels faster than a dog after the hare!
This to me, looks like something the child-catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang would have. Inappropriate. pic.twitter.com/IfBliTZix1
Some of the replies to that tweet are amusing, some despairing…
Some tweets seen today
The classic mistake that boomers make is thinking they've got houses because they worked hard. But millennials know that it doesn't matter how hard they work, THEY ARE NEVER GOING TO BE ABLE TO BUY A HOUSE. pic.twitter.com/RGuMoLUdyR
The above tweet from BBC drone Jeremy Vine is of course correct. There was always the fact that people with family or similar money (provided by gift, loan, or inheritance) had a far easier time buying real property than those without such help. The latter either had to win a large sum, somehow, or have a job or profession in which it was possible to make a fairly large or at least adequate income.
All the same, there were various forms of help in the 1950s through to the 1980s. The first of these was an economy in which almost-full employment was the norm. Until the late 1970s, a base-level job could be had for the asking. Mass immigration was not such a factor, and labour was required.
Few people in the 1960s or 1970s would have believed that, 30, 40, 50 years down the line, anyone wanting a quite standard job such as dustman, worker in a shop, salesman, or even cleaner, would need a “CV”! Few would have believed that a “degree” from a “university” would be so common that it would almost be the default position. Neither would they have believed that almost everyone who took a “degree” would get a “First” or a “2:1” (at Oxford University now, 93%!); nor would they have believed that, as the supply of “graduates” from McUniversities became a flood, that the demand for graduates would become a trickle, relatively; that there would be a bottleneck resulting in low pay, and graduates getting jobs in warehouses and cafes on minimum wage.
Then there were other factors: the MIRAS scheme, which allowed people to deduct mortgage payments from taxable income; the Thatcher “Right to Buy” council house scheme (which in the long run has proven disastrous but at the time created a “feel-good” atmosphere of tenants buying their council houses at a heavy discount, which houses, over time, became valuable assets).
Now we see 2020: for most young people without family money, and that does mean most young people, the idea or dream of being able to buy a house, even with a mortgage, is a non-starter.
The other factor is cost. Britain has invested its money in property rather than whatever else. The semi-detached Victorian villa in Little Venice, London, where I spent many years on and off from 1976 to 1998, and which a friend had bought from her original lessors (the Church Commissioners) for a discounted £66,000 (the full value then, in about 1979, being £100,000), is now valued (looking at similar ones in the same road) at somewhere between £3 million and £4 million!
The exploding price of residential property in the UK over the past decades and especially since about 2000, has made owning even a modest house an impossible dream for many. Especially most of the under-30s. This will have political consequences.
Other tweets seen today
In the last years of the Soviet Union, a huge gulf yawned between the official propaganda line and what normal people believed.#LyingPresspic.twitter.com/jtgMTfgUdx
Typical of the intolerant left. @henryismysqueez Maddie Thornhill, slandered me. I politely rebutted her claims and provided links for further reading. Rather than respond, she immediately blocked me.
Yeah. Obviously, that must be it @MarkKen20510303. Crikey, how can we expect civilisation to endure if this tweet is an indicator of the general level of education and understanding in this country? https://t.co/adoVqdvcfq
Can you actually give *one* attested example of this happening @docmunkeychops? Most transmission to the elderly was brought about by hospitals shoving patients into care homes. https://t.co/HdJy4NrjZA
Sounds familiar @Keith904a . Dentistry is also in ruins, though some opticians provide an excellent outpatient service, and A & E, if you can nerve yourself to visit hospitals supposedly recovering from a major plague, can be surprisingly swift and user-friendly. https://t.co/A89TgRMnIC
I cannot really understand why there is such a fuss about re-opening the schools. I am constantly surprised to find that I have, once again, underestimated the huge ignorance in this country. Most people seem to spend what is now a mandatory 13 years in full-time education, with many then doing another 3 years (4 years in some cases in England and Wales, and I believe usually 4 years in Scotland) without actually knowing very much.
When we see anyone over 18, and under the age of about 30, that person has spent about 13 years in education (with a few vocational exceptions); about half have also done the extra 3-4 years mentioned above; yet the educational level, even of many “university graduates” is low, on average.
This is not a problem confined to the “McUniversities”, the redbricks, or any other tranche. Oxford is just as bad. For example, Louise Mensch, the crazed one-time chicklit scribbler (and, briefly, MP), who was at Oxford, is one of the least informed, least educated of the semi-“celebrity” Twitterati.
[above: one-time Conservative Party MP, Louise Mensch, smoking drugs]
I have often wondered what schools in the UK are for, really. There are years of language teaching, yet few British people speak even a rudimentary version of any foreign language, years of mathematics teaching, yet the level in the population is, at best, basic. As for History, Geography etc, don’t ask…
Are schools valued as a kind of “warehousing”, while the parents are occupied at work? Is that it?
Newspaper quiz
I tried this quiz. Got 7 out of 10, so room for improvement, but I feel a bit better having seen that political commentator John Rentoul only managed 5.
“Nate#protected”/”@NathanJoseph” has obviously not heard the news. Alison Chabloz has —in effect— won her appeal, in that the CPS have thrown in the towel. There will now not even be a hearing. Alison is home free, finally, in relation to the fallout from her 2018 trial. Bitter herbs for some…
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