Militants from the Aidar nationalist battalion (outlawed as a terrorist group in Russia) are trying to abandon their positions in the village of Novoukrainka in the DPR on the border with the Dnepropetrovsk Region, suffering casualties:https://t.co/dc0zDICzeNpic.twitter.com/W3qpk7iD6S
At least 151 people were killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip on May 18, including 70 in the shelling of Gaza City and in the north of the enclave, Qatar’s Al Jazeera reported:https://t.co/Qbb9q7ZNfbpic.twitter.com/zTrb697PpT
Rosaviatsiya is discussing with aviation authorities of many countries the possibility of resuming air traffic, the agency’s head Dmitry Yadrov told reporters:https://t.co/kDKcfI87Y7pic.twitter.com/hoPmoAaqGe
The India deal does nothing for British people. It provides a clear incentive for businesses to import Indian labour at a huge discount with barely any change to our GDP. Meanwhile, this EU deal betrays every brexit pledge the majority of Britons democratically voted for.
Starmer & Liebour have absolutely no intention of stopping the tide of illegal migrants. My question is can the UK patriots of this country police our own shores? Perhaps it’s time to have a citizens defence force to stop the invaders? If we have NGOs like Care4Calais helping…
Exactly. All the UK opinion polls on socio-political subjects are inaccurate for that reason— the views of non-whites/non-Brits are taken into account as if they are the views of “British people”. One reason why the pollsters (and the msm) mostly underestimated the recent election “upsets”.
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That terrible war is now in the past. Let it stay there.
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Last year, Britain handed out 1.1 million visas but only 22% of those went to people applying for workhttps://t.co/zkDotI77Ku
Russian troops liberated two communities in the Sumy Region and the DPR over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Monday:https://t.co/bEJAMPLP7Dpic.twitter.com/O95VWXaViS
So that is (part of) what has been going wrong in the UK…
You know Israel ordered your arrest .. they dictate to the world who get arrested & picked up during travel.. Facebook & google etc have given our biometrics .. they can locate all of us .. Palestinians were the test cases for decades of surveillance.. NOW ITS OUR TURN ‼️
“Britain’s first transgender MP harassed his ex-wife by sending unwanted text messages and voicemails while going through the ’emotional, physical and medical’ effects of transitioning, a court heard today.
Former Conservative MP Katie Wallis, 40, appeared in the dock dressed in a white blouse, pale blue cardigan, grey trousers, black patent leather shoes and silver hoop earrings.
She told the court her legal name was Jamie Wallis but now goes by the name of Katie.”
[Daily Mail]
“His“, but then “she“…even the Daily Mail seems to be confused…
[defendant, former Conservative Party MP Jamie Wallis, aka Katie Wallis]
Ah. I remember that lunatic now, who at the time of previous offences, and while still an MP, was “supported” and applauded by other System MPs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Wallis.
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 19, 2025
China has launched what it claims is the world's largest fleet of fully driverless mining trucks for the first time, with dozens of vehicles equipped with Huawei Technologies' autonomous driving systems pic.twitter.com/A645DqddYS
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 19, 2025
Note that the weapons shown are all equipped with the standard type of magazine, not the “iconic” drum magazines I loved as a child when watching the old 1950s/1960s black & white TV show, The Untouchables. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_submachine_gun.
So up to half a million lost in a year. Even if that figure includes those “merely” injured (many badly and even catastrophically), it is huge. Unsustainable. The Kiev regime cannot sustain such losses, especially combined with the very high rates of avoidance of military service, and desertion.
They accuse you of “misinformation” while always wanting to hide information from you https://t.co/enwfogg4qs
Israeli Jews (but backed by many, and perhaps most, Jews resident in other countries) are committing war crimes up to and including genocide, and have been for years, arguably since their Jewish state was founded in 1948.
— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) May 18, 2025
Russian air defense forces shot down 75 UAVs and seven American-made JDAM smart bombs over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Sunday:https://t.co/j1nnx4cLCApic.twitter.com/5XQ7s3597C
This goes well beyond “a pound of flesh“, with or without blood.
It is certainly arguable (for a number of reasons) that Hamas should not have attacked areas of southern Israel in 2023. However, Israeli retaliation went from being somewhat proportionate, in the first few days after that incursion, to being both disproportionate and then utterly brutal after that.
Later, Israeli-Jewish brutality became really just a kind of State-organized sadism, which then morphed into, effectively, attempted genocide of the entire Palestinian Arab population in Gaza. Daily bombing and machinegunning (etc) of civilians, deliberate withholding of medical aid, destruction of hospitals, an embargo on food, the deliberate starvation of children and others, and the planned deportation or slaughter of the entire population.
Incredibly, the Israelis (and the Jews outside Israel that support Israel, and suborned puppets such as Starmer and other UK political and msm souls-for-hire) are still whining about what Germans and others are supposed to have done to some Jews in Europe and Russia, mainly in the early 1940s, 80-85 years ago.
The Israeli embassy was undoubtedly involved in lobbying for my prosecution for satirical songs.
Of the 3.6 million visas the UK issued in recent years, just 5% went to migrants on the high skilled worker route who are net contributors to the UK economy
— Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) May 17, 2025
…and now the Israeli Jews, apparently backed by most Zionist Jews from other parts of the world, are, literally, deliberately starving to death the Arab Palestinians of Gaza, including the children. The same Jew-Zionists who are always whining about the alleged treatment of their ancestors by Germans (and Poles, and Ukrainians, and French etc) during WW2, a conflict which ended 80 years ago.
…thus proving that 64% of the UK population in 2020 were unthinking, panicked, deliberately-stampeded idiots.
The public are 3x more likely to say they’d think better than worse about the government if they u-turn on winter fuel & twice as likely to say govt would look strong rather than weak. Voters don’t mind occasional u-turn & the cost of a v.unpopular policy which this is, is worse https://t.co/GM2KbR5BnHpic.twitter.com/ZoneMOzXdh
Incidentally, only people whose great-grandparents were born in the UK (or in northern Europe, and to properly-European parents) should be entitled to vote in elections here.
US announces troop withdrawal from Europe after NATO summit
The United States will begin formal consultations with NATO allies on withdrawing its forces from Europe after the NATO summit in The Hague in June, US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker confirmed at a security… pic.twitter.com/aZA0zZIDBz
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 17, 2025
Ostalgie
[East Berlin, 1970s]
As blogged in the past, I found my couple of days in the southern part of the DDR (in 1988) quite interesting.
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Yesterday, we said goodbye to our beloved girl Michelle. Unconditional love is the greatest gift one being can give to another. The pain of losing her is overwhelming, but every moment we shared – was truly worthy. pic.twitter.com/ejzP0tfJ6E
Some things go beyond politics. The bond between human and cat passeth all understanding…
"Were these (YouGov) numbers replicated at a general election they would give Nigel Farage and Reform close to 350 seats and a majority of 40"https://t.co/8zKHpQgReX
This is the largest power plant in Russia and the 12th-largest hydroelectric plant in the world! 📍 Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam pic.twitter.com/dt7Kx56W8l
— Sasha Meets Russia (@sashameetsrus) May 17, 2025
It’s true, my social media channels were never about politics. That’s until I got censored on all of them. Then it became personal, and political. https://t.co/axPVoR8xiz
— Sasha Meets Russia (@sashameetsrus) May 17, 2025
I share a birthday with the Moscow metro, which turns 90 today! Here’s a video from when @TuckerCarlson saw it firsthand. I’m lucky to live in a city with the best metro in the world! pic.twitter.com/IasJjEV3mw
— Sasha Meets Russia (@sashameetsrus) May 15, 2025
Trump: Zelensky has no trump cards against Russia – I will speak with Putin on May 19th
REITERATED THAT THE "PRESIDENT" OF UKRAINE IS CONSIDERED THE "BIGEST TRADER IN THE WORLD"
Fox News said: "I had a very difficult meeting with Zelensky because I didn't like what he said. He… pic.twitter.com/stWi3mzwip
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 17, 2025
Well, only 4/10 this week, though that was still enough to beat political journalist John Rentoul, who scored a mere 2/10. I answered questions 2, 6, 7, and 8 correctly, no. 7 being at best an educated guess. In the back of my mind I also knew the answers to questions 4 and 9, but could not exactly recall the names.
“A nation begins to die the moment it forgets who its enemies are, because identity is shaped not only by what we are, but by what we are willing to reject.
Carl Schmitt, the brilliant German jurist and political theorist, warned that all politics begins with distinction—the drawing of a line between friend and enemy, between those with whom we share fate and those who threaten our survival. To erase that line is not an act of progress or enlightenment, but an act of surrender, the first step in the dissolution of any real order.“
“A light-fingered secretary who funnelled away £53,000 while working for a top legal firm has avoided jail after the judge took pity on her abusive upbringing. Aminata Pungi, 36, a serial shoplifter who told a probation officer she could not remember her previous convictions for theft, received an 18-month suspended sentence at Inner London Crown Court on Thursday (May 8).
Facing a three-year starting point, due to her previous convictions and the cross-border nature of the fraud, defence counsel Sahara Fergus-Simms did enough to convince Mr Recorder Campbell that her client should avoid jail, telling the judge about Ms Pungi’s 18-week pregnancy and her difficult upbringing after fleeing war in her native Democratic Republic of Congo.
Ms Fergus-Simms told the court Ms Pungi was fostered by family in the UK, but allegedly suffered abuse at the hands of her aunt and her partner, who fled the UK before he could face a trial. Describing one particularly disturbing incident, Ms Fergus-Simms said Ms Pungi’s aunt attended her school ‘wielding a knife’ while Ms Pungi was told to hide in a cupboard by her PE teacher.
Ms Fergus-Simms also claimed Ms Pungi’s shoplifting started as a way to feed herself without support from her family, but this became ‘a habit that stuck’.
Sparing her prison, Recorder Campbell said: “The greatest punishment you have is you are unable to pursue your dream career in the law.”
Ms Pungi was sentenced to 18 months in prison, suspended for 18 months, with no compensation order. Prosecutors also declined to pursue the money through the Proceeds of Crime Act, as there was no realistic prospect of the cash being recovered.”
[My London]
My first thought is that the defendant really ought to go out and buy a lottery ticket…
My second thought is that Britain is now largely a dustbin full of trash.
I do have a third point. How could the sentencing judge have imagined that the defendant could have had a career in law, had she not now been convicted (again) ? She had a number of previous convictions, for one thing.
In fact, Goodwin is partly right, but only partly. The answer to his posed question is “No!” or, at best, “50-50“.
The problem is that, while Goodwin notes the dangers to free speech emanating from “woke” or “politically-correct” directions, and also from Muslim/Islamist directions, he (as usual) omits to mention the direction from which the main danger to free speech in the UK comes— Jewish Zionism.
GB News itself is well and truly (((infiltrated))).
A few of my experiences, over more than a decade, of the troublemaking of that evil pack:
Collapsing? It collapsed decades ago, if there ever was a case at all.
— Mr Gently Benevolent 🥳🤠🤡 (@MrBenevolent) May 9, 2025
Robert Fico called his visit to Moscow "extremely successful."
The Slovak Prime Minister believes that Europe needs Russia, and Russia needs Europe. According to him, countries should pursue a policy of cooperation, not hatred and an iron curtain. pic.twitter.com/Trle7UcA9w
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 10, 2025
Ukrainian authorities are not ready to hold talks with Russia on settlement of the conflict, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with ABC News television:https://t.co/AImkxcGxbqpic.twitter.com/XiC3TRyKh8
NEW POST. A political revolution is now underway. A note on the latest bombshell polling from the UK including maps, charts, the latest data and more https://t.co/gnu13GouWK
Going beyond what Goodwin says there, if there were a real unblinking review of the social effects (crime, single mothers, abandoned children, “social parasitism” etc) of having a non-white or mixed-race population (not just recent migrants/invaders) in the UK, the British people would be shocked, not least because it would totally contradict the lying propaganda pumped out in schools, newspapers, radio, TV, and by System drones there and in Parliament etc.
"Our entire post-Brexit economy, in short, is being built around the wrong incentive structure —actively encouraging companies to look past the British people and British workers in favour of cheaper migrant workers from outside Europe."https://t.co/arl0jDoaHl
I believe that he was from a wealthy family based in the New Forest. I read in his book that, either after his return to the UK or just before, his Jewish wife managed to sell his, I think inherited, country house for a very high sum (if memory serves, about £9M), which was a financial lifesaver for him.
Mann made millions from his hazardous activities, and certainly showed grit, especially during his imprisonment in the unpleasant state of Equatorial Guinea. In the end, though, you go out from this world with nothing material, just as you entered it. A fact that Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, the “Russian” and “Ukrainian” Jew oligarchs, and other mega-wealthy, might like to ponder upon.
I read a couple of pieces in the online-only Independent newspaper and its connected Indy100 site. Semi-literate, semi-educated. Examples? In the Independent, in an interview with the ex-MP, Mike Amesbury, Amesbury described the three days he recently spent in prison as “…surreal…like an out-of-body experience“, which the Independent‘s scribbler, one Ellie Crabbe, wrote down as “an outer body experience“. No sub-editor (if they even have any) corrected Ms. Crabbe’s egregious mistake. Appalling ignorance. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/reform-labour-amesbury-runcorn-chancellor-b2745519.html.
Meanwhile, in the Indy100, one Harriet Brewis, described as “ the Chief Reporter at indy100, covering everything from scientific discoveries to online trends. She previously worked on the Evening Standard’s news desk, heading up the coronavirus blog throughout 2020 and writing the website’s leading stories“, writes that a lake in California has returned after long absence, the water having been extracted by “the greed of colonialists“! Ha ha… Is this an English news outlet, or a Cuban one?
The water extraction was in the USA of the late 19thC, as the article does say, so “colonialists” is a bit anachronistic, arguably, and not really accurate anyway, however bad the treatment of the local Indians/Native Americans may have been.
I might add that that report was published somewhere else a year or two ago. I recall reading it, or some version of it.
“Former chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said the Conservatives cannot rule out becoming extinct because of a “massive earthquake” in politics that is seeing the fracturing of the old two-party system.
Senior Conservatives are increasingly alarmed about polls that show support for the party plummeting, while Reform UK is soaring.
Some Conservative party sources said there appeared to be “very little dynamism” within Conservative Campaign Headquarters about trying to turn the party’s electoral fortunes around, while many local activists and some agents have already made the leap to supporting Reform.
On Wednesday morning, a YouGov Westminster voting intention poll put Reform on 29%, Labour on 22%, the Conservatives on 17%, the Liberal Democrats 16%, and the Greens 10% – suggesting the Tories are now flirting with fourth place in popularity.“
[Guardian]
In fact, the Conservative Party may well soon be in fifth place in terms of numbers of Commons seats (after Reform, Labour, LibDems, and the SNP).
“The government’s planned disability benefit cuts will hit 700,000 families who are already in poverty, according to internal Department for Work and Pensions forecasts obtained by the Guardian.
The figures, sourced under the Freedom of Information Act, are in addition to the projected 250,000 people who will be newly driven below the poverty line by the cuts, as set out by the government’s impact assessment in March.
Disability rights campaigners called the new disclosure “truly shocking” and said the changes would push people even further away from having the means to find work.
The DWP estimates that 3.2 million families across Great Britain will lose out under the plans in 2029/2030, about three years after the cuts are due to take effect. Of those, 700,000 will be families already categorised as being in relative poverty, when taking housing costs into account.“
[Guardian]
So that is some of the human and social cost of the policies of Starmer-stein, Rachel Reeves, and Liz Kendall (all members, incidentally, of Labour Friends of Israel). What, however of the political cost to Labour?
We see Labour already languishing in the opinion polls below 25%, in some at only 22%. I have already blogged about the fact that the UK population now has about 20% of its population non-white, and that those voters (those eligible and actually voting) probably now provide the vast bulk of Labour votes.
Since Starmer-stein lied his way to the office of Prime Minister in July 2024, his misgovernment has alienated the “average white families”, those above State Pension age, those approaching State Pension age, almost all British workers at or below average incomes, anyone concerned about the racial and cultural degradation of the country, anyone concerned about developers trashing the green countryside, and anyone at all concerned about the migration-invasion of between half a million and a million immigrants and/or invaders every single year.
Now, in addition to the above, Starmer-stein’s regime is about to hit not only the various types of disabled person, but also their families and others. The biggest hit will come in 2028 and 2029, just when the next general election is probably going to be held.
[“But I voted Labour last time! Never again!“]
The result of all of that is that Labour will quite likely have (a trend forecast on the blog quite a while ago, a few years ago) votes mainly from (some of) the “blacks and browns”, and (some of) the public service workers, including (some of) the NHS workforce. Even the 18-24 demographic generally is turning away from Labour.
The electoral result may be that Labour can only score 22%, maybe only 20%, at the next general election. The Conservative Party, on present showing, may not even achieve that. The LibDems are the default “alternative” or “dustbin party”, so will pick up votes from both, but mainly from disaffected Con voters; perhaps 15% or so overall. Greens and several others will take (combined) about 10%-15% of votes. That leaves maybe 30% of the whole available for Reform.
Nature abhors a vacuum. If Reform gets to 30%, with Con and Lab both in the 20%-25% range, the earthquake will have happened. Reform will be in government with a 30 or even 50-seat majority, Labour may have fewer than 140 MPs, and the Con Party may slump to as few as 25.
Once the main System parties are displaced, the only real alternative to Reform, after 2029, will be real social nationalism.
So less money for the Treasury (which means it will have to be found from elsewhere), and more unwanted immigrants coming to the UK (and don’t believe the nonsense about “short-term working” etc…).
The Starmer-stein and Rachel Reeves fake “Labour” government is a disaster in every way.
Palestinian children being arrested for walking on a Jewish only street in the West Bank. pic.twitter.com/8Tjm8CrFCb
Germany’s spy agency has just walked back on describing the Alternative for Germany as “extremist”. I wrote about how dodgy that decision was here https://t.co/n9g3CNTsl5
Oh yeah. Loads of people try to liken their fellow citizens to extremists on behalf of the state only to trip and fall into a personality transplant a few years later. Happens all the time. We should definitely trust everything he says.
The above nonsense is only part of huge wastage. The “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic “Test and Trace” programme alone was 4x worse. About £38 billion. I favour government spending, in principle, but the devil is in the detail. The kind of idiots who get into System politics in the UK are simply not capable of running anything properly, or of making the right decisions.
They’ve already gone after the elderly, the disabled…. I wonder who’s lives they’ll improve next 🤔
Mason has been examined previously on the blog. A System asset of some kind or other, but one who, for whatever reason, likes to be thought of as radical or even revolutionary. He always supports police-state measures; he did it during the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic, he did so when the BNP was rising up, he even did so when UKIP looked like becoming a major party. He certainly did so in relation to Greece, when the popular Golden Dawn social-national party was repressed by the fake “Left” or “socialist” party, Syriza, when the latter was in power. Syriza quickly sold out to international banking and the EU. The Golden Dawn people, many of them, still sit in prison.
NEW POST. A political revolution is now underway. A note on the latest bombshell polling from the UK including maps, charts, the latest data and more https://t.co/gnu13GouWK
Electoral Calculus suggests that those numbers would result in a Commons in which Reform would have 421 seats out of 650. Labour would have 92, the LibDems 56, the SNP 43, and the Cons only 8. Eight MPs… Surely terminal for the Conservative Party. https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html.
Hundreds of replies to Starmer-stein’s tweet, but few if any positive. He is a disaster. His Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment is a disaster.
Starmer really needs to stop comparing himself favourably to previous prime ministers. Other than the short ClusterTruss interregnum he is so far the worst PM in living memory. He has plenty of time to put that right. But that is where we are 10 months in. https://t.co/deyriS9OLX
Incredibly, even after Sunak, Truss, Johnson, May, and Cameron-Levita, that is true.
Maariv Israeli newspaper: The Houthis' announcement of an air blockade on Israel has dealt a blow to the Israeli tourism industry, which has been struggling to recover since October 2023 pic.twitter.com/gg4WKBaWtR
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 4, 2025
Pakistan faces critical ammunition shortage due to shells supplied to Ukraine "
The Indian Express claims that Islamabad's current stockpile of artillery shells would be enough for four days of a full-scale war, which is linked to secret arms supplies to Ukraine since 2022.… pic.twitter.com/Wo1r7nzlQ2
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 4, 2025
Donald Trump has admitted that Washington may withdraw from the talks on Ukraine if it finds it impossible to strike a deal to resolve the conflict:https://t.co/hZwb0r9rpbpic.twitter.com/OJ9P2daI15
Cut off the supply of arms, ammunition, and money to the Kiev regime. It will then collapse very quickly, within weeks.
Ukrainian troops will provoke the Russian Armed Forces in every possible way to open fire during the ceasefire announced by Vladimir Putin, military expert Vitaly Kiselev told TASS:https://t.co/aq4xnhlqHMpic.twitter.com/KQ7N6xSSyn
On its own, the Kiev regime fails and falls. It needs NATO to come in on its side. Thankfully, that will probably not now happen, thus saving Europe from another historic round of devastation.
Absolutely mad. The people of the EU states will thus become poorer without having achieved anything in return for that sacrifice.
NEW POST. This is much more than "a protest". What the elite class get wrong about the revolt that is now erupting across Englandhttps://t.co/0NcU4bC0Sz
The people of England want to stamp “the old parties” (as Mosley termed them ) into the ground. Conservative Party. Labour Party.
Reform UK is disliked by many, and many (including me) find its policies inadequate, but it is the only game in town right now, and can pave the way for a real social national party later.
Thinking ahead, if/when Reform is in a position of power, perhaps after 2029, and if Reform itself then fails, the moment for social nationalism will have finally arrived.
The ruling class cannot even be bothered to hold a dedicated national statutory inquiry into the mass rape of our own children by Pakistani Muslim gangs
The British state is taking money from British taxpayers to outbid the British people in the housing market and give these homes to illegal migrants who break our laws
It occurs to me that Reform’s success may well accelerate a day of reckoning in the UK. The cynic in me feels the mass immigration that’s happened, has placed a sleeping army throughout the country, it doesn’t need to act yet, but once it’s deemed that the British people are…
[“It occurs to me that Reform’s success may well accelerate a day of reckoning in the UK. The cynic in me feels the mass immigration that’s happened, has placed a sleeping army throughout the country, it doesn’t need to act yet, but once it’s deemed that the British people are finally pushing back, that day of reckoning may well happen because it’s clear now that Reform are a credible force to gain power and that will conflict with everything that’s been planned by those facilitating the immigration.“]
🇵🇸 Look at the tragedy in Gaza! Horrific scale of destruction in the area of the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. Is this what they call "self-defense"? The bombs sent by the United States every year have already shattered the future of the Palestinians. pic.twitter.com/sijANMI7Fe
Facilitated by those, or some of those, who live, and profit, in the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, France and other countries.
I told them we wouldn't leave. You expelled us from our country and took our land and homeland. So he assaulted me." An elderly woman was found by the Israeli occupation forces inside her home in Rafah, south of the #Gaza Strip. She had been under siege for a month and a half.… pic.twitter.com/agNh5jvNnw
Meanwhile, “the usual suspects” wail about supposed defaults or crimes committed (or not committed, or not committed on the scale they claim) in Germany, Poland and elsewhere in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and more than 80 years ago.
Russian forces struck deployment sites of Ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries in 142 areas over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/DaNinr1Jqqpic.twitter.com/i42ZIRibzB
“Macmillan Cancer Support is to scrap its £14m-a-year specialist advice service, which helps tens of thousands of people every year, in what has been described as a betrayal of vulnerable patients.
The cuts were received with shock and anger by welfare advisers, who said the depth and expertise of the service were irreplaceable, while the timing – before the government’s £5bn cuts to disability benefits, which are the single biggest focus of Macmillan-funded welfare support – could not be worse for cancer patients.
“I just don’t understand why they are getting rid of a service that so many thousands of people rely on, while at the same time, hiring senior people on large salaries.
“I get why cuts may have to be made, the climate we are in, but I don’t understand why the welfare advisers are the ones to be cut, why the frontline has to be cut, when there are so many senior people sat in offices discussing strategy and in meetings all day.”
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 5, 2025
Large-scale strikes on targets in Odessa and the surrounding area are carried out by Geran-2 UAVs pic.twitter.com/tz9jTYoFpV
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 5, 2025
The Labour Party has long ceased to be the party of the working class. It is now overwhelmingly the political project of the metropolitan middle classes, especially those in the public sector or with institutions, including the law, charities, quangos, NGOs, that feed off public… https://t.co/lmWqCEeCxe
My monologue on today’s The Times at One with Andrew Neil. More at 1pm tomorrow on @TimesRadio
Eighty years on from the end of the Second World War in Europe and we’re at a watershed in British politics — one of these historic turning points which up-ends politics and radically…
[“My monologue on today’s The Times at One with Andrew Neil. More at 1pm tomorrow on @TimesRadio.
Eighty years on from the end of the Second World War in Europe and we’re at a watershed in British politics — one of these historic turning points which up-ends politics and radically reconfigures the two-party system as we’ve known it.
Two parties have long been the bedrock of British politics. Conservative versus Whig in the early part of the 19th century. Conservative versus Liberal from the mid-1850s onwards. Conservative versus Labour from the 1920s onwards, especially since the end of the war in 1945.
You will have noticed that, as Whig gave way to Liberal and Liberal to Labour, Conservative remained a consistent presence. Which is what makes this latest rearranging of the two-party deck chairs unique — for the first time in 200 years it looks as if the Conservatives are going to be the victims of a radical realignment in British politics.
Of course we’re really talking England here rather than Britain. The two-party system has been dead for decades in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. You could say England is only now catching up with the rest of the country. And transition can be messy.
After last year’s general election and last week’s local elections, England has gone from a largely two-party system to a five-party system. Our first-past-the-post voting system produces a clear winner when only two parties are vying for power. But when our votes are spread generously across five parties, the outcome can be unpredictable and haphazard. Not only will no one party have an overall majority. No party will have anything close to it. So even coalition building becomes problematic. And that carries the risk of becoming ungovernable.
The catalyst in all this, of course, is Nigel Farage’s insurgent Reform party. It takes disillusioned votes from Labour and Conservative alike. After last year’s general election it is second in 89 Labour seats. And after last week’s elections a majority of these Labour seats are now vulnerable. But whereas Reform is on track to beat Labour it is on track to replace the Conservatives, which is why the Conservatives have most to lose. Even traditional Tories now talk privately about the need to have some sort of accommodation with Reform. That could be wishful thinking.
If Reform heads towards around a 30% share of the vote in the polls — it won a bit more than that in actual votes last week — then the Tories will be languishing in the late teens. And far from securing a friendly merger with Reform — would more likely face a hostile takeover.
However the chips eventually fall, the Tory-Labour two-party system would seem to be on its last legs. It’s had a good innings but now looks knackered. Last week showed the Tories have claimed back no ground since their thrashing last July. Indeed they might be losing more. It also confirmed that Labour and its leader Keir Starmer have fallen further and faster in public approval since that landslide victory than any new government in living memory.
The two-party system which gave Labour and Tory alternate turns at power is now widely derided for having delivered a stagnant economy, squeezed living standards, uncontrolled mass migration, broken public services, a remote woke establishment and unbridled net zero zealotry.
Voters might not be sure what they want. But they know what they don’t want, which is more of the same. Which is what propels Reform and the closer it gets to that crucial 30% of the vote the more it will upend politics as we’ve known it. For it’s at around 30% that a ton of seats start falling Reform’s way. Not enough to give it an overall majority. Not enough to give Farage the keys to 10 Downing Street. But enough to be the largest party. Enough to have a veto on who forms a government. Enough to make Farage, always underestimated by the political and media establishment, if not king then the kingmaker.“]
[Andrew Neil]
Late talking point
As Tim Stanley points put in The Telegraph, both parties have decided that the lesson to take from being beaten is to do more of the same. They just refuse to actually listen.
— Martin in Monmouthshire (@MartinMonmouth1) May 5, 2025
1629? I should have thought that 1829 was more accurate. Never mind.
[note: some occasional commentators have noticed that they cannot comment today (so far) on the blog; this must be a technical problem at WordPress which will probably be resolved, eventually]
Morning music
[Thomas Cole, 1833, The Titan’s Goblet]
Good Friday thought
I have no idea whether Keir Starmer-stein has said anything about Easter; I have seen and heard nothing, yet I saw on Twitter/X that he invited a load of Jewish children to Downing Street a week ago in commemoration of the Jewish festival of Passover.
“The world is not without kind people” [Russian proverb].
Sheep biology can be strange. A ewe just coughed and this fell out. He’s so tiny. However, she’s still pregnant with another one that’s not ready to come out yet. This one can’t reach the milk bar but I’ll keep him near her as she’s quite fond. Good chance she’d sit on him! pic.twitter.com/gQBUGTSxB0
"It's hugely exciting. I very much hope that President Trump does come to the UK in September and meets the Royal Family and meets the Prime Minister."
You do not have to be a Labour Party supporter to see that Labour Friends of Israel member Liz Kendall is a disgrace.
[“How is this possible?! I voted Labour in 2024! but I am not going to vote Labour at the Runcorn and Helsby by-election on 1 May 2025, if I live until then!”]
Mass immigration is making us poorer and reducing wages for working people. The expert class, who said it would “lift all boats”, are lying to you. https://t.co/lep3DWHbuS
'Where is it? Where's the growth? Where's the productivity?'@GoodwinMJ challenges Professor of Economics Jonathan Portes on his claim that migration is beneficial for economic growth. pic.twitter.com/7ELQQFkTiJ
Three years ago I would walk across town and see a couple of Africans now and again who have been here for years. Now there are dozens. More each week it seems. Why? Wouldn't they be happier in places like Little Lagos Peckham? Or Bradford or Birmingham? Why are they in small…
Britain has been invaded and is being occupied: “legal” immigrants (supposed spouses, fiancees, students, work-visa holders, then illegal immigrants on “small boats etc”, then births to those non-white women already in the UK, and also to stupid white/British women impregnated by blacks).
Again, Reform in the top two places of an opinion poll. I think that all opinion polls for the past 6-9 months have had Reform either top or second.
The “Conservatives” have no chance after their 14 years of appalling misgovernment 2010-2024, especially now that their idiot MPs and ordinary members have (for the second time) chosen to be led by a non-white, non-British “leader”.
On the Opinium figures, the Commons would have both Reform and Labour on 228 MPs, Cons with 97, and LibDems with 43 (taking LibDems and Green as each having a 10% vote-share). https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html
As with so many other recent polls, a Reform/Con government would be the only possibility, on those numbers, or a minority Reform government.
Very different figures, but same basic story. On those numbers, though, Reform UK would have about 325 MPs, one short of an absolute majority, but enough for a very thin working majority, without the need for support.
On the numbers there, Labour would have 154 MPs, Cons 58, and LibDems 45. If that were to happen, the Conservative Party would be utterly irrelevant, and likely to decline to near-zero over time.
Not sure whether that likely Con terminal decline would be the best result, or whether the best consequence of such an electoral result would be that Labour would have only 154 MPs instead of 403 (as now). A loss of 249 MPs. 249 upset System drones (plus 63 equally-upset Con ex-MPs; wonderful again…).
German courts say: cope. British courts say: coddle.
Germany: ‘You’re young, healthy, and male? You’ll manage.’
The IMF: a surge in immigration LOWERS wages for low-paid workers in Western states. Pay growth for low-skilled native workers slows by 1-point with big immigration, confirming what we showed in the Stackhttps://t.co/YfJLepuIUk
Russian troops liberated the community of Kalinovo in the Donetsk region over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/3eesEPCG7kpic.twitter.com/cCuWDnmp2I
During the fighting in the Kupyansk sector of the frontline, Russian forces have established a foothold near the locality of Figolevka in the Kharkov Region, military expert Andrey Marochko told TASS:https://t.co/RVO6wWAlalpic.twitter.com/zKKdHTTyWy
Twenty-seven children have been dying daily in the Gaza Strip since the start of Israel’s military operation in the enclave in fall 2023, a representative of UNICEF in Palestine reported:https://t.co/TVSsRn7iXepic.twitter.com/djOohFk2xW
EXCLUSIVE. The man who the UK just banned from entering the country —French novelist, philosopher and critic of mass immigration Renaud Camus—will be joining me on State of the Nation @GBNEWS tonight at 8pm to give his reaction. You do not want to miss this.
The even more depressing thing about this is you could make such a list for almost every high street in Britain. Another example of how mass immigration is exploiting and hollowing out our country. https://t.co/gp3kkKyeEM
3. One from left field actually. A bag shop in a premium location staffed by exactly who you’d think it’s staffed by, and the stock hasn’t changed in months. Prob 3k+ in rent and rates, flagrant. Lovely stuff. pic.twitter.com/5TVCbWkGLF
5. This one will be hard to beat. A barber closed down due to lack of business, obviously these gents snapped up the site so 6 of them can sit on the chairs on their phones all day. Terrific pic.twitter.com/eqAbzBFiOS
This was very tough to narrow down to 6 faves as there are plenty of other barbers and vape shops. Honourable mention to this one which sells vapes, phone repairs AND poppers and bongs. Something for everyone. Obviously 2 staff and never seen a customer in it. pic.twitter.com/XJYWpabsRo
Throwing in a few extras to highlight how phenomenal the competition is make the top 6. Some all time great crime, somehow invisible to our council, police and MP. pic.twitter.com/IHAIwva9rC
… or any so-called “democratic” (System) political parties or their “elected” (selected) idiot-drones.
The time will probably come when very harsh measures will have to be implemented.
Look at what’s happening in Runcorn. Nobody voted for this. Nobody wants this. Nobody deserves this. Send Westminster a message on May 1st 🇬🇧👊 pic.twitter.com/PKtGsvvP4n
In a worrying development, the ICJ @CIJ_ICJ has granted an extension to the Israeli regime, delaying the due date for the regime’s response to the genocide case to January 2026, even as the genocide rages on. Israel, which has one of the highest populations of lawyers in the…
If that is representative of the proportional losses of the Ukrainian and Russian forces, then the Kiev-regime is losing perhaps 20 soldiers for every Russian soldier killed.
🇺🇦 The Kiev regime has dismissed the Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Ivan Gavrilyuk, who since May 2024 was in charge of procurement for the Ukrainian forces. pic.twitter.com/Dy89hHaJQg
Did he steal too much even for Zelensky’s cabal to accept?
An American M142 HIMARS multiple rocket launcher, supplied to Ukraine by the US, was reportedly destroyed near Druzhkovka in the Donetsk People's Republic by a Russian Lancet kamikaze drone pic.twitter.com/218fW8ZRlA
Trump, who promised to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours, now says:
"If either side, for whatever reason, makes things difficult, we will just say, 'You're foolish, you're stupid, you're terrible people,' and we will ignore you." pic.twitter.com/hTQmLXlcES
French leftist leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon came to Canada and declared at a rally in Quebec that “the French language, or so-called French, has no future […] without a fundamental human process of creolization” pic.twitter.com/IUyiOkoshV
Trump: US will leave talks if sabotage occurs, military aid to Ukraine suspended "If we see anyone trying to sabotage the negotiating process, the United States will withdraw from the negotiations," Trump stressed. He also announced that the United States would no longer provide… pic.twitter.com/6aziqZoHjv
[“Trump: US will leave talks if sabotage occurs, military aid to Ukraine suspended “If we see anyone trying to sabotage the negotiating process, the United States will withdraw from the negotiations,” Trump stressed. He also announced that the United States would no longer provide military support to Ukraine.”]
Looks as though the matter is moving towards the endgame, at least as far as American aid to the Kiev regime is concerned.
“Ukraine will suffer heavy losses this summer.” – American journalist David Ignatius.
“Trump, Rubio and their team seem to be preparing to step back from this issue and leave it to the Europeans.” pic.twitter.com/PKNQmXfnzY
Russian servicemen, preventing the Ukrainian armed forces from regaining the positions lost earlier, are successfully advancing on a great section of the front in the Kupyansk direction, military expert Marochko told TASS:https://t.co/nwmqyWNvwVpic.twitter.com/8TZK0c0u19
Morgan Ortagus, the US envoy to Lebanon, concealed her Star of David necklace during her meeting with Nabih Berri, the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament and head of the Shiite Amal Movement, Hezbollah's representative in negotiations and foreign affairs. pic.twitter.com/US2gjLaNaq
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 5, 2025
Labour MP Dan Norris arrested over rape and child abuse allegations
Party suspends North East Somerset MP after he is taken into custody following police raid on his constituency homehttps://t.co/Oh8kJ7fEkS
— Land of Saints & Sinners (@Landsinners) April 6, 2025
Labour Friends of Israel member. A Starmer-stein favourite.
…and the Runcorn and Helsby by-election only 24 days away…
You do know a Labour MP was just arrested on child sex charges don’t you? How many Labour MPs and councillors arrested so far in the last 12 months?
6! 4 of which are paedophiles.
Labour MPs:
1.Dan Norris: On April 5, 2025, Dan Norris, the Labour MP for North East Somerset and…
[“You do know a Labour MP was just arrested on child sex charges don’t you? How many Labour MPs and councillors arrested so far in the last 12 months? 6! 4 of which are paedophiles. Labour MPs: 1.Dan Norris: On April 5, 2025, Dan Norris, the Labour MP for North East Somerset and Hanham, was arrested on suspicion of rape, child sexual offences, child abduction, and misconduct in public office. The allegations pertain to incidents from the 2000s and a rape allegation from the 2020s. Norris has been released on conditional bail while the investigation continues, and the Labour Party has suspended him, removing the party whip. 2.Mike Amesbury: In February 2025, Mike Amesbury, the MP for Runcorn and Helsby, was jailed for 10 weeks after pleading guilty to assault by beating. The incident occurred in October 2024, and Amesbury was suspended by the Labour Party following his arrest. Labour Councillors: 1.Lee Laudat-Scott: In July 2024, Lee Laudat-Scott, a councillor in Hackney, resigned after being charged with sexually assaulting a child under 13. His arrest marked the second paedophile scandal in Hackney Council within a year. 2.Ricky Jones: In August 2024, Ricky Jones, a councillor in Dartford, was arrested and subsequently charged with encouraging violent disorder. This followed a speech he made at a counter-protest in Walthamstow, where he allegedly called for violence against far-right protesters. The Labour Party suspended him pending the outcome of legal proceedings. 3.David Graham: In early 2024, David Graham, a senior Labour councillor in Fife, Scotland, was arrested and charged with alleged child grooming offences. Following his arrest, the Labour Party suspended him, and he was due to appear in court at a later date. 4.Desmond Gibbons: In late 2024, Desmond Gibbons, a former Labour councillor on Gedling Borough Council, was sentenced to 21 months in prison after being found with over 600 indecent images of children, some as young as three years old. Gibbons had resigned from the Labour Party and his council position prior to his sentencing.“]
“Hyper-globalisation was economic & cultural. Economically, it ripped nations open to a rigged system that offshored jobs, wages, factories to service China; culturally, it ripped them open to mass immigration to service big business. Both smashed the working class in the West” https://t.co/jTHP0gCSaj
Can it be that ridiculous and unpleasant little pissant Darren Jones thinks that the NHS is somehow an economic contributor to the UK economy, when it is really something (albeit necessary, so be it) taking out resources overall? Worrying that the Chief Secretary to the Treasury seems to have no grasp of basic economics.
Having clearly lied initially and claimed it was justified in doing so. An appalling crime. https://t.co/3V9RlNg6cu
'We need to wake up. Civil wars aren't something that are just assigned to history or to crackpot African nations. It could happen here. And unless we deal with the underlying causes, it will happen here!' — @WillKingston sounds the alarm over the UK edging towards civil conflict pic.twitter.com/cNbmNwMfNY
The most ancient countries in the world by date of the emergence of civilization. pic.twitter.com/qoQbtxusHS
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 6, 2025
Interesting, but I am more interested in both the present main culture, i.e. our own, the “Germanic-Anglo-Saxon-American” (as Rudolf Steiner put it), and the next main culture (which still lies fifteen hundred years in the future), the Russian/Slavonic.
At present, the Russian culture is almost entirely a borrowing from older cultures, mainly the Graeco-Roman culture and our present “Western” culture, just as Northern Europe only had “borrowed” Graeco-Roman culture until around 1400 AD (or “CE”) and the eruption of the Renaissance, which was essentially a brief recapitulation of the Graeco-Roman age.
There are, as yet, only indications, seen here and there, of that future Russian culture.
Breaking the ice: Russia's nuclear fleet has no competition
▪️This week, the fourth nuclear-powered icebreaker of Project 22220, Yakutia, completed sea trials and departed for operations along the Northern Sea Route. pic.twitter.com/z5VnaLlYDo
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 6, 2025
‘Why should British hospitals, and British patients, be forced into humiliating corridor care in hospitals overrun with rats, cockroaches, and sewage leaks?’
Were there more limited foreign aid being sent, were vast sums not being wasted on the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev, were there no migration invasion, were there few non-whites living here, and were the UK a fundamentally white European ethnostate, this country would be hugely better off in every way; not only economically but also socially and culturally.
Has anyone other than latterday slave traders benefitted from mass imigration?
— Steve – Back in Watford. (@SteveInWatford) April 6, 2025
Labour’s economic lunacy hits even the TUC. They’re cutting 40 out of 100 full time staff. “Who knew that championing workers’ rights meant trimming your own?” The TUC insists it’s part of a “recovery and growth” plan – Guido Fawkes https://t.co/PviWDMSPoD
The trade unions stopped standing up for British workers about 50 years ago, certainly 35 years ago. The unions moved to being just another load of “anti-racism” “anti-sexism” pro-immigration and pro-LGBTXYZ drones. As for supporting higher pay and better working conditions, forget it. The unions long ago stopped seriously pushing for those, and had no power to do so anyway. A waste of space.
Native British Snakeshead Fritillary. Getting increasingly rare, mostly a Southerner. I have one clump and it grows a bit every year. 😊🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/KAHpf1D987
Pickle, Jonny, Rupert and Wizard were born at the sanctuary following one of our largest and most shocking rescues in 2021. 😞
After receiving expert care, the quartet are now beginning an exciting next chapter several years later as part of our Donkey Assisted Activities herd. pic.twitter.com/Mu4b0LOndb
— The Donkey Sanctuary (@DonkeySanctuary) April 6, 2025
Late music
[a painting by someone I knew as a small child, who was the same age as me, who was also a neighbour and, much later, an eminent psychiatrist, but who died in his fifties]
This week, another victory over political journalist John Rentoul. He scored 2/10, but I trumped that with 4/10. I knew the answers to questions 4, 5, 8, and 10. In the back of my mind, I might have got a few more, but there it is.
"It's going to backfire because across the Western world, the elite class today namely, the ruling class that dominates the institutions that is trying to impose a political project which really only represents 10-15% of Western populations"https://t.co/bOzkd81OUr
"Since Keir Starmer and Labour came to power last July, nearly 30,000 illegal migrants have arrived on some 542 small boats.
That’s an average of 780 migrants every week under Keir Starmer, compared to 570 under Rishi Sunak and 400 under Boris Johnson."https://t.co/RMvY4Onmhx
Not forgetting that “legal” immigration is about 20x those figures anyway.
On the left is Lucy Connolly, a mother who wrote an offensive social media post she later deleted. For this crime she was given 2 years and 7 months in prison.
On the right is Mohammed Abbkr, he sprayed petrol on 2 people and set them on fire, his punishment? A hospital order… pic.twitter.com/cEImjm2LbC
🚨 BRITAIN JUST JAILED A WOMAN FOR A TWEET 🚨 31 MONTHS. For words online. Lucy Connolly — sentenced to nearly 3 years in prison Not for violence. Not for theft. But for a social media post deemed offensive.
📢 This isn’t justice. It’s ideological punishment.
[“In a country where repeat criminals walk free… Where grooming gangs evade charges… One woman is thrown behind bars for speech. “Her injustice shames Britain.” — The Telegraph
This isn’t about protecting society. It’s about silencing dissent and enforcing obedience. If a tweet can cost you your freedom, You don’t live in a democracy — you live under tyranny. https://telegraph.co.uk/gift/0cc779aa15c20c03“]
Lucy Connolly is a political prisoner. Not in Russia. Here in the UK. Denied bail, given a horribly harsh sentence for a tweet, prison governors now deny Lucy her right to prison leave. Free Lucy! 💔 https://t.co/jYXCJ4Y9Go
Of course, Allison Pearson might be listened to more if she ditched her apparent support for the evil and malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (“CAA”), a volunteer arm of the Israeli Embassy, in effect, and which is the worst anti-free-speech org in the country (see my own experiences, detailed above).
Lucy Connolly's appeal isn't until the 15th of May, 10 months after her tweet, remind me how quickly the former Labour MP @MikeAmesburyMP , who beat the shit out of a constituent and was only jailed for 10 weeks, took to get an appeal.
That brought to mind another Lucy— Lucy Letby. I have never claimed that Lucy Letby is either innocent or guilty of the crimes wherewith she was charged. I do not know, and have not much followed the case in any detail.
However, I did say on the blog, after she was convicted, that she seemed (from what little I had read in the msm) to have been found guilty on the basis of rather loose circumstantial evidence (which is not necessarily wrong, if that evidence is or was sufficiently probative).
Now I note that some fairly weighty opinions are saying that Lucy Letby might seriously be not only victim of a miscarriage of justice but actually innocent. I neither agree nor disagree. I have not looked at the matter in anything like enough detail. However, there lurks a feeling that, maybe, she is in prison without having actually done the crime(s).
The underlying reality is that the NHS is now largely a skeleton service, and those always loudly supporting it on ideological grounds, no matter what it does wrong, or fails to do right, are not serving either the NHS or the British public.
In any case, there is really very little difference between what Starmer-stein, Rachel Reeves, Liz Kendall etc are doing and what the “Conservative” governments since 2010 did.
Yet another (ex-) MP who has never had a non-political job. A System drone.
Trade and economic relations between Russia and the United States are currently virtually nonexistent, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in response to a question from TASS at a briefing:https://t.co/xP3uUpBsJHpic.twitter.com/9qZ1XhYCGD
So Russia is immune from both tariffs and (U.S.) sanctions…
Ukrainian forces lost up to 430 personnel in the Battlegroup Center’s responsibility area in a day, the group's press center chief, Alexander Savchuk, told reporters:https://t.co/YTCSdRdLulpic.twitter.com/ASXKVh00La
Israel is at its current form a terrorist state. The IDF is a terrorist organization. pic.twitter.com/UVEusA6bOh
— Melanie Schweizer 🇩🇪 (@Melaniebelizi) April 5, 2025
The Jew-Zionist organizations in the UK are supporters of Israeli policy, Israeli terrorism and Israeli war crimes.
[Rafah, Gaza, before and after the Israeli Jews repeatedly attacked it; an Israeli war crime, Biblical in its scale]
Markets tank for a second straight day and even some allies of the president are expressing concerns, and hearing from voters. pic.twitter.com/C9VdCxV3o5
For the first time, I can see (as serious likelihood rather than a mere possibility) a socio-political war breaking out in the USA somewhere not far down the line.
“She lived 3,500 years ago – but facial reconstruction technology has brought a woman from late bronze age Mycenae back to life.
[“The digital reconstruction of a bronze age Mycenae woman. Photograph: Juanjo Ortega G.”]
The woman was in her mid-30s when she was buried in a royal cemetery between the 16th and 17th centuries BC. The site was uncovered in the 1950s on the Greek mainland at Mycenae, the legendary seat of Homer’s King Agamemnon.
Dr Emily Hauser, the historian who commissioned the digital reconstruction, told the Observer: “She’s incredibly modern. She took my breath away.
“For the first time, we are looking into the face of a woman from a kingdom associated with Helen of Troy – Helen’s sister, Clytemnestra, was queen of Mycenae in legend – and from where the poet Homer imagined the Greeks of the Trojan war setting out. Such digital reconstructions persuade us that these were real people.”
[13th-century BC fresco from Mycenae. Photograph: Peter Eastland/Alamy]
Hauser, a senior lecturer in classics and ancient history at the University of Exeter, said: “It is incredibly exciting to think that, for the first time since she was laid beneath the ground over 3,500 years ago, we are able to gaze into the actual face of a bronze age royal woman – and it truly is a face to launch a thousand ships.
“This woman died around the beginning of the late bronze age, several hundred years before the supposed date of the Trojan war.”
A digital artist, Juanjo Ortega G, has developed the lifelike face from a clay reconstruction of the same woman that was made in the 1980s by Manchester University, pioneers of one of the major methods in facial reconstruction.“
[The Guardian]
…and, surprise surprise, she was not black, not even brown…
Remember the “woke” fakery around “Cheddar Man” a decade ago, and the (later disproven) claim that he was (and so ancient Britons generally were) of “black” race? Or the assertions by Mary Beard and others that some of the Roman soldiers in Britain were “black”?
At least no-one has tried to impose more such ideologically-driven fakery on this new material.
European cultures, and civilization— the product of the white man (and woman).
“A man who gouged out an 87-year-old pensioner’s eye and beat him to death with his own walking stick has been locked up indefinitely.
Sekai Miles, 23, subjected Bernard Fowler to a “brutal” random attack outside Harold Wood station in east London early on February 27 last year.
Having targeted his eyes, Miles also hit Mr Fowler over the head 19 times with his walking stick and stamped on his head eight times, the Old Bailey heard on Friday.
Retired mechanic Mr Fowler had gone to the station that day to pick up free newspapers for the community.”
[defendant]
Wall. Squad. End.
Do you imagine that untermenschen of that type can create, or even maintain, a civilized society? No. They cannot even live in one.
More tweets seen
A fencer’s brave protest against men in women’s sports has gone viral. Stephanie Turner refused to face a male opponent who had fought in both men and women’s tournaments simultaneously. ‘Trans inclusion’ makes a mockery of fairness, says Jo Bartosch https://t.co/cyj2YkQ8aD
“Norris has a particular interest in child safety and regularly campaigns against child sexual abuse,[11] having co-written a free booklet on its prevention.“
"Long live Palestine, long live Azzam , long live Yemen, long live Puerto Rico "
A Mexican activist used a hammer to smash a wax statue of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a wax museum in Mexico City after dousing it with red paint. pic.twitter.com/uVpom3XFRF
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 4, 2025
Construction of the world's tallest bridge is nearing completion in China.
It passes through the Huajiang Grand Canyon and will soon reduce the time it takes to cross the gorge from 70 minutes to 1 minute; opening is scheduled for June 2025.
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 5, 2025
Good grief. There is much to dislike about China, in particular its disregard for animal welfare, but one cannot ignore its achievements, especially in engineering.
CDU/CSU rating falls to 24% (-2), while AfD rating rises to 24% (+1) – for the first time in history, these leading parties are on par, BILD laments pic.twitter.com/o8a7YT0e7P
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 5, 2025
As a result, System parties in Germany want to ban the AfD. Germany is a fake democracy at best.
Starmer-stein and the Labour (Friends of Israel) misgovernment
So Starmer, with a potentially disastrous by-election (Runcorn and Helsby, 1 May 2025) coming down the track, is suddenly making meaningless “tough” noises about immigration gangs etc.
One thing is sure: the migration-invasion will not be stopped by such measures, even if implemented.
As far as Starmer is concerned, both as “world leader” or “statesman” (in his own little mind), he has, so far, managed to alienate both Russia and the USA, as well as 90% or more of the British people.
Marine le Pen and French “democracy”
We are not from the same political camp as Marine Le Pen @MLP_officiel, but we nevertheless strongly oppose weaponizing judiciary against political rivals. This not only casts a bad light on the rule of law, but directly undermines the very essence of democracy. It started in… https://t.co/MuCx5eP5mh
Macron is widely despised. This judicial outrage is nakedly political, and has the aim of preventing Marine le Pen from standing as a (probably successful) Presidential candidate in 2027, and is aimed, beyond that, at keeping France under NWO/ZOG control.
The French people have overthrown tyrants in the past. Perhaps the time has come for a new French Revolution.
Remove Macron. He does not represent France but only NWO/ZOG.
Incidentally, I assessed Macron on the blog six years ago:
You are gaslighting the British people. Most of these are returning voluntarily while you’re approving most asylum claims from illegal migrants in Britain, encouraging more to come, which is why the small boats this year are up 40% on last year. You’re not securing anything. https://t.co/ghw7o2YaZb
Very true, Goodwin, but one-sided. Ask the Jews in the UK, too.
The public services are, er, meant to serve the public but the public increasingly get second class service from far too many teachers, doctors and police officers who enjoy levels of job security that people in the private sector can only dream of. I see this latest example of… https://t.co/fiztWVllIu
Over the past day, Russia’s Battlegroup West shot down 17 fixed-wing Ukrainian drones and destroyed 23 drone control centers, the spokesman for the battlegroup, Ivan Bigma, told reporters:https://t.co/tx6HAAsVqEpic.twitter.com/cpmz9CipiJ
Russia is saying a resolute no to the idea of sending peacekeepers to Ukraine by countries which have been supplying Kiev with weapons, Kirill Logvinov, director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Department of International Organizations:https://t.co/W5B0rL735mpic.twitter.com/DhQueyWXdB
The reference is to members or supporters of the malicious Jew-Zionist pro-Israel org known as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, effectively a volunteer arm of the Israeli Embassy in London, which org has managed to influence or suborn the police and CPS (in some cases).
“Study the polls and see why Farage and Reform genuinely have a chance to govern.
Public put the Reform leader top in ‘best PM’ poll
Nothing is sticking. New polling for The Telegraph by Ipsos reveals that when asked who would do a “good job as prime minister”, Farage comes out on top on 28 per cent. Keir Starmer is one per cent behind, and Ed Davey two per cent. Badenoch is languishing at 18 per cent, her step-by-step approach to formulating a new set of Tory policies failing to register with voters who are still not listening to the “natural party of government”.
I went through the Ipsos numbers with Ben Butcher, our data editor, who identified just why Labour and the Conservatives should be worried.
“Labour is widely seen to be the party of the elite, with Reform trouncing Starmer with the C2DE and lower-paid respondents,” Butcher told me. The “red wall” is there for Reform’s taking, with the party polling well ahead of Labour amongst non-graduates.
“Ain’t nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos,” said the American politician, Jim Hightower. As Davey attacks from the soft centre, Reform outflanks the Tories from the other side. The Conservative leader is on a perilous downslope, her skis pulling in different directions. Farage beats Badenoch with older voters, the working-class and lower paid people on the question of who would do a good job as Prime Minister.
“Let’s fix broken Britain,” Farage told 10,000 people in Birmingham. “I’m not mucking about.” The old parties that once commanded the comfortable heights of majority support are very clear that he is not.“
— The Real Slim Skagmacker 🇺🇸🦅 (@CattardSlim) March 31, 2025
In 2020, lawyer Gloria Allred sent a school bus driven back-and-forth in front of Buckingham Palace with Prince Andrew’s pic and banner: "If you see this man, please ask him to call the FBI…" Years later, his accuser Virginia Giuffre gets struck by a school bus – on a Sunday?🚌 https://t.co/ughqmcblfnpic.twitter.com/pzwkMGWlcn
This was clearly written by the state or encouraged by it. I’d be embarrassed if I had my name on this. It makes absolutely no reference to the evidence on what Brits think or the costs. It’s an effort at public opinion management. https://t.co/qlFTv0Q5pT
The French people should rise up and take power directly. Action directe.
This will backfire —massively
Across the Western world the elite class is doing all it can to shut down any opposition to its programme
From chasing Trump through the courts to very nearly forcing the British people to have a second referendum on Brexit, from blocking the… pic.twitter.com/wNjMn5mrKy
We are in the worst cost-of-living crisis since the Second World War. Public services are collapsing. Our borders are a joke. The British people are furious. And this is how the Liberal Democrat’s launch their election campaign. This is not a serious party. It is a joke party.… pic.twitter.com/PnKhe1wcus
Goodwin is right. The LibDems are a party for people who do not really want a serious political alternative, who do not really suffer. An easy, meaningless “alternative”.
Head of the National Rally’s parliamentary faction Marine Le Pen has been sentenced to four years in prison and the immediate loss of her electoral rights for five years, according to the ruling of a Paris court in the parliamentary assistants case:https://t.co/sU4G705AyVpic.twitter.com/mKFxDShL6o
The “electoral road” has been closed off. Fake “democracy”. Do what has to be done.
Russian forces struck a Ukrainian military airfield, UAV assembly workshops and ammunition depots over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/CppSfJkH8epic.twitter.com/AGCOwOSZWz
Ian Robert Millard 