[the main defendant, an Indian who was sitting as a magistrate in the London area]
“A London magistrate who helped run a drug supply operation involving heroin and crack cocaine across the capital has been jailed.
Purshotam Dhillon, 59, offered an “air of respectability” when he allowed gang boss Hardeep Thind to use his home in Hounslow, west London, as a base of operations. Dhillon stored drugs and cash at the property.
The magistrate sat at courts in Ealing, Feltham, and Uxbridge. Dhillon helped Thind keep up his “Hadi” drugs line, which sold heroin and crack cocaine, while the gang boss was in prison.
On Thursday, Dhillon, Thind, of Southall, and two co-defendants, Bikramjit Brar, 46, from Hayes, and Leandrea Lynch, 49, also from Hayes, were all sentenced for their parts in the drug supply operation.
Dhillon was sentenced to seven years in prison, Thind – who went by the name Harry Singh – was handed a 12-year sentence and Brar was jailed for three years and four months. Lynch was given a two-and-a-half-year suspended sentence.”]
[Daily Mirror]
Only white English/British persons should sit as judges or magistrates (etc); and only white English/British persons should be allowed to be barristers and solicitors. Anything else simply corrupts and rots the legal professions, and the legal system as a whole. That applies to any Muslim or Jewish individuals, as well as various “blacks and browns” (etc).
That may seem “extreme”, in these days of enforced “diversity” but —believe me— I have seen the very bad consequences of so-called “diversity” in plenitude in the past, when I myself was a practising barrister in chambers in London and then, some years later, based in Exeter though travelling all over England and beyond (1992-1996 in London and 2002-2008 at Exeter).
Maybe they should put them in the hotels and give them free meals throughout the day, help them get jobs and eventually house them…. Oh wait.. never mind… we don’t look after our own in this country.
Why are there homeless people on an island practicing mass migration cultism? They can put thousands of incels from red flag countries in British towns but no homeless people?
The repeal of the Vagrancy Act 1824 looks, at first blush, “kind” etc, but one has also to think about what our towns and cities will look like in 5, 10, 20 years…
Even now, rough sleeping is littering some cities. Nearly 3 years ago, in the aftermath of my free speech trial (November 2023), I had a morning appointment in Southampton with a fairly pleasant woman from the probation organization. I drove in (a 40-minute drive) early so as to avoid traffic and parking problems. I was there before 0800 hrs for an appointment scheduled for, I think, 0930.
To kill time, I decided to get a coffee at a nearby branch of some coffee chain, Starbucks, I think. Bloody awful. Loud horrible “music”, robotic and seemingly braindead teenage staff, you had to line up to get your coffee (no table service), and the coffee was pretty poor for the money.
Outside, a number of persons on the pavement in sleeping bags, fast asleep on that frosty morning. After I had drunk my expensive and frothy “coffee” drink, and read a book a bit while trying to ignore the “music”, I exited and, seeing the first street sleeper now awake, went over to him (an Englishman, bearded, youngish, possibly an ex-soldier) and gave him a £2 coin, expressing the idea that he should get himself a drink (possibly not the most helpful suggestion, I don’t know). He thanked me and wished me a good day.
Before I could move on very far, some black woman approached me and asked for money. I gave her the only coin I had left, 50p, and walked swiftly on.
So that is what the centre or near-centre of Southampton was like in 2023. What will it and similar places be like by 2033? London? God knows…
Of course, the main problem is mass immigration, migration invasion, call it what you will. There has always been a rough sleeper/homelessness problem in England and the UK as a whole (after all, the Vagrancy Act was passed in 1824, when thousands of former soldiers from the Napoleonic wars were homeless and roaming around), but that problem had declined to almost nothing, at least outside London and a few other large cities, until the migration invasion of the past half-century gathered pace.
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You were part of the Boriswave government. What the fuck do you think you're talking about, lmfao
So Dom Cummings has this NPC line. But isn’t the reality he’s now just an NPC himself. Coup against Badenoch has failed. New party never got off the ground. So now spends his time social media ambulance chasing to try and remain relevant… https://t.co/LcRJNGCbE6
Thanks to Google AI, I can now understand msm scribbler Dan Hodges’ comment…(“In slang, NPC stands for “Non-Player Character.” Borrowed from video games, it is used to describe a person who seems to lack independent thought, acts with predictable or scripted behavior, or simply goes along with the crowd without originality“).
I assessed Dominic Cummings quite a few years ago now: see
A 2 year old child has been raped to death by an African immigrant and you are banging on about Cummings? Think about it. A small body destroyed in the most disgusting way by a man. A man who would have held that child in his hands, tortured the soul and ignored its cries. F off
Yes, you see that daily in the way in which TV, radio, newspapers report events; also in the way in which the courts deal with matters. The huge overwhelming wave, or “elephant in the room”, behind the bare event or events is ignored. Via a mental trick or block, the gradual collapse of a reasonably workable white European society, and its becoming dystopian multikulti hellscape, is simply not recognized by scribblers, talking heads, judges, magistrates, barristers, politicians (a fortiori, politicians!) etc.
Any of the above who do recognize the truth, and express it, become unpersons, as happened to me.
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Same Rapists & Murdering Jews in their own words…
Laughing 🇮🇱 Soldier describes war crimes by fellow 🇮🇱 soldiers, Raping & killing Palestinians https://t.co/R0jJlJ00oA
Units of Russia’s Battlegroup East have liberated the settlement of Pisantsy in the Dnepropetrovsk Region and the settlement of Novosyolovka in the Zaporozhye Region, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement:https://t.co/KqCBE3DrkOpic.twitter.com/PoMLkhjhLH
Well, this week a modest 5/10, but still enough to beat political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 2/10. I knew the answers to questions 1, 2, 3, 8, and 10, should have got questions 4 and 10 but did not, and my answer to question 2 was a wild guess but, to my surprise, correct. I may have dredged it up from my subconscious mind, maybe a submerged childhood memory.
Question 4 is not correct, in part of its premises anyway.
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The claim that nobody at the heart of government — ie close to Starmer — knew Mandelson had flunked his security vetting is unravelling at a rate of knots. Starmer’s head of comms was alerted by the media last September. Sources tell me multiple folks in the Cabinet Office… https://t.co/Bf2QtjRVrW
[“The claim that nobody at the heart of government — ie close to Starmer — knew Mandelson had flunked his security vetting is unravelling at a rate of knots. Starmer’s head of comms was alerted by the media last September. Sources tell me multiple folks in the Cabinet Office (where the UK Security Vetting unit is based) had known for quite some time. Cat Little, Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary, even had a copy of the UK Sec Vet January 2025 document concluding Mandelson was unfit to be US ambassador. She informed the new cabinet secretary Antonia Romeo. Soon there were about a dozen lawyers and officials crawling all over it. Such matters don’t stay secret for long in the upper echelons of Whitehall. But it seems the PM was still in the dark … until last Tuesday. Mmmmmm.”]
I agree with Andrew on this. The current popular narrative is Robbins didn't tell anyone because he believed he had his instructions from Starmer to get Mandelson in post come what may. But I still can't believe no one in No.10 was told. Regardless of the perceived "rules". https://t.co/B3BYyjxn3h
In a sense, a political-nerd/Westminster Bubble story and scandal. I cannot believe that, in public bars and golf clubs, people talk of little else, but it does tend to support the now-embedded narrative that Starmer-stein is either dishonest or incompetent, or both, which I myself have believed for several years.
I and other journalists know 7 months ago Peter Mandelson had failed his vetting. So Keir Starmer is either a Knave or a Fool > Daily Mail > https://t.co/4HsMPTrZ6I
If we zoom out, we can see he uses the same excuses, word-for-word, for why he didn't prosecute Savile or pursue rape gangs. Time and again, underlings are blamed for him supposedly "not knowing".
Seeing what's unfolding now, the bleakest explanation is Keir knew *everything*.
As frequently blogged previously, as far as the Pakistani/Muslim rape gangs are concerned, Starmer and Labour cannot afford to “offend” the voting bloc consisting of Muslims, especially, because they are now at least 6% or 8%, and moving towards 10%, of the population. By the time of the next general election (probably 2029 if elections are not “suspended” by reason of a contrived war against Russia), that ~10% bloc will be about half, maybe even two-thirds, of the Labour vote; Muslims are already at least a third of Labour voters nationwide. At present, Labour is polling at around 20%; without the Muslim voters, that would sink to 15% or lower, certainly by 2029.
At the same time, Starmer-stein himself is of course heavily pro-Jew, pro-Israel, is married to a Jewish woman, and has children being brought up as if full-Jew. He belongs to Labour Friends of Israel, and much of Starmer’s —and Labour’s— recent funding has come via Jewish links.
Starmer and his government are, therefore, being pulled in opposing directions, and are in any case incompetent and rudderless.
🚨 NEW from @Ipsos_in_the_UK: Reform lead down to 6 / Greens sustain highest score with Ipsos 🚨
Well, that translates to a Commons with about 293 Reform UK MPs (about 33 short of an overall majority), 84 Cons (very weak official Opposition), 78 Greens, 69 LibDems, 53 Lab, and 45 SNP [etc].
Once again, on those figures, Starmer would lose his own seat, a potential fact indicated by all recent (for several months) opinion polling.
One joker in the GE 2029 pack might be Restore Britain. If it stood enough candidates, it would split the “conservative-nationalist” vote, hitting Reform worst; maybe the Cons a little as well.
Restore at present does not look like it can supplant underwhelming Reform, so they might end up competing for more or less the same bloc of votes. I have little time for Reform, but it really is, at present, the only game in town if you want to wipe out Lab and Con (leaving aside the loonie new Greens, with their pro-drug and pro-mass immigration policies).
The above result, a hung Parliament, might be the best result for social nationalism: the System parties gravely and perhaps mortally wounded, and Reform unable to govern effectively without Con MP-votes. That might in turn lead to a demand for real social nationalism. As Lenin may have said, “the worse, the better“.
That opinion poll again underlines the main or central fact: people are voting against the System parties, not for either the Greens or Reform.
-/1 Reform will poll strongly and will likely be the largest party, but Greens, due to disaffected labour voting tactically to challenge Reform will likely vote Green. Nationally Reform 32%, Greens 28%, Tory 14%, LibDem 12%, Lab 8%.
If so, and as I expect, the central fact, or “big story” will be the collapse of both main System parties.
The local elections, many of which Labour tried to “postpone”, are about more than just local council seat numbers. Council seats are often training grounds for future MPs and, though mostly unpaid, do provide “expenses” of various kinds, and there is actual remuneration for those in charge of local “cabinet” briefs at the various councils. At large councils, that can add up to quite a good quasi-salary.
If Lab and Con are massively culled on 7 May 2026, that cripples their local organizations, and that has knock-on effects at the later general election (currently expected to be in 2029).
In fact, I think that only three local election leaflets have been put though my own door (New Forest area) so far: Reform UK, LibDems, and an Independent lady (the most impressive-looking candidate, arguably).
The main System parties have not put their tawdry wares on display here, so far.
Successive Governments have committed treason against the population of the UK, by allowing illegal migrants to enter the country and rewarding them with 4* hotels , food , clothes , phones etc. All illegal migrants should be deported within 24hrs of arrival. pic.twitter.com/Ck9c9OC8F1
Certainly, women often tend to vote based on emotional responses, or superficialities. Difficult question.
I do think that voting in national elections in the UK should be restricted to persons of 28+ years. Having said that, only about 40% or so of those under 28 vote anyway: see https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cley905dg20o.
Women make the absolute worst bosses.
99% of people who have faced an absolute horror of a boss, will confirm to you, it was indeed a woman.
Women are not meant to lead men, other women, or groups of people.
Capitalism operates based on merit and profit. If there is a female boss is because she deserved it. Nobody gets promoted in a company if they are incompetent.
[“One of women’s best talents, is dodging responsibility.
I say this as a woman.
I notice myself doing it a lot.
We have this thing built into us, that makes it okay in our minds, when we mess up.
Like little white lies.
It’s okay you cheated because he…
It’s okay you were late, because…
We excuse ourselves more than men do.. and then act like it was not our fault.
Imagine making us as judges in a court system??“]
Interesting and rather true, quite often.
That last sentence, about female judges, is very true. Usually unwilling to take a really independent stand against the accepted sentiment or expected result.
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The best men are sexist.
This is not because they are evil, but because they understand the genders.
Sexism is not always a bad thing. Sexism can be just understanding how women work, think and act.
Ignoring it and acting like we are all the same, is much more damaging than…
A horrible tribe, and their State of Israel is now a diseased and cancerous blot on the world.
“When asked by the @NewStatesman what the mood in the PLP was, one MP replied “Lol. Bad”
I wrote about the mood in the Parliamentary Labour Party following the latest revelations in the Mandelson affair. While MPs are split on what they think could, or should happen next… pic.twitter.com/6vmqwOYgwS
Whether Starmer-stein goes or stays, there will not be any general election called, because both Labour and Conservative MPs know that, should they vote, or vote in effect, for that, they will be turkeys voting for Christmas. Current polling suggests that, out of 513 Con and Lab MPs currently in place, only about 130-150 would survive a general election; only a third, maybe only a quarter of the present Lab/Con MPs would survive.
The number of Russians diagnosed with alcoholism has reached a nine-year high, despite Vladimir Putin trying to crack down on heavy drinking
Of course, alcohol abuse has always been a problem in Russia, for many many centuries, but (arguably) became far worse under Soviet rule, despite periodic attempts to deal with the problem. I think that, had Andropov survived, and been in good health, he might have managed to cut alcoholism and alcohol misuse tremendously. Andropov might also have managed to salvage the Soviet system as a whole. Gorbachev never really tried to do either, not harshly enough anyway.
Neighbours have finally broken their silence on the horror house in Banks, Lancashire, and the truth about Axel Rudakubana is as ugly as expected.
This Rwandan import, the 17-year-old son of Alphonse and Laetitia Rudakubana, was raised in a cauldron of screams, grunts, and… pic.twitter.com/HD1xAn7tzn
— Lewis.B.Rendell Official (@Lewisrendell1) April 18, 2026
[“Neighbours have finally broken their silence on the horror house in Banks, Lancashire, and the truth about Axel Rudakubana is as ugly as expected.
This Rwandan import, the 17-year-old son of Alphonse and Laetitia Rudakubana, was raised in a cauldron of screams, grunts, and objects hurled against walls.
He hadn’t stepped out alone in over two years. On the morning of 29 July 2024 his parents and brother simply watched him leave anyway.
Empty knife boxes littered the place. He glared through English neighbours like they were already corpses.
The signs were everywhere; the imported family ignored them, obstructed authorities, and let the monster walk free into a Taylor Swift dance class, which begs the question, they should be held accountable at the very least.
Three native English girls, Bebe, Alice, Elsie butchered. Ten more slashed and scarred for life. All because Britain imported this family from Rwanda’s chaos and pretended they could be turned into civilised locals.
The public inquiry mutters about “moral failure” by the parents and systemic breakdowns. Fine. But the root failure is national: a deliberate policy of flooding English villages with Third World imports whose cultural DNA carries violence, dysfunction, and zero loyalty to our people.
Axel Rudakubana did not spring from English soil. He arrived with it, was sheltered by it, and unleashed it on our daughters.
The family has scarpered into hiding, no doubt on the taxpayer’s dime. The neighbours endure a living nightmare.
The house is for sale like tainted goods. And still the elite refuses to say the obvious: mass immigration from incompatible corners of the globe imports incompatible savagery.
Native English children are not collateral damage in some enrichment experiment.
England belongs to the English.
Our streets, our villages, our daughters’ safety come first, before any foreign import, any asylum sob story, any diversity quota.
Hold them to account and then Deport the remnants of this family. End the importation. Reclaim our country before the next Rudakubana strikes. Nothing less will suffice.“]
No creía en Dios. No hablaba hebreo. Dos de sus tres hijos se quitaron la vida. Consideraba a los judíos palestinos nativos una clase inferior a los judíos de ascendencia europea. Estaba considerando entre Argentina y Palestina como el lugar para el establecimiento de su… pic.twitter.com/Pn5fLEjIwo
[“He did not believe in God. He did not speak Hebrew. Two of his three sons took their own lives. He considered Palestinian native Jews an inferior class to Jews of European descent. He was weighing between Argentina and Palestine as the place for establishing his “Jewish State,” but chose Palestine to deceive more people by linking the new state of Israel to the ancient Israelite people.
Here is the father of Zionism: Theodor Herzl. There are more than 50 streets named after him in the modern state of Israel, more than any other national figure.
From beginning to end, this has been a grand farce: this is not the biblical Israel, this is not the nation of the prophets and patriarchs of old, this is not God’s chosen people nor the restoration of the House of David: that is not their star nor their banner!
They are false Jews, with a stolen land, pretending to be the “chosen ones” of a God in whom they do not believe and whom they serve even less.“]
“Research led by Dr. Eran Elhaik suggests that Ashkenazi Jews have significant, historically overlooked roots in Turkey, challenging the traditional “Rhineland hypothesis”. Findings indicate that 90% of Ashkenazi Jews may descend from Greco-Turko-Iranian converts, with roots linked to primeval villages in northeastern Turkey, such as Iskenaz, Eskenaz, and Ashanaz“
The Jewish Kiev regime now openly exposing its part in the overall Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan conspiracy (to import vast black/brown/Chinese (etc) populations into white Europe.
“We’d be nothing without immigrants working for our NHS”
If the police see us as the enemy, that inevitably means that they are no longer a necessary evil, but have become our enemy, have made themselves our enemy, which is sad, because many rank-and-file police are relatively well-meaning, want to keep decent order in society etc, but the fact is that they obey the orders of those who have been brainwashed by the Common Purpose cancer and Jew-Zionist “anti-racist” “training” courses.
Female patients and newly-born babies have been evacuated from a maternity clinic in Novokuibyshevsk in Russia’s Samara Region following a Ukrainian drone attack, Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev wrote on his channel on Max:https://t.co/YsGR01WGzgpic.twitter.com/Z4cCjdeMco
Over the past day, Russian air defenses downed one HIMARS projectile and 568 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones, Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a report:https://t.co/AmNfil64zQpic.twitter.com/oniZlr66bh
I notice that both the Metropolitan Police and Greater Manchester Police have made a joint statement about the Bondi Beach attack, which statement has been treated as major news by BBC News, Sky News etc.
Why?
This was an attack by two individuals, and on the other side of the world.
Seems to be a further weaponization of the Bondi Beach attack, with the aim of further eroding free speech in the UK. The beneficiaries are supposed to be the Jews, Israel, and the agencies of the UK state.
This comes only a day or so after the proposals, by the ludicrous Lammy and the Starmer-stein Labour Friends of Israel government, for police-state repression of free speech in relation to Islam and Muslims.
The weaponization of the Bondi Beach attack is becoming very obvious to anyone not asleep.
Meanwhile, the [Israeli] Jews continue their slaughter and repression of the unfortunate Arab Palestinians in Gaza, with little interest now shown by the news media in the UK.
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A tweet from many years ago, and from my one-time Twitter account (which was closed down at the instigation of a pack of Zionist Jews in 2018).
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White people have been subjected to this for decades and nothing has been done when we’ve been the victims of terror.
You are јеԝіѕh and your loyalty is to that group and to lsraeI.
Do you support non-јеԝіѕh migration to lsraeI? I bet you don't, and yet it sounds as though you're OK with migration to White homelands unless they're a threat to your group.
In a “free society”, it is absurd; in a repressive police state, into which the UK is fast changing, par for the course.
cf. the recent case of David Morgan.
I know the kind of people who become judges in this country. Most are not fit to judge these sorts of cases, by reason of their entrenched multikulti views.
Reading the Daily Mail report, I get the impression (from the very brief extract, so I am guessing a little) that Yarwood’s Counsel did not exactly pull out all the stops in his concluding address to the trial judge.
Why was the Vice Chancellor of Nottingham Trent university —which was in a £2 million deficit—paid a staggering £435,000 ?
Why are many vice chancellors paid more than the prime minister?
I agree with that. I think I blogged once before about the rather nice (though also rather spoiled) young blonde (aged about 20) whom I met about 25 years ago, and whose father (whom she mentioned rather a lot) was the Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University; she told that me his salary was (I forget the exact amount) in the hundreds of thousands of pounds a year (even then, in 2000). Pretty ridiculous.
[later thought, same day: he should appeal on sentence].
NATO plans a military confrontation with Russia by 2030, Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov said at an expanded meeting of the ministry’s board:https://t.co/kPebdsMB1Vpic.twitter.com/OUTmCxhlVE
Air defenses intercepted and shot down 94 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions and the waters of the Azov and Black Seas overnight, the Defense Ministry reported. TASS has compiled the main information about the attacks:https://t.co/Fsj0fQ23dupic.twitter.com/FSjYsrh0P3
Russian troops liberated the community of Gerasimovka in the Dnepropetrovsk Region over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday:https://t.co/x2G2Ti08Qlpic.twitter.com/wPhjsf7OZR
The steady, though slow, advance of Russian armour and infantry continues in Eastern Ukraine.
Dan is an absolutely classic example of the retards who form the modern Left and currently run the country, the path is so well trodden that you’ll instantly recognise it:
Born (1992) School PPE at Oxbridge (natch) Civil service role (HMT in this case) Local councillor… https://t.co/RR2Ss99uVW
[“Dan is an absolutely classic example of the retards who form the modern Left and currently run the country, the path is so well trodden that you’ll instantly recognise it: Born (1992) School PPE at Oxbridge (natch) Civil service role (HMT in this case) Local councillor (classic) Think tank role (Resolution Foundation) Think tank role (Joseph Rowntree Foundation) MP Cabinet minister (ffs) He’s 33, and has never worked in a real job. That should disqualify him from having any ministerial role on its own. Instead, he’s been totally coddled within the lifelong safety of public sector and left leaning think tank / NGO type roles, that have prepared him for the mind bendingly retarded policies he now either helps formulate or defends. You should have 30 years+ market experience before you even think about a senior role in HMT or advising the Exchequer. This is why the country is so utterly fucked. We have for at least ~3 decades now had an army of Dan’s running the major apparatus of state. They all float effortlessly between “think tanks” and other policy making and paid writing gigs without ever seeing a tax they didn’t like or a “rich person” they didn’t need to pay more tax. They drive the enshittification of the country through their complete lack of understanding on anything and a totally misguided sense of righteousness and ideology. Terminally linear in thought, they lack the mental acuity or ability to create value or yield in any way, common sense eludes them entirely, they can barely understand the first order consequences of their actions, let alone the second and third. The system attracts and retains the very least suited people in the country to making big economic decisions because anyone with any talent heads directly into the private sector. The system by default selects for retards, and they fail upward because the public sector, without the brutal feedback loops of the private sector, rewards survival over success. The compound effect of this is an embedded pseudo intelligentsia of “Intellectual Yet Idiots” on a never ending carousel of different ministerial roles. They are allowed 1-3 years of experience in one department and by the time they start to grasp the basics they are scurried along to the next department; “ok now you’ve got the basics of agriculture fancy having a go as defence minister?” Until we remove these Fabian saboteurs from the civil service, judiciary, NGOs, think tanks and other governmental and policy forming bodies, things will only get worse in the UK. It’s as guaranteed as their jobs despite abject performance.“]
I notice that he worked for the Treasury straight out of university, but for only a short time, apparently less than a year. NBG (No Bloody Good)?
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Russian forces have held the strategic initiative in the zone of the special military operation throughout 2025, advancing almost on all fronts, Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov said, addressing a year-end Defense Ministry meeting:https://t.co/kTfXB1ENwSpic.twitter.com/0QWg8jdzlk
Russian troops are maintaining the strategic initiative along the entire frontline, President Vladimir Putin said at an expanded meeting of the Defense Ministry’s board:https://t.co/vbu9BezA2rpic.twitter.com/sSgjJXQb1Y
That was another piece of anti-white, anti-European fake “history”, just like Cheddar Man and other examples, and the Mary Beard “the Romans in Britain may have been, some of them, black“, and similar rubbish, all designed to create socio-political propaganda about contemporary Britain as well.
“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).
Interesting, nicht wahr?
Honestly, to what point does a party get to say 'we're not going to win again, so we'll screw everything up to spite the electorate'….i think we've gone past that point
Russia and Iran confirmed that they are maintaining and expanding their military and technical cooperation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said after meeting with his Iranian counterpart. Moscow stated that this collaboration complies with international law and includes… pic.twitter.com/dBzGcC0uhG
🇷🇺 Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that his country's nuclear shield is more modern than that of any other recognized nuclear power. pic.twitter.com/kidiFJIP8g
Rachel Reeves. Labour Friends of Israel member. Expenses cheat. Fraudster. Buy-to-let parasite. Jewish-lobby puppet. Income (with husband) of about half a million pounds per year, if not more.
Whatever “Labour” now is, it is neither “socialist” nor even social-democratic.
As for Rachel Reeves, I am unable to publish what I think of her in detail, nor what I think should happen to her, because we no longer live in anything resembling a free country with free speech or freedom of expression.
Failed asylum-seeker, yet still living here at taxpayers’ expense…
As to sentence (in a better Britain), a wall, a squad, and an end.
Matt, this filth Himasara, fresh from Sri Lanka, snatching and brutalising a young lass in Feltham while we bankroll his hotel hideout? It's the swamp's gift that keeps giving, our taxes fuelling foreign predators. Deport the lot, seal the gates, or watch our daughters pay the…
Wall, squad, end (if found guilty after a fair trial).
Judge Jeffreys may be long gone, and I myself was wrongfully and unlawfully disbarred in 2016 (after a contrived complaint by a pack of Jews), but I stand ready to do my duty…
[me as newly-minted barrister, about 35-y-o, and 33 years ago (c.1992) ]
I was always against capital punishment, as such, but we have to regain control of the cities and the towns, and their streets.
Sharron Davies made peer after campaign to ban biological men from women’s sport
In particular, the Jew-Zionist, pro-Israel, cabals. They are behind, inter alia, most of the repression of free speech etc in the UK. Goodwin always fails to mention that (as do Toby Young, Katie Hopkins, the “Free Speech Union”, “Tommy Robinson”, Farage, Tice etc…).
'israel' is still murdering Palestinian babies. They are blocking necessary aid and mobile homes that can protect families from the rain and cold. https://t.co/ffZ3F5ZhAz
A nation of murderers, and hypocrite murderers at that.
Unfortunately, the situation is catastrophic in every sense of the word. But I don’t want to share any photos or videos. I don’t want to show our flooded tents, our mothers’ tears, our children trembling, or our fathers’ anguish. There’s no point in sharing them. For months now,…
Hundreds of displaced families sheltering in tents have been flooded in Gaza and an eight month old baby has died from the cold weather, according to local authorities.
Storm Byron has caused torrential rain and the UN says it's putting 850,000 displaced people at risk. pic.twitter.com/lCAm9TS8Dz
The handiwork of the [Israeli] Jews and their supporters and facilitators in the West. Those families all had homes until the Israeli Jews destroyed them.
There shouldn't be a single foreigner involved in British politics. It's not even a radical stance, it's the norm all over the world. pic.twitter.com/83W5y3K00Z
Let’s get this straight. Reform is way in front in the opinion polls, and it has no need to pick officers and candidates who are non-European. It has chosen to do that despite white voters (who are still about 80%+ of the whole) plainly preferring (real) English/British candidates.
Reform is controlled opposition, and has rapidly morphed into a quasi-System party. Its stance on the “JQ” and Israel reinforces those points.
Having said that, Reform must triumph in the short term (up to 2029) in order to bin the main System parties (Con/Lab). After that, social nationalism will have a clear field once Reform fails to accomplish anything much in government.
Work is not the best way out of poverty. It’s a Tory and Reform trope – he’s been both in the last fortnight – and it’s patently rubbish. If it was true we’d have a lot fewer claimants. https://t.co/aioh3IAhva
The nub is “a good job“. Most jobs in the UK are pretty poor, and pay insufficiently.
How does that idiot expect working families to afford children, or more children?
Reform’s biggest self-inflicted peril is seeming to be a retirement home for recent Conservative Party careerist has-beens, albeit that this particular one is a big political donor.
Seismic, if replicated at the next general election; translates to 396 Reform MPs (a very substantial Commons majority), 61 Greens (who would become the official Opposition!), 56 LibDems, 46 SNP, 27 Cons, 26 Lab [etc].
British banks, following the lead of French banks, have opposed plans to use about 11 billion pounds sterling of frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine
This was reported by the Financial Times, noting that the banks claim that the British government has not offered them… pic.twitter.com/FNZCquLKlf
The five largest countries importing oil and gas from Russia in the EU – Hungary, France, Belgium, Slovakia, and Spain – paid €906 million in November for deliveries of Russian energy carriers, and the largest importer of them was Hungary, which purchased Russian energy carriers… pic.twitter.com/EJhtrvEO24
Russian troops liberated the community of Liman in the Kharkov Region over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/VRvGPLbvf5pic.twitter.com/Pd3myb6NKm
“A left-wing activist who assaulted a man at an immigration demonstration in the wake of the Southport killings has walked free from court, prompting more accusations of a two-tier justice system.
Caroline Leneghan grabbed an iPhone off of victim Dylan Fontaine and smashed it in the ground during a heated exchange at the event in Bournemouth.
The former NHS nurse then physically lunged at him when he attempted to pick it up.
Based on his appearance, Leneghan yelled out that he was a racist and a fascist, inciting others to ‘swarm’ around him and putting him in fear of being attacked.
In fact Mr Fontaine is a white Muslim convert and was at the demonstration in support of asylum seekers.
Despite this and the fact Leneghan has shown no remorse, she walked free with a six month prison sentence suspended for two years.
District Judge Orla Austin said it was only the fact Leneghan was 20 weeks pregnant that she was not going to jail.“
[Bournemouth Echo]
Second (relevant) offence:
“Violent anti-racism protester avoids jail for attacking police.
A Left-wing activist has avoided jail for a second time after attacking a police officer.
Caroline Leneghan, 43, assaulted the female officer while being arrested for being drunk and disorderly at a pub in Pokesdown, Dorset, on Dec 27 last year.
Leneghan previously escaped prison for assaulting a man at a migrant hotel protest.
Poole magistrates’ court heard the police van taking Leneghan to the station after the police officer assault had to stop twice because of her violent outbursts in the back.
At one stage, the former NHS nurse slipped out of her handcuffs and was said to have brandished them at the officer like a weapon before being restrained.
After pleading guilty to assaulting an officer, resisting arrest, and the use of threatening language, Leneghan was fined £80 and ordered to pay £100 compensation to the officer she assaulted.
David Finney, prosecuting, told magistrates: “The defendant is alleged to have run towards a security guard to confront them and was described as shouting and screaming, so she was arrested for being drunk and disorderly and handcuffed.”
He added: “The officer said she feared she was going to be assaulted with the handcuffs.”
Juliet Osborne, mitigating, said Leneghan was pregnant and in a “heightened” state outside the pub as her former partner had been racially abused by a group of men.
She said Leneghan had been in “excruciating” pain as the handcuffs had trapped a nerve on her wrist.
Ms Osborne added: “She has reflected on the incident and expresses remorse and regrets the fact that [the police officer] felt she was in danger. It was not her intention to make her feel that way.”
During the rally in the summer of 2025, Leneghan snatched an iPhone from Dylan Fontaine and smashed it on the ground. Leneghan then lunged at Mr Fontaine when he attempted to pick it up.
Leneghan also accused Mr Fontaine of being a racist and a Fascist, incited others to “swarm” around him, and put him in fear of being attacked.
The 43-year-old denied charges of assault and criminal damage but was found guilty.
District Judge Orla Austin said it was because Leneghan was 20 weeks pregnant that she was not going to jail.
Leneghan was ordered to pay Mr Fontaine £300 compensation, £200 court costs and a victim surcharge of £154.
Leneghan’s suspended sentence came after allegations of “two-tier justice” over the way the authorities handle Left-wing versus Right-wing disorder and protest.
Her sentence for the migrant hotel incident was not taken into account during her trial for the police officer assault, because the offence was committed before her April sentencing.“
[Daily Telegraph]
Lucky defendant…
In fact, there are several aspects to those two cases involving one (crazed “pisshead” pseudo-political “activist” woman) defendant that make them interesting from the socio-political and legal points of view.
First of all, look at that defendant (presumably of Irish origin at some point). Thank God she is no longer an NHS nurse. I should be interested to see what other previous convictions she has (which would not have been —considered— “relevant” to sentencing). I would be prepared to bet that there were some.
I note that the defendant’s “previous partner” was (claimed to have been) “racially abused“. So non-white, visibly non-Brit/non-European.
No occupation noted for the defendant, so probably an unemployed single mother of a mixed-race child, with the father not en poste except as a drinking partner…
Poor once-great Britain…
I also note that the defendant was drinking heavily at the time of the second offence, despite being pregnant at the time. Not illegal (though it should be), but it says a lot about her. You can see from the newspaper photos that she is what is often termed a “pisshead”, probably without the willpower or inclination to stop drinking during her pregnancy.
Fortunately for her, I was not the sentencing “judge” (magistrate).
[me as London barrister, circa 1992/1993, and looking serious for some reason unknown]
Many, commenting on that defendant’s first conviction, have noted that Lucy Connolly was sentenced last year to over 2 and a half years in prison merely for having tweeted (or similar) that places housing migrant-invaders should be burned to the ground, or that she did not care if that were to happen. Lucy Connolly has two young (white British) daughters, and a husband with serious health problems.
Incidentally, I notice that the district judge who initially sentenced that “antifa” crazie at Poole has an Irish first name, though I doubt that that is relevant.
I myself was quite wrongly tried and convicted (2023) and sentenced (2024) for having allegedly posted a few comments and cartoons online criticizing or mocking (mainly) Jew-Zionists, corrupt MPs, and Israel:
As regular readers will know, I long ago also wrote a blog piece about the link between the “antifa” element, “anti-racism”, and mental illness, as well as the frequently-seen links to Jew-Zionist fanaticism:
It also occurs to me that, once again, a woman police officer was found not to have the strength or controlled aggression necessary in dealing with a very violent offender.
The propaganda canard that Russia's economy is collapsing is being warmed up again. Actually, Russia is thriving.
As I predicted in my 2015 article pointing out that the sanctions on Russia would strengthen its economy, which is what happened. The UK/US media is full of baseless… https://t.co/X0eiPCM4oa
I’m in Russia right now… I have never seen such a beautiful, clean and safe country in my entire life and I’m well traveled! Everything west tells you is a lie… Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you collapsing economy… https://t.co/cKWTybTNxIpic.twitter.com/vHB1Gc1MjI
At first, people will turn to the electoral system, initially to Reform UK. At first…
If you wanted to destroy a country and tear the social contract apart you would do everything Keir Starmer and the Labour government are doing in the UKhttps://t.co/liUeIhMiRYpic.twitter.com/le8Z4huxNO
Starmer is not only in the wrong job but also strikes me as being an idiot, certainly in terms of geopolitics. Actually, he seems at sea in the legal milieu too. A rather nasty box-ticking file clerk type, given unmerited power for a short time. An Israel/Jewish-lobby puppet, with a Jewish wife, and children being brought up as if fully-Jewish.
Film director Oliver Stone has something to say about Israel:
– He is crazy, but we are in his pocket. And we are unable to influence him. – About Netanyahu? – Yes. This is the merit of the Israeli lobby operating in the US. Our voice… Our Congress plays no role! pic.twitter.com/Kd6C0PaoRT
The Ukrainian armed forces lost about 1,250 servicemen in the special military operation zone over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a report:https://t.co/3dmeKKKfBKpic.twitter.com/d3riDnz9T7
[“Trump should not prolong the war in Ukraine just to spite Putin The conflict is a tragedy, but further American intervention will only delay the inevitable” The American publication The American Conservative reports that Russia’s victory in Ukraine is a matter of time and that Trump should stop dragging out this process. The article notes that Russia has “sufficient military superiority to achieve its main objectives,” while Ukraine’s hopes of regaining lost territories are described as nothing more than “fantasies” without a “realistic scenario” for success.“]
Russia can and should continue its advance until all Ukraine east of the Dnieper is under Russian rule. Kiev and Odessa should be “free cities” not under direct Russian/Ukrainian rule. Western Ukraine, except for the Black Sea/Sea of Azov littoral and Crimea, can then be an independent but neutral Ukrainian state centred on Lvov.
"Russia's offensive in Ukraine is accelerating for the fourth consecutive month"
The British publication The Telegraph is concerned about the progress of Russian Army units within the framework of the special military operation. pic.twitter.com/AIwo3Rts2E
Even the anti-Russia UK/US msm have given up their former fantasies about Kiev-regime forces advancing on major Russian cities, and even on Moscow and Petersburg. Now, they limit themselves to pretending to think that Russian forces will not make “much” more progress, and that the Russian economy will “collapse”, or a popular uprising unseat Putin.
In reality, the Russian economy is doing at least as well as the EU and UK economies, and Putin, while flawed, is still far more popular in Russia than Starmer-stein is in the UK, or Macron in France, or Merz in Germany, let alone that evil little sprite, Ursula von der Leyen.
Russia’s army has improved its positions near Velikaya Novoselka in the Donetsk People’s Republic and is advancing across the Dnepropetrovsk Region, DPR’s head, Denis Pushilin, said:https://t.co/5VKYJPiDiPpic.twitter.com/dJsiq85W5f
The reality behind the proscription is that the Jew-Zionist lobby in the UK wants to ban everything and everyone they perceive as hostile to Jewish or Israeli power and influence. It has nothing to do with real “terrorism” or the like.
In a post on social media, Simon Pearson, 56, who teaches at Preston College said Connolly’s online comments were “obviously wrong” but she “should not have been jailed”
Some years ago, I noted on the blog that my old head of chambers, one M.B., a pretty good civil barrister, had been appointed to the office of Circuit Judge. Now I see that no fewer than three other fellow-members of the same chambers (now and for some time joined with another set under a new name) have also received judicial preferment.
The first, one “R.P.”, was, as I recall him from over 15 years ago, a small and rather dapper man, maybe about 40 at that time, unfailingly polite, who had been a magistrates’ court clerk for many years, and had written a very well-received book on sentencing, as well as (and I only saw that today) several other books on law and procedure. Someone both erudite and modest, a good combination.
I see just now (thanks to the Internet) that R.P. is 56-57.
R.P., a man so modest and self-effacing that I know nothing about him on the personal level, despite having been in the same chambers as him for at least a couple of years (I was there 2002-2008, he for not so long), was (if I recall aright) nominally a “pupil” at first, having been previously a solicitor (again, if I recall correctly); as said, he had spent years as a magistrates’ clerk.
R. P. is therefore now “His Honour Judge R.P.” and has been, as they say, “deployed” to the North East as a Circuit Judge. In the old days, pre-1970s, people would practice almost entirely on one circuit, such as Western Circuit, Midland and Oxford etc, and if granted judicial preferment, would be appointed, almost always, on that Circuit. Now, however, they can be sent anywhere within England and Wales.
The other two appointments seen by me were those affecting two people who were, like R.P., both pupils of M.B. twenty-odd years ago. When I knew them, they were both in their early twenties, so must be about 45 now. Let us call them, in the manner of M.R. James, “JB” and “AW”.
J.B, a pleasant-enough fellow, and rather likeable, albeit no intellectual (if I recall aright), and who came from an affluent family (his father is or was a businessman involved in trade with China), has been appointed both as an employment judge (i.e. at the Employment Tribunal) and also as a Deputy District Judge (which is same level, really, as a full District Judge, but only sitting for 15-50 days per year).
As for A.W., I recall him as a serious and bearded young man, bordering however on the humourless (admittedly, I only spoke with him a few times); intelligent, and who, with his wife (whom I never met), actually played music live at least once on either BBC Radio 3 or BBC Radio 4 at that time, i.e. about 16-17 years ago.
A.W. is apparently appointed District Judge as of early January 2023, and has been deployed to Worthing in West Sussex.
Such appointments as District Judge etc may seem minor (there are c.400 full District Judges in England and Wales) but actually such jobs are not badly-paid— about £114,000 p.a. at time of writing (Circuit Judges get more, about £145,000).
I can see why barristers often apply for such jobs. They carry none of the uncertainty which can be part and parcel of being a barrister, such as where the next brief will come from; also (for barristers of a certain age) there is the attraction of a generous pension scheme, something unknown to the Bar (unless you pay out for a private one). Also, the judge (at any level) does not have the need to travel much, if at all, whereas a barrister in a provincial set can travel extensively.
When I myself was in London as a practising barrister (early/mid 1990s), almost all my cases were within London itself (often at the High Court, a shortish No. 6 bus, or a taxi, ride from my then home in Little Venice); but when I was based in Exeter in 2002-2008 (and living 50 miles west of there, on the Cornwall-Devon border), I sometimes had to travel as far north as Manchester, and as far east as London, Cambridge, Brighton etc. 600-mile roundtrips. I even made the odd overseas journey, though admittedly that also happened when I lived in London.
Always interesting to see what is happening over time to those whom I knew in the past.
Finally, I should add that I have no idea whether those I used to know, and who have been appointed to the judiciary, are freemasons. Possibly. Not impossible, anyway, thinking back to when I knew them, and thinking about what I do know of them.
Tweets seen
In Paris they replaced Xmas with Hanouka in public spaces. ah what a wonderful world! pic.twitter.com/cTDHBEd0m3
I don’t think you have to be a mad right winger to think that there’s a level of migration that simply ends Britain as a culture and a functional society, and this is approaching it https://t.co/4P4TPHVyRo
Why did no-one shoot him, or just run over the bastard in a car? We always hear so-called “Christians” droning about “turning the other cheek” but what about “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you” [Matthew 7-6]?
2. So far the Twitter Files have focused on evidence of Twitter’s secret blacklists; how the company functioned as a kind of subsidiary of the FBI; and how execs rewrote the platform’s rules to accommodate their own political desires.
4. The United States government pressured Twitter and other social media platforms to elevate certain content and suppress other content about Covid-19.
6. At the onset of the pandemic, according to meeting notes, the Trump admin was especially concerned about panic buying. They came looking for “help from the tech companies to combat misinformation” about “runs on grocery stores.” But . . . there were runs on grocery stores. pic.twitter.com/duzk2I1Y7T
7. It wasn’t just Twitter. The meetings with the Trump White House were also attended by Google, Facebook, Microsoft and others. pic.twitter.com/OgOrRxBBBW
10. Berenson sued (and then settled with) Twitter. In the legal process Twitter was compelled to release certain internal communications, which showed direct White House pressure on the company to take action on Berenson.
12. Culbertson wrote that the Biden team was “very angry” that Twitter had not been more aggressive in deplatforming multiple accounts. They wanted Twitter to do more. pic.twitter.com/lZTQV3yKeZ
14. But Twitter did suppress views—many from doctors and scientific experts—that conflicted with the official positions of the White House. As a result, legitimate findings and questions that would have expanded the public debate went missing.
16. Second, contractors, in places like the Philippines, also moderated content. They were given decision trees to aid in the process, but tasking non experts to adjudicate tweets on complex topics like myocarditis and mask efficacy data was destined for a significant error rate pic.twitter.com/lTISX00mo7
20. Exhibit A: Dr. Martin Kulldorff, an epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School, tweeted views at odds with US public health authorities and the American left, the political affiliation of nearly the entire staff at Twitter. pic.twitter.com/K3kwQIdzHG
22. But Kulldorff’s statement was an expert’s opinion—one which also happened to be in line with vaccine policies in numerous other countries. Yet it was deemed “false information” by Twitter moderators merely because it differed from CDC guidelines.
24. In my review of internal files, I found countless instances of tweets labeled as “misleading” or taken down entirely, sometimes triggering account suspensions, simply because they veered from CDC guidance or differed from establishment views.
26. Internal records showed that a bot had flagged the tweet, and that it received many “tattles” (what the system amusingly called reports from users). That triggered a manual review by a human who– despite the tweet showing actual CDC data–nevertheless labeled it “Misleading”
Well, there it is. Proof that hugely loss-making Twitter was both (as I speculated years ago on the blog) acting as an intelligence-collecting system for NWO/ZOG, and also proof that —time and again— the overall public debate or discussion in the “online forum” or “online public space” is —and in the case of Twitter, especially, was— being twisted by Twitter staff (etc); also offline (by the usual msm suspects). The “online public space“, as I termed it on the blog, as well as in my 2017 talk offline, at the now-defunct London Forum— with others later imitating my language and reasoning.
What at first surprised me slightly, years ago, was that I could see that the usual crowd of “human rights” lawyers, bien-pensants, “liberal” msm types, anti-censorship loudmouths, pseudo-socialists etc (many, but by no means all, Jews) were in fact perfectly OK with a secretive transnational finance-capital offshoot such as Twitter censoring dissenting views, and/or “deplatforming” dissidents and/or persons labelled “neo-Nazi” etc.
The mask of Evil has slipped a little as regards Twitter, but remains firmly in place in respect of other online and offline platforms.
This is not just about the Covid “panicdemic”. It applies also to other matters, especially the constant Coudenhove-Kalergi propaganda being blasted out across the TV, radio, newspapers etc.
I happened to see a copy of Vogue magazine the other day, not my usual reading material. Flicking through it for a few seconds, I noticed that almost every photo and report was basically about blacks, and pushing blacks forward, to an almost unbelievable extent. No one is going to tell me that that is simply about making money for the publishers. There is something more behind it all. See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/12/10/tv-ads-and-soaps-are-the-propaganda-preferred-by-the-system-in-the-uk/.
Returning to “Covid”, I see that the Chinese Government has now turned its massive state repression machinery into reverse, and almost overnight dismantled the “Covid” police state measures. According to Sky News in the UK, that has meant an increase in “cases” (whether labelled “influenza” or “Covid”-this-or-that. Of course.
The stupid “lockdowns” isolate people. When they have to be released (because to shut down society and economy indefinitely is unsustainable, impossible) naturally their immune systems have been weakened. “Lockdowns” were always the wrong policy, not only from the economic point of view (look at the UK, for example) but from the strict health point of view as well.
While on the subject of Twitter, I see that it continues to omit the (only-recently-dropped) “Latest” tweets column on any given subject or subject-name searched for. This really weakens the usefulness of Twitter.
Is it just me? Sampled opening couple of minutes of Christmas University Challenge. Had heard of none of those representing my own university, who were baffled when asked to identify obvious quotations from Thomas Hobbes and George Orwell.
I have blogged in the past week about the poor standard on Christmas University Challenge, and again below.
These signs were still posted in Blackwell’s Oxford bookshop in the early 1960s when I first saw it. I don’t know when they dated from. But by 1969 there were tactful notices all over the shop warning against shoplifting, a sad change. pic.twitter.com/nqepJU1AG5
That sign was still the ethos at Blackwell’s in the 1970s, when I asked for a copy of the Malleus Maleficarum, sat at a table reading it for a long time, then left without buying it, and still got a cheery goodbye from the staff.
Again, two dispiriting performances from the alumni teams (Cardiff v. Bristol), who displayed the ignorance which has been the hallmark of the series both last year and this year, and which by now I actually expect.
One who at least attempted to answer, though usually wrongly, was Dominic Waghorn of the Bristol alumni team, of whom I see that Wikipedia says this:
“Dominic David Waghorn (born 1968, Lambeth),[1] is a British journalist who is the Diplomatic Editor of Sky News and presenter of the channel’s weekly international affairs analysis programme World View. He was before that US Correspondent of Sky News, the 24-hour television news service operated by Sky Television, part of British Sky Broadcasting. He is based at Sky News’ Washington Bureau. He was formerly Sky News’ Asia Correspondent, based in Beijing and Middle East Correspondent, based in Jerusalem. He became Sky News’ US Correspondent in 2011.”
That reads well, on paper, but that supposed “expert” not only failed to identify Volgograd as the “new” (since 1961) name for the city of Stalingrad, even after prompting from Jeremy Paxman, but then compounded his error by venturing “Voronezh?“, a city about 360 miles away, and in a different part of Russia.
There were several other errors by Waghorn and worse ones by others (those who actually tried to answer any questions at all).
The problem I have with these well-known and/or “celebrity” contestants is not only that their general-knowledge levels are, indeed, generally abysmal, but also a. that they are all people paid plenty of money by society as a whole, partly by reason of their supposedly “elite” education, and b. that those working in msm current affairs are delivering misinformation to the public on subjects such as Ukraine, European politics, and the “Covid” “panicdemic”.
Ha ha! That must be intended as good-humoured satire, surely? (from one of the subject’s colleagues on Sky News). Waghorn even failed to get right a fairly easy question about which seas were mentioned in Churchill’s famous post-WW2 speech at Fulton, Missouri, which brought the term “iron curtain” into popular speech (though Churchill had lifted the term from Schwerin von Krosigk, unless it was a simple co-incidence).
The seas in the question were Baltic and Adriatic, not (as Waghorn said) the Adriatic Sea and Black Sea. The other team also got that one wrong, incidentally, citing Baltic and Atlantic.
To be fair on him, Waghorn did get a few other questions right.
…and the msm are still puffing the teenage Swedish autistic, someone with no education to speak of, no scientific background, no real popular support. Yet there she sits, on the Marr show, pontificating and demanding. A puppet on a stick.
Once again, a vicious attacker, who had no reason to attack the victim, who was not even known to her, and with whom she had had not even casual conversation or interaction, is let off with a suspended sentence.
Read the report. The victim? 10 external stitches above the eye, 4 internal stitches. Blood everywhere. Pain and suffering. A permanent facial scar. Social anxiety flowing from the attack.
This is part of a pattern in the UK now. Vicious attacks, not infrequently (as here) carried out by a woman, often fuelled by booze or drugs (in this case, both), and/or with a defendant (often, and as in this case) basically crying in court and blaming “mental issues” and/or drink/drug problems for her disgusting crime.
The other part of said pattern is the undue leniency shown by judges, especially the part-time ones (such as the Recorder in this case).
GBH “with intent”, aka “s.18 GBH”, carries a maximum life sentence, and it trivializes the charge to sentence the woman here (who both pleaded guilty and accepted that her victim was, in the words of the Recorder, “entirely innocent” of any wrongdoing) to a suspended sentence.
I am not a “hang and flog” type of person, but I would have sentenced the defendant to at least a year in prison. Jez Turner of the London Forum got a year merely for urging, in a speech, that Jews be removed from the UK, while persecuted satirist and singer, Alison Chabloz, got months in prison for offending the delicate sensibilities of Zionist Jews and/or “holocaust” fraudsters via podcast discussions, cartoons and songs.
My own last real criminal case at the Bar (I mean real crime, not South West Water or Balfour Beatty failing to comply with regulation), was in a Crown Court in London in 1994, and that was also a “s.18” GBH with intent trial. My defendant had been involved in a fight with an aggressive attacker. He had thrown boiling oil over him, then stabbed him twice.
As to what sentence my lay client got (for what was almost a murder, the knife having come very close to penetrating the heart of the victim), there never was one; I managed to secure an acquittal on the ground of self-defence. He probably would have received about 5 years imprisonment from what was a very fierce old judge.
If judges (as sometimes seems now to be the case) keep letting violent criminals off lightly, especially when the defendant is a woman, society slides further down the slope to lawless anarchy.
More facemask nonsense (for the serving staff…). A puppet show.
How did we get from Dixon of Dock Green to Dame Cressida Dick and her Paramilitary Social Workers? This interview on the tragic decline of the police, which I gave to @prwhittle, has now had more than 70,000 views https://t.co/ytTrLi8T2l
The heir to the British throne (if it still exists by that time), who may indeed sit on that throne for a few years in the near-to-medium future, has said at the absurd Glasgow climate jamboree that the world is in the “last chance saloon“. Well, no-one has ever accused his family or dynastic line of either intellectuality or originality…
Now here is Charles again, flying around by helicopter, and preaching to those below that they must give up almost everything that makes life worth living.
High Court Approves Legal Challenge to Government re Holocaust memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens
Late on Friday afternoon the English High Court granted permission to appeal the Government decision to build the Holocaust Memorial in Victoria grdns (1)
The “benefits” point is all but irrelevant; I do not want vast foreign-origined populations in the UK, whether they work or not. The proper point arising from the above pictures is that they show to what extent London, and much of the rest of England (Britain, but mainly England) has been totally swamped.
This blog post has been triggered by my happening to have seen a couple of minor news items while idly browsing the Internet. The first reported that my old head of chambers –shall we call him M.B.?– from when I practised as a barrister in Exeter (2002-2007), has been elevated to the Bench as a Circuit Judge and is now styled His Honour Judge M.B.
The other news item was that the old (dating from 1905) Tower Bridge Magistrates’ Court and police station have been turned into “a luxury boutique hotel”. Sign of the times.
These reports have led me to muse on some of my own experiences with the judicial classes.
M.B. will probably make an effective judge. An erudite civil lawyer, I met him when I decided to stop being an employed lawyer (a situation I was in, intermittently, from 1996 through to 2002) and re-start Bar practice in England. I had been living and/or working overseas for much of those six or seven years, and in London, where at one time I was the leaseholder of property in Gray’s Inn (I lived at that time at Higher Denham, Buckinghamshire, from where I travelled in by rail from Denham Golf Club halt to Marylebone, a short journey lasting about 20 minutes).
I was in Kazakhstan for a year (1996-97) and after that also lived in or made shorter visits to a number of other countries: Egypt (where I lived for a while in Aswan, on a remote Red Sea beach under canvas, in a flat in Alexandria and in the desert oasis of Siwa); Turkey (I drove UK-Turkey-UK in 2001, which was quite an adventure at times: France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, a 4-month trip); the USA (based in Charleston, South Carolina, but I also stayed for a while in Tampa, Florida); Qatar; Liechtenstein; the Channel Islands, the Eastern Caribbean (several islands); the Cayman Islands, Minorca, Czech Republic, Northern Cyprus etc.
I remember one member of my future chambers remarking at my interview that my CV read in parts like that of James Bond. I had to point out that any resemblance between me and James Bond was purely co-incidental and very implausible (and not only because I have never belonged to any secret service!).
Still, I joined that set and in general found it OK, though at first it (and so I) had very little work. I had taken on the lease of one of the largest country houses in North Cornwall and liked the relaxed lifestyle of the Cornwall/Devon upstream Tamar River area.
As to M.B., not long after I joined the set, M.B. and I won a multi-day action in contract and trust together (though appearing for different people) at Plymouth County Court. After that, we did appear on opposite sides a couple of times during my 5 years in chambers, but he lost out despite being (arguably) a better advocate and (unarguably) a better lawyer than me.
I may as well add that, despite what some Jewish individuals claimed after I was disbarred in 2016 (about 8 years after I had left chambers and ceased Bar practice!), M.B. and the other fellow members of chambers (with one, possibly two exceptions: see below) did not want me to leave chambers, whether for political or any other reasons. Indeed, M.B. wanted me to stay on despite my having decided to resign.
In fact, I was commuting on a weekly or 2-weekly basis across the Channel to Finistere, where my wife and cats were living. This resulted in financial strain, in that I was only available for half the time, was paying out large amounts for ferries (return trip with car, luxury cabin too, about £300 return, every week or so…), hotels in the UK for 10-20 nights per month.
Putting the seal on it all, I was starting to have “discussions” with the Revenue (which only ended in 2012).
My only misgivings about M.B. as a judge would be that, firstly, he tends to stick with black-letter law; in my view, he is unwilling to bend the law to fit the justice of the case. Whether that is a strength or a weakness is a matter for debate.
Secondly, when I decided to leave chambers, I quite liked the idea of remaining as a door tenant [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door_tenant] and M.B. said that that would not be a problem and implied (indeed expressed, though in some other words) that it would be nodded through, but that the correct form would be for me to resign my tenancy first and then apply for door tenancy, though approval would “in my case” be automatic.
However, when it came to it, a couple of new tenants (I believe) cut up rough because one was married to some kind of Indian and was very hostile to (what he assumed were) my political views; I think (guessing) that a recent ex-pupil (a humourless bespectacled woman with an invisible sign round her neck saying “Politically-Correct Virtue-Signalling Christian”) may also have blackballed me.
In the event, the door tenancy would have been a waste of time because the Revenue was on my back at a cross-Channel distance. Still, that made me think that M.B. was not necessarily reliable, a thought that had occurred previously once or twice.
Now to another judge of sorts. Tower Bridge Magistrates’ Court, long before it was (quite recently) turned into a luxury boutique hotel, was for some years often presided over by one Jacqueline “Jackie” Comyns, a notoriously despotic “stipendiary magistrate” (the rank now renamed “District Judge Criminal”). Her reputation was fearsome.
I only appeared once in front of this gargoyle: I was “briefed” at 11 am to appear at 12! That was in 1993. I read the brief on the way to court. The defendant had refused to get off a defective bus and had then assaulted the conductor and gone on to smash the side window of a police car. She was pleading guilty.
At court, the case came on minutes after my arrival. The magistrate interrupted my mitigation to ask some petty question about the defendant. I did not know the answer, having not had time for a brief conference.
Instead of simply asking the defendant for the information, this ghastly frustrated prize bitch, sitting on her seat of petty power, told me venomously that Counsel had to be properly prepared when appearing in her court, and told me to go ask the defendant! I did, the pitying or amused eyes of dozens of police, court staff, members of the public on me as I traversed the unusually large courtroom and extracted the information.
I was told that that magistrate was going to be elevated to the Circuit bench in Essex, but that turned out to be wrong, because I see from the Internet that she was still dispensing justice from Thames Mags (on the other, i.e. North, side of the river from Tower Bridge Mags) as recently as 2013, the year that she retired (aged 70).
The problem of “judge-itis” (the tendency to be a despot sitting on the pedestal of power) is worse, usually, the further down the pecking order you go. It is rarely found in the higher courts.
At one time (1993-1995) I appeared on a frequent basis, at least once weekly, in the High Court. If I had a problem, it was never because the judge was reprising am-dram Nero or Caligula.
In the County Courts, the problem is occasionally encountered. HH Judge Overend, the presiding civil judge for Devon and Cornwall until 2006, was often a horrible despot when seated (at Plymouth County Court, usually), but in his case his bullying manner, and apparent tendency to make up his mind before you had finished —or even started— speaking, was mitigated by fairness and compassion for those suffering (so long as they were not Counsel!).
The barristers of the South West used to describe bruising encounters with that judge as one having been “Overended”…I have to say that on the odd occasion when he saw me outside court, he did always nod affably and even briefly smiled at times.
The magistrates’ courts are often the zoos where the wildest judicial animals roam their constricted territories. I once saw a stipendiary magistrate in London refuse bail to a defendant who was in court on a stretcher and on a drip !
Other judges have the opposite tendency, a pretty fatal one for a judge, a difficulty in deciding anything, especially if it would involve penalizing (eg imprisoning) those who break court orders. Judges whose Bar practice was entirely in civil work tend to fall victim to this; at least, that was my experience.
I have to say that I only found a few judges who were completely impossible. One was not a judge proper, i.e. the lady who presided over Tower Bridge Mags; another was one whose name escapes me now, but who sat at Uxbridge County Court 25 years ago. His connection with justice was, as far as I could see, purely formal. A horrible man. The many others, particularly on the High Court bench, might not always have seen eye to eye with me on the law or facts, but were almost always courteous in manner and impressive in their grasp.
Notes
District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) Jacqueline Roberta Comyns retires with effect from 14 June 2013
This is another vignette from my time at the Bar, specifically from my first six months (of a year, split up into two segments, in 1992 and 1993, with six months sojourn in New Jersey and New York in between) as a Bar pupil, which is a trainee barrister. I have, in a previous blog post, introduced the slightly comical figure of “the pupilmaster”, the anxious little Mauritian Indian barrister who was supposedly supervising me (we were the same age, 35). This account tells the tale of our day out in the university town of Cambridge.
Town and Gown
I had been to Cambridge a couple of times before. The first time was when I was about 25, with my then girlfriend. She was 32, a graduate of Cambridge University, and had contemporaries who were establishing themselves in academia and elsewhere. We stayed for a day or so with a couple who still lived in Cambridge; one of that couple was having his PhD thesis published as a book, and worked at the famous Scott Polar Research Institute.
My second visit to Cambridge, a decade later, was again University-connected, this time invited, by a friend at the Bar doing a Master’s degree, to Queen’s College, to the annual dinner of something called the E Society, a society which existed only to give its annual dinner; a club reminiscent of that written about by G.K. Chesterton in The Queer Feet [http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/QueeStep920.shtml].
That dinner took place in the richly-panelled rooms of the Dean of the College, a pleasant though cunning-seeming host and fellow (or should that be Fellow?), who later became briefly famous in the tabloid Press for two things: firstly, fulminating against “guests” of undergraduates (i.e. girlfriends/boyfriends) staying overnight in College; secondly, having a young woman actually living with him! (I believe that, by tradition, his office was reserved for bachelors living alone). The dinner was for about a dozen and was black-tie.
I also remember the dinner for other reasons: the Wagnerian-themed menu (“Valkyries on Horseback” etc); also the administrative slip when my “vegetarian request” (put in by the person who had invited me) turned out to have been lost in action. I was then ceremoniously served by the butler with a couple of poached eggs on toast! OK for me, but a hard-core veggie or vegan would have had a fit. I also recall the shock with which a fellow guest received my account of a TV programme I had seen about Filipino “psychic surgeons”. Turned out that he was the Something-or-Other Professor of Cardiac Surgery (and was unamused)!
Cambridge Crown Court
I saw Cambridge Crown Court on TV news recently. A horrible building which might be described as “public loo meets nuclear bunker” (with a nod to the Guggenheim in New York, in my opinion Frank Lloyd Wright’s least-successful conception).
However, in 1992 Cambridge Crown Court was still held in the ancient-seeming Guildhall (in fact built only in 1939).
It soon became clear that Cambridge was a little behind London in attitude. In London, when someone on bail “surrendered to custody” on day of trial, the “surrender” was nominal: he checked in with the Usher and his name was ticked off a list. In Cambridge, the defendant checked in and, despite having been on bail for months, was shoved into a cell! So it was that pupilmaster and I, having robed, found ourselves witness to an argument between two court guards and our defendant, who had arrived not long beforehand and had been roughly pushed into a cell with an injunction to “get your arse in there”… Having pacified the ongoing argument, we settled down (well, stood there– no furniture) to hear the defendant’s story already read in the brief.
According to the defendant (who was of “gypsy”, i.e. Irish tinker or, in today’s politically-correct terminology, “traveller” origin), he had been invited to travel with his friend (co-defendant) to Cambridge, far from their homes in Shepherd’s Bush, West London, in order to see a used car which the friend wanted to buy. While walking in the centre of Cambridge, he encountered a person described by him as “a hippy”, who had offered him a cigarette. Well, that cigarette “must have been drugs”, said the defendant, because when he regained consciousness he was in the back of a car which was being chased by a police car. He had been unable to understand why the police car, blue lights flashing and sirens sounding, was trying to chase the car in which he was now a passenger. The chase ended and, despite his having tried to explain himself, he had been arrested. Unlikely that he had ever read Kafka’s The Trial, but his surprise echoed that of Josef K.
The police account, which formed the case for the prosecution, was different. In their view, a car had been stolen by the co-defendant and defendant, had been sighted and chased and our defendant had exited the car on a bend and rolled under a parked car. His attempt to hide had been brought to a swift conclusion by a police dog.
This depressing and hopeless case might have caused pupilmaster to think a little unclearly. Never very punctual [see https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2018/06/19/home-and-away-or-neighbours/], pupilmaster was in danger of yet again irritating a judge by appearing late in Court (a massive discourtesy if the judge has already taken his seat). He poo-poohed my warning about this, saying, “Don’t worry– I know a short-cut into this court; it’s up those stairs. I’ve been here before”, indicating a dark stairway not far away. The defendant was bid au revoir for the moment, and we ascended the stairs.
In the words of Victorian novels, “imagine my surprise” when, instead of emerging outside the courtroom, we found ourselves in the dock! Worse, the judge was seated, looking livid, and the court was packed to such an extent that it reminded me of the famous courtroom scene in the old black and white film of A Tale of Two Cities. This was not good. Pupilmaster hissed at me to find the (hidden) catch so that we could exit the dock and take our proper place. After some fumbling, this was done. The judge, quite the Judge Jeffreys type, had turned that odd red-purple colour which might be called Judicial Livid, and which I myself may have triggered a couple of times in succeeding years. Not good.
The barrister for the co-defendant was there and all we now awaited was the putting-up of the defendants. It was at this point that it turned out that the co-defendant had exercized his non-existent right not to turn up for his trial. As a result, the trial collapsed, the defendant was bailed again and a warrant was issued for the arrest of the co-defendant.
So it was that another day in the pursuit of Justice ended.
Update, 24 June 2026
I happened to see this blog post for the first time in years (it was published in 2018) and, out of mere idle curiosity, looked up online the Scott Polar Research Institute to see whether the academic with whom my then girlfriend and I had stayed overnight was mentioned.
Well, since those days of the mid-1980s, the Internet has blossomed, and what a difference it makes to research! Turns out that the individual in question, though now retired (he must be about 76 or even 78 now) is still connected with that institute, is on its website, and now has a huge amount of academic publication and other activity to his name: https://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/people/vitebsky/#biography.
I wonder whether he is still married to (I think that they were married, though cannot be sure, after so long) the same lady with whom he lived well over 40 years ago.
Ian Robert Millard 