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Diary Blog, 14 May 2026

Morning music

[Parcellier, The Orangerie]

Talking point

The problem with such people (the ones who regard anything before 2000 as a Dark Age, in the face of all evidence) is that when you argue or discuss society with them, you are not having an argument or discussion with someone whose world-view is based on facts or —still less— reality, but with someone who is both deluded and self-deluded, someone who prefers fantasy to reality.

As Hitler said of the Weimar Republic, “they want not only their daily bread but their daily illusion“…”

[from this blog, 7 October 2020]

Tweets seen

[“Those close to Streeting say he has more than 81 nominations and could trigger a leadership contest. But they believe Streeting’s announcement could be pre-empted by the PM announcing a timetable for his departure, even today.

This could all be feverish wishful thinking. But I have been told by less partisan government sources that we are “in the end game”.

The alleged background is that some signatories of the “I back Keir letter” are telling him privately his time is up, that assorted cabinet ministers are set to tell him the same, and that one of those who works closest to the PM has been briefing such to backbench MPs.

BUT Downing Street is saying the ball is in Streeting’s court and there is no chance of the PM announcing a departure timetable today. And that if Streeting wants a leadership contest, he will have to trigger it.

It is quite the game of chicken, with the future of the government at stake.”]

There seems to be a belief, both in the Labour Party and in the msm, that if Starmer is replaced by some other Labour Friends of Israel clown, whether Streeting, Burnham, Angela Rayner, even fraudulent expenses cheat Yvette Cooper, then Labour’s poll rating will jump back up. I doubt it. The Labour Party is as good as finished.

“Them”…(((them)))…

Believe me, I have seen it at the Bar etc (as student, Bar pupil, as barrister, as wrongfully and unlawfully-disbarred ex-barrister, and as dispassionate observer), and in spades (no pun intended…) for over 40 years (1986-2026)…

Israel-lobby puppet Lindsey Graham threatens China. Must be the best joke the Chinese have heard all year.

That is how the shambolic, brutal, and corrupt Kiev regime recruits its cannon-fodder.

Neither side in that war should be targeting civilians or civilian areas directly. Russia must win the war, but do it cleanly, with honour.

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[The Wicker Man, 1973]

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Needless to say, that parallel drawn with the Sunak history is exactly why Starmer and his MPs will not call a general election. A general election now would certainly mean Labour MPs reduced to a rump of between 30 and 100. It could be near-existential for the Labour Party.

In fact, that is Starmer’s best argument (to the MPs) for carrying on and continuing to pretend that he needs to “continue to govern the country“, and can continue to pretend that everything will be OK if all his critics would just shut up and go away: “rebel against me and you will lose your well-paid Commons seat, your salary, those generous expenses, and those career prospects…forever.

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

Oh…was that in question, then?…

Silberstein, Sonnenschein [etc].

Get the picture?

Every. Single. Time.

The malicious Jew-Zionist “Campaign Against Antisemitism” is currently on yet another funding drive and pledge drive. Rich Jews agree to double all donations made. So far, in only a short space of time, the total seems to have reached nearly £800,000, to be used to fund their propaganda, including propaganda via abusive private prosecutions known as “lawfare”— abuse of English laws to repress free speech by English/British people in this country.

From where does all that money originate?

In fact, barrister and —until he was sacked— part-time judge Simon Myerson (abusive online troll), based in Leeds, actually founded a “charity” to import more Afghans, Afghans specifically, into this country.

Myerson has long been associated with both the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] and “UK Lawyers for Israel” [UKLFI], the memberships of which overlap. UKLFI was behind my wrongful and (later admitted as such by the Bar Standards Board) unlawful disbarment of 2016: see

Swamped.

The only answer is real social nationalism…and soon.

Fight the good fight.

See also:

[“To go to a patriotic rally in the UK:

The bank transactions to buy a train ticket are tracked and logged. Your phone acts as a tracking beacon every step of the way.

When you arrive, the facial recognition technology screens you against your passport photo and identifies you instantly.

This links back to your phone and social media activity, allowing the AI to assess your degree of risk and or personality type.“]

In any case, rallies, demonstrations, and marches do not achieve much in the way of concrete results.

Late tweets

[“Abdoela Berhan, a 35-year-old Eritrean national and asylum seeker housed at the taxpayer-funded Britannia Hotel in Bournemouth remains a fugitive.

Outside Cameo nightclub in Bournemouth, Berhan approached 20-year-old Cleo Lake and her friends after they left. He made them uncomfortable, tried to put his arm around one, and persisted after being told to leave.

After verbal exchanges, a shove, and a missed kick from him, Berhan punched Lake in the face with a forceful blow. She was knocked unconscious for around 5 minutes, suffered a broken nose, black eye, and ongoing psychological effects.“]

Wall. Squad. End.

Our unconquerable children!

The ANC successors-in-government to the half-wit Mandela are presiding over a white genocide, and the proportion of white Europeans in South Africa, once as high as 20%, is now no more than 5%, in fact probably lower, and still falling fast as both Afrikaaners and English-speaking South Africans flee overseas.

Looking at the dismal state of South Africa today, it is hard to believe that the world’s first heart transplant was performed there, in 1967: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Barnard.

Likewise, pre-ANC South Africa had the highest average living standards in the world.

Yes, for white/Europeans, not for the blacks, mixed-race (“Coloureds”) or other inhabitants (Indians etc), but the standards of living for the blacks were still higher in South Africa than they were in most of Black Africa, and one of the biggest problems for the SA Government was illegal black immigration!

Africans from other parts of southern Africa were very interested in relocating to South Africa under apartheid. Not something you ever heard about on the BBC or other Western TV/radio, or read in most of the UK (etc) newspapers, of course…

There again, are most of the black Africans better off now than they were under apartheid? No. A small percentage are, those who are in (corrupt) government and its offshoots, mainly. For most black South Africans, life is actually harder than it was before the 1990s; one reason why the Africans are dissatisfied and are turning to extremist populists who blame the ever-fewer remaining whites for the continuing poverty of the blacks.

Still, the Anglo-American and other pro-Mandela dimwits prefer not to see those truths.

More late tweets

That Pole certainly has a point.

Journalists (scribblers and talking-heads) and msm photographers/paparazzi etc are a very low breed, almost without exception.

Satirical singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz was hounded by the Press pack and BBC swine, years ago. Her aged parents even found that deceitful and now “cancelled” Pakistani “British” journalist, Martin Bashir [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Bashir] peering through the windows of their house in a tiny, rather remote Peak District village, and also standing, lurking, in flower beds, for a day or so.

It will be recalled that Bashir, later and ludicrously, the BBC’s religious affairs editor (a Muslim apostate who calls himself “Christian”) was found to have lied and cheated in relation to the Princess Diana matter:

Bashir faked bank statements suggesting individuals close to Diana were being paid by security services to spy on her, using these to gain the trust of her brother, Earl Spencer.

Bashir was also found to have lied and broadcast “fake news” on many other occasions, in the UK, USA, and elsewhere.

Still, life sometimes has ways of punishing the wicked. Bashir had to resign (or be sacked) from the BBC in 2021. He has also had serious health problems. He foolishly took a “Covid” “vaccine”, after which he had to have a quadruple heart bypass operation.

In the past 5 years, Bashir has not been able to get work in the msm by reason of his persistent dishonesty. Totally washed-up.

As for that Martin Godwin character, he obviously thinks that, like Bashir, he can snoop on people where they live. Would he like the same to happen to him, or to his family? I doubt it.

Our animal friends.

Late music

Diary Blog, 13 October 2024

Afternoon music

[painting by Jo March]

Peter Hitchens

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13952661/PETER-HITCHENS-Stop-worshipping-MI5-just-Blairite-secret-police-force-budget-boost.html

“PETER HITCHENS: Stop worshipping MI5 – it’s just a Blairite secret police force with a budget to boost

[Daily Mail]

Ha. I should like to read that but it is behind a paywall, and I refuse to pay.

London. Zoo.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13952631/Rapists-jailed-girl-Met-Police-Tube.html

Three men who filmed themselves while gang raping a 13-year-old girl have been jailed  have been jailed for a total of 34 and a half years.”

[defendant]
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[defendant]

Odds-on that the 13-y-o victim was white.

Incidentally, the misleading Daily Mail report talks about “34 and a half years” whereas, in fact, the heaviest sentence was one of 12.5 years, meaning that the untermensch will be released in about 6 years.

Rhetorical question: do we need such untermenschen in our society? Of course not.

Imagine what this poor country will be like in 2034, 2044, 2054. If you encounter another actual English person, you will have to greet him by saying “hello, Robinson Crusoe!“…

“Traveller” pest

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13940739/Travellers-illegal-camp-woodland-smell-noise-hell.html

“Travellers who illegally set up camp next to family homes have finally been given the boot – but only after distressed neighbours endured years of ‘misery’, ‘noise’ and ‘stench’ at their hands.

Shocking aerial photos show the state the land has been left in following an expensive legal battle by the council to win back the plot which lies in the picturesque Kent village of Vigo, near Gravesend.

[Daily Mail]

The so-called “traveller” menace is one of the biggest law and order problems in the UK, but the police and politicians are unwilling to do what it takes to “solve” that problem.

Can you imagine this chaos and official weakness happening during the 12 years of the German Reich of 1933-1945? I think not.

As with so many aspects of life in contemporary Britain, the people suffer while evildoers prosper.

Roma gypsy convicted

[defendant]

https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/24643626.buckinghamshire-mobile-phone-thief-caught-red-handed-cctv/

A serial thief who targeted restaurant customers in Buckinghamshire and Berkshire has been caught on CCTV swiping a mobile phone from an unassuming victim.

Nirex Stanescu, 24, was jailed for eight months after pleading guilty to nine counts of mobile phone theft at Reading Crown Court on Friday, September 27.”

[Reading Chronicle]

A few points to note: firstly, that the Reading Chronicle does not identify the defendant as a Roma Gypsy (other than by publishing a photo). The newspaper does not even take the usual msm-weasel approach of calling her “Romanian”, which is so often seen but rarely strictly correct (the Roma gypsies are, ethnically, not Romanians, as such, even when they hold Romanian passports and/or live in Romania).

Secondly, the woman in question is obviously a persistent nuisance, yet is sentenced to only 8 months (for a total of 9 offences), meaning that she will do 40% of c.32 weeks, about 12 weeks.

Thirdly, why is she even (allowed) here? Get rid of her, and all the others like her, and stop similar trash from entering the country.

Tweets seen

https://twitter.com/IhabHassane/status/1844142058925326687

Reform UK is still “controlled opposition”. Goodwin himself is welcome on TV etc, and is pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby. All the same, Reform UK is helping to break down the existing structure.

“They” are behind much of the migration-invasion.

The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan. [“They” have vandalized the Wikipedia entry, but it still gives the overall picture].

When I was (wrongfully) put on trial in 2023, Prosecution Counsel made a pathetic suggestion that the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan was a (mere) “conspiracy theory“. I answered quite firmly that it certainly was not, and that all he had to do was to open his eyes to what was happening all around him. He did not attempt to take the matter further.

For those unaware that I was subjected to a free speech trial last year, please see:

Israel’s “Warsaw Ghetto”, but the (Israeli) Jews often treat the Gazans far worse than the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto were treated.

[SS troops escort non-combatant Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Note the generally good physical condition of the Jews]
[Warsaw Ghetto, 1942, a year before the armed uprising. Shown are Jewish Ghetto Police guarding a gate into the Ghetto]

Philosophical note: Earnest Sevier Cox

https://counter-currents.com/2019/08/earnest-sevier-cox/

I had not previously heard of Earnest Sevier Cox. A regular reader of the blog suggested the link.

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…and “those” (((those))) in the UK, France etc who support what the Israeli forces are doing are not only supporters but also propagandists, facilitators, agents, and fundraisers for the Israeli state and its war crimes.

What goes around comes around…

Reports that Halevi, the Israeli Chief of Staff, has been killed are at time of writing unconfirmed.

News reports are also suggesting that weapons due to be used against Iran “by Israel” will in fact be operated by American serving soldiers or Air Force personnel. If so, that constitutes a direct act of war by the USA against Iran.

That will be, increasingly, the fate of British people (and European people generally) unless and until we take back control.

In Ireland, but there are undoubtedly similar crimes being committed in the UK.

ps. I could suggest a couple of extra policies to add to that list.

…and illegal migration invasion is only 10% or even only 5% of all immigration into the UK. A looming catastrophe for us.

For those with eyes to see, Starmer hits all the buttons: Israel lobby, Jewish lobby, Bilderberg Group, freemasonry, WEF/Davos, you name it.

Starmer is basically just a traitor to the people of this country, and unfit to be Prime Minister.

Late music

Diary Blog, 29 May 2024, including a look at Natalie Elphicke

Morning music

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

Tweets seen

I never believe “them” without corroborative evidence.

Exactly. Eternal “victims”, even when they are victimizing others.

A mere caution, for attacking an elderly man in the street.

Natalie Elphicke

Whatever the facts of that, there are facts that are indisputable: Natalie Elphicke could have stood at GE 2024 as Con Party candidate. She received 56.9% of the vote in 2019 under that aegis.

I was puzzled as to why Natalie Elphicke crossed the floor, she after all knowing that a general election had to be called sometime before a date in January 2025. Does she have some better offer from outside Parliament? Seems doubtful to me.

Natalie Elphicke gives me a dual impression: not particularly intelligent, but particularly focussed on her own ambitions.

Incidentally, many may be misled by the academic section of her biographical details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Elphicke#Early_life_and_career.

As a former member of Lincoln’s Inn, I have met several people over the years who were (as was Natalie Elphicke— see the Wikipedia entry) beneficiaries of Hardwicke scholarships. None impressed.

I saw this comment:

Hardwicke Scholarships aren’t that prestigious. A mere submission of an application is more than enough to win one. They give about 150 away each year, and not many more people apply to each inn for a scholarship, surprisingly enough.” [online commentator].

I think that the real figure is nearer to 100 than 150.

To intrude a personal comment, I recall a young blonde lady barrister who (unsuccessfully, in all cases) opposed me in court a number of times during 2002-2008 when I was in chambers in Exeter (she was in another set, also in Exeter). She was a former Hardwicke scholar, just like Natalie Elphicke. I used to think of her as “Mrs Malaprop”, because her use of English was so poor. Comically so. A pretty poor barrister in terms of both legal knowledge and presentation, in my view, though wearing a sense of self-importance as thick as a suit of armour.

I had better not name that lady, mainly for reasons of propriety (I am too poor now to be worth suing; and there would be no basis for such a suit anyway). I just looked her up online for the first time, and found that she is still in Exeter, and still in the same chambers as she was 20+ years ago, apparently flourishing like the green bay tree.

I note that, having been Called to the Bar in 1994, only a few years after me, Natalie Elphicke decided to leave the Bar and to convert to be a solicitor (something that, at least then, basically meant filling out a few forms).

Natalie Elphicke only worked as a lawyer for a year or two, as a salaried employee of the Inland Revenue (as was; now HMRC) during 1995-1997. She married her now ex-husband, Charlie Elphicke, in 1995. They have two children. She appears to have returned to legal work for a year or two during the years 2011-2013, before helping to found a company which was dissolved 2-3 years later.

After that, her husband’s connections seem to have got her a couple of brief public appointments in the years 2016-2019, as well as the CEO job at the Housing and Finance Institute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_and_Finance_Institute. This may not be very lucrative, though, looking at the Institute’s funding. Hard to say.

Ah…[10 mins later…]… seems that my hunch was correct: that HFI CEO position is entirely unpaid: see https://members.parliament.uk/member/4795/registeredinterests.

Many will know that, though having displayed (performative?) “loyalty” to her disgraced MP husband, Charlie Elphicke, during his trial, Natalie Elphicke had by then already taken over as MP for Dover in 2019. She separated from him in 2020, and later divorced him, prior to which she sold her story to the Sun “newspaper” for £25,000. https://www.kentonline.co.uk/deal/news/mp-wife-of-naughty-tory-paid-25k-to-tell-all-234749/.

I have to say that I agreed (and still agree) with Natalie Elphicke’s comment at the time of her husband’s unsuccessful appeal (against sentence only— he had been sentenced to 2 years, plus £35,000 costs, and was released after a year) that the 2-year sentence was harsh. He had really done very little: “During his trial the court heard how Elphicke groped one of his accusers, chased her around his house, and sang “I’m a naughty Tory, I’m a naughty Tory.” [Wikipedia].

I should have thought that a suspended sentence would have been enough. From what I read at the time, his three crimes were all just silly, really; almost identical, too, and surely only just coming within the “sex crime” area. Pathetic more than anything, in my opinion.

To my mind, if crimes and criminals can be divided into “bad, sad, or mad“, Charlie Elphicke’s conduct was surely “sad“, with a dash of “mad“, but nothing seriously “bad“.

Having —whether rightly or wrongly, and I think rightly— identified Natalie Elphicke as a “go for the main chance” opportunist, why on Earth did she defect to Labour? Looking at the electoral statistics for Dover, she had a very good chance of being re-elected. Maybe Starmer offered her a peerage (seems unlikely, though), or some quango chair (more likely), or a safe Labour seat (relatively unlikely, surely?).

I admit, Mrs. Elphicke’s motivation is still puzzling to me.

As to Charlie Elphicke, I had little time for him when he was an MP, but I have to say that his fall from status and relative affluence has the elements of a minor Greek tragedy. Apparently, he now lives in a small rented flat somewhere like Earl’s Court, and may (I do not know) be either unemployed or working in some obscure occupation. I can find no record of him still on the Solicitors’ Register, and the same is true of Natalie Elphicke, but as far as I know both are still able to practise; again, I cannot say.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-61276734

While looking up the above details, I noticed this story from the Daily Mail in 2022: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10367265/Naughty-Tory-Charlie-Elphicke-makes-700-000-profit-selling-cliffside-home-Kent.html.

Turns out that the Elphickes bought a house on the Kent coast for about £800,000 in 2012, and were able to sell it only a decade later for over £1.5M. The house almost doubled in value in 10 years. A commentary upon the house-price madness in this country.

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There is also no evidence that Reform UK is getting anywhere. Nothing lower than an across-the-board 20% will win any seats; even a few percent more may only win a small handful, maybe 3-5. 11%, 12%, even 15%, is “nowhere” territory in seat-winning terms.

The LibDems and Greens are on a lower nationwide support, yet have seats in the Commons because their vote is concentrated, here and there.

Having said that, I make two points. Firstly, most intending Reform UK voters know perfectly well that RF is not going to win many, if any, seats. Their vote is a protest vote and/or a way of kicking the Sunak government and Conservative Party, by weakening greatly the Con Party vote in almost every constituency, but without voting Labour.

Secondly, as mooted yesterday, there may be a number, perhaps even a large number, of “secret Reform UK voters”, who do not show up in the opinion polls because they say “Don’t Know” or nominate a mainstream party out of embarrassment. Very English, arguably.

I doubt whether the usual general election convergence will happen this time. People hate and despise the useless Conservative Party governments of the past 14 years, and especially the past 5 years. That includes a huge number of 2019 or previous Con voters.

In fact, I should not be surprised were the Lab-Con gap to widen, though more because the Cons may slide again rather than because Labour increase their percentage.

A plurality of voters do not know where Starmer stands. For Starmer, that may be what he wants.

Telling…

That must be “value” olive oil. The last bottle I bought (extra-virgin olive oil, first cold pressing, but not a single-estate or special one) was nearly £13.

Incredible posting by Simon Myerson (1) @JewishMirelle’s statement can be opinion and defamatory. (2) Myerson is re-publishing a likely defamatory statement. (3) He’s a KC suggesting to someone on twitter that their statement might not be defamatory. (4) He’s the KC who acted for Pete Newbon according the Telegraph. #GroundhogDay

Myerson again.

Honest opinion is now a defence [Defamation Act 2013, s.3].

I think that I shall quit now, while I am ahead. I have not been in Bar practice for 16 years, and do not, in general, keep up with changes in the law.

General Election news

According to my use of Electoral Calculus, that might result in a House of Commons with 541 Lab MPs, 46 LibDem, 28 Con, 12 SNP, 3 Plaid Cymru, 2 Green, and 18 various Northern Irish.

On those figures, what Disraeli described as “the great Conservative Party, which destroys everything“, would be itself almost destroyed, reduced to a rump of 20 MPs; not even the official Opposition, which would be the LibDems.

Such a result would be a strategic defeat for the SNP too. 12 MPs, down from 56 (out of 59) at the 2015 peak, and 48 at the 2019 GE.

I get the impression that the SNP’s version of fake “nationalism” (blame England/the UK for everything, keep importing non-whites into Scotland, and think it normal to have a Pakistani as First Minister) has well and truly foundered on the rocks of socio-political reality). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party#House_of_Commons.

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html.

Of course, a change in the Labour vote of even one point either way would add several to (or subtract several from) the Conservative total, and even more to or from the Labour total.

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A twisted and evil woman.

Ukraine knows that it’s all over” While the UK is preoccupied with the general elections, Kyiv “cannot withstand Putin’s brutal attack,” reports the British The Telegraph. Main points:

Kiev was forced to transfer thousands of soldiers to the northeastern part of the front line to try to slow down the advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the Kharkov region.

The war is reaching a critical point as Western interest in helping Ukraine risks weakening again.

Zelensky seems to understand that time is running out for Ukraine: over the weekend he called on Joe Biden and Xi Jinping to take part in the upcoming “peace summit” in Switzerland.

Zelensky’s team is concerned about the shift of attention in the United States to internal elections: Ukraine is receding into the background.

The harsh reality is that Ukraine risks simply running out of people to fight.

Exactly.

I have, on the blog, been saying for 2 years that Russia cannot lose this war, and will not lose it.