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Diary Blog, 25 August 2026

Morning music

[cows rest in the shade near the walls of Beaulieu Palace House, Hampshire]

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Talking point

A revolution is not a sudden eruption, but the accumulation of silent changes that suddenly become visible.”

[Alexis de Tocqueville]

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

Travel vlog— Birobidzhan

Interesting, as with their other travel vlog posts, though —as before— there is a degree of naivety (re. Stalin, Lenin, Third Reich, though in different ways).

In fact, the husband of the vlogging couple, “Matt”, describes the idea of Lenin being Jewish as something put out by “conspiracy theorists“. No, it is not a conspiracy theory but (partly-) true. Lenin was a part-Jew. His mother’s name was Blank, but she too was not full-Jew, just part (and possibly “crypto”).

Turns out that Birobidzhan, the Jewish “autonomous” area set up by Stalin in the Soviet Far East, now has relatively few Jews, the rest having decamped to Israel since the 1980s.

Birobidzhan is actually just the city, not the name of the oblast, but is the name customarily used for both.

The oblast is only small by comparison with the whole of Siberia, or the whole of Russia: 14,000 square miles, so nearly twice the size of Wales (8,000 sq. miles) or New Jersey (8,700 sq. miles).

According to Wikipedia, as of 2021 the oblast had about 150,000 inhabitants, of which half lived in the city, and only 837 of which were Jews.

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

Actually, Birobidzhan, the main town or city, though rather rundown, is not terrible, and resembles most other Soviet or ex-Soviet urban areas.

Tweets seen

The UK is doing more than selling armaments to the Kiev regime. It is encouraging the Jew-Zionist/Ukrainian-thug regime to target, ever more deeply, Russian territory, attacking Russian cities, installations, and civilians.

Giving arms and money to the Zelensky regime is, in context, close to an act of war, as is giving that regime blueprints to make long-range ballistic missiles in the full knowledge (and actually expressed) that those missiles will be, and should be, used against Russia.

What the UK governments, since 2014, and especially 2022, have been doing in relation to the conflict (one-sided support for the Kiev regime) is mad, and counter to all British interests.

In fact, this is an international and multinational NWO/ZOG (New World Order/Zionist Occupation Government) operation, targeting Russia and its future.

What Burnham and virtually the whole political/msm class in Britain are doing is crazy from one point of view (the point of view of what is best for Britain and its people), but deliberate and co-ordinated from another.

“...and none dare call it treason“…

Craig Murray was once H.M. Ambassador to Uzbekistan [2002-2004], did 4 months (of an 8-month sentence) in prison in 2021 for contempt of court arising out of the Alex Salmond sex assault trial, and is now a particularly prolific and financially-successful blogger etc.

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

Old Laurens van der Post certainly seems to have been a bit naughty at times…

See also:

In big-picture terms, all correct.

One might quibble about bits of those tweets, but overall— correct.

Sikorski, a Pole, is married to the Jewish writer, Anne Applebaum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rados%C5%82aw_Sikorski

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

The disconnect between the picture of Kiev-regime Ukraine painted by the UK’s lying mass media (a besieged and brave democracy with human rights, fighting an evil monster ruling an evil tyranny) and the reality (a corrupt, shambolic, brutal dictatorship where elections are never held, where men are kidnapped off the street and brutalized before being sent to die on the crumbling front-lines of an unwinnable war, and where opponents of the regime are locked-up or shot) is staggering.

I can see that the judges are now getting very restrictive about what defendants-in-person and even barristers are “allowed” (by the trial judge) to say in putting the defence case at such trials; “political trials” if you like, or semi-political. The recent Greenstein case, involving alleged vocal support for HAMAS, was one such: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwym4gg7vr1o.

The Greenstein case is interesting also because not only was the defendant, though anti-Israel, a Jew, but so was the presiding judge at trial (H.H.J. Sarah Plaschkes).

A Jewish judge presiding over a trial the subject matter of which was, or involved, Israel, Gaza, HAMAS etc. Was that “justice not only done but also seen to be done“? In the event, the question falls, Greenstein having been acquitted.

Interesting in view of the Jewish/Israeli connections around both Trump and the Argentine President, Milei.

It is suggested that Jewish interests are buying up vast tracts of land in Argentina, a country the 8th-largest in the world (12x the size of the UK), and much of which is given over to cattle ranching.

News which will probably not be reported in the UK msm.

Maybe he would like to follow the lead of his new “friend”, the Jew Zelensky, and simply ban elections. He certainly “does politics differently”…anyone seriously opposing him gets imprisoned or shot.

[“Middlesbrough is a small town

Many if us know our police officers

On Saturday morning almost everyone i have ever known was messaging about the crash on the A66

By midday most of us who live in the area knew who was involved

Many of us have had to put up with their crap everyday for years

Many of us have known about those 5 murderers for a while . . . Including me

So here is a list of their CONVICTIONS prior to Saturday morning

Cole Robert Worthy –

Threatening/abusive language

Failing to surrender

ASSAULT ON A POLICE OFFICER

Driving without a licence

No insurance

Driving without reasonable consideration(using a mobile phone while driving)

Makai Saddington –

Possession of a Class C drug

Possession of a KNIFE in public

Three counts of ASSAULTING A POLICE OFFICER in October 2025

ASSAULT ON A POLICE OFFICER in June 2026

Racially aggravated intentional harassment/alarm/distress)

Theo Rae –

12 shoplifting offences

3 thefts from motor vehicles

1 theft of a vehicle

Possession of cannabis

Two counts of aggravated vehicle taking

Conviction of an offence while a youth rehabilitation order was in force- ASSAULT ON A FEMALE POLICE OFFICER

Jacob Matusiak –

Using a vehicle without insurance

Driving without a licence

Some list isnt it?

You are probably wondering how they where still on the streets because you are a rational human being and not some feral mutant?

How where they free men?

How where they in a position to kill two police officers by driving down the wrong side of the motor way at speed?

I have asked myself these questions many times over the last few years

What the list doesnt show is how much they actually get away with. It is so much worse than this

Do you know how messed up you need to be to get 12 shoplifting convinctions?

People barely report this stuff anymore because we KNOW nothing will happen. Look at the convictions and tell me im wrong

So many of them should result in long prison sentences but our prisons are full. We cant put them away. The absolute worst in society are not being punished, they havent been for a long long time

The criminal “justice” system is a joke in this country. It has failed so many of us. Rpists amd murderers being released early. Pdophiles getting community service (yep)

Are we even a real country?

12 arrests were made today. A good start

The town of Middlesbrough needs this numbers to go up by the hundreds and it needs to happen FAST

You know who they are

You know where they live

You know what they have done

You know what they will continue to do

People are being terrorised by them RIGHT NOW as I type this message

Round them up and put them in a dark hole before many more innocent people get hurt

Then apply this to every area of the United Kingdom

Call it operation cockroach, I wont even trade mark the name. Its yours

The knock on effect of putting bad people in jail is monumental

It can change the country over night

Families can breathe
They can walk outside safely
Kids can play outside and make friends
Communities rebuild
Food prices go down
We can have nice things
You could even put a window in a bus stop again
I can take my dog for a walk without his feet BLEEDING from walking on broken glass

Most importantly people who devote their lives to helping others, like PC Tom Clough and PC Matthew Blades did, can come home to their familes

The criminal justice system has failed them miserably

It has failed their colleagues miserably

The criminal justice system continues to fail every single resident of Middlesbrough and the United Kingdom

It is a national disgrace. You have blood on your hands

It has to change.“]

It is true that there is a slide into lawlessness. I just had a look at the local newspaper here (coastal Hampshire/Dorset). A nursing employee who stole the bank card of a care home resident and used it— “avoided jail“; ex-“firefighter” who (online) intimidated a woman whom his son had raped, who also then assaulted paramedics etc and issued threats to kill the same woman, later excusing himself by reason of having been drunk— “suspended sentence“; etc etc.

Incidentally, it interests me that it (seems that it) was only after two policemen were killed that the local police got really active and started to arrest members of the local “chavscum” crime groups.

Yet absurd and pointless “cases”, especially at the behest of the Jewish/Israel lobby, are still going to court occasionally, as seen below:

[“The Jews are horrendous.”

A former @LibDems Councillor has been found to have “posted antisemitic tweets which were likely to stir up racial hatred.”

Pat Marsh, who was arrested in February 2024 after the posts were reported to police, served as a North Yorkshire Councillor and Mayor of Harrogate.

There were a number of antisemitic tweets, including: • “It is shameful the world is silent and the Jews are horrendous.” • “I hope the Jews feel proud of this!!!!! They are evil.” • “The Jews are vile showing they have no care other than for themselves.”

A prosecutor in the case said the posts were “greater than bigotry in the extreme”. Anti-Jewish hatred can have no place in British politics. When antisemitism presents itself, those responsible must be held accountable.”]

I wonder who reported those tweets to the police. Was it the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”? I expect so. They constantly “report” (often invented) matters to police, professional regulators etc.

What the liars and perjurers of the “CAA” do not say in their tweet is that the defendant there is a lady of 78, with no previous convictions; they also omit the facts that, since February 2024 when she was arrested, the defendant developed dementia, as a result of which she was found unfit to stand trial.

The prosecutor (I presume from the Clown Prosecution Service, though it may have been one of the CAA’s abusive private prosecutions), however continued with “a trial of the facts” (I presume in the absence of the defendant), and a jury (half-witted, it seems), brought in a meaningless verdict of Guilty, after which the judge handed down an equally meaningless sentence— an absolute discharge!

Worthy of Alice in Wonderland. A lady in her late seventies actually arrested for those rather mild tweets (probably about the sadistic slaughter being carried out by Israeli Jews in Gaza), but the trial only taking place 2.5 years later, a trial which was entirely meaningless, and served only to allow the “CAA” —proven liars whose sworn testimony has, on occasion, not been believed— to tweet as seen above.

A jury trial over that petty nonsense! Lewis Carroll or Franz Kafka?

See also: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79g2l40gv3o

It occurs to me that, had the defendant been found fit to stand trial, and had done so, the jury might have acquitted her, but knowing that nothing would happen to her after the pointless “trial of the facts”, took the easy way out and convicted.

More tweets

Literally thousands of virtue-signalling nitwits have already bought copies.

Every. Single. Time.

[“The donkey is the animal the language keeps for when it wants to call a person stupid.

In the spring of 1915, on the worst ground of the century, one of them walked into the guns for three and a half weeks and never once refused.

Gallipoli. Anzac Cove, a strip of stony beach under cliffs the Turks held. The wounded came down a gully so worked over by rifle and shell that the men named it Shrapnel Gully and meant it as a plain description.

Up at the head of the valley the fighting fed a constant traffic of broken men who had to be got down to the dressing station on the sand. There were never enough stretchers or bearers, and the track down lay open to the guns the whole length of it.

Onto that beach on the first morning came a stretcher-bearer, a lad from South Shields who had gone out to Australia and enlisted there under half his name, John Simpson.

On the second day, a wounded man on his back, he found one of the donkeys that had been landed to haul water and then left behind. From that morning until the morning he died, the two of them worked the gully.

Simpson is the half of the story that could weigh the odds and decide to go anyway.

The donkey could do no such thing. It could not read the ground or count the guns. It could only be led to the foot of a track every soldier on the peninsula knew was a killing floor, have a man who could not walk loaded onto its back, and be asked to climb.

And it climbed. In daylight, which no sane man did. At night.

Through fire so heavy that John Monash, commanding at the head of the valley, singled the pair out in writing: Simpson and his little beast, he said, had earned the admiration of everyone up there.

Simpson went in front, singing and whistling as though the bullets were weather. The donkey plodded. At the bottom it was unloaded onto the sand, and then it turned itself round and went back up into the fire for the next one.

It made that climb over and over, day after day, up into the guns and down again with a man on its back, on a track where grown soldiers moved bent double and prayed.

The names change in the telling, Duffy and Abdul and Murphy, and the men at the top knew the little procession on sight. How many wounded came down on that back nobody can honestly say, and the round numbers fixed to the story later, three hundred and the rest, are mostly legend.

What is not legend is that it went on, without a day off, under fire, until the nineteenth of May, when Simpson was shot carrying two wounded men and was buried that evening in the sand at a place called Hell Spit. He was twenty-two.

The donkey lived.

Another bearer took it on, and the work carried on without the man who started it.

When the whole ruined campaign was finally given up and the survivors were taken off that beach, they did not leave it behind for the enemy. They got it onto a boat and away to safety.

Somewhere in the moving of it a soldier buckled a collar round its neck. The collar read: Murphy VC. Please look after him.

That is men who had seen everything a war can do to a body, stopping to ask a stranger to be kind to a donkey.

Eighty-two years later, to the very day, on the nineteenth of May 1997, the RSPCA awarded its Purple Cross, the highest honour there is for an animal, to Murphy, and, as the certificate reads, to all the donkeys used by John Simpson Kirkpatrick.

When the country went looking for one image to carry the memory of that whole catastrophe, out of a campaign full of generals it chose a stretcher-bearer and a donkey. It cast the pair in bronze outside the national memorial, and stood them again in his home town on the Tyne.

We keep the beast as our word for stubborn and stupid.

It was handed the dying on the worst ground of the century, and it carried them down out of the fire, and it turned round, and it went back up for more.”]

Our animal friends.

After cats, donkeys are my favourite animal.

Incidentally, I myself was on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 2001, en route from the UK to southern Turkey by car. It is a completely peaceful peninsula now. My wife and I stayed for a few days at Canakkale, on the other side of the Dardanelles Strait. You had to cross by a small ferry in those days; there is a large bridge now, a few miles away, and the empty dusty roads on the European side, with vast sunflower fields all around, once you leave the peninsula and are in Thrace proper, have been partly supplanted by a motorway or major highway.

Another Israeli war crime.

May be something that could be tried in the UK, but limited to real English/Welsh/Scottish parents.

I hate having Zelensky’s ugly mug on the blog, but there it is.

A horrible tribe, intent on genocide or as near genocide as makes little difference.

If you support the Jewish state, you support that kind of backwardness.

Matt and Julia travel vlog (from today)— Iran

For some reason, will not post.

Try to copy and paste.

Well worth seeing.

Ah…fortune favours the persistent…

Seems that (uniquely, of all the vlogs I repost…so far), this one had to be embedded specifically.

Interesting to see how friendly the ordinary people are to the vloggers, and also to see all the young women strolling relaxedly around in twos and threes, or with family, many not wearing veils, or even headscarfs.

Always interesting to see something other than the usual msm output.

Late music

Diary Blog, 22 August 2026

Afternoon music

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Saturday quiz

Well, this week a firm victory over political journalist John Rentoul: he scored a modest 3/10, which was trumped by my 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 2, and 7 and, though I had an idea about question 3, did not get the name.

Tweets seen

[“Ukraine: the video embarrassing Kiev, filmed by Swedish television itself A few seconds before SVT’s live broadcast from central Kiev, Bengt Norborg’s team’s camera captures a scene to say the least brutal: several men pounce on a Ukrainian and forcibly bundle him into a van. The most embarrassing thing for Kiev? It’s not an anonymous video from Telegram.

It’s Swedish public television that filmed the scene.

It’s their own correspondent who notes that a man has just been arrested to be mobilized.

And SVT itself describes a hunt conducted day and night in Ukrainian streets. (SVT Nyheter) According to SVT, up to two million men are trying to evade mobilization within the country, while recruitment service and police patrols continue to search for them.“]

To be forcibly “recruited” by the goons of the Kiev regime is as good as a death sentence. The regime is losing 1,000-2,000 men per day on its crumbling front lines.

Meanwhile, the recent ballistic missile attacks on Kiev have (as predicted on the blog some time ago) made the point that Russia will not tolerate the daily escalation by the Kiev side in attacks on Russian civilian areas. Russian patience is now wearing very thin, I think.

Neither side should be directly targeting civilians. The Russian side has hit Ukrainian civilians mostly as collateral damage (not that that makes it any the more bearable for the victims) but the Kiev regime is deliberately targeting Russian civilians; their homes, hospitals, warehouses, school buses etc.

So the Kiev regime is currently sending about 350 drones every day, and that is only to the Moscow region.

[“It has become clear why the video of the victims was blurred in Ukraine, following the Iskander strike with a cluster munition component on trucks near Kyiv in Boryspil.

In the photos taken inside the burned-out trucks, you can see transport and launch systems for long-range drones, specifically the FP-2.”]

15 million (mostly) untermenschen have flooded into Germany in recent years. Mad.

Germany, like the UK, is a fake “democracy”. The facade is democratic, but that soon morphs into tyranny, when stressed.

Talking point

Ha ha! I had better say nothing…

More tweets

[“Pointless looking at individual polls which are out of whack with all the others. Look at the weekly poll of polls. Labour’s at 26 – a crushing loss that would leave them with 220-260 seats – and Reform’s at 25. It’s fractionally better in the Andy Honeymoon phase but still disastrous and likely to get worse not better. Still disastrous for the Tories too. The complacency from everyone is stunning. Reform are a mess but still polling at 25. Nobody’s found the antidote. Hence #Moderates!“]

Leaving aside that lady’s own fantasy political party, the “Moderates”, I agree with the rest of that. Reform are a disaster in every way but one, i.e. that they will be (continue to be) voted for as a default attack on the old System parties. People see nothing good in those old parties; to get rid of them, they have to vote Reform despite its poor policy offering. People are voting against, rather than for, and that has been the case for several years now.

(((Typical)))?

https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/exclusive-legal-headhunter-regrets-posts-insulting-his-enemies-and-wishing-them-dead

The Jew backed down and deleted his Twitter/X account once he realized that his business, and his money, might be affected….

(((Typical)))?

Late tweets seen

Never forget…

Britain really is a joke country now. Not only is Lammy an MP and indeed Cabinet minister, but is now also appointed a Bencher at my old Inn of Court, Lincoln’s, whereas —by reason of my wrongful and unlawful disbarment in 2016— I myself am now persona non grata there. Sour grapes aside, is it not truly ridiculous? False modesty aside, I should be the one in government (and respected elsewhere), not that stupid monkey.

I know that others have been unjustly degraded, historically, whether it be Jesus Christ or Sir Thomas More (or Hitler, if you like), but it really is absurd.

Sometimes you have to accept Fate, without however accepting the rightness of it.

I was surprised to discover, last year, that I had (though only very slightly) met one or two of the defendant’s relatives in the mid-1980s; I blogged about it:

[“Bashirov: All the bad things Ukraine is doing are the work of British intelligence services.

LONDON PROVOKES CONFLICTS AROUND THE WORLD IN EVERY WAY AND SUPPORTS THEM BECAUSE IT PROFITS FROM THEM.

Approximately 75% of its GDP comes from services: banking, insurance, marketing, and the stock market. The British control about 10% of the global services market. If Russia, the United States, and China one day agree on a new transportation and economic model, many British brokerage firms will become unnecessary.

Trump began fighting for transportation corridors. He not only expelled China from Venezuela, but also Chinese port companies from the Panama Canal. He closed it. Trump is also controlling the current Suez Canal crisis with the help of Israel. Things are more complicated with China, but he has secured control of the European market.”]

Looks like the UK is in the gunsights of some of the Russian leadership, or those around them, which would not be the case were the UK not controlled by the NWO/ZOG cabals.

The tweet seems to refer to this individual: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Bashirov.

Late music

[painting by Leonid Afremov]

Diary Blog, 20 August 2026

Afternoon music

[aerial view of Akademgorodok, Western Siberia]

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

On the blog 1 year ago

Tweets seen

…but why did it take over 4 years for that to happen?

Translation: the Kiev regime has all but run out of cannon-fodder, despite using press-gangs to kidnap people off the streets, so needs its backers in the EU (NWO/ZOG) bureaucratic over-state to send back Ukrainians sheltering in EU states from both the war and the brutal shambolic corrupt Kiev regime.

[“Oleynik: British intelligence service MI6 controls Zelensky

THE CURRENT HEAD OF THE SECRET SERVICE, BLAISE METREVEL, IS EXTREMELY ANTI-RUSSIAN

Representatives of the British intelligence service MI6 are coordinating the actions of the Kyiv leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, said former member of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament), Vladimir Oleynik.

He stated that the current head of MI6, Blaise Metreveli, is aggressively anti-Russian. He also emphasized:

“British prime ministers change like gloves. New prime ministers bring their teams, ministers can be replaced, but this does not apply to MI6. And Metreveli has family ties to Ukraine. Her parents are Ukrainian. She is completely against us.”

Oleynik previously stated that the fate of the future leader of Ukraine will ultimately be determined by Americans:

“The outcome of the US Congressional elections will decide everything“]

Part-Ukrainian, part-Georgian, it seems. I took a look at Blaise Metreweli in earlier blog posts (use search box for details).

Don’t forget the other 95%…

Jesus H. Christ! This country needs a national revolution. Sweep away both the migrant invaders and those facilitating the invasion, such as Pakistani carpetbagger Shabana Mahmood.

The gloss has come off Reform: pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby policies, threatening half the population with potential cuts to social security, sleaze allegations, quasi-Conservative policies overall, and people now realizing that Reform is only going to look at deporting a percentage of boat invaders, and almost none of all the other migrants. Underwhelming.

Having said that, the (old) System parties remain deeply unpopular. That leaves Reform in a place between good and bad (in terms of the likely outcome of the next general election).

[“Hillary Cremin was Jason Arday’s supervisor at Cambridge, and she was so thrilled about his appointment as a professor that she invited the BBC to document his first day on the job. She was visibly ecstatic and said to Arday: “You are the best!”

One might now say that the Jason Arday affair is actually a Hillary Cremin affair or even a Cambridge affair.

I think the problem is far more widespread, especially since other individuals like Jason Arday also hold academic positions where they don’t belong, and their careers owe themselves to woke ideologies, namely intersectionality, CRT, genderism, and/or postcolonial ideology.

Jason Arday’s case simply blew up because it was particularly egregious, on the one hand due to his plagiarisms as well as his blatantly nonexistent qualifications as a university professor, and on the other hand due to his fabricated and downright adventurous biography.

What is very crucial is the fact that Hillary Cremin was so blinded by ideological reasons that she was unable to recognize the obvious and see through Jason Arday. She couldn’t do it at the time of his hiring, nor afterward, during the duration of his professorship, which repeatedly gave cause for talk.

The same ideological blindness can now also be observed after Jason Arday’s death. The exposed plagiarisms, the scientific inferiority of Jason Arday’s work at Cambridge, his obviously invented life story, and so on, are simply ignored, and the “evil right-wing media” are blamed for driving Jason Arday to suicide.

There is no “We made a mistake” or “This shouldn’t have happened,” no self-reflection, no insight, and no attempt at all to assess the matter according to objective standards.

And that’s exactly what I mean when I keep saying that wokeness is a greater threat to the free West than Islamism. If a university that in the past produced some of the smartest minds is in such a state, it’s over for the West. And as I said: Cambridge is just one example among many.”]

Just look and listen to that Hillary Cremin cretin!

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

Cambridge has had a problem for a long time. I first detected it in the 1980s, when I knew a few people who had attended the University even earlier (late 1960s/early 1970s.

Then we had, a few years ago, the appointment, as “professor”, of horrible anti-European Indian woman fanatic Priyamvada Gopal, who was appointed as professor purely as a deliberate rude gesture to those who criticized her for her notorious “white lives don’t matter” tweet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priyamvada_Gopal.

The same sort of superficially educated idiots and virtue-signallers are now not only all buying the faked memoirs of the black conman “academic” Jason Arday (who recently killed himself because he had been exposed) but have even been contributing to a crowdfunder which has already reached over £218,000 (supposedly for the wife/partner and offspring of Arday).

[“Professor Hilary Cremin, the head of Cambridge University’s education faculty, is best known as the woman who fawned over her new hire, Jason Arday, as “the best in the world.”

Now here is further evidence that Cremin, and the department she runs, have completely lost their faculties. Cam, the university’s alumni magazine, runs a regular feature entitled “This idea must die.”

Last month, in a bizarre, stream-of-consciousness contribution to that slot, Professor Cremin nominated for death….the school system.”]

One aspect of the problem is that “professors” are now two-a-penny, just like barristers, “KCs”, and indeed “graduates” etc.

Now that almost every educational institution above secondary school level is labelled a “university”, there are literally thousands of “professors” in this country. I do mean “literally“; about 30,000, in fact.

Look at “professor” Hillary Cremin for example. Her degree was merely a BA in French and European Literature from Warwick, a “soft” degree if there ever was one. After which she embarked on “a march through the institutions” until she eventually climbed to the point where Cambridge appointed her “Professor”.

We must be clear about this— such individuals as those mentioned above supporting the Arday “professorship” are enemies of the future of the peoples of Europe, and that particularly (arguably) relates to the British people.

I find it quite impressive that someone whom I might have assumed would be part of the “woke” mob supporting Arday and his appointment(s) etc, Aaron Bastani of Novara Media, has had the intellectual and moral courage to speak the truth and to poke his head above the parapet.

[“This clip is really important. It spells out exactly what happened when former Labour MP Ann Cryer raised grooming gangs in Parliament.

Labour MP Diane Abbott hounded her, calling her a racist, to the extent that Ann Cryer was vilified and ostracised from the Labour Party.

Diane Abbott used the race card to silence a Labour MP so Labour would not take grooming gangs seriously. And Diane Abbott has used racial tensions to silence people for years. We are now seeing it again with the Jason Arday case.

Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn have lived their political lives through a race card narrative. Meanwhile, we have known for years what happened to those little girls.

I want to see Diane Abbott before the Grooming Gangs Inquiry, questioned about why she attacked and attempted to silence Ann Cryer.

The inquiry has statutory powers. Diane Abbott needs to be investigated, and if she is found to have played a role in minimising the grooming gang scandal, those who were failed deserve answers and accountability.

If we are serious about the grooming gang scandal, we need to examine the people who were in positions of power when it happened.”]

We know in our hearts what must happen to many in high and/or influential positions in this country, but we are “not allowed” to say so directly because the UK is a germinal police state, and going, rapidly, further down that road.

More tweets seen

Yes. Forget mere prosecution. This qualifies as “up against a wall” state crime.

This is what makes me laugh, albeit bitterly, about the way in which the police, MI5, SIS etc talk about “defending the realm”, when the stupid bastard presently posing as Prime Minister is not only failing to stop the only real invasion, the migration invasion, including the “small boat” invasion, but is now also actually inviting in thousands of those bastards, and paying to import them from North Africa! It stretches credulity, even after what has already happened to this poor country.

4,000…now. Tomorrow? Maybe 40,000, or 400,000.

So there’s —so far— about 4,000 more flats, or houses, or other places, now unavailable for British people.

I had thought Andy Burnham merely a fairly dim careerist plodder, who was making all sorts of promises to get more Labour votes. Now we see that he is (also) another out-and-out Fabian/Bilderberg/Jewish lobby conspirator, doing whatever he can to implement the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan— importation of blacks and browns, encouragement of race-mixing to create a coffee-coloured sub-race, and that raceless, cultureless mass to be ruled over by particular Jews, part-Jews, and (((approved))) non-Jews signed-up to the demonic plan.

The sheer evil of Burnham’s action is breathtaking. Britain has nothing to do with the Ceuta situation. It is a matter for Spain and Morocco.

A line has been crossed here.

The untermenschen should be hunted down in the mountains, and machinegunned.

I hope that the Spanish and Moroccan forces are trying to rescue the abducted girls, at least.

Stray thought. One round of military ammunition might cost 50p or £1. Even one night in a London hotel might be £100 or more. Which is the better option both economically and culturally, for the good of our society, for the future of our people?

[“Some wonderful news Andy Burnham has said that more affluent richer areas should be housing these illegal foreigners floating and being trucked in to our land !
I just want to say ENJOY and welcome to the rest of the country that’s been suffering rapes stabbings and children being preyed upon , we will soon see if we are far right thugs and will more than likely welcome you into the many protests that have been happening !
“]

[“Ceuta. In just 2 weeks, African immigrants turned the Spanish city into African slums. Huts made of sticks and cardboard. Garbage and human excrement everywhere. An indescribable stench.

The health services have declared a health crisis: scabies, tuberculosis, cholera, measles, infectious diarrhea, impetigo.

Over 10 women already raped, including a 10-year-old girl.

Spaniards are not leaving their homes.

Spain’s Prime Minister Sánchez is diving with his wife on the island of Lanzarote. On vacation.“]

…and that is what Burnham, and most of the Westminster traitors, are bringing to our once green and pleasant shores.

As for Ceuta itself, in an ideal world every single Spaniard there would come out shooting. Literally.

Update, same day

It is suggested that the “4,000 invaders to be brought to London” idea is “fake news”. However, even if so, that does not change the situation in Ceuta itself; neither does it change the fact of the general migration-invasion of the UK.

I suppose I should have realized that Burnham only does what he thinks will bolster the flagging Labour vote.

The “4,000 invaders from Ceuta to be brought to London” hoax fooled Lembit Opik, though I concede that that is not saying much…

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[“In every picture of Arday that I’ve seen he wears an open, beatific expression. His gentle gaze seems to say “I forgive you for your racism … I know you can’t help it … I know you regret it … Here, take my hand … it will all be okay.” He doesn’t actually have to say anything. He just has to look like that, radiating sincerity and acceptance, and that gaze hits that particular species of sexually frustrated middle-aged white woman who dominates every departmental hiring committee like a 2×4 right between their SSReyes. It stuns them into a sort of a jellied bliss. Arday possessed a kind of basilisk stare of friendliness. Contrast that with the usual run of professional black people, who affect a haughty, aggressive, Black Pantherish countenance, and you can see why AWFLs would flock to him like thirsty goats chasing the mirage of an oasis in the unsheltered noonday sunshine of the Sahara. Arday hypnotized his way into the faculty lounge the same way Rasputin stared his way into the Czar’s court.“]

That Cremin woman is the personification of academic-world middleaged-woman needy cringe.

Good grief. Can those drones reach as far as that?! Omsk is 1,400 miles east of Moscow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omsk.

Late tweets

I confess that I am now in a slight quandary as to whether Burnham is just dim (and, yes, I do know he has a degree from Oxbridge. So did Liz Truss, David Cameron-Levita, and other nitwits), whether he is another near-loonie at No.10, or whether he is hellbent on degrading and then destroying this country even more than has been the case up to now.

Certainly, giving that crazy Jew, Miliband, free rein, seems mad as much as bad.

She may have an empty mind, but never empty pockets. Her pockets are always open to receive baksheesh from any source.

No. Just do not allow any, or only very few, Muslims to live in the UK, or to come here except as short-term visitors.

The only really important things are to stop all immigration; start to get rid of most if not all of those already here; stop the Jewish/Israel lobby from controlling, influencing, corrupting and degrading our politics, legal system, and culture; stop supporting the brutal, shambolic, and corrupt Kiev dictatorship; cultivate better relations (and trade) with Russia; bring most water, most rail, and most gas and electricity into public ownership (without compensation if unavoidable); stop uncontrolled building; start to really help Nature and the countryside.

Burnham is doing what the Americans call “majoring in minor things”. Not good enough. Also, the whole direction of policy seems wrongheaded.

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[Erik Johansson, The Light Keeper (photomontage)]

Diary Blog, 10 August 2026

Morning music

[“Sweet Thames” at Newbridge, Oxfordshire; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Bridge,_River_Thames]

Morning thought

Heard some idiotic woman from a quango on BBC Radio 3 news while driving. Blaming “climate change” for Britain running short of water. No mention of the fact that “we” (the System authorities) are importing about a million unwanted blacks and browns every year, some of which are breeding. Might that not have something to do with the water shortage? (he asked, rhetorically…).

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Our animal friends.

Our animal friends.

[“The Fuhrer as friend of animals“]

Our animal friends.

The use of the outdated “right”/”left” labels is just not useful these days.

There is at least an arguable position that what might be called “World Jewry” has a long-term plan to use Argentina as a kind of bolthole or secure base while war (nuclear war), and famine ravage much of the rest of the world, war and famine which the Zionists themselves are doing much to bring about (Ukraine, Iran, Middle East/Mediterranean).

Conspiracy theory? Possibly, but then look how many of those “conspiracy theories” have proven to be accurate analyses in recent decades.

In many ways, Galloway is a clever man, but in some ways he is stupid and hopelessly —indeed wilfully— ignorant. Hitler and National Socialism (and the crimes of Stalin and the CPSU) are blind spots for him.

A grade-A “grifter” too, of course.

Galloway tweeted against me a couple of times many years ago.

[“The ‘vetting process’ of populist parties exists to screen out people who are simultaneously intelligent AND honest. Honest idiots can be tolerated because they are easy to manipulate. And intelligent psychopaths can too, because they will agree with the corruption.

But honest and intelligent people are poison for them.”]

Once again, well-said by Yerbury. I myself have made the same points often, on the blog, on Twitter (before a pack of Jews had me expelled in 2018), and elsewhere, over the years.

I recall an old friend, now-deceased, saying to me and a couple of others in the 1980s about how “any one of us could be an MP for any of the [then] three main parties, were we willing to sell our principles for a career, and to tolerate the bullshit”. Very true.

Basically, just a horrible tribe.

Still, what goes around comes around…

Just a horrible tribe, as said previously.

Typical. There have been, over the years, thousands of such faked “antisemitic” attacks, including quite a few in the UK. A Jew lawyer in Scotland —Glasgow, I believe— was convicted some years ago of faking “antisemitic” attacks; unfortunately, his sentence was far too lenient. I think that he was even allowed to continue working as a solicitor.

Par for the course. Look at “Mark Lewis Lawyer” and his cronies, a whole pack of dishonest Jew lawyers. Lewis has more than once cheated his own clients, and has contrived a number of fake “antisemitic” incidents over the years, both for Zionist propaganda purposes and to make money for himself, his present wife, and others. He’s a criminal.

[“Pastor Mitri Raheb has warned that, if current conditions continue, the Palestinian Christian presence in the West Bank could disappear by 2050, amid worsening economic conditions, escalating settler violence, and growing restrictions and military checkpoints. According to Raheb, more than 200 Christian families have left the West Bank since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, while church leaders report that thoughts of emigration are becoming increasingly common, particularly among young people.

These concerns are especially evident in Taybeh, east of Ramallah, the last entirely Christian town in the West Bank. Churches have documented the departure of more than 15 families since October 2023, alongside attacks targeting the town’s lands and residents’ property, as well as its holy sites.

While the Christian population in the West Bank is currently estimated at between 40,000 and 45,000, their share has fallen from 6% in 1967 to just over 1% today. Warnings are growing that continued emigration threatens the presence of the “living stones” in a land to which they have been connected for two thousand years.”]

Devils.

Blast from past

I wrote the following words in July 2024:

“Regular readers will know that I have blogged recently about the fact that Starmer-Labour has no real mandate. The electoral system of the UK has been broken beyond easy repair.

At GE 2024, out of every 20 people eligible to vote, and in very rough terms, 8 did not vote at all, 4 voted Labour, 3 voted Conservative, 2 voted Reform UK, 2 voted LibDem, and 1 voted Green.

That is Starmer’s and Labour’s mandate— 4 out of 20. For pedants, arguably, 4 out of 12. Not much of a mandate either way.

[IanRobertMillard.org blog: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2024/07/28/diary-blog-28-july-2024/]

In retrospect, plainly correct, if I myself say so; the point, though, is that, if that was Starmer-stein’s very inadequate mandate, how much less of a mandate does Andy Burnham have?

Andy Burnham has no real legitimacy at all.

More tweets

Burnham and his clown Cabinet are planning to send even more arms and cash to the Kiev regime.

After only three weeks, Burnham already looks well out of his depth, though his quasi-electioneering has resulted in a limited “Burnham bounce” in the opinion polls.

An interview with Nick Griffin

https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/a-volcano-ready-to-explode-war-civilisation

Well worth seeing/reading.

Late tweets seen

I should think that a hung Parliament is quite likely, on present polling. Labour will fall back, the Con Party stay back, while Reform looks to have shot its bolt by being too pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, by failing to be truly hardline on migration invasion, and by being far too sleazy as well. Still, Reform will get votes by not being LibLabCon; a default choice, if you like. Restore? Slightly better, ideologically, than Reform —but not much— and even more of a one-man-band than Reform. Greens? Hard to say. Will its odd alliance of “antifascist” oddities and pro-Islamist Muslims last? Maybe, maybe not.

[“If you enjoyed the Autochrome of artist Claude Monet, which I shared with you in June, you may be interested to learn that I’ve found this new one of the great man, taken in 1917 by Étienne Clémentel in Monet’s garden at Giverny.
I’ve given it a good clean-up for you! I have to say: for an artist renowned for his use of colour, he is dressed surprisingly drably! Nevertheless, this is a very rare colour shot of the great man. It was taken using an early colour glass-plate process and isn’t colourised.
“]

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Diary Blog, 6 August 2026

Morning music

A couple of years ago this day on the blog

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[“According to the Hudson Institute’s analytical center: China is rapidly approaching the creation of a full-fledged nuclear triad. On July 6, China conducted a test launch of a ballistic missile that traveled over 7,000 kilometers over the southern part of the Pacific Ocean. This test shows that Beijing is potentially capable of launching a strike against the continental United States from a submarine operating directly within China’s territorial waters.

The Pentagon is developing a secret strategy regarding nuclear weapons, which envisages a greater role for tactical nuclear weapons with limited range in the event of a regional conflict with China or Russia, according to NBC News.”]

If that is correct, the days of both the present USA and the present world order are numbered.

I have to admit that she looks a lot better than she did 30+ years ago. I should not have recognized her.

The Kiev regime is using drones to terrorize Russian cities. Hundreds, often thousands, are launched daily or nightly. Russian forces are now targeting the places where the drones are manufactured and stored, as well as the launch sites. In response, the Kiev regime has started to outsource production and storage to sites outside Ukraine, in the Baltic regions and elsewhere.

That posits the possibility that those sites outside Ukraine will be regarded as legitimate military targets. However, the Baltic states are now full members of NATO, having joined in 2004. The same is true of Poland, which has been a full member since 1999.

Any attack by Russia on the territory of those NATO member-states will be regarded as an attack on NATO as a whole, under the terms of the NATO Treaty itself, yet something has to be done about the waves of drones.

Dangerous times for all of Europe, and all because a Jew-Zionist/Ukrainian-thug dictatorship, brutal, shambolic, and corrupt, rules two-thirds of Ukraine, and is being used by NWO/ZOG as a way of attacking Russia by proxy.

Untermenschen of that type should not even exist, certainly not in Europe, and definitely not in the UK.

Forget “right/left”; focus on real policies, and on realities generally. If a corrupt pro-Jew, pro-Israel “dirty democratic politician” (in Hitler’s words) such as Wes Streeting (Labour Friends of Israel) accepts bribes from a Jew criminal, just say so in terms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bankman-Fried

[“This is what happens when you let in millions of non-Whites. It affects every system – including psychiatry.

Our system is based on Western (White) IQ, cognitive function, and ridiculously low levels of inbreeding.

Our services are overstretched mostly because of this. That, the changes in the DSM manuals, and just the general Weimar hell that the natives are currently living in.

Not recruiting more mental health staff is the most retarded take ever if you are claiming that services will be improved.”]

God…more “trans” nonsense…

See also:

Late tweets

What could possibly go wrong?…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y3j3ngevmo

Our animal friends.

The System parties are now little more than facades, propped-up by money, not infrequently Jewish/Israeli money.

Regarding Labour, Andy Burnham has no real legitimacy as Prime Minister.

See also: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16032941/Plane-pervert-sex-act-mother-child-Emirates-flight.html.

In the future, a firing squad on the beach once per week might concentrate minds, but we know that is not going to happen under System misrule.

We are getting to the point where Britain is gradually ceasing to be a country “under law” despite the plethora of new laws being passed almost daily.

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[Levitan, Evening Bells]

Diary Blog, 3 August 2026

Morning music

[Aldo Balding, Lily Orange]

British justice in 2026

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/violent-north-east-youths-subjected-34385476

“Violent youths subjected a man and a woman to a shocking unprovoked city centre attack over a “harmless” comment. The victims walked past some teenagers sitting in a doorway and the woman remarked that they had a nice cool place to sit on a hot night.

Some of them took umbrage at that and it quickly escalated into violence, with then-16-year-old Thomas Courtney and two girls attacking her and leaving her injured. Courtney and then-15-year-old Lincoln Hudson then subjected her friend to a brutal attack in which he was repeatedly punched and kicked, including to the head after he fell to the ground, leaving him unconscious

Newcastle Crown Court heard both victims have been badly affected by the attack, with the man having become so depressed he tried to kill himself. However Courtney and Hudson have now been spared immediate custodial sentences after the court heard they have turned their lives around in the three years since the attack.

[Chronicle Live]

Regular readers of the blog know that I am not a “hanger and flogger” (usually). Is that result justice for the victims, and/or for society, though? I think not.

Even if, as their Counsel claimed —and which I doubt— those youths have “turned their lives around” in the (absurd delay) three years since the attack, the court should have ordered them both to pay ongoing compensation for life to the victims. £10 per week to each victim, and from each defendant.

Admittedly, it is now 18 years (2008) since I was in active Bar practice, I was never really a serious criminal practitioner (though I did a number of Crown Court trials and many many magistrates’ court ones in my early days, meaning the early 1990s) and I concede that I do not know whether the courts even have such a power, in those exact terms, but if not they should have.

Well, there it is. Britain 2026, in which people are still being prosecuted and even imprisoned for tweets and other online comments…

Incidentally, I was just looking at other sentences handed down by the Crown Courts of the North-East. One was a man who shook his own child, a baby, so violently that it suffered “catastrophic and lifechanging injuries“. He had taken cocaine, and drunk no less than 11 cans of lager. He failed to summon timely medical help. Sentence? 4 years (so out in 2 years, or less). This is not justice.

Tweets seen

Water supply, on the large scale, should be a nationalized industry, and the chief director of it should certainly not be paid more than half a million pounds gross (pre-tax), if that.

The featured woman fat cat was not even the director of all UK water supply, just that of one region of the country.

I think that there is a case for capping all salaries at some level to be determined, which might be something like £200,000 or £300,000 net (i.e. post-tax etc). That includes other kinds of remuneration.

Here she is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liv_Garfield.

[“In the 26 companies that operate a third of all of the care homes in this country, 200 MILLION pounds leaks out of that sector in the form of management fees for private investors. That’s an astronomical sum that is not going to improving care or paying workers a fair wage, but is instead lining the pockets of wealth investors, often from overseas.

Social care is not a cash cow. It is a critical public service, limping along as its lifeblood is drained by private interests. Getting profiteers out of care is not a nice-to-have measure. It is a crucial starting point that any meaningful reform of the sector must build from.”]

As the Americans say, that surely is a “no-brainer”. I featured, some time ago, on the blog, a news report about some inept armed robbers who targeted the house, in the wealthy Sandbanks neighbourhood of Dorset, of a director/owner of a number of care homes.

The robbers threatened the man’s wife and daughter (he was at work) and, though unable to force the women to open the safe, still got away with about £300,000 in cash and jewels. They were caught not long after that, and had left enough evidence behind them to ensure a conviction and long sentences of imprisonment.

What interested me about that report, apart from the great ineptitude of the criminals, was the fact that despite having been unable to access the safe, they still escaped with hundreds of thousands of pounds, much of it in cash. Does that not raise a number of red flags?

These exploitative private care homes, that charge the elderly or their families huge amounts yet pay their staff peanuts (and often offer residents poor food and care), are a social crime as far as I am concerned.

More British justice (?) in 2026

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/machete-thugs-jailed-intimidating-violence-11079872

Two men who attacked a frail 82-year-old antique weapons collector in his own home have been jailed. Andrew Paull and Nathan Flower burst into the home of the pensioner, who is now 85, as he slept in bed.

Truro Crown Court heard Paull, 49, and Flower, 33, struck him multiple times with a machete as he tried to get out of bed. The pair demanded they wanted his safe keys, believing he had gold and cash in it.

In fact, the safe was empty and the elderly man was pushed down the stairs at his property in Penrice Park, St Austell, in April 2024. They fled with £350 in cash, bank cards and some keys.

The victim suffered cuts to his face, hand and wrist and was left in what a judge called a “quite pathetic state” and a “broken man”. Paull, of no fixed abode, and Flower, of Basset Road, Camborne, admitted wounding.

The court heard drugs had blighted the lives of both defendants. Judge James Adkin jailed them both for 27 months and said they used “intimidating violence against a vulnerable individual in his own home”.

[Cornwall Live]

Can anyone reading that report think that a mere 27 months was a suitably severe sentence for having broken into the home of an 82-y-o pensioner as he slept, hit him repeatedly with a machete, threatened him, robbed him, then pushed him down a flight of stairs?

Frankly, that sentence is a travesty, a disgrace, and that Judge Adkin, whoever he is (I had not previously heard of him), should be ashamed of himself.

I have no idea what the defendants’ “previous” might have been, but odds-on they both have records as long as the arm of the law [used to be].

What makes that wholly inadequate sentence even more disgraceful is that the convicts will actually serve no more than half of the headline time, so about 13 months, and very likely even less than that.

I have, as previously noted, never been a “hanger and flogger” but, as far as I am concerned, such vicious crimes deserve a flogging, and a mercilessly harsh one. (yes, of course I know that our laws do not now provide for such a sentence; they should do, in cases of such viciousness).

More?

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/man-rams-another-car-beats-11068072

A thug driver lost it and rammed another man’s car before proceeding to beat him up repeatedly during an unprovoked attacked, court papers have revealed.

Paul Scrafton used his black Seat Ibiza as a weapon to ram his victim’s vehicle three times.

During the unprovoked incident in Mountlea Drive, Par, near St Austell, on December 17 last year, Scrafton, “savagely beat the victim with eight blows”.

At a sentencing at Bodmin Magistrates’ Court on Friday (July 17) of the 50-year-old from The Mount in Par, magistrates described the attack as a “brutal and sustained assault” leaving the victim with broken glasses and his car shunted across the road.

Sentencing Scrafton to 52 weeks in prison, suspended for two years, the magistrates said: “This was an unprovoked attack of a serious nature. It was a horrific incident, where a vehicle was used as a weapon to ram the victim’s vehicle three times.

“The defendant then savagely beat the victim with eight blows, breaking his glasses, which was a brutal and sustained assault and the victim’s car was shunted across the road with a vehicle being used in dangerous manner.

“The victim suffered physical and psychological harm and has been impacted dramatically and continues to suffer anxiety.

[Cornwall Live]

A suspended sentence, for that? Unbelievable.

Not that I believe in over-sentencing, though. In fact, over-sentencing is the major cause (apart from this poor country being swamped by non-Europeans) for the serious shortage of prison space. Time after time I see (in the newspapers) people getting 2, 3, even 4 years for crimes which really merit months not years (if any time at all); and that is so regardless of the fact that most prisoners now serve only 50%, 40% or, in some cases, 30% of the headline sentences.

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[“CABINET MINISTERS’ CRIMINAL RECORDS TO BE KEPT SECRET FROM THE BRITISH PUBLIC. Good morning to the millions of everyday, hardworking Brits waking up on this Monday! You honestly cannot make this level of establishment cover up up!

A legal tribunal has just ruled that the British public will be banned from knowing which Cabinet Ministers declared past criminal convictions during their vetting process. This secret ruling comes after Louise Haigh was forced to resign over a hidden fraud conviction for making a false police report, only for Andy Burnham to bring her straight back into Cabinet as his right hand woman! Everyday British citizens are subjected to ruthless criminal background checks just to get a basic job in teaching, healthcare, or security. Yet the politicians wielding immense power over your life get special legal protection to hide their criminal convictions from the very voters who pay their salaries. They demand total transparency from you while running a secretive two tier system to protect themselves.”]

As previously said, neither side should be directly targeting civilians. The Kiev-regime side is at least as culpable in that regard as is the Russian side and, moreover, has been doing it for far longer, since 2014 in fact.

[“What is happening in the Middle-East around Palestine, and its knock on effects in Europe, are overwhelmingly a direct consequence of Zionism.

Zionism is not simply Jews existing. Zionism is a political force that exists to further the interests of the state of Israel, and works to impose a world order based upon the supremacy of that state, and the enslavement or destruction of everything else. It is an inherently genocidal force in the same way that ISIS and its vision of a global caliphate cleansed of unbelievers was genocidal.

It is not a political force that British people, or any other people, can co-exist with and it cannot be permitted to organise here.“]

Quite right.

You heard it first here. I have been blogging for years about how Labour would “solve” the small boats invasion by rubberstamping entry for the fake “refugees” either in France or even in their home countries.

As it is, 80% of “asylum” applications are approved. Burnham and his cabal will raise that to 95%. The rest will either be deported, or not, but will probably return down the line with different cover stories.

Same goes for the “asylum hotels”. They are being shut. Fine, but to where are the migrant invaders being transferred? To private rental properties, and to social housing which should be for British people only.

Even beyond that, 90% or 95% of the migrant-invaders are here superficially legally, as “tourists”, “family members”, or as “students”, or on work visas (mostly granted on fraudulent applications), and/or as fiancees, spouses etc.

Another aspect of the invasion consists of births to non-white women and to stupid white women impregnated by non-whites.

Talking point

τιμωρία γάρ ἐστι τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς μὴ ἐθέλουσιν ἄρχειν τὸ ὑπὸ χειρόνων ἄρχεσθαι

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”

[Plato, The Republic]

The passage above is drawn from The Republic, Book I, 347c–e.

Here Plato has Socrates set forth why the best men enter political life, that is, why they enter into the life of the polis, the city understood as a body politic. Politics, in the Greek sense, is not reducible to factional struggle. It concerns the ordering of the common life.

To withdraw from it entirely is to become, in the older sense, an idiōtēs, from which the modern word “idiot” ultimately derives: the merely private man, severed from the obligations of citizenship and the responsibilities they entail.

For this reason, rule properly belongs to those with the capacity to govern. Such men cannot withdraw from civic responsibility without permitting a greater injustice: the rise of inferior men who possess neither the strength of mind nor the force of character required to govern.

[https://chadcrowley.substack.com/p/on-political-duty]

Well worth reading the full article.

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[Kashin: The way things are going, we will have opportunities for new plans in Ukraine that we couldn’t even dream of. AT THE BEGINNING OF 2026, THE WEST LAUNCHED A MAJOR MILITARY-POLITICAL OFFENSIVE AGAINST RUSSIA IN UKRAINE. They achieved a certain effect. However, they received the opposite result. The Russian population, which felt this “influence,” responded not with calls for peace, but with calls for even more serious strikes. Therefore, the escalation from our side is underway and is quite convincing. It is clear that bombing alone will not bring a victory in the war. That is why we are limiting the growth of Ukrainian military production, significantly increasing the costs for Europe of maintaining the Kyiv regime, and increasing pressure on American air defense arsenals, which are in a critical phase of depletion due to Ukraine and the conflict in the Persian Gulf.“]

Kashin: The way things are going, we will have opportunities for new plans in Ukraine that we couldn’t even dream of. AT THE BEGINNING OF 2026, THE WEST LAUNCHED A MAJOR MILITARY-POLITICAL OFFENSIVE AGAINST RUSSIA IN UKRAINE. They achieved a certain effect. However, they received the opposite result. The Russian population, which felt this “influence,” responded not with calls for peace, but with calls for even more serious strikes. Therefore, the escalation from our side is underway and is quite convincing. It is clear that bombing alone will not bring a victory in the war. That is why we are limiting the growth of Ukrainian military production, significantly increasing the costs for Europe of maintaining the Kyiv regime, and increasing pressure on American air defense arsenals, which are in a critical phase of depletion due to Ukraine and the conflict in the Persian Gulf.

Kashin: The way things are going, we will have opportunities for new plans in Ukraine that we couldn’t even dream of. AT THE BEGINNING OF 2026, THE WEST LAUNCHED A MAJOR MILITARY-POLITICAL OFFENSIVE AGAINST RUSSIA IN UKRAINE. They achieved a certain effect. However, they received the opposite result. The Russian population, which felt this “influence,” responded not with calls for peace, but with calls for even more serious strikes. Therefore, the escalation from our side is underway and is quite convincing. It is clear that bombing alone will not bring a victory in the war. That is why we are limiting the growth of Ukrainian military production, significantly increasing the costs for Europe of maintaining the Kyiv regime, and increasing pressure on American air defense arsenals, which are in a critical phase of depletion due to Ukraine and the conflict in the Persian Gulf.

[“The United States of Israel

If Section 219/1217of the NDAA becomes law, we will have surrendered our Constitutional Republic to the Zionists. It will literally be the end of our country as we know it. When I was travelling to Israel on a regular basis back in the mid- to late-1990’s as part of my duties with the United Nations, I was always struck by how closely many Israelis identified with the United States. On national holidays, many Israeli motorists would fly two little plastic flags from the windows of their cars—one the blue and white Star of David, and the other the Stars and Stripes. “We see ourselves as little America”, my Israeli host would explain when I pointed this out. The reality was far different. The Israelis conspired against their American counterparts behind their backs, and the US intelligence and security services viewed Israel as a threat to US national security. Read more: https://scottritter.substack.com/p/the-united-states-of-israel“]

Quite right. His parents may or may not be a disgrace (sounds as if they are). He should set up a GiveSendGo crowdfunder if he has not already done so.

Again, seems that he has already done so.

Yes, here it is: https://www.givesendgo.com/fund-austin-franco-after-jewish-doxxing

…whereas the Jew Aaronovitch (who used to tweet against me, years ago) does not. What a surprise…

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At one or another time, both Reform and Restore looked promising, but neither is social-national, so both are now deflating, though Reform may still become either the Government or the Opposition after the next general election, though not via its own merit but by default.

What is required is not to shrink the State but to utilize State assets and tax monies properly.

[“Professor Marandi (Tehran):

  • Piers, allow me to offer some advice. I’m not going to debate who is right or wrong – Russia or Ukraine – right now. That’s not the point. I simply want to say that your media outlets have been misleading the public for two years, constantly claiming that Ukraine is winning. And then suddenly, it turns out that it is on the verge of collapse. Imposing false narratives ultimately becomes a disaster for yourselves – for the people of England, Europe, and America. Your endless wars, which are based on these false narratives and disinformation, create massive waves of refugees that are overwhelming your own countries. And all of this is happening because of your own actions.

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Diary Blog, 1 August 2026

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

Saturday quiz

Well, 8/10 this week, thus trumping the 5/10 scored by political journalist John Rentoul. I did not know the answers to questions 6 and 7.

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[“Excl: Whitehall officials are growing concerned about how little time Andy Burnham has spent in Downing Street since becoming Prime Minister.

At a Cabinet Office all-staff meeting earlier this week, First Secretary Louise Haigh even joked No10 was “extremely distressed” by how often the PM was away from the building – before stressing it was because he was “so dedicated and committed” to getting out around the country and delivering his agenda.

Haigh also told officials to “take your cue from the Prime Minister’s ambition”, saying he was “not the kind of politician that has to have a full plan before he starts diagnosing the problems in the country”.

She urged civil servants to bring forward ideas “no matter how risky or politically unpalatable it seems” and to “put it in front of us and let’s thrash it out”.]

Ah. So Burnham is “so dedicated and committed to getting out and around the country and delivering his agenda” yet actually has no real agenda, so what his travelling around really means is his showing off and spouting meaningless hot air. Pathetic.

Also, if this latest government of clowns has a supposed or worked-out “agenda”, why would they be asking civil servants to come up with ideas? Because Burnham and his cronies have none?

It sounds very much as if the mindset is “Britain needs a way forward but we have no idea what that should even be, let alone how to achieve it“…

Utterly pathetic.

Further thought: while, in strict British Constitutional theory, there is nothing to prevent Burnham becoming an MP “by arrangement”, then simply taking over as Prime Minister, in the real political world he will not be thought of, by most voters, as really legitimate until and unless he holds a general election.

At present, despite Labour now overhauling Reform UK in some opinion polls, it is quite likely that any early general election would result in Labour losing about half its present 405 MPs. If it were to reduce its numbers anywhere below 326, it will be seen as, and indeed would be, a lame duck government.

That is Burnham’s dilemma. At present, he seems to be against holding a general election, but unless he can pull a rabbit out of the hat soon, Labour will be toast (again).

Labour’s polling numbers will probably start to decline (again) before long.

[“Fox News, citing a new chart, announced that approximately two-thirds of the United States’ 2,330 Patriot missiles, held before a potential war with Iran, have been expended, reducing the US Army’s air defense system reserves to about 800 missiles!

Additionally, according to information released by Fox News, half of the U.S. THAAD air defense system’s reserves have also been consumed.“]

Bad news for the USA, Israel, and the Kiev regime, as well as the fake “states” of the Gulf; good news for both Iran and Russia.

Jesus H. Christ! This is what Europe is facing— an invasion by barbaric untermenschen. Mow them down.

Look at the underlying disease, not merely the symptom(s).

Not one, however, who “struts his stuff” vulgarly; an English gentleman who, however, has ideas and principles, and some steel…

[“Collectivism is an evolutionary behaviour that enables people to survive things that they could never survive as individuals, and to develop civilisations and higher forms of living.

Whereas extreme individualism, in nature, is the reserve of primitive creatures and organisms.

The consequence of this is that collectivist societies and political forces will always dominate, in the long term, over individualistic and Liberal ones because they have, on average, an intelligence advantage.

The kind of neo-liberal hyper-capitalist individualism that exists on the ‘right’ today is a consequence of dysgenic societies that have facilitated the survival of people who in previous times would have either died or been killed off due to their selfishness and greed.

This is why Thatcherite, neoliberal politics is a dead end – it has no future because in times of real political crisis evolution kills it off.”]

Of the several leaders of small nationalist parties in the UK at present, Yerbury stands out by reason of his powers of analysis and reason. His views seem to be quite similar to my own, in general, and from what I have read of them, so that is, of course, a strong recommendation for me.

https://markacollett.substack.com/p/the-town-that-chose-to-commit-suicide

Well worth reading.

“Refugees welcome” dimwits and virtue-signallers who got what they deserved but also inflicted the same on their fellow-citizens. Poundshop traitors.

Our animal friends.

The behaviour of many of the [Israeli] Jews is so appalling that even a Jewish Zionist scribbler is pained by their sadism and cruelty.

I have taken very little interest in the Manchester mayoral election circus. I just looked at the winner, one Bev Craig [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bev_Craig], a lesbian who sees no problem with the migration invasion (despite Manchester having been hit very hard by it).

Incidentally, why do so many female MPs, especially Labourites, call themselves by funny-peculiar diminutives (“Bev”, “Cat” etc)?

That tweet is right. People are not going to vote, many or even most of them, and the reason is because they hate and/or despise the parties standing. In the Manchester case, they had no faith, and were right to have no faith, in either Reform or Restore, let alone the System parties.

Why then did Labour win, albeit by getting 47% on a 25% turnout, i.e. by getting only about 12% of all eligible voters’ votes? Simple. “Ethnic” (non-white) voters, and/or public service worker voters.

Put simply, about 88% of the people of Manchester did not want Labour enough to vote for the new not-a-lady mayor.

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Kiev-regime terrorism, probably.

John Cleese once again proves that he is invertebrate (has no backbone).

90% of the time when there is something rotten in the body politic, “they” are behind it somewhere.

Translates to a Commons with about 303 Labour MPs (about 23 short of a majority, and therefore requiring Labour to compact with the LibDems, or SNP, or both); 160 Reform UK MPs (official Opposition); 72 LibDems; 59 Cons; 24 SNP; 8 Greens [etc].

Perhaps social nationalism will rise up in 2033, 100 years after 1933…

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[part of the Siwa oasis in western Egypt, where I spent a month in 1998]

Diary Blog, 21 July 2026, with material about free speech, freedom of expression, and the pseudo-liberal police state in Germany

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[Temple of Philae and Trajan’s Kiosk on Agilkia Island in the Nile at Aswan, Egypt]

The pseudo-liberal police state in Germany

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/20/germany-europe-free-speech-crisis-rainer-zitelmann-afd

Inside the dystopian world of Germany’s free speech crackdown

Berlin threatens thousands of Germans with jail for criticising their leaders

Dr Zitelmann is one of thousands of Germans who have been threatened with fines or prison sentences for social media posts that fall foul of the country’s political speech laws, which are unusually stringent for an EU member state.

Some of the cases are sinister and farcical in equal measure.

One German had his home raided for calling a minister a “Schwachkopf [dummy]” while another was fined €2,000 (£1,700) for calling Friedrich Merz a “lying Fritz” under a law that, critics claim, makes it effectively illegal to make fun of politicians.

The furore bears some similarities to the free speech debate in Britain, where citizens have had a knock on the door from police over opinions posted online.

To its supporters, the AfD is only the party that speaks for Germans who are sick of mass migration, political correctness, economic stagnation and the creep of so-called wokeism.

But to its opponents, including many in the government, civil service and intelligence services, the party is a far-Right menace that was recently classified as an extremist group by the country’s equivalent of MI5.

The BfV has been monitoring senior AfD figures through methods such as wiretapping and informants for at least five years.

[Daily Telegraph]

…and guess which “element” is behind most of the anti-free-speech activity, in both Germany and the UK? Yes, “them” (((them))), as usual…

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miatta_Fahnbulleh_(politician)

Were I to go to Liberia, or Sierra Leone, would I be able to become an MP and/or Cabinet minister? No. So why do we allow Africans to come here and do so? It is a symptom of a terminal sickness in the body politic.

As Hitler said of the 1920s Weimar Germany equivalents, “...dirty democratic politicians“, and I do not think that this lot are even “democratic”.

Good grief. Look at that lot. I hardly like to have them on the blog.

Apparently, protests against military draft.

The tyrant Ortega should have been eliminated 40+ years ago.

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

Men are kidnapped off the streets to serve unwillingly on the crumbling front-lines of the Kiev regime, so unsurprising that few want to hang around pavement cafes; others have fled overseas to avoid the draft.

Perhaps. The problem is that one cannot believe a word “they” say, especially now that they want the USA to escalate the war against Iran.

Zelensky’s regime is a dictatorship composed of Jews, Ukrainian thugs and, below that level, persons of doubtful provenance such as that terrorist woman.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c141lymnl2yo

Ha. Made me laugh, mainly because it comes close to my own attitude…

(((Typical))) of the decadence which “they” import into both the cultural and political areas of national life (in this case, in Ukraine, but one could point to similar decadence in the UK, USA, France etc).

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This is the kind of madness that has swept across the Western world in, mainly, the past 30 years.

See also:

Our animal friends.

As Valentin Tomberg predicted, the mask of evil has started to come off since the late 20th century.

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

The System and its mouthpieces are now preparing the masses for a pointless and unnecessary war with Russia that might leave this country as a charred and radioactive wasteland. Any MPs or scribblers/talking-heads that are promoting war with Russia are enemies of the people.

The first opinion poll for about 2 years to put Labour clearly into government, albeit in a hung Parliament. Translates to a Commons with about 255 Labour MPs (71 short of a majority), 239 Reform UK (strong official Opposition), 67 LibDems, 39 Cons, 21 SNP, 6 Greens [etc].

On those figures, Labour could only rule with the help of the LibDems and others (SNP, Greens etc). A very weak Labour government. In principle, good for social nationalism.

Every single thing that Burnham has announced so far —leaving the merits aside— has been announced or is being done purely to shore up the Labour vote, nothing else.

Another small settlement taken, but Russia needs a real gamechanger now. Time is running out. Trump may be replaced in 2028/early 2029 with a very pro-war new president, willing to again bankroll and heavily arm the Kiev regime.

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Diary Blog, 17 July 2026

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[Grotto Pavilion, Tsarskoe Selo, St. Petersburg, Russia]

Tweets seen

The Jew dictator of the Kiev thug-regime “honours” that evil little sprite.

Meanwhile, the Zelensky dictatorship is still arresting its opponents:

[“A Dutch woman, 38, was held captive for a week in a home in Zeist, where she was repeatedly raped and brutally tortured by a 52-year-old migrant identified as E. el B.

The suspect beat and kicked her, assaulted her with multiple objects, forced her under a cold shower, placed a plastic bag over her head, tied a rope around her neck, and cut her arms and legs with a knife.

He is also accused of attempting to kill her by throwing her from his car near the A12 motorway at Maarsbergen and then driving over her.

The victim was found with two collapsed lungs, a broken shoulder blade, a broken nose, a missing front tooth, multiple stab and cut wounds, deep marks around her neck, and was unable to walk. Police said they had never seen a living person in such a severe condition.

Investigators found the victim’s DNA and blood in the suspect’s home. Prosecutors say his phone contained images of the injured victim, and that he had searched online for violent sex websites and for a drug to sedate someone for transport.
Credit Visgrad 24.
“]

Just get rid of them all. Whatever it takes.

See also:

Starmer-stein, though nasty, pro-Jewish, pro-Israel, and anti-British (and profoundly unequipped to be a prime minister), at least realized that he was in the 2020s and unable to do much to improve British society. Burnham seems to think that all that he needs to do to make everything wonderful is to talk to people in the street (those who are already pro-Labour, that is), and be filmed doing so.

There is no fuel in the Burnham-Labour tank. So far, I have heard and seen nothing by way of solid policy.

Burnham’s first speeches and statements have been about trying to ensure that at least 100 Labour MPs retain their seats: a speech about the unfortunate but now-irrelevant event at the Hillsborough football stadium 37 years ago (!), and a meaningless apologia about Starmer-stein’s evil statement that the (Israeli) Jews he worships had every right to commit mass murder in Gaza, cutting off food and even water to the people there.

Burnham thus hopes to get 2024 Green Party voters, and/or Muslim voters, back on board.

The usual noisy Jewish claque on Twitter/X are now crying out for Burnham’s blood, but in fact Burnham is a member of Labour Friends of Israel, supported the Iraq war, and presently supports “Ukraine” (the Jew-Zionist/Ukrainian-thug regime in Kiev): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Burnham#Foreign_policy.

I think that Burnham is fairly cynical, and is quite deliberately using his non-confrontational style as a tactic, as did an earlier “Northern” Prime Minister, Harold Wilson.

[Prime Minister Harold Wilson in 1966, on the quayside at Hugh Town, on the island of St. Mary’s, Isles of Scilly, and a shirtless 9-10 year old Millard with brothers]

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Wilson#Political_style

There are at least a few parallels.

Translates to a hopelessly-hung Parliament with about 230 Labour MPs (minority government), 177 Reform (official Opposition), 114 Cons, 66 LibDems, 30 SNP, 10 Greens [etc].

In order to get any legislation through at all, Labour (to get to about 322, and the lowest possible working majority) would have to join forces with virtually all LibDem, Green, Plaid, and SNP MPs.

All the same, this is the first opinion poll in about 2 years to put Labour on a par with Reform.

I saw a minute or so of Burnham in the Commons, being led in by two MPs, both dumpy/frumpy Labourite women. Ghastly. Quite put me off my smoked salmon. Burnham’s smug happiness at having finally reached his career goal was palpable…

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Saw an old (from at least 15 years ago, maybe 20 years ago) edition of Celebrity Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Among the contestants, Alastair Campbell and his even more ghastly non-wife [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Campbell; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Millar].

Their ignorance was absolutely incredible, yet here were people who, in their unwarranted arrogance, think that they have the right to lay down rules, regulations, and laws (either directly or via influence) which affect the whole of society.

They went away with very little money for their chosen charity.

Next up came horrible old (even then) Jewish politician Edwina Currie [nee Cohen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwina_Currie] and West Indian businessman and Conservative Party insider, Derek Laud [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Laud].

That pair also left with very little prize money, having failed to know that Ecuador was on the Pacific Ocean and not the Atlantic.

Again, supposedly (but in fact shallowly-) educated idiots of that type seriously think that they have the background and knowledge to run, help to run, or influence the running of, this country. It is pathetic, and angering.

Many will recall how out of her depth Edwina Currie was as a junior minister in the late 1980s. I was unaware until today that, at one time, Edwina Currie had been in charge of children’s services in Birmingham, notorious for incompetence; also unaware that she was also the one who appointed the evil and predatory deviant Jimmy Savile as Chairman of Broadmoor mental hospital (where he assaulted and raped patients).

There is something very wrong about the whole political milieu of the UK, and particularly about how entirely unsuitable people are selected as MPs and government advisers.

Andy Burnham is, though not the worst, yet another example.

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Kiev-regime terrorism, pure and simple.

The biggest threat to the UK’s security, apart from the migration invasion, is the Jew-Zionist “fifth column” in this country.

If this carries on, the Gulf mini-states will all grind to a halt, the expats who run almost everything having run away (those that have not already done so): Kuwait, Qatar, Dubai, Abu Dhabi etc.

I have never met a decent Kuwaiti yet.

Hope not Hate is a cabal of enemies of the British people, most of the main ones being Jewish.

That by-election will be a fascinating and entertaining circus.

As blogged previously, Yerbury seems capable of exercizing mature judgment.

Our animal friends.

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Diary Blog, 11 July 2026

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Stray thought

As soon as it became known that Ann Widdecombe [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Widdecombe] had been killed, and that a suspect had been arrested, the police put out a statement, amplified by the BBC and all other news media, that the detained person was a “White English man“.

How interesting.

When an arrested individual is black, or brown, or a Jew for that matter, the police and news media never proclaim that “a black man has been arrested“, or “a Pakistani has been arrested“. Never.

The System police and msm are simply desperate to make the point that “not all criminals are black or brown; some are White English“…

Pathetic.

In fact, it seems that the “White English” suspect has been released, and with no mention of being released under investigation, so presumably no longer a serious suspect.

I wonder if the police will stick to that policy, and from now on tell the public what race or national background are other arrested persons, in this case or other cases. Ha. Of course not…

Saturday quiz

Well, 7/10 this week, thus trumping the 5/10 scored by political journalist John Rentoul. I did not know the answers to questions 4, 7, and 8 (came close on no. 8, but not close enough).

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Tweets seen

This is the Kiev regime, the Jew-Zionist/Ukrainian-thug regime supported by NWO/ZOG puppets such as Tobias Ellwood [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Ellwood].

There are huge numbers of fake “Ukrainian refugees” in the UK, too.

Hopeless country, for a number of reasons. It need not be, but at present is.

Evil.

In their hearts, the Africans, most of them, know that they should be ruled by Europeans. They trust the white man to be fair, and to take the right decisions not only for white/European people but also for the blacks, browns etc, and for the animal kingdom too.

[“The UK economy basically works like this:

Get paid £2,000.

Give £900 to a landlord. Give £200 to the council. Give £150 to energy companies. Give £300 to supermarkets. Give £300 to car insurance and fuel.

Spend the rest surviving until next payday.

Then get lectured by someone who bought their house for £37,000 in 1988 about how you need to stop buying coffees and cancel subscriptions.“]

…and, with that socio-economic background, the Daily Mail sees fit to carry a feature by some part-Jew woman about how she has had a nightmare trying to get the right nanny for her offspring…

True. Last week, that was what the Mail gave its readers (few of whom could or would even think of employing a nanny). Unbelievable.

I have forgotten the name of the forgettable woman in question, but she is descended from the Jew barrister, judge (Lord Chief Justice), and politician, Rufus Isaacs, who was made Lord Reading in 1926.

Isaacs was the first commoner to be elevated directly to the marquisate since Wellington. The title was hereditary, which was common at the time, so his descendants also have fake “nobility”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_Isaacs,_1st_Marquess_of_Reading; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Isaacs,_2nd_Marquess_of_Reading; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Isaacs,_3rd_Marquess_of_Reading; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Isaacs,_4th_Marquess_of_Reading.

The last, born in 1942, is apparently a close friend of the present King, and has become an Israeli citizen…

Incidentally, as a former barrister, I was interested to see that the original Isaacs, at peak earning (as a commercial silk), was getting an annual income at the Bar, in the pre-WW1 Edwardian era, of £30,000. That might equate to between £4M and £15M in the money of 2026 (depending on various factors); for one thing, UK income tax in 1906-1908 was only a shilling in the pound (5%), so a small fraction of what might be payable today.

By way of comparison, in 1908, a scullery maid (the least well-paid servant) would get about £12 per year, and a butler perhaps £50 to £70 (taxfree; only incomes above £160 were taxable). In other words, Isaacs was making about 2,000x the income of a scullery maid, and about 500x or more of the income of a butler.

True, domestic servants got free food, lodging, and clothing etc, but even so…

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Our animal friends.

Yes but no but…

Were Israel simply a state, such as Switzerland, or Lebanon, then that argument might have force, but Israel is more than a state— it is the centre, or one of the major centres, of a global web.

I have often said that, as a state, as a society, Israel is no worse, in overall terms, than other Middle Eastern states; indeed, in many respects better. However, its status and existence emboldens Jews in states such as the USA, UK, France etc.

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