5/10 this week, trumping the 3/10 of political journalist John Rentoul. I knew the answers to questions 2, 4, 5, 6, and 8.
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After the X platform revealed its algorithm, users discovered that critics of Israel were being heavily censored, and the reach of their posts had dropped by 90- 95 %. The entire algorithm now depends on whether a user criticizes Israel or not. pic.twitter.com/YHN8krvbEq
The poisoning of the world and the global conversation.
A group of Israel tourists in Morocco is provoking Algerian border guards by raising the "Israeli" flag on the Morocco-Algerian border. pic.twitter.com/LhtmCZ7Y8D
The US Department of War has published its new National Defense Strategy, which names the protection of US interests in the entire Western hemisphere as its key priority:https://t.co/Omgi455OL2pic.twitter.com/VIgc4VXfrb
"The Ukrainians have gone on the offensive. They are making threats and openly interfering in Hungarian elections. Their goal is to obtain funding and join the European Union as quickly as possible. As a member of the European Union, Hungary has… pic.twitter.com/Iv3O5sS5b1
The Guardian: The UAE is funding the first Israeli ghetto for Palestinians in Rafah. "The residential complex is like a large prison under Israeli control, with entry and exit controlled by biometric data (fingerprints)". pic.twitter.com/0BNe8NoT5u
A good week? This is the point the Government has reached. Keir Starmer has a few strong words for Donald Trump. And that's now the benchmark for good UK governance. https://t.co/MT0D2KMxNE
I would have gone harder on the economics here. Even UK/EU pro-immigration elites concede the economic arguments of 1990s/2000s no longer make sensehttps://t.co/KPXX4VnTqThttps://t.co/ghaeILeKh1
— The National Museum of the Royal Navy (@NatMuseumRN) January 24, 2026
Someone who killed several great empires: the German Reich, then (after 1945, when subject peoples were eventually allowed “independence” because the European nations were exhausted) the French, Belgian, Spanish, Portuguese etc, and…the British Empire as well.
Had Churchill not blagged his way into taking over as Prime Minister in 1940, an honourable armistice might have been, and almost certainly would have been, concluded between the British Empire and the German Reich.
Western and Central Europe would thus have been saved from the ravages of war, and Eastern Europe from at least some of the ravages of war. Stalinism would either have been defeated in the field, or contained east of the Urals. Eastern and parts of Central Europe would then not have fallen under the rule of the Soviet Union in the 1940s (which rule of course lasted until the late 1980s).
In such a scenario, there would have been no premature decolonization in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere. Massive damage to the environment and wildlife would have been largely averted.
That never happened, mainly because Churchill became Prime Minister of the UK. Almost everything else was consequential.
Disastrous.
We in the UK would also have avoided being gradually and largely taken over by the “you know who” special interest tribe. Oh, and would never have been invaded, whether by Windrush (etc) Caribbeans or by rubber boat migrant-invaders from every failed state in the world.
Seriously? What the hell America? How did it get so bad? I have a friend who was over recently, and he was saying it's even rough around Hollywood Boulevard… pic.twitter.com/5kFDOMIWCO
Not sure I've ever RTd Nadia before, but she's saying out loud what every Labour MP I know thinks and says in private.Starmer has never once shown any shred of interest in the views of his backbenchers since he became LP leader.Most of us knew his Govt was failing by end July 24. https://t.co/H554W0X29n
My blog posts from summer 2024 clearly show my own understanding of the early failure of both Starmer-stein and his Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment.
Konni Zilliacus was of affluent background, and had attended both Bedales (school) in Hampshire and, later, Yale.
The Zilliacuses met both Stalin and Tito, inter alia, during the late 1940s.
More of Trump’s “a little back from the frontline” antics with 42 Commando in contact in Helmand late 2006. (Too bad about the camera wobble – there was a lot going on) @thetimes pic.twitter.com/mnWxaBK109
The Royal Navy has reduced from 8 – 6 frigates (a 25% reduction) in just 2 months. While 13 replacements are under construction, they are years away from entering service.
This is an understandable move given hull fragility, but poses real challenge to RN to cover gap. https://t.co/A4VPqdLOG5
Congratulations to the @HMSOardacious crew on completing the World's Toughest Row. The Atlantic crossing raises vital funds for @RNRMC, supporting mental health and wellbeing for serving personnel and their families. An extraordinary achievement in the most demanding conditions. pic.twitter.com/yB7uWpbaud
I used to find it tiring (and boring) rowing on the Thames (when I was at school, well over half a century ago), but these people row the Atlantic! What a feat.
I've found a little gem in the Archives – an MI5 late Cold War paper referring in part to, and confirming the presence of, Soviet KGB & GRU Illegals in the UK. It'll take time to write up the whole paper, but it will be worth the wait!
Only real social-national policies can now save this country.
The London School of Economics ran a piece by Irene Coslet promoting her new book claiming Shakespeare was actually a Moroccan Jewish woman. Her evidence is shockingly poor: She says it must be true because Shakespeare wrote about women too well for a man. https://t.co/6VgI5cQV24
I, on the other hand, will presume that Irene Coslet herself is a Jewish woman, until I see evidence to the contrary. She may not be Jewish, in fact, but there is certainly more likelihood of her being Jewish than there is of Shakespeare having been a Jew.
We no longer have academia in this country, but a kind of degenerate pseudo-academia. “They”, of course, are well represented therein.
"We discovered Home Office guidance that quietly blurs the line between terrorism and “counter-cultural” views, viewing conservatives as being somehow equivalent to terrorists."https://t.co/pi5h9xhDnS
Britain must leave NATO, stay out of the EU, cold-shoulder Israel, and forge new and strong links with the Russian Federation.
Evain Incir, Member of the European Parliament: Belgium should be followed as an example, and the transit of aircraft carrying weapons to Israel should be banned. pic.twitter.com/IZgWuHZQeH
Was just thinking about Labour’s crazed “plan” to build what they are pleased to describe as “new towns”, but are really just going to be (if ever built) huge soulless housing tracts, with few amenities, roads, or anything else, certainly without the true cultural institutions and green spaces of a real (and decent) town or city. Effectively, tract housing for migrant-invaders, and/or the offspring of non-Europeans, or those of single white or other women impregnated by non-Europeans.
Destruction of landscapes, of trees, animals, and birds etc, and for what? Tracts of hutches for useless parasites and enemies.
Ghastly. Evil.
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I’ve been working in politics a long time. I’ve seen some bonkers stuff. But having the Prime Minister blast an opponent’s policy as racist on Sunday, then getting the Home Secretary to announce the same policy on Monday is about the maddest thing I’ve seen at a party conference.
a) Major donor boasts in meeting about Labour Together getting Starmer elected b) A secret memo is drawn up of the meeting, and sent to Andrew Whyte, Labour head of legal c) Whyte joined Labour directly from the Electoral Commission d)…
a) Major donor boasts in meeting about Labour Together getting Starmer elected
b) A secret memo is drawn up of the meeting, and sent to Andrew Whyte, Labour head of legal
c) Whyte joined Labour directly from the Electoral Commission
d) Electoral Commission still refuses to reopen the investigation, or even publish report into Labour Together slush fund
e) Downing Street still deny Labour Together helped get Starmer elected“]
New leaked memo reveals Labour Together donor boasted how the organisation “helped rally the party membership behind Keir Starmer”. https://t.co/Po54Rwsh0y
Further thoughts about the Labour Party Conference 2025
I have not watched any TV coverage, but from what little I have seen via Twitter/X, the audience seems to be maybe 500 people, mostly middle-aged and elderly. The System parties all have fairly elderly memberships, and Labour apparently has a larger membership than the other two, but it is pretty clear that all three are dying.
Starmer is a near-cretin. How did he ever become Director of Public Prosecutions? I do not say “…and a barrister” because my opinion of many of my once-fellow barristers is not terribly high in any case.
It is ‘relatively’ small – relative to the scale of overall immigration.
Quite. The Labour enemies of the people may think, or pretend to think, that 500-2,000 invaders per day is small, but over a year, it still adds up to about 180,000-750,000 per year. Every year. To that ~300,000 must be added about a million coming in “legally”, and then of course untold numbers of births to non-white mothers and to white mothers impregnated by non-whites.
At the same time, about 100,000-200,000 real British people are fleeing (and I think that is the right term) to anywhere which promises (or seems to promise) a basically white-European-style life— Australia, New Zealand etc. In other words, the UK population changes hugely every year now, because about 1,500,000 (mostly) non-whites come in, and about 200,000 British people leave for good.
Whoa
A new “mega small boat” just brought 125 illegal migrants into Britain
This crisis is about to get a whole lot worse … ⬇️
Is it too “dystopian” to imagine a scenario in which migrant-invaders, like other invaders, are shot on the beaches by military forces? Under System-party governments, I suppose it is…
Reform last week = migrants will have to contribute economically, speak English, not live on welfare and have a clean criminal record
Labour: “this is racist”
Labour today: migrants will have to contribute economically, speak English, not live on welfare, have a clean criminal…
Shabana Mahmood will today say migrants in the UK will have to volunteer, have a “spotless” criminal record, speak English to a high standard and be a net contributor to stay in the UK
In other words, all the things Keir Starmer said, only yesterday, “are racist” 🤡
So speaks yet another Labour Friends of Israel drone, Rachel “from Accounts and Customer Relations” Reeves, an expenses cheat and fraudster, as well as enemy of the British people.
Britain Predicts | Gorton and Denton, how the seat would vote in an election today:
That was, on different boundaries, the one-time Westminster seat called Manchester Gorton, which was held for over a decade (1955-1967) by the crypto-Communist and probable NKVD/KGB agent Konni Zilliacus [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konni_Zilliacus], whose widow (they were never officially married) I met a few times when I lived in the Little Venice area of London in the 1980s and early 1990s. Zilliacus had also been MP for Gateshead (1945-1951). See also: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-jan-zilliacus-1097376.html.
If these are the terms pretty much the entire population of Afghanistan could come here. 😐🤦♂️
Exactly. In fact, in principle, in terms of Britain’s so-called “obligations”, drafted after 1945 in a totally different world, as many as 800 MILLION non-Europeans could apply to live in the UK and with a quite likely chance of official/legal approval. Madness.
Of course, if even a tenth of that number came here, the present society would collapse. Even at present, the structures of society are showing signs of strain and fatigue.
🇹🇷 Turkish Navy frigates have begun escorting the Global Sumud Flotilla, now three days from Gaza.
Sumud Flotilla organizers:
“The ships contacted us, asked about our needs, and confirmed they will escort and support the flotilla.” pic.twitter.com/Zolcia4xsJ
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council: European countries are weak and divided and cannot withstand a war with Russia. pic.twitter.com/hd9zKWFI60
In any event, Russia in 2025 is not the Soviet Union, with its Marxist-Leninist official ideology and (sometimes) expansionism. Russia today has no wish to rule over Central, let alone Western, Europe, and has no way of invading and occupying those regions of Europe anyway.
The whole anti-Russia claque noise about war is being co-ordinated by secretive Anglo-American cabals, which cabals are the real enemies of the people of the UK, France, Germany etc.
New post: Some pretty astonishing findings in this exclusive polling of 13-17 year olds for the New Statesman… https://t.co/oN5GPcUl49
How many more women will it take for this government to realise immigration isn't great 🤔. He threatened acid attacks, had an exclusion order, he is a misogynistic arsehole. Let's give him a home, monthly income etc!!
Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 84 Ukrainian UAVs over the country's regions at night, the Defense Ministry reported. TASS has compiled the key reports about the consequences:https://t.co/bv9mAdeGXEpic.twitter.com/MzjNdxp1EI
Russian troops liberated the community of Shandrigolovo in the Donetsk region over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Monday:https://t.co/GXcJOyfO5Jpic.twitter.com/QHsap6iV5Z
Goodwin is right. The Jew/Zionist/Israel lobby had my Twitter account “suspended”, i.e. I was expelled, in 2018. That was after about 7-8 years. Prior to my getting expelled, my Twitter account was subject to shadowbanning etc, and the number of Twitter “followers” was artificially limited to 3,000.
Oddly enough, though, my finally getting expelled from Twitter, after a concerted campaign of “complaint” by a pack of Jews (who admitted it later; some were crowing about it), may have saved me from getting prosecuted for “incitement to racial hatred” around 2018 or 2019, because, having expelled me, Twitter had no record of my tweets since about 2010 (which might otherwise have formed some kind of cobbled-together “evidence” admissible in court).
In other words, “they” shot themselves in the foot, as “they” often do.
If I wanted to do so, I could now recover my Twitter, now “X”, account, and would probably have about 50,000 followers, but Twitter/X is largely a waste of time from the serious political point of view (though I find it useful in terms of material for the blog).
“Otto English” continues (and finishes) with this:
I notice that the similar nuisances and would-be “antifascist” radicals who have left Twitter/X because they cannot handle divergent views, have mostly gone to “Blue Sky Social” to die. Unpleasant ignoramuses such as Mike Stuchbery, who had nearly 80,000 “followers” on Twitter/X, but now has only 2,800 on Blue Sky, and has all but given up, having posted only 3 times on Blue Sky in the past month.
More about Stuchbery, who was always threatening to sue me and various others in libel, below. Never did sue me, of course. A man of straw, posing as “historian”, “journalist”, “commentator” etc.
See also (originally from 2019 but frequently updated):
Stuchbery used to “hang out” online with a woman called Roanna, a fake witch based near Chesterfield, Derbyshire. They both made common cause with a crazed old Jewish woman in North London who was always inventing false accusations about me (and others) and bothering the police with them.
Stuchbery and Roanna the “witch”, with a Pakistani one-man backroom solicitor, managed to get mugs to donate about £12,000 to “sue Tommy Robinson”, but “Robinson” never was sued by them, and the money just…disappeared…
That was some years ago. Stuchbery was even then living in Germany, and Roanna then changed her Twitter/X account to be non-political, then locked it and moved to Blue Sky, where her 879 Twitter/X followers have become 379 Blue Sky followers (she now posts about art and dogs).
As to Stuchbery, now about 46 or 47, he must be on better medication these days, thanks to German healthcare. He no longer posts about how people should have their skulls cracked open etc.
The fact is that the self-describing “Left” has given up the idea of revolution or even reform, and now concentrates only on “deplatforming” “fascists” (in their description) and “neo-Nazis” (ditto), and even that is not working (is it, “Otto”?).
(in which I examine the linkages between “antifascists”, crazed Jew-Zionists, and the mentally-ill (often three-in-one).
Late tweets
“Labour’s problem is that their declining vote is actually not simply because of Reform.”
Labour’s voters are “scattering all over the place,” leaving Keir Starmer to fend off attacks from all sides, says polling guru Sir John Curtice. @KateEMcCann | #TimesRadiopic.twitter.com/J4bawiy34Z
Manchester Gorton, one of the most solidly Labour constituencies in the UK, was represented 1955-1967 by Konni Zilliacus, an interesting character who was acquainted with many of the most significant political figures of the 20th Century (his widow, whom I met a few times, carried on in the local Labour Party of Maida Vale, London until her death in 1999).
The recent death of Gerald Kaufman MP (a famously anti-Zionist Jew, MP for the seat since 1983 and for a neighbouring seat from 1970-1983) has triggered a by-election, though the date (probably 4 May 2017) is yet to be confirmed. It follows that there is still time for candidates to be nominated (e.g. the Conservative Party has not yet selected its candidate).
At present, the candidate list includes those of Labour, Green Party, Liberal Democrat and, standing as Independent, George Galloway. UKIP may or may not stand. Previous elections in the seat have attracted a host of minor candidates: Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition [TUSC], Pirate, Christian, Workers’ Revolutionary Party [WRP], Resolutionist Party, Socialist Labour; and going back further, Revolutionary Communist, Red Front, Natural Law, BNP (only in 1983), National Front (only in 1979) etc.
Manchester Gorton is a Labour seat, has always been Labour, right back beyond the creation of the seat in 1918 and further back to when it was called South-East Lancashire, Gorton Division: Labour won in 1906 and in 1910 (twice). This is rock-solid Labour Party territory and considered to rank as the 9th-most-Labour seat in the UK
The Labour vote in Manchester Gorton has only once (since 1918 anyway) fallen below 50% [1967 by-election: just below 46%] and peaked in 1945 at over 69%, though Gerald Kaufman almost equalled that in 2015, with just over 67%.
There is no prospect of Labour losing in Manchester Gorton. It is a question of how many voters turn out and of the margin of Labour’s inevitable win. Turnout, at one time over 70% and even over 80%, has fallen back in recent years [2015: nearly 58%]. The other points of interest will revolve around the votes garnered by UKIP (if standing), the Liberal Democrats and George Galloway.
29% of the voters of Manchester Gorton are ethnic Pakistanis. The most recent ICM polling has made clear that the Conservative Party is preferred to Labour by every standard demographic except non-whites. The Labour shortlist contained 5 candidates, all Pakistani Muslims.
The Conservative Party always came second in Manchester Gorton until 1997, since which year it has always come third and always third to the Liberal Democrats, until 2015, when the general LibDem slaughter led to their 2010 vote share of 33% collapsing to 4%, which put the LibDems only fifth (after UKIP). Since 1997, the Conservative Party vote has always been around 10%, compared to 20%+ in the 1980s and 30%+ in 1970s. In the 1967 by-election, the Conservative candidate was Winston Churchill, grandson of the former Prime Minister. Winston junior nearly won that by-election, getting 44.51% as against Labour’s 45.89%.
Interestingly enough, the 2015 Liberal Democrat rout did not help the Conservative candidate: third place and 9.7% as against 11% in 2010. Second place went to the Green Party , which got 9.8%, its previous best having been 3.1% (in 2001).
The 2015 UKIP vote was 8.2% (2010, 2.7%). Likely 2017 vote would be around 5%.
George Galloway has attacked the all-Asian Labour shortlist. This may indicate that he is hoping to attract to his banner English (i.e. white) former Labour voters who were willing to vote for Kaufman but will not vote for a Pakistani Muslim as their MP. A proposition which may be flawed. Abstention is more likely, in my opinion.
Conclusion
There is nothing much to disturb the inevitable Labour victory here.
The Pakistani Muslim demographic will turn out in large numbers for the Labour candidate and that alone will ensure a Labour win.
The Conservatives may see a small increase, no more, in vote share.
The same is true of the Liberal Democrats. This is an area hard hit by the spending cuts of the Con Coalition, which was propped up by 2010-2015 LibDem MPs’ votes. On the other hand, there is the “dustbin” or “catch-all” factor.
George Galloway will probably only get a few per cent of the vote (hard to see who would vote for him either from white or non-white communities, despite his new role as TV face on RT).
The Greens will have achieved a victory if they save their deposit.
If UKIP stand, they will be lucky to save their deposit.
In the end, turnout may be very low. The white former Labour voters may well vote with their feet and stay home and Labour will probably see both its vote numbers and vote percentage fall to some extent, but Labour has in its favour the fact that almost a third of the voters are Pakistani Muslims and that there are other non-white groups in the constituency.
Likely result:
1.Labour;
2.Liberal Democrats;
3.Conservatives;
4.Green;
5.UKIP (if standing).
Postscript, written in early 2018
In the event, a General Election was called and the by-election was cancelled. Almost all candidates standing in the constituency at the General Election were the same as had been candidates in the cancelled by-election.
Ian Robert Millard 