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Diary Blog, 22 September 2025, including analysis of the UK government recognition of a Palestinian state

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Palestine

Ha ha. Glad to see that anti-Israeli feeling is rising, including feeling against the “facilitators” and supporters of Israel in the UK.

As regular readers of the blog will know, I oppose the recognition of Palestinian statehood for reasons other than any wish to support the Jewish state (and people know that I would never do that).

For me (and this was the settled British diplomatic convention for most of the past couple of hundred years, except during WW2), governments and states are only recognized de facto, not de jure, that is to say that recognition is, or was, only granted to governments which have, or had, effective power over the defined geographical area of a state. The ideology of the government in question, its “legitimacy”, and the “rights and wrongs”, should be, and in the past usually have been, disregarded.

In the case of Palestine, the areas of the now-“recognized” “state” are not defined, and are indistinct. Also, no Palestinian entity has effective control over either of the two main components of the rump Palestinian areas (West Bank and Gaza).

[how the land of Palestine has been seized and/or stolen by Jews over time; still continuing, of course— the maps only show the position up to 2005]

The Israeli Jews (i.e. Israeli state, which itself has been recognized by the UK for a very long time), rule over most of the existing Palestinian areas, though at a remove in the West Bank.

In fact, the UK recognised Israel de facto on January 29 1949, and de jure on 28 April 1950. In other words, the UK accepted that Israel, as a state, was something real on the ground by early 1949, even though its legitimacy as a state was not recognized by the UK until well over a year later, in 1950.

What the Starmer government of the UK (until now horribly pro-Jewish lobby and pro-Israel) has done is recognize the existence of a Palestinian state purely de jure. It cannot recognize the Palestinian state de facto because the land borders are undefined, because there is no one Palestinian entity to recognize as a government in power over the area of the recognized “state”, and because the Israeli state is ruling over, effectively, all of the West Bank and all of Gaza, despite the existence of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank areas.

The two main wings of Palestinian politics have been split since 2006, Hamas ruling Gaza (at least until recently), Fatah ruling the West Bank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority. Neither party holds any sway to speak of in the other’s main area.

In other words, the UK government has recognized as a state a “Palestine” which has two notional ruling “governments”, which ruling entities are at loggerheads with each other, and neither of which exercises much power.

There is the other point, that the UK government is now in the position of declaring Palestine a state de jure when it has also declared (and has now put into law) the position that Hamas, the only Palestinian entity presently ruling over whatever is left standing in Gaza, is a “terrorist” entity. The UK government is therefore in the position of recognizing as a notional “state” a vague collection of areas half of which are ruled over by a “government” not only not recognized (either de facto or de jure) but also by a “government” now declared as “terrorist” by the UK government! Mad.

What this means, really, is that the UK government now officially recognizes, in effect, a non-existent (in reality) Palestinian “state”, and it also means (arguende) that the UK government is giving at least implied verbal support to Hamas, an entity which is officially “terrorist” in UK law, and support for which is a crime. Starmer and Lammy may have to arrest themselves!

More seriously, this is government and diplomacy by soundbite, and government lacking any clarity. I did say, on the blog, that Starmer was “slightly to my own surprise, clueless” several years ago. If I say so myself, I was right. Starmer is a disaster. Utterly lacking in ability to be a Prime Minister.

I suppose that Starmer and his “Man Friday”, Lammy (until recently, Foreign Secretary), might argue (well, Starmer might; Lammy is utterly incapable of stringing together a coherent sentence) that what they have recognized is not a state but a hope for a state (in the future). God knows what the likes of Bismarck or Metternich would have thought of that!

I have seen and heard nothing from the Labour Friends of Israel fraudster and expenses cheat now posing as UK Foreign Secretary (Yvette Cooper).

Actually, what Starmer has done is to pretend to recognize, as being a state, a word or name (Palestine), and only a word or name, because the recognized state does not exist: no government exists or is recognized, the areas of the recognized state are not defined, and the (long-recognized) state that does have effective power over all potential areas of Palestine, i.e. the Israeli state, neither recognizes a Palestinian state (on any boundaries) nor accepts the UK and other states’ recognition of Palestine as a state.

What makes this whole Starmer/Lammy nonsense even more nonsensical is that the UK government under “Starmer-stein” is engaged in practical support for Israel and, in effect, its brutal, sadistic and genocidal war in Gaza. He is a member, like most of his Cabinet, of Labour Friends of Israel, and not only is his wife Jewish but his children are being brought up as if full-Jew.

Starmer’s government continues to give intelligence help and support to Israel, promotes sales of arms and other equipment to Israel, pursues prosecution of anti-Israel protesters (and “antisemites” opposed to the Jewish lobby in the UK— I ought to know, after all!), and permits importation of Israeli goods and services into the UK.

The current UK government policies on the Israel/Palestine situation are simply not congruent.

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Good point. Labour has recently sunk as low as 16% in the opinion polls. If Starmer wants to limit the damage, he has to claw back some support from somewhere, whether from disaffected and pro-Palestinian former Labour voters or from equally-disaffected Muslims.

Frankly, I doubt whether it will work. No voter who is pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel, or (such as that lady tweeter, above, at top of today’s blog post) simply anti-genocide etc, will vote Labour because of this. Those who go the other way will likewise not vote Labour because of this, and may well vote against Labour because of it.

Neither side should be directly targeting civilians.

A social-national movement may have to build its new society on the bones and skulls of defeated enemies. That may be a regrettable necessity.

Mad. Or bad. The UK should declare global neutrality.

When it comes to Israel and the Jews, the Americans are the most pathetic “cuck” nation imaginable.

Interesting tweet-thread

I do not often repost anything tweeted by vituperative Jew-Zionist barrister Simon Myerson, but the following tweet-thread is interesting on the subject of the character of the person currently posing as Prime Minister:

Of course, for me, the effect of the notional “recognition” of a non-existent state of Palestine on the “Jewish community” is not relevant, not in the slightest, but I do oppose making Britain a diplomatic and geopolitical bad joke.

Incidentally, that side-point about Treasury Counsel is interesting. I myself was briefed, I think only two or three times, as ad hoc Treasury Counsel. I was never on any of the normal Treasury Counsel panels, sadly (“sadly” because it guarantees a supply of lucrative Government work and is also rather prestigious). I was instructed ad hoc because the work I did on those few occasions (as I say, pretty minor but involving official secrecy) required either normal Treasury Counsel or, if none was available, someone who could be briefed as having been approved to do that work. The instructing entity was the Ministry of Defence.

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More about the Jew Epstein, Prince Andrew, Israeli Intelligence etc

See also:

Late tweets

Pro-migration invasion System propagandists are enemies of the people.

Civil war/social war/racial war/cultural war. A mixture of those. Possibly but not necessarily slow-burn.

Andrew Marr is an evil System puppet and propagandist. See below:

Marr is a creature of evil.

Only the Aryan can give life.

[“At the end stands Victory”]

I have covered all this on the blog in recent years. Over 40% of eligible voters did not vote at GE 2024. Only about 20% of all eligible voters voted Labour. The non-voting 40+% represent the level of angry disenchantment with System politics in the UK. If any party could capture the majority of the disenchanted, that party would be one of the largest voting blocs, perhaps the very largest.

Having said that, and as far as Reform UK is concerned, even at present, on “only” 34%, the projection is that Reform will be able to form a government with a majority even larger than that of present Starmer-Labour.

Wouldn’t you like to know?!

Slava!

I disagree with Dan Hodges’ view that Farage’s latest policy announcement has been a mistake. I think it may have just won the next General Election for him and for Reform UK.

All the System drones are out on social media tonight, attacking bitterly the new Reform deportation policy. Conclusion: Reform and Farage have scored a direct hit on the System tank.

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Diary Blog, 27 August 2025

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[Tushar Sabale, Rainy Day at Lower Regent Street]

Personally, I am not sorry that the summer is over.

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Jews and others in the UK, USA, France etc who support the Israeli armed forces are at least morally complicit in Israel’s war crimes taking place in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and elsewhere. Some of those individuals and collectives are also directly complicit, sending financial aid to Israel, doing business with Israel, and sending young Jews to Israel for training in military skills, unarmed combat etc.

The present faux-“Labour” government is really a Labour Friends of Israel government.

All good points. When I was still a barrister, I occasionally, only very occasionally, had cases of that sort, despite not being at all a criminal specialist.

Incidentally, regular readers will know that I was both wrongfully and unlawfully disbarred in 2016, long after I had ceased practice, and by reason of a conspiracy by connected packs of Jews, particularly the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, and “UK Lawyers for Israel” [“UKLFI”].

For example, a case where a lady (married, young children, living in a private house in a close) was arrested in front of her children at about 0700 hrs because someone in the same little street thought that she might have thrown a stone 2 days previously that might have caused a scratch on the car of the complainant.

No evidence was ever adduced as to whether that car even had a scratch in the first place (it seems not); neither was there any evidence at all that anyone, let alone the lady in question, had thrown anything at all at any car. There was a complete lack of evidence not only as to whether the lady had committed a crime, but even as to whether any crime had actually been committed. There was no evidence, as noted, as to the car having been damaged at all, by any event or action.

Despite all that, Devon and Cornwall police woodentops actually arrested the lady (who, by the way, had no previous convictions), took her to the police station at Exeter, and held her there for 4 hours. She was never interviewed, and was eventually released without charge, left to find her own way back home. Her workplace was not informed of her arrest, and her young daughters had to find their own way to school.

The police these days often, indeed usually, do not do their proper job at all, but then they go completely over the top, especially if they can persuade themselves that “far right” “extremism” (“oooh!“) is involved.

Having said that, though I myself have been bothered at home by police nuisances several times over the past decade (once or twice by real police, once or twice by “PCSO” toy police), and always as a result of malicious complaints made by Jew-Zionists such as “Slitherman”, the liar and perjurer (albeit unconvicted), who is the main spokesperson for the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, I have never been forced to suffer a “dawn raid” or night-time raid, not yet anyway. Indeed, when I was charged with my free speech “crime” in 2023, it was merely by “postal requisition”, i.e. a letter in the post, and I was not interviewed prior to that in relation to the bad-joke alleged “offences”.

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[“British military leaders have arranged something in Kyiv. Officially, in front of cameras, and without publicity. This time, the Chief of the British Defence Staff Sir Anthony David Radakin and his future deputy, Chief Marshal of the Air Force Sir Richard John Knighton, came to Kyiv. The British General Staff is working on the participation of the British Air Force in a military mission in western Ukraine to close the airspace.“]

[“So the British state that cannot patrol the Channel, cannot keep order in its own streets, and cannot maintain a functioning Navy somehow has the means to close Ukrainian airspace. The grandeur of empire without the basics of sovereignty. One might almost think our rulers prefer proxy wars abroad to confronting the slow-motion collapse at home.“]

Quite.

Look at those idiots, posing in Kiev in battledress, as if Kiev is in, in some real sense, a war-zone. They look so happy to be filmed with the Jew Zelensky and to find themselves on TV news. Promising to put the UK in the firing line on behalf of a fake state which did not even exist 35 years ago, and with which the UK has no commonality of interest at all.

Meanwhile, the real invasion of the UK continues, and our brave sailors and airmen do nothing to stop it.

Painted ships on a painted ocean. That Radakin person may be an admiral, or indeed a Sea Lord, but what is an admiral of a navy almost without ships? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy.

The same applies, mutatis mutandis, to an Air Marshal of an air force with very limited capabilities. In the Second World War, the RAF sometimes used a thousand bombers on a single raid, and lost hundreds overnight. Now, the entire RAF consists of about 200 combat aircraft, if not fewer.

Of course, even more money will be wasted on the Kiev regime, while the UK slides into disorder and need.

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Yes. Reform UK, for all its faults (pro-finance-capital, pro-Jewish lobby etc) is, all the same, the only game in town to smash the existing main System parties. Later, after the next general election, the national revolution may devour its own children, and a new reality may emerge.

That translates to a Commons with about 348 Reform UK MPs (a comfortable majority), Labour 118, LibDem 72, Cons 39, and SNP 36 (etc).

Conventional wisdom has it that the Reform lead in the polls will flatten out, and the main System parties will challenge that lead, or come close. I wonder. My sense is that the British people have had enough, and are ready to try something other than what has failed for decades and especially since 1997.

It is not impossible to think that Reform, now on 28% in the latest opinion poll, and which has been as high as 33%-35%, might get up to 35% or even 40%. That really would be an electoral revolution (the 40% figure all but wiping out both Lab and Con).

So much for “sanctions”, which mainly hurt the EU and UK.

…as predicted on this blog. A fairly obvious point, of course, but still one that the lying UK mainstream media concealed.

Israel, and those supporting Israel, deserve to be crushed by the weight of their karmic debt.

[Marshal Zhukov inspects the ruins of the Reichstag, 1945]

Germany should row back on attacking Russia. What happened once before might happen again.

“Diversity”

https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/london-underground-thug-grabs-woman-32360334

A woman was sexually assaulted at London Bridge station. It happened just after midnight on Wednesday, July 16, in the Tube area of the station when an unknown man walked up to her in the station and grabbed her by the neck before carrying out a sex attack.

British Transport Police (BTP) are hoping to speak with the man pictured in a CCTV image as part of the investigation.

[My London]

[suspect]

More “diversity”

https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/police-hunting-man-caught-masturbating-32354098

In the CCTV image provided by police, the man officers want to find is a bald black man wearing a navy or black t-shirt with white and blue stripes. Detectives believe he may have information to help with their investigation.

[suspect]

Late tweets

The Kiev regime’s front lines are crumbling. Russian forces are slowly advancing in all important areas of the overall front.

Also, we only want real English/British people to breed more. Let’s be clear about that.

Koreans have a long historical memory. In the early 1950s, American bombing killed outright perhaps 300,000 civilians in North Korea. Subsequent starvation and exposure is estimated to have killed several millions (according to American air force general Curtis Le May, 20% of the entire population of the North).

Some may say that the North Koreans would not relate that to the present-day and to their pursuit of nuclear missiles, or have forgotten about what happened 75 years ago. I am not so sure about that.

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

Diary Blog, 21 August 2025

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[painting by Volegov]

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As always, “they” seek control…

The recent Israeli attack on Iran has no doubt convinced any waverers in Iran that the only meaningful defence against Israeli aggression is to match the Israeli Jews in nuclear capability. Israel has created its own nemesis, as in a Greek tragedy.

One could also imagine Iran employing fleets of drones to exhaust the Israeli air defence shield, then using hundreds, even —in a future year— thousands of powerful conventional-warhead missiles, to overwhelm the remaining Israeli defences and to level the Dimona nuclear site, the Ben-Gurion airport, and Tel Aviv itself, without even having to use nuclear weapons.

Of course, Iran is a long way from Israel (at least 1,200 miles border to border), far beyond the flying distance of most drones at present, though some of the most advanced ones being used in the Ukraine war can reach about 600 miles.

Time will tell, but I think that Israel is doomed.

Not so sure about that. The protests may be at present mostly “peaceful” but the pressure on government comes from the fear that they may well become not-“peaceful”.

In any case, even if all the hotels are closed, the migrant-invaders will not be eliminated but will simply be hidden in the multikulti trash “communities” which now scar much of Britain. The taxpayers will pay out for either social housing or expensive private housing for the invaders.

Most if not all of those cities are already ghastly; God knows what they will be like in 5, 10, 20 years’ time.

[“Liberal commentators like Nelson and Finkelstein are guilty of what philosophers call the moralistic fallacy – the belief that something *cannot* be true simply because it would be morally undesirable if it were. Let’s take their objections one by one: (1) No one is claiming that every illegal migrant is a sex offender. The debate concerns specific cohorts of young men from particular countries and the *higher* statistical risks they bring, not blanket slurs on every individual. Pretending otherwise is a cheap straw man. (2) The phrase “whipping up protest mobs” is dishonest and demagogic. Protest is a democratic right, and the anti-migrant hotel demonstrators are overwhelmingly decent, peaceful, and diverse in background. If anything, these protests are moral, given that successive governments have refused to repeal the Human Rights Act or reopen detention centres… the very measures needed to deliver on their own manifesto promises. (3) No one is “thrilled” by the prospect of ethnic violence. Quite the opposite. The idea fills many of us – myself included, and academics like David Betz – with dread. It is not something we want to happen. But intellectual honesty demands that we take the risk seriously rather than banish it to the realm of taboo. (4) The claim that white Britons face harsher treatment in the courts is a subject that needs proper academic inquiry. But the grooming gangs scandal already provide enough evidence to suggest a form of two-tier justice exists. Columnists like Finkelstein just can’t adapt to the demographic and political realities staring them in the face. They’re stuck in a New Labour/Cameron-era timewarp, clinging to scripts the public has long since stopped buying. They remind me of that tragicomic band Crème Brulee from The League of Gentlemen – especially Les McQueen, forever trapped in nostalgia, boring anyone within earshot with tales of his glory days.”]

We know what may have to happen in the end, but are “not allowed” to discuss it publicly, or to post analysis or comments about it.

In any case, the “rubber boats” invasion is only about 5% of the overall migration problem, which consists of cross-Channel rubber-boat invaders, “students”, “fiancees”, “family members”, fake “tourists”, “key workers” (mostly low-pay employees) and, last but not least, births (to immigrant mothers, to mothers whose parents were immigrants, and to white British women who have been impregnated by non-whites).

Eventually, the future will have to be faced; mass immigration and migration invasion is not the whole of it, though an important part of it. It is also cultural, social, and economic.

I agree. The judge who allowed himself to be “nod-and-wink” told to pass a truly Draconian sentence, as Starmer-stein and Yvette Cooper wanted, thus showed himself unfit to sit in the seat of judgment.

On the blog yesterday, I highlighted the case of two South London thugs convicted a day or two ago of (in one incident) serious theft, grievous or actual (I forget) bodily harm using fists, feet, and a baseball bat, and serious criminal damage (wrecking a car), the victims being a man in his 50s and a pregnant woman.

Incredibly, the judge in that London case gave the defendants (one having serious previous convictions) a suspended sentence, plus a bit of unpaid picking up of litter etc, and rather modest compensation (probably will never be paid). Why? Mainly because (the judge said) the prisons are full to bursting; also because the defendants might be able to access some kind of anger-management bs.

Incidentally, Lucy Connolly may now be “free”, and able to return to her unwell husband and two small children, but will still have to undergo the boredom and silliness of being under probation supervision bs for another 22 months!

One more untermensch to be captured and put on the one-way train…

After Reform— the deluge (real social nationalism).

Incidentally, that poll would translate into a Commons with no less than 434 Reform MPs, 68 Labour, 51 LibDems, 42 SNP and 25 Cons (etc). As near to an electoral revolution as anything.

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That refers to the GI Bill brought into law by F.D. Roosevelt. It gives those who have served in the U.S. armed forces free university education, free medical services etc.

In its original form, it did not extend those benefits to those who served in the armed forces of other countries. Seems that Israel has had its puppets in Congress make yet another pro-Jewish-lobby “exception”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill

Russian forces continue to advance steadily, if slowly. The Kiev-regime forces are now incapable of mounting anything beyond a static “hedgehog” defence line, and are incapable of mounting any serious counter-attack, let alone a counter-offensive.

Well, who could have foreseen that?…

Well, I had better not post anything…inflammatory…lest I end up being unjustly imprisoned as Lucy Connolly was…

Anyway, as often noted on the blog, “rubber boat” migration invasion and the consequent “asylum hotel” aspect is only about 5% of the overall problem (even less if you take into account births).

[“India Pakistan Philippines Nigeria Kyrgyzstan Australia United States Zimbabwe Ghana Bangladesh Uzbekistan Sri Lanka Kazakhstan China Tajikistan France Canada Japan Kenya South Africa“]

Israel is doomed.

What forces are behind Macron? What indeed?…((( ))).

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[painting by Victory Ostrovsky]

Diary Blog, 7 August 2025

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

Talking point

There is now effectively nothing left of the original, or even original post-WW2 (1945-1989), Labour Party.

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The irrelevance of the Conservative Party is plainly seen there. Despite Starmer-stein having a disapproval rating of 60%, and Kemi Badenoch having one of “only” 35%, when it comes to positive approval, the two are both down in the trough of public esteem: Starmer 23%, Kemi Badenoch 24%. Indeed, fewer people actively disapprove of Kemi Badenoch (35%) than disapprove of Farage (41%), but when it comes to positive approval, Farage, on 37%, easily outpaces Kemi Badenoch’s 24%.

41% of people are unsure as to whether they approve or disapprove of Kemi Badenoch, a sure sign that she has made little impression on the public (and it can be seen that what impression she has made is mostly not favourable). By contrast, only 22% of the public are “unsure” about Farage— people either approve or disapprove of him, in almost equal numbers.

People are even more sure about Starmer. Only 17% are “unsure” about him, but 60% disapprove of him.

Quite simple. 14 years of total maladministration and misgovernment finished the Conservative Party with most of the electorate, though 3 out of every 12 voters who voted (3 out of every 20 eligible) still voted Con in 2024 (Labour had 4 out of 20 or 4 out of 12). Most of those Con voters were over 60 years of age, many over 80. They have mostly now gone to Reform UK, and many are expiring daily by reason of old age etc. The next general election may not be until 2029; how many habitual Con voters will have expired by then?

The young (anyone under 30, indeed the vast majority under 40) will not be voting Con. Most of the ethnic minority (rapidly becoming majority) voters prefer Labour or other parties. So who is left?

Once again, the “snake in the grass” here is the Jewish-Zionist/Israel lobby in the UK, which has most of the politicians of the two main System parties (and Reform, too, it seems) in its pocket. The (((lobby))) wants many many organizations banned or prosecuted; it wants many individuals prosecuted, too (they have already tried it with me: see below:

Strange that that former Conservative Party tweeter, Fiona-Natasha Syms (her ex-husband was Conservative Party MP for Poole until 2024; he lost by a mere 18 votes; and she worked for him, paid generously out of her ex-husband’s MP expenses) thinks that (of all people) Yvette Cooper is to be admired. Nein danke! Yvette Cooper is a would-be dictator, very dishonest, a moneygrubber and expenses cheat (as was her husband, Ed Balls), and a “refugees welcome” dimwit to boot! Also, like all of Starmer-stein’s Cabinet —except a few servile Muslims— a member of Labour Friends of Israel.

Short-sighted Con voters in some parts of England have, in the past couple of decades, shown themselves willing, in my view very wrongly, to vote for non-Europeans such as Kemi Badenoch as their constituency MP, so long as the right party label is affixed. Putting promises of low taxation etc above racial or national pride. That has led to the brainless Conservatives imagining that the country as a whole will vote, in effect, for a party led by a non-white MP. Very misguided. Look at Sunak.

True, that was not the only factor that sank the Conservatives at GE2024, but it was one important factor. Sunak was, in that sense, more “electable” than Kemi Badenoch. After all, people look at Indians en masse and see business, at least some organizational skills and, in Sunak’s case, a UK upbringing. Added to that, the vast wealth of his wife’s family and so his own wealth, meaning that, whether rightly or wrongly, he is at least perceived to be “in it” not for personal money reasons. Compare that to Kemi Badenoch, a loudmouth careerist carpetbagger.

Most Brits, not unfairly, look at Nigeria and see chaotic maladministration, corruption even worse than that of India, and nothing at all to admire. Kemi Badenoch was not even brought up in the UK. Her parents made sure that she was born in London, so that (under the law as it then was, in 1980) she could later claim a British passport, but she was only in the UK for a few days before being returned to Nigeria. She lived there and in the USA until at least age 16.

For those who say that Kemi Badenoch is scarcely a typical Nigerian, well, yes. As F. Scott Fitzgerald said, in effect (not an exact quotation), “the rich are different from you and me; they have more money“.

Yes, Kemi Badenoch is not a typical Nigerian. I have known a few like her, such as the Nigerian princess with whom I was acquainted in the mid/late 1980s, and whose (much older) husband was a Federal High Court judge in Nigeria. However, the basic model is still there, not far under the surface. (if anyone is interested, that Nigerian princess was shot dead in her luxury apartment in Lagos , nearly 30 years ago; Lagos is a rather dangerous place).

I just cannot believe that the British public will vote for a Prime Minister who is a Nigerian woman. The very idea, at least to me, is utterly farcical.

When you add to that her abrasive personality etc, you see how disastrous Kemi Badenoch is for the Conservative Party, which looks increasingly irrelevant.

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

No, don’t resign. Stay in place, dragging down your double salary (MP + ministerial) plus expenses, and making money out of being an exploitative private landlady. That will help to sink Starmer-stein’s Labour Friends of Israel government even faster.

Anyone who has had to deal with the chaotic crazy mess called “HMRC” will be familiar with the term “Kafka-esque“. I am glad to say that my interaction with them ceased some 13-14 years ago (in relation to matters now 20-40 years in the past). I found it hard to believe, at the time, that such chaotic maladministration could exist in this country.

[incidentally…internet definitions of “Kafka-esque“:

extremely unpleasant, frightening, and confusing, and similar to situations described in the novels of Franz Kafka: He is caught up in a Kafkaesque bureaucratic nightmare. The urban landscape is invested with a nightmarish, Kafkaesque bleakness.”

and/or

Synonyms of Kafkaesque:

  • surreal.
  • unusual.
  • irrational.
  • illogical.
  • strange.
  • unreasonable.
  • weird.
  • misleading.

From what I read in newspapers, HMRC has not improved much, if at all, since they decided to engage in dialogue with me 13-18 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Revenue_and_Customs#Controversies

In fact, HMRC reminded me slightly of the 1950 comic novel, The Way Backwards.

Translates to about 414 Reform UK MPs, 94 Labour, 54 LibDems, 37 SNP, Cons 21.

That would be a Commons majority greater than that of Starmer in 2024, and almost as great as that of Blair in 1997. Prior to that, very large majorities were achieved in the early 1930s, in the 1920s, and by Earl Grey’s government of 1832. All times of sweeping change.

Of course, 32% of the popular vote is not huge in historical terms, but is about what Starmer-Labour gathered-in in 2024. It hardly matters that your vote is “only” 32% if your main opponents are getting 20% and 16%.

War is hell, even when unavoidable. May victory attend the forces of Russia in Eastern Ukraine, and be the forerunner of genuine peace.

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[river Severn]

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[“Former heads of the army, police, Shin Bet, Mossad, and Israeli military intelligence issued a joint statement calling for an immediate end to the war in Gaza. They emphasized that this conflict is no longer just and poses a threat to the very identity of Israel, its values, and its international image.“]

I wonder whether the fanatically pro-Israel Jew-Zionists of the UK (etc), such as those malicious abusers of the English legal system, the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”], are listening?

Incidentally, I see that lying perjurer Gideon Falter, the head or figurehead of the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, was allowed to publish a fairly long opinion piece in the Daily Telegraph. The horrible little bastard had the sheer gall to write about the small number of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza that they now look like Jews starved in German camps at the end of the Second World War.

That at a time when an Arab Palestinian population in the many hundreds of thousands, including huge numbers of civilians (many of them children), is being deliberately starved to death in Gaza by the (Israeli) Jews, a para-military campaign backed to the hilt by (non-Israeli) Jews such as Falter.

As a matter of fact, I should not be surprised if Falter, effectively an agent of influence of a foreign power, Israel, is not an Israeli passport-holder himself, perhaps a dual Israel/UK passport-holder (maybe even a triple passport-holder (Israel/UK/Austria).

I accept that the hostages in Gaza should be released, but the Palestinians have been pushed to the genocidal brink, and have few chips to play.

Israel should also release its own prisoners, of course. Some of them have also been brutalized and starved.

I once stayed overnight at Mappin’s hotel, a Victorian castle hotel at Tintagel, North Cornwall, the one-time seat of King Arthur. In late 2001; December 2001. It was not really run properly as “an hotel” should be; I believe that, since then, it has been taken in hand by Mappin, the heir to a very considerable fortune (think Mappin & Webb, the jewellers). I just read today that he bought it in 1999.

When I was there, it was hugely atmospheric, like a decayed private castle, an effect emphasized by the fact that my wife and I were the only guests, and the staff, in the evening at least, consisted of a not terribly welcoming middleaged Englishman and his (possibly Austrian) wife. I recall that our rather cold room (I think it may have had a four-poster, and an ancient bar fire set into the wall) cost £200 a night, quite expensive in the money of 24 years ago. Akin maybe to £400+ today.

I well recall, after eating informally at a local pub in the nearby village (no restaurant open then at the Castle), being seated before a Hollywood-film-scale blazing fire in the Great Hall, and being served a double or triple Irish whiskey, the absence of other guests making it seem as if we were in our own home (or castle).

In the morning, a very pleasant and very rickety old retainer-woman served breakfast in a long gallery, her tiny grandchild hanging onto her skirts, as the Cornish winter waves crashed onto the rocks below, as in Rebecca.

Memorable.

I blogged, years ago, about our stay. The Castle once played host to many of the rich and famous, especially in the years before the First World War. Composers such as Arnold Bax, and Elgar (who wrote much of his Second Symphony in the very room in which we were staying): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._2_(Elgar)#Extra-musical_considerations.

I expect it is very different today.

Ah. Just saw their website. Very different today, and much-modernized: https://camelotcastle.com/rooms/.

Good to see that Mappin is awake to at least part of the problem in the UK, but he is so very careful to push the “peaceful” protest idea— writing to MPs, becoming a candidate in elections etc. Yes but no but…

That pro-migration invasion crazie, shouting wildly, is one Jonathan Lis, a Jewish msm scribbler and “political commentator” (apparently): https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/22/jewish-voting-labour-antisemitism-progressive-government

Typical.

I wonder whether the Israelis would allow echt-British/English people to go to Israel, scribble for newspapers, and go onto Israeli TV angrily urging more and more (non-Jewish) migration to Israel. The very idea is, of course, ludicrous, and would be even were those non-Jews born in Israel, which would be almost impossible anyway.

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So says great foreign policy and grand strategy “expert” Ben Wallace, a half-pay retired captain (his highest rank in the Army).

On 23 February 2022, Wallace was filmed saying that the Scots Guards “kicked the backside” of Nicholas I of Russia during the Crimean War, and could do so again. Russia invaded Ukraine the following day.[58]“]

[Wikipedia]

An idiot.

What does “Field Marshal” Wallace think that Britain, which scarcely has an army now anyway, or air force, or navy, can bring to the table? He seems to think that Britain can almost impose a Pax Britannica. That last bottle must have been a good one.

She has now either resigned or been pushed out: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14980971/Labour-homelessness-minister-resigns.html

https://twitter.com/MosabAbuToha/status/1953248650643075399

“Ukraine” (Kiev regime) “fighting until it wins the war” is now impossible. It always was, even if “victory” means merely taking over the oblasti of Crimea, Lugansk, and Donetsk (rather than any capture of the territory of pre-2014 Russia or destruction of the Russian armies in the field).

Reality has now been accepted by the vast majority of Ukrainians, and I expect that a majority would now accept Russian rule over all Ukraine east of the Dnieper.

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Diary Blog, 4 August 2025

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[Sally Hewlett Taylor, Walking Across London Bridge in the Rain]

Ukrainians are starting to revolt against Zelensky’s brutal, corrupt, and shambolic Jew-Zionist regime

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14966973/Are-Ukrainians-turning-Zelensky-Multiple-casualties-reported-civilians-attack-draft-officer-bats-metal-pipes-Mykolaiv-Oblast.html

“Multiple casualties have been reported after Ukrainian officials alleged that a group of bat and pipe-wielding civilians attacked a draft officer. 

Officials said the incident took place at 2pm local time in the small village of Buzke in Mykolaiv Oblast. 

They said that the civilians, who have not yet been identified, were ‘armed with bats and metal pipes’ and ‘damaged a vehicle and inflicted bodily injuries on a soldier.

Cops are now investigating the incident, and warned dissidents that insulting the ‘honour and dignity’ of soldiers, as well as threatening violence against them, was punishable by up to five years in prison. 

It added that bringing harm to soldiers could result in up to 12 years imprisonment. 

From the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Zelensky faced an uphill battle with his countrymen, who resisted the enforced conscription into the country’s military.

Just two days ago protesters in the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia broke into a stadium where roughly 100 men were being held by military enlistment officers. 

Cops arrested several demonstrators.

[Daily Mail]

“Recruitment” (by press-gang) into the Kiev-regime army is a death sentence. They are losing a thousand or more per day on the front-line. Naturally, people try to avoid or evade.

Incidentally, “Mikolaiv” is the Ukrainian version of the original Russian name, Nikolayev. The name is from St. Nicholas.

“As of 2017, 63% of the population spoke Russian at home, 7% Ukrainian, and 28% spoke both Ukrainian and Russian equally.[50]

According to a survey conducted by the International Republican Institute in April-May 2023, 30% of the city’s population spoke Ukrainian at home, and 61% spoke Russian.[52]

[Wikipedia]

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

[aerial view of Nikolayev/”Mikolaiv” before hostilities broke out]

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Jess Phillips may be the most disgusting MP in the current Commons.

See also:

There is a problem which is not confined to the Middle East. A worldwide problem. It has to be dealt with. Let’s just leave it there for now.

Angela Rayner once more makes a fool of herself

[“You know Ange, I’ll be a bit concerned how life will be for you and all Labour MP’s once you’re out of office. I would envisage a rather bumpy road considering you’re a major player in the destruction of this once beautiful land.“]

I like almost all the responses on Twitter/X to thick-as-two-short-planks Angela Rayner and her ostensible espousal of some of the worst untermenschen in this country. I especially like that last tweeter’s response.

I wonder whether any lone hero… well, let’s leave it there.

Destruction of Britain’s allotments is more than just a retrograde step, it is state-instigated vandalism and violence against something beautiful and worthwhile, and against a cherished part of our history.

We often see, mostly online, statements such as “the System parties, especially Labour, are traitors” etc. Hyperbole, maybe, but when you look at what this government is doing, treason really is the only word that fits, alongside evil, treacherous, enemies, criminals and the like.

The Angela Rayner type think that they can do anything to trash our country, and that they will get away with it, and then make personal money or career opportunities out of it etc.

The same goes for “unused” land owned by railways etc. A haven for wildlife, for land animals, birds, and insects.

First, Farage, Reform UK etc. Then, after that, real social nationalism.

[“Brazil has become the first country in the world to abandon the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Blaming financial and legal constraints, Brazil’s Government is reportedly withdrawing from the organisation in a move that is really more about sending a signal about where the current Government stands on Jews and the Jewish state. The move will undoubtedly be welcomed by antisemites the world over.“]

For once, that pack of malicious, perjuring Jew-Zionists, the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, a volunteer arm of the Israeli Embassy in London (though several are paid) is in agreement with me. I do indeed welcome the Brazilian announcement.

In fact, the so-called “international definition” is not legally binding, and has only been adopted by about a fifth, if that, of the states in the world.

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

Well done, Brazil. May many others follow in your footsteps.

Bravo!

[“Old or new Israeli’s won’t change the fact they all are citizens of a state that was build on Palestinian blood. The world is waking up, in 10 or 20 years or less my family will be able to go back in claim their in land in West Jerusalem. It’s not just the government its the society, it’s not just the people in that region that see’s the truth, the world now is starting to wake up. Everything in the west that was thought to the people for over a 100 years was a lie and now people are finding out the truth about history.”]

The video is remarkable. On the one hand, and on the video, the chiefs or former chiefs of major Israeli security and intelligence organizations. On the other hand, Netanyahu, his Cabinet of lunatics and/or zealots, a minority (probably) of the Israeli civilians, and those outside Israel who are pushing for even more bloodshed, destruction, starvation, sadistic treatment of Palestinian Arabs, and genocide.

Who are those outside Israel who are pushing for the war to continue? Major Jew-Zionist orgs in the USA, UK etc (such as the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” in the UK), and connected small groups of individuals here and there. Ugly, dead-eyed Jew-Zionists in places such as Brighton, North London, and New York, as well as wealthy and fanatical Jewish business types with American, British, French and other politicians in their pocket.

As noted in the video, the power not represented clearly is the Israeli Army or IDF. This is the foremost power in Israel, not least because it permeates the society: most Israelis are compelled to serve in it for a while and are also liable for reserve service later. So far, the Israeli Army has not refused to continue the war.

Exactly as I have been predicting for 2+ years on the blog. Labour will secretly approve most asylum claims, secretly move the migrant-invaders from hotels to social or other housing (pushing aside British people) , and approve from outside the UK in France etc most new claims, then be able to claim that Labour has “solved” the problem, or the main problem, while in fact making it even worse. Millions more yet of non-whites flooding in. Oh, and of course a tiny number of migrant-runners will be arrested, imprisoned etc, thus allowing Starmer-stein, Angela Rayner, and Yvette Cooper to claim that they have “smashed the gangs”, surely one of the least honest “policies” (slogans) ever pushed by any UK government.

How horrible. I have to admit, I have never had much time for Danish society or Danes (though I also concede that I have never actually been there).

If this is happening now, in 2025, imagine the huge wave of discontent that will be around in 2029. Reform UK will probably benefit, but my feeling is that many by then will want to take direct action against “the overall situation”, including against MPs of the main System parties. We shall see.

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Diary Blog, 6 July 2025

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Reminiscences: temps perdu, and thoughts about mortality

When one is well over 60, as I now am (68; b. 1956), thoughts may naturally turn to mortality, life and death, and questions larger than the everyday concerns of life. That may be so when one notices that many people one has known in life are now defunct.

Some of the people I have known, or have merely met briefly or peripherally in the past, are still alive; many, however, are not. Some of those who are no longer alive have died from various natural causes (and are too numerous to list), others expired from unnatural causes (such as a Nigerian princess I knew, shot dead in Lagos in the late 1990s) or from causes or reasons unknown (such as the ex-husband of a lady I knew in the 1980s, which ex-husband apparently drowned in the Thames at London). A few, friends of friends rather than people I knew well, sadly died via suicide many years ago.

These thoughts came again to mind yesterday when I noticed information online to the effect that a former American colleague, a major-league American lawyer called Tim Scrantom, died some time ago, in 2021, apparently of a brain tumour. He was diagnosed in April 2021, and died 6 months later.

[Tim Scrantom, 1956-2025]

Tim Scrantom was a couple of months younger than me, a fact which sharpens my reminiscence.

I met Scrantom after a headhunter in New York suggested to him and his two main colleagues, in 2001, that I might suit his niche law firm (based in Charleston, South Carolina). I was telephoned in Turkey, where I was then resident, and we arranged to meet in London at one of my usual haunts, the Churchill Bar at the Hotel Russell in Russell Square.

I drove back to England via Greece, Bulgaria, Romania (the latter two then not EU states, and very ramshackle), Hungary (excellent country), Austria, Germany (calling in at Berchtesgaden), Luxembourg, and Belgium.

The upshot was that Scrantom and I became colleagues, he based mostly at Charleston (the office was at East Bay Street, in the conservation zone of the city), I mostly in London, though we both visited various offshore jurisdictions, once or twice in tandem, as when we went to Liechtenstein one day (well, I did; Scrantom had left his passport at the Mayfair Hotel, and only discovered that fact when we met at Heathrow, prior to flying to Zurich…).

Scrantom was a genial host. He invited my wife and me to dinner in Charleston in August or early September 2001 and, on a later solo visit, I visited his home on Sullivan’s Island, by Charleston, where he lived with his then wife (I believe they divorced later) and young daughter.

Scrantom, though a graduate from American law schools, an attorney in several states, and a professor of law as well, was also a barrister of Gray’s Inn in London. I was a barrister of Lincoln’s Inn, though many years later (2016) wrongfully and unlawfully disbarred at the instigation of a pack of malicious and politically-motivated Jew-Zionists.

Scrantom, incidentally, was a modest fellow, very much a “Southern gentleman”, born in Georgia and from a wealthy background. I liked him. I never knew (until yesterday) about some of his earlier adventures, such as sailing around the Bahamas on his yacht, exploring the Himalayas, or visiting edgy places in Cambodia and elsewhere in South-East Asia, though he did tell me that he knew several of the people portrayed in the famous book and film Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_in_the_Garden_of_Good_and_Evil_(film)], the events of which occurred in Savannah, Georgia, where Scrantom’s family members were largely based.

In September 2001, I was with Scrantom in a taxi in the Strand, London, when his wife called to say that New York was under attack. We interrupted our journey (to the Berkeley Square area of Mayfair) to get out at a Dixons store to look at the TV screens.

I well remember him later fuming that Iraq “must have” been behind the attack on the World Trade Center (that was the neo-con and American msm line at the time, of course) and that “Israel has the right idea” (i.e. bomb the hell out…). Well, he was wrong, of course, and we disagreed about that. Like most Americans, and despite his intelligence and education, he was influenced by the pro-Israel propaganda so pervasive in the msm in the USA (though his main colleague, Ron, a hard-driving former USAF officer, was more alive to the menace of Jew-Zionism, and he was, as one might expect, also pro-USA to the hilt).

Scrantom, even when I knew him, was a multimillionaire, and later become a major player in the field of “litigation insurance”, once called “champerty” and historically not lawful in most jurisdictions (including England): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champerty_and_maintenance; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champerty_and_maintenance#England_and_Wales. Now, it is considered more acceptable.

I do not much like the concept (and Jew-Zionists in England use “litigation insurance” to pursue pro-Israel “lawfare”), so maybe it is just as well that our professional connection was mainly severed in 2002, when I decided to return to the ordinary practising Bar in England. I then moved to a large country house in Cornwall, and was based professionally at Exeter.

As already mentioned, I liked Tim (though not his then wife, to be frank; I only met her once), though I should say that he and his two main colleagues had no idea at all about how to run a law firm.

Life is short, something few if any really understand when in their twenties or thirties. We all have to try to accomplish something, not in a careerist sense, but for the future of the Earth, while in any particular incarnation.

[180 East Bay Street, Charleston, South Carolina; offices of Tim Scrantom in 2001-2002]
[painting of conservation zone, Charleston, South Carolina]
[painting of the conservation zone or “French Quarter” of Charleston, South Carolina]
[The Battery, Charleston, South Carolina; a couple of my colleagues lived near there]

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That idiot, a (?) 30-something wannabee or occasional scribbler, tweeted something about me quite a while ago, I think in 2023 or 2024. He seems to be very pro-Jew-Zionist and pro-Israel, and his msm scribblings (it seems as part of teams, not sole bylines) were 6-11 years ago. A few more recent scribblings have been for online outlets (of which few have ever heard). https://muckrack.com/colin-cortbus/articles.

Apparently, that Cortbus person was once a UKIP activist (when a student, about 12-14 years ago).

I notice that that individual has only about 2,500 Twitter/X followers. When a pack of Jews had me expelled from Twitter in 2018, I had 3,000 followers (and that had been artificially lowered); by now I would have had tens of thousands of Twitter followers. Ah well…so much for “free speech” in this country…

Incidentally, I was unaware about that event in Zagreb. Looks as though parts of Europe are waking up.

…but look at that dishonest little Pakistani, Sajid Javid. Wrong once again. Remember his denial of the link between the migration invasion of tens of millions into the UK, and housing shortages?

Make that nearer to 10-15M, though…(plus births).

Starmer-stein is a total idiot. No idea about how to run the UK. Clueless. I predicted it, about 3-4 years ago, on the blog.

Scotland is even worse than England. Some of the idiots up there even claim to welcome being invaded by backward hordes!

The Labour Party in Scotland is actually headed by a Pakistani; so was (how ludicrous can you get?) the Scottish “National” Party, until recently.

As for that rapist, he will be out in 5-6 months. Shocking. The woman victim must be devastated and feel totally unprotected and unavenged.

Economic sanctions rarely work. When I was in Rhodesia in 1977, the roads outside the capital, Salisbury (now Harare) were empty, but that was not because of sanctions (fuel rationing only lasted 1965-1971). New cars were often seen in the city, though none were of British manufacture; French, I think Spanish, or other. Sanctions had limited effect— things such as books, Scotch whisky etc. Nothing really major. Tobacco, oranges, chrome etc were still exported (often under false flags).

Compare Putin to pathetic and dishonest Starmer-stein, or that truly ridiculous “diversity hire”, Lammy.

Not so much “wild geese” as Muscovy ducks…(only joking).

Unsurprising. Why should the peoples of Central and Western Europe (and USA) risk nuclear war for the sake of Zelensky’s brutal, shambolic, and very corrupt cabal? Most Ukrainian men are themselves trying to avoid serving in the Kiev-regime forces.

[“Israeli publication Haaretz reported that the US military used 93 THAAD interceptors in 11 days to defend Israel, revising previous cost estimates from $800 million to about $1.2 billion. With an annual production rate of about 36-48 THAAD interceptors, the US used up nearly two years’ worth of the missiles during the war.“]

Horrible. I hope they suffer for committing such crimes against the natural world. Barbarians.

Strange to think that, when I drove to the end of the almost-empty Karpas Peninsula in Northern Cyprus in early 2000, I was only 60 miles from Latakia in Syria. 60 miles, but a different world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karpas_Peninsula.

[“Few people noticed why exactly Israel launched a war against Iran on June 13. Here are three hidden reasons: 1. Just days earlier, the country was rocked by its largest pedophile scandal in history—one involving several high-ranking politicians. 2. Before the war, Iran hacked three terabytes of files from Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, which is known for collecting compromising information on global politicians. 3. Israeli PM Netanyahu risked losing power due to the unpopular proposal to draft ultra-Orthodox Jews into the Israeli military“]

I wonder what there is in that about Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Prince Andrew, Dershowitz, Clinton, Trump etc.

If MOSSAD or AMAN had that stuff, does the SVR now also have it, or some of it? About Trump, for example?

“The Consolation of Philosophy”?

Allison Pearson is a remarkably stupid woman.

I presume that Lewis is hiding out in Israel. He has or had a flat in Eilat, a fact that he concealed from the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal when he was found guilty on several charges in 2018. Indeed, his Counsel told the Tribunal that Lewis should have his fine greatly reduced because Lewis’s only assets were his clothes, a mobility scooter, and a private pension worth £70 a week.

Ecce the supposed “top defamation lawyer”!

See also:

Mark Lewis is little better than a confidence trickster.

Incidentally, Lewis was an abusive husband when married briefly (one year) to the Z-list “celebrity” and, briefly, Sky News newsreader, Caroline Feraday (amusingly, best-known for having been sacked by text message by BBC local radio about 15 years ago).

Not that I care at all about Lewis’s abusive behaviour to his then wife, who now lives in a “nowheresville” in the outer regions of Los Angeles (see my blog posts).

The Feraday woman joined with Lewis in attacking me viciously on Twitter (about my opposition to the Jewish fake WW2 “reparations” scam); in fact she initiated the attacks, with which Lewis then joined in. Until then (many years ago, about 2012 or so), I had never heard of the bastard, or her.

Mark Lewis was (maybe still is) a “patron” of that evil and squalid organization, the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, working with its main characters, such as Gideon Falter (a proven liar and, arguably, perjurer) and the Jew-Zionist Israel fanatic, posing as “Head of Investigations and Enforcement”, whom we can call “Slitherman”.

An example below of Lewis’s abusive social media activity, which (after several years) got him into trouble (though not via me— unlike the Jew-Zionist troublemakers, I do not waste time making endless complaints to police etc):

(in fact, in 2018, it was revealed that Lewis constantly abused people on Twitter etc, even a young Jewish boy; Lewis blamed his medications for his abusive behaviour…).

Ecce Allison Pearson’s solicitor (apparently)…

My own Twitter account, as explained, was deleted by Twitter itself in 2018 at the instigation of effectively the same pack of Jews, while Caroline Feraday deleted her original Twitter account a year or two ago, mainly because it was too embarrassing for her in various ways. She has another Twitter/X account now (with only 115 “followers”, despite she herself following 166 Twitter/X accounts).

Caroline Feraday’s now-deleted Twitter account had, at one time, tens of thousands of “followers”, all fake, all bought by her and by “Mark Lewis Lawyer”, who himself bought nearly 80,000 in an attempt to seem important, popular etc. Legal business news outlets even commented, cautiously, about the dishonest fakery of Lewis and his then wife.

Caroline Feraday now works for local public radio station KCLU in Ventura County, California, a subsidized radio station (National Public Radio network) with (putting it jokingly) about half a dozen listeners.

A few years ago, Caroline Feraday was publicly begging on GoFundMe, in an attempt to raise a mere USD $5,000. Sic transit gloria mundi…(and “celebrity”)…

From last month; I missed that one.

Cor, ‘ee’s well ‘ard!” (when arresting a woman of 83 doing basically nothing; the police are, shall we say, “not so hard” when confronting, if they ever do, predators and scavengers, such as those usually found living in caravans…).

Pathetic.

Ha. Soon “we shall all be (called) terrorists”…

I have seen the odd thing over the years from Rod Liddle with which I have agreed; quite a lot with which I disagreed. Also, my impression (I have never met him) is that he is rather an unpleasant person.

I could suggest something, but would not want some Jew-Zionist troublemaker making yet another contrived complaint to the police “service” about me.

The Israeli Jews are so brave, when firing at unarmed and defenceless civilians…

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Diary Blog, 17 June 2025

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Maya Moskva

Well, does not look much like my own two visits to the Russian capital (1993 and 2007). Looks like I lost out! Typical…

Tweets seen

…and many (real) Romanians are appalled that the UK msm seems deliberately to conflate them with Roma Gypsies (and their appalling criminal behaviour)…

That would really put the cat among the pigeons. The public might actually wake up, or start to wake up…

So many “journalists” are just System-dependent scribblers and talking heads. Kevin Maguire is one of the worst, with his unthinking “Labour” tribalism, and his fake pseudo-socialism. A total fake, in fact, and one who, with his affluent wife (a novelist), has an income in the hundreds of thousands, a house in “leafy Richmond” (SW London), and at least one second home (in Devon or Cornwall); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Maguire_(journalist)

Sooner or later, the whole society will fracture; in fact, you can see the early signs of that all around.

More tweets

I thought that MOSSAD’s HQ was somewhere outside Tel Aviv, not in a built-up area; maybe I was mistaken.

Were I in the Iranian leadership, I should be dispersing the scientists and technicians across Iran, away from likely targets, so that they can regroup later, after any such powerful attack(s).

Jess Phillips, an ugly (in all senses) and moneygrasping woman, cultureless and very stupid. My assessment of her from 6 years ago:

I pair that with the proposed “assisted dying” legislation. Indicators that the value of human life in this country is now set below the bar of ease and convenience.

As a former barrister, it is clear to me, I having seen it all before. Superficially clever little men and (sometimes) women, who pose as very intelligent within their insulated little legal-people bubble, but are usually clueless in the wide world of real events, big pictures, history, and geopolitics.

Owen Jones was always (quite openly) trying to get people to block me on Twitter when I had an account (a pack of malicious Jews conspired to mass-report me and have me expelled in 2018). Owen Jones was not the only one asking people to block me, not converse with me etc; others included the Jew Finkelstein (now yet another absurd member of the House of Lords).

My assessment of Owen Jones (from 2019):

Stunning.

Just one more corrupt puppet.

The Israeli Jewish government (like that of the Jew Zelensky in Kiev against Russia), is desperate for the USA to weigh-in against Iran directly. Israel cannot win its war (which, after all, started when Israel attacked Iran without warning) without American help.

https://twitter.com/Timesofgaza/status/1934860070975656150

[“Dozens of Palestinians killed while waiting for Aid in Khanyounis, Gaza.“]

More Jewish Israeli war crimes.

Not quite as striking as other recent polls, but still giving Reform UK a near-majority 300 MPs (Lab 188, LibDems 72, SNP 30, Cons 30): https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html.

Note the persistent illogicality and unfairness of FPTP voting, though: Reform UK 27%, but 300 MPs instead of 176, and the Greens 10%, but only 4 MPs instead of 65. Also, Cons 17%, but only 30 MPs instead of 111.

Migration invasion.

Bargaining chips, but Netanyahu seems to care little for Israelis captured by Israel’s enemies. They are some way down the list of his priorities.

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The Jewish/Zionist lobby has enormous influence and (not always obvious) power over the politicians of the USA and UK, among other states. Trump is no exception.

Another point is that, especially in the USA, whenever you see or read about or from a supposed “expert” on geopolitics, especially but not exclusively the Middle East, 9 times out of 10 that talking head or scribbler is Jewish.

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[one of my (strictly temporary) “homes”…]

Diary Blog, 15 May 2025

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[painting by Vicente Romero Redondo]

Tweets seen

(Connolly, not “Connelly“, though).

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Russia will eventually have a different state-form yet.

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery“…

Pretty pathetic, Starmer-stein’s fake “conversion” to stopping the migration invasion his party, and he himself, have both promoted for decades, half a century in the case of Labour-label.

Starmer and fake Labour are getting desperate. As for the “Conservatives”, irrelevant, and may well reduce to fewer than 50 MPs next time.

The once-great Conservative Party is now either a lame duck or a dead duck.

Time was, when I would have defended the BBC and its non-commercial funding, albeit while recognizing that it needed radical reform to get it back to its founding Reithian principles (“inform, educate, entertain“…in that order), but it has become a politically-correct, “woke”, anti-British, anti-white-Northern-European monstrosity. I just want it gone now; either that or very radically changed, pared back to about a tenth of its present size, and not paid for by the so-called “licence fee” (tax).

Ha ha. Not very polite, but that resident is not wrong.

As for the canvasser, just a pawn. People like Starmer-stein, Rachel Reeves, Liz Kendall, Yvette Cooper etc are making careers and very large amounts of money out of their political life, and pawns like that local canvasser tramp the council estates and other mean streets of decaying England trying to sell a Labour Party which is merely one dishonest face of NWO/ZOG globalism, and which does nothing for the British people.

In fact, tweeter StacyWright/”@Stacywr2277″ is quite wrong about Mandela. He was not locked up for saying anything. He, at the time a middle-aged —46-y-o— failed black law student, was tried (very fairly, too) for having planned a race war in South Africa. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivonia_Trial.

All those on trial were blacks or Jews. One of the Jews alleged to have been involved was discharged by the trial judge at the close of the prosecution case, while another was acquitted. Four others escaped from prison custody.

Incidentally, not only were most of the defence counsel in that trial Jews, but so was the chief prosecutor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Yutar.

Mandela, as thick as two short planks, was a failure as a would-be urban guerrilla and revolutionary, but a race war against Europeans was certainly his objective; he was arrested before he, and the other blacks (and Jews) involved, could put their plans into effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivonia_Trial#Charges.

London. Zoo.

https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/lewisham-teenagers-stabbed-man-12-31639006

Two teenagers who stabbed a young man 12 times over a family feud have been found guilty of his murder. Ryan Wedderburn, 18 and Kirk Harris, 19, attacked 21-year-old Robert Robinson on Carteret Way, in Surrey Quays, on June 6, 2024 after chasing him down the street with knives.”

[My London]

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[LibDems 13, Greens 7]

Well, same story as in other recent polls— Reform well ahead of Labour, with the Con Party trailing miserably. This poll, though, shows Reform again (for the second time) cracking the 30% “barrier”.

Electoral Calculus suggests, on those numbers, Reform having 334 MPs (an absolute majority of 8, but a working majority of 18). Labour 180, LibDems 58, SNP with only 28 MPs yet still ahead of the Cons (23 MPs).

So once again, the Con Party predicted to be in only 5th place, and with only 23 MPs. Terminal, probably.

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[Shishkin, 1884, Gathering Storm]

Diary Blog, 13 February 2025

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[painting by Volegov]

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Interesting to hear Patrick O’Flynn [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_O%27Flynn], former UKIP MEP and journalist, use the term “System” as I do on the blog (as when he says, there, “System people“). Is he one of the politicians and commentators who peruse my views, or is that simple co-incidence?

Unpleasantness ran and runs right though “New Labour”, and Starmer-Labour is just a pointless, meaningless offshoot of Blair-Brown “New Labour”.

Bastani is right, of course, about the appallingly-low quality of MPs. Since 1997 and, particularly, 2010 (and as often said by me on the blog), that fact is inescapable. Not just in fake Labour though; also true of the fake “Conservative” Party, and fake “Liberal Democrat” Party (remember Jo Swinson?).

Reform UK is “controlled opposition”, of course, but is moving the Overton Window. When that has moved far enough, social nationalism can enter the arena.

Blast from the past: the “Mrs Duffy” moment in 2010

Mrs Duffy, uneducated, “ignorant” etc, knew far more than “educated” fake “big brain”, globalist puppet Gordon Brown. In the past 15 years, her superior understanding of the mass immigration crisis (if not put in a very polished way, so be it) still resonates —in fact, more than even in 2010— whereas Gordon Brown is just a washed-up System politician now exposed as far from the great mind he (and his tendentious wife/carer/psychiatric nurse) thought.

Aaron Bastani is far from my position, ideologically. Having said that, he often speaks the truth as he sees it.

Both Lab and Con parties, the main two System parties, are losing all credibility; the LibDems, as “dustbin” or “default alternative” party, never had much to lose.

Trump, and Trump’s White House

Of course, it is easy to see the Trump White House as a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, looking at recent tweets etc (see below)

Looks as though Musk should have a word with the child’s nanny. The child seems short on good manners. (I have to admit that it made me laugh, though; look at Trump’s expression!).

Very odd. Where did the child hear that, to regurgitate it?

That scene really does seem mad, disorderly.

On the other hand, until Trump took over, the international situation, and several regional issues, seemed stuck in glacial mud. He has disrupted that pattern. As psychologists say, a “pattern-interrupt”.

It may seem absurd to want to buy Greenland, annex Canada, and turn the Jew-Zionist-devastated Gazan hellscape into a Mediterranean beach resort, but all of those ideas have at least made people think about alternative realities.

To compare Trump’s disruptive ideas to the campaigns of Alexander the Great may seem to stretch “first time tragedy, second time farce“, in the famous comment of Marx, to breaking point, but history is sometimes moved by ideas that seemed absurd.

Look at the state of Israel itself. When Herzl and others first came up with the idea of Israel as a state, they were just a few Jews in the lower strata of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires. Their ideas seemed crazed, and they themselves had no genuine ancestral link to Palestine, which was then one of the poorer provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Also, the Ottoman Empire might have been “the sick man of Europe” but it sat there, apparently immovable in its vast power.

Is Trump trying to make his Gaza plan (“Club Trump?) seem more credible by hiding it among even crazier-seeming plans? One thinks of stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, and E.W. Hornung.

Where do you hide a pebble? On a beach. Where do you hide a murder? Among other apparently-similar murders. Where do you, as a fugitive person, hide? Not in isolated places but in a big city. So where do you hide your plan to seize Gaza? Among other apparently-mad plans.

A paranoid analysis, possibly; also, though, possibly, accurate.

Trump cannot realistically seize Canada. He cannot, either, seize Greenland, not without smashing NATO to pieces. He could, however, take over Gaza. The Israelis (quelle surprise) seem open to the idea. After all, from where would come most if not all inhabitants of the proposed Club Trump, Club Gaza? Israel, of course, or Jew-Zionist settlers from places such as New York City.

“Greater Israel”, in some form, seems more than a mere “conspiracy theory”.

When Trump was serving out his first term, this blog described him as “a loudly-squawking parrot in a gilded cage, guarded by a phalanx of Jews“, and that remains broadly the case, but perhaps less so in this second term. Trump no longer needs the Jewish lobby or Israel lobby for political purposes, though he would not want to make an enemy of them either, whether for political or business reasons.

Trump may be thinking in terms of “legacy”, especially after the assassination attempt(s).

Looks as though Trump is also determined to bring an end to the war in and around Ukraine. He must know that the quickest way to do that is to restrict or stop money, arms, and ammunition flowing to the Kiev regime.

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That “charity” was set up by Rory Stewart himself. His wife was an employee of his prior to their marriage. I believe that she was married or engaged to someone else at the time. She is half-Jewish, I believe. See also:

My assessment of Stewart, published in 2019 and updated over the years, has proven to be fairly popular with readers. He himself is part-Jew, incidentally, a fact of which I admit I was unaware until an alert blog reader sent information (read the published assessment).

As for Stewart’s wife and that “artwork” etc, funny how “they” are always around when degenerate influences are promoted.

Also, Paddington was a lone bear, i.e. not an army of tens of millions, quite apart from the fact that he was a work of fantasy children’s fiction.

Stella Creasy is one of the more evil MPs. Member of Labour Friends of Israel, of course.

Creasy’s partner is Dan Fox, a former director of Labour Friends of Israel.[76]

[Wikipedia]

See also: https://www.thejc.com/news/stella-creasy-lashes-out-at-al-jazeera-over-smear-of-jewish-partner-qe5gkauy.

Zelensky is living on borrowed time. How long before tidal waves of tanks roll into Kiev?

As soon as the money/arms/ammunition tap is shut off, or the flow reduced to a trickle, the Kiev regime will just implode. “Ukraine” is not a real state at all.

It always looks ludicrous when “British” politicians of today try to play the “war leader and statesman” card, even when they have some underwhelming “military experience”; neither Sunak nor Starmer have any at all. Neither, of course, has Maria Eagle, a former solicitor best known as MP for having been an expenses cheat [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Eagle#Expenses_controversy].

Maria Eagle is a member of Labour Friends of Israel, of course.

Look and learn. When “they” have power, as in Russia/Soviet Union after the Bolshevik “Revolution” (coup d’etat).

If some of the Palestinian Arabs sometimes do monstrous things, as on the day or two before the Israeli attack on Gaza in 2023, it is because they have been made monstrous by, mainly, Jewish/Israeli behaviour.

As with Reform UK in this country, not really my preference in an ideal world, but better than all the other main choices at present.

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That might translate into a Commons with 276 Reform UK MPs! Also, according to Electoral Calculus [https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html] 139 Lab, 108 Con, 59 LibDem, 4 green, 40 SNP; 24 others.

Still no majority (50 short), but I imagine that, under those circumstances, some Con MPs would defect, and others support ad hoc.

Were Reform to be able to get even one extra point, to 30%, then, even with other figures unchanged, its MP cadre would be around 298 (Lab 129, Con 95, LibDem 60).

Were Reform on 30% and Cons a point lower than in the opinion poll, i.e. on 20%, Reform would have 318 MPs, 8 short of a majority but with very close to a working majority. The Cons, though would have only 75 MPs.

For the long-established Conservative Party, effectively terminal. Not even the official Opposition. Maybe not even the third party.

Tim Montgomerie has recently opined that the Conservative Party might be expiring; for once, I agree with him. Or does he, belatedly, agree with me?

Fake “Labour” will decline but not so far or so fast, because about 20%, maybe more, of the electorate is now black/brown, and that percentage will increase inexorably, because few white/British children are being born. Virtually all the births now are from the ethnic minorities (who, within half a century, will certainly be the majority, unless action is taken to prevent that). They all vote Labour; at least 90% of them do.

Opinion polls suggest that among those aged 18-24, only about 5%, if that, vote Conservative; about 80% vote Labour. Who are those young voters? Largely, the non-whites.

As the Dad’s Army character used to say (about inserting cold steel into the fuzzie-wuzzies) “they don’t like it up them!

Rory Stewart, as “Conservative” Party MP, voted for all the mean-spirited social-security/”welfare” cuts of the 2010-2015 Cameron-Levita misgovernment. Now his (or his wife’s, which is effectively the same) far more generous “welfare” has been cut back, it’s all unfair and wrong, apparently.

Ha ha…

Can that be true? £840,000 a year for such rubbish? Unpleasant Alastair Campbell presumably getting even more. For that? Doesn’t seem possible.

In this country, in these times, anything is possible, I suppose. If so, though, who or what is really funding it all?

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Idiot.

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

Diversity is our strength“, say brainwashed idiots.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14394069/Afghan-criminal-drove-car-crowd-Munich-deported-asylum-application-rejected.html

An Afghan criminal whose asylum application was rejected drove a car into a crowd of demonstrators after reportedly posting a slew of Islamist rants online.

Farhad N., 24, injured at least 28 people, including a child after ploughing his Mini Cooper through a demonstration in Munich on Thursday. The child’s life is said to be in danger.

The Afghan asylum seeker, born in Kabul in 2001, was arrested at the scene after cops fired gunshots at his vehicle this morning.

[Daily Mail]

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[“You see, my son, here Time turns into Space“…]

Diary Blog, 3 January 2025, with some news and thoughts from and about Israel and/or occupied Palestine

Afternoon music

[video clip from the 1965 Soviet film War and Peace]

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Israeli Jewish woman commenting. No compassion, no reserve, no decency. Typical.

Again. Listen to the accent, too. American. Another carpetbagging Jewish settler or other incomer, living on land on which she wrongly believes her ancestors lived (and which therefore gives her and others some kind of divinely-ordained right).

In reality:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/scientists-reveal-jewish-history-s-forgotten-turkish-roots-a6992076.html

and

https://www.haaretz.com/science-and-health/2014-09-10/ty-article/.premium/ashkenazim-derive-from-350-people/0000017f-e175-d75c-a7ff-fdfd58830000

Translation: “I remembered that I am a Zionist Jew, and that that trumps anything else, including everyone else’s rights“…

Even if Israel were to kill a million non-Jewish women, children, and other non-combatants (and the Israelis are well on the way, even in the past 15 months), many, perhaps most, Jews in both Israel and the West (including the UK) will respond to the expressed horror of others by referring back to the several hundreds killed by the Hamas assault of 7 October 2023.

A 15-month mechanized killing-machine operation, compared to an attack in one relatively small part of Israel abutting Gaza, which latter attack lasted a few hours, or a day or so.

Now the Israeli state is basically killing the surviving population in Gaza, via cold, hunger, destruction of hospitals, removal of help, medical aid, shelter, and also by randomly killing Gazan civilians of all ages.

No doubt, Israel will eventually settle the bulk, maybe the whole, of Gaza with militant Jews from places such as the slums of Brooklyn, or American/Australian/whatever suburbia.

At present, the Israelis are doing to Gaza exactly what the Romans did to defeated Carthage, but worse, because they are not even providing the survivors of the Gaza slaughter anywhere to go. Look at this report from the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-01-02/ty-article-live/israeli-airstrike-kills-at-least-10-in-southern-gaza-medics-say/00000194-2504-dcc4-a1d7-3da4d1770000.

ISRAEL: Members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee say IDF’s actions in Gaza foil war’s objectives; all food, water sources must be destroyed.

[Haaretz]

See also:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-01-02/ty-article-magazine/.premium/tel-aviv-started-like-this-at-this-event-israelis-were-calling-to-settle-in-lebanon/00000194-2611-da14-adb7-767dff330000

It’s now time to fix the border,’ said one of the members of a group that gathered on the northern border during Hanukkah, to press for the expansion of the Galilee, into Lebanon.”

[Haaretz]

See also:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-12-05/ty-article-magazine/.premium/we-give-them-48-hours-to-leave-israels-plans-to-transfer-gazans-go-back-60-years/00000193-9716-dac2-add3-b75e12d30000

“Diluting the population,” “evacuating homes,” “expulsion,” “exile,” “emptying” and even “transfer.” A broad array of words was used by Israeli government ministers during the historic deliberations in the 1960s and 1970s.”

[Haaretz]

“Resettlement”? That sounds familiar. Where have I heard that before?…

Is that the plan? (as well as taking over all European and European-origined states from the inside, via the “you know who” fifth column)…

A few Israeli Jews are dissenting from the mainstream Jewish opinion, it seems:

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-12-23/ty-article-opinion/.premium/when-you-enter-gaza-you-are-god-inside-the-minds-of-idf-soldiers-who-commit-war-crimes/00000193-f2a4-dc18-a3db-fee62b540000

and

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-12-21/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/with-its-megalomaniacal-arrogance-israel-is-turning-into-ancient-athens/00000193-dfeb-d684-a9db-ffefe29b0000

Archaeological study about wolves and humans in North America’s remote past

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2024-12-04/ty-article/early-americans-were-feeding-wolves-study-suggests/00000193-920a-d006-a7d3-da3f130f0000

Early Americans Were Feeding Wolves and Coyotes, Study Suggests

The story of dog domestication isn’t as straightforward as assumed, analysis of large canid remains in ancient settlements in Alaska implies. Doesn’t mean the wolves or coyotes were pets.”

[Haaretz]

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Suella Braverman is just yet another useless and pretty stupid “diversity hire”, like Lammy, and Shabana Mahmood.

Talking point

[Robert Jenrick]

I have little time for Jenrick, another complete puppet of the Jewish/Zionist/Israel lobby, but even a stopped clock is right once a day (or twice).

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If there is one (now-ex-) politician I despise, it is Clegg. In 2010, a gullible voting public gave him enough MPs to demand electoral reform. Gordon Brown was willing to give him the halfway house of AV (Alternative Vote) at once (in 2010) without even having to hold a referendum; then later a referendum on real proportional representation, in return for basic LibDem support in the Commons for a minority Labour government.

That could have changed everything, but Clegg and his pathetic LibDem crew sold out to the fake “Conservatives” under David Cameron-Levita, and for what? Ministerial jobs, red boxes, government cars, higher salaries, and the fiction that the LibDems were finally “in government” in a meaningful way. That and, as a figleaf, a rigged AV Referendum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vote_referendum

Clegg and his LibDem crew acquiesced in all the terrible and damaging policies carried out by the part-Jews Cameron-Levita and Osborne between 2010 and 2015, then jumped ship to work (at a salary in the millions) for the Jew Zuckerberg at Facebook in California.

Someone completely venal, and completely useless, with neither honour nor integrity.

Incidentally, “Shortly ahead of the election, Clegg was asked about his own expenses by Andrew Neil of the BBC. Clegg allegedly claimed the full amount permissible under the Additional Cost Allowance, including claims for food, gardening and redecorating his second home. The Telegraph also said Clegg claimed £80 for international call charges.” [Wikipedia].

He took every penny he could despite his inherited family monies and trust fund, and despite both he and his wife being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds annually via salaries and (possibly) more legitimate expenses claims. The “food allowance”, by the way, was (until done away with sometime after 2010) a boondoggle via which MPs could claim up to about £500 a month, no questions asked or receipts required, “for food”. Many MPs, like Clegg, and like that horrible Jewish-lobby puppet Tom Watson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Watson,_Baron_Watson_of_Wyre_Forest], claimed the full amount (worth at least £950 a month in the money of 2025) every single month.

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

Does the revolt start here?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/02/death-of-middle-class-professional-spells-danger-for-labour

Graduate pay is falling – and an aggrieved generation could join white-collar workers in supporting Reform UK.

[Guardian]

Reform UK is but a stepping-stone, not the ultimate destination, and in multiple error ideologically, but the basic premise, based on the revolt of the “graduates” (whatever that really means these days), is interesting. The NSDAP was supported by many students and —often disenchanted— graduates.

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My tentative opinion on that is that Trump is someone who likes to present himself as someone who gets things done. If Russia stays firm, Trump will offer more, probably.

From the Russian side, all that matters is whether Trump continues to give arms, ammunition, and money to the Kiev regime. There are three possibilities— more, less, or the same. “Less” can be split into “some” or “none”. My money is on “less” (but still “some”). That would mean that, in view of Russia’s superiority in numbers, arms, ammunition, and money, as well as having the backstop of both tactical and strategic nuclear weapons, Russian forces will continue to advance steadily in Eastern Ukraine during 2025.

As often said on this blog, Russia cannot lose this war and will not lose it.

Having said that, it is tragic that the Russian forces seemed pathetically incapable of executing a swift “Blitzkrieg for the sake of mercy” in early 2022, when the whole of Eastern Ukraine, as well as Odessa and Kiev, might easily have been taken with minimal loss of life and minimal damage generally.

Wilfully naive. The clue is in the name (Labour Friends of Israel)…

Forget the old “right”/”left” stuff.

Of the four seen fully in that photo, Wes Streeting, Ruth Smeeth, Jess Phillips, Anna Turley, two or three, I think three, are at least part-Jewish.

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The last hurrah of the Kiev regime.

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[Bocklin, Ruins by the Sea]