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Diary Blog, 17 March 2026

Afternoon music

[swimming pool “Moskva”, photographed in 1970s; I swam there (later) a few times]

Tweets seen

Suddenly, they are the “victims” (again)…

They drew first blood.

Britain must leave NATO and cultivate better relations with Russia. We can then have Russian gas at, or near, cost price.

The Jews [Israeli Jews and also their “fifth columns” in countries such as the UK] fomented this war (and, of course, previous wars), treacherously attacked Iran during the currency of supposed peace negotiations, and then (Epstein files?) blackmailed or coerced half-crazed Trump into “tail wags dog” offensive action against Iran.

Britain must stay out of the war, though Britain’s waning military and naval power would not make much difference to the outcome either way.

What goes around comes around” (eventually)…

A more ruthless UK government in the 1970s might have covertly poisoned or otherwise disposed of both Adams and McGuinness.

Throw the “artists” a few fried chicken legs and a “Tracey Emin Award”.

Ah. Peter Sutherland. A very evil individual, who tweeted a few times against me about 10 or 12 years ago. A couple of years later, he “went up the chimney”.

Sutherland was, according to Wikipedia, Irish, and a Roman Catholic, but his photo (see Wikipedia) seems to show some “other” element also present:

A Bilderberger, and very tied-in to the transnational conspiracy. Goldman Sachs, Allied Irish Banks etc. A board member of the sinister “Swedish” Wallenberg bank operation too. Pro-mass migration of non-Europeans into Europe, and (of course) pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby etc. Arch-globalist and proponent of finance-capitalism.

Enemy of true Europe, enemy of England and true Britain.

[“A lot of people have mentioned Gove so let’s take a look.

MICHAEL GOVE. A thread. 1/ The government repeatedly told the public: “Ministers had no involvement in procurement decisions.” The Covid Inquiry proved that was a lie. And nowhere is that clearer than with Michael Gove. 2/ September 2019. Gove was Cabinet Office minister overseeing Brexit readiness. He held a meeting with Palantir. The company told his department it could provide “capabilities to manage the fast-evolving and unpredictable environment” of Brexit. One year later: £27m Cabinet Office contract. No tender. Source: openDemocracy FOI investigation. 3/ Then the pandemic hit. And Gove got busy. Meller Designs. A fashion company run by David Meller — who had donated nearly £60,000 to the Conservative Party and personally supported Gove’s 2016 leadership bid. Gove’s office referred Meller Designs to the VIP lane. 4/ Meller Designs won six PPE contracts worth £164m. Three of those six contracts were priced at between 1.2 and 2.2 times the average unit price paid to other suppliers. Source: Good Law Project analysis of government spending data. 5/ Unispace Global. The single biggest winner from the entire VIP lane operation. On 24 March 2020 Unispace emailed Gove thanking him for “your time spent with us on the phone earlier.” Twenty days later: a £239m contract. Total Unispace PPE deals: £679m. 6/ When this emerged the Cabinet Office denied Gove was involved. Then the Covid Inquiry published the evidence. A senior civil servant’s witness statement confirmed the Unispace offer had “come through” Gove — directly contradicting the government’s public position. Source: Byline Times/Covid Inquiry documents, March 2025. 7/ James Dyson. Leading Brexiteer. Keen Gove ally. The Covid Inquiry heard Gove was “INSISTENT that an order be placed” with Dyson’s company for 10,000 ventilators. At a meeting on 25 March 2020, Gove “acknowledged he was under political pressure to ensure we have followed up with Dyson.” 8/ An independent procurement expert appointed by the Covid Inquiry called the Dyson deal an “affront to procurement rules.” The contract was eventually cancelled. Of £277m spent on ventilators by the Cabinet Office, £143m was written off. Source: Professor Dr Albert Sanchez-Graells, Covid Inquiry expert report, March 2025. 9/ There’s more. Gove awarded a contract to Public First — a research company whose directors had personal connections to Dominic Cummings. The High Court ruled it unlawful. The judge: “The existence of personal connections between the Defendant, Mr Cummings and the directors of Public First was a relevant circumstance that might be perceived to compromise their impartiality.” Source: High Court judgment, June 2021. 10/ Gove also referred six firms to the Test and Trace VIP lane alongside Cabinet Office Minister Lord Agnew. Source: Good Law Project exclusive, confirmed November 2023. 11/ After all of this, David Meller — the Tory donor whose fashion company won £164m in Gove-referred contracts — was elevated to the UK Board of Trade by Kemi Badenoch. No competitive process. No public announcement. Source: Byline Times investigation. 12/ The Cabinet Office said repeatedly: “No evidence ministers were involved in procurement decisions.” The High Court disagreed. The Covid Inquiry disagreed. The documents disagreed. Gove is now Baron Gove. A life peer. Editor of The Spectator. Nobody has been charged. 13/ Hancock WhatsApped donors. Gove referred his leadership campaign backer. Johnson texted Dyson personally. Same pattern. Same party. Same public money. The Covid Corruption Commissioner is still investigating. The National Crime Agency is probing possible criminal offences. We are still waiting for accountability. #GoveMustAnswer#CovidContracts“]

When I was wrongfully and (as it later transpired) illegally disbarred in 2016, one of the merely 5 tweets (out of around 150,000 tweets and retweets since 2010) that supposedly grounded that disbarment (it was really a multi-years-long conspiracy by a pack of Jews) was a tweet describing Gove in some such terms as being a fraudulent pro-Jew, pro-Israel expenses cheat.

All true, but the truth is no defence these days, not when the Jew lobby decides to attack you.

I might add that, neither in 2014 (when the “UK Lawyers of Israel” Jews made their contrived complaint against me to the Bar Standards Board), nor in 2016 (when the case was heard by the Bar Disciplinary Tribunal) was I aware that Gove was also an alcoholic drunk, and a serial cocaine abuser! The perverse little bastard is now the Editor of the “Conservative” magazine The Spectator. Oh, and also a member of the totally debased House of Lords. Unbelievable, or maybe not.

That Nigerian “Femi Sorry” idiot is a prime example of how the idea of “only allowing in professional-level migrants” (Reform, Restore, Advance, and other pseudo-national parties) just does not work.

“Femi” has parents who are affluent NHS medics. He himself, though, has never had a job, let alone a profession or business (except a year or so as EU-funded propagandist against Brexit); he has in the past had unpaid or grant-aided “internships” and “academic/student placements” (really only possible because he is subsidized by his parents) and now, at age 36, just “grifts” along doing tiny TV and radio appearances (if he still does any of those; maybe not), and (I believe) living via donations from mugs. Useless. A waste of space.

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

You may only let in “professional-work” migrants, but their offspring will probably be, like “Femi”, completely useless millstones round the neck of the British people.

Much as I should like to think that Netanyahu has gone up the chimney, it is hard to imagine the Israelis being so careless. Well, I suppose the truth will have to emerge before long.

Always the “victims”, even when they fomented this war, they started it by attacking Iran, they blackmailed “Epstein/Lolita” Trump into doing much of the dirty work or “wet work” for them, and when they (the Jew “fifth column” members in the UK and elsewhere) are in the Press and on TV and screeching for war constantly [etc].

As to the evident mental instability, see also:

Some replies say that there are a few inaccuracies there. Maybe. A few…

I noticed a day or two ago that even the Crufts dog show on TV (in the UK) had some weird-looking Jewish woman presenting it or commenting on it, or some of it (I only saw a few minutes of the show).

Ah. The 92nd Street Y in Upper East Side Manhattan. I have been there a couple of times. Around 1990-1992. I went to a concert there.

[“This is Emma Barnett. Emma is a Jewish BBC host. Emma’s father, Ian Barnett, was convicted and imprisoned for running prostitution brothels in Manchester, England. Emma’s mother, Michele Barnett, was convicted of laundering the money from the family’s brothel operation.

Emma, while never convicted for direct involvement, was fully aware of the family business, openly discussing the “whores” with her father, while photos of the “whores” were kept in the family’s lounge and piano room.

In the aftermath of her parents convictions, however, she publicly feigned ignorance and played victim to the circumstances, calling it “the most painful chapter of my life.” Shocking, I know, that she’d be so transparently two-faced.

Oh, wait. Here we see her two faces again, as she so readily ascribes “White privilege” to a guest while excoriating their “cavalier” word choice, then, in response to seeing “Jewish privilege” on X, she reengages victim mode and appeals to her audience’s sympathies by whiningly asking, “Do you know that feels? Do you know how frightening that is? How angering that is?”

Ah yes, Emma “The Eternal Victim” Barnett – millionaire BBC star living in London’s posh Herne Hill neighborhood. Bludgeoning Whites for our “privilege;” recoiling in horror when the same is said of her people.

This is your “media,” Western Man.

In fact, I’ve never seen a better distillation of the essence of what our media class truly is than these two soundbites.“]

Not sure about Herne Hill being “posh“. I was there occasionally in the 1980s. Maybe it has become more expensive in the years since.

As to the rest, very true. The UK mass media really needs to be cleaned out.

Afternoon thought

We see so many posts on Twitter/X by Jews in the UK, claiming that whatever Israel may do in Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq etc has nothing to do with the “British” Jewish community, nothing at all. All the same, those same Jews tweeting on Twitter/X are always, always supportive of Israel and its activities in every way imaginable, from its arms industry to whatever its armed forces do, including the mass slaughter in Gaza, and even the murderous activities of MOSSAD and other allied agencies of Israeli Intelligence.

Of course, the Jews on Twitter/X are far more fanatical, I imagine, than many of those not making a public statement. Still, the Jew-Zionist pressure groups themselves say that up to 95% of Jews in the UK “support Israel” (whatever that may mean).

More tweets seen

I remember well the Poland of the late 1980s, to which I made several visits, a total time spent of, perhaps, 2 months. I have not returned since late 1989, when I was best man at a large wedding at the Basilica in the main square at Krakov. It was like the wedding scene in the film El Cid.

From what I have seen on Google Earth, Twitter etc, I should not recognize the Warsaw, or even Krakov and Bielsko-Biala etc, that I saw back then. Remarkable and interesting.

Both journalists Jewish, yet both openly criticizing Trump’s madness.

Israel’s madness too, of course, because the [Israeli] Jews both fomented and started this war, and also drew first blood.

I think that Israel was of the mentality, “well, we control —more or less— the American government, State Department, mass media, so the Americans are basically under our control via the American Jewish lobby, and the American public will, as always since the 1960s, fall for our propaganda if only because almost all the TV, radio, Press are under Jewish control or ownership and will slant the news the way we want. Also, we can press the “holocaust” and “Hitler” buttons so that we seem to be the victims as usual.”

Also, they may think that “we have nuclear weapons, but Iran has none.”

What that says to me is that it is now not unthinkable that, if Trump pulls his forces out of the war, the [Israeli] Jews will use those nuclear weapons on Iran. That might destroy Iran completely, or for hundreds of years, but it will also start the countdown to doom for Israel itself.

Late tweets seen

Looney Tunes

It may be time for thinking Americans, especially those in positions of power, to start looking at what are the protocols in place for the use of the American nuclear arsenal, and in particular re. how to stop the crazed misuse of that arsenal.

[“Wave 59 of Operation “Truthful Promise-4” with the launch of the Haj Qassem missile.

IRGC Public Relations Office:

The fifty-ninth wave of Operation “Truthful Promise-4”, code-named “I am Heydar Karar”, dedicated to the martyrs of the Air Force, was carried out against targets in Beit Shemesh, Tel Aviv and occupied Jerusalem, as well as at the bases of the US terrorist army in Al-Udeid, Ali Salem, Fujairah, Sheikh Isa and Erbil, using precision systems such as Qadr, Emad, Fateh, Haj Qassem and strike drones as part of an operation focused on efficiency, with complete success with the help of the Almighty.

A new phase of powerful and destructive strikes against the American-Israeli throughout the region has begun, and the bone of arrogance will be broken in the streets and squares.“]

Good. So get out of Britain, take your planes and personnel, and bombs and missiles, with you.

If it does happen, I might even emulate the Muslims and shout out “God is great!“…

…thus proving, yet again, that the EU is a conspiratorial cabal, and not an association of free nations at all.

Late music

Diary Blog, 14 November 2021, with a few thoughts about writers and films

Angela Merkel retires from public life

[Merkel’s legacy]

A few thoughts on the subject of writers, and filmed books

The writer Wilbur Smith has died.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-59278275;

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

I think that I have only read one or two of his books, long ago, in the 1970s. He sold 140 million copies altogether. When I visited Rhodesia in 1977, I found that the only large (perhaps even, the only) bookshop in Salisbury (now Harare) sold few books from Europe or North America (because of the anti-Rhodesia sanctions imposed, and because of shortage of foreign currency). South African or locally-published books about how to look after your horse, dog, even tropical fish, seemed to be the main stock-in-trade. Those, and Wilbur Smith.

Smith’s huge success as author did not translate well onto film, judging by the two films seen by me (Gold, and Shout at the Devil). Some have thought that the film The Wild Geese was based on a book by Smith, but that is not so [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Geese].

At one time, I thought that the book The Rain Goddess [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rain_Goddess] was one of his, but in fact it was written by another writer, Peter Stiff [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stiff].

Some writers, some characters, do not translate well onto film, or are hard to film credibly. In my opinion, Raffles has never been brought to life successfully. The same could be said of Chesterton’s Father Brown stories.

One writer usually poorly-represented in the films of his books was Alistair Maclean; at least eleven of whose books were filmed. The best I have seen is probably Where Eagles Dare, though Ice Station Zebra is also not too bad. Some of the films based on Alistair Maclean books are very poor indeed, though, e.g. When Eight Bells Toll [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Eight_Bells_Toll_(film)].

Even much-filmed John le Carre has often not translated well onto screen. The BBC series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was incomparable, its sequel, Smiley’s People, also very good (and another mini-series, A Perfect Spy, was not bad, lifted by the stellar performance of Peter Egan); le Carre’s stuff is better in such series format, hard to squeeze into the couple of hours of a feature film.

The Tinker, Tailor film released a decade ago was, for me, pretty poor, pedestrian, though it seems that only the more thoughtful critics agreed with me! See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_Tailor_Soldier_Spy_(film)#Critical_response.

It may be that the best feature film adaptation of le Carre was the black and white The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, with Richard Burton:

I myself rarely read any kind of fiction now; when young, I did. In the adventure genre, my favourite was Hammond Innes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammond_Innes]; rather forgotten now, I suppose. Four of his books were filmed, but (in my view) only one quite well, The White South, which was filmed as Hell Below Zero; the film contains historically-valuable, though unpleasant, footage of actual Antarctic whaling.

My favourite Hammond Innes book is The Strange Land, but it was never filmed.

Some writers’ books, which you would think would have made exciting films, never were filmed. Desmond Bagley [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Bagley] comes to mind. Adventure in tropical or other wild parts of the world: espionage, crime, treasure-hunting. I have only read a couple of his books. I recall reading The Vivero Letter about 50 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vivero_Letter_(novel).

[Update, 14 November 2022: since writing the above, I have become aware that The Vivero Letter was later, much later, filmed— in 1998, thirty years after the publication of the book. It seems that two of Bagley’s other books were also filmed, in all three cases unsuccessfully as far as fame is concerned— I had never heard of the films].

Desmond Bagley, like Hammond Innes, can create a credible and quite gripping world out of strange and unusual events.

Another author whose work went largely but not entirely unfilmed was Elleston Trevor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elleston_Trevor. His spy story The Berlin Memorandum, written under the nom de plume “Adam Hall”, was filmed as The Quiller Memorandum, though not very credibly, in my opinion. Somewhat in the Len Deighton area [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Deighton].

Trevor is arguably better known as the writer of the book The Flight of the Phoenix, filmed twice. As usual, the earlier film was the better by far.

Len Deighton himself (he is still around, presently aged 92) has had a number (I think three) of his early books filmed, and quite successfully, perhaps (?) because they are not as reflective and “psychological” as those of le Carre and some others. The IPCRESS File, Funeral in Berlin, Billion Dollar Brain. Indeed, his own later work is more complex.

[title sequence from Billion Dollar Brain; directed by Ken Russell; music by Richard Rodney Bennett]

Tweets seen

This kind of “pile-on” is typical of Twitter, of course. Not that Twitter is of any real importance now. Most of the really interesting accounts have been “suspended” (expelled), including mine!

My own Twitter account was removed in 2018 after a big effort by a pack of Jew extremists. Now we see almost any “dissident” account worth looking at removed. The better-known names include David Icke, Mark Collett, Laura Towler, Alison Chabloz, Katie Hopkins, the London Forum. Many others.

The purge on Twitter continues: only a week ago, the account of thinker Nick Kollerstrom was removed. Why? Usual (((suspects))), of course…

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

I repost tweets on the blog as a quick and easy way of making points or illustrating matters, but in fact Twitter has little real political influence. I have blogged in the past about this. I am always seeing accounts with, supposedly, thousands of “followers” yet only a handful of “likes” or retweets on any given tweet. Some accounts do get hundreds and even thousands of likes/retweets, but then you look at the profile and find that those accounts (mostly of the “famous”) have hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of Twitter followers.

As I have blogged previously, it says much about the self-describing “Left” that their big idea is to “deplatform” this or that person or organization. Nothing to say about society or how to form a better one; just negativity. That is why such people rarely get anywhere politically. Their lives revolve around Twitter. Many of the Zionist Jew cabal on Twitter are like that. They even have a word for themselves, “J-Twitter”.

As for the campaign of propaganda (not only “Covid” passports etc but the whole racemixing campaign), I was alerting the people to that years ago. Now, many are waking up.

However, that propaganda campaign is not aimed at people like me (65-y-o), nor indeed at those in their fifties or forties, nor even at those in their thirties and twenties. This is propaganda, and subliminal propaganda, aimed mainly at children, whose critical faculties are at an early stage of development.

The idea is to normalize the multikulti society, the society composed of various and very different races and ethnic groups, which society will then form the mixed-race mass promoted by Coudenhove-Kalergi.

See: https://www.westernspring.co.uk/the-coudenhove-kalergi-plan-the-genocide-of-the-peoples-of-europe/; and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Coudenhove-Kalergi.

TV ads and “soaps” are an important part of this propaganda campaign: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/12/10/tv-ads-and-soaps-are-the-propaganda-preferred-by-the-system-in-the-uk/. Written by me in December 2018, and even more pertinent today.

More tweets

The ignorance of the police about the very laws they are supposed to enforce is one of the most alarming things today. They often seem to have a completely wrong idea about what the law actually is. This became apparent during the stupid “lockdown” shutdown.

Man proposes, God disposes…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10194941/Gurapareet-Bains-claimed-invent-worlds-healthiest-meal-dies-heart-attack-aged-43.html

Afternoon music

After the earlier discussion of writers, books, films, and film music, here is the full suite from Billion Dollar Brain, music written by Richard Rodney Bennett [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rodney_Bennett]

John Bean— obituary

https://counter-currents.com/2021/11/remembering-john-bean/

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bean_(politician).

General Donkey speaks

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/14/uk-must-be-ready-for-war-with-russia-says-armed-forces-chief

Actually, I love donkeys, but not those carrying the rank of general officer.

Imagine a real war between NATO (i.e. the USA, i.e., in reality, NWO/ZOG) and Russia. It would quite likely turn nuclear. Britain is still the USA’s “unsinkable aircraft carrier” in the words, I believe of Roosevelt. You could say goodbye to the UK and most of the British people, were the UK to be attacked; we are just too small, geographically, and have too many people (and too many key targets) in far too small a space. Britain could do a lot of damage to Russia, but not destroy Russia. Russia, however, could destroy the UK, in effect.

Why is Britain still being the poodle of the American NWO cabals? It’s madness. Better to join with Russia, against both NWO/ZOG and, if necessary, China, and certainly against both Zionism and Islamism.

More tweets

Marr is of course compromized, in general terms: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2200493/Andrew-Marr-caught-kissing-groping-mystery-woman-outside-Soho-nightclub.html; not in a position to be too censorious as to the sexual aspect, though of course the facts in his case were very different, in that no misuse of public funds occurred.

A video worth watching

Late tweets

Denison’s Island. I have been there, in 1967, aged 10, with my school class. There was no-one else there at the time except the custodians. Strange place, quite small inside (the walls are over 12 ft thick in places), with a small area of lawn and a few old cannon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Denison. 54 years ago. Hard to believe.

The constant and seemingly neverending push for vengeance (not “justice”) against Germany and German people by the international Jew-Zionist lobby is, quite exactly, “a kind of distasteful Old Testament thing“, akin to the behaviour exhibited by the Israelites thousands of years ago.

For true European people, the idea of carrying on persecution of individuals, or a state, or country, for decades or even hundreds of years (will the Zionists stop whining and/or bullying in 2045?), for alleged crimes which are not continuing, is indeed distasteful.

The Japanese, or many of them, treated Allied prisoners abominably during WW2. We, meaning the British, after the war ended, hanged or shot a relatively few and clearly proven war criminals, persons who had cruelly or brutally transgressed the accepted rules of war. The rest were released.

Now, nearly 80 years later, we do not seek out Japanese who were 18-y-o typists or even sentries, and put them on trial in a grotesque parody of courtroom “justice”, which is actually (in the case of of 90 or 100 year old SS men or German female ex-typists) a deliberately-contrived ordeal because of the defendants’ age and medical condition.

Likewise, no-one has suggested that those who, at age 18 or 16 were typists or security guards at, say, Los Alamos, should be tried for “facilitating” mass murder of Japanese civilians at Hiroshima. That would be not only unjust but, as said, grotesque.

The same could be said of British people who worked as typists or teenage Home Guard personnel etc at RAF bases from where bombers left to devastate the cities of the Reich in 1941-45, killing between 600,000-800,000 people, mostly civilians, mostly women and children.

The German bombings of the UK killed far fewer, 60,000 or so, but that was still devastation on a wide scale; yet the British do not constantly whine about it now, and did not at the time, or immediately after 1945.

The attitude of many Jews, particularly the hardcore Zionists, is at odds with the culture of Europeans, including British. So why the trials? Because the present German state is still, in a sense, “occupied”…

Late music