[Cambridge: view across the Backs to an unusually-snowy Kings College Chapel]
Merry Christmas to all well-intentioned readers of the blog.
A finely-made semi-dramatized documentary about M.R. James
German Christmas 1942
[The thoughts below were first published in 2023. I think they still stand up well]
Stray thoughts
You often hear or see the statement “The Third Reich was terrible because [whatever].” Often cited is euthanasia of the terribly mentally or even physically disabled etc. Few consider that that or similar happened also in the USA, UK etc in the 1930s, though not often admitted to.
When people today say that they are, say, Roman Catholic, do other people say “so you support the Inquisition?!” or “so you support the torture and genocide of the Cathars?!” No…yet the same or similar questioners might say to someone who is social-national politically, “so you support euthanasia of the badly-disabled?!” or “you support gassing Jews?!” (leaving aside the doubtful proposition about whether the fabled “gas chambers” even existed). They might as well demand an answer to the question “so you want to invade Poland?!“.
Point made, I think.
I happened to see the above when looking at old blog posts recently hit from some country or other; words I published nearly 3 years ago.
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Walking home and caught Santa’s deer in the act. Christmas has come early here.
This Spitting Image Mastermind spoof doesn't actually mention the now taboo word "intifada" but it does detail Israel's murderous responses to what was a non-violent uprising known at the time as The Intifada. This was 1989, a freer time. pic.twitter.com/f2EdapbNaD
Not the most aesthetically pleasing, but no worse than much of what one sees in the UK.
Russia's Federal Security Service has thwarted a series of terrorist attacks in the Kaluga Region, including at a federal gas storage facility, that were being plotted by the Ukrainian special services, the press office told TASS:https://t.co/I4dmpYL19Apic.twitter.com/js3tmTMt5G
Campaign Against @Antisemitism needs shutting down. As does @UKLFI. Both under investigation by the UK Charity Commission for gross malpractice presently.https://t.co/rk2FtcGt6Q
I travel to Cancun and isla mujeres (near Cancun) pretty frequently. Last time I was there I was so surprised by how many restaurants and stores were ONLY in Hebrew. It felt like there was an Israeli occupation of sorts going on in Mexico.
[“WHAT!!?? A teacher in an English school was accused of posing a risk to children and referred to the Government’s counter-terrorism programme after showing Donald Trump videos to his US politics class. The teacher, who is in his 50s, told The Telegraph he was “likened to a terrorist” after showing the videos, including one of Mr Trump’s inauguration, to A-level students. Henley College, a sixth-form in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, with more than 2,000 students, reported the politics lecturer to the local child safeguarding authority, which concluded a referral to Prevent was a “priority”. Insane.“]
When I was just 16, in late 1973, having dropped out of school [https://rbcs.org.uk/], I spent about a month at Henley College. Most of the students and staff were pretty thick. I especially remember one lecturer who was hugely offended because I attacked (verbally) Robert “Maxwell”; his reputation, not his corpulent person.
At that time, Maxwell was mainly known as a big businessman who was also resident in Oxfordshire, a few miles north of Oxford. This was 20 years before it became known that he had been defrauding his own Daily Mirror employees’ pension fund (in fact, this was years before Maxwell bought the Mirror; his main company then was Pergamon Press). Few knew then, in 1973, that Maxwell was a major MOSSAD asset.
I have an instinct. I knew that the bastard must be a fraud. Not just because he was a Jew, by the way.
I recall that silly staff member of Henley College getting really angry at me, and being so despite his not even being a Jew, as far as I could see. Well, as I say, most of the staff were pretty stupid people.
As for “Prevent”, I assessed it many years ago, in 2018:
Many Jews hate Christianity far more than they hate Islam, though that is usually concealed. Israel, the state of Israel, needs the stupid “Christian Zionists” as “useful idiots” to influence policy in Western capitals; the “Christian Zionists” are widespread in the USA, far less so in the UK, and pretty rare in Roman Catholic countries.
For the first time in many months, two hostile drones approached Israel from the West. The drones were shot down. No country specified pic.twitter.com/5qxCpfIIZj
The Kiev regime will be unable to sustain an army of 800,000 personnel, which Zelensky previously cited as one of the 20 points allegedly discussed during negotiations in the US, Rodion Miroshnik said:https://t.co/BcmDZzX919pic.twitter.com/Szt9dOEQcl
Cannot “afford” to hold elections, cannot “afford” to pay their soldiers, yet they persist in fighting Russia, one of the richest and most militarily-strong countries in the world.
Well, this week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored a very modest 3/10; I trumped that with 5/10. I knew the answers to questions 2, 4, 6, and 9; I literally guessed no. 3 (I think it was in the back of my mind, though; I may have seen it somewhere, somewhen).
“16th century possible murder victim laid to rest at St Mary the Virgin, in South Baddesley, after remains found on Sowley Beach in the New Forest.
A suspected New Forest murder victim was this week buried in a “once-in-a-lifetime” service, some 500 years after he met his end.
The remains of the unknown man were laid to rest about five centuries after he was initially disposed of in a “clandestine” fashion, as revealed by the A&T.
The 25-minute ceremony took place two years after his medieval-era skeleton was found in mysterious circumstances on a beach near South Baddesley.
[Steve West/A&T]
As reported in the A&T, after a lengthy investigation, archaeologists have since concluded that “foul play” may explain how he came to be there.
Tuesday’s special funeral took place at St Mary the Virgin, in South Baddesley. Around 50 attendees – comprising nearby residents, those who had been involved in research and local historians – came to pay their respects.
Mourners were greeted and handed a leaflet titled ‘The Funeral and Burial of the 16th Century Man Known only to God’.
The Very Rev Gordon Wynne conducted the service, which included a medieval hymn before the handmade wooden casket was buried in the church graveyard.
The funeral comes after police were alerted in May 2022 by local resident Graham Coulter who helped excavate the human remains after half a skull became exposed in the mud near the mouth of Lymington River.
Speaking after the ceremony, the chartered surveyor, who lives in Lymington, said: “I think it’s a nice reflection on Christianity and mankind.“It’s very moving. It’s nice people turned up to give him a proper send-off.”
The rare remains – of which 80% of the body was still present – were recovered from Sowley Beach. They were given a radiocarbon dating estimating them to have been buried in AD1450-1650.
An osteoarchaeologist who studied the 5ft 4in (1.63m) skeleton concluded it was likely to have been a 20 to 25-year-old adult male.“
[Graham Coulter, finder of the skeleton (picture: Steve West)]
[skull at time of discovery]
[New Milton Advertiser & Lymington Times; n.b. I have corrected a few errors of spelling etc]
The full report is a good read, though it is disappointing to see that the senior archaeologist at the local council thinks that 1450-1650 comes within the “mediaeval” period. Either the Renaissance or, just about, the early Enlightenment.
It was amusing somehow to read that a person holidaying in the area, and who attended that religious service, was one Kathryn Tudor! Like something from The Morning of the Magicians [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Morning_of_the_Magicians].
Mrs. Tudor, however, is another who seems to imagine that the period in question was “mediaeval” (as does the local newspaper). Our English education must be to blame. G.K. Chesterton expressed a similar irritation to mine via his fictional Father Brown detective-priest, and that was a century ago.
Have I identified an historical gap in the market for detectives in literature? 1450 to 1650. I have never heard of a fictional detective operating in those centuries.
Well, that story is a delightful English vignette. Somehow charming, intriguing, and unsullied by contact with too much of England in 2024. More like something out of M.R. James [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._R._James].
“A second haul of alcohol has been stolen from a Lymington store, which has now seen more than £1,000 worth taken over the two incidents.
As reported by the A&T yesterday (Thursday) 21 bottles of champagne valued at £717 were taken from Marks & Spencer on St Thomas Street on Tuesday 30th April, and CCTV pictures were released of a pair wanted by police.
Now officers have made a second appeal over an incident at the same store between 1.10pm and 1.40pm on Wednesday 15th May, when the eight bottles of champagne and spirits valued at £326 were taken.“
How time flies. When I first heard of Rupert Sheldrake, in the early 1980s, he was a still-youthful 39 or 40, and I was in my mid-twenties. Now he is 81, nearly 82, incredibly, and I myself am no longer young (67).
“I think it’s dangerous that people should be allowed by our liberal societies to put that kind of nonsense into currency” [John Maddox].
You can see the kind of thinking that leads to those people who doubt orthodox views, whether re. “climate change” aka “global warming”, or re. the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic, or other matters, being pilloried, while others (msm talking heads, scribblers etc) parrot System orthodoxy, and say that the dissidents or freethinkers should be incarcerated, deprived of medical services, bankrupted etc.
Who has contributed more to science and to this country, Sheldrake, or Maddox? I say Sheldrake.
Incidentally, I see that Sheldrake’s wife, Jill Purce, is also an interesting personality (I had not known of her until today): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Purce.
“The NHS has today been accused of providing ‘inadequate’ pain relief to women who have suffered agonising childbirths.
Under health service guidance, new mums can be discharged just a day after undergoing a C-section or vaginal birth.
But they are advised to take just paracetamol or ibuprofen to manage symptoms.
Campaigners and doctors slammed the move, claiming it was yet another example of women’s pain issues in healthcare being ignored or underplayed.“
[Daily Mail]
Still clapping?
The fact is that we now have health rationing in the UK. There has always been an element of that but it is now becoming impossible to ignore. It is not OK to simply repeat the old slogans of “our NHS” etc and how the rest of the world supposedly envies it (which is not true in respect of most advanced countries).
I am totally in favour of “free at point of use”, but the existing NHS model is just not working. Resourcing is one factor, but attitude and ethos is another one, and one that must be addressed. Also, pervasive maladministration.
The elephant in the room, though, is mass immigration. A population of 56 million when I was growing up has become one, officially, of 65 million, and probably 70 million in reality, with about a million more coming in every single year. Something has to give. Various things are giving, are cracking. Health provision is one of those.
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After condition of my cat, Sugar, stabilized during recent exodus to KhanYunis, she accompanied me to Hamad Town, which was subjected to an indescribable siege/hardship, to check on other cats, giving them as much food as possible. Thanks for keeping us in your thoughts/prayers🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/x70J5fxVMY
What the “Israelis” are doing in Gaza, what they have been doing for the past nearly 8 months, is a form of controlled sadism exercized mainly upon a helpless civilian population, and upon their even more helpless companion animals. This is not war but a kind of cruel and deliberate torture. Gott straf ihnen.
The average age of an American TV viewer has exceeded 60 years
Thus, the average age of a MSNBC viewer is 70 years old, Fox News is 69, and the “youth” MTV is 51 years old. pic.twitter.com/xNm5Rg5lUK
I was told a few years ago that, in the USA, hardly anyone not over 60 watched TV any more. I found it hard to believe, though even when I lived there (1989-1993, on-and-off), and on later visits (1999-2002), it was true that the people I knew watched very little TV, but at that time I think it was more of a class/education/cultural level thing, in those pre-mass Internet days).
Labour have chosen a private healthcare boss to run against Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North in the incoming general election. It's like they want to lose. Even Jacob Rees Mogg would stand a better chance than Praful Nargund.
— Mannie Quinn & The Mighty Hornets🐝 (@MannieMighty1) May 25, 2024
When Labour's candidate to take on @jeremycorbyn was yesterday exposed as a private healthcare fraud, Starmer's stooges claimed the businesses Praful Nargund ran were 'not for profit'. However, Nargund and his family made millions from vulnerable families, whilst rinsing the NHS. pic.twitter.com/u6Hbcjyc3e
Do you see the way things are going? Labour, once a “socialist”/social democratic party, is now completely signed-up to the transnational finance-capitalist agenda, and to the “great replacement” of Europeans by non-Europeans in Europe, including the UK and Ireland: the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan.
Look at Islington North. Symbolic. The very constituency represented for 41 years by a white man who is also a socialist (like Jack London, though Jack London said “I am a socialist, but a white man first“, unlike Corbyn…) and who was Leader of the Labour Party.
Corbyn’s replacement as Labour candidate— a non-European who is a health profiteer, along with his parents. I bet he is pro-Israel, too.
Now do you see it?
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These people should be on our side. Or vice-versa…
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SUNAK WARNS LABOUR'S IMMIGRATION POLICIES COULD HARM ECONOMY
In his inaugural campaign speech leading up to the British general election on July 4th, Prime Minister Sunak asserted that only his party could be trusted to manage the economy and secure borders effectively.
Ha ha! Has the little Indian money-juggler somehow failed to understand that, under “Conservative” misgovernment, immigration is running at about a million a year now, out of which “only” about 50,000 are coming here on small boats (in reality, often ferried in by UK Border Force, RNLI, and Royal Navy)?
Has Sunak not understood that 80% of “asylum-seekers”, even those entering in backs of trucks or on rubber boats, are eventually given “Leave to Remain” under a system and legal framework which came from the 1950s and is now totally ridiculous and out of date ?
No, Sunak knows all that. He just hopes that the British people do not.
Labour, of course, will just do the same but in a different way, by allowing almost all to enter the UK “legally”. Reality? No difference in terms of end-result.
Labour confirms it will give 16 yr olds the vote. Here's Labour's plan to rewire Britain's democracy 👇👇https://t.co/UA2ukmAI16
Persons aged 16 are far more likely to vote Labour, at present (about 90%); thus Labour hopes to entrench its likely large majority of 2024 in 2029.
“Man proposes, God disposes“, though. Those 16-18 y-o voters of 2024, and their successors, might go another way completely after 5 years of (as I firmly expect) useless and yet repressive Starmer-Labour government.
On the wider point, if Goodwin is correct and Starmer intends to prevent any real democratic revolt against his planned “woke” tyranny, then he must expect the consequences. As John F. Kennedy said, “those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable“.
Imagine, if you will, Britain in 2034, after 10 years of Starmer-Labour.
A population of about 80 million or more, more non-European than white, at least in the main cities and towns; the country in an irreversible economic slide, with pay very low, and with State benefits equally low and restricted to ever-smaller groups; pensions not keeping pace with inflation; the roads scarcely repaired; the NHS even worse than under the “Conservatives”, and become a world leader in…waiting lists, poor treatment, and negligence; ever-greater numbers of blacks and browns (etc) flooding in, but the numbers officially concealed; Jewish-Zionist supremacism ever-more evident, but any criticism muzzled by even more restrictive and repressive “hate speech” laws.
Needless to say, by 2034, let alone 2044, the central areas of the cities will have become almost no-go areas for real Brits, as crime and disorder take hold. London is already halfway there.
In those circumstances, any measures taken by the British people themselves would be justified.
Starmer and Sunak’s Israeli friends— a history
2/15 After WWII a paramilitary group of 50 Jews nicknamed "the avengers" had a failed plot to kill 6 million German civilians by poisoning the German water supplies
The leader of the plot, Abba Kovner, was awarded the Israel Prize in 1970, the country's highest cultural honour pic.twitter.com/VCjlw2zAAy
4/15 In 1940, Haganah bombed the SS Patria, a ship being used by the British to deport 1,800 Jews who had tried to enter Palestine illegally
Haganah intended to cripple the ship, but ended up sinking it and killing 267 people, including 50 crew members and British servicemen pic.twitter.com/67cBXZRKiC
8/15 1947 brought the so-called "Sergeants Affair"
Irgun kidnapped two British Army Intelligence Corps NCOs, and in response to the death sentences passed on three Irgun fighters, they hanged them and booby trapped their bodies
10/15 In April 1948, Irgun and Lehi militants jointly committed the Deir Yassin massacre of at least 107 Palestinian villagers, including women and children. Deir Yassin was a Palestinian village of around 600 people near Jerusalem pic.twitter.com/VLa4v8nWgH
12/15 Many perpetrators of the Deir Yassin massacre were later absorbed into the IDF
Menachim Begin later stated in his book "Without what was done at Deir Yassin, there would not have been a state of Israel." pic.twitter.com/PicA9FRFGC
14/15 In total in 1948, 700,000 Palestinians — half the Arab population of Palestine — either fled their homes or were expelled by Zionist paramilitary organisations with the support of the Israeli military
The royal Swedish Bernadotte family has a result of Folke's murder still to this day never made any state visits to Israel. The reel is from Israeli TV where the ex Lehi members had no problem rejoicing in the assassination. pic.twitter.com/O4jSDeajtN
Swedish Prosecutor General Maths Heuman's statement about the "quality" of the Israeli police investigation of Folke Bernadotte's assassination. pic.twitter.com/iR4Aol2q7j
Skellefteå is in the far north. Two days ago, three Syrians attacked a man in Kalmar in the Southeast, kicked his head, set his hair on fire and tortured him by drilling his leg with an electric drill.
So that writes off the votes of the tiny minority of the young who might have voted Con. Beyond that, this is not a serious policy idea, more an attempt to shore up the collapsing Con vote among those 70+.
National Service ended over 60 years ago (gradually from 1957, though anyone born after 30 September 1939 was exempted). The last call-up was at the end of 1960; the last conscriptee was discharged in 1963.
In other words, only those (some) people of 85+, and who served under legal compulsion, would still be alive today.
Incidentally, who do you think will be taking all available jobs while the UK-born 18-21 y-o contingent are polishing boots, being beasted on assault courses, or being taught how to shoot hostile targets and not the local farmworkers? That’s right— the recent immigrants.
Just the way to achieve “community cohesion”…
This is some kind of pathetic appeal to misplaced nostalgia, designed (perhaps stupidly) to appeal to the very elderly (most of whom still vote Con anyway).
A few years ago, I would have supported this, but with all of the Ukraine/Israel war etc and my eyes open to government propaganda, I'm not sure if I'd support my son signing up to be exploited as propaganda government fodder. https://t.co/VKDyNVcr3P
You will not get much of interest from the likes of that “Akunjee” character.
Only the most awake (not “woke”) people understand that the NWO/ZOG System has chosen Starmer as its puppet to become an “elected” (via rigged selection and election procedures, FPTP voting etc) dictator, casting Britain into the pit of migration invasion, mass race-mixing and mixed breeding, and gigantic repression on free speech, dwarfing anything yet seen.
From the man who couldn't even plan for the weather on the day he calls a general election.#ToriesAreDone
I still cannot understand why Sunak went out in the pouring rain to announce GE 2024. Was he trying to show the population that he is stoic, or a tough guy of some kind? What it said to me is that he is an absolute idiot, for all his paper qualifications; someone who does not know enough to put on a raincoat when it is raining hard, or at least have someone hold an umbrella over him. Someone such as that has not the basic nous to be Prime Minister.
Actually, what is the point of “National Service” even if the scheme could be enforced? In any serious war with Russia (the scenario constantly being pushed; no other exists), there will probably be a nuclear exchange before very long. The UK would be a, perhaps the, prime target for Russian attack. The “National Service” “chocolate soldiers” would be but pillars of ash long before being deployed anywhere outside the UK.
Come to think of it, how exactly would UK troops on any large scale be deployed? Both the air force and navy are now very small, and the air lift capacity very limited as well. As for the Royal Navy, its new aircraft carrier could carry a large number of troops, but it is not even defended by many naval fighter aircraft. It would probably be sunk long before it got to the Black Sea or Baltic.
I was out early today, before 0700 hrs, and the English countryside was arguably at its best in the fresh breeze and sun of the early summer (though I also very much love the autumn). How terrible if those green trees and sculptured ranks of hedges and topiary were to become a charred and irradiated wasteland, all because of a completely unnecessary and contrived war with Russia…
These children were among the targets of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza last night. pic.twitter.com/jBrYZVZ9Sw
Antonov hits the nail on the head. Washington's reckless actions are only pushing us closer to conflict. Instead of prolonging this proxy war, it's time to think about real diplomacy and the future of US-Russia relations. Peace should be the priority, not endless military aid.
“Antonov: No one in Washington is thinking about the future of relations between the US and Russia “The American authorities do not think about the future of Russian-American relations and are engaged in destroying them”, said the Russian ambassador to the USA, Anatoly Antonov, commenting on the new American package of military aid to Kiev.“
As blogged previously, I do not necessarily oppose “Independence” for Scotland, but it seems that many Scots are adamantly opposed, and that either there is no majority for it or only a very small majority.
I suspect that many Scots think “what Independence?” when Scotland would probably still be in NATO (i.e. under de facto American/NWO control), still in the EU (i.e.under EU control), still subject to the diktats of international finance-capitalism, and overall almost certainly poorer per capita.
Still, if a significant majority of the Scots were to clamour for “Independence”, I would say “so go…“, but it really would have to be 60% at a bare minimum; in reality, to make it work, 75% or more.
Speaking personally, for me the SNP is fake “nationalism”, having little to do with race and culture.
I do not think that the SNP will fall back to where it was before 2015. It has an electoral niche, which is a kind of social-democracy in policy terms, but underpinned by the faux-“nationalism” which sets it apart, superficially, from the other System parties “up there” (I am on the southern coast of England). The SNP of course is a System party. You only have to look at the lip-service it pays to the Jewish lobby/Israel lobby.
The SNP has also been even more repressive in terms of free speech than the Westminster regimes of recent years; Police Scotland has embraced its Poundland Stasi role with unseemly alacrity.
I imagine that many Scots, perhaps a majority, will prefer to stick with the UK rather than become poorer outside it. Whisky, tourism, and financial services cannot provide income enough to support an “independent” Scottish state, and North Sea oil/gas, even if partly under control of Edinburgh, is (arguably) a declining or depreciating asset, especially if supposedly “green” policies are pursued.
In terms of Westminster governments, though, the 59 Scottish seats are important. Without them, the UK Labour Party will find it difficult to form a government (even with SNP support), unless the presently-forecast huge landslide actually happens; such a landslide may happen this year or next but, if so, will not be repeated.
ВВС – #Ben_Wallace, the #UK defense secretary, said he does not think the UK will transfer fighter jets to #Ukraine within the next few months or even years. Together with the fighters, 200 British troops must be provided. #War_in_Ukrainepic.twitter.com/qVwEqJ90xW
— #War_in_Ukraine #Facts #Opinions #Trends #Kharkiv (@HarZizn) February 15, 2023
Why are healthy young #Ukrainians living and now working in the #UK as young #Brits travel to #Ukraine to help their country in the war with #Russia.
The trigger for the resignation may have been the SNP’s crazed promotion of the trans nonsense, but Sturgeon was “too big for her boots” in other ways as well, pretending that she was (sort-of) a world statesman and leader of a (sort-of) state.
Nicola Sturgeon has often been compared (approvingly or not) to the New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who resigned not long ago. A lazy comparison though, arguably; after all, New Zealand is over 103,000 square miles in area, has over 5,000,000 people, and is a recognized state.
Scotland, though also having over 5,000,000 people, is only 30,000 square miles in area and, though a distinct country historically and to some extent culturally, is not a state, and has not been since 1707.
There is, though, no reason why Scotland cannot be a state again, so long as its people are willing to pay the price in various ways. It is clear, surely, that about half are not.
She tried to gaslight women into accepting less rights – she forced kids to wear masks for months and months longer than the rest of Britain – she behaved like a dictator during covid
Good riddance sturgeon is gone – she sure won’t be missed
Good riddance to wee Jimmy Krankie aka Nicola Sturgeon. She is a pro immigration globalist and a EU sycophant remoaner and not a Scottish nationalist. #jeremyvinepic.twitter.com/jw9GZJb5ae
— lieutenant Colonel Kojak Slaphead The 3rd (@Scarfer13) February 15, 2023
Any politician who tells you that a man can magically become a woman is stupid, insane or a liar.
Goodbye @NicolaSturgeon and good riddance. And the same to every other politician who claims the same thing. You are a danger to women and girls. We will not tolerate it. #TerfPowerhttps://t.co/MvGXgX9P4n
Good riddance to Sturgeon. Her gender reforms may have done it for her in the end, but they also illuminated all that has long been rotten with her SNP: a faux-progressive authoritarian party that, despite the Braveheart routine, holds ordinary Scots and their values in contempt
One of the best ever Jack Monroe tall tales is her celebrity protection squad who check on her welfare and security, unprompted no less…@EssexPoliceUK confirmed that this too was a lie. pic.twitter.com/9WBu8qVq0s
The most egregious lie of “Jack Monroe” must be that, when Grenfell Tower was still burning, she went there (why? 60 miles from Southend where she lives), was “waved through the police cordon” (how? why?), and pretty much took charge (why? She did at one time, long before, have a job atthe Essex fire brigade, but only answering the telephone). She also claims to have had the building plans of Grenfell Tower (how? why?).
Incidentally, while (as of today) 502 utter mugs are still each sending “Jack Monroe” between £3.50 and £44 each month via Patreon, her recent book has bombed. According to Amazon, it is selling about 268 copies per month at present, and secondhand hardback copies are up for sale for as little as £7, only a month after publication.
“An Israeli firm sought to influence more than 30 elections around the world for clients by hacking, sabotage and spreading disinformation, according to an undercover media investigation published Wednesday.
Following the latest revelations, Israel might also face increased pressure to rein in its cutting-edge cyberware and technology sector which was spotlighted in another media investigation led by Forbidden Stories in 2021.
Tommorow my book “Casting The Runes The Letters of M R James” is published, you can get it on Amazon or any good bookshop also @unbounders or if like most of us right now the cost of living is biting you in the arse please ask your librarian to order it pic.twitter.com/4dw8kz5a2W
Get real. Putin isn't going to lose. Russia is a powerhouse militarily compared to Ukraine. Not to mention the quantity of ammunition and nukes Russia has. Anyone escalating this war is all in on starting WW3.
Throughout the years it was staged around the world, from NYC to Tokyo. Simple yet timeless plot about hope & shattered dreams remains as relevant as ever. Have you seen it? Or perhaps read? pic.twitter.com/WVBalSYRvt
🛍️ #OTD in 1901, the legendary #Eliseevsky grocery store opened doors in Moscow!
👉 Your regular Russian supermarket – in a palace & a palace! 👉 Best wines, delicacies & luxurious interior. 👉 No 1 shopping mall in Europe of its time. With a theatre no less. pic.twitter.com/5Ovcx6TXx3
The problem in the UK, as in other Anglophone countries, is that most of the population are perfectly willing to see the country go to ratshit so long as the “national” team in this or that televized sport wins some contest on the other side of the world (and they do not care that their “national team” is largely composed of blacks and browns).
Thank you @reb1958 , this from ‘Lost Hearts’ one of the superb ghost stories of M.R.James, is a marvellous description of an English September . You might like it. pic.twitter.com/bBVefscU25
This film, below, was a really excellent exploration of M.R. James. I have posted it before; it deserves to be more known.
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What an odd conclusion, .@wokeworld4. We have very little idea what motivates the crowds, but I doubt very much that it is principally conservative monarchism. https://t.co/r45ZgwEEUl
My view is that much of it is a grasping at straws.
.@Joe22143142 That is not my opinion. The greatest, most powerful and richest humans must all die. As Gray said, 'the paths of glory lead but to the grave'. Kings, tyrants, geniuses, are all at the mercy of death. How then do we respond? Modern man does so by trying to forget it. https://t.co/XoHe2jI5JB
"[A]ll mammals have two sexes, and man is a mammal,” said Nüsslein-Volhard, who won the 1995 Nobel prize in Physiology and Medicine for her research in early embryonic development. https://t.co/OV1MU5sFxW
Stonewall has lost the plot. It now claims that two-year-olds can be trans. And it wants more nurseries to teach toddlers about gender identity. We need to stop indulging this madness, says @JamesEsseshttps://t.co/8UrrQ6d3rd
That applies not only to the almost ubiquitous “trans” nonsense but also more mainstream issues such as race and culture. One example is the “holocaust” farrago.
As someone with officially diagnosed #Autism, I find this irritating and offensive. Autism isn't something you can just identify as. By claiming that you can identify as having Autism, it implies Autism is a choice, not a disability.#Transautistichttps://t.co/DekAppwOU0
All this nonsense and fakery of various kinds is being encouraged, and to a large extent co-ordinated, by the powers of Evil in the world. We need to prepare for a wideranging and worldwide purge of all such elements.
Those who fought before will also be fighting with us, either on higher planes or on Earth via reincarnation.
“The stars in their courses fight on the side of the just” [ancient Chinese proverb]
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I lost all respect for Philip Schofield years ago when he berated a woman on Universal Credit who bought herself a bottle of prosecco for Christmas. God forbid poor people have a small treat! #HollyWilloughby#phillipschofield
Amen to that. I dislike that little blot. He just rubs me up the wrong way, as do some other TV people, such as —certainly not a complete list— the one-time shoplifting TV presenter Richard Madeley (yes, he was acquitted; he was lucky), that smug bastard John Humphries (though I think that he has now retired) with his pathetic Mandela-worship…and a number of others.
The Tories squandered twice as much per year on their failed track and trace system as the entire annual Universal Credit budget of £13.2 Billion. They have a nerve preaching about managing household budgets to the poorest in society while incapable of managing their own budgets.
If people working for large international, tax-avoiding companies are forced to rely on foodbanks and universal credit, then not only is the minimum wage too low, but British taxpayers are subsidising these companies and effectively contributing to their profits and dividends.
Exactly the point I made over many years about working tax credits etc.
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The conflict in Ukraine looks set for a dangerous new escalation after Russia signalled that it would annex swathes of the war-torn country https://t.co/4dgQ7aAxEX
The move came as the Russian parliament approved laws that for the first time mentioned possible mobilisation and martial law as President Putin weighed up his next move in the seven-month war
The Kremlin could then say it would be justified in using nuclear weapons to force them to retreat, a senior official in Moscow appeared to suggesthttps://t.co/35kz5QmW6B
“Encroachment onto Russian territory is a crime which allows you to use all the forces of self-defence,” Dmitry Medvedev, a former president and prime minister who is now the deputy head of Russia’s national security council, wrote
Earlier this evening, I heard some pompous bore, I think a British MP (I only had audio, no picture) on TV news, yapping about how there would be a “Ukrainian victory“, and how Britain must mobilize for war.
Russian military experts and pundits on Kremlin-controlled state TV advocate plunging Ukraine into the 19th century, destroying all of its power grid and access to the Internet, so that Ukrainians can't keep trolling Russia using its own social media. I'm not kidding, just watch: pic.twitter.com/OtW2TVL4Wn
I make no apology for posting, not for the first time, the above documentary about M.R. James, finely-narrated by the late Bill Wallis. Maybe it is not quite the right time of year (autumn, or winter, might be better), but never mind.
Hard to think of a better way to spend 50 peaceful minutes on, as it might be, a quiet evening or even afternoon.
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Brutal bombardment of Gaza strip continues as at least 31 Palestinians are killed https://t.co/ub8CciMWVI
“We are entering an era of mass fuel poverty and ‘warm banks’ – and complacent leaders have left a dangerous political vacuum.
The surreal, often absurd Conservative leadership election meanders on. Both candidates frantically float ideas for disrupting everything from university term dates to doctors’ pensions, while the Sunday Telegraph endorses Liz Truss as “the first truly philosophy-driven leader since Margaret Thatcher”, and Rishi Sunak stoically insists that he loves dancing. But we all know the gravity of the crisis that is now enveloping us, and it makes the vanities of their battle seem like some strange hallucination related to the summer’s stifling heat.
By the autumn, the victor – Truss, in all likelihood – may well be still trying to convince us that they are leading a national sprint towards sunlit uplands that only they can see. But the game is already up: the immediate future will be defined by skyrocketing energy prices, economic woe and a profound social emergency – and power will be a grinding matter of crisis management.
The unavoidable truth is that the United Kingdom is in such a fragile, frayed state that it can no longer keep its people warm or adequately feed them. Until that gnawing injustice is addressed, politics will continue to teeter into the absurd.“
[The Guardian]
If only there were a credible social-national movement! If there were, we could be in power within a couple of years, and then start to do what has to be done. As it is, we are mere spectators, as the System is about to implode. We cannot, as things are, use events to bring about what we want.
Still, we may yet see the day.
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I've stood on stage with the #VaccineInjured – I've heard their stories. I've seen the pain they're in. It's time to stop ignoring them. It's time to stop pretending they don't exist. Shame on everyone who's turned a blind eye. pic.twitter.com/ftIFwHiDYA
— Five Times August (@FiveTimesAugust) July 31, 2022
“A vial of "blood clots" from post-jab post-mortem adults. Turns out they aren't BLOOD clots at all, they are complex "biostructures" that are growing & building inside the blood vessels & arteries. Far larger structures are being found in femoral arteries & carotid arteries.” pic.twitter.com/Rfc6WDf1vF
The system / taxation can go fuck itself honestly. All I am working for is to earn money to set myself up to be self supporting outside the system if / when the time comes. My taxes are robbed & given to somalians. Any charity I do is off my own back, local & to English people.
People seeking dentistry in many parts of England face waits of a year or longer https://t.co/pHDKXzczLd
— The Times and The Sunday Times (@thetimes) August 8, 2022
They found that 91% of practices in England were not accepting new adult patients, rising to 97% in the East Midlands, and 98% in the South West, North West and Yorkshire and the Humber https://t.co/0aGmTFylF6
— The Times and The Sunday Times (@thetimes) August 8, 2022
Completely unacceptable.
It's revolting to me what's being done to Tolkien.
This is pure #Antiwhite demoralization and humiliation.
The sick and degenerate multikultis on Twitter will think that this “cultural appropriation” is OK. We need a thoroughgoing cultural purge across the (((West))).
Dietrich Eckart died in 1923, at the age of 55. One of the earliest supporters of Adolf Hitler and his life-work, Eckart was also a poet, writer, playwright, and authority on Ibsen.
[“If the light clashes with darkness there is no making of agreements, there is only a fight of life and death until the one or the other part is destroyed.“— Dietrich Eckart]
When I had a Twitter account (a pack of Jews had me expelled in 2018), I frequently tweeted against Japanese whaling (and against that carried out by other countries engaged in commercial whaling, notably Norway and Iceland; the Soviet Union ceased its semi-secret whaling in 1973).
As the Guardian report indicates, part of the problem lay in the Japanese psychology, in resenting being told what to do or not do by the non-Japanese world. Japan needed an honourable way to stop whaling, an exit strategy enabling Japan to stop whaling, and to stop subsidizing whaling, without losing face. This is what has happened.
Japan continues to whale, but only within the waters of Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone (under the Law of the Sea), and in reality is slowly winding down whaling (along with the subsidies for it). The whales caught now are not the most endangered (such as the Blue Whale). Not that that excuses the activity, but it seems that, finally, Japanese whaling is on the way out.
English ghost story
A ghost story not written by M.R. James but featuring him as a character. Very good. The BBC should do more like this.
France 24 TV report about arrests arising from investigations into Jew and/or Israeli corruption in New Jersey (mainly Hudson County, the bit of New Jersey alongside the Hudson River opposite Manhattan).
Not only fraud and money laundering but also the sale of human organs and blood to Israel and/or to Jew and Israeli organizations in Switzerland and elsewhere.
Had this not been reported on a mainstream TV station (France 24), it would no doubt be vilified by Jewish orgs and mouthpieces as an “anti-Semitic trope” or something.
#Gaza: Israeli tanks & bulldozers yesterday morning were razing strawberry fields in Beit Lahia, close to the primeter fence. (A Hamas solider can be seen pushing people back. The combatant didn't attack & was not attacked by the Israeli troops). pic.twitter.com/9mRZiXK7BJ
You really couldn’t make it up! Crazed “Covid” zealot so aggressively determined to exercise her —non-existent— power over a non-mask-wearing passenger, while she herself is not using her mask, shouting, screaming in people’s faces, and even spitting!
That video is an extreme example of the pathology now widespread in the USA, and even UK and elsewhere in Europe. This is what the facemask nonsense is really all about— forcing people to comply. It has little or nothing to do with public health. In Spain, they apparently even have to wear facemasks outside, by law!
My answer?
The nearly two years of “panicdemic” fear propaganda and general nonsense has become ingrained in many. They now not only comply with even completely arbitrary diktats (such as the ludicrous “Rule of 6”), and moreover at the snap of the fingers from complete idiots such as “Boris” Johnson, but get very very angry when they see others refusing to jump through the “mandated” hoops.
In an irreligious age, people seek out things in which to believe, and for causes to follow, as well as for (supposed) “virtues” to display or signal.
The 20th century showed that political causes such as old-style socialism had feet of clay, and religions such as Roman Catholicism and the simplistic “evangelical” alternatives, as well as sub-religions such as cults, became mostly discredited, so we are here now in the 21st century with many floundering people desperately seeking for a cause to which to adhere.
For some, in the UK of the 1980s and 1990s, it was anti-apartheid, but the new “rainbow nation” South Africa has largely failed (in every way) since then, and there are no white people in the SA government to blame now, so the virtue-signallers have abandoned the South Africans of all races to their fate and latched onto other causes: anti-Brexit was or is one such, as was and is “climate change”, as in the worship of the Swedish autistic, little Greta Nut; likewise, the Extinction Rebellion and Insulate Britain idea that destruction of the UK as an advanced industrial economy will somehow “save the planet”.
Now such people (often the very same people) have latched onto “Covid” as their cause. The roots of it lie in their personal and group psychology and/or pathology rather than anything objective.
Christmas Day the French continue to rise up against medical tyranny. Vive la France! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/70WqqGVvY0
I have made just criticism in the past few years of, inter alia, Aaron Bastani and Ash Sarkar, and their idea called “Fully Automated Luxury Communism” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_Automated_Luxury_Communism], but (despite not having read the book), I apprehend thatone of its basic premises is that the benefits of modern technology and productive techniques have been arrogated by a tiny minority of finance-capitalists. If my understanding of the book is correct in that regard, then I certainly agree with that view; indeed, it can hardly be denied.
Books such as The Spirit Level [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_Level_(book)] have shown how inequality in the “Western” world has grown since the 1950s and particularly in recent decades. Numerous studies have shown how the remuneration and wealth (capital) of corporate owners and the highest strata of executives has become grotesque.
In the 1950s, in the USA the typical disparity between the pay of highest-paid and lowest-paid in a company was about 15:1. Now it is hundreds to one and, in not a few cases, thousands to one. That is without even getting into share options, capital gains etc
The same is true of the UK. There are many large companies where the top executives are getting a million or more a year (many millions in some cases) in salary alone, while the bottom-level employees are on something like £15,000. A ratio of at least 70:1, and in many cases hundreds to one.
It is not a question, for me, of inequality alone (some inequality is inevitable and indeed good) but of inequality so great and so unfair that it amounts to inequity.
We see how some of the wealthiest capitalists on Earth (Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Elon Musk etc) vie with each other to build their own space rockets, not to do anything truly worthwhile with them but to take what amount to joy-rides into space, accompanied by other hugely-wealthy individuals. Meanwhile, their own employees live on pennies, in many cases unable to pay their rent, feed their families properly, or achieve even a modestly-comfortable standard of living.
The fruits of scientific and technological innovation must be shared more equitably.
“Hopper“, not “Hooper” (and “they’re“, not “their“) (etc)…but never mind. It’s Christmas.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, has called for compassion for migrants crossing the Channel in his Christmas sermon and praised the "extraordinary" RNLI and Border Force crews.https://t.co/eFvqEid5Kbpic.twitter.com/2rVwAVCttu
“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.” [Matthew 7:6]
…or, more likely, has decided to turn a Nelsonian eye…
It is entirely misplaced and wrongheaded “compassion” to invite into the UK (or to tolerate an unwanted invasion by) those who, most of them, despise British people and/or hate us, and who will be, at best, a heavy millstone round the British neck, forever.
Justin Welby will have to suffer no detriment by tolerating the migration invasion. No, that burden will be borne by the British poor, mostly.
I was going to keep the blog short today, and concentrated on purely Christmas topics (and one does after all have other things to do on Christmas Day), but the world has impinged on my retreat…
Free speech. Catalyst was the sentencing of Alison Chabloz for Holocaust denial which I thought did more harm than good. A lot of other things to do with censorship and forms of hate speech being criminalised. In the long run I don't see a benefit to it, more the opposite.
Naturally, Christmas, as we know it in the UK and/or “Anglosphere”, is largely what people today often call “a construct” or “social construct”. You see in magazines or online quite a lot of historical detail about that.
In the UK, perhaps especially England, we have a fairly closely-defined idea of what Christmas should be: the Christmas tree, the angel or star atop the tree, carols, Santa Claus in his red suit, sitting in a sleigh in the sky, itself pulled by flying reindeer.
As many will know, the Christmas tree tradition, in England, dates back only to 1834, when one was installed at Windsor Castle; the tradition dates back longer in Germany, to the late Middle Ages.
As for the fairy atop the tree, that may be connected with the late Roman cult of Mithras, though that seems to me to be contrived, in view of the fact that the Christmas tree tradition itself is of recent historical origin. I would not say, though, that I am really qualified to pronounce on that aspect.
As to red-suited Santa with his sled or sleigh, reindeer etc, that is a conflation of ancient traditions, 19thC traditions, and “traditions” which come from as recent a source as 1930s American ads for Coca-Cola: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus.
In Russia, the 19thC saw “Grandfather Frost” emerge, a tradition at least half-heartedly kept up in 20thC Soviet times as an alternative to the usually disapproved-of and sometimes suppressed Russian Orthodox Christmas religious holiday (which takes place a couple of weeks after the Western one by reason of the fact that the Russian Orthodox church still uses the Julian Calendar).
I believe that some Christian occultists aver that the “Santa in a sleigh” picture has an underlying reality in that the Cosmic Christ travels spiritually around the world for the “12 days of Christmas”, assessing the overall spiritual condition of the world. Perhaps.
My own view is that it does not really matter that our 20thC/21stC idea of Christmas would seem slightly odd to Victorian England, and downright alien to the English of Tudor times. It is our mental picture, our idea of what is sacred, our idea of what is worthwhile. It encapsulates what has gone before, and is of social and personal value.
Whatever the origins of Christmas as we know it, and however “inauthentic” some may claim it to be, the fact remains that we regard it as sort-of-sacred, even if in a sense it is not, and that includes the “Father Christmas” or “Santa Claus” figure in his red robes, even if he does only date back, in that form, to 1930s Disney and Coca-Cola. We do not like it being changed for obviously socio-political reasons.
Ghastly
Saw a few minutes on TV of some ghastly Christmas thing in Westminster Abbey yesterday. Some weird fellow looking like a Scottish down and out strumming on a guitar and, er, singing, while queen-to-be Kate accompanied on a piano. Not quite sure what the whole thing was, because I only saw a minute or two of it.
The Mezzotint
Saw a BBC adaptation of the M.R. James story, The Mezzotint. My expectations were not, if truth be told, high, but in fact this was an excellent short film. The original story was written in 1904, but the adaptation was, seemingly, set in the 1920s (judging by the props, clothes, and some music heard).
Even the fact that, typically for today, they shoehorned a non-European into the story (an anglicized Indian, or Anglo-Indian), did not jar, the way it was done. Pretty good.
Chekhov had a point. It might be argued that in contemporary Britain, and in North America, there is at least no “premature old age“, but maybe there is: true, people are living longer in years, but at the same time a strange double-aspect is seen.
The young today are careful, cautious, scared of what they are indoctrinated into being scared of, meaning “the virus”, “racism”, “sexism” etc; even taking any risk at all. In short, they often seem to exhibit traits of caution and even fearfulness, traditionally the preserve of the middleaged and, indeed, the elderly.
The other aspect seen would be a kind of juvenile attitude to life, seen in the adult, even in the middleaged. The obsessive interest in (in the UK) soccer football and (in the USA) American football. The playing of video games, computer games by those aged 30, 40, even 50+.
Other symptoms? The whole “dating app” culture. The middleaged women, often divorced, who feverishly pretend to a lifestyle more appropriate (if at all) to girls of 18 or 20. The male equivalent, as well. Also, the lack of interest in anything of a serious nature, even in those who (via entitlement more than via merit, often) are in the highest positions.
Examples? It became notorious, during the disastrous years of the David Cameron-Levita governments of 2010-2015, that the Prime Minister of the UK spent what his own civil servants called “a frightening amount of time” playing games on his mobile telephone. If I recall aright, his favourite was one called Angry Birds.
Others in that evil yet stupid 2010-2015 government had similar tastes. One was the useless Ed Vaizey (like David Cameron-Levita, a part-Jew).
Now we have “Boris” Johnson, another part-Jew, and another with puerile tastes and behavioural patterns. Someone just posing as Prime Minister, as did Cameron-Levita.
The above may explain why it is hard to form a serious non-System political party worth anything. The young are more interested in complying with whatever they are told by the msm , or in whatever is said about them or their friends on various social media platforms. The older (25+) people are not much better, and the middleaged are mainly engaged in pursuits which are extensions of juvenalia.
Politics, especially radical/revolutionary politics, requires other traits: risk-taking, commitment to ideals and to a cause, a certain selflessness, a willingness by the individual to join with others for a noble cause, as well as anger at the way things are, and a determination to struggle to a better future.
The National Socialists of 1919-1945 had that; the Bolsheviks and other Communists had that; the milder socialists and social-democrats too. Without that drive and belief, everything just trundles on as it is, or perhaps gradually getting worse.
Ha. When living in Kazakhstan (1996-97), I used to travel up to the mountains with friends in their Lada Niva. I even drove it for short distances once or twice myself. In the UK, a few years ago, I thought of buying a secondhand one, but few were available and, crucially, the Niva only comes in standard shift, not automatic, and my present (UK) driving licence only allows me to drive automatics. Quite a good budget option for off-road, though.
And why not? Decapitating a baby at birth is absolutely the same as a perfectly legal 'termination'. But believing that sex is obvious and fixed at birth it grotesquely bigoted. Plus, any complaint here would be both racist and sexist. So there's nothing to see here, move along! pic.twitter.com/5uP4q4u9QX
Lying press at their cover up deceit yet again. Refusing to tell you that all Bellfield's victims were blondes, because he is a Roma supremacist who despises non gypsies and especially hates blonde women.#racismcutsbothwayshttps://t.co/ziRs3kj9zk
I generally disapprove of capital punishment, as such (for spiritual-religious reasons, and because justice must be tempered with mercy), but there may be situations where a public hanging might do much to repress those who should be repressed.
1/3 @jimezsmoots. Pedantry is about small unimportant differences. The two were quite distinct. During WW2, for example, French Jews were much safer in the Italian occupation zone of France than in the unoccupied Vichy zone… https://t.co/4vdcUfN0Uq
I agree @andersinvienna. . It is painful to admit that Prague was far more beautiful when I first saw it in 1978, filthy from pollution, crumbling, oppressed, poor – and empty. It is a metaphor for the failure of post-Soviet freedom to fulfil its promises. https://t.co/9VqfCKGxme
Ha ha! That reminds me when a Soviet citizen visiting London in the late 1980s saw the BBC TV News, presented by Moira Stuart [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moira_Stuart], and said to me, “not only a black woman, but one with a speech impediment!“…
What would he have thought of Britain in 2021?
Something a little different today: a message from our Director, Rachel on who we are, what we do and why we do it.
Tweeted by a barrister, one of them, so I suppose that younger people reading think it “must be right”. In fact, while it is true that women (and others) could be refused service in a pub, that almost never happened simply because a woman wanted a drink. The same was true of blacks. As for “being gay was imprisonable“…no, it never was, not in the UK, though there were offences committed if actual gay sex was indulged in.
As ever, the devil is in the detail, and in the words “legal right“…
Those tweets give a false picture.
I myself was once refused service in a bar, for having entered the saloon bar of a country pub, in Surrey, while wearing muddy Wellingtons. I, and the young lady accompanying me, had to move to the (equally empty) public bar, where the floor consisted of stone flags instead of carpet. That was in 1984.
Ghastly Twit-creature Kate Godfrey, who once or twice tried to blag her way to an MP sinecure (for Labour, then “Change UK”, then LibDem) joins with other Zionists to try to get a professor at Bristol University dismissed for merely having an opinion.
Employment law is my field. There is no university – or other employer – who couldn't act on this today. Sort it out @BristolUni.
Employment law is civil law. Bristol has a number of published policies for staff conduct. Even if they didn't, this would be covered by contractual breach of trust and confidence.
A small part of the population in the UK, less than half of one percent, is trying to take over the whole society by strategic moves, or to put it in colloquial language, by “always going for the jugular”.
Zionists have been heavily involved in British politics for decades. What changed was that Corbyn was a supporter of Palestinian rights – only then did it become obvious how much power and influence Zionists and Israel have in our country’s politics.
— @artdecolady #StarmerOut #ItWasAScam (@Teresa_Peckham) February 7, 2021
If we do not start fighting soon, the world we know will fall without a shot fired, and we shall all be serfs of powers which will only show their true evil when we are unable to resist, protest, or even express an opinion…
The first thing to understand is that ZOG, NWO, the “Great Reset”, the “Great Replacement” and “White genocide” are no mere “conspiracy theories” but happening in real time all around us now.
They haven't lost their minds, it's always been their plan. Biometric digital ID is the control mechanism for their cattle, they will just keep squeezing you out of society until you agree to take their magic sauce and conform to being corralled and controlled.
Tweeter “Martin”, above, seems to imagine that the UK is a “free country”. Well, it may have been (fairly) “free” once, before (to take a year) 1989, but no more…no more…
Government and msm in the UK are very keen to see protest, revolt and revolution overseas, preferably in countries not yet under ZOG/NWO control, but they scream “terrorism” if anyone tries it in the UK.
The most corrupt elements of the UK are in the msm, Government, Westminster in general, and embedded in the parts of the economy closely allied to those sectors. Also, the Zionist element.
Ah, I forgot about the Saturday quiz this past weekend…
Well, I am back on winning form, having scored 8/10 (Rentoul got 5/10). I did not know the answers to questions 6 and 10 (I thought that the answer to question 10 was two banks).
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There is so little grade 1 soil it's criminal to even think about developing on grade 1. We just are not being listened to. This is my biggest threat as it's unclear if my land is due to housing as I have not been consulted upon the matter. Farmed for 1000 years gone in 1.
I myself was born in Reading, and brought up mainly (except 3 years in Sydney, Australia) where Berkshire meets South Oxfordshire.
I first saw a black person in Reading when I was 6, maybe 7 (a consultant at the Royal Berks Hospital), and saw a second one in 1970 when I was 13 and had returned from Australia (the second one was a uniformed nurse on a bus). In other words, there were very few blacks (or South Asians etc) in Reading at that time.
By the early 1970s, there were some. I saw a playground full of black children when my train from Newbury Racecourse station to Reading stopped for a few minutes on a viaduct overlooking part of West Reading. That was 1973 or 1974.
Recently I heard some West Indian woman interviewed on radio. She said that she “had been brought up in Reading, which of course was incredibly multicultural.” Not sure to what year(s) she was referring, but must have been 1980s or 1990s onwards.
A huge demographic and cultural change, mostly negative, has occurred in the UK, especially in parts of England, in the past 50 years. Near-disastrous.
Labour are moving fast to adopt PR . 156 (at last count) PLP associations have already voted for it. It will become official Labour policy if passed at Conference.
— @johnandi#FBPE#GTTO#LetsTryUBI#FollowBackFriday (@johnandi) February 15, 2021
Too late. Labour has (probably) passed the point of no return. It has thrown away the Scottish “proletariat” and its descendants, and is doing the same in England and Wales, meaning the poorer white people. It is left with the “blacks and browns” and the public service employees. Not more than about 25% of the voters. Yes, some others too, but unlikely to do much better in ?2024 than in 2019 or 2017.
If (when?) Scotland leaves the UK, Labour will have no chance even of minority or weak coalition government, because it has no real prospect of getting more MPs in Scotland, and the SNP’s MPs are at present Labour’s only hope for forming even a minority government.
Needless to say, at present the 80-seat-majority pseudo-“Conservative” government has no need to consider proportional representation.
This is the route most countries will go down eventually,those who refuse will be treated like Lepers and ostracised from mainstream society or worse,kept in quarantine centres.
More than 160,000 have now watched the Great Lockdown Debate between me and @dpjhodges, in living colour, here https://t.co/QKnixZWoSz . Don't miss it. There's a special treat right at the end.
I have less freedom to travel now, as a supposedly free British citizen, than I would have done as an East German pensioner in the days of the Berlin Wall.I do feel trapped in these islands now'. My latest conversation with @Iromg Mike Graham on @TalkRadio https://t.co/kVdMfhjrlc
You don’t feel trapped…you are trapped. And soon will be more trapped…
Why bother with such elaborate palavers @jprnyct , when millions quite happily vote repeatedly for parties which despise them and act against their interests? https://t.co/dwV3HWxyaW
Londons most famous lost river the fleet,still flowing today beneath here in Victorian sewage pipes. weaving it's way from hampstead heath via kentish/camden town down to the thames, even passing under my grandmother's old house on lyme st nw1 the fleet river farringdon ec4 pic.twitter.com/UgZeFqIJKC
How well I know that area! In the 1980s and early 1990s I was often walking there, perhaps visiting the wine merchant cellars under the viaduct, or strolling along the viaduct itself, not far from Leather Lane market, the Bailey, and the old, now closed, Holborn Viaduct rail station [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holborn_Viaduct_railway_station]
It might be said that I should not write about ordinary political matters on Christmas Day, but the news having just been announced yesterday about Brexit, a few more words are needed.
As I said yesterday, “Boris” has decided to put on the mask of a tragi-comic Chamberlain rather than a tragi-comic Churchill. He says now that he has, belatedly, delivered Brexit. Of sorts, arguably. It is all rather underwhelming.
This goes beyond BRINO (Brexit In Name Only) but not very far beyond.
Having said that, the agreement has pretty much shot Farage’s fox as far as the EU is concerned. I think that, though opposition to EU norms will continue on the fringes, this means the end of Brexit and EU matters as central in UK political discourse. Effectively the end of 20 years of Brexit/EU being political drivers in the UK.
To a large extent, the agreement has also shot Labour’s fox re. the EU, too. Labour under Keir Starmer has become almost invisible. Unsurprising. Starmer-Labour has, with minor carping, supported the “Conservative” Government on almost every issue in the past year, from the “virus” messaging and the facemask nonsense to Brexit. It seems that that support will now continue in the Commons vote on this agreement (next week, unless delayed). The agreement will thus be approved, with minor rebellions on the fringes.
As far as the general public is concerned, this agreement will draw a line under Brexit, politically.
The agreement seems to cover most of the factors important in the public mind, such as (by implication) the Roma gypsy element looting the UK from foreign bases, and also the low-paid foreign workers, Poles etc, coming to the UK as of right; the food standards now staying where they are (because the UK will not drop below EU norms, so no American chlorinated chicken etc).
It looks as though animal welfare in farming etc is covered (the UK is ahead of most of the EU states in that respect anyway).
Yes, there are sacrifices made: the fishing part is not very good for the UK, though at least there will not be the first Anglo-French naval engagements, in the Channel, since Napoleonic times. Britain’s fishermen have been, to some extent, sacrificed for the wider good. That means that the head has ruled the heart, fishing being only 1% of the UK’s GDP.
Also, British people will (or may) find it less convenient to live or work in EU states, though most live rather than work (retired people etc) and that happened even before the UK joined the original EEC in 1973, though on a smaller scale. People just had to apply for a carte de sejour in France, and the equivalent elsewhere.
There will be some grumbling about this from both “Brexiteers” and Remainers but, as a major political issue, Brexit has been finally put to bed.
First of all, language people use in this area can be quite emotive, e.g. talk of Christians ‘usurping’ or ‘sanitising’ a pre-existing pagan festival. There’s a tendency to ascribe a collective agency that never existed to ‘the Church’ or ‘Christians’ when it comes to Midwinter
The minds and behaviour of early medieval people weren’t software programmed by a Church that exercised total control. The Church showed sporadic interest in popular celebrations, but its main concern was Christian rites and belief – not suppressing all pre-Christian legacies
(The later concepts of sacred and secular may not be especially relevant here, but we can’t rule out the likelihood that pre-Christian societies (just like Christian ones) had many behaviours and practices that simply lay outside the realm of the sacred. This is a complex debate)
For example, when people compare Christian saints with pre-Christian gods – often implying that saints simply ‘replaced’ gods – what they’re really referring to is saints filling the same niches as the former gods in a spiritual ecology common to most pre-modern societies
Most pre-modern European societies had broadly the same concerns, the same areas of uncertainty, and the same spheres of life where divine protection was sought, before and after Christianity. Furthermore, societies often celebrated the pattern of the seasons in similar ways
In time, as people became culturally accustomed to it, Christmas came to play the same role as whatever Midwinter festivals existed before it, and earlier traditions receded
A plausible scenario is a mixture of sacred and profane festivities existing in parallel in early England, with pre-Christian elements fading gradually as they became less culturally relevant, and Christmas traditions becoming richer as society acquired a Christian identity
So without getting into the extent to which Christmas is ‘pagan’ or not, let’s be careful about the language we use and the assumptions we make, because the nature of the evidence – and of human belief – is often insufficient to support them…
Ian Robert Millard 