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Diary Blog, 20 May 2026

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Afternoon music

[King’s College Chapel, Cambridge]

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The Starmer-stein Labour Friends of Israel government seems to do everything and anything that makes life more difficult for the British economy and people. Hopeless.

See also:

The Jew Epstein and Prince Andrew: The British Royal Family Has Another Scandal — Maybe It’s Time To Just Get Rid Of Them… [frequently updated]

[“I’m genuinely perplexed at how the ignorant horde of Reform shills could possibly go after this program.

“taxfunded horserides” – for severely disabled children, who are typically going to be in the realms of non-verbal, or will have other severe issues.

This is for children who struggle with any emotional depth, the animals are used to give them an emotional bond that they can extrapolate to other social situations.

There aren’t hordes of falsely diagnosed children riding horses for free, this is an utterly bizarre myth from Reformcels.”]

Many Reform UK candidates and voters are the same idiots who, from 2010 onward, voted “Conservative” because it suited them to believe that poor people on State benefits were somehow responsible for the economic problems of the UK.

There is only one reason to support Reform UK at all, and that is to ensure that the Lib-Lab-Con rigged political system is trashed by 2029; even though Reform is itself now —as I long-predicted on the blog— well and truly infiltrated and controlled by the Jewish-Zionist element, via Tice, Farage etc.

Once Reform is in government, and then (inevitably) fails at almost everything, real social-national forces can rise up…

Talking point

i.e. “they” are often the gravediggers of (purely-) European race and culture, and also usually want to control society (wherever they may live).

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They were right, but almost no-one was listening…

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Asians_from_Uganda#Aftermath

In 1972, thinking people were appalled at the prospect of an influx of 50,000 Ugandan Asians. In the end, about 27,000 arrived (the remainder going to other countries).

In 2026, there are more immigrants than that (27,000) arriving in the UK in any single month; indeed, about that number every week or so.

Exactly. (both tweets…).

If that “Darren” idiot believes all that, he has no business being in government. We could have all the gas we could possibly need from Russia quite cheaply and, if the UK were to leave NATO, that would or could be ours at or below cost price.

Incidentally, I drove through the now-very-odd town or “city” of Brighton the other day, the first time I had seen it since I appeared as Counsel in the County Court there about 19 or 20 years ago. Driving along the seafront, I noticed that the view now includes a whole line of ugly offshore wind turbines in the distance. Horrible.

I say “odd“, by the way, because I have not seen so many peculiar people on the streets since I was last in Oxford. It is as if some social magnet has attracted tribes of “weirdos” to those cities.

Late tweets

An extreme example of the police once again prioritizing the repression of fake or non-crime (a white boy uttering a supposedly “racist” word or two) over dealing with real crime (an untermensch stabbing said white boy).

It might be said that the police did not acquit themselves well in that incident— on the one hand too brutal (the policeman who kicked a prone detainee in the head), on the other hand completely useless (the women police crying like little girls), but there is surely little doubt that the defendants were guilty. I wonder what was the racial/cultural make-up of the jury (I can guess…).

A horrible tribe.

Incidentally, that Biblical reference (the correct form is Revelation 3:9, not “Revelations” 3:9…) is this:

“Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.“

Translates to a Commons with about 281 Labour MPs (45 short of a majority), 210 Reform UK (strong official Opposition), 60 LibDems, 49 Cons, 19 SNP, 8 Greens [etc].

That really puts the cat among the pigeons. Labour would have to make an accommodation with the LibDems. Even so, that coalition —or whatever— would still have a mere 15-MP majority.

On those figures, the Greens would really be put back in their box. 8 MPs; only +3 compared to their position now.

As to the Conservatives, on those figures Kemi Badenoch would lose her seat, and her party would have fewer than half the MPs it retained at GE 2024.

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Diary Blog, 19 May 2026

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Morning music

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Our animal friends.

Unsurprising (part-Jew; possibly half-Jew): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Lam

In any case, most of the benefit in those situations of technical economic improvement goes to 1% of the population.

Burnham may be marginally less of a clown than the other contenders for Starmer-stein’s purple, but he is still an oddly-“entitled”, and probably useless, chancer, like the rest.

Talking about useless chancers, here is Lammy again making a fool of himself…

Monkey-on-a-stick. Idiot.

We shall soon see.

See also:

The Jew Epstein and Prince Andrew: The British Royal Family Has Another Scandal — Maybe It’s Time To Just Get Rid Of Them… [frequently updated]

Late music

[Moscow Kremlin wall]
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Diary Blog, 15 May 2026

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Afternoon music

[public statuary by Arno Breker; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Breker]

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Our unconquerable children!

[“No, Ayesha. Spare us the condescending history lesson from someone whose family rode the post-war immigration wave into a nation your ancestors could never have built.

This is our island.

The English, the British peoples forged it through blood, genius and endurance.

Your smug “adapt and cope” is the language of replacement, not coexistence. We built this; we will reclaim it.

Your hospital anecdote is peak immigrant entitlement.

Yes, the NHS has around 21% non-British staff, one in five, with doctors at 36% and nurses at 30% foreign.

That’s not proof of British inadequacy. It’s proof of catastrophic policy failure: chronic under-training of our own people, welfare dependency that keeps native working-class youth out of rigorous professions, and an open-door policy that floods the system with cheaper imported labour while British graduates face debt and delays.

The NHS Long-term Workforce Plan admits over-reliance on overseas recruitment leaves us exposed – exactly as we warned.

Britain ran hospitals before mass immigration.

We invented modern medicine and public health.

We can staff them again by prioritising our own: expand medical school places, reform welfare to incentivise native work, and stop importing the world’s problems.

Britain a “tiny island” that “couldn’t manage on its own”? Laughable revisionism.

This “tiny island” led the Industrial Revolution, dominated global trade, and created the modern world with predominantly native ingenuity.

The Empire wasn’t plunder, it was a civilising force that spread law, language, infrastructure, abolition of slavery (while your Islamic forebears were still trading slaves), and prosperity to places that lag to this day.

India’s railways, administration, and parliamentary model? British. Pakistan’s very existence as a modern state? Carved from British India.

We gave more than we took, and colonies volunteered in both world wars because the alternative, Axis domination, was worse.

WW2? Britain stood alone in 1940 against the Nazi onslaught while your part of the world sat it out or collaborated.

Empire troops were vital auxiliaries Indian Army magnificent, no doubt but the strategy, navy, air force, intelligence, and industrial backbone were British.

We invented radar, broke Enigma, held the Atlantic, and led D-Day.

Without us, the Empire contribution wouldn’t have existed.

Don’t rewrite victory as dependency.

Manufacturing decline? Not because “we don’t want to work.”

It’s globalisation, cheap foreign competition, EU regulations, unions, energy costs, and yes – mass low-skilled immigration that suppressed wages, discouraged training apprenticeships, and let businesses avoid investing in British workers.

Cheap Pakistani and Indian factory labour in the 50s-70s papered over cracks instead of modernising.

Result: hollowed-out heartlands, welfare underclass, and now you lecture us for noticing.

High immigration hasn’t revived manufacturing; it’s correlated with stagnation, housing crisis, and strained services.

Your people’s “future generations” aren’t “resented for not being subservient.”

They’re resented for forming parallel societies, demanding sharia, delivering grooming gangs on an industrial scale in Rotherham and beyond, and polling consistently higher support for Islamic law, jihad sympathy, and rejection of British norms.

UK-born Muslims are growing fast – higher fertility, chain migration – projected to reshape our demographics while native birth rates collapse.

That’s not enrichment; it’s conquest by womb and welfare.

Half UK-born now, yet integration metrics on free speech, women’s rights, apostasy, and loyalty remain dire. You don’t assimilate, you expand.

The time for your entitlement is over.

Britain owes you nothing beyond the rule of law your forebears never extended to dhimmis.

We owe our children a secure homeland.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.”]

Do not agree with all of that, but can agree with 90% or more.

Wall. Squad. End.

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Electoral politics may, after 2029, be over, but national revolutionary politics will then rise up to exterminate evil.

“Deport?” He should be put up against a wall. In public.

[“We’ve had free speech in the UK for a very very long time”. That’s what Keir Starmer said to President Trump. But now look at what just happened in the UK in the last 48 hours alone.

Starmer’s government is pushing ahead with plans to scrap jury trials that will trash our ancient traditions, despite these never appearing in the Labour manifesto.

Starmer’s government is pushing ahead with plans to impose Digital ID – a naked power grab – despite this also never appearing in the Labour manifesto.

Starmer’s government is pushing ahead with plans to impose EU single market rules and laws which will cost the people billions of pounds while stripping us of our sovereignty, going against the democratic Brexit vote, and leaving us unable to influence EU decisions.

And Starmer’s government just BANNED conservatives from entering Britain on the grounds they are “not conducive to the public good”…As I explain in my newsletter below, contrary to what Keir Starmer tells you this is all happening. We face a sustained attack on our freedoms. And so the quicker not just Keir Starmer but this authoritarian Labour government is removed from power the better. They’ve never understood the British people. They’ve never understood our ancient traditions. And they’ve never understood our country.“]

The [Israeli] Jews (with support from the worldwide web of Jews in other parts of the world) did that, but “what goes around comes around“.

Late tweets seen

See also:

The Jew Epstein and Prince Andrew: The British Royal Family Has Another Scandal — Maybe It’s Time To Just Get Rid Of Them… [frequently updated]

[“Professor Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago – on the fact that there is no doubt about Russia’s victory now:

I think there’s no doubt that the Russians took a pause. And I think there’s no doubt that the Ukrainians recaptured a tiny part of the territory, but that doesn’t matter in the big picture. And the Russians are now advancing again. It’s absolutely obvious. And although they’re not capturing territory as I think we expected two or three years ago, largely due to the presence of a huge number of drones and problems, there’s no doubt that they’re moving forward.

And I believe that in the near future they will eventually capture Donbass. Who will win this war? I think the Russians will win. They will get 20% of Ukraine and a frozen conflict. So I think there’s no hope that Ukraine will regain all the territory it lost in the eastern part of its country. It’s just not going to happen.
So the only interesting question at the moment is – how big a victory will Russia achieve? Will it capture all the territory in these four regions that it annexed? Or will it capture only a part of this territory?“]

Well done!

[“Kirill Budanov stated that the volunteers in Ukraine have run out, and now there are only millions of draft evaders left. According to him, it’s impossible to completely stop mobilization, as it’s unrealistic to fully staff the army without it.

The only thing that can be attempted to reform is the manifestations of inhumane treatment during forced conscription. Not the act of conscription itself, he emphasized.

At the same time, over the past 3–4 months, the number of TCK( military hunters) groups has increased by 40%, and their staff has been expanded. The groups work daily according to orders and have the right to conduct notifications on public transport, in the streets, and at work and residence places.“]

It may be the world may, and sooner than we may think, be reduced to a tenth, or even a hundredth, of its present population. Even if that surviving population were a thousandth of the present population, and even if white Northern Europeans were only a thousand of that thousandth (i.e. ~8,000 people), so long as those ~8,000 people were the right type, in every respect, we should be able to build a new order and a new world on the skulls and bones of the old.

See also:

The Tide is Coming In: Reflections on the Possible End of Our Present Civilization and What Might Follow
[The Wicker Man (1973)]

DNA studies prove that most of the present population of Europe is descended from only three men (and possibly many more women) of the Bronze Age, and that about half of the present echt-European population may be descended from only one man (but probably many women). Makes one think…

“The stars in their courses fight on the side of the just” [ancient Chinese proverb].

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[Russia has no borders; it is wherever there are Russians“]

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Diary Blog, 14 May 2026

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Morning music

[Parcellier, The Orangerie]

Talking point

“The problem with such people (the ones who regard anything before 2000 as a Dark Age, in the face of all evidence) is that when you argue or discuss society with them, you are not having an argument or discussion with someone whose world-view is based on facts or —still less— reality, but with someone who is both deluded and self-deluded, someone who prefers fantasy to reality.

As Hitler said of the Weimar Republic, “they want not only their daily bread but their daily illusion“…”

[from this blog, 7 October 2020]

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[“Those close to Streeting say he has more than 81 nominations and could trigger a leadership contest. But they believe Streeting’s announcement could be pre-empted by the PM announcing a timetable for his departure, even today.

This could all be feverish wishful thinking. But I have been told by less partisan government sources that we are “in the end game”.

The alleged background is that some signatories of the “I back Keir letter” are telling him privately his time is up, that assorted cabinet ministers are set to tell him the same, and that one of those who works closest to the PM has been briefing such to backbench MPs.

BUT Downing Street is saying the ball is in Streeting’s court and there is no chance of the PM announcing a departure timetable today. And that if Streeting wants a leadership contest, he will have to trigger it.

It is quite the game of chicken, with the future of the government at stake.”]

There seems to be a belief, both in the Labour Party and in the msm, that if Starmer is replaced by some other Labour Friends of Israel clown, whether Streeting, Burnham, Angela Rayner, even fraudulent expenses cheat Yvette Cooper, then Labour’s poll rating will jump back up. I doubt it. The Labour Party is as good as finished.

“Them”…(((them)))…

Believe me, I have seen it at the Bar etc (as student, Bar pupil, as barrister, as wrongfully and unlawfully-disbarred ex-barrister, and as dispassionate observer), and in spades (no pun intended…) for over 40 years (1986-2026)…

Israel-lobby puppet Lindsey Graham threatens China. Must be the best joke the Chinese have heard all year.

That is how the shambolic, brutal, and corrupt Kiev regime recruits its cannon-fodder.

Neither side in that war should be targeting civilians or civilian areas directly. Russia must win the war, but do it cleanly, with honour.

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[The Wicker Man, 1973]

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Needless to say, that parallel drawn with the Sunak history is exactly why Starmer and his MPs will not call a general election. A general election now would certainly mean Labour MPs reduced to a rump of between 30 and 100. It could be near-existential for the Labour Party.

In fact, that is Starmer’s best argument (to the MPs) for carrying on and continuing to pretend that he needs to “continue to govern the country“, and can continue to pretend that everything will be OK if all his critics would just shut up and go away: “rebel against me and you will lose your well-paid Commons seat, your salary, those generous expenses, and those career prospects…forever.“

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

Oh…was that in question, then?…

Silberstein, Sonnenschein [etc].

Get the picture?

Every. Single. Time.

The malicious Jew-Zionist “Campaign Against Antisemitism” is currently on yet another funding drive and pledge drive. Rich Jews agree to double all donations made. So far, in only a short space of time, the total seems to have reached nearly £800,000, to be used to fund their propaganda, including propaganda via abusive private prosecutions known as “lawfare”— abuse of English laws to repress free speech by English/British people in this country.

From where does all that money originate?

In fact, barrister and —until he was sacked— part-time judge Simon Myerson (abusive online troll), based in Leeds, actually founded a “charity” to import more Afghans, Afghans specifically, into this country.

Myerson has long been associated with both the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] and “UK Lawyers for Israel” [UKLFI], the memberships of which overlap. UKLFI was behind my wrongful and (later admitted as such by the Bar Standards Board) unlawful disbarment of 2016: see

The Slide of the English Bar and UK Society Continues and Accelerates

Swamped.

The only answer is real social nationalism…and soon.

Fight the good fight.

See also:

Diary Blog, 16 March 2024, including an account of my recent free speech trial and sentencing
Diary Blog, 17 March 2024, including the aftermath of my sentencing hearing

[“To go to a patriotic rally in the UK:

The bank transactions to buy a train ticket are tracked and logged. Your phone acts as a tracking beacon every step of the way.

When you arrive, the facial recognition technology screens you against your passport photo and identifies you instantly.

This links back to your phone and social media activity, allowing the AI to assess your degree of risk and or personality type.“]

In any case, rallies, demonstrations, and marches do not achieve much in the way of concrete results.

Late tweets

[“Abdoela Berhan, a 35-year-old Eritrean national and asylum seeker housed at the taxpayer-funded Britannia Hotel in Bournemouth remains a fugitive.

Outside Cameo nightclub in Bournemouth, Berhan approached 20-year-old Cleo Lake and her friends after they left. He made them uncomfortable, tried to put his arm around one, and persisted after being told to leave.

After verbal exchanges, a shove, and a missed kick from him, Berhan punched Lake in the face with a forceful blow. She was knocked unconscious for around 5 minutes, suffered a broken nose, black eye, and ongoing psychological effects.“]

Wall. Squad. End.

“Our unconquerable children!“

The ANC successors-in-government to the half-wit Mandela are presiding over a white genocide, and the proportion of white Europeans in South Africa, once as high as 20%, is now no more than 5%, in fact probably lower, and still falling fast as both Afrikaaners and English-speaking South Africans flee overseas.

Looking at the dismal state of South Africa today, it is hard to believe that the world’s first heart transplant was performed there, in 1967: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Barnard.

Likewise, pre-ANC South Africa had the highest average living standards in the world.

Yes, for white/Europeans, not for the blacks, mixed-race (“Coloureds”) or other inhabitants (Indians etc), but the standards of living for the blacks were still higher in South Africa than they were in most of Black Africa, and one of the biggest problems for the SA Government was illegal black immigration!

Africans from other parts of southern Africa were very interested in relocating to South Africa under apartheid. Not something you ever heard about on the BBC or other Western TV/radio, or read in most of the UK (etc) newspapers, of course…

There again, are most of the black Africans better off now than they were under apartheid? No. A small percentage are, those who are in (corrupt) government and its offshoots, mainly. For most black South Africans, life is actually harder than it was before the 1990s; one reason why the Africans are dissatisfied and are turning to extremist populists who blame the ever-fewer remaining whites for the continuing poverty of the blacks.

Still, the Anglo-American and other pro-Mandela dimwits prefer not to see those truths.

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That Pole certainly has a point.

Journalists (scribblers and talking-heads) and msm photographers/paparazzi etc are a very low breed, almost without exception.

Satirical singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz was hounded by the Press pack and BBC swine, years ago. Her aged parents even found that deceitful and now “cancelled” Pakistani “British” journalist, Martin Bashir [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Bashir] peering through the windows of their house in a tiny, rather remote Peak District village, and also standing, lurking, in flower beds, for a day or so.

It will be recalled that Bashir, later and ludicrously, the BBC’s religious affairs editor (a Muslim apostate who calls himself “Christian”) was found to have lied and cheated in relation to the Princess Diana matter:

“Bashir faked bank statements suggesting individuals close to Diana were being paid by security services to spy on her, using these to gain the trust of her brother, Earl Spencer.“

Bashir was also found to have lied and broadcast “fake news” on many other occasions, in the UK, USA, and elsewhere.

Still, life sometimes has ways of punishing the wicked. Bashir had to resign (or be sacked) from the BBC in 2021. He has also had serious health problems. He foolishly took a “Covid” “vaccine”, after which he had to have a quadruple heart bypass operation.

In the past 5 years, Bashir has not been able to get work in the msm by reason of his persistent dishonesty. Totally washed-up.

As for that Martin Godwin character, he obviously thinks that, like Bashir, he can snoop on people where they live. Would he like the same to happen to him, or to his family? I doubt it.

Our animal friends.

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Alt-Right, the woodlander, Uncategorized

Diary Blog, 13 May 2026

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Morning music

[painting by Serge Marshennikov]

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Sooner or later, the USA will get back everything it has been handing out for the past 85 years.

That idiot has something wrong with his arithmetic; in fact, there is something wrong with him in general.

See also (from 2019):

On Recent Events in France

Talking point

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken

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

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[“What if all of the following are true:

Britain is no longer a democracy, it’s a credential-weighted compliance system.
Real power flows through the Treasury, regulators, and courts because they own risk.

The state doesn’t govern, it processes risk.
Policy is downstream of risk frameworks, not ideology or voter preference.

Parliament is a signalling layer, not a decision layer.
MPs signal moral alignment, launder system decisions into narratives, and absorb public anger.

Britain is governed by inherited assumptions that cannot be named.
Growth must not visibly benefit natives; legibility to international systems outranks domestic coherence.

Immigration was never a policy choice, it was a structural output.
Rather than adapt institutions to declining native compliance, the system imported populations less able to contest authority.

The real constitution is statistical, not written.
Bond yields, ratings, and legal harmonisation constrain action more than elections.

The collapse already happened, it looked like stability without purpose.

Britain isn’t misgoverned.
It’s being governed exactly as a late-stage administrative system must.“]

The buildings of Westminster are as ramshackle as the “democracy” within.

Embarrassing but, these days, unsurprising that the Westminster Correspondent of the Yorkshire Post cannot spell “Mein Kampf“.

Starmer-stein and his cronies should be put on trial by a people’s court and, after fair examination of the evidence, put up against a wall.

At some point soon, voting “democracy” in the UK will become so rigged and twisted that the vanguard of the British people will have to depose the tyrannical pseudo-democratic tyrants by other means.

Incidentally, that poll translates to a Commons with 368 Reform UK MPs (solid majority), 74 Lab (very weak official Opposition), 62 LibDems, 44 Cons, 44 SNP, 32 Greens [etc].

Once again, Starmer would lose his own seat.

The sheer ignorance of many of the pro-immigration scribblers and talking heads is beyond belief at times. Blacks and browns did not build this country, they just flooded into it and started to breed.

Is there a big reward?…

Late talking point

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Diary Blog, 28 April 2026

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Afternoon music

[Grand Cascade, Schlosspark Nymphenburg, Germany]

Tweets seen

Even the brutal Israeli state seems not to understand that what is often required is a wall, a squad, and an end…

This inquiry is Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. Where is Mandelson?

As far as I am concerned, it would not matter if almost the entire population were to be destroyed, so long as what is left at the end were white English/British/European and of reasonably-high cultural level. It would not be the first time in human history that a tiny core group has repopulated the world: see

The Tide is Coming In: Reflections on the Possible End of Our Present Civilization and What Might Follow

Demographic catastrophe.

Forget Parliamentary politics. This means we are being outbred, ethnically “cleansed”, and thus outvoted too.

You can explain it, but only real social national upsurge can change it.

Wall. Squad. End.

The Jewish/Israel lobby and the operation of Israeli Intelligence run through this whole affair like Brighton rock: McSweeney, Starmer, Mandelson, Labour Friends of Israel, the “fifth column” of Zionist Jews in every major country outside Israel itself, MOSSAD, AMAN, Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell. The whole rotten lot.

See also:

The Jew Epstein and Prince Andrew: The British Royal Family Has Another Scandal — Maybe It’s Time To Just Get Rid Of Them… [frequently updated]

As blogged yesterday, the vast majority of Labour MPs have nothing to lose by turning on Starmer-stein. Most Labour seats will be lost at the next GE whatever.

Had not previously heard of that one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Lewell; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Shields_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.

Mandelson enjoys birthday cake and wine with fellow-Jew and Israel-asset Epstein.

Spineless.

The matter being sub judice, I shall not comment, except to say that any such persons found guilty of such offences should face a wall, a squad, and an end.

Late tweets

The general public seem not too interested in the details of civil service procedure, positive vetting, “developed vetting” etc around the Mandelson scandal. However, that is not necessarily good for Starmer and Labour; it really says that the public have already switched off from this terrible government, and have no interest in it beyond getting rid of it and anyone connected with it. The local elections on 7 May will be interesting.

Harlesden went to perdition long ago. Even in the 1980s, when I was living on and off in Little Venice, Harlesden (6 stops up the line from my local Bakerloo Line station, Warwick Avenue) was called “bandit country” by me and (part of) the “n****rlands” by a friend.

The first step may be to prevent breeding.

Talking point

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[Victor Ostrovsky, Last Farewell]
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Diary Blog, 26 April 2026, including material about Cossacks, Hugo von Senger, and the vandalizing of Wikipedia

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Afternoon music

[swimming pool “Moskva”, 1970s; I swam there in the early 1990s. Now demolished and redeveloped, this was once the largest swimming-pool in the world]

Talking point

Wikipedia

Many have noticed that Wikipedia is not accurate in respect of, particularly, its articles on the 1930s, 1940s, National Socialism, European politics, social-national British politics (up to the present-day) etc. This (below) is the main reason— vandalistic editing of Wikipedia by Jews, especially those associated with the malicious Jew-Zionist Israel-lobby org known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”.

As seen, the “CAA” website, as long ago as 23 September 2020, advertised for Jews with Wikipedia accounts to covertly “edit” (vandalize) Wikipedia.

11:01 PM · Sep 23, 2020

More falsification of modern history by “them”.

I said, in 2020, about this: “Incidentally, do not be misled: the bias goes far beyond “information about #antisemitism“, as claimed. Pages on modern and ancient history, religion, geography, biography, political organizations etc.

Wikipedia should be aware also of the fact that, in the notice above, Jews are specifically asked whether they are able to edit Wikipedia; in other words via their own private Wikipedia accounts. Wikipedia will have no idea whether an edit is honest or whether it is part of this co-ordinated campaign by a very malicious group of Zionist Jews.“

“Addendum: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/war-of-words-16-august-2018.”

Talking point

Historical and personal note

I happened to see some material about a German officer (German-Swiss by official nationality), Hugo von Senger (1920-2010). I never met him, but a German lady, an old friend of mine, now deceased, was very friendly with him and his family.

I was introduced briefly, in London, and in the late 1980s, to one of von Senger’s daughters (at the time, an attractive, polite, and pleasant girl of about 17-18) and, a few years before, one of his sons, a boy of about 16 or 17. Both their Christian names escape me at the moment. I know that the boy, several years later, married a daughter of one of the directors of the Siemens electronic company and that they relocated to southern Chile, where they bought a large property and bred horses.

That German-Swiss family originally had a kind of castle in the Germanophone part of Switzerland, which however is now a kind of Swiss equivalent of a “stately home” run by either the Swiss state, the canton (regional government) or some equivalent of the (UK) National Trust. I saw a souvenir tea-towel from its on-site shop. The family themselves lived in another castle. They owned a business fitting interior walls with (if I remember correctly) embossed leather. Sounds odd, maybe, but I think that is what they did. I saw some glossy publicity material at the time.

Von Senger (pere) had been interviewed by Nikolai Tolstoy in 1980 or 1981, in relation to the latter’s book Stalin’s Secret War [https://archive.org/details/stalinssecretwar0000tols] [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stalins-Secret-War-Nikolai-Tolstoy/dp/0330268244]

I recall my London friend flew with Tolstoy to Zurich for the meeting. Von Senger had been a cavalry officer and, during WW2, was based in the Ukraine, I think at or near Kiev, commanding Cossacks fighting on the German side and against Soviet forces. The Cossacks are or were taught to ride from early childhood, and would not respect officers unable to ride at least as well as them, thus their German officers had to be cavalrymen with a high level of horsemanship.

In 1945, von Senger and his Cossacks were in Austria. After the German surrender, the British sent the Cossacks down a railway line to where Soviet NKVD forces awaited. The Cossacks were then shot. Von Senger and his fellow-German officers wanted to go with them, but the British refused, citing the Geneva Convention (Germany and Britain were both signatories, but the Soviet Union was not) and the Yalta agreement between Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt.

Apart from Stalin’s Secret War and many other (unconnected) books, Nikolai Tolstoy wrote two books based partly on those events, and connected and similar events: Victims of Yalta (1977, so first published long before, I think, he met von Senger) and The Minister and the Massacres (1986). The latter led to one of the most famous modern libel cases.

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

As a matter of fact, I myself met Tolstoy once, briefly, in the early 1980s at the Russian Refugees jumble sale in Chelsea Old Town Hall, London.

See also:

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

https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/german-photographs-postcards/hugo-von-senger-roa-178462/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/940726034319420/posts/1498279768564041

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Israel lobby…again…

Corruption.

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[1950s Legionnaire with Algerian woman, and drinking tea or coffee, possibly mint tea, though I notice not served in glasses as is more usual; I myself like mint tea, at least the way the North Africans make it]

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I doubt whether it matters very much whether Starmer-stein steps down or not; Labour is toast whatever.

Incidentally, here is “a blast from the past”…

Starmer-stein telling the truth, for once.

Jew, and Israel lobbyist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Miller#Family,_early_life,_and_education_(1985%E2%80%932007); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Miller#Early_career; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Miller.

Another one who will not look back on the day with pride, though of course the U.S. Secret Service close protection people are trained to hustle their protected charges out in a fairly hard-nosed fashion, while leaving others, however “significant”, to sink or swim on their own.

Naive and stupid “larp”-“feminist” woman, maybe a low-level Common Purpose drone, entirely uneducated, quite cultureless, and with her little head stuffed with Lego-brick slogans, cliches, simple thought-formulae etc.

[“An example of how, under Blair, the Woke had already stolen the nation.
Imagine a group of administrators holding a meeting.
They are told that a “Grooming PERPETRATOR”, not a suspect, A PERPETRATOR, had HIV.
At first they decide NOT to inform his child victims to protect HIS Human Rights?
It took a year before the authorities could confirm that they had managed to contact all of the KNOWN victims.
No attempt was made to inform the general public as that would have spoiled the cover-up but although the perpertrators were forcing many of their victims in to prostitution, there seems to have been no attempt to have made any contact with anyone else who may have had sex with the victims.“]

A high proportion of heavy-duty fly-tipping in the UK is done by the largely-parasitic “tinker”/”traveller” “community”, who should have no place in this country if their behaviour does not improve, and certainly should not be allowed to be given a free ride in committing crimes of all sorts.

[“Rape Gang Inquiry update.

Our team is currently going through our draft report to ensure that all is legally sound for publication.

The plan is straightforward.

I intend to use parliamentary privilege in the chamber to name a number of the worst perpetrators/officials who we believe have escaped justice.

We will then use private prosecutions to pursue those individuals through the courts, and eventually put them in prison.

These are incredibly dangerous scumbags. It is an national network of organised crime – it is not simply disparate gangs. This is a comprehensive criminal network that is capable of the most evil acts.

I will be informing the police, parliamentary security and the Home Office beforehand of who I intend to name and why – I also now have private security for the first time in my life.

But do not underestimate the danger of these networks. It is organised crime of the very worst kind.

We started this inquiry not to just talk, but to act.

The report will be published after the elections as I want this to be a cross-party effort, and party politics should not interfere with any of our activity.

Numerous Conservative MPs have been supportive, as have the Northern Irish and even a Labour MP attending the hearings. I want this to go beyond petty party politics.

We still have a significant amount of money from the crowdfunder, and that is ready to privately prosecute.

This is where we are. This is the plan.

Thank you to everybody for your support.“]

“Ukraine” of the Kiev regime: a Jewish-ruled, corrupt, and brutal fake state, which only exists because the taxpayers of the UK, EU and, until recently, USA, are being cheated out of untold billions to pay for a war that cannot be won.

I doubt that any Jews at all are serving in the Kiev-regime army on the front-lines. There may be a few well behind the lines, in military offices in Kiev or Odessa.

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Once again, the horrible tribe strikes. Wherever they are in the world, they ruin, vandalize and/or exploit.

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Diary Blog, 24 April 2026

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Bohemian Grove and the “Wise Men of the West”

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I once lived, on and off but for over 20 years (1976-1998), only a few minutes’ walk from that view. I remember those times very well.

…and also, of course, there is the supposed “Ukrainian rent boys” matter coming to trial within the next 2 weeks, just before the 7 May local elections as well. Is that somehow connected?

“What goes around comes around“… [American maxim]

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“All political careers end in failure” [Enoch Powell].

After Reform fails and falls, meaning after 2029, possibly in or about 2033, real social nationalism must come to the fore. No prisoners.

Translates to a Commons with about 321 Reform MPs (5 short of an overall majority), Greens 123 (remarkable, and official Opposition), 64 LibDems, 56 Cons, 46 SNP, 15 Lab [etc].

Would be terminal for Labour. Needless to say, and as with all recent polling, Starmer-stein would lose his own seat (and that is the most persuasive reason I have seen for Starmer to step down now, or soon).

Cons would be reduced to about half their present MP numbers, and be only the 4th party in the Commons, and maybe only the 5th, but Kemi Badenoch would probably retain her own seat.

Farage may be the final gravedigger of the Britain that has evolved since 1945. A civil/social/racial/cultural war may result. Out of that, social nationalism may rise up, rise up to devour both the existing System parties and Farage-style fake nationalism.

[“The migration problem in countries such as the Netherlands can be summarized as follows:

The state actively and aggressively imports hundreds of thousands of single male migrants annually who are then awarded permanent housing, welfare, and access to free medicine, if not also free driving lessons and free public transportation passes.

The migrant men are then legally allowed to bring over many family members, on average at least three or four.

At the same time, hard-working native men in relationships cannot get on the housing ladder and have to pay for everything themselves.

This is a total collapse of the social contract between a people and its government. Either the state sees its people as the enemy, or the people start seeing the state as their enemy.

In the long run, this could be considered an act of genocide against the native peoples, namely by systematically denying them housing and, therefore, denying them family formation.

Indeed, West European people list housing shortages as the number one reason that they’re not having children. The state then uses this as an argument to bring in more immigrants. It is a vicious cycle of national self-destruction.”]

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In the current warm weather, I have recently suffered an invasion of small and rather cunning ants in the kitchen of my now very modest home. I hate killing anything, and certainly would never enjoy it. The ant invasion, however, became impossible to ignore. Duty called. As a result, I reluctantly carried out a wide-ranging cull. Some individual ants are still to be found here and there, but not in overwhelming numbers.

Sometimes, it is impossible to avoid committing a sin. As Saint-Just [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Antoine_de_Saint-Just] said, “no-one can rule guiltlessly“.

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Labour, the “caring sharing” party. Of course, Streeting is not so much Labour as Labour Friends of Israel…

Both Lab and Con deserve to be trashed on 7 May. I have been listening to what people in my area have been saying. Almost all (admittedly, in an area where Labour always comes third or fourth in Parliamentary elections) have expressed a pro-Reform position, none Con, Lab, or Green.

All that, and now the upcoming “Ukrainian rent boys” trial.

I have seen tweets claiming that Starmer’s Jewish wife, now “Lady Starmer”, is effectively estranged from him. Maybe; I cannot say; neither have I any information on which to express a view as to whether, if that primary premise is correct, the reason is related to purely personal matters, or whether she is angry that she will soon not be the spouse of a prime minister any more.

All roads lead to Rome.

[“Does anyone know of any English family solicitors that aren’t politically cucked?

A friend is having their politics used against them in family court and their lawyer is refusing to represent them because their political views don’t align with the firms…

Would really appreciate any advice or recommendations.“]

I cannot help; wish I could. When I was at the Bar, I did no family law, in principle (I never even read it for my law degree), though I did do a few “ancillary relief” financial matters in the County Court in the 1990s, a very few, and I did one County Court child custody case against a horrible ultra-feminist young woman barrister who became even less pleasant after I won (on all four children…).

There was a well-known firm of solicitors in Praed Street, Paddington, that I know was headed by a Mosley supporter in the 1950s, or so I was told on good authority, but that solicitor would be long gone by now, though the firm still has or had (in the 1990s anyway) the same name.

I have a good cartoon about that, but sadly cannot publish it (again) because it was on one of the five blog posts (out of thousands published) deemed “grossly offensive” back in 2023, when I was put on political trial at the instigation of one of the usual packs of Jews:

Diary Blog, 16 March 2024, including an account of my recent free speech trial and sentencing
Diary Blog, 17 March 2024, including the aftermath of my sentencing hearing

Eventually, the tide will turn, I hope and believe. God help the evildoers then…

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Diary Blog, 22 April 2026, including thoughts about the strong links between Labour MPs, “paedophilia”, Labour Friends of Israel (and other Israel-lobby groups) and the Epstein/Mandelson scandal

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight%27s_Cross_of_the_Iron_Cross

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/04/21/conor-mcgrath-sentence/

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

There is no doubt that there is a strong link between Israel, UK-based Israel lobby groups (such as Labour Friends of Israel), pro-Israel Labour MPs in the UK, “antifascist” (mainly Jewish) orgs such as “Hope not Hate”, and sex crimes, particularly of the “paedophilia” kind.

That all plays into the connected Mandelson/Epstein scandal, of course, and there are several Labour MPs and advisers currently awaiting trial or currently under investigation in relation to such offences.

See also:

The Jew Epstein and Prince Andrew: The British Royal Family Has Another Scandal — Maybe It’s Time To Just Get Rid Of Them… [frequently updated]

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

Yes. You see that all the time. Examples include the migration invasion, the Jewish/Israel lobby, and the sheer uselessness of the main System parties.

[“G. K. Chesterton explains that reading gives a man more lives than he was born with:

“A man who has read a thousand books is armed for life; a man who has read none is easy prey. The man who has read a thousand books has lived a thousand lives. He has seen cities he has never visited, spoken to men who died centuries ago, and walked in worlds that no longer exist. Reading does not merely inform him; it enlarges him. It stretches the boundaries of his own experience until he becomes something more than himself.”]

It has been said, plausibly, and by people who know, that several recent British prime ministers and other political Prominente never read books: Corbyn, “Boris” Johnson, Liz Truss, David Lammy; many others too.

See also:

Diary Blog, 11 December 2023, including thoughts and reminiscences around G.K. Chesterton and others

Goodwin has been on an ideological journey. He may well be largely sincere but, like most Reform UK types, is badly weakened by his support for, and inability to oppose, the Jewish/Israel lobby.

[“Nationalism is love – not hate.

Just as we naturally put our families before strangers, we care for our own people, our culture, our home.

That doesn’t mean looking down on others – it means being loyal to what’s ours.

It’s the glue that holds a nation together. We’re not isolated individuals – we’re part of something bigger: shaped by history, sacrifice and the generations before us who built our towns, our laws and the way of life we cherish.

Wanting to preserve that isn’t strange or sinister. It’s human nature.

The only reason it gets twisted into something hateful is because some want us ashamed of our pride and divided.

Real nationalism is the opposite: unity, care, and the determination to pass on something better to our children.

Time to restore that pride.”]

I agree, not because I want Reform, but because I want rid of both Lab and Con.

I sincerely hope that both Lab and Con suffer “historic losses” on 7 May. Huge losses will knock the stuffing out of both.

Which is why I myself was misled, at first. About 6 years ago, I assumed, perhaps lazily, that a former DPP would be an effective leader and administrator, despite the disastrous incumbency of Common Purpose drone Alison Saunders, who took over as DPP from Starmer.

Naturally, I assumed that Starmer would at the very least be a competent administrator, and probably incorrupt. Wrong on both counts…

It did not take me very long to understand that Starmer was (and remains) both a moneygrubber and also no good at his job. I wrote on the blog in, I think, 2021, or 2022, that Starmer was “to my surprise, utterly clueless“… It took most msm scribblers and talking heads (and voters) a few years more before they caught up and caught on.

https://twitter.com/Sofie_NS_H/status/2046673661067673893?s=20

The last weeks of doomed Berlin in the Spring of 1945, when the city was defended mainly by units of the Volkssturm (retired men, mainly) young boys of the Hitlerjugend, and remnants of the pan-European SS, including a few British volunteers. The valiant but doomed defence of the city was organized by Dr. Goebbels.

Every woman in the city (many women and children were raped after the Red Army hordes, often Asiatic, sacked Berlin) should have been, but was not, issued with a Walther PPK or similar weapon, and a couple of magazines of ammo, with the idea of each woman killing a few of the invaders.

https://twitter.com/Sofie_NS_H/status/2043094243946959325

Sex-pest, depressive case, and Israel-puppet, John Woodcock, now posing as “Lord Walney”. For more about him, use the search box on the blog. You will not read or hear that on “GB News”…

Those destructive predators, scavengers, and parasites have never been dealt with effectively in this country. Not yet.

Not “Romanian”. Roma Gypsy.

Wall. Squad. End.

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I doubt whether replacing one Labour Friends of Israel puppet with one or more others will save Labour, either at the 7 May local elections or at the (?) 2029 General Election. Most of the white British people who voted Labour at GE 2024 have already checked out to Reform, Restore, or the Greens. The Labour-voting Muslim bloc has also largely if not entirely abandoned Labour. It may be that the Labour Party will struggle to get a 20% popular vote whichever clown poses as leader.

Eighty times…probably.

Kemi Badenoch is not really “British” in any way other than having a passport; her parents deliberately had her born in London. At that time, 1980, that meant she was entitled to a passport. She was only here for a day or two, after which she was brought up in Nigeria and the USA, returning to the UK in her late teens.

Another Friends of Israel puppet.

…and the supposed “Ukrainian rent boys” trial is apparently due to start very soon…

The Jews Israelis fired at ambulances. Another Israeli war crime.

Can that be right? 961 trees per hour, or 1 tree every 4 seconds.

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Diary Blog, 21 April 2026

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Our animal friends.

[“Extraordinary testimony from Oliver Robbins to the foreign affairs select committee:

  • he was subject to “constant pressure” from No 10 when he arrived in the foreign office to get Peter Mandelson in post asap.
  • fcdo was urged to allow Mandelson’s appointment as ambo without usual vetting process – but dept pushed back and it eventually went ahead.
  • Downing Street took a “dismissive” attitude to vetting & Mandelson was given access to fcdo, low classification ID & higher classification briefings before he was actually granted clearance.
  • he confirms he had not told anybody in No 10 about the UKSV decision.”]

That translates to a Commons with about 355 Reform UK MPs (solid majority), 78 Greens (very weak official Opposition), 74 LibDems, 49 Cons, 45 SNP, and 23 Lab, meaning that 380 persons currently sitting as Labour MPs are not so far from losing their jobs, losing their status, and losing their salaries, expenses, perks etc. Once again, on those figures Starmer would lose his own seat.

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Says it all. The only mistake in that 3-4 minute clip is where he says that Starmer is a solicitor (he’s a barrister).

Both System parties are running out of road, indeed effectively have run out of road.

All voters on 7 May should vote elsewhere than Lab or Con— whether Reform UK, the loonie fake-Greens, Independent candidates, even the ridiculous LibDems led by a show-off buffoon.

For the red squirrel problem, breed and/or release pine martens, who prey only on the greys (not a full or final solution to the decline in the red squirrel population, but would stop the steep decline).

As to the ever-reducing proportion of real (white, European) British people in Britain, another solution, or other solutions, may be required.

When I lived for several months in Egypt, about 28 years ago, I realized myself, and also was told by others, that the locals not only are careless about the lives and welfare of animals, birds, and sea-life, but actually take pleasure in hurting and killing them. You may or may not decide that the blame lies with backward Islamic culture (they might have developed that way under some other religion/culture), but that is how they are.

Many of the other backward peoples of the Earth are no better and, now that we no longer control them via European imperial rule, we cannot ameliorate, in “their own countries”, the symptoms of their backwardness. What we can do, however, given the will, is to prevent them coming to the UK and other parts of Europe, and also remove or eliminate those already here.

[“This is a man who desires nothing more than to be admired, whose entire shtick revolves around presenting himself as a hero worthy of envy and emulation (lest we forget, he ‘identifies with Gandhi and Martin Luther King’). To people like Maugham, any perceived diminution of what they believe to be their exalted status feels like a mortal attack, which is why every loss must be spun as a win, and black must be made to be white if the facts threaten his self-image.

He’s just the latest in a long line of people on social media who think they’re dealing me a fatal blow by telling me I’ve lost popularity, that my legacy is tarnished or that former fans hate me. None of these people appear to grasped yet that I’m completely indifferent to being disliked by people I’ve never met, especially those I do not respect because of their online behaviour or what I believe to be their irrational and illiberal views.

Maugham is a textbook narcissist who can’t believe that everyone else doesn’t live life with an unceasing thirst for validation from complete strangers. In spite of the fact that we’ve never met, and that as the years have rolled by I’ve been very open about the fact that I find his public behaviour increasingly bizarre, he seems to genuinely believe that the loss of his approval will cause me anguish. In reality, it’s a welcome source of ongoing entertainment, so long may he continue.“]

I wish people in this country would not use Yiddish words in ordinary discourse but, leaving that aside, J.K. Rowling is quite right about that Maugham person. Anyone who (like me) saw his appearance a few years ago on Christmas University Challenge (alumni version of the famous TV quiz show) could not fail to be struck by Maugham’s combination of massive self-esteem and equally huge ignorance on pretty much any topic or question.

I fear that, in this country, the status of “KC” (King’s Counsel), has become as devalued as that of “Professor” and others.

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[“Facial recognition isn’t the end point, it’s the infrastructure.

Let me explain.

Step 1: introduce the technology for a “reasonable” purpose

crime prevention
public safety
efficiency

Step 2: normalise it
“law abiding citizens have nothing to fear”
only used in limited cases, nothing to worry about

Step 3: expand its use
more locations
more databases
more integration with other systems

Step 4: connect it
ID systems
Digital banking Currency
Travel
online access
public services

Step 5: enforce through it
access granted or denied
movement tracked
behaviour monitored

By that point, it’s no longer optional, that’s how digital control systems are built through layers.

Once the infrastructure exists, it rarely stays limited.

What it’s used for today is what it makes possible tomorrow.“]

I see no reason to change my 2016 assessment of Trump as “a loudly-squawking parrot in a gilded cage, guarded by a phalanx of Jews“.

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[Napoleon in Red Square, Moscow, 1812; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_of_Moscow_(1812)]