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Another victory for me this week, over political journalist John Rentoul: he scored 4/10, but I trumped that with 7/10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 5, and 6.
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Absolutely cretinous. How can anyone take this person seriously, speaking politically and ideologically?
In fact, I have never been heavily either pro or anti “Tommy Robinson”. That is because, though he can seem an engaging fellow, and though we did swap a couple of amused or joking comments on Twitter perhaps 7 or 8 years ago, he is a political and ideological nullity.
“There are some men to whom a tree is sacred“, said (?) or wrote Chekhov (I think). Cannot remember where, though. Not in The Cherry Orchard (I think). Maybe just remarked to Gorky, and written in the latter’s Literary Portraits. Whatever.
Interesting old film. Electric trolleybuses (I think) travelling across Westminster Bridge (possibly eventually going down the Kingsway Tunnel now used by cars).
On the left in that film, the old St. Thomas’s Hospital, later rebuilt —in the 1950s and 1960s— partly by reason of bomb damage sustained during the Second World War. The same view after rebuilding is shown below:
Note the cleaned stone of the Palace of Westminster compared to the smoky 1940s view.
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Interesting statistics from “X”/Twitter. That tweet by the malicious Jew-Zionist “Campaign Against Anti-Semitism” cabal was apparently seen by 1,295 readers, yet only 4 out of the 1,295 “liked” the tweet and, presumably out of those 4, only 3 bothered to retweet it. People really do not like (using the word in its normal sense) them much…
The “CAA” is a tiny group of Jew-Zionists, but pretending to be a big important organization representing the c.250,000+ Jews in the UK.
Well, there it is. Two or three days of msm hot air comes to an end, along with (tomorrow—thank God, at last) the meteorological hot air over England.
I know little about the case or the person in question, but what I have read, or seen on TV news, has led me to think that this was not some James Bond/Rambo/SAS fantasy secret operative but more of, in the msm’s own words, a “resourceful” young man who was said to be rather a “loner“. So probably not sprung from prison by a secret service possessed of diabolical cunning and well-oiled organization.
Probably, this was a fit, resourceful young man, only 21, who saw that Wandsworth Prison was/is an overcrowded, poorly-staffed, poorly-run institution with potential holes in its security. He decided to see whether he could make an escape attempt work, and chanced it. It seems to have been similar to some of the escapes POWs in Germany tried during the Second World War.
Again, looking at what is known, I wonder whether the fugitive is really the “dangerous terrorist” and “spy” he has been painted. Judging purely from what has been put out by the msm, I doubt it. It seems to me that we may be in sledgehammer nut-cracking territory here…
When George Blake escaped in 1966, there was another and even bigger mass media feeding frenzy. Everyone from the Fleet Street reporters to the police, MI5, and MPs assumed that the KGB had sprung Blake.
It turned out, years later, that in fact the prison break had not been masterminded by the KGB or some shadowy “Karla” or Markus Wolf figure, but an alcoholic Irish ex-prisoner and prison acquaintance of Blake, helped by a ragtag “army” (or platoon) of outraged dissidents, most of whom were not even pro-Communist.
The first the KGB knew of it, beyond what was in the newspapers, was when a camper-van driven by two non-Communist dissidents (I think that they were somewhere in the CND/Quaker area, ideologically) turned up at the DDR (East German) border, Blake having been concealed behind panelling.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Blake#Escape_from_prison and https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blake-Escape-How-Freed-George/dp/0245547819 (I have a copy— a good read).
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Yes, all too many unthinking people (ironically, often those who consider themselves educated) will say that “Britain has always had migration— look at the Saxons, Vikings, the Normans, the Huguenots etc“, ignoring the fact that, in big-picture terms, those peoples were all of the same race (all “post-Aryans”, if you like); indeed, the Normans were actual Vikings who had settled in Normandy a few generations previously.
Totally different from importation of millions of blacks and browns, both in quality and quantity, but can you tell the brainwashed that? No. The brainwashing has gone too deep, in most cases.
Idiots of the Aaron Bastani or Ash Sarkar type will never accept that what matters is the direction of travel; they want to get rid of white people anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Bastani; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Sarkar.
Whatever lying books, TV shows, and films may now present, the fact is that England was a basically white European country during my 1960s childhood (I was born in 1956). Probably 99%. Even in the 1970s that was so, though less so after a decade or so of mass immigration.
Now, Britain is somewhere around 80%-85% white European, and England itself perhaps 75%-80%. What matters is the direction of travel, though. By 2050, the percentage of white European people in England and Wales will probably have declined to about 50%. You can already see what is coming in the demographics of school-age children. Bastani says that “only” 35% are non-white. By 2050, that will probably be something like 75%…
White (i.e. real English) people, as a group, are now not reproducing. They either have no children, or have one or two children, not more. Not enough even to maintain the present white population in absolute terms, let alone in proportional or percentage terms. Meanwhile, the non-white part of the UK population is breeding fast, and the non-whites often have several children.
Add to that the Englishwomen who have children with non-whites, often actual blacks (usually white women with black men, rather than the reverse), and you can see what a demographic disaster is already coming down the track at us.
That is even before you factor-in the continuing migration-invasion (both “legal” and illegal). Between half a million and a million a year, 95% or more are non-white.
Exactly.
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Typical.
The great supporter of Israel who, however, does not want to have to live there (and also pay their taxes). Seems that he also prefers to avoid tax in the UK.
There are various socially-sick aspects surrounding this story, not least that Sugar, with wealth of £1.2 BILLION, is yet only (about) the 138th-richest individual in the UK. Some income and capital inequality is inevitable in our era, and a certain degree of that may even be beneficial, but these exploiters, moneygrabbers, moneygrubbers, and parasites make a mockery of the whole socio-economic system.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sugar.
Surprising, too, that the “great entrepreneur-businessman” did not —either personally, or via professional advisers— what his (in my opinion, unmerited) status as a member of the House of Lords might do in terms of affecting his domicile, tax domicile, and/or overall tax position.
“You’re fired!”
Diplomats use words, but what will decide the eventual form of words in the Ukrainian space will be rockets, tanks, and boots on the ground.
Surely Biden will not be a candidate next year?
“The former head of the Czech military espionage: Ukraine is facing a complete collapse…
ANDOR SANDOR: AND RUSSIA WILL TAKE A SPECIAL PLACE IN THE WORLD POLITICAL ARENA…
SANDOR: “If the USA had not insisted on Ukraine’s membership in NATO, the war would not have started.” The only country that has nothing to lose in this conflict is the United States, and the West as a whole has a lot to lose, or already has.” “We hear from Kiev that they are waging this war to protect even us from the Russians.” I don’t agree with that“
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