The American colonel's account of the terrible casualties in Ukraine
The former advisor of the US Defense Ministry during Trump's presidency has said that the casualties of the Ukrainian armed forces are between 300,000 and 350,000. Col. Douglas McGregor, a former advisor to the… pic.twitter.com/CEEEhfdQlh
I blogged once or twice recently about Ukraine’s severe demographic problems: low birthrate, 20% of the pre-2022 population (mostly women and under-18s) now not within Ukrainian borders, and now these deaths and other casualties. If the war continues, Ukraine as a state has no future.
Ritter: Russia can soon inflict a strategic defeat on the Ukrainian army
McGREGOR: UKRAINE HAD 300,000 TO 350,000 DEAD IN THE FIGHTS SO FAR, MAYBE MORE
Former adviser to the head of the Pentagon, Douglas McGregor: Ukrainian troops are now in a terrible state, and from what… pic.twitter.com/87iRKuY9YQ
The footage includes the very bushes and small trees that, according to British intelligence , interfere with the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/gADl42DnK1
Since the beginning of the Ukrainian counterattack, more than 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been crushed and more than 4,999 units of various weapons have been destroyed, including 1,831 tanks and armored vehicles, including 25 German Leopard…
Russia's ability to withstand sanctions imposed by Western countries will be the subject of analysts' scrutiny in the future, writes the Wall Street Journal.
"How Russia managed to avoid collapse and achieve some growth during the year…
Crazy Russian mine density lowers expectations for counteroffensive – CNN
"On average, it takes 3 to 5 minutes per square meter. Imagine how difficult it is to remove them. If earlier there were hopes that it could be done with Western equipment, today our units are doing very… pic.twitter.com/HatNGz1iZR
Never underestimate the strategic importance of defence in depth. In 1943, Allied forces invaded Sicily, then landed at Anzio, south of Rome, in January 1944, subsequently advancing to Rome itself by June 1944. The Italian government of Mussolini collapsed after the Fascist Grand Council and the King dismissed Mussolini, who was arrested (though later rescued by Otto Skorzeny’s commando and glider force).
The fall of Rome in 1944, however, was not the end of the matter in big-picture terms. The several east-west German lines of defence were only slowly breached by Allied forces: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_Line.
The German forces withdrew from the various lines in good order, always to the North. By the end of the Second World War in 1945, the Allies had still not reached the Austrian frontier.
In the present Ukraine conflict, the Kiev-regime forces are exhausting themselves. They have little prospect of advancing as far as Crimea, nor of regaining the former Ukrainian oblasts of Donetsk and Lugansk, let alone of breaching, in any substantial way, the borders of Russia proper.
[“Russia has no borders; it is wherever there are Russians“]
— lieutenant colonel Kojak slaphead the 3rd. (@Scarfer13) July 26, 2023
There are biological men and biological women and a man can't become a woman and vice versa so stop pandering to people's delusions and biological lies. #JeremyVinepic.twitter.com/jXaZYrXnjD
— lieutenant colonel Kojak slaphead the 3rd. (@Scarfer13) August 1, 2023
#JeremyVine Right. This is your stop for your 12 hour fruit picking shift. Just remember I can revoke your pension any time I like, like I did with your bus pass. Report to Obergruppenführer Vine for your duty roster. pic.twitter.com/zkOSter8MY
There’s something quite repulsive about rich well paid people like Vine and the Tory grinning about older people working mostly unsuitable jobs for minimal wage!
Sunak’s ancestors picked our crops in British Raj India and in British East Africa; he now tells middleaged/elderly white British people to “chop chop“…
Traitors facilitated the importation of exploitative hordes who despise the British people.
When will the easily offended lefty snowflakes understand that it is their choice to be offended by other people's words! Our right to free speech which includes mocking,insulting and offending is more important than anyone's hurt feelings. #JeremyVinepic.twitter.com/sQniCFbl3n
— lieutenant colonel Kojak slaphead the 3rd. (@Scarfer13) August 3, 2023
The main assault of freedom of expression in the UK comes from the Jew-Zionist element; 95%+ of the anti-free-speech tyranny is from “them”.
Hopefully other outlets will start to pick this up soon too.
“Grifter”/fraudster “Jack Monroe” has now deployed yet another “sock account”, one “@ThelastFM2” (joined Twitter July 2023, 1 “follower”). She has hundreds of such fake personas. They even have contrived conversations with each other about how good Jack Monroe is, and/or about how bad or dishonest are those exposing “Jack Monroe”.
The police, HMRC and charity regulators (and Twitter) should be investigating “Jack Monroe”.
Germany slows down deliveries of weapons promised to Ukraine. After Zelensky's May visit to Berlin, out of the 110 promised Leopard tanks, only 10 were delivered. Twenty Marder infantry fighting vehicles and Iris-T missile defense systems, which were discussed in May, were not… pic.twitter.com/tCDf5NzswK
The ‘lucky’ people of Brighton 😉 are going to have the ‘difficult’ decision as to whether to vote for Eddie Lizzard or not, who intends trying to take the seat from Caroline Lucas at the next GE What a choice FFS😧 pic.twitter.com/kYm1yEd3it
…and look at those stupid police “me too-ers” supporting Eddie Izzard and thus the whole “trans” nonsense.
Those police idiots should get out and start doing their proper job, assuming that they can still remember what that is.
…and all the msm “enablers” are now calling Eddie Izzard “she”, “her” etc. The UK is at least halfway to going absolutely mad, but that progression to lunacy has not come about by accident. It has been contrived. It is being contrived. Daily. Conspiracy.
The Left are just addicted to other people's cash. Always grifting for cash to fund their self-agrandising projects. Look at Jolyon & Jack Monroe… Thieving is part of the psychology. https://t.co/ZJorWHy5XB
*NIGERIANS WERE JUMPING DOWN FROM A MOVING BUS BECAUSE THEY WHERE TAKING TO AIR PORT FOR DEPORTATION FROM TURKEY NOBODY WANT TO COME BACK TO NIGERIA* pic.twitter.com/2VcfYkrP1B
Donetsk under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces.Arrivals near the Vishnevsky hospital, it is also known that a shell hit the apartment of the house pic.twitter.com/JktrmTQMz7
The contract soldier or “mercenary” has fallen somewhat onto the margins of European affairs since the condottieri of the Renaissance era, though in the 20thC many Europeans served, some more honourably than others, in mercenary forces elsewhere in the world, mainly in Africa. Among the better ones were 5 Commando under Mike Hoare in the Congo of the early/mid 1960s, and those who served under the Rhodesian flag in the late 1960s and 1970s. Among the less honourable, les Affreux (“the Frightful”), Belgian and French mercenaires in the Congo circa 1961-62, and some of those who served in Biafra; also, arguably the rock-bottom, those (some completely untrained) who went to Angola under “Colonel” “Callan” (in reality, Costas Georgiou, a Greek-Cypriot dishonourably discharged from the Parachute Regiment of the UK, and who never held a rank higher than corporal, if that): see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costas_Georgiou; see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercenary#Africa; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Mike_Hoare.
“To recruit his force, Hoare placed newspaper advertisements in Johannesburg and Salisbury (modern Harare, Zimbabwe) for physically fit white men capable of marching 20 miles per day who were fond of combat and were “tremendous romantics” to join 5 Commando.[5] The moniker Mad Mike which was given to him by the British press suggested a “wildman” type of commander, but in fact Hoare was very strict and insisted the men of 5 Commando always be clean-shaven, keep their hair cut short, never swear and attend church services every Sunday.[5] The men of 5 Commando were entirely white and consisted of a “ragbag of misfits” upon whom he imposed stern discipline.[5] 5 Commando was a mixture of South Africans, Rhodesians, British, Belgians, and Germans, the last of whom were mostly Second World War veterans who had arrived in the Congo wearing Iron Crosses.”
[Wikipedia].
[Mike Hoare, when commander of 5 Commando in the Congo]
The Wagner Group, aka PMC Wagner, has changed the rules. Here is a notionally private military company effectively acting as the private part of a state military force, though not signatory to any international conventions and, by the same token, unprotected by any.
In the 1960s and at most other modern times, mercenaries were seen only in quite small groups, certainly no more than a few hundred. That alone marks out Wagner Group as something new. Even Mike Hoare’s successful 5 Commando consisted of only about 300 men. The Wagner Group can (or could, until the recent fighting for Bakhmut/Artyomovsk) muster tens of thousands. The whole of the British Army is now no more than about 70,000-80,000, and most of those are either headquarters or “rear-echelon” forces, not combat-ready.
It comes as a slight surprise to realize that Wagner Group might even be a match for the maybe 30,000 troops who comprise the whole of the fighting part of the British Army.
It is an open question as to what would happen were Wagner Group to attack and/or get into combat with, the forces of a NATO state (eg Poland). That is, would it trigger Article 5 of the Treaty, and so create a general European conflict?
I suppose that the last time the British used private forces on any scale would be the seaborne “privateers” of the 16th-18th centuries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privateer, unless you include the arrangement with the Gurkhas, though they are now completely subsumed into the British and other armies.
The British Ministry of Defense has shown the latest modification of the Challenger 2 tank – the Challenger 2 Theater Entry Standard (TES) 'Megatron', designed for fighting in urban areas pic.twitter.com/TNBsVRWmDf
The Polish army is transferring the promised two battalions to the Belarusian border due to the presence of PMC "Wagner" on the territory of Belarus. pic.twitter.com/YySk0WEp6b
Polish roads have certainly improved since I was there (late 1980s).
Pushilin: Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Uluhdar direction make at least five attempts to attack every day, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation repulse them
The acting head of the DPR added that Russian troops had improved their positions in the Avdeevka and Krasnoliman…
WSJ: The West knew in advance that Ukraine was not sufficiently prepared for a successful counteroffensive.
When Ukraine launched its major counter-offensive this spring, military leaders in the West knew that Ukrainian forces lacked the training or weapons arsenal—from…
She speaks !!! 😳😳😳 30 year old Charlotte Owen today became "Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge" – for life. No one knows why Johnson gave her the peerage, coz there's apparently a super-injunction stopping anyone from reporting on her. So let the rumours continue! Who is she? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/VMPEL9jh78
— Brexit Bin 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇩🇪🕊🇺🇦 #BrexitHasFailed (@BrexitBin) July 24, 2023
Baroness Owen & Lord Kempsell who have less than a decade work experience between them but who now have jobs for life making laws because Boris Johnson said so, have made the case for abolition of the House of Lords clearer than I could pic.twitter.com/Zz6nwUcKPg
They both look hugely smug, as well they might. I wonder what could wipe the smirks off their faces?
Labour’s stunning success in Selby can’t disguise that failing to win Uxbridge, given changing demographics there and real anger at the government, is a very poor result. Easy to say it’s all about ULEZ but having spent time there recently, I’m not convinced that’s true.
Nonsense. Mass immigration has suppressed wages, the reason British people don't do the work is because they can't afford to. The so called "benefits" have not materialised. We compete with the world for both jobs and housing. Its absurd
Reading tweets from pro-immigration cretins such as tweeter “@DawnRowatt” is more than irritating; it is actually slightly frightening. It shows that there are rather a lot of people in this country devoid of any real awareness of how the country is changing for the worse (the much worse) via mass immigration and migration-invasion. Such “refugees welcome” and similar dimwits are immune to logic, to facts, to intelligent analysis. What does that leave?
They are the gravediggers of our still relatively-civilized, though declining fast, white European society.
It's interesting that you're that familiar with the situation, Mr Account with one follower, with your account only hours old that has *checks notes* ONLY tweeted in defence of Jack Monroe. Nothing suspicious to see here, nothing at all.
As mentioned on the blog and by others, fraudulent “grifter” “Jack Monroe” uses literally hundreds of Twitter and other “sock accounts”, some prepared years ago, as long ago as 2013 in some cases. Such “non-people” argue with those exposing “Jack Monroe”, and they also praise her, or her dire food “recipes”.
As for me, I fail to understand why the police have not (as far as I know) launched investigation into what is really a long-running fraud, or series of frauds.
“A spokesman for the National Police in the Balearic Islands said: ‘Officers have arrested a Moroccan man as the suspected author of a crime of unlawful detention, sexual assault, resisting arrest and disobedience after he tried to take a two-year-old girl on a beach in Ibiza who he kissed on the face.”
[Daily Mail].
That is what is invading Europe. That is what the “refugees welcome” dimwits (whether on Twitter, in the Labour Party, or in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court) are facilitating.
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Scottish broadcaster, Neil Oliver, eloquently rebuts the mainstream media's relentless "human-induced climate change" fear mongering.
"A rising volume of CO2 in the atmosphere is a consequence of a warming planet, not the cause of one. You might as well watch a horse-drawn cart… pic.twitter.com/RpEnFD4LsT
This is Bill Gates. Bill is very concerned about climate change. He flies in his private jet to conferences all over the world to ask you to stop driving cars. pic.twitter.com/oWIk0qQmXu
I usually believe in the maxim de mortuis nihil nisi bonum, but I have to say that when Gates drops dead, I shall be pleased, even though we are all on the same conveyor belt.
Not only Gates, incidentally.
The only "democracy" in Western Asia is collapsing.
Interesting fact: Israel just a few months ago said that Iran is brutally treating armed rebels. pic.twitter.com/JtTWFhgvyg
Hollywood in Ukraine 🤭🤭 It would be good if the woman with the vest came out of the frame when they are already filming the scenes 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/wcL4jV2j4G
West Germany, pre-1990, pre-Reunification, was pretty impressive; East Germany (DDR) not so much, and very strange, but still pretty clean and efficient, from what I saw in a brief visit at the time.
Now look at it. Migration-invasion and cultural decadence has done huge damage even as compared to the Weimar period of the 1920s and early 1930s.
UAF General Sirski admitted that the Ukrainian counter-offensive is not going according to plan
"Due to the complex situation on the Bakhmut and Liman fronts, the plans will have to be corrected," said the commander of the ground forces of the Ukrainian army, Alexander Sirsky…
“No military plan survives the first contact with the enemy” [von Moltke].
The Israelis train their staff officers and others by telling them to prepare a plan over a period of a week. 24 hours before the wargame is due to start, the officers are told that the situation has changed radically along lines explained. A new plan therefore has to be prepared. Then, less than an hour (I think a matter of 10-20 minutes) before the start, the officers are told that the situation has changed again. They are instructed to think of a new plan at once.
That method has been proven to have been effective in training officers able to think on their feet, as seen both in 1967 and in 1973, and plays to the Jewish/Israeli strength in off-the cuff innovation.
The Russians and Ukrainians of senior rank were, at least until recently, brought up in the Soviet idea of carefully-thought-out plans, and wargames that were mostly for show, to be displayed like a panorama to senior officers, political leaders, and in propaganda films. In a word— inflexible.
“Boy, 15, walks free from court despite battering David Quigley, 69, who was left with a brain bleed and died three weeks later.“
Britain in 2023.
How long will it be before British people generally understand that we are in the opening stages of a multiform civil war? Not a race war, as such, and not just a traditional civil war based on ideology, but a hybrid type, encompassing both of those and also social aspects.
One aspect that is relatively new is that it is precisely the wealthy and powerful parts of society that are encouraging the incipient chaos, so that they can profit by that chaos and then impose a “multicultural” police state. The “Covid” “panicdemic” was a test run for that.
Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.
Tweets seen
Weirdo people on here that stick up for a thief like Jack Monroe and go for people who actually campaign and provide content, must be socks coz no one if that fucking stupid 😂😂😂😂
— Sharon From Corrie’s Taser (@SharonTaser) July 19, 2023
I agree with that.
The “grifter”/fraudster “Jack Monroe” set up dozens, possibly hundreds, of Twitter “sock accounts” many years ago, and has continued to do so. Some look like genuine accounts with a few even having a couple of hundred Twitter “followers”. They praise “Jack Monroe”, her non-existent “activism”, and her ghastly “recipes” such as mixing tinned peaches with chickpeas and curry powder to make a kind of pseudo-Indian dinner. Mahashma Gandhi?
The aim of “Jack Monroe” is to try to keep her name appearing online for something other than cheating the less-intelligent members of the public out of their money.
Incidentally, as of today, 397 utter mugs are still sending “Jack Monroe” a total of thousands of pounds each month, via Patreon.
The reason why there are such concerted and coordinated attacks on @GBNEWS presenters is because in two years a brand new channel has managed to completely overthrow the cozy narrative which has been peddled by the morally superior establishment media for decades, and they are…
My provisional view is that the System set up GB News as “controlled opposition”, meaning that it was supposed to act as a safety valve by blowing off steam (public anger) at various issues, but (crucially) avoiding “antisemitism”. Look at who set it up as first Chairman— Andrew Neil.
Having said that, I think that it has spiralled out of System control to some extent. That is what happens. Look at Father Gapon in the St. Petersburg of 1905. The fake “resistance” sometimes mutates into real resistance.
The public were supposed to be bamboozled by GB News, but by some quasi-divine grace, the just anger of the public has, to some limited extent, taken over GB News presenters and agendas.
Rachel Reeves: member and vice-Chair, Labour Friends of Israel, supporter of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation (connected with the contrived “holocaust” farrago), wrote part of an Israeli propaganda book etc. Family income (herself and husband) of around half a million pounds a year. Suspected of being part-Jewish.
Still think that any “Labour”-label government under Starmer, Rachel Reeves, and Yvette Cooper is going to be any better than the present fake “Conservative” shambles? 99% the same.
Rachel Reeves reminds me of the worst kind of HR/personnel figure. Or the toxic non-profit head who smiles as she questions your commitment to the work.
Every time they ask Rachel Reeves, School Dinner Thief to find some money, as if it isn’t the whole job of being the Chancellor, she’s unable to. Are we confident she has the ideas and lateral thinking to be the Chancellor
For a start, tax transnational enterprises trading here but domiciled elsewhere.
Then take away Zelensky’s ricebowl— stop sending billions in money, arms, and the rest to the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev.
Then stop importing useless non-whites. Then get rid of the ones already here.
Then remove the hundreds of thousands of fake “refugees” from Ukraine who are here. Few are genuine refugees, and few are without money.
Then stop wasting money on useless projects such as HS2.
Start with the above, then keep going.
Disadvantaged children are growing up without books of their very own. Without books that they can love and cherish. And without a favourite bedtime story that they want to read again and again. Become a BookTrust Friend and help us reach more children with the magic of reading.
“On Friday 17 December 2010 it was announced that the government would cut its entire £13 million annual grant to BookTrust’s English bookgifting schemes. The schemes, including Bookstart, Booktime and Booked Up, provided more than two million packs of books to English children annually.”
[Wikipedia]
The priorities of the part-Jews, David Cameron-Levita and George Osborne…
the new bill will make any difference, he twice refused to give a direct answer.
It's all meaningless. Numbers are far greater than Rwanda agreement and no other country deal in sight. They will continue being housed in whatever can be found. As you say, no disincentive.
We have the highest acceptance rates in Europe by percentage. We need to redefine the meaning of refugee in a way fir for the 21st century. The current ridiculous definition means almost anyone from the third World is eligible. This is madness. Britain in full.
The government are letting them in and helping them to take over. This is population replacement AKA kalergi plan – which was called a conspiracy theory by government. Note most conspiracy theories have been shown to be correct post covid aka the great re set
— Graham Orwell Powell (@grahamj62980760) July 19, 2023
Until removed or otherwise dealt with, the migrant-invaders should be prevented from breeding, both among themselves and with members of the indigenous population.
Hot weather
Just saw a weather report. Apparently, parts of Sicily are now the hottest they have been since…1957. So not quite unprecedentedly hot. I suppose people will say that that proves nothing. I wonder.
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I'm sure the well known poverty cosplaying grifter, Jack Monroe, could spare some time out of her "120hour working week" to either help out or even raise awareness…
Via @Survation, On 30 June-5 July, Changes w/ 2019 General Election.
— British Electoral Politics (@electpoliticsuk) July 19, 2023
A couple of weeks old now. If that is still so in 2024, we could be seeing the end of the Conservative Party as a major political force. That would leave a vacuum…and Nature abhors a vacuum, as we know…
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Should banks be allowed to remove customers who have personal or political beliefs that don't align with the bank's values?
Another sign that the expected or possible Labour government from some date in 2024 will be, if heavily successful at the General Election, an “elected dictatorship” even worse than that of Blair/Brown.
Jo Coburn: “Was the NHS underfunded before the pandemic?”
“...Coudenhove-Kalergi intended to influence Europe’s policies on immigration in order to create a “populace devoid of identity” which would then supposedly be ruled by a Jewish elite.“
[Wikipedia].
Western leaders have normalised treason to the point of daily practice
Yvette Cooper explains why the next Labour govt won't scrap the two child benefits cap and lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty #GMBpic.twitter.com/jXoYnUdiLn
The present Conservative Party thoroughly deserves to lose the 2024 General Election, but anyone who thinks that Labour-label, under a pack of Jewish-lobby puppets (Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper etc) is going to be even slightly better is sadly deluded.
As for Yvette Cooper herself, she was an outright fraudster during the main MP expenses scandal, along with her husband, Bilderberg attendee Ed Balls, and is totally in the pocket of the Israel lobby. She wants even more non-white immigrants (migrant invaders) to arrive. Dead eyes, dead voice, dead soul.
Were I in Putin’s shoes, I should first of all destroy Ukraine’s rail system, then its electrical-generation and distribution system (the Russians are now, very belatedly, doing that), then go all-out to eliminate Zelensky and his cabal, something that should have been done on day 1 of the war.
So far, most of Kiev has not been heavily attacked.
A pleasant tweet. The animal kingdom has more potential than most people realize.
🇺🇸 At the time of the attack, the US intelligence apparatus was located over the Black Sea
This was stated by Pushilin's adviser Yan Gagin . He added that the attack on the Crimean bridge was most likely carried out by NATO surface drones. pic.twitter.com/Y2WMTtrk3X
The Chinese army is developing a neuroweapon designed to control the functioning of the human brain. The Washington Times writes about this , citing publicly available intelligence.
“The danger of Chinese weapons that could be aimed at a person’s brain before or during military… pic.twitter.com/mI0K8bCBPD
Ukraine needs to be cut off from the Black Sea for the attack on the Crimean bridge, "Odessa and Nikolaev should again become Russian regions," said Dzhabarov, First Deputy Chairman of the International Committee of the Federation Council
Obviously, only a small section of Philadelphia will be like that, but it should not exist at all. I believe, from what I have read, that those “zombies” are users of the drug Fentanyl, but for me, looking at their degradation, the mystery is why they use it at all.
I recall when I was first in the USA as an adult, in 1989, asking a Federal employee (later my first wife), as we drove through some unpleasant section of Harlem in New York City, why there were so many suspicious-looking, mainly black, individuals congregating on corners, pretty obviously dealing drugs, without being moved on by the police. The answer? Constitutional right of free assembly (First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution).
For me, the law (including constitutional law) is there to serve the people, “for the welfare of the people is the supreme law” [Cicero]: salus populi lex suprema esto. If the law does not do that, it must be changed, however old and venerable it is.
Hence trans men must be the ultimate acceptance of the patriarchy. Your logic is impeccable (for a five-year-old, although that’s unkind to five-year-olds). 🙄 Trans women embody the ultimate acceptance of regressive gender stereotypes, the idea that being a woman is simply a…
Vineall has, I read on Twitter, attacked some tweets or other comments which have been critical of Charlotte Proudman.
Well, there it is. I do not regret that I decided to cease practice at the Bar in 2008 (though my wrongful and unlawful disbarment, at the instigation of a pack of Jews, did not happen until 2016).
The Bar of England and Wales, looking at it overall, is now little better than a dustbin, like much of England itself.
A reminder that the appeal fund to support Sven Longshanks (James Allchurch), both while he sits in prison and upon his release (sometime next year), is still running.
“Drummond Street, a south Asian hub, is under threat from HS2 works at Euston station in London but now moves are afoot to revive the area.“
I used to eat there occasionally in the 1980s, along with two now-deceased people: Ig Avsey, lecturer in Russian and noted translator of Dostoyevsky, and Guy Churchill, retired academic and one-time SAS soldier (mainly in Malaya in the 1950s).
I think that I have blogged about the pair before: Ig a good friend and one-time teacher of mine (at the nearby language school, part of the University of Westminster, which I attended p/t in the 1980s), and Guy Churchill, a mixture of resigned though amused cynicism and English eccentricity.
Guy surprised me (and Ig, I think, with whom he was more friendly) by suddenly getting separated and/or divorced at (?) maybe 70 (he looked older), while Ig surprised me even more by later getting married, a second marriage, to a young Russian woman he had met at, I think, a bus stop in Riga. My wife and I attended the wedding reception in 2002, where the bride, 20-something, looked out of place among the guests, 40-something and older (many 50+ or 60+).
I was already acquainted with a few of the other guests, including Gerald Brooke, who was exchanged in 1969 for the Krogers (Cohens), long-term Soviet KGB “illegals” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Cohen_(spy)]
Brooke had spent 4 years in Soviet custody; in the Lubyanka, and then at Vladimir prison, about 100 miles east of Moscow.
Both Ig and Guy were rather eccentric. Ig’s main room was full of huge railway clocks, while Guy’s fridge (in the old person’s apartment in Vauxhall Bridge Road he took on after his separation/divorce c.1989) contained only a 6-pack of lager beer. Guy also had another odd habit, one I have never seen anyone else display— he would break off the filter tips from cigarettes before smoking them.
Strange to think back on times past, though it is probably a bad habit when one does it as much as I do (and have always done). Saturn in Scorpio…
As for Drummond Street, there is a similar street in Manhattan, E. 6th St. All Indian restaurants, or was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry_Row]. I visited that street too, once only, around 1990 or so.
[Strange synchronicity: after I wrote the above, including the sentence about the Krogers, I turned on Talking Pictures TV, and they were showing Ring of Spies, a 1963 British film (released 1964) about the Krogers and the Portland spy case (1953-1961). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Spies.
Not a bad film in a low-key way, and it keeps pretty much to the known facts of the case.
Also interesting from a social history point of view are the bits of London shown, that now look very different compared to how they were in 1963. Examples include the area of the Tolworth Tower near Surbiton, outer London (the building is still under construction in a scene from the film), and the 1.5-acre public roof garden of the old Derry & Toms department store in Kensington, which later became a nightclub, and later still a restaurant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolworth#Tolworth_Tower; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry_%26_Toms; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_Roof_Gardens].
she wants like starmer privatisation of NHS, all Dental Services, Take away food from children, let her poor constituents STARVE, more audestrity depression whilst she joins the Zionists to destroy the UK from the inside to appease another state..she supports Israel no the UK.. https://t.co/mA3VHzRRqr
— Isobel_Waby we NEED a COALITION (@Isobel_waby) July 17, 2023
Amazing isn’t it? I would love someone to do a proper expose podcast on Jack Monroe as she’s a grifter and scammer who’s also deployed health issues and law suits to keep up her thieving.
In Rzeszow, which is a transport hub through which all the weapons of the West go to Ukraine, a large number of military aircraft have been arriving all day today.
Strange to see various talking heads on msm terribly pleased at the terroristic attack on te Crimean Bridge, an attack which left a young girl injured and orphaned, her parents having been killed. I suppose that the talking heads would not be so happy were a bridge in, say the Bristol Channel or Humber Estuary to be blown up.
Traffic for cars was opened on one lane of the Crimean bridge in reverse mode. Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin announced this on his Telegram channel.
“Vehicle traffic on the Crimean bridge has been restored in reverse mode along the extreme right lane of the Taman-Kerch… pic.twitter.com/boJN34eFBn
Good grief. Looks like they need a sergeant-major…
The commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Syrsky admitted that Russian troops went on the offensive in the Kupyansk direction.
According to him, the Russian group set itself the goal of defeating the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk region and… pic.twitter.com/92NhiIiz0p
The entire territory east of Dneiper river will be annexed by Russia.
— Africa is beautiful (@beuatifulAfrica) July 17, 2023
I agree with tweeter no.2. As to tweet no. 1, that is quite a force (if it exists)— 100,000 men, and 900 tanks (about 3x the number of tanks Rommel had, at max strength, in North Africa in 1942).
Russian fighters opened and destroyed a camouflaged artillery mount of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction pic.twitter.com/xhvt71efKj
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has developed a counteroffensive tactic in which the Ukrainian army will use a minimum of heavy armored vehicles.
All the main tasks will have to be performed by infantry on light pickup trucks with MANPADS and ATGMs, they will…
Lambs to the slaughter. I regret that, despite the fact that I recognize that this is a war Russia has to win, whatever “victory” looks like.
A senior official in the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) called the war in Ukraine a "stalemate" and said that no weapon the U.S. and NATO are providing will help Ukrainian forces "break through" in their counteroffensive.
Here’s a grass roots initiative I can get behind. Neil Oliver @thecoastguy has kept me sane in these crazy times. @TuckerCarlson could do no better than to introduce him to his audience. Both great family men with high moral standards. The conversation would be epic! Please 🙏 https://t.co/0AiGdQ23mt
I noticed that a Twitter lynch-mob has been attacking dissident broadcaster Neil Oliver over the past day or two after he had a dialogue with a doctor who disagreed with him on one or two issues. The Twitter mob have been trashing Oliver not only about the medical questions which were the subject of the show (on, apparently, GB News) but also Oliver’s whole past history, his TV shows on archaeology, his views in general, the way he looks, speaks etc.
Many of the Twitter mob claimed (and at time of writing, are still claiming) that the doctor in question completely defeated Oliver. Also, that Oliver (and MP Andrew Bridgen) had no right to speak because said doctor is a doctor, and so of course (?) knew more than they do.
Well, is that last so? I did not watch the discussion (in fact I have never seen GB News and am unsure whether my TV can even receive its broadcasts) but the said doctor is, as I understand it, an ordinary GP, not a specialist in vaccines or, indeed, viruses.
What interests me is how there is this superficially huge number of persons on Twitter (though probably not even a tenth of 1% of the general population) who are willing to join in with others of their sort to create a Twitterstorm which, in terms of real effects in the real world, makes not a ripple in society or the body politic.
The sheer hatred of their vituperative tweets is incredible. These are, more or less, the “anti-racists”, and/or those who mostly believe every last (and latest, and unexamined) detail of the Jew-Zionist so-called “holocaust” farrago, and who “support” (by having little Ukrainian flags on their Twitter profile) “Ukraine” (the regime in Kiev). Most probably support such as the “Black Lives Matter” nonsense, no doubt echo “refugees welcome” slogans (and so what if most of the migrant invaders are in reality not “refugees”), and prefer not to think of the impact of the invading hordes on British health services, housing, social cohesion, crime and, down the line, pay and conditions of employment. Oh, no, that’s for “the Government” to worry about.
I would be prepared to bet that pretty much the same bloc of Twitter posters support the “trans” nonsense, are “anti-Tory” (while —most of them— somehow believing that Labour-label under Jewish-lobby puppet Starmer will be far better), and that almost all of them will identify with Remain/Rejoin and, of course, “FBPE”.
The Twit-mob lynch-mob of today is a contemporary version of the Stalinist or Orwellian “daily hate”. Examples seen today on Twitter:
“Work in a charity bookshop and it’s very noticeable that we can’t give Neil Oliver history books away. They used to be steady sellers. Same for Starkey and Johnson. History book buyers avoiding like the plague and GBNews viewers can’t read.“
“If there was ever going to be a Scottish UnaBomber it would be Neil Oliver.“
“Neil Oliver was always a biased clown, even on his “history” programs – now he’s just plain lost his mind.“
“No need to present evidence to dismiss the crazy claims of Neil Oliver and fellow loonies.”
There are hundreds of tweets like that, all from people who think that they know things, and they think that they “know” purely because they believe, by default, various System and msm sources.
They cannot bear even seeing a dissident opinion.
Opinion polls in the UK seem to be showing that censorship, “no-platforming”, “cancelling” etc are becoming more popular, especially among the young.
As far as I am concerned, if people are becoming more and more like easily-corralled sheep, then such people are not worth having in our society, and read that how you like.
Is that true, or just jingoistic hot air? I have no idea.
"Good tank, you have to take it!": Vladimir Solovyov not only appreciated the Russian military equipment, but also personally tested the T-90 "Breakthrough" tank. pic.twitter.com/2Z2CKLeVs1
It is reported that PMC "Wagner" will become an addition to the regional grouping of the Union State in Belarus, the financing will be provided by the RF Ministry of Defense. pic.twitter.com/XJovrcnO0v
I am unsure at present whether there are being concentrated Russian forces in Belarus with the aim of launching an offensive south, toward Kiev, or whether those forces are there to keep Kiev-regime forces tied down on or near the Ukraine-Belarus border, so as to prevent the deployment of the Kiev-regime forces to the southeast regions, notably Donetsk and Lugansk, where most of the active combat is happening.
Ukrainian forces stopped on the Dnieper
Units of the "Dnieper" force group twice during the past day prevented attempts by the Ukrainian army to force an attack along the Dnieper River in the Kherson region. Five boats and 30 members of the Ukrainian forces were destroyed.
Russia is obviously not short of trucks, which is interesting.
Putin: If they use cluster munitions, we will use them too
🇷🇺So far, Russia has had no need to use cluster munitions, but if they are used against us, we reserve the right to reciprocate, said Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Another Kiev-regime press-gang. They have few volunteers now, and are running out of cannon-fodder.
Pot, kettle, black. You had years at the helm to ‘stop the boats’, and were all mouth and no action. We’ve noticed no difference between having you as Home Secretary or Suella Braverman. You’re both full of shit. https://t.co/8zjo9rtMCQ
So UK, eh? Defence Minister Ben Wallace quits after telling us UK will soon be at simultaneous war with Russia, China, and African terrorists. I guess the Ukrainian laundry closing soon. pic.twitter.com/ZWKkNf3kHu
Britain should be politely distant with China, friendly with Russia, and hostile only to (((you know who))) and other untermenschen…
Wallace dismissed concerns over the pace of Ukraine’s offensive. He said Kyiv’s forces were ‘advancing every day’, but had been somewhat slower than expected because Russia's lessons learned and they've adapted accordingly. /2
Having adapted, Moscow's forces now lay mixed minefields, combining anti-personnel and anti-tank mines to further slow any Ukrainian advance. Russia is also learning, and adapting its forces, to deal with new, long-range weapons introduced onto the battlefield, Wallace added. /4
Wallace said Ukraine hadn't yet committed reserves from its 12 offensive brigades, the majority of which were trained and armed by Nato allies. He said Kyiv hadn't yet made a choice on what potential axes of attack to 'really pile it on' in an attempt to breach the lines. /6
On future security guarantees for Kyiv, Wallace said: 'You could expect more British troops in Ukraine after this conflict than you did before.' He suggested these troops would be as part of 'capacity building' training missions, building on operations Orbital and Interflex. /8
There is no “after this conflict“. Either Russia effectively “wins” the conflict (whether by negotiation or in the field), or the whole thing turns into a general Eastern European and Central European war between Russia and NATO, which might or might not go nuclear.
Whatever or whichever, there will be few more UK troops in Ukraine. In any case, the British Army is almost non-existent now in terms of major field presence. Take away the office bods, clerks, rear-echelon elements, and the whole brass-hat staff officer element (etc, meaning all non-combatant units), and I doubt that the UK could field, overseas, more than about 20,000 active troops, at most.
Who cares what Ben Wallace says, anyway? His military service consisted of 7 years in the Scots Guards (1991-1998), during which he attained the modest rank of captain. His subsequent pronouncements have been mostly idiotic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Wallace_(politician).
Incidentally, we need not take his decision to stand down as MP at the next general election (presumably in 2024) as having been prompted by anything based on principle.
Wallace’s Commons seat, Wyre and Preston North, is set to be abolished via boundary changes, so were Wallace to wish to stay in the Commons, he would have to find another seat quite soon, almost impossible in view of the expected Conservative Party mass wipeout at the (2024?) general election.
I suppose that Wallace will now be looking for some well-paid business sinecure, combined with a nice £350-taxfree-per-day House of Lords peerage in Sunak’s resignation honours list.
Drone-kamikaze "Lancet" strikes the American 155-mm self-propelled guns M109 in the Zaporozhye direction. pic.twitter.com/27b3d8fmgN
After the US left Afghanistan, the structure of exports in the country almost completely changed: the production of opium poppy collapsed (green curve) and the production of wheat (blue) increased sharply.
first above the people who vote in this country then?
— Steffi Thompson🏴 🇵🇸 (@SteffiThompson) July 16, 2023
Puppet on a chain…
How does this differ from the austerity govt of Cameron and Osborne?
It doesn't. It's identical.
Under Starmer, the Labour Party has become the Conservative Party of the 2010s.
Vote Labour for another decade of consciously cruel and economically illiterate austerity. pic.twitter.com/eFrDIz8Jfj
— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush🥀🇵🇸🇾🇪 (@OwenPaintbrush) July 16, 2023
Late tweets
After the liberation of Crimea, Ukraine will expel up to 800 thousand Russians”: Kyiv threatens Russians with deportation and a “black list”
Tamila Tasheva, Zelensky's spokesman for peninsular affairs, reminded everyone about the terrorist nature of the Kyiv regime in an… pic.twitter.com/doHO9EB9tK
The Zelensky cabal counting their chickens before they are hatched.
No reaction so far from the usual Western “human rights” parasites about the plan to expel 800,000 Russians from their homes in Crimea, something akin to the deportations carried out by Stalin or (to a far lesser extent) Hitler.
In fact, the Kiev regime is engaged in “pie-in-the-sky” politics. Putin and the Russian Government (and people) will never allow the Kiev regime to annex Crimea again. If there were any real danger of that, the Russian forces would use tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield and, if that were not enough to stop any annexation, a strategic nuclear missile or two on Kiev itself. In that event, “goodbye Zelensky” or at least his corrupt and brutal government.
Donald Trump said that if he wins the presidential election in 2024, he intends to seek a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine.
"I will contact Putin in order to conclude an agreement with Zelensky. This will happen very quickly," the former US president said in an… pic.twitter.com/1dkwzZ5n5U
Johnson: Not even direct NATO intervention can save the Kiev regime SEAN BELL: UKRAINE WILL NOT RETURN CRIMEA AND DONBAS THROUGH DIPLOMATIC OR MILITARY WAYS Former Special Assistant to US President Ronald Reagan, Doug Bendow, called on the US authorities to end the already lost… pic.twitter.com/2VE8g1t8nQ
The Russian Army has been actively advancing on the Kupyan direction in the Kharkov region for two days in a row. We are on the defensive. Fierce battles are going on," Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar pic.twitter.com/kEziWXJJT6
Watched about 10 mins of the new TV spy drama, A Spy Among Friends. Had I known that it was about Philby, I should probably not have bothered. I do not have a lot of time for the so-called “master spy” whose reputation was and still is the most inflated since Mata Hari. No need to go into all that now, though.
I am rather impatient with films and TV dramas. If they bore or irritate me in the first 10-15 mins, I rarely watch on. In this case, there were invented scenes, which may have been inevitable, but some of them lacked any credibility. For example, there was a West Indian involved in the first few minutes, highly unlikely in 1963. Also, the show pushed, in those opening minutes, the buttons of all the known cliches about Philby— cricket, booze, womanizing etc.
It is true that Philby, had he become Chief of SIS, would have been a “master spy” or “legendary agent” (“legendary” in more ways than one). Not because (or primarily because) he would have been able to give the KGB secrets at all levels, but mainly because he would have been in a position to cripple SIS strategically, structurally; even more important, he would also have been in a position to deliberately mis-advise the Prime Minister and other ministers, and to point them in the wrong direction strategically.
It never happened. Philby was found by General Kalugin to be living in a permanently intoxicated state in his apartment in Gorky Street (now once again Tverskaya Street). Kalugin, and Philby’s last wife, Rufina, sobered him up somewhat, and Kalugin gave him mentoring work to do.
I myself was slightly acquainted in the early 1990s with a former KGB officer (turned businessman) called “Ed” (Edvard, from the Baltic regions or pribaltika), who told me at lunch in Hall at Lincoln’s Inn in 1994 (I think) that he had once heard a lecture by Philby at the Lubyanka. That lecture must have been late 1970s, or maybe early 1980s.
“Though Philby claimed publicly in January 1988 that he did not regret his decisions and that he missed nothing about England except some friends, Colman’s mustard and Lea & PerrinsWorcestershire sauce,[84] his wife Rufina Ivanovna Pukhova later described Philby as “disappointed in many ways” by what he found in Moscow. “He saw people suffering too much,” but he consoled himself by arguing that “the ideals were right but the way they were carried out was wrong. The fault lay with the people in charge.”[85] Pukhova said, “he was struck by disappointment, brought to tears. He said, ‘Why do old people live so badly here? After all, they won the war.'”[86] Philby drank heavily and suffered from loneliness and depression; according to Rufina, he had attempted suicide by slashing his wrists some time in the 1960s.”
[Wikipedia]
Assuming that the above is accurate, Philby’s only very superficial understanding of politics, geopolitics, history, and economics is almost too obvious.
Even were A Spy Among Friends better than my first impressions, I would probably not bother with it, because at root, Philby just does not much interest me.
Well, this week brings me an easy victory over political journalist John Rentoul; he scored only 3/10, compared to my 7/10.
I did not know the answers to questions 2, 5, and 8. In fact, I “hit the post” on questions 2 and 8, and no.5 is arguable, depending on what you class as “a vineyard“, whatever “Wine GB” may say.
Looks as though curbing the Jew-Zionists, “antifa” idiots, and other would-be censors of freedom of expression, has encouraged better functioning at Twitter, and attracted more users and/or use.
Hi @BootstrapCook are you ever going to tell the people that donated money to you that you stole where it went?#JackMonroe is a THIEF
— Sharon From Corrie’s Taser (@SharonTaser) July 15, 2023
She is (in my opinion).
Some of these people on Jack Monroe Twitter are fucking nutters! All obsessed with the one same person because he stood up to her and took her to court for her grift. Very concerning behaviour.
— Sharon From Corrie’s Taser (@SharonTaser) July 15, 2023
They are (in my opinion).
There is no climate crisis. The alleged climate crisis is the most expensive and devastating lie of all time.
We look back at the Incas, and wonder why their priests had a kind of handball game in which you got executed if you dropped the ball [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame#Human_sacrifice]. We look at the Aztecs, and wonder what motivated their bloodthirsty and cruel human sacrifices. Yet we (meaning society as a whole) accept the cruelties and stupidities of our own age as right and proper: “net zero”, “lockdown(s)”, killer “vaccines” and “boosters”, the 2010-2023 “austerity policies”, the importation into the UK of millions of culturally and ethnically backward people; and so on. The full list would be too long to publish today.
President Biden just called up 3,000 reservists to augment U.S. troops in Europe as part of "Operation Atlantic Resolve." I want people to understand what this troop mobilization is about. It's about preparing for a ground war with Russia.https://t.co/YCzL0UWoo0
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 14, 2023
I do not like George Osborne at all, but at the same time that very clearly terminally-smug “protester” (a woman aged maybe 60-70) could not have complained had she been hit in the face and/or given a good kicking.
Those “Just Stop Oil” loonies have to be stopped. In fact their sheer smugness (especially the ones aged 60+) is one of the most hateful things about them.
In some ways, British “toleration” is a very good thing, but it goes too far when it becomes toleration of malice and/or evil.
If Biden drops dead, or becomes even less compos mentis, that creature would be the U.S. President…hard to believe…
Belarusian sources report that a large convoy of Wagner PMC vehicles with LDNR numbers was seen this morning. She proceeded towards Bobruisk, and then – to Osipovichi. At least 60 cars were seen in the convoy, including at least 10 trucks, 3 buses, pickups and other equipment.… pic.twitter.com/ikgAfXmMrp
I wonder how long before “the musicians” start to play (again)…
Russian forces have eliminated two sabotage-reconnaissance groups in the Zaporizhzhya region , said the acting governor of the region Yevgeny Balitsky.
British Defense Minister Ben Wallace is considering leaving the position he has held since July 2019 and to stop engaging in politics, The Times reported, citing government sources.
UKRAINIAN ARMY TRYING TO BREAK THE FRONT NEAR DONETSK AND ARTYUMOVSK (BAKHMUT)
They have some success on both fronts. If the Russian units do not launch a counterattack and regain certain positions, they would find themselves in a big problem.
Lockdown Vax Passes Net Zero including 15 minute cities Biometric Digital ID Programmable CBDC Biometric CCTV Silencing free speech Stopping right to protest
The one thing they have in common is control. Control of you.
Wake up people!
— Lady Jane Simkins 💜🌸🏴🇬🇧 (@JaneSim66) July 15, 2023
The only "Inclusion" those behind the United Nations really want, is the entire world's population to be forced into their proposed digital control matrix.
It’s time for people to stand and fight back. Remove Party Politics and bring the Country back to the people. #StrongerTogether
— Betula Independent Alliance (@BetulaAlliance) July 15, 2023
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Not only that, but its Founding Chairman, Gerald Ronson, served time in prison for fraud. Is this really an organisation that can be relied on to produce accurate "antisemitism" statistics every year?
— Diversity Makes Free (@WillemD19118035) July 10, 2023
I think that the “Community Security Trust” [“CST”] is separate from the “Shomrim” Jewish private police, but I may be wrong.
“EXCLUSIVE – A tale of two hotels: How migrants set to be housed in four-stay luxury hotel would be ‘treated’ while homeless people will be put up in cheap hotel so grimy that it shut and was then converted into a hostel”
“Antifa” idiots and “refugees welcome” dimwits are, thankfully, only about 1% of the UK population. Get in your tank and roll over them.
Get the names and addresses of every one of the banner wavers! Send them 2 ILLEGAL immigrants each to house,feed and clothe I suspect it will be the same answer as these🤡🤡https://t.co/H1zuHXuWBZ
I have still not seen anything anywhere indicating where “Dr” Louise Raw obtained her “doctorate” (specialized subject— one strike in 1888). She seems very reticent about it, and about where she obtained it, assuming she did obtain one (and even if the doctorate is genuine, she should not use the title “Dr” in the UK, not being a f/t academic, or clergy, or medical practitioner. It’s infra dig).
This is the way forward a list compiled of people who want illegal invaders in the country a simple yes or no to each household and the yes households would then house the invaders, and be financially responsible for them
Here she is. She will be reelected and knows it. The people of wales hate the tories. All labour mps and ams.Have a job for life. Moan, Moan, Moan, Whinge, Whinge, Whinge. Then reelect witha larger majority. "Asylum Seekers welcome" pic.twitter.com/25YIUMrDJw
Nia Griffith, MP for Llanelli: among other things, a Labour Friends of Israel member, and an expenses cheat who owns three houses and flats, at least one with land. She should be able to accommodate some migrant invaders, surely? Oh, no, wait…
⚡️FSB claims that the preparation of the assassination of RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan and journalist Ksenia Sobchak was “prevented” pic.twitter.com/jFAtrMx0Fn
“As a child aged just nine, I endured the longest and most terrifying night of my life, fleeing with my family from our home.
Nearly 70 years later, every detail of that escape is still burned into my memory. All my life I have had the deepest sympathy for fellow refugees: those who leave behind everything they own and everyone they know to reach safety.
It was at the beginning of winter in 1956 that the Furedi family fled Hungary. My father was one of the leaders of the workers’ councils in Budapest organising resistance to Soviet Union control. That culminated in an uprising, which was mercilessly crushed by Red Army tanks and troops.
Many of these peers inhabit a fantasy world. The soaring numbers of illegal migrants entering Britain don’t lose them any sleep at night. In their ermined world, any attempt to find a practical solution to the problem is dismissed as ‘isolationist’, ‘morally unacceptable’ and ‘impractical’.
The BBC is equally detached from reality.
As a university sociologist, listening to the whining in the Lords, I cannot help but draw the conclusion that the very existence of this narcissistic, unelected, unaccountable chamber is a political corruption of democracy.“
[Daily Mail]
Completely correct.
One of the worst abusers of the House of Lords system is “Lord” Alf Dubs, a half-Jew whose (Jewish) father fled from Prague in 1938, leaving behind his (Austrian) wife and his son (they arrived in London a year later).
Alf Dubs, Labour MP for 8 years before later joining the misnamed “Lords”, was (maybe still is) a cheeky freeloader and expenses cheat (by any other name):
“Dubs lists his main home as a cottage in the Lake District in Cumbria, which enabled him to claim over £26,000 of overnight subsistence expenses in 2007–08,[15][16] although he has lived in Notting Hill, London, since 1964. In May 2009, he argued in justification that Lords regard the overnight allowance as a payment in lieu of salary. “We are the only legislators in the world that don’t get paid,” he said. “The overnight thing is quite generous because it compensates for not having a salary. In practice that’s how it works.“
[Wikipedia]
That was 15+ years ago. I wonder how much the old fraud drags down these days while trying to import as many migrant-invaders as possible to batten upon the British people who, generously but wrongheadedly, gave him and his parents refuge in 1938 and 1939?
“A 98-YEAR-OLD war veteran who is battling cancer has been evicted from his bungalow and is now homeless.
Alfred Guenigault, who served in World War Two as a paratrooper, was issued with a no-fault eviction notice two months ago by the landlord of the Ferndown bungalow he has lived in for the past seven years.
He is now living in St Gabriels hostel in Verwood with his daughter Deb Dean and her husband Bert and says he feels “terrible” about the situation..
The great-grandfather-of-six-fears he will not be able to see his grandchildren from his new residence.
The family was forced to pack up their belongings and leave Ferndown on Thursday afternoon.
They turned to the council for help, which told them to go to First Point, a Dorset-based support service.
Deb said: “They were amazing and helped us so much with the forms and explaining things and told us we were eligible for a bungalow.
“They said there is a duty to house us temporarily, which we understand, but we didn’t think it would be in a hostel.”
Deb said the one room provided for them is empty, with no beds, apart from one provided by the hospital for the veteran, and has a shared kitchen and bathroom.
He also won’t be able to see any of his church friends who come over to see him or the vicar as well; his life is here in Ferndown.
Deb, a pensioner herself, lives with her father as his full-time carer while he battles cancer and severe kidney disease and said the situation is “very unfair” on her dad in his final years.
She added: “Dad has his carers in three to four times a day and I have to be with him 24 hours a day but because I recently became a pensioner, they have stopped my carer’s allowance which is about £700.
“We are told we will be in a hostel for six to eight months and it’s very unfair on him.
“My concern is that in six months, he may not even be here anymore.”
Mr Guenigault, who has been awarded the National Order of the Legion of Honour by the French government, said: “None of my grandchildren will be able to stay in the hostel. I feel terrible, but mostly for Deb.
“I also have to change my doctor, who is brilliant, as it is outside the area, but I don’t want to do that.”
A spokesman for Dorset Council said the authority will work with the family to find suitable accommodation in “as short a timescale as possible” but that they “need to be realistic about what is achievable in the current climate”.
“The council takes the Military Covenant very seriously and has a former veteran working within the team so really do appreciate the sacrifice our veterans make.”
Secondly, that landlord (a buy-to-let parasite?) is a prime subject for “naming and shaming”, if there ever was one.
Thirdly, how unjust that the old man’s daughter is now deprived of her Carer’s Allowance just because she has now become eligible for a slightly higher weekly amount by way of State Pension.
Fourthly, there would at least be decent alternative accommodation available for people like this were Britain not flooded with millions of black and brown migrant-invaders and other immigrants (“other” including about 150,000 bloody Ukrainians alone since last year).
Lastly, note the meaningless weaselling by the local council about the “Military Covenant” brought in by the government of David Cameron-Levita. Just lip-service. Useless.
At some point, Britain will explode, one way or another. This whole situation is unsustainable, and insupportable.
A final thought on this: is there no ex-members’ welfare organization attached to the Parachute Regiment that might help?
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'Men who haven’t paid a single penny into our country will be put up for free.’
Allison Pearson reacts to a community in Wales protesting against the housing of illegal migrants in a local hotel.
Marine Le Pen for the first time categorically opposed the supply of weapons to Ukraine
The politician broke her silence and spoke out sharply against the supply of longer-range SCALP missiles to Ukraine, which was announced by French President Macron.
The BBC is an in-club, where conformity rules. They all support or believe in “Ukraine” (the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev), “climate change” (via “emissions”) and the “necessity” for the UK to become much poorer (by going “net-zero”), “Black Lives Matter” or similar, “Covid” and all the stupid or crazy “measures taken”, the EU as something wonderful, the supposed “duty” to import, feed, and house millions of fake “refugees”, and of course the “holocaust” farrago in all details accepted by the Jewish lobby…
Nearly 7.5 million Britons waiting in line for hospital According to The Independent, citing data from the UK Health System (NHS), this is the highest figure since 2007. Of those on the waiting list, nearly 400,000 people are unable to reach the hospital for more than 52 weeks (… pic.twitter.com/csUM8SbzEH
The cluster bombs that the US is sending to Ukraine will result in higher casualty rates among Ukrainians and less efficiency on the battlefield, says ScottRitter. pic.twitter.com/Zkopu5UX9r
Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev visited the Totsky training ground in the Orenburg region
He said that he would make a report addressed to the President of the Russian Federation on the combat and political training of future… pic.twitter.com/60m6SBd4Vl
Emmanuel Macron was booed as he drove through the Champs-Elysées in the Bastille Day parade
Representatives of the “yellow vests” protest movement, who came to the Champs Elysees, where the military parade was held, expressed their dissatisfaction, Huffpost reports. The French… pic.twitter.com/959wtJYVKp
“An environmental charity is bidding to create an “M25 for nature” that would encircle London in woodland, hedgerows and street trees to boost biodiversity, carbon capture and wellbeing.
The countryside charity CPRE London hopes to weave together existing areas of green belt in the city’s 18 outer boroughs to create an uninterrupted ring of trees around the capital.“
[The Guardian]
Not all news is bad.
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"The risk of fraud should not put you off – make sure you're giving safely" i.e. via a proper platform and not via online "fundraising campaigner" grifters like Jack Monroe bootstrapcook https://t.co/Z2vXXyCKlS
Local/personal/individual before either “grifters” such as “Jack Monroe”, “Supertanskiii” etc, and also before the sort of big charities where chancers such as, at least in the past, sex pest Brendan Cox (the widower of assassinated MP, Jo Cox) get a couple of hundred thousand a year as “executives”.
Of the well-known charities, Cats Protection is a good one, usually (the local branches are run semi-autonomously, I believe). The Cats Protection branch near Exeter was, probably still is, very good.
Also, GoFundMe has numerous appeals from UK, USA etc, mostly very genuine.
Late thought
Watched a couple of episodes of the detective series, Vera. As previously, very well put together, but why oh why is every second major character a black? In the North East of England, where there are relatively few non-whites. This “blacks with everything” agenda is now more than tiresome.
Tucker Carlson: “Sorry, sir, but are you sad that the Ukrainians don’t have enough American tanks? Every city in the United States has gotten a lot worse over the past few years. Go and tour the cities yourself and you will see that not a single city in our country has improved, the economy is in decline, suicides are on the rise, our streets are full of filth, and yet you only think of Ukraine? That country that most Americans can’t even locate on a map!“
Mike Pence: “All of the things you mentioned don’t worry me.”
Pence’s loyalty is to NWO/ZOG, not the USA and/or the American people.
The White House spokesman said that the United States is very close to making a decision to supply Ukraine with ATACMS long-range missiles (range 300 km, launched from the HIMARS platform, guided by GPS).
We are rather close to World War Three, which approaches us rather rapidly…
The rector of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavel, had his staff and cross taken away before being sent to the pre-trial detention center
Believers of the UOC sing in front of the police cordon. Today, a Ukraine court changed house arrest to detention and posted bail of… pic.twitter.com/BCvzII4O95
Close-up shot of destroyed Western-made armored vehicles in the south-Donetsk direction. During the counter-offensive, the armed forces of Ukraine were left without a significant number of armored vehicles supplied to them by Western countries. pic.twitter.com/bYqoSELlIX
🇬🇧 BBC Salaries for some well known male TV presenters – just saying
Gary Lineker £1.35m Huw Edwards £415k Amol Rajan £330k Jeremy Vine £295k Jason Mohammed £290k Clive Myrie £260k Mark Chapman £250k Faisal Islam £240k Jermaine Janus £225k#DefundTheBBC 🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/hbni1RLE5g
— Jacob Hunt #BringBackBoris (@JacobHuntCON) July 8, 2023
Not everyone on the list is guilty, but I doubt they are all innocent. How many have been questioned? Wonder how Prince Andrew feels since King Charles is on the list. pic.twitter.com/jVEvobyGIO
Kinzhal hypersonic missile system is now mass produced
This was announced in Rostec.
"If we previously produced it to a certain extent in order to further modernize it and complete R&D (research and development), today we entered serial production, and what the Ministry of…
The Ukraine-NATO Council will cease to exist, because one of the parties will disappear, said Deputy President of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, commenting on the formation of this Council. The official reminded on his Twitter account that in 2002 a similar… pic.twitter.com/Zfu8FAfx7S
Alarming indeed. If there is a nuclear attack, though, there may be no warning at all.
If F-16 fighters that can carry nuclear weapons appear in Kiev, Russia will consider it a threat in the nuclear sphere, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. pic.twitter.com/EmbfgtuKmS
13-07-2023 M4 highway towards Moscow (western direction).
A column of PMC Wagner equipment and buses with personnel in Belarusian numbers, accompanied by the VAI and the traffic police, are marching towards the Republic of Belarus pic.twitter.com/mOJf5GgB6s
Eliminate drug abusers. They drive the whole illegal-drug economy.
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Get rid of Sunak – he’s under the EU & US thumb. Britain is disintegrating before our very eyes under this pretend Tory Leader. Who will make a move or are they all empty vessels?
Just visualize that— a million new, and also unwanted, inhabitants in the UK in the space of a couple of years. The equivalent of a city such as Birmingham.
Anyone who supports or promotes mass immigration or migration invasion into the UK is, in real —not legalistic— terms, just a traitor.
European Colombia Ukraine will soon turn its entire population into drug addicts
The former convict Tymoshenko said that the law on the distribution of marijuana is so undeveloped that soon they will sell drugs at every step. pic.twitter.com/nsdwXS8cJ1
I recall that Michael Palin, about 18 years ago, in Michael Palin’s New Europe, sympathetically interviewed both Yulia Tymoshenko (at the time, Prime Minister of Ukraine) and her then very attractive daughter, who was about 25 and was a former student at the LSE and, according to Wikipedia, Rugby School (I had thought Cheltenham Ladies’ College; maybe I mixed her up with someone else).
At that time, Eugenia Tymoshenko was married to an Englishman called Sean Carr, a rock music singer, who was then in his late thirties. He was also featured on Palin’s show. A bearded motorcyclist. The couple divorced about five years later.
Since Palin did his TV show, Yulia Tymoshenko has been convicted of corruption etc, been imprisoned, appealed, been released, and is now an MP again, and the leader of a political party. Her daughter has remarried and has a high profile but is not a politician, and the English (I think Yorkshire) rock music person, Sean Carr, died in 2018 at the relatively early age of 49 or 50.
That was another Jack Monroe cash grab that she got caught out for.
Why do you think she has been keeping her head down on social media for the last 2 months?
One of the five (5) tweets that resulted in my unjust and in fact unlawful disbarment in late 2016 (8+ years after I gave up Bar practice) was that describing Gove, entirely accurately, as something like a freeloading, fraudulent puppet of Israel and the UK Jewish lobby. At that time I had no idea that he was also both a drunk and a cocaine abuser. A country less decadent than the UK would have dealt with Gove long ago, and certainly would never allow the bastard into government.
Michael Gove approvingly quoting Labour Friends of Israel and Luke Akehurst in his promotion of the disgusting anti-BDS bill in the Commons pic.twitter.com/jzRWB7aZg5
Saw a Russian film this evening: Silver Skates, set in 1900. Rather un-Russian in that it was quite watchable, had a plot that was not obscure, and a relatively happy ending. Not bad. Well put-together.
There were a couple of small historical errors, but overall it was a fairly impressive effort. Slight, though. Not in any way deep or thought-provoking. As I say, rather “un-Russian”.
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No it was before gchq, a little known bloke called Alan Turing and his team broke the code. Later in of act of generosity the British state hounded the man to death because he was gay.
— Without The Butchers Apron (@hebjackundeb) July 13, 2023
Second tweet not entirely accurate. While it is true that GCHQ was established under that name only in 1946, it seamlessly took over the similar though (in the pre-1939 era) much smaller org known as the Government Code & Cypher School, which operated from a number of places between the two world wars, one being a station or outstation located in the Dog Kennel Hill (East Dulwich borders) and Denmark Hill border of South London. That base, not mentioned in the Wikipedia entry below, was active certainly until the late 1980s, though I think not used by GCHQ (possibly by MI5 or other org ) at that time. For all I know, it may still be in use, if not turned into a housing development as has been almost everything else in Southern England.
PMC "Wagner" exists, but from a legal point of view, it does not exist. This was stated by Russian President Putin.
“[PMC Wagner] exists, but legally does not exist! This is a separate issue related to real legalization, ”Kommersant reports Putin’s words. pic.twitter.com/SiaSPiXTps
Well, after all, that was the status (in the UK) of SIS until about 30 years ago. A real organization that operated under the legal fiction that it did not exist.
This is how the strike on the mortar crew of the Armed Forces of Ukraine behind Kremennaya looks like – from the closest possible distance pic.twitter.com/eS2uHPnCbV
“Human problems aren’t economic. They’re moral and they can’t be solved by immoral measures. They could be solved within a God-controlled democracy, or perhaps I should say a theocracy, and they could be solved through a God-controlled Fascist dictatorship.”
[Frank Buchman, in a 1936 interview]
I suppose that the devil is in the detail. What is “immoral”, in the sense of state policy or implementation? Also, state or political measures or “steps taken” are, arguably, too crudely “clunky” to very easily encompass matters of morality or spirituality. As Saint-Just said, “no-one can rule guiltlessly“.
“An East London man who used his family to hire children as drug runners from his prison cell has been jailed for five more years.“
[My London]
[“East London” man…]
Perhaps they mean the other “East London”, the one in South Africa.
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Zelensky's "Servant of the People" MP Lyudmila Marchenko is trying to get rid of the bribe she is accused of taking. She just threw a wad of dollars over the fence to the neighbors. pic.twitter.com/DPq3uB2Fba
Ukraine has been a corrupt mess since at least 1991.
Ukraine needs a new start. Ideally, the Russians should take all of Eastern Ukraine (Ukraine east of the Dnieper), as well as Crimea, and also a 50-mile-deep strip along the Black Sea littoral. Odessa and Kiev should have some kind of special status, either condominium status or as autonomous cities. A Ukrainian state, presumably based on Lvov, can then exist in the two-thirds of Ukraine west of the Dnieper and north of that coastal strip.
A lot of people are fleeing the US to these places, here are the cheapest countries to live in around the world
The only two of those cities on the map shown that I would ever choose would be Almaty (where I actually did live in 1996-1997), and which is probably still not too unpleasant, though I liked it in its recently-ex-Soviet quieter days, and Buenos Aires, which is at least a basically civilized city (though I have never been there).
I read once that Bangalore is not bad by Indian standards, and I know that it was a prized posting for officers and civil servants during the days of the British Raj, probably because it is in hills, and so cooler than the plains. No doubt it is very much larger and busier these days. It is now the 27th-largest city in the world, and the 3rd/5th biggest (depending on boundary definition) city in India, in fact.
Little cocaine-abusing drunk and Jewish-lobby puppet Gove must have been snorting again. He is said to support this absurd policy idea. As for Policy Exchange pseudo-think tank, it should be crammed into the nosecone of an interplanetary rocket and fired into space.
Paris is more and more indirectly drawn into the war against the Russian Federation – Russian Ambassador to France
“Naturally, such a decision cannot be said to be supported by the entire French society, because everyone is well aware that France is more and more drawn into the…
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban: "Instead of supplying Ukraine with weapons, we must finally establish peace … Hungary stands firmly on the side of peace at the NATO summit!" pic.twitter.com/nTi5JynzHh
It's horror, it's a massacre": a foreign mercenary about the Ukrainian counter-offensive
The British TV channel Sky News quoted Rhys Byrne as saying, fought on the side of the Armed Forces. According to him, the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operate without cover pic.twitter.com/TUzraAYpQq
I saw that report. Pretty hair-raising. No wonder that the Irishman (so they said, though he does not look Irish, particularly) and his immediate group decided to go home. It was not explained why they were allowed to leave Ukraine. Maybe they had fulfilled their contract.
If Paul Mason does stand against Jeremy Corbyn as Labour candidate – I'd be happy to contribute to a fund financing leaflets, detailing Mason's life journey as a Labour traitor https://t.co/rJJANMjYtS
— Oliver ✊🌏🔥 #ClimateAction #EcoSocialist (@tynewrc) July 12, 2023
Well, there it is. I have blogged several times in the past (over several years) about the part-Jew pseudo-revolutionary scribbler and talking head, Paul Mason, and have blogged, inter alia, that he was possibly aiming to become a Labour MP, perhaps ultimately aiming at becoming Chancellor or even Prime Minister.
If I say so myself, who shouldn’t, the blog has been proven right once again.
🇺🇦🇬🇧 British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has proposed that Ukraine should express more gratitude towards the West for its assistance, following Ukrainian President Volodymyr #Zelensky's recent complaints about the lack of a definitive timetable or conditions for joining NATO. pic.twitter.com/IAJ6mDbBjt
I have frequently noted Zelensky’s ghetto style of negotiation.
Do I sense that even the major puppets of NWO/ZOG are tiring of Zelensky and his corrupt cabal? Not least because there is no real prospect of the Kiev regime being able to “recover” the regions of Crimea, Donetsk, and Lugansk.
350,000 Kiev-regime soldiers have been fed into the hell of Bakhmut/Artyomovsk and other areas of the front, and have fallen. Several times that number have been rendered hors de combat by reason of injury. Foreign contract soldiers are now going home, and there are rather few coming to replace them. The Kiev regime is increasingly using press-gangs to force unwilling Ukrainian men into uniform, and has toughened the exemption regulations in order to be able to “lawfully” conscript a wider range of non-volunteers.
Ukraine is by most definitions a “failed state”. It exists, both militarily and in general, only by reason of the Western subsidies. It could well be argued that, as it now is, “Ukraine” is scarcely a state at all.
Asked Ben Wallace a question about nuclear weapons. The answer is very interesting pic.twitter.com/Uimi7Ew0j7
— Oleksiy Goncharenko (@GoncharenkoUa) July 12, 2023
That Ukrainian MP asking the questions must be a complete idiot. He wants NATO to station nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil, which would mean that Ukraine would become a prime target for Russian strategic weapons. It would be like painting a huge bullseye on Ukraine.
“Independent” Ukraine has never been blessed with very intelligent politicians (or honest ones), but what can one say?…
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Almost as if pretty much everything Jack Monroe bootstrapcook says is lies…… 🤷♀️ https://t.co/9bm6AYpMer
Day 60 since the deadline to sue Lee Anderson expired. Rich poverty-cosplayer Jack Monroe @BootstrapCook lies & harasses those asking for refunds & transparency after taking 100s of 1,000s of donations for 1 year. A decade of lies, fraud & theft – Kickstarter, Teemill, Patreon…
…and the hardcore of 396 utter mugs is still there on Patreon, each sending “Jack Monroe” £3.50 to £44 monthly. Thousands of pounds monthly, for precisely nothing. Not a bad little racket, really.
“@BartBirdy” is probably, and in my opinion almost certainly, “Jack Monroe” herself.
[Update, 13 July 2023: the @BartBirdy Twitter account is already gone. “Jack Monroe” must be using a new “sock account” today].
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An attempt to mobilize passers-by in Lviv ended in a fight between representatives of the military department and "deserters".
Those present claim that the man was stopped on the street for a "document check". A member of the military department "couldn't stand" the verbal… pic.twitter.com/v5UR5n84RR
The alliance must control its impulsive urges to expand and respect the legitimate security interests of other countries, writes the Chinese newspaper "Global Times".
Biden said that Ukraine has a problem with the lack of artillery shells and that the US is working on replenishing the stockpile, reports Reuters. pic.twitter.com/v7Q2ub7THR
Lavrov : Russia recognizes the emergence of F-16 in Ukraine as a threat in the nuclear sphere
“ In the course of hostilities, our military will not figure out whether each specific aircraft of the specified type is equipped for the delivery of nuclear weapons or not. The very… pic.twitter.com/97CLHokGwc
Cathryn Ross, one of the two joint CEO's at Thames Water, used to run Ofwat, the water regulator.
Tory MP Derek Thomas asks her: "Does the trend of Ofwat staff seeking high paid jobs in the industry affect the ability to regulate the water industry?". pic.twitter.com/j6mlJQ3uYc
I see that the “BBC presenter” story is still rolling. A couple of things strike me about the story and also about the reaction to it.
Firstly, the sheer hysteria. It seems that the girl involved was 17 at the time, assuming that there is any substance to the story. It is one of the oddities of the English law at present (as I understand it— I admit to being not very au fait with it now, having not practised at the Bar since 2008) that the unnamed BBC presenter could actually have had full sexual relations with the girl (or any girl of 17, or indeed 16) without being in peril of the law, yet if he paid for nude photographs of her (even though she may have taken them herself, and willingly) he might actually be at risk of imprisonment: see https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jul/09/bbc-presenter-accused-of-paying-teenager-for-photos-could-face-jail-term-if-guilty.
To my mind, this makes a mockery of the law. The “photographs” law should surely be in line with the law on sexual relations, and so the age reduced to 16 years.
I am unsure about whether a “photographs” law of that kind was or is necessary at all, or if it is, whether the relevant age should be 16 or lower, as with some provisions of, eg, the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and the Sexual Offences Act 1956.
The Protection of Children Act 1978, the present “photographs” law, does not (as far as I know) specify an age, but refers only to “children“.
This was never the kind of law I did when at the Bar, so I may be out of my depth on the detail here but, to my mind, that 1978 “photographs” law (which I have never read in full) seems to be on the face of it yet another badly-drafted law of the past half-century. There are several others, including the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 and the Communications Act 2003, s. 127. Both of those have been superseded or are about to be superseded by newer laws.
I find it strange that the 1978 “photographs” law was thought to be necessary at all. It was brought in 20 years before the Internet was widely available for public use and, after all, photography itself has been around for about 200 years if you include its earlier modern manifestations such as the daguerrotype. Photographs as such have certainly existed since the 1860s, yet only in 1978 did Parliament consider that such a penal law was desirable, or at all necessary. Very odd.
Leaving all that aside, there seems to be a strange dissonance now— UK and general Western society almost eliminating real childhood and/or childhood “innocence”, and yet going mad if someone, especially anyone famous (such as George Osborne), has sexual relations, even if completely lawfully (in Osborne’s case, that is disputed), with a teenage girl of 16 or 17, or if such a person (as alleged of the unnamed BBC presenter) pays a girl of 16 or 17 for some risque photographs.
Well, there it is. To my mind, this “BBC presenter” story is a bit of a storm in a teacup anyway, looking at the challenges our country and society face at present. There are bigger issues.
The other aspect which I find striking about the “BBC presenter” story is that the unnamed defaulter has such a high level of income that he can, and apparently is willing to, pay out £35,000 for photographs of some girl.
The BBC gets almost all of its money from the outdated tax misleadingly called a “licence fee”. Radio licences, dog licences etc have passed into history, but the BBC licence fee marches on. Not only that, but enforced by criminal sanction. There are many people (mostly women) actually in prison because of having not had a TV licence, and then unable or unwilling to comply with the order of a court: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tv-licence-fee-women-convictions-b1763192.html.
Out of the huge revenues thus raised, the BBC pays its staff well, often very well, and in some cases far too well. Gary Lineker, that loudmouth ignoramus, is paid a million a year to shoot the breeze about football. Alan Shearer, another ex-footballer, gets about half a million. Zoe Ball apparently gets about a million. A number are getting around £400,000. Looking at them, most are, frankly, overpaid.
Why should the public subsidize what is increasingly, “Soviet” TV and radio output, largely unwatchable and unlistenable?
My final thought about this nonsense is that George Osborne must be loving it. The notorious email about his own peccadilloes is now already all but forgotten. I suppose, though, that despite his former, though fairly brief, political prominence, Osborne is now yesterday’s news…just not very interesting to most people.
[Update, 16 July 2026:well, of course it turned out that the teenage girl was in fact a teenage boy, that the BBC presenter was newsreader Huw Edwards, and that he (whom the BBC paid nearly £500,000 a year) had paid the boy for indecent photos. He was tried, convicted (pleaded guilty) and given a mild and non-custodial penalty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huw_Edwards]
“It’s deeply worrying that many older people are ending up in hospital due to lack of the right sort of services in the community. No one wants to be in hospital but for older people all too often it can lead to an avoidable deterioration in their health,” said Caroline Abrahams, Age UK’s charity director.
Prof Adam Gordon, the president of the British Geriatrics Society, said the report “makes grim reading [and] rightly identifies that older people are currently being let down by NHS and social care services”.”
[The Guardian]
This has been a scandal (and a massive waste of money) for years, certainly since 2010 and probably long before. No care at home means more demand at hospitals. District nurses were once ubiquitous; now they seem hardly to exist at all. I was told by one, a decade ago, that she was fed up with NHS mismanagement, and so was emigrating to Australia, where she would also be paid far more.
As with so many areas of life in England, Government and Opposition talk a good game, but fail to deliver for the people.
“Nearly 10,000 small-boat migrants who reached Britain in the past four months were last night handed an ‘amnesty’ from the Government’s tough new immigration measures.“
[Daily Mail]
More treachery.
10,000 more deadbeats, criminals, potential terrorists, and/or useless millstones round the neck of the British people.
However bad and (at best) useless Starmer-Labour will be, this “Conservative” Party misgovernment really has failed on every metric. It has to go, and I hope that almost all of its MPs will be dumped by the voters. Then a new fight will begin, against the “Labour” version of the System…
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"We have to have a buffer somewhere because if we don’t we know what happens," says Home Office perm sec Matthew Rycroft, alluding to dangerous overcrowding, disorder and diphtheria at Manston last year
For context, the current "buffer" in prisons is just 1,000 cells
Imports of goods from Russia to the United States in May increased compared to April from $215.6 million to $504 million, according to the monthly report on trade turnover of the main US statistical agency Bureau of the Census,… pic.twitter.com/HTwEKfeEiR
Most of the inhabitants of Poland are against the rapid admission of Ukraine to NATO , according to a survey conducted by the Center for Public Opinion Research of the country and published by the newspaper Rzeczpospolita.
Well, there it is. The Poles are sensible after all…
Biden admitted: The US Army is running out of artillery shells
In an attempt to justify his controversial decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine, US President Joseph Biden said in an interview with "CNN" that it is necessary to give cluster munitions to Kiev because there… pic.twitter.com/N697vRVGzl
Stocks of artillery provided by the West to the Armed Forces of Ukraine are running out.
US national security adviser Sullivan said that without the supply of cluster munitions, Ukraine will not have enough artillery not only for the offensive, but also for defense. pic.twitter.com/cH1zvh6sJg
and “Labour”, under Starmer, Rachel Reeves, and Yvette Cooper, will be saying, in effect, “vote for us…we can make workhouses run more efficiently, and more fairly, and with full implementation of any anti-racist, anti-sexist, pro-LGBTQXYZ measures you can imagine“…
Jeremy Hunt …Yet another multi millionaire politician who knows whatever chaos he brings will have zero impact on him personally …Crooks in Suits… #MartinLewispic.twitter.com/w1lZyIVyf2
2%, though? Surely that (((group))) is more like 0.5% of the population?
Theresa May led a revolt against Rishi Sunak’s small boats bill on Tuesday as she accused the Govt of consigning more people to slavery. The arch-Remainer tried to derail Brexit, and now she’s trying to support the dinghy armada! https://t.co/DWdhCZG5WR
A horrible woman, and completely out of her depth when Prime Minister. I suspect part-Jewish. She strengthened the bad law of Communications Act 2003, s.127 by introducing a 3-year longstop limitation period in place of the formerly-existing 6-month one, which change has emboldened evil little cabals such as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, which use “lawfare” (abuse of our legal and justice systems) to repress British people.
China, India, Singapore, Turkey and the UAE have increased their imports of Russian oil by 140%, while exports of oil refining have suddenly increased by 26% – The Economist
Against the background of the failure of another wave of mobilization in Ukraine, and in order to cover up the catastrophic losses of personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Kiev regime has increased recruitment in the countries of Asia, Latin America and the Middle East in…
The number of Ukrainian soldiers who died in the war approached 350,000. It is impossible to even think about Ukraine's victory over Russia. There are many Ukrainians who did not want to enter the war. They surrender and go over… pic.twitter.com/7Z9jvnWsr5
Unless NATO forces join in the war (as the Zelensky cabal wants), the Kiev regime has no prospect even of recovering Donetsk and Lugansk regions, let alone Crimea.
If NATO forces were to join in the war, directly, a major conflagration would start across Central and Eastern Europe, maybe even into Western Europe. It might then go nuclear.
Zelensky has failed in his last desperate bid to win an invitation for Ukraine to join NATO – The Guardian pic.twitter.com/x3K5f5D632
This is why I wrote "How Shrinks Think" in 2014. Sometimes, our patients' stories are our stories, and when told respectfully and anonymously, they can do a great deal to reduce stigma.
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