Well, does not look much like my own two visits to the Russian capital (1993 and 2007). Looks like I lost out! Typical…
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Journalists. Many of the people who have written to me about the rape gangs are British Hindus and Sikhs who are utterly appalled. Referring to the rape gangs as “Asian” does them a disservice. Be clear with your words. It is Pakistani Muslim.
…and many (real) Romanians are appalled that the UK msm seems deliberately to conflate them with Roma Gypsies (and their appalling criminal behaviour)…
I suspect many Brits would like to personally thank @elonmusk for forcing the rape gang scandal back onto the agenda, outflanking Labour & legacy media, and sparking a chain of events that’s now finally leading to an inquiry. Thank you Elon. And thank goodness you took over @X 🙏
This is exactly the kind of thing Dame Louise Casey criticises in her report. Supposed “journalists” citing a dodgy Home Office report to claim groomers are white 👇 https://t.co/s66zPRwWbW
So many “journalists” are just System-dependent scribblers and talking heads. Kevin Maguire is one of the worst, with his unthinking “Labour” tribalism, and his fake pseudo-socialism. A total fake, in fact, and one who, with his affluent wife (a novelist), has an income in the hundreds of thousands, a house in “leafy Richmond” (SW London), and at least one second home (in Devon or Cornwall); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Maguire_(journalist)
More than 16,000 illegal migrants have now entered the UK on small boats this year. That’s up 42% on the same point last year, up 79% on 2023. Labour’s plan is not working and is putting us all at riskhttps://t.co/W3iqj6SFcX
Sooner or later, the whole society will fracture; in fact, you can see the early signs of that all around.
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The Israel's Galilot intelligence base, located north of Tel Aviv, is engulfed in flames. pic.twitter.com/inmhjCc1OY
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 17, 2025
🇮🇷 Iranian Defense Ministry Spokesman: We struck an Israeli security and intelligence center. pic.twitter.com/jfZOOtBPGV
— Iran War Designer (@IranWarDesigner) June 17, 2025
A meeting between US Ambassador to the Occupied Territories Mike Huckabee and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has degenerated into a serious spat over the issue. East. pic.twitter.com/5LJS8SKQgS
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 17, 2025
What Shoigu said following his visit to the DPRK:
▪️ Kim Jong-un has decided to send 5,000 military construction workers to Russia to restore infrastructure facilities destroyed by Kiev.
▪️ The leader of the DPRK also decided to send a thousand sappers to Russia to demining… pic.twitter.com/vw4uNfWl6e
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 17, 2025
— Iran War Designer (@IranWarDesigner) June 17, 2025
I thought that MOSSAD’s HQ was somewhere outside Tel Aviv, not in a built-up area; maybe I was mistaken.
🇺🇸 Watch: Tulsi Gabbard, Director of US National Intelligence, testifies during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington DC on Tuesday March 25, 2025 THAT IRAN IS NOT BUILDING A NUCLEAR WEAPON.
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 17, 2025
Israeli Minister of Transportation confirms that only diplomats and tourists are allowed to leave the occupied territories. pic.twitter.com/3pb8yCTegz
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 17, 2025
The liberation of the locality of Petrovskogo (known as Orekhovo in Ukraine) in the Donetsk People’s Republic marks a major stage in the offensive toward the Dnepropetrovsk region, the Russian Defense Ministry said:https://t.co/yRPxJfDyc8pic.twitter.com/hKKX3ul8Zl
BREAKING: New York Times reports Trump is weighing whether to help Israel destroy the nuclear enrichment facility at Fordow, which only American bunker busters can reach.
— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) June 17, 2025
Were I in the Iranian leadership, I should be dispersing the scientists and technicians across Iran, away from likely targets, so that they can regroup later, after any such powerful attack(s).
As the mainstream media lovingly document and bemoan every broken window in Tel Aviv, your reminder that there was nothing whatsoever preventing them from covering Israel's massive destruction of 100,000 homes in Lebanon. They just chose not to. pic.twitter.com/V6KOBvOfUd
🚨Breaking: It is confirmed that Mossad’s headquarter in Herzliya, situated in the suburbs of Tel Aviv, and the Israeli Defence Forces’ Unit 8200 responsible for clandestine operation, collecting signal intelligence and surveillance had its headquarters struck and destroyed. 🔥 https://t.co/pbbZ34udDs
— Syed Shams Ul Hassan (@SyedShamsulHas9) June 17, 2025
This is staggering. Jess Phillips literally rejected Oldham Council's request for national support for their inquiry. That's how all this exploded. She literally criticised Katy Lamb for raising the ethnicity of the perpetrators. It's all a matter of public record. https://t.co/XJWkWPh7Yv
Keir Starmer wants us to believe it was only when he read the Casey report the scales finally fell from his eyes over the rape gangs. But he knew. Jess Phillips knew. They all knew > Daily Mail > https://t.co/f5covVofgE
It’s incredible that this has passed with relatively limited political or public debate. A couple of decades ago this would have dominated the headlines and the Westminster agenda. https://t.co/pzYRknPZ6m
I pair that with the proposed “assisted dying” legislation. Indicators that the value of human life in this country is now set below the bar of ease and convenience.
This is utterly ridiculous. If politicians “did nothing” how were they climbing on a far-right bandwagon? The far-right never stopped demanding action on the rape gangs. Keir Starmer is all over the place on this. His statements aren’t even internally coherent any more. https://t.co/OFjo76nhsB
As a former barrister, it is clear to me, I having seen it all before. Superficially clever little men and (sometimes) women, who pose as very intelligent within their insulated little legal-people bubble, but are usually clueless in the wide world of real events, big pictures, history, and geopolitics.
If Labour knew how to do the hard yards the rape gangs would have been snuffed out long ago. They were allowed to fester under Labour councils, local Labour leaders, officials appointed by local Labour politicians. Nearly all of whom gaslighted anybody who tried to speak up for… https://t.co/s94XjuonHn
Owen Jones was always (quite openly) trying to get people to block me on Twitter when I had an account (a pack of malicious Jews conspired to mass-report me and have me expelled in 2018). Owen Jones was not the only one asking people to block me, not converse with me etc; others included the Jew Finkelstein (now yet another absurd member of the House of Lords).
Lindsey, you’re less a U.S. Senator and more a loudmouthed lobbyist for Tel Aviv. Calling for “unconditional surrender” like it’s a video game while real people bleed. You serve Israel’s interests better than America’s. Change your title to Senator of Likud. 🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌 pic.twitter.com/5QX4ldsh8l
— Thinking outside the box (@TheOutside27308) June 17, 2025
Just one more corrupt puppet.
🚨 BREAKING: Leaked footage from Tel Aviv reveals alleged failure of Israeli air defense system stationed in residential areas to intercept Iranian missiles.
The system was reportedly directly struck, sparking concerns about its effectiveness pic.twitter.com/ObkWzVOw9K
— michelino riformato (@michelinorifor1) June 17, 2025
The Israeli Jewish government (like that of the Jew Zelensky in Kiev against Russia), is desperate for the USA to weigh-in against Iran directly. Israel cannot win its war (which, after all, started when Israel attacked Iran without warning) without American help.
Note the persistent illogicality and unfairness of FPTP voting, though: Reform UK 27%, but 300 MPs instead of 176, and the Greens 10%, but only 4 MPs instead of 65. Also, Cons 17%, but only 30 MPs instead of 111.
The Jewish/Zionist lobby has enormous influence and (not always obvious) power over the politicians of the USA and UK, among other states. Trump is no exception.
Another point is that, especially in the USA, whenever you see or read about or from a supposed “expert” on geopolitics, especially but not exclusively the Middle East, 9 times out of 10 that talking head or scribbler is Jewish.
Twelve Russian servicemen involved in downing the first US F-16 fighter jet in the special military operation zone have been paid 15 million rubles ($195,000), Fores told TASS:https://t.co/WIpKVj3ouIpic.twitter.com/DC8woFgbQW
If only people with a mass following, or approaching a mass following, such as Katie Hopkins, would speak up against the Jewish/Zionist/Israel lobby; instead of which, they speak up for it, most of the time. What is the point in speaking up for free speech when you also speak up in favour of that evil and malicious lobby which is the biggest enemy of free speech in this country?
NATO may stop accepting new Eastern European countries into its ranks, as the US understands that this is a matter of national security for Russia, US special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg told ABC News in an interview:https://t.co/T3FSmvDuD6pic.twitter.com/zw9jUgHxeZ
Truly, the wicked flourish like the green bay tree…
"What we are now witnessing in this country is the rise of Project Fear 2.0 –an outburst of hysteria, panic, sensational claims and untruths among an elite class that can now sense its political project and power are being rejected by voters"https://t.co/xY7TjNDBSG
Russian troops liberated 13 communities in the Sumy and Kharkov Regions and the DPR over the week of May 24-30 in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Friday:https://t.co/tkpo27yVsWpic.twitter.com/BU1ap3mqKn
Rosen’s comment is, presumably, meant to be ironic or droll.
He's a got a 'strictly protect' air about him hasn't he.
Nearly every threatened libel action relating to Palestine circulating around Labour Party 2015-2019, had a reference to Mr Lewis. pic.twitter.com/8qukKw1SJ2
The above tweet hits the nail on the head. Lewis has been puffed (as “foremost libel lawyer” etc) for years by a Jewish and/or pro-Israel cabal in the UK mass media, certainly since 2012, when the bastard started to (try to) persecute me. Connections included “UK Lawyers for Israel” [“UKLFI”] and the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] and its chief spokesperson, “Slitherman”.
12-14 years ago, Lewis was often seen being interviewed on TV (in relation to the now almost forgotten UK “phonehacking” scandal) and a few very simple defamation cases, notably one involving Katie Hopkins and “Jack Monroe” (Melissa Hadjicostas), the fraudulent “Bootstrap Cook”, since exposed as a dishonest “grifter”.
Jewish scribblers in, for example, the Daily Mail (and other newspapers), made sure to give Lewis favourable coverage, as when he married Z-list one-time sort-of “celebrity” (she read the news on Sky for a while, about 25 years ago) Caroline Feraday (who joined with Lewis in attacking me on Twitter), and relocated with her to Los Angeles, but somehow there was no Press coverage at all when the marriage fell to pieces within a year, and Lewis had to return to the UK alone and broke.
I covered all this in my blog articles about the egregious Lewis, a few of which I shall post below.
The same happened when Lewis was “convicted” at the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal [“SDT”] for a few of his many social media abuses. There was almost no coverage at all. “They” (((they))) covered it up. Even when it leaked out, and he was found guilty, it was spun along the lines of “the Tribunal chose to support Nazis, not a Jew defending himself” (a gross distortion of the truth).
Incidentally, Lewis was such a successful libel lawyer and “reputation specialist” that his own Counsel, in addressing the Tribunal in mitigation, stressed that any fine should be reduced to a modest amount because Lewis was “someone without any means“, and “whose only assets are his own clothes, a mobility scooter, and a private pension valued at £70 per week.”…
In fact, it seems that Lewis did have one other asset, but one that seems to have been dishonestly concealed from the Tribunal— a flat in Eilat, Israel.
[nb: that picture of Lewis is from around 2012. He is now virtually unable to stand up, by reason of multiple sclerosis, and many think that his mental faculties, never as acute as his supporters would have people believe, are now in steep decline.]
Patron Law still claim Lewis is the UK’s foremost media, libel and privacy lawyer.
The reality is that Lewis is clueless and a danger to his clients.
Kiev’s European sponsors are ordering Zelensky to fight until the last Ukrainian, Russia's permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said at a Security Council meeting on Ukraine:https://t.co/SDWsURm6uzpic.twitter.com/L700vwYx2j
70% of all Russian oil is bought by China and India. So the way forward, I'm going to Paris and I'm going to Germany after this trip. I'm going to urge our European allies to lower the price cap, to make it harder on Putin's fossil fuel economy,… pic.twitter.com/B1bZKVux1n
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 30, 2025
Graham is one of the worst puppets of the Jewish/Zionist/Israel lobby in the Senate (though amid many others). One has to ask why the Israel puppets in the USA, in the UK, in France etc, always support the Kiev regime…
“Those of us who think the extreme policy of mass immigration is undermining our economy, culture, rule of law, and society are now winning the argument in this country”https://t.co/kOwTtpFtTs
Agree 💯 What you have to grasp is that most “experts” are not really interested in truth or empirical reality. They are only interested in bending evidence (surveys, polls, etc) around their pro-immigration/socially liberal priors. Trust me. I worked alongside it for 20 yrs. https://t.co/784pyT5oHo
Anything from any Indians, Pakistanis, or other non-whites on this issue can be disregarded as biased and/or with an agenda.
44% of Britons now say Reform UK counts as a 'main party', up from 29% in January
Labour: 89% say is a main party (-1 from 16-17 Jan) Conservatives: 84% (-4) Lib Dems: 47% (+3) Reform UK: 44% (+15) SNP: 25% (+1) Greens: 13% (+4) pic.twitter.com/gbnD0jfV4j
In effect, though, the UKIP of 2014 is still around, having passed through two further incarnations— Brexit Party and now Reform UK.
As to the LibDems, their facade is still standing, thanks to the LibDems being the default non-Lab/non-Con alternative-choice or dustbin party, but as a party putting forward real ideas, they are almost a nullity.
Reform UK are the party Britons are most likely to say is best able to handle immigration, though 31% say no party could handle the issue well
In the end, only a real social-national party can deal with the problem. Reform, for me, is just an underwhelming way-station.
With No 10 dismissing speculation that the government would reverse course on Winter Fuel Payments, our poll shows 47% of Britons continue to support restricting WFPs to only those on pension credit or means-tested benefits
That polling may be accurate but, if it is, leaves out the important voting effects. Hardly anyone of or above State Pension age supports the “confiscation” of universal Winter Fuel Payment; very few aged 55+ support the “confiscation”. Most of those supporting Starmer-stein and Rachel Reeves in this will be under 40, perhaps even under 30.
The WFP “confiscation” will have electoral repercussions right through the present Parliament and on to the next general election. One of several factors which have already sunk fake Labour.
Disgusting betrayal
— Cathy Morgan (AFH) I exist 🌸 (@CathyMo41926708) May 13, 2025
Starmer expects the public to believe that he has suddenly discarded his core beliefs and now embraces the kind of thinking he has called "Far Right" on so many occasions. His decision to present as the second coming of Enoch Powell will make him even more unpopular on both sides
Were I to publish on the blog what I think should be done with evil “immigrants welcome” (“invaders welcome”) expenses cheat Yvette Cooper, I should probably have to endure the nuisance and boredom of the UK’s poundshop Stasi police at my door (yet again)…
[Yvette Cooper welcoming the invaders trashing our country. In non-legalistic lay terms, meaning in simple language, this is treason]
Like most of Starmer-stein’s Cabinet, Yvette Cooper is a member of Labour Friends of Israel.
Moscow is the future! This is the world’s first year-round modern electric water transportation 🛥️ Moscow’s public transport system is out of this world, I’ve never seen anything like it. pic.twitter.com/soUhCrLA6Q
— Sasha Meets Russia (@sashameetsrus) May 13, 2025
Moscow must be (?) becoming more convenient than I remember…
Last time I was there was 18 years ago, in 2007.
Well, @YouTube has deleted yet another account @RussianRoad_, they had interesting videos about foreigners that moved to Russia, who told their personal stories about life here. How does this violate any terms? Enough with the Russophobic censorship!
— Sasha Meets Russia (@sashameetsrus) May 12, 2025
As frequently noted on the blog, though, immigration on such a huge scale impacts all other issues— housing, NHS, crime, tax, economy, environment, water supply, State pensions and other benefits etc.
The next general election may not be until 2029, so much ground to cover before then, but those numbers would result in a House of Commons with 310 Reform MPs (on the cusp of a working majority), 169 Lab, 72 LibDem, 36 SNP, 33 Cons (etc).
The Conservative Party, as in another poll yesterday, relegated to a pretty poor 5th place in the Commons. Among the 94 Con MPs likely to be ejected would be Mel Stride, James Cleverly, Suella Braverman, Jeremy Hunt, David Davis, Jesse Norman, Robert Jenrick, Rishi Sunak and, last but not least, Kemi Badenoch.
Local councillor reported to POLICE by Labour colleague after expressing concern for 'unfair' Afghan refugee scheme: 'Residents should get the same support!'https://t.co/BnlYI6J8P8
I was last there in 1974, I think, aged maybe 17. Having dropped out of school [https://rbcs.org.uk/], I worked for a while as temp dogsbody for an agency that sent me to various places short of workers. The one in Bracknell was at the Waitrose warehouse (next to Waitrose HQ). I was there for a couple of weeks. I used to go there daily from Caversham Heights (north-west of Reading) on my 75 cc Italian scooter (absolute top speed 60 mph, normal top speed 50).
I remember the brief experience mainly because, one fine day, two Thames Valley Police detectives from Reading wanted to interview me in the office. They did so, and fingerprinted me. Apparently, the other agency workers, who all arrived and departed by minibus, had already been interviewed. I was told that quite a lot of Waitrose canned products had gone missing.
Well, it turned out that all the agency workers except me had been “having it away” with Waitrose’s stuff. I was cleared almost immediately, I think mainly by the absence of fingerprint evidence against me, but all the others were, I was told, charged with theft. I had had no idea that they were “having it away” with tins of salmon or whatever. Naive me.
Not that I was necessarily more honest than the others (who were all much older than me, in their thirties or forties); I just had no use for whatever Waitrose products they had apparently been stealing.
Bracknell was very different then, I think, and smaller; the same is true of my old school at Sonning, looking now at its website. Pretty much only the original old house (Holme Park house) is the same; a whole large complex is now around it. New facilities, new buildings, even a new road system:
[Reading Blue Coat School, Sonning, Berkshire]
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And we're now entering the period of the year where we can expect small boat arrivals to spiral. https://t.co/SG8n6cJfTr
Hard-hitting critique of Starmer-stein. In my view, though, not hard-hitting enough.
Starmer-stein is of course, and in ordinary language, a traitor.
Russian troops liberated the community of Mirolyubovka in the Donetsk region over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/PmzCTVggumpic.twitter.com/0lTkYlRJma
Comforting, in a way, that only 20% of the population is irredeemably stupid (or malicious?).
Zelensky's entourage sees captured civilians from Russia’s Kursk Region as "a valuable bargaining chip," Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service said in a statement obtained by TASS:https://t.co/rP4VRGTYKLpic.twitter.com/9fXoF7xVw8
The government of “Ukraine” (the Kiev-regime fake state) is a brutal and corrupt dictatorship, ruled mainly by Jew-Zionists.
Macron: We gave Ukraine everything we could
"France cannot deliver more weapons to Ukraine and thus deprive its own army. It has already given everything it could, and has tripled production. Our army is not prepared for a long, high-intensity conflict," Macron said, adding… pic.twitter.com/jLxXM8YNvT
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) May 13, 2025
Late music
[The Banksters, controversial mural in East London, later censored (painted over by order) after complaints from Jewish organizations that it was “antisemitic”]
I read a couple of pieces in the online-only Independent newspaper and its connected Indy100 site. Semi-literate, semi-educated. Examples? In the Independent, in an interview with the ex-MP, Mike Amesbury, Amesbury described the three days he recently spent in prison as “…surreal…like an out-of-body experience“, which the Independent‘s scribbler, one Ellie Crabbe, wrote down as “an outer body experience“. No sub-editor (if they even have any) corrected Ms. Crabbe’s egregious mistake. Appalling ignorance. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/reform-labour-amesbury-runcorn-chancellor-b2745519.html.
Meanwhile, in the Indy100, one Harriet Brewis, described as “ the Chief Reporter at indy100, covering everything from scientific discoveries to online trends. She previously worked on the Evening Standard’s news desk, heading up the coronavirus blog throughout 2020 and writing the website’s leading stories“, writes that a lake in California has returned after long absence, the water having been extracted by “the greed of colonialists“! Ha ha… Is this an English news outlet, or a Cuban one?
The water extraction was in the USA of the late 19thC, as the article does say, so “colonialists” is a bit anachronistic, arguably, and not really accurate anyway, however bad the treatment of the local Indians/Native Americans may have been.
I might add that that report was published somewhere else a year or two ago. I recall reading it, or some version of it.
“Former chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said the Conservatives cannot rule out becoming extinct because of a “massive earthquake” in politics that is seeing the fracturing of the old two-party system.
Senior Conservatives are increasingly alarmed about polls that show support for the party plummeting, while Reform UK is soaring.
Some Conservative party sources said there appeared to be “very little dynamism” within Conservative Campaign Headquarters about trying to turn the party’s electoral fortunes around, while many local activists and some agents have already made the leap to supporting Reform.
On Wednesday morning, a YouGov Westminster voting intention poll put Reform on 29%, Labour on 22%, the Conservatives on 17%, the Liberal Democrats 16%, and the Greens 10% – suggesting the Tories are now flirting with fourth place in popularity.“
[Guardian]
In fact, the Conservative Party may well soon be in fifth place in terms of numbers of Commons seats (after Reform, Labour, LibDems, and the SNP).
“The government’s planned disability benefit cuts will hit 700,000 families who are already in poverty, according to internal Department for Work and Pensions forecasts obtained by the Guardian.
The figures, sourced under the Freedom of Information Act, are in addition to the projected 250,000 people who will be newly driven below the poverty line by the cuts, as set out by the government’s impact assessment in March.
Disability rights campaigners called the new disclosure “truly shocking” and said the changes would push people even further away from having the means to find work.
The DWP estimates that 3.2 million families across Great Britain will lose out under the plans in 2029/2030, about three years after the cuts are due to take effect. Of those, 700,000 will be families already categorised as being in relative poverty, when taking housing costs into account.“
[Guardian]
So that is some of the human and social cost of the policies of Starmer-stein, Rachel Reeves, and Liz Kendall (all members, incidentally, of Labour Friends of Israel). What, however of the political cost to Labour?
We see Labour already languishing in the opinion polls below 25%, in some at only 22%. I have already blogged about the fact that the UK population now has about 20% of its population non-white, and that those voters (those eligible and actually voting) probably now provide the vast bulk of Labour votes.
Since Starmer-stein lied his way to the office of Prime Minister in July 2024, his misgovernment has alienated the “average white families”, those above State Pension age, those approaching State Pension age, almost all British workers at or below average incomes, anyone concerned about the racial and cultural degradation of the country, anyone concerned about developers trashing the green countryside, and anyone at all concerned about the migration-invasion of between half a million and a million immigrants and/or invaders every single year.
Now, in addition to the above, Starmer-stein’s regime is about to hit not only the various types of disabled person, but also their families and others. The biggest hit will come in 2028 and 2029, just when the next general election is probably going to be held.
[“But I voted Labour last time! Never again!“]
The result of all of that is that Labour will quite likely have (a trend forecast on the blog quite a while ago, a few years ago) votes mainly from (some of) the “blacks and browns”, and (some of) the public service workers, including (some of) the NHS workforce. Even the 18-24 demographic generally is turning away from Labour.
The electoral result may be that Labour can only score 22%, maybe only 20%, at the next general election. The Conservative Party, on present showing, may not even achieve that. The LibDems are the default “alternative” or “dustbin party”, so will pick up votes from both, but mainly from disaffected Con voters; perhaps 15% or so overall. Greens and several others will take (combined) about 10%-15% of votes. That leaves maybe 30% of the whole available for Reform.
Nature abhors a vacuum. If Reform gets to 30%, with Con and Lab both in the 20%-25% range, the earthquake will have happened. Reform will be in government with a 30 or even 50-seat majority, Labour may have fewer than 140 MPs, and the Con Party may slump to as few as 25.
Once the main System parties are displaced, the only real alternative to Reform, after 2029, will be real social nationalism.
So less money for the Treasury (which means it will have to be found from elsewhere), and more unwanted immigrants coming to the UK (and don’t believe the nonsense about “short-term working” etc…).
The Starmer-stein and Rachel Reeves fake “Labour” government is a disaster in every way.
Palestinian children being arrested for walking on a Jewish only street in the West Bank. pic.twitter.com/8Tjm8CrFCb
Germany’s spy agency has just walked back on describing the Alternative for Germany as “extremist”. I wrote about how dodgy that decision was here https://t.co/n9g3CNTsl5
Oh yeah. Loads of people try to liken their fellow citizens to extremists on behalf of the state only to trip and fall into a personality transplant a few years later. Happens all the time. We should definitely trust everything he says.
The above nonsense is only part of huge wastage. The “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic “Test and Trace” programme alone was 4x worse. About £38 billion. I favour government spending, in principle, but the devil is in the detail. The kind of idiots who get into System politics in the UK are simply not capable of running anything properly, or of making the right decisions.
They’ve already gone after the elderly, the disabled…. I wonder who’s lives they’ll improve next 🤔
Mason has been examined previously on the blog. A System asset of some kind or other, but one who, for whatever reason, likes to be thought of as radical or even revolutionary. He always supports police-state measures; he did it during the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic, he did so when the BNP was rising up, he even did so when UKIP looked like becoming a major party. He certainly did so in relation to Greece, when the popular Golden Dawn social-national party was repressed by the fake “Left” or “socialist” party, Syriza, when the latter was in power. Syriza quickly sold out to international banking and the EU. The Golden Dawn people, many of them, still sit in prison.
NEW POST. A political revolution is now underway. A note on the latest bombshell polling from the UK including maps, charts, the latest data and more https://t.co/gnu13GouWK
Electoral Calculus suggests that those numbers would result in a Commons in which Reform would have 421 seats out of 650. Labour would have 92, the LibDems 56, the SNP 43, and the Cons only 8. Eight MPs… Surely terminal for the Conservative Party. https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html.
Tom, these details don't matter. Anything that is to detriment of the already struggling British worker is just intolerable. We are done at this point, we are absolutely done.
That ghastly little “Conservative” (?) scribbler and talking head, Harwood, really deserves some bad luck to come his way. Pro-Israel, pro-globalist finance-capitalism, in favour of cuts to public services and social security, in favour of unrestricted housing development. A System puppet, retailing “controlled opposition” rubbish.
48% of Britons say that immigration is one of the top issues facing the country, the joint-highest level since the election
[“48% of Britons say that immigration is one of the top issues facing the country, the joint-highest level since the election Economy: 52% (-2 from 26-28 Apr) Immigration: 48% (+4) Health: 36% (-1) Crime: 22% (-1) Defence: 20% (-2) Housing: 20% (=) Environment: 15% (-2) Tax: 14% (-1) Europe: 13% (+2) Welfare: 13% (+2).”]
Maybe the British people are at last beginning to wake up.
Many Europeans and Americans think World War 3 is likely in the next 5-10 years
Defend? Against what? There is a concerted attempt to push for war with Russia, which would be both mad and pointless, Russia having no interest at all in invading central or western parts of Europe.
Ukraine was always part of Russia; as for the Baltic States or pribaltika, while I respect their rights to self-determination and their own cultures, that respect would not outweigh the right of the UK, France, and Germany etc not to get into a nuclear conflict with Russia over that small part of Northern Europe. In fact, the only reason Russia is now overshadowing the three Baltic states is because they have joined NATO. The same is true of Finland.
Present-day Russia is not like the old Soviet Union. It does not have the expansionist drive that came out of Marxist-Leninist ideology. It is also far less efficient in terms of military power (and secret intelligence etc).
European culture and civilization is threatened not by that fantasy “Russian invasion” but by migration-invasion from backward parts of the world, and I see very few and very weak attempts being made even to slow it, let alone stop it.
'People feel so let down by this Labour government.'
Reform UK MP @SarahForRuncorn outlines the key challenges facing her constituents in Runcorn and Helsby, saying that the Labour government 'have damaged' people 'very quickly'. pic.twitter.com/nJhPP2zvbj
Boris Johnson was just as bad. He literally removed the requirement for British companies to advertise jobs in Britain first while flooding the country with low-skill, low-wage immigration that is making us poorer and driving crime. https://t.co/VRa6DiqVEu
“Boris” Johnson— part-Jew and pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, and a Conservative Friends of Israel member; Starmer-stein likewise— pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, not himself Jewish (as far as is known) but with a Jewish wife, and with children being brought up as if fully-Jewish, Starmer being a member of Labour Friends of Israel.
Join the dots. Both Starmer-stein and “Boris” Johnson were fanatically in favour of the police-state measures brought in under cover of the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic, both funneled British taxpayers’ monies to “Ukraine” (the mainly Jewish regime in Kiev), and both encouraged and still encourage mass immigration into Britain, while having English/British dissidents and protesters arrested. Both also want to allow (((developers))) to build on what is left of the “green and pleasant land”.
As I say, just join the dots.
Where are they going to live? Social or not, they’re going to need housing and healthcare.
— Lis Villiers 🇬🇧🏴 (@LisVilliers) May 6, 2025
Quite. We are well past the stage of treating our country like an international grazing strip and judging migrant groups based on their balance sheet.
Once again, we see where that Harwood bastard is coming from. For him, British politics and society is all about the (((money))). Same goes for GB News generally (and, even worse, the “no-one watches” Talk TV).
Interesting that Harwood and GB News, supposedly small-c “conservative”, now start to defend Starmer-stein, i.e. now that his fake Labour (((government))) is collapsing amid public hatred of it and him.
Tweeter “@benonwine” should consider what percentage of the UK population is now non-European (non-white). About 20%. Not all of that bloc vote, and not all of that bloc who vote, vote Labour, but most do. Question more or less answered.
As to Goodwin’s tweet and YouGov’s polling, according to Electoral Calculus [https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html], those numbers would be enough to give Reform about 345 MPs, and a goodly-sized Commons majority (19, but in practical terms about 30 or 40. Other significant parties: 143 Labour MPs, 71 LibDems, SNP 38, Cons 23.
On that basis, the once-great Conservative Party would be reduced to a very small rump of 23 MPs, and would be a very poor fifth party in the Commons, after Reform, Labour, LibDems, and the SNP. It would be the end of the Conservative Party, bar the shouting about the whys and wherefores.
Sending Kemi Badenoch back to Nigeria at once, or at least sacking her (asap), might save some of the present Con Party MPs, but not most, I think. The tipping point may already have been reached. Every time I see the woman on TV, I think, “can anyone really see that as a Prime Minister?“.
Russia foiled a large-scale attack of Ukrainian UAVs on the regions on Wednesday night by destroying nine drones over Moscow, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said. TASS has compiled the main facts about the attack:https://t.co/ndP4TgvfgDpic.twitter.com/vG5jznxxWW
My favourite Art of War aphorism – sit by the riverside long enough and the bodies of your enemies come floating by.
The only way they can escape age and infirmity and all its indignities is by dying. They will know soon enough and I hope they have enough humanity left to be… https://t.co/g4vZIGquoG
Certainly, I have found that to be true. Many who have tried to attack me over the course of my life (I am now 68) have hit hard times, and some (quite a few) have died. Not exactly The Consolation of Philosophy, but rather heartwarming nonetheless…
Operatives from Russia’s FSB have prevented a planned terrorist attack organized by Ukrainian special services near a war monument in the town of Kakhovka in the Kherson Region:https://t.co/x7r6eXrKEopic.twitter.com/t5m4LmIJpK
I went to Greece last summer. First day in Athens I saw graffiti that read ‘refugees welcome, tourists go home.’ I love Greek people and culture, but Greece is suffering from the migrant crisis. Most of Europe is. https://t.co/Vj0ZkyPOEBpic.twitter.com/pdgTSRU7IQ
Not so sure about that last comment from “@elias_baa”…
Over the last year the British people paid £1.67 BILLION on hotel and accommodation for illegal migrants and asylum-seekers, equivalent to £4.6 million every day or £3,172 every minute. These costs over 10 years are equivalent to 15 new hospitals for the country.
'Keir Starmer and the Labour government have just thrown British workers under the proverbial bus.'@GoodwinMJ slams the 'two-tier tax system' after the UK-India trade deal allows Indian workers to be exempt from national insurance contributions. pic.twitter.com/LDoO4qI1xT
The only obstacle to the 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine is the Kiev government, which violates the existing agreements, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s official spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said:https://t.co/jQJe4LSRQXpic.twitter.com/IKp9kJTA7F
Surprising, yet not so surprising. Labour has done rather little for the people of Scotland in the past several decades. The SNP is only supported by, at most, half of the electorate. Reform may be the banner to which anti-SNP voters will flock.
A Labour MP loyally advertising to her constituents that as a result of her government’s policies, UK businesses will find it easier to outsource their products to foreign suppliers. It’s political suicide. Starmer is sending his MPs into the electoral Valley of Death. https://t.co/5uVNVv83lE
I think I had not previously heard of that one. Rosie Wrighting. 27 years old. Sounds like a total bimbo. Selected/elected as MP aged 26. Had a job with ASOS for what seems to have been months not years. Never done anything else. Studied (Mickey Mouse “degree”?) fashion, we are told…
The utter insanity of modern politics. Labour MPs and supporters are today fanning out to praise globalisation. It’s the Right who are now challenging the prevailing economic orthodoxy. And people on the Left clutch their pearls and say “what shall we do about populism?!?”.
Keir Starmer has decided on his response to the British people in the wake of last week’s results. It’s to turn and face them, stick two fingers up, and say “screw you” > Mail Plus > https://t.co/1cH0FZs1IF
The present “elected” dictatorship in the UK is evil.
“Aux armes, citoyens“…
My love for Russia began here. My grandparents house in Siberia 💗 Many wrongly believe that Siberia is a constant frozen wasteland, but in the spring and summer it’s a paradise full of plants, berries, and sunshine. This is my home, the one that hasn’t changed since childhood. pic.twitter.com/oHG3Ppae6K
Well, 6/10 this week, trumping the 2/10 scored by political journalist John Rentoul. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 3, 5, and 8.
The Jewish-Zionist plot to bring down Corbyn
Starmer is just a piece of cardboard which is moved from place to place but there was intentionality from the donors behind him: destroy the popular left and make Labour into a new, "responsible" Tory party. 2024 Labour voters were conned just as members were conned in 2020.
The website Declassified UK has published a review of a book on the anti-Corbyn campaign, headlined “Morgan McSweeney’s ‘plot without precedent in Labour history’— A new book chronicles how Labour strategist Morgan McSweeney used ‘any means necessary’ to destroy Corbyn as leader and install Starmer.”
As one would expect, the book and the review both term the anti-Corbyn plotters “the Right“, rather than “Jews” or “Jew-Zionists”; and they use the now so-outdated “Right/Left” descriptors.
In fact, the plot to topple Corbyn was plainly one planned and funded by pro-Israeli, and probably actual Israeli, sources at root, though carried out by Zionists or pro-Zionists not all of which were Jews (though many were).
I followed Corbyn’s progress on the blog almost from when the blog started in late 2016; certainly from 2017. It was clear to me that there was a basically Jewish —and almost certainly also Israeli— conspiracy to topple him.
Not that I much favoured Corbyn, a relatively uneducated man with simplistic socialist policy viewpoints. Also, while being anti-Israeli, Corbyn always gave lip-service to some of the Zionist propaganda regulars, such as the WW2 “holocaust” narrative. He was not ruthless enough to crush his enemies.
Still, Corbyn was at least a recognizable and relatively decent English type. Starmer (“Starmer-stein”) has no decency and is just a careerist drone, out for what he can get, as witness his grabbing whatever freebies, expenses-paid items, holiday trips etc he and his Jewish wife can grab. Also, of course, his directionless travel on policy.
The fake-Labour “welfare” cuts, the cheating of the pensioners, unemployed, sick, disabled etc. The U-turn on the “trans” nonsense, too. On the one hand on his knees (literally, with Angela Rayner) before the black mobs of “Black Lives Matter”, but then playing the poundshop Stalin when English people got angry at the migration-invasion.
The website post is worth reading, but cannot be linked to, it seems.
Donald Trump has said that most points of the possible agreement on settlement of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine have been agreed to, adding that the two sides should now have a meeting "at very high levels":https://t.co/RbZoQy2YUbpic.twitter.com/Iv3OuABh9L
I wonder. I am minded to think that, even if a temporary peace is agreed soon, it will not last. Russia must take and retain all of the territory east of the Dnieper.
There are reasons to believe that Ukrainian intelligence agencies could be involved in the killing of Lieutenant General Moskalik, deputy chief of the Main Operations Department of the Russian Armed Forces’ General Staff, Maria Zakharova said:https://t.co/II7ekmQzGvpic.twitter.com/S7R5GwN7lu
Friday’s blast in the town of Balashikha outside Moscow, which killed a Russian general, once again showed the Kiev regime’s true colors, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said:https://t.co/Te7Es2m0ytpic.twitter.com/kF6c30JPY1
Balashikha is, inter alia, a kind of colony for high-ranking Russian military people, situated east of Moscow, and a kind of outer suburb.
The Kiev regime seems to be able to hit individuals in Russia quite efficiently. It is an open question whether the Kiev-regime secret services have, or have had, the help of the CIA and/or MOSSAD to do that. Not the CIA any more, I should have thought.
Of course, such assassinations, while high-profile, do not change the fact that, on the ground in Ukraine, Russian forces continue to advance steadily on all relevant sectors of the front.
Russian troops liberated six communities in the DPR and the Kursk Region over the week of April 19-25 in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Friday:https://t.co/rTGglcAIjYpic.twitter.com/l9carzPjay
Outrageous. The British state is now taking away even more homes for hardworking, tax-paying Britons and instead giving them to illegal immigrants who break our laws. These people should be deported -not put in private housing at the taxpayers’ expense https://t.co/aUiyZsVaub
As I predicted long ago on the blog. I said that Starmer-stein would try to “solve” the “small boats” migration-invasion by “processing” claims (rubberstamping them) swiftly, possibly overseas, thus magically turning illegal immigrants into legal ones, then emptying the asylum hotels by gifting the invaders council housing or State-paid private rental housing that should be going to British people.
This is happening all over Britain —“HMOs” (Houses for multiple occupancy) being pushed into communities across Britain despite nobody wanting them
I hope that the voters of Runcorn and Helsby send a firm message —by voting Reform— to Starmer-stein at the by-election next Thursday.
It is if we are ignoring the Tories have been doing the same for a year(s). SERCO contracts are not new to the PRS. Neither are false promises to stop the boats.
"Bureaucrats are rewiring the NHS around an extreme ideology that judges people on the colour of their skin and discriminates against whites."https://t.co/4CCyzi5Lqv
On those figures, Reform would have well over 250 MPs, Labour fewer than 190, and the Cons only 75. The Cons might then be the third-largest party in the Commons, but possibly only the fourth-largest. Terminal.
Dear @ZelenskyyUa, Europe will always stand by Ukraine in the pursuit of peace.⁰ You can count on our support at the negotiating table to achieve a just and lasting peace. ⁰Today, we also discussed the steps Ukraine is taking to earn its place in our family of nations. pic.twitter.com/T8jXnEMbqu
That evil spirit, Ursula von der Leyen, talks about peace, while supplying the brutal and corrupt Kiev regime dictatorship with huge amounts of arms, ammunition, and EU taxpayers’ money.
“Wherever two or more are gathered in my name...” (but are they?).
🚨 IN FULL: The list of places where Serco is planning to house asylum seekers in rented accommodation:
North West: Allerdale Barrow-in-Furness Blackburn & Darwen Blackpool Bolton Burnley Bury Carlisle Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Chorley Copeland Eden (Penrith)…
Runcorn and Helsby voters!— do what you have to do next Thursday to sink Labour. If you vote Reform, well and good. If you want to vote Green or elsewhere, OK. Whatever you do, don’t vote Starmer-stein fake Labour, even if it means just staying home.
Iran and Russia are preparing to sign an agreement to transport 55 billion cubic meters of gas, as well as a $4 billion contract to develop seven Iranian oil fields. Russia is also expected to finance the construction of a new nuclear power plant in Iran. pic.twitter.com/dzEKLb6jsm
The operation to liberate the Kursk Region from Ukrainian troops has been completed and Russia’s Supreme Commander-in-Chief President Vladimir Putin has received a relevant report, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said:https://t.co/3lURg0aV6upic.twitter.com/k8yJR6zNo6
Operatives from Russia’s Federal Security Service have detained a suspect in the murder of Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the Russian General Staff, the FSB Public Relations Center said:https://t.co/gRByKv1l5Apic.twitter.com/FWU3hoPc4c
They count the rockets being intercepted; seem to have numbered twelve.
Sheep Hunting:
Dozens of sheep fell into the sea off the coast of Aden, Yemen, and farmers rushed to rescue them from drowning in an incredible scene! pic.twitter.com/EgVg1rjJKj
[Philby on a 5-kopeck late-Soviet commemorative postage stamp, and described as “Soviet Razvedchik“, a term which might be translated as “intelligencer”, rather than the grubbier-sounding “spy” (in Russian, “shpion”); “razvedchik” is a more polite or dignified term]
“Secret surveillance of Britain’s notorious double agent, Kim Philby, made public for the first time in archived documents, reveals how keenly the Security Service wanted to confirm or disprove early suspicions of his high-level treachery.
In daily bulletins submitted to MI5 in November 1951, undercover operatives describe how Philby, codenamed Peach, moved about London.
They said he gave “no outward sign of being either nervous or on the alert, but your well trained man should not do so; every movement is natural – again as it should be”
[Guardian]
The whole Philby thing has always been hugely overblown. Philby himself has been over-rated, too. Superficially well-educated, yes, but really a rather dogmatic Marxist-Leninist who, under other formative circumstances, might have been like some of the other basically mediocre professional-level bourgeois Englishmen I have met in my life, and who were not in secret-intelligence work but, variously, Roman Catholic converts, and/or military officers or barristers or other activity.
Philby was certainly no great mind, though he evidently thought himself very clever. Likewise, he was a bit of a plodder ideologically.
I recall that Philby wrote in his supposed memoirs (possibly part-ghosted by KGB helpers), My Silent War, or elsewhere, that “you choose your side and stick with it“, i.e. rather as others do to the Labour or Conservative parties, or to (the contemporary British obsession) football clubs. Unthinking loyalty. Stick-in-the-mud loyalty.
The puffing of Philby as the “masterspy”, or even “spymaster”, suited both sides in the Cold War: the Soviet side getting the gloss of having not only suborned Philby and other “Establishment” Englishmen to the Marxist/Soviet cause, but also having outplayed Western intelligence agencies in the spy game.
As for the British part of the Western side, Philby’s prominence could be presented as an example of why pervasive “security” (and the whole Cold War stance) was necessary. Also, his supposed “brilliance” in a way bolstered the reputation of institutions such as the more expensive English schools (Philby was at Westminster School) and, of course, the supposedly elite universities, in particular Cambridge.
The whole “Cambridge spies” story tends to puff the reputation of SIS and MI5 (despite their having been outplayed) by making their role seem terribly important. One scribbler even penned a well-known book called Philby— The Spy Who Betrayed A Generation, as if the Cambridge Spies were pretty much the centrepiece of British history since the 1930s, rather than an obscure footnote to it.
In the 1930s (when Philby started to work for Soviet organizations), there was (in the first half of the decade) the Great Depression, and the initial triumph of National Socialism in Germany. In the middle of the 1930s to 1939, the Spanish Civil War, while in Britain itself, the economy was recovering and society changing .
Then, in the early/mid 1940s, there was the titanic Second World War (in the Soviet Union, the Great Patriotic War).
In Britain, after 1945, there were the great social changes of the 1950s and 1960s. By that time, the “Cambridge Spies” were mostly not even in the UK. Maclean and Burgess had fled in 1951, and Philby was in journalistic exile in the Middle East. The economic and social changes in the UK were the main events, together with the start of the disastrous migration-invasion of non-whites into the UK, and Britain’s retreat from Empire.
The “Cambridge Spies” were not even footnotes to much of that. Near-irrelevant, despite the obsessions of the Westminster Bubblers and newspaper scribblers.
What damaged Britain in the 1940s through to the 1960s, and then on to today, was not a few spies passing on information to the Soviet Union, but the abandonment of Empire, the importation of blacks and browns in vast numbers, the cultural decadence etc.
You often see Philby and his fellow Cambridge spies described as “upper-class” or even “aristocratic”. In fact, not one was of “aristocratic” background, though all (except Cairncross) were affluent or wealthy. Philby’s own father was from an affluent government-connected family [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John_Philby] but a fact generally ignored or covered-up is that Philby’s mother, Dora, was half-Indian, a so-called “chi-chi” (pron. “shi-shi”), which may have subtly affected his loyalties.
General Kalugin, in his memoirs, describes how his superiors had the idea of using Philby, then in Moscow, as a kind of lure for potential agents in the West, by showing that he was respected, had a good life etc. His first meeting with the shambling drunken Philby makes a memorable picture.
Incidentally, Philby never learned to speak or read Russian beyond a rudimentary level, and had English-language books supplied to him via the KGB (presumably via people at the London embassy, and the diplomatic bag).
In the early 1990s, sometime around 1994, I was slightly acquainted with a Russian businessman living in London, and with an office in Regent Street, who had some legal business (I was a barrister at the time). We had lunch at least once at my Inn (of Court), Lincoln’s Inn. I recall that the Spanish waitress was very taken with “Ed” [Edvard] and his rather Scandinavian looks (he was from the Baltic regions) and even asked me later if I might effect an introduction for her (that never happened).
“Ed” was quite open about the fact that, prior to his taking to capitalist business activity, he had been in the KGB, though that would only have been, at a guess, for a relatively few years. He recalled having been at a lecture or two given by Philby in Moscow (he said that that had been at the Lubyanka).
Incidentally, those comments in the Guardian from the MI5 surveillance directorate in 1951 do tend to beg the question; after all, if a surveillance target is acting naturally, then either he is not guilty, or is literally acting (and/or has been trained to act) naturally, so in fact may be guilty. If, though, the target looks nervous, looks for reflections in shop windows etc, does that mean that he is guilty, or is he just a nervous wreck and/or afraid of being thought guilty? Wilderness of mirrors.
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This is getting obscene now. How do you give people greater dignity by removing their ability to wash below the waist and get in and out of the shower. https://t.co/Htcx53yS2A
The sheer hypocrisy of the Labour Friends of Israel “Labour” government is simply unbelievable. Surely Liz Kendall, Rachel Reeves, Torsten Bell, Starmer-stein etc can see that? Or are they so removed from truth and decency that they cannot see it? That might be even more alarming.
A new MP for Runcorn? Bring on Reform, say disillusioned voters | Reform UK | The Guardian https://t.co/EgBKUoNgaE
I should imagine that even Labour-inclined voters will be voting Reform UK (or staying home) at the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, in order to send a message (and/or a kick) to this horrifyingly callous and irredeemably incompetent misgovernment.
As to Conservative Party loyalists in the area, I should say that the Cons have no chance— so vote Reform in order to stick it to fake Labour.
From “tepid bath of managed decline” (really offensive) to blood bath. On top of 30,000 NHS England jobs. We are the party of work, it’s in our name, says Starmer! I don’t think you are. What a disgrace and totally counterproductive in an already struggling economy. https://t.co/HNL1ZdmhUP
“Given that there is a lot of talk about changes to special educational needs provision and reform plans for the NHS, we should worry about what the government might focus on next. Equally alarming, it seems to me, is a belief in Downing Street that reviving the UK demands embracing the wonders of artificial intelligence, which Keir Starmer believes will have an almost magical effect on everything from social work to education, and realise his new dream of “totally rewiring government”. Because this is an administration so lacking in everyday humanity, that is a much more scary prospect than he and his colleagues seem to realise.“
[John Harris in The Guardian]
I should not be surprised to find (if I am still around) that, somewhere down the line, in 5+ years’ time, the members of the present Cabinet will find themselves up against a wall.
A super piece. I simply don't take Kemi Badenoch seriously. She will never be Prime Minister. I rate her 1/10. Keir Starmer, who I rate 3/10, surely can't believe his luck. Even so, tangentially, I increasingly wonder how much longer Starmer is PM? He'll be gone well before 2029.
Russia and the US have a long way to go to resolve the situation in Ukraine, and there is no point in deceiving ourselves about imminent prospects, said Russian Presidential Press Secretary Peskov pic.twitter.com/SmBOg59npJ
Sumy Oblast or region is in NE Ukraine. Sumy city is NNW of Kharkov; about 150 miles from Kharkov by road but only about 90 miles as the crow flies. About 200 miles east of Kiev.
So Russian forces are in Sumy Oblast now. There seem to be Russian advances in all material parts of the overall front. Kiev-regime forces are falling back.
I don't think people properly understand the extent to which Labour is now the party of the rich. In 1997 the Tories led Labour by 10 points amongst the most affluent AB social class. But Labour led the Tories by 23 points amongst C2s, and 38 points amongst DEs. In 2024 Labour…
Why do many think it impossible that “the lion will lie down with the lamb” in a future age? All things are possible.
Talking point
More tweets
Instead of addressing the root causes of the Ukrainian conflict, Europe is only exacerbating them by increasing military spending and considering the deployment of its troops in Ukraine, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said:https://t.co/g3iz7sEnq1pic.twitter.com/JlZGOa4D4b
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If you want the full story about Beth Grossman of Doughty Street, Mark Lewis of Patron Law, and Daniel Berke of 3D Solicitors, here it is:https://t.co/02BP64b6sl
I think it was Daniel Berke’s firm 3D Solicitors who acted for Pete Newbon in relation to Northumbria. Maybe it was them who advised him not to make the agreed apology?
As to why they gave that advice, my theory is that the plan was to sue Michael Rosen and making the apology…
For those who are unaware of the outline of James Wilson’s (now-successful) libel case against three defendants (all Jews; in one case, possibly only a part-Jew), the defendants were advised and/or represented by Jewish solicitors and barristers who seem to have been, all or variously, professionally negligent and/or incompetent.
Mark Lewis and Daniel Berke were the main solicitors for the defendants, Beth Grossman of Doughty Street Chambers was the barrister (possibly the only barrister; I do not know, and only heard of her recently, via Wilson’s Twitter/X account and Substack blog).
Are people reading your Substack blogs?
— Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 (@MichaelRosenYes) March 21, 2025
I get about 900 views per piece on average. And the daily visits keep going up so far.
I definitely have some very committed readers in the legal field.
I expect they know Mark Lewis professionally and are keen to see his antics finally exposed?
“Lewis’s reputation“? Ha ha! Only ignorant fools think that that is worth more than a plugged nickel. I have blogged many times about him, over many years; he has never once threatened to sue me (no doubt partly by reason of my impecuniosity, but truth as defence –or other defences— may also have much to do with it).
Feel free to republish any of my blog posts. After all, I was a barrister until a pack of Jews procured my wrongful and, it turned out later, actually unlawful disbarment (in 2016): see
Success and failure are never certain. The great Stephen Sedley tells a funny story about when he started as a barrister doing work for North Kensington Law Centre. pic.twitter.com/TC4nydR6P6
Ha. Amusing. As a matter of fact, I myself appeared as Counsel in the High Court several times before Sedley, a High Court judge at the time (early 1990s), notably in a case involving a former member of the Angolan Secret Service.
I doubt that there are many barristers who have never suffered excruciating embarrassment in open court. For example…
[“A civilian that suffered injuries in a drone attack has died in the hospital in Vidnoye outside Moscow, regional Governor Andrey Vorobyov said: https://vk.cc/cJBdl9“— TASS]
[“Более 90 украинских беспилотников сбили над Москвой и Подмосковьем за эту ночь, сообщили в Минобороны. В результате атаки погиб один человек, ранены трое“— Zona Media]
[“More than 90 Ukrainian pilotless drones shot down over Moscow and the Moscow region in the night, announced the Ministry of Defence. As a result of the attack, one person died.“]
Pure terrorism from the Zelensky cabal. Deliberate targeting of residential buildings.
[NEW POST. Bombshell stats the state doesn’t want you to see. They accuse you of “misinformation” while hiding the awkward reality. Mass immigration is driving crime“— Matt Goodwin]
Crimes in the UK by nationality of perpetrator:
Everyone at the Bar of England and Wales knows this, at least in outline, but the Bar is now so packed with craven “me-too” careerists and/or scaredycats that none will say a word. If any do, they get disbarred (as I was), especially if a pack of malicious Jews make complaint (as they did about me).
My reading of that opinion poll is that the voters are unimpressed by all existing political parties. There is a vacuum at present. Reform UK was leaping ahead; it has now stalled. It too much tries to be “reasonable” and “moderate”.
If voters want “centrist” bs and lies, they can vote LibLabCon. Why would they vote Reform? Reform’s leaders are too much focussed on “small boats” etc. Not that that is not a major issue, but “legal” immigration is 20x “illegal”. Yes, 1,000 or even 2,000 migrant-invaders hit the beaches daily now but, on the same day(s), 20,000 or even 40,000 arrive superficially “legally”.
Also, some of the main figures in and around Reform UK are non-whites. That’s no good, and sends a mixed message.
Either Reform UK goes social-national or it will go the same way as both UKIP and Brexit Party. “Conservatism-plus” is not a vote-winner.
Incidentally, that latest opinion poll translates, via Electoral Calculus, into a Commons with 188 Lab seats, 174 Con, 155 Reform, 68 LibDem (Greens 4, SNP 35 etc). Hopelessly hung Parliament, so maybe a Reform/Con coalition.
“A businessman who dismissed antisemitism as “meaningless”, questioned the number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust and cast doubt on Hamas atrocities has been handed a seat in the Legislative Council of the Parliament – or Tynwald – on the Isle of Man.
Gary Clueit’s appointment to the island’s upper chamber on March 4 has sparked outrage, with Manx Jewish community member Michael Josem condemning the Member of the House of Keys (MHKs) who nominated Clueit as “incapable of the judgement required for Tynwald.”
[Jewish Chronicle]
“They” hate even one person dissenting from the narrative they want to broadcast and perpetuate.
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[Pretty clear that Twitter/X has been sabotaged, probably by (?) those Kiev-regime bastards, and that the tweet-embed problem is part of all that. Musk and Trump should cut off all military and intelligence aid to the Zelensky cabal; let Russia take all of Eastern Ukraine, including Kiev]
(((Mark Lewis))) and (((Daniel Berke))) are both fanatical Jew-Zionists. As far as Lewis is concerned, he is both professionally negligent and dishonest. It has been obvious for years. He should be struck off the solicitors’ roll.
I have no idea whether Lewis is in the UK or hiding out in his beloved Israel (he pretended to emigrate there 7 years ago because, said he, there was so much “antisemitism” in England; yet he seems to spend more time here than in OccupiedPalestine Israel).
I cannot imagine who would be silly enough to retain Lewis. He himself admitted in his 2018 Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal proceedings that, at times, he had had no idea what he was writing or doing (by reason, it was claimed, of prescription drug use)! He was actually or effectively sacked by, I believe, all the firms for which he worked, and at the said Tribunal, in 2018, his own Counsel told the disciplinary panel that Lewis should not be fined too heavily (for making many crazed attacks on social media) because his sole assets were his (cheapish, showy) clothes, a mobility scooter, and a private pension worth £70 a week!
For once, I agree with her. Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Liz Kendall (all Labour Friends of Israel members) are evil, and should be punished for what they are intending to do.
[“Not only is this Cameron Osbourne style austerity shit appalling but Labour has spent weeks drip feeding this to the media, scaring some of the most vulnerable people in the process. I am absolutely disgusted with them. It is absolutely indefensible. #DisabilityBenefits.“— Supertanskiii]
[“Yes, I’m going to voice this in my content. It’s not what we voted for. Those with life changing disabilities were brutalised and demeaned under 14 years of shocking Tory misrule. They’re not the people with the “broadest shoulders”. They’re the reason we have a welfare system.”— Supertanskiii]
[“I’m furious that of all the places they could raise money (yes, there’s obv other ways) that they’d target the severely disabled who, funnily enough, won’t be magically be cured by a call with a work coach. PIP was bad enough before I shudder to think what will happen now.“— Supertanskiii]
Well, I doubt that I have ever reposted anything from that tweeter unless to criticize it, but truth is truth.
As I myself have recently blogged, there really is no clear blue water between this “Labour” (Friends of Israel) government and that of the Conservative Friends of Israel ones 2010-2024, and particularly that of David Cameron-Levita and George Gideon Osborne, 2010-2015.
[“It feels like a rerun of austerity and I’m worried about that.” Neil Duncan-Jordan, Labour MP for Poole, says cuts to benefits will create more poverty and says there will be Labour MPs who will vote against welfare benefits cuts. #Newsnight“]
Looks like there are at least a few genuine Labour-style MPs around (but, I am guessing, not many).
Liz Kendall and Rachel Reeves are the main criminals in all this, and then, of course, Starmer-stein.
[“Labour Welfare Reforms latest: Keir Starmer says he’s had enough of people expecting free handouts, so presumably he’ll be sending back all those suits and football tickets.”]
[“Oil supplies to Hungary from Russia have been resumed, while the damage to the Druzhba oil pipeline attacked by the Ukrainian armed forces has been repaired, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said: https://vk.cc/cJCvQU“— TASS]
[“Ukraine’s massive drone attack on Russian regions has exposed Zelensky’s agonizing attempts to pander to his Western patrons by killing civilians, the Russian foreign ministry said: https://vk.cc/cJCwCX“— TASS]
“British Legacy Media in meltdown mode after JD Vance Speech “Again he’s talking rubbish” “Because of Russian interference” The pundits dismiss Vance’s accurately poignant comments as “rubbish & nonsense” and continue to indulge in complete fantasies. Thankfully people are now starting to see straight through these charlatans.“
Ecce the state of “British” political discourse in the msm or “legacy mass media”— a discussion between incredibly ignorant and uncultured scribbler Susie Boniface (the so-called and self-styled “Fleet Street Fox”), and some black woman whom I know not; no idea who she might be.
Those two, and a young woman presenter also unknown to me, “discuss” (entirely tendentiously), the geopolitical consequences of the comments and policies of Trump, J.D. Vance, and Putin. Risible.
That may or may not explain the drastic fall in birth-rates in the more advanced countries, but how to explain the fall of the birth-rate in places such as China, and even India?
In fact, the only regions (with a couple of small exceptions) where the population is still growing via human births (as distinct from mass immigration) are Africa (mainly sub-Saharan Africa, black Africa) and Pakistan/Afghanistan.
Look at the graphic from 2020 (which is already out of date, and the trends noted even more stark in 2025). Replacement of population only happens around or slightly higher than 2.1 children born per woman (average). People used to talk, in the 1960s, 1970s, about the average British family in their modest suburban house and “with 2.4 children”.
Look now. The birth-rate of Europeans is well below replacement rate. UK around 1.5.
That is true (see graphic) even in France and Sweden, whose higher birth-rates are entirely by reason of the invasion by blacks and browns (i.e. children born to the invaders).
I do not know whether the “birth-control in the water” scenario is true, or to what extent, and whether that is deliberate or accidental, and to what extent, if at all, deliberate.
An alternative explanation for the fact that only in the most backward regions (Africa and Pakistan/Afghanistan, parts of the Middle East) are births now well beyond replacement level might be that only the most backward discarnate souls are not now, or have not been relatively recently on the Earth plane. Only or mostly the Africans and south-west Asians now flock into incarnation, to experience the civilization at its height (in some ways).
That may portend the end of our present civilization quite soon.
What the world needs is for a quintessence of the advanced peoples to create a nucleus of Aryan or post-Aryan people, and for that nucleus to create a relatively small number of families who, in turn, can be the seed of a people who, in their turn, can create the basis for a much later super-culture based on —in the correct sense— a super-race.
Most Europeans of today are descended from only three men of the Bronze Age. Worth remembering that fact.
JD Vance is saying out loud what millions of European people are thinking. We are losing our nations through mass uncontrolled immigration, broken borders, censorship, and an elite class that no longer represents the values and voice of the Forgotten Majority
“JD Vance is saying out loud what millions of European people are thinking. We are losing our nations through mass uncontrolled immigration, broken borders, censorship, and an elite class that no longer represents the values and voice of the Forgotten Majority.”
A contentious plan to build a 5,000-panel solar farm has been approved despite concerns about flooding, loss of farmland and countryside abundant with wildlife. pic.twitter.com/hAiKAUuQdc
In Devon and Cornwall, local Craft freemasonry is still rife, and most planning decisions are connected to it (and to profits and kickbacks). The author John le Carre (David Cornwell) faced a whole conspiracy when he fought against inappropriate “development”.
“Kiev loses over 280 troops in Russia’s borderline Kursk area over past day, the Russian Defense Ministry reported: https://vk.cc/cIDjG3“
The Kiev regime will probably fall this year or in 2026.
A la recherche du temps perdu
Was just indulging, again, in a favourite pointless (?) occupation, namely looking at street scenes via Google Earth Street View.
Fascinating how areas change over time.
I notice that a building between Whitehall and the river, once used by part of MI5, and also other government bodies, is now a luxury hotel charging some £600+ per night: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinthia_Hotel_London.
The close-nearby (and 4*) Royal Horseguards Hotel, which I have visited a couple of times, though only the bar, and which is a good hotel with views of the Thames from many of the rooms, currently charges about £200+ per night, a third as much as the Corinthia.
Well, while the whole Russia-Ukraine-NATO situation is now cast into the hazard, there can be no doubt that, with Trump’s accession, the Kiev regime is on the back foot.
I notice, though, that the usual NWO/ZOG voices are now talking about a general European war within a short time (as little as one year from today!). How desperate they are to foment a war with Russia. As the old saying goes, “be careful what you wish for”. A war with Russia would probably result in the annihilation of much of the Europe we know, including much of the UK (if not all).
High-ranking officials from Russia and the United States are reportedly set to hold talks in Saudi Arabia next week to prepare for a potential meeting between the leaders of the two nations, according to Bloomberg:https://t.co/gZhoshoFSBpic.twitter.com/UX8j4OHPND
One of my assumptions in politics is if somebody says something that simultaneously has the likes of Alastair Campbell, Rory Stewart, Lewis Goodall, Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel spitting feathers then it’s definitely worth listening to#JDVance
“Cash-strapped” NHS Trusts spent £13.5 million on “diversity and equality” jobs —some of which had higher pay than junior doctors and oversaw training in “whiteness”, “colonialism” and “allyship”.
So according to that stupid woman, the “top priority” of the EU should not be the interests or well-being of the EU or its peoples, or their prosperity, or anything other than whatever the brutal, shambolic and corrupt Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev may demand from the EU states?
Is she mad, or just another tool of NWO/ZOG? Mostly the latter, I think..
“In more recent times [Garton Ash] has represented a British liberal pro-EU viewpoint, nervous at the rise of Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Brexit. He is strongly opposed to conservative and populist leaders of EU nations, such as Viktor Orbán of Hungary, arguing that Merkel should “freeze him out”, evoking “appeasement“.[12] Garton Ash was particularly upset about Orbán’s move against George Soros‘ Central European University.[12] … he notes with regret the move away from liberalism and globalism towards populism and authoritarianism under socially conservative political and religious leaders.”
“He is a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.[15] On September 25, 2020, he was named as one of the 25 members of the “Real Facebook Oversight Board”, an independent group monitoring Facebook.”
[Wikipedia]
Got it…
Orban: The West will sooner or later leave Ukraine without financial and military support
"The West has turned Ukraine from a buffer zone between Russia and NATO into a military one. But they will tell the Ukrainians: guys, the war is over, no more funding, no more military… pic.twitter.com/vnWRs8u1zX
“Reform UK is now only a single percentage point behind Labour – putting their leader Nigel Farage within touching distance of Number 10 at the next election.
New polling data from YouGov, commissioned by Sky News, puts Reform on 24 per cent and Labour on 25 per cent – down a whopping 9 percentage points from their winning vote share at the 2024 UK election.
With the Conservatives on 22 per cent, the UK electorate may be about to usher in a new epoch of three-way party politics.
The new research puts Labour on 26 per cent, Reform UK on 25 per cent, the Torieson 22 per cent, the Lib Dems on 14 per cent and the Greens on 8 per cent.
In general the assessment of Sir Keir’s first six months in office is damning, with only 10 per cent of voters judging that he has been successful and an overwhelming majortity (60 per cent) saying he has been unsuccessful.
Labour insiders are also worried at how the party is hemorrhaging voters to other parties across the political spectrum.
The new data found that they have retained only 54 per cent of supporters from the general election – while 7 percent have defected to the Lib Dems, 6 per cent to the Green Party, 5 per cent to Reform UK and 4 per cent to the Tories.
Meanwhile almost a quarter of those who voted Labour in the polls (23 per cent) either did not say, weren’t sure or had decided not to vote at all.
Labour also faces a problem with elderly voters in light of policies like the removal of the winter fuel allowance, with only 14 per cent of OAPs now saying they would cast their vote for Labour – down eight percentage points from the election.“
Naturally, Reform UK is not very close to me, ideologically. Pro Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, and (relatively) anti-welfare state; pro-finance capitalism.
Still, Reform UK has its uses. To move the “Overton Window”, particularly on issues of immigration, migration-invasion, free speech etc. Above all, to break up the LibLabCon “three main parties” scam which has been in place during my lifetime.
It may well be that all party politics will crumble to dust by reason of some existential catastrophe in the world, such as nuclear war, but that is another matter, arguably.
According to Electoral Calculus [https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html], the figures given, if replicated at a general election, might result in a House of Commons with Labour holding 287 seats, Conservative Party 128, Reform UK 107, LibDems 77, Green Party 4. That would indicate a Lab-LibDem coalition, or some lesser concordat, Labour being about 37 short of an overall majority on those figures.
Tweets seen
Speaking on behalf of Zimbabweans, we want our whites back to safeguard our food production and to revitalize our industries pic.twitter.com/v6eFY9SMbW
This is the norm with the black government in Africa. During the Rhodesia government, our parents had decent jobs, and no one risked life crossing borders for better living. Zimbabwe needs a white government, and zanu pf has failed . pic.twitter.com/eggQtI7yET
When I was about 21-y-o, I wanted to get rid of hundreds of unwanted books, mostly paperback novels (spy stories and crime thrillers etc). I gave them to the Royal Marsden because I was then living at Reigate Hill in Surrey, only about 8 or 9 miles away from the hospital’s site at Sutton (though the distance seems more because the two areas are so different). I dropped them off at the hospital reception. I hope they at least passed the time for some of the in-patients. I suppose that must have been 1977 or 1978.
It looks, though, as if the lady tweeter noted attends not the Sutton site of the hospital but rather its other and older location, in Kensington (which would make more sense, because she lives not far from my old shooting club, the Kensington Rifle and Pistol Club, now all but defunct and no longer —since the 1990s, if not earlier—in West Kensington). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Marsden_Hospital.
“My annual mammo is the best focus group of one you’ll get. Delightful radiographer tells me she’s never voted, they’re all as bad as each other and don’t listen to the NHS.
Furious about the social care plan delay not just as a healthcare worker but as the mother of a special needs adult who needs it. Her daughter volunteers in a food bank when she can, bless her.
3 disgraces in this story alone – underpaid NHS worker (my words not hers), crap & ludicrously expensive social care, food banks. I say I might have an offer you like and care passionately about fixing social care. And the rest. I also think doctors would run the NHS better, pen-pushers and deadbeat hospital CEOs, often from industry or politics, should be blocked off.“
All right. Some good points, but was she saying all that when she was married to a Conservative MP and Whip (until a decade ago)? I do not know, but I doubt it. She was (and still is? I wonder…) a passionate supporter of the part-Jews David Cameron-Levita and George (Gideon) Osborne, whose government of nasty nonsense, 2010-2015, imposed so-called “austerity” (for the poor) and spending cuts which permanently crippled this country in every way.
As for “food banks”, they scarcely existed until 2010. Only on a tiny scale, anyway. Another result of “Conservative” Party policies 2010-2015.
The Fiona Syms tweeter should think about why the Conservative Party presently stands at 22% in the opinion polls, 2 points lower than at GE 2024, despite the evident hopeless incompetence and unpleasantness of the “Labour” government of “Tel Aviv Keith” Starmer and his little Labour Friends of Israel cabal.
People have not forgotten the 14 years of truly bad “Conservative” government 2010-2024, finishing off with the government of the little Indian money-juggler, Sunak; and now the “Conservatives” are “led” by a political joke (again), a Nigerian woman who only came to the UK at age 16, albeit that she spent a day or two here after her birth (in London).
Having said that, it is clear that Labour (too) is finished. After a week or two of Starmer-Labour misgovernment, I blogged as much, at which time the msm were sycophantically applauding Starmer (some stupid woman scribbler in, I think, the Guardian, even said that she found herself attracted to Starmer sexually!— Well, Henry Kissinger did say that “power is the ultimate aphrodisiac“…).
What stands out there for me is how only among those 65+ years of age is voting Conservative anywhere near the level required to ground a Conservative Party government. 35%. Not very impressive anyway, but dropping to only 25% among those 50-64 y o, and to only 16% among those aged 25-49 before almost disappearing among those aged 18-24.
It might be argued that those aged below 65 y o might well change their views when they age further (just as it was said by Soviet anti-Christian propagandists in the pre-1989 period that “only old women now attend Russian Orthodox churches“, but that was countered by those who noted that there seemed always to be another generation of old women at church…).
Yes, those now aged below 65 may well be more inclined to vote Conservative when they reach 65+, but in my opinion the numbers will never be higher, or even as high, as they now are.
If the percentage of those 65+ voting Conservative is now 35% or so, by 2029 that might easily decline to 30%, and lower thereafter. The same slide might also be seen, and probably will be seen, lower down the age scale. If the present 18-24 y o generation only vote Conservative Party at around 5%, that will almost certainly increase, but maybe only slightly, over the years to come. To what extent is hard to pinpoint, but maybe by only about 5 points in each coming generation, so at age 65+ maybe to about 20%.
Admittedly speculative.
That is assuming that the present voting and political system will still be here in 2060, 2040, or even 2030. Or the present world as we know it…
No 10 blocks beaver release plan, officials view it as Tory legacy https://t.co/Dn9KlwOqgb via @yahooNewsUK Beavers/Nature/Natural. Yet another useless spiteful gov idea that will help protect OUR river banks from flooding. They will do anything to destroy the UK. Libour OUT
Hey Labour, know what else is a Tory Legacy? The useless and viciously cruel badger cull. Why don’t you end that vile legacy and leave badgers and beavers alone? https://t.co/Qi1pMyRIZU
Until 6 months ago, though I already predicted on the blog that Starmer-Labour would be useless, I did not think that this government would or even could equal in infamy the totally s**t governments of 2010-2024. Well, I was wrong in that last. Starmer and his crew are as bad as, or worse than, any of the “Conservative” governments of 2010-2024.
I think that this comes within the category “shocking but not surprising”…
"I lost my job for supporting a mainstream political party."
FSU member Saba Poursaeedi's fight for workplace free speech is closing in on £20,000 — but we still need your help to reach our £28,000 stretch target.
Yes. All true. However…where was Toby Young, and where was the “Free Speech Union”, when I was wrongfully (and, as it later turned out, unlawfully) disbarred in 2016, as a result of a concerted campaign by the Jew-Zionist lobby, specifically the overlapping “UK Lawyers for Israel” [“UKLFI”] and “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”]?
“A law student is suing Cambridge University for discrimination after he failed his PhD and delayed his career working as a barrister.
Jacob Meagher is seeking ‘substantial damages’ from the world famous institution, alleging he was the subject of disability discrimination and victimisation following the failure of his law PhD.
Mr Meagher also claimed that his oral ‘viva voce’ interview, where he was questioned about his thesis by two examiners, caused ‘significant damage’ to his health.
He ended up failing the examination, meaning he missed out on a opportunity to take up a tenancy at a ‘particular set of chambers’ and therefore ‘suffered a substantial loss of anticipated earnings’.
Outlining the claim, the judge said: ‘Mr Meagher…is a student at the University of Cambridge…undertaking a PhD in law.
‘[He] did not successfully pass his final viva voce examination of his doctoral thesis.
Court documents also stated that the University’s Disability Resource Centre had recommended that at the viva, examiners follow a set of guidelines, produced as part of a Student Support Document (SSD), to help him.
These included asking specific rather than general questions, using the active, rather than the passive, voice and allowing him pauses and breaks after questions…to allow him to ‘mentally retrieve the words or information that he needed in order to answer’.“
[Daily Mail]
How on Earth does that litigant think he is going to survive at the Bar (unless he does no court work at all) if he cannot endure being verbally challenged, and needs time “to mentally retrieve the words or information that he [needs] in order to answer“?
You need a thick skin at the Bar. I should know. I was a practising barrister, in court almost daily, from 1993-1996 in London (often at the High Court, as well as in County Courts and both “the mags” and, less often, Crown Courts), and during 2002-2008 based in Exeter (though travelling widely across the UK and beyond).
Being put on the spot by a judge, especially a High Court judge (I was never at the Court of Appeal or the Supreme Court), can be a chastening experience even if the judge is (as most High Court judges are) reasonably courteous.
Woe betide the barrister who is unprepared, or whose instructing solicitors have fallen down on their job. I usually managed to put up a good show, or at least a good front, but I have seen other barristers fall silent, unable to say a word, or flounder helplessly; even, in one case (in Camberwell Magistrates’ Court, before a particularly severe Stipendiary Magistrate —the people called District Judges now—) actually whimper and almost burst into tears (it was a man, too…).
At one time, a barrister who was disabled, even physically, was at a huge disadvantage in trying to get into any chambers. Now, it is arguable that things have gone to the other extreme.
When I was in provincial chambers in Exeter, from 2002-2008 , there was a girl Bar pupil from Northern Ireland. She seemed pleasant and was afterwards offered a tenancy (after which she became markedly less pleasant). The point, though, was that she had a bad speech impediment. In my opinion, the Northern Irish accent is hard enough to understand, let alone when the speaker has a speech impediment. She did get some criminal and family work, though; low-level stuff.
In the end, that Northern Irish person gave up the Bar entirely (I was told) and returned to her native Ulster. At least there they were, presumably, able to understand what she said.
[my old chambers in Colleton Crescent, Exeter, from where I practised law at the Bar during the years 2002-2008]
What a ridiculous monkeyhouse Westminster is! Look at thick-as-two-short-planks Angela Rayner, Rachel Reeves (“Rachel from Accounts”) etc, all making noise, exchanging remarks, and laughing like badly-behaved schoolchildren. Then there is stupid Liz Kendall, sitting there like a nodding dog, and about as credible.
Instead of sending people who question mass immigration to live in the Middle East, why not send pro-immigration middle-class zealots to live for one whole month in Harehills, Ealing, Barking & Dagenham, Leicester, or Tower Hamlets pic.twitter.com/ENxHoK8wSS
The mainstream media milieu is a cesspit. I was just reading about some person whose name, though I had seen it somewhere, in the back of my mind, conveyed little to me. A few years younger than me (I am now 68), he has died, and even years ago was looking at least a decade or more older than me, looking at photos in the newspapers. In fact, make that 20+ years older.
Apparently, that person had, at one time, in the 1990s, been spending £4,000 a week on cocaine, and drinking 4-5 bottles of vodka every day!
You could double or treble that sum to get the same value in the money of 2025.
That tells me that such System-approved msm types are both hugely over-remunerated and totally decadent. Britain needs a thoroughgoing cultural purge even more than it needs a political purge. Hitler-level. Stalin-level. Biblical-level.
A few days ago, an American commentator tweeted:
“I don’t think the normies are getting this yet.
In the UK, the birthplace of Magna Carta, English Common Law, and the cradle nation of the USA …
In the latest effort to deny reality, the Leftist German word police have announced that a standard term for ethnic German is "racist and antidemocratic". Can we no longer even acknowledge our existence, asks Eugyppius. https://t.co/CWPNmB92cu
Well, there it is. Switzerland has officially lost its senses.
Didn’t Rudolf Steiner say something about how the Goetheanum (near Basel) would be devastated by war? Cannot quite remember. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goetheanum.
Ian Robert Millard 