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Diary Blog, 2 December 2024

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Warsaw has changed a very great deal since I last saw it in the winter of 1989. 35 years ago. It hardly seems possible.

“Our wonderful police”

This of course goes far beyond “mere” theft of bicycles.

A couple of years ago, my Australian niece, in her early twenties and —at the time— living for a couple of years in London, decided to start cycling from her London flat (West Kensington) to her office (West End). A brave and perhaps unwise decision. All went well until, one fine summer day, a car hit her not very far from her home, at a busy intersection. A place where there are shops, cafes and, therefore, cctv. She was knocked off her bike, and left in the road. The driver sped off. Thankfully, she had no serious injuries; bruises and cuts, mainly.

My niece did report the incident (it may be that passers-by did too, at the time). The police did nothing, absolutely nothing, despite the fact that this was a hit and run vehicle crime which could well have been more serious, even a fatality. They did not even collect cctv, despite the time of the “accident” (crime) being known to within a few minutes. Useless.

Another crime: I know that I have blogged about this previously, but my regular readers will please grant me this indulgence.

A couple of years ago, in early 2023, a wheel was stolen from my car. Local people were able to provide me with some good leads as to the likely thief or his connections. I passed that information on to the police online and via telephone (they did not turn up at all in person, despite likely DNA evidence or fingerprints left on a jack). Nothing happened. No action, no investigation. Useless people.

Imagine my surprise, then (and as I later discovered), that the uniformed constable (from Hampshire Constabulary) who was in everyday charge of the relevant “neighbourhood crime team”, turned out to be the very same policeman who, together with a female colleague, had turned up, at my now very humble home, and on my birthday, in 2021, some 18 months previously, having been asked to do so by Gloucestershire Police at the behest of one Stephen Silverman, the self-styled “Director of Investigations and Enforcement” at the fanatical pro-Israel Jewish pressure-group called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”.

Silverman’s malicious, and completely false, complaint to the police against me (on the ground of “racial harassment”) is detailed here:

Well, nothing came of that attempted perversion of the course of justice by Silverman, but he has never been charged (((why?))). Au contraire— the tiny but well-funded “CAA” cabal simply persuaded (via direct political pressure and interference) the Wessex Crown —or Clown— Prosecution Service (Wessex CPS) to prosecute me on a completely different legal basis, and in respect of (small parts of) 5 blog posts, out of the, at the time, well over 1,500 blog posts published from late 2016 to early 2023.

My free speech trial in late 2023, my sentencing hearing in March 2024, and the aftermath of the trial and sentencing are detailed here:

The same policeman already noted above in today’s blog and in those other days’ blogs, turned up at every hearing of my “case”— first appearance in June or July 2023, a later “case management” appearance when the trial was deferred, the one-day trial, the sentencing hearing (and another hearing prior to sentence when the “Clown” Prosecutor made a doomed attempt to give my “case” a “hate crime” uplift). Four or maybe even five hearings; every time, that policeman was there, sitting in the waiting area and at the back of the court (he did give evidence, briefly, at the trial, and was equally-briefly cross-examined by me).

So that policeman spent 5 days on attending court, related to my quite pointless trial, as well as (with other “guardians of law and order”) a number of days cobbling together the huge amount of material required by the Clown Prosecution Service. Also, parts of other days in 2021, wasted on Silverman’s completely false and malicious allegation that he was “racially harassed” by me (I did not know his address, or his telephone number or email, and had never once spoken to him, or even seen him, still less confronted him).

Days which that policeman and his colleagues might have used more productively, dealing with real crime and/or investigating Silverman’s 2021 attempt to pervert the course of justice.

Incidentally, Silverman, despite now living in Gloucestershire (prior to that, in Essex), made the fairly long journey to Southampton Magistrates’ Court both for my trial and for the sentencing hearing, though he slunk out on the latter occasion once he realized that the sentence (a 9-month “community order” and £734 costs etc) was not going to be as severe as he and his horrible little “CAA” cabal had hoped.

I should add that, on one of the preliminary days in court, in summer 2023, a different “CAA” creature turned up to snoop, a kind of bearded and very long-haired near-dwarf, like something out of Lord of the Rings.

Well, there it is. The police politicized, suborned (along with the Clown Prosecution Service) and apparently incapable of doing their proper job, while behaving as a so-far relatively velvet-glove and poundshop Stasi.

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Even many of the hard-core Zionist Jews seem to be opposed to the ethnic cleansing Israel is continuing to carry out in Gaza.

Some of those who are most in favour of the ethnic cleansing and/or genocidal policies of the Netanyahu government seem to be, looking at Twitter/X, Jews living in the UK. They will be the very same Jews who are constantly trying to destroy free speech in this country, as seen in, inter alia, my own free speech trial (trials, if you include the Bar Disciplinary Tribunal which wrongfully and unlawfully disbarred me at the behest of the Jew-Zionist lobby in late 2016: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/).

See also: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/01/blueprint-drawn-up-to-deliver-unprecedented-transformation-of-end-of-life-care.

One of the latest Israeli war crimes

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14147069/Girl-shot-Israeli-forces-United-Nations-Gaza-airstrike-killed-aid-workers.html

A ten-year-old Palestinian girl has allegedly been shot in the chest by IDF forces close to the United Nations office in Gaza

The alleged shooting comes after four aid workers were killed following a Israeli strike in the terrority [sic] on Saturday. 

A shocking picture appears to show the child lying on the floor surrounded by UN workers in blue vests after it was claimed she was shot in the chest while crossing an Israeli checkpoint in the south of Gaza.

[Daily Mail]

“Them” again…

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It certainly was.

Anyway, what Goodwin is omitting to add is that the importation of non-Europeans into the UK and the rest of Europe is a planned and evil strategy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan.

Starmer has no more intention of stopping the migration-invasion than did Sunak, Johnson, or the others.

The Home Office has been concealing that kind of data for not only years but for decades. I blogged, several years ago, about the experience I had when a superannuated “first six” [months] Bar pupil (trainee) in early 1992, and when my “pupilmaster” (supervisor, mentor, lager-buyer…) had a trial involving Arab Gypsies originally from North Africa, of whom the Home Office were aware, and who (a clan of about 5,000 in and by London) lived (and no doubt still live) from thieving, begging, and by accessing the social security system. See https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/08/03/first-steal-a-chicken/.

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That other person, talking to Goodwin, talks about Starmer’s “loveless majority“. It may have a Commons majority, by reason of the ludicrously unfair and illogical voting system in the UK, but it has and had no popular vote majority, and its plurality of votes, in percentage terms, is one of the lowest ever— 33.7%, only just a third of those who voted; 4 out of every 12. Over 40% of the eligible electorate did not vote. Only 4 in every 20 people eligible to vote voted for Labour and Starmer.

Both main System parties are hanging on only because of a voting system that is basically binary. Tweedledum/Tweedledee. Despite that, they are both going down. Reform UK may be a poor alternative, but is a straw at which many will clutch between now and 2029.

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Diary Blog, 29 June 2024

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[“Moskva” swimming pool, Kropotkinskaya, in 1980. At the time (it is no longer in existence) the largest swimming pool in the world, capable of hosting thousands of swimmers. I myself swam there daily when I was in Moscow in 1993 but, at that time, a year before its permanent closure, there were only about a dozen or so swimmers when I would visit (quite early in the morning): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskva_Pool]
[Swimming pool “Moskva” as it was in 1969]

Saturday quiz

Well, this week I scored 5/10, the same as political journalist John Rentoul. I knew the answers to questions 2, 3, 5, 6, and 9. I could not quite bring to mind the answers to questions 1 and 8, and had no idea about questions 4, 7, and 10.

GE 2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68079726

My feeling, with a mere 5 days to go before Election Day, is that, firstly and obviously, the Conservative Party has reached the end of its road.

What does it even pretend to stand for now? It has embraced every sort of “woke” nonsense over the past 14 years, and even tried to hit Reform UK yesterday with the accusation that a Reform UK activist criticized a police car flying a “Pride” (LGBTQXYZ) flag. How is such criticism even controversial? The police should not be flying socially or politically contentious flags.

The Conservative Party has also presided over the migration invasion, trying to manage the influx of millions of non-Europeans (over a million a year now) but never seriously trying to stop it; indeed, encouraging “legal” migration, which is 95% of all migration-invasion. Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan.

As for living standards, straight down, and set to continue, under Labour plunging ever-lower. That may give social-nationalism an opening quite soon (but there has to be a movement to capture the sentiment).

My view about Reform UK is that many of those who favour it have already voted, via the postal ballot. Most of the rest who are leaning to Reform UK will not be put off by the contrived scandal in Clacton; some may even like the outspoken comments aired on Channel 4.

There is also the point that maybe 20% of eligible voters are either not going to vote, or are still uncertain. Few will vote Con. They —in my opinion— will not, most of them, vote Lab either. So either Reform UK, LibDem, or Green. I should say that Reform UK will get more than the LibDems, maybe more than the LibDems and Greens combined. Even if that only boosts Reform UK’s vote-share by 2 or 3 points, so from ?18% or ?20% to 21% or maybe as high as 24%, that would be mega in terms of the ultimate results.

If, as seems, anything from 5% to 20% of voters are only going to decide in the last days of the campaign, or even on the day, that means that there is still much to play for.

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Hopefully, when/if Trump becomes President again, American support for the Kiev regime will be scaled back and maybe stopped altogether. Other NATO states, and other states yet, will then and consequently rethink their pro-“Ukraine” (Kiev regime) stances.

The war will then grind to a halt within, at most, a few weeks. Zelensky and his cabal will flee, or be captured, or killed, and Russia will be able to redraw the map in suitable fashion, ruling the “Russian” part east of the Dnieper and along the coasts of the Sea of Azov and Black Sea, as well as Crimea; the rest of Ukraine can be an independent or autonomous state or territory centred on Lvov, peacefully and unthreateningly ruling its own lands and population. About half of Ukrainian territory as it was pre-2022.

As for Zelensky, if he survives, he and his wife can go to one of his villas in the Americas (Gulf Coast Florida, and/or the Caribbean), or to Israel, there to live off his stolen billions.

London in [fill in year]…

Thick-as-two-short-planks David Lammy, arguably the most high-profile useless “diversity hire” in the UK.

That ridiculous creature may soon be Foreign Secretary. Looks like James Cleverly’s status as most ludicrous (ever?) Foreign Secretary will have been as brief as those of Liz Truss and “Boris” Johnson…

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The Conservative Party deserves to disappear, but Starmer, the Israel and NWO/ZOG puppet, will lead an “elected” dictatorship, which will intensify the attack on free speech and the future of the British people.

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The System parties want even something as semi-System as Reform UK to be squashed flat by propaganda lies and by State repression (and electoral trickery). Is this really “democracy”?

Simon Myerson’s unwavering confidence in his views, despite compelling evidence he is obviously wrong, puzzles me. He posted to accuse Assange of causing deaths. It’s an allegation of the utmost seriousness for a judge and KC to make? But the court judgments make it clear Myerson is wrong. And Assange’s sentencing judge has now confirmed nobody suffered physical harm. Will Myerson delete his false allegation about Assange? No chance.”

[James Wilson]

Myerson’s status as Recorder (p/t judge) should be reviewed by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office. He is plainly unfit to sit in judgment on others.

Breaking: Soap Star Link To Farage C4 Sting: Reform Party Chairman Richard Tice has alleged that @Channel4 bought undercover film from specialist firm called Lee Morrell Media. According to Companies House UK Govt website, Lee Sorrell, the Director of Lee Sorrell Media, is also Director of another company named COCO MOCHA FILMS LTD. Another named person as a ‘director’ of COCO MOCHA FILMS LTD is former Emmerdale Farm actor Neil Lennon. We’re not sure to what extent Mr Lennon is linked to the apparent ‘stage managed hit piece on the @reformparty_uk and @Nigel_Farage in Clacton? WTF is going on here? Undercover media firms based in Barnsley, ITV rejected soap stars, leftist filmmakers working for @Channel4, all heading over to Clacton to destroy the Reform vote there.”

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[Berlin 1945]
[1960s— couple look over Berlin Wall from western side to eastern side]

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Larkin]

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13581155/Boy-12-referred-counter-extremist-Prevent-officers-school-declaring-two-genders-Im-gay-not-queer.html

A 12-year-old schoolboy has been investigated by counter-extremism officers after he declared there ‘are only two genders’.

The child made a video, posted online, in which he also stated: ‘There’s no such thing as non-binary’.

And in response to school bullies who mistakenly believed he supported transgender ideology, he said: ‘[I’m] gay not queer.’

Originally a homophobic slur, trans activists claim the word ‘queer’ now describes people who don’t adhere to ideas of sex or gender.

But the school told the boy’s mother they would refer him to Prevent, the Home Office programme that attempts to stop people becoming terrorists, amid fears he could be at risk of being radicalised by the far-right.”

[Daily Mail]

Britain’s poundland Stasi…

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/05/30/one-mans-extremism-is-another-mans-struggle-for-liberty-and-justice/.

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https://twitter.com/Ted_Wellread/status/1588268283177754624

…and the rest…more like 500,000-1M a year now.

Imagine if all the Johnson clan took a luxury family holiday somewhere, on a private jet, and then, while over the Atlantic or Pacific…[REDACTED]…

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Diary Blog, 23 March 2024

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Saturday quiz

6/10 this week. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 6, 7, and 9.

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[“The scene of the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Concert Hall in the Red Mountain District of Moscow”]

I have seen various claims as to who might have done this, as to who was behind it all, and as to the reason or reasons. No conclusion as yet.

The U.S, Embassy in Moscow was warning American expats about a possible terror attack for several days. From where did that come? From general “chatter” monitored or intercepted?

Tenuous. Many people, including famous political figures, move around the world all the time, “like billiard balls“, as a Russian peasant on a river steamer once remarked to Gorky about the “gentry” [see: Literary Portraits, by Gorky, 1935, trs. Ivy Litvinov].

I cannot see the Kiev regime being behind this, except as the most dangerous game move (provoking Putin into doing something so harsh that it might then bring NATO into the Ukraine war directly). Surely even the Kiev regime would not do something so crazy?

Trump, if re-elected, will cut off funding, arms and ammunition supplies, and intelligence aid to the Zelensky dictatorship; the war in Ukraine will then grind to a halt within weeks.

Crowdfunders

My own crowdfunder, set up to help me pay the court-imposed costs of my recent free-speech trial: https://www.givesendgo.com/GC14J.

Sam Melia and Laura Towler: https://www.givesendgo.com/sammelia;

Sven Longshanks (James Allchurch): https://www.givesendgo.com/SupportSven.

Thank you, all who have donated or will donate to any of the above.

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The MP who tweeted or retweeted that BBC report did not address the fact that the pro-Israel bloc in the UK and other states, the core of which is the Jewish Zionist population in each state, seems to be fairly solidly behind the Israeli military and air attack “operation” in Gaza.

In relation to no.4 above, it is unfortunate that the learned district judge at my free speech trial (in November 2023) seemed unaware of or (much more likely) not in agreement with, the point(s) made (which have been made many many times previously).

In fact, and in any case, “antisemitism”, as such, is not illegal in this country; neither is so-called “holocaust” “denial”. That much has been made clear in numerous court cases though, as far as I am aware, not yet at appeal level in the higher courts (Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of the UK).

Actually, the trial judge was fair in his actual conduct of the trial, overall, but Britain these days has come under a kind of low cloud of repression in respect of —shall we say?— “them“…

I feel that a few issues were slightly fudged in the delivered judgment of the learned District Judge at my trial. It is long since I was a barrister in court (2007) but I feel that there was at least one good appeal point in that judgment.

However, I am disinclined to appeal, and then have to go through, at the Crown Court, what would amount to a retrial, rehashing all the nonsense of the “CAA” and CPS already heard, particularly as the sentence eventually handed down by the sentencing judge was relatively light; and also in view of the fact that the sentencing District Judge refused the Prosecution application for a Criminal Behaviour Order to restrict (though not much, really, the Order and Application having been so poorly-drafted) my publication of the blog.

Incidentally, my trial was at the end of last November, so only a week short of 4 months ago. Tempus fugit. Even my sentencing hearing was 9 days ago, but I have already done one day out of the ordered 15 “probation” days (nominally a day, in terms of the sentence format, but actually about an hour in real time).

The blog continues. The blog will continue. Inshallah, as the Arabs say.

Held up by Tom Watson, the former MP. A completely dishonest, corrupt, freeloading, bought-and-paid-for creature of the Israel lobby.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Watson,_Baron_Watson_of_Wyre_Forest#Expenses; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Watson,_Baron_Watson_of_Wyre_Forest#Early_parliamentary_career.

…and here is another thieving leech, Stephen Byers, another freeloading and/or fraudulent expenses cheat, and another Labour Friends of Israel member: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Byers.

Right Wing Labour MPs“, says he, meaning “members of Labour Friends of Israel“: at least three out of the ten Jewish (some of the rest possibly part- or “crypto”). Several of that group of ten wealthy or very wealthy; the rest freeloading, and/or fraudulent, leeches and snakes.

It is now not impossible that, at the upcoming 2024 General Election, the Reform UK party, despite its flaws (from my ideological direction) will run about level with the Con Party; somewhere around 15%-20%. If so, and if Labour can get about 45%, the Con Party might be left with about 25-50 MPs (Labour 500-525; LibDems 25-50; Reform UK 0-5; Green 1-2; SNP 15-30; Plaid Cymru 2-3; others, about 18).

If the Conservative Party declines to somewhere below 50 MPs, it is an open question (bearing in mind the age of its core voters) as to whether it can survive at all in the medium term (2030-2050).

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html

While I agree with Nick Griffin [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Griffin] that there is, for social-national people, “no Parliamentary road” in a totally rigged game, it is not impossible for a political party as yet not in existence to play at least some role in a general social-national upsurge. “All roads lead to Rome“, as they say.

The Kiev-regime forces can still fire missiles at cities, but they do not have the soldiers, arms, and ammunition to defeat or even hold the Russian forces on the battlefield.

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Diary Blog, 15 February 2024

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With every passing day, the Israeli forces become more like a caricature of the German forces in WW2. Not the reality of the Wehrmacht (inc. SS), but precisely the caricature that the international Jewish/Zionist lobby has presented to the world (in film, in books etc) since the early 1940s.

35 years of transnational finance-capitalism…

The UK is going the same way…down.

Carlson dedicated a separate video to the Moscow metro.

The journalist was struck by the contrast of the capital’s subway with American metro stations filled with homeless people, dirt and graffiti.

According to Carlson, the Moscow metro is clean and orderly, despite the fact that the Kievskaya station, which Tucker reviewed, was built more than half a century ago.

“How is it that Russia has a metro station that people use every day to commute to and from work, and it looks better than anything else in our country?”, noted Carlson.”

When I was first in Moscow, in 1993, I used the Kievskaya metro station daily (though I also had a car and driver at my disposal). I was staying nearby, at the Ukraina Hotel.

[Metro station Kievskaya, Moscow]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyevskaya_(Koltsevaya_line)

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

The first tweeter, head of the “Holocaust Educational Trust” propaganda org, is a committed Zionist, of course.

Even if the headlines are “true” to some extent (though, as always with “them”, hugely overblown), I think that one has to ask the reason why. The Gaza brutality, ethnic cleansing and quasi-genocide is only part of the reason…

I was just looking at the Betfair Politics website. At Wellingborough, Labour remain even-money favourite; Cons are at around 7/1 from 6/1 yesterday.

At Kingswood (Bristol), both Labour and the Greens are around even money. The LibDems, whom I thought would be the main challenge to any Labour upset, have drifted out to 70/1, having been 2/1 only yesterday (Cons 10/1, Reform UK 85/1).

[Update, same day: the LibDems are now back to 2/1; maybe there was an error on the Betfair site, or more interest in the LibDems— I do not know. The betting now is similar to yesterday’s market: Lab even money, LibDems and Greens 2/1, but Cons are now out to 21/1, and Reform UK to 120/1].

The betting market is an unreliable guide to the result of by-elections, but it looks as though the punters, at least, are saying Wellingborough Lab, but Kingswood either Green or Lab.

I still think that it might be fairly close in Wellingborough, despite the Bone scandals and the unpopularity of the Government, but it is obviously Labour’s contest to lose. Many usual Con voters may vote Labour purely as a protest; many will also abstain in disgusted apathy. At Kingswood, I cannot see the Con candidate having any realistic chance.

If the Cons lose both seats badly, will Sunak resign? Maybe not, but there might be enough discontent in the Conservative Party MP ranks to stiffen the backs of the —usually spineless— Con MPs, and for there to be a leadership challenge.

It is hard to see that any new Conservative Party leader could turn around the fortunes of the Cons so close to a general election but, on the other hand, it might be those MPs’ last despairing throw, hoping against hope that a new figurehead might, if not win GE 2024, at least mitigate the expected losses, saving maybe 50-100 seats; i.e. instead of Con Party ending up with 50-100 seats, they might hope for 100-150 or even more.

The sad thing about that tweet is that the tweeter seems to think that “Labour” will make a difference once it forms a government, as will probably happen later this year. All major Labour people now are Labour Friends of Israel members, and/or freemasons. Join the dots…

There appear to have been clear breaches by Deputy Senior District Judge Ikram of the Guide to Judicial Conduct 2023. We have submitted a complaint to the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO). A full and proper investigation must follow. We note comments attributed to the JCIO that they do not intend to investigate this matter. That would be a serious dereliction of duty in itself, which we would ask the Judicial Appointments and Conduct Ombudsman to investigate.”

The malicious “CAA” goblins are not content with trying to criminalize social-national thinkers such as me; they are not content with trying to shut down British free speech, e.g. this blog; they are not content with whining and wheedling and demanding at the police and Crown Prosecution Service. They now start to demand that even magistrates and judges be “disciplined” for not handing down sufficiently heavy penalties to those exercizing freedom of expression.

What a horrible tribe of goblins. As a matter of fact, their chief goblin even came to snoop and gloat at my trial (under the absurd Communications Act 2003, s.127) in November 2023.

Britain may not suffer from “AIPAC” directly, but it certainly does suffer from “those packs“…aka “them”…

More from the newspapers

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/burglars-ransack-widows-home-pour-32129229

A widow has been left heartbroken after burglars poured bleach on her clothes during a burglary on her late husband’s birthday.

Rebecca Martin said her 80-year-old nan, Betty, came home to find her bungalow had been ransacked. When she returned home, the pensioner opened the door and instantly knew her home had been broken into. Rebecca said that not only did the crooks steal money, but they also trashed the place.

She said the thieves also poured bleach over her grandmother’s sofa, clothes, and curtains. Piles of clothes and belongings were scattered around Betty’s home in the Shard End area of Birmingham. Rebecca says every door was broken and the heartless criminals even smashed windows.

The robbery took place last Saturday (February 10), which would have been Betty’s late husband’s birthday. Betty’s family now say she is too terrified to live in her own home. Rebecca shared poignant photos of a teary-eyed Betty in her armchair surrounded by the mess.”

[Daily Mirror]

What a horrible thing to do to an old lady. The Daily Mirror mentions a GoFundMe appeal, but fails to provide a link to it. Here it is: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-betty-get-her-bunglow-sercure.

Sounds like a good cause.

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If I am not mistaken, the music is the “turbofolk” group Zolotoye Koltso (“Golden Ring”), the name of which references the arc of historical towns and monasteries etc around, but some distance from, Moscow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Ring_of_Russia.

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

I once owned a cassette of their music, given to me by someone or other.

A cultural purge of the Western world is essential.

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[painting by Victor Ostrovsky]

Diary Blog, 22 November 2023

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[VDNKh, Moscow]

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Incidentally, I am told by a reader of this blog that The Times has printed some kind of report about my recent trial. I refuse to pay even a small amount in order read the sort of rubbish put out by the contemporary “British” newspapers, so I do not know exactly what is the content of that report (I can guess, pretty much, anyway), but what strikes me is that it has apparently only appeared today, five days after the trial itself. Hardly “breaking news”.

I wonder what will happen with the newspapers in the UK. Several years ago, Rupert Murdoch gave the paper versions of newspapers only until about 2025 to survive, and certainly one rarely sees anyone buying a newspaper these days. I occasionally see an elderly person (always elderly, meaning 70+ if not 80+) buying a newspaper in Waitrose; not so often though.

The quality of journalistic language, let alone analysis, has fallen through the floor despite (?) the now almost exclusively graduate entry. Poor English, and little background knowledge, are patent.

I read somewhere that newspapers are still functioning because the online versions both take subscriptions, and make money out of advertisements; also, the mainly young “journalist” scribblers are paid very modestly. The only highly-paid scribblers now are the “celebrity” columnists, or so I read.

I myself last bought a newspaper about 25 years ago.

Hunt and Sunak had little choice, politically. Opinion polling puts the Conservative Party on about 20% for the 2024 General Election. Most of that consists of State Pensioners. Without the pensioner vote, the Conservative Party is toast. It may be that it is anyway, but being seen to pander a bit to the most obvious interest of those over 65 is a desperate way to shore up, at least to some extent, that core vote.

Incidentally, using Electoral Calculus, the difference between (A) a 20% vote and (B) a 15% vote is (A) 57 Conservative MPs (Lab 508) and (B) 19 Conservative MPs (Lab 541).

Were the Con Party able to rise to a support-level of 25%, the result might be 125 Con MPs (Lab 452); on 30%, 219 Con MPs (Lab 360).

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html.

For Sunak and Hunt, the (for now) retention of the Triple Lock is a no-brainer, of course. However, it will not save them. The best they can hope for, I think, is a hard defeat next year. It is an open question whether that defeat will prove almost, or actually, existential.

Isaac Levido“? Well, wouldn’t you know? Every. Single. Time…

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

London. Zoo.

https://www.mylondon.news/news/uk-world-news/faces-london-criminals-who-ripped-28153239?int_source=nba

Three train robbers who battered a victim for their £36 chain in a spate of 14 violent thefts have been jailed...”

[My London]

[the defendants]

More “diversity” in our wonderful new multikulti society…

I wonder what our society will look like in 20 years? Or 50? Thankfully, I shall probably not be around to see 2043, and certainly not 2073.

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[Paris under German military occupation, early 1940s]

Diary Blog, 19 October 2023

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I particularly remember the first time I heard that Bach piece, at least the last movement.

I was in a parachute class, and we were shown a film of experienced display parachutists exiting, but not on static lines, from a plane, the group —unusually— holding each other so that they all formed one long string from the door to the tailplane, then moving along so that they were all strung out behind the plane. Finally, they let go one by one, later meeting in mid-air to form other rings and shapes.

The final movement of the Orchestral Suite no.2 by J.S. Bach was the soundtrack to that film.

It has always stuck in my memory. 1977 or 1978.

Battles past

From the newspapers

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23857518.man-attacked-brothers-walking-home-portland/

A man was punched multiple times before having part of his ear ripped off in an unprovoked and violent attack by two brothers…He was left with “very unpleasant injuries” and a permanent scar…

…the victim had been walking home from a pub on Portland when a group of men began to follow him and the woman he was with.

One of the men shouted at the woman, but the pair ignored the group and kept walking.

Prosecuting, Roderick Blain, said that Anders Naylor, of Norfolk Road in Weymouth, was among the group.

He went up to the victim, and “punched him in the face”, Mr Blain said.

The victim said he “did not want to fight” and kept walking.

Further up the road Anders punched him a further two times to the head, and another man from the group “struck him on the head from behind”

Repeating he “did not want to fight”, the victim continued walking and passed a Co-op store.

There, Anders assaulted him again by “grabbing him and putting him up to a car” and punching him to the head and chest.

The victim then “took Anders to the ground” to prevent any further attack, the court was told.

However, while on the ground, Anders’ brother Ayrton began grabbing at the victim’s ear, tearing off part of the lobe and cartilage

While the piece of his ear was recovered, it was unable to be re-attached, so hospital staff cleaned up the ear as much as they could with stitches.

The victim had never met the men before and was “disgusted” by what they had done.

The brothers were sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court having pleaded guilty to assault in relation to the incident, which occurred on Friday, August 13, 2021.

Both brothers were said to be “highly intoxicated” at the time of the assault.

Judge Keith Cutler CBE described it as a “violent attack” which left a man with “unpleasant injuries”.

He said: “It’s now been over two years since the incident.

“There must have been a lot of swearing, shouting and blood. And the next morning, hopefully a lot of regret.”

Anders was given a 12 month jail sentence suspended for two years and ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work.

Ayrton was given a 12 months community order and ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work.

[Bournemouth Echo].

Britain today. A group of drunken thugs shout insults at a woman in the street after dark, then attack the lone man —someone unknown to them— accompanying her, and then they continue the unprovoked attack by tearing off part of the victim’s ear. Sentence? Term of imprisonment, but suspended, albeit with some “serf labour” to be completed.

I am no “hanger and flogger”, far from it, but this is just not good enough. The victim(s) left without justice, in my view, and the message sent out to the public is very weak.

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Well, it is a start…

Ex-chocolate soldier, Tom Tugendhat, doormatting for Israel again. Part-Jew: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tugendhat.

Ha ha! Kay Burley really should prepare her interviews better, to say the least.

The State Department official who worked on arms transfers to foreign powers, Josh Paul, resigned because of the way the Biden administration wants to resolve the conflict in Israel and Gaza.

He said he could not support further US military aid to Israel and called the administration’s response an “impulsive reaction based on intellectual bankruptcy.” Paul was director of congressional and public affairs in the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, which deals with the arms trade.”

The Israeli military campaign dubbed “Operation Iron Swords” in the Gaza Strip will be unparalleled in its ferocity and will be unlike anything the Israeli military has conducted in the past within the enclave’s borders. Reuters writes about this, referring to eight informed sources among officials in Israel and other countries of the Middle East and West.”

Very similar to, but even more devastating than the 1943 Reduction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German forces.

Ironic, but perhaps the Israelis do not see it.

…and almost the entire “British” mass media has caved in to Israeli/Jewish pressure and is trying to exonerate the Israelis re. one of their biggest war crimes.

1. President Joe Biden’s statement regarding the bombing of the hospital in Gaza was from a misfired Palestinian rocket is totally ridiculous and absurd.

2. Why should there be any doubt that the blast of the Al Ahli Arab hospital is from an Israeli air strike as the murderous regime had been attempting to wipe Palestinians and Gaza out of existence since last week.

3. In fact, Israel had been after the Palestinians all the time, if not wipe out the Palestinians altogether, for the past 70 years and suddenly now, after launching air strikes day and night, Palestinians blames for the blast on the hospital.

4. Biden’s narrative is based on feedbacks from Nethanyahu and Pentagon.

5. Obviously Nethanyahu lies about everything. And if Biden wants to use Pentagon to give credence to his narrative, we have not forgotten how Pentagon and other American institutions lied about the existence of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in Iraq. 6.

A more recent lie is about Biden claiming to have seen pictures of Hamas beheading babies.

7. Indeed, the White House had withdrawn the statement, admitting that there was no proof of such a deed. The question is how Biden could blatantly lie in the first place and with a straight face.

8. The crux of the matter is that all these atrocities committed by Israel on the Palestinians stems from the American support for Tel Aviv.

9. If the American Government withdraws its support for Israel and stop all military aids to the regime, Israel would not have carried out the genocide and mass murders of Palestinians with impunity.

10. The United States government needs to come clean and tell the truth. Israel and its IDF are the terrorists. The United States is blatantly supporting terrorists. So what is the United States?

DR MAHATHIR BIN MOHAMAD [former Prime Minister of Malaysia], Oct 19, 2023.”

Biden used to be a nasty, corrupt American politician. Now he is a nasty, corrupt, warmongering and demented puppet, completely controlled by NWO/ZOG.

https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/veryurgentcrisiappeal

If you expect decent behaviour from “them”, be prepared to be disappointed…

Variations on a traditional song, and films thereon

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The little Indian money-juggler neither looks nor sounds, nor thinks, like a prime minister. Just another puppet of Israel and the UK Jewish lobby.

If the Conservative Party loses both of today’s by-elections, he will —must— surely step down as Con Party leader. I think it would have to be both, though, to trigger any resignation; only one, and he will be able to stagger on.

Musing about Sunak, one wonders what would be there without the enormous amounts of money he has (mainly via his ultra-wealthy wife). What would there be left? A diminutive Indian more like a “chai wallah” than a prime minister.

Only 3-4 years ago, Sunak was seen as some kind of great non-white hope for the country, as he doled out money for millions of people to stay at home on full pay or three-quarter pay, scared of a virus no more dangerous than influenza. Now? Totally washed-up.

In the UK and USA etc, “they” do it a different way— via payday loans such as now-defunct Wonga…

The distance from the Ukraine-Russia border to Moscow is 450 km. Those missiles therefore cannot reach Moscow (or could they, if modified?).

There will be wars, and rumours of wars…”

The human cost of war, in this case a very one-sided war.

I notice that the most active (on social media) Jews in the UK are now constantly defending attacks on hospitals, the use of white phosphorus on civilian residential areas, and other atrocities.

A horrible tribe.

Murray is simply a mouthpiece for Jew-Zionism, the New World Order cabals, and Zionist Occupation Government.

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Diary Blog, 5 September 2023

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From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12479887/Skull-8-7-million-year-old-ape-Turkey-suggests-ancestors-evolved-Europe-NOT-Africa-study-claims.html.

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Eventually, Putin and the Russian leadership will tire of the Kiev regime’s constant attempts to create a general European war (thus bringing in NATO on the “Ukrainian” side) and will take devastating action. Then, maybe, “goodnight Kiev”.

At present, Russian forces are not doing that, for strategic, positional reasons, i.e. in the hope or expectation that the American and EU practical support for the KIev regime (arms, ammunition, medical aid, food aid, money, other assistance) will soon tail off and then stop.

Ukraine may face a future in which its few successes will be in the Paralympics.

Ukraine’s “Ministry of Defense approved a new Schedule of Diseases, according to which fitness for military service is assessed and regulated the service of those with limited fitness.”

Now people with following diseases will be recognized as suitable for all military service: “2nd – clinically cured tuberculosis; 4-c – viral hepatitis with minor functional impairment; 5th – asymptomatic HIV carrier; 12th – slowly progressing and non-progressing with minor functional disorders and rare exacerbations of anemia, blood coagulation disorders, purpura, hemorrhagic conditions, other diseases of the blood and hematopoietic organs, some disorders involving the immune mechanism. 13th – diseases of the endocrine system with minor functional disorders; 14th – mild short-term painful manifestations of mental disorders; 17th – neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders with moderately pronounced, short-term manifestations, with an asthenic state; 21-c – slowly progressing diseases of the central nervous system with minor functional disorders; 22nd – episodic and paroxysmal disorders, except for epilepsy, with minor violations of the functions of organs and systems.https://pravda.com.ua/news/2023/09/3/7418270/

Not so much Dad’s Army as a Ukrainian conflation of Carry on Doctor and Carry on up the Khyber. A dystopian and very black comedy, appropriate perhaps, looking at the Jew Zelensky’s background in cheap TV comedy.

My comment to leading Portuguese newspaper concerning replacement of defense minister of Ukraine by Zelensky: Zelensky replaced his defense minister for two main reasons.

The first involves corruption scandals with procurement for the military. The Ukrainian media reported that the Ministry of Defense bought at highly inflated prices eggs and jackets for the military. Zelensky by firing Reznikov wanted to show to Ukrainians and to the Biden administration and the US Congress before his visit to the US that he is keen on fighting corruption in military procurement and the use of the massive US military aid to Ukraine.

The second reason is to make Reznikov the fall guy for the failure of the counteroffensive to reach the objectives and take back Donbas and Crimea that Zelensky promised.

The new defense minister is selected primarily for PR reasons. He is a Crimean Tatar and a Muslim. Zelensky wants to showcase the drive to take back the Russian-annexed Crimea and appeal to the Muslim Crimean Tatar minority in Crimea. And the appointment of the Muslim defense minister is designed to sway Muslim countries, many of which tried to remain relatively neutral and did not join the Western sanctions against Russia for the invasion of Ukraine.

The replacement of the defense minister is a largely a political and PR move by Zelensky aimed at the US, Ukrainians, and the Crimean Tatars and Muslims. It is unlikely to change or influence the war’s outcome.

There is virtually zero chance of the Ukrainian forces take back Donbas and Crimea. As the Ukrainian counteroffensive attempt confirms, Russia has a significant military advantage over Ukraine. Russia can also resort to use of nuclear weapons in the very unlikely case that its hold over Crimea would be threatened.

Exactly.

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Exactly. What is now the very point of the Labour Party? To be an “alternative” to the (equally) useless “Conservative” Party? Labour will be pretty much the same, overall, as this Sunak government, in practice. Unsurprising, though, given that both parties are pretty much under the same kind of (((control)))…

Less than 7 weeks later, Liz Truss was gone, together with Woollyhead Trussbanger (Kwasi Kwarteng).

More from the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12483251/Warnings-Labour-led-Birmingham-Council-going-bust-lead-tough-cuts-services-large-events-including-2026-European-Athletics-Championship-blame-game-breaks-crisis.html

Birmingham— one of the local authorities most contaminated by the Common Purpose evil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Purpose_UK.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12481701/German-court-refuses-extradite-Albanian-drug-trafficker-UK-poor-condition-British-prisons.html.

A German court has refused to extradite an Albanian man accused of drug trafficking to the UK after his lawyer successfully argued the conditions of the British prison system are so poor it would infringe his human rights.”

[Daily Mail]

Does anything in the UK work properly any more?

Having said that, when I was a London barrister in the early 1990s, I had a judicial review case involving a supposed former member of the Angolan security service. He was being held in Wandsworth Prison, which I visited for a “conference” (discussion with the individual), my only visit to that prison.

Though the staff were polite (to me), I could see that, even in the part of the prison where we were (a kind of bleak side-room, not the usual sort of “legal suite”) that Wandsworth was a pretty grim, and rather grubby place. I could see prisoners in a larger interior space nearby being exercized, walking slowly round in a large circle. The prisoner I came to visit, some time later in the month, and fearing extradition back to Angola, apparently tried to kill himself, according to his solicitor. The conditions cannot have helped his state of mind.

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This winter, Ukraine’s infrastructure will be reduced to rubble: electricity, district heating, railways, government buildings. The pressure may lead to further flight overseas, or to an overthrow of the corrupt, shambolic, and increasingly brutal and tyrannical Zelensky Jew-Zionist regime.

When the frost comes and the ground is hard, there may be a very large-scale Russian armoured thrust towards Kharkov or even Kiev.

Note the very non-European gesturing…

In any decent country, a corrupt bastard like that, profiting from war supplies in time of war, and while hundreds of thousands of his own soldiers were being killed, wounded or captured, would be shot after a brief trial.

A very interesting graphic, showing the effect of political change or upheaval (eg the Cultural Revolution in 1960s/1970s China) as well as the effects of agricultural technological innovation (eg the Green Revolution of the 1960s).

Interesting, also, that the geographically small UK has mostly stayed within the top 15 exporters, even if near the bottom of the table.

There will be huge social effects (an even lower birth rate within Ukraine), and also military effects (a smaller pool of potential soldiers).

Ukraine, as presently constituted, has little future.

The last thing the Zelensky cabal and regime wants is a free election.

Rosenblat“? Ha ha! When will they ever learn?

Since 2015, the Security Service of Ukraine has had a special department specializing in murders of people undesirable for the Kyiv regime, said the former director of the SBU Valentin Nalivaichenko in an interview with “Ekonomist”.

We reluctantly came to the conclusion that we have to eliminate people,” he said.

According to his statements, the Fifth Administration of the SBU, which conducts operations of this type, participated in the murder of the first head of the DNR, Alexander Zakharchenko, and the commanders of the “Sparta” and “Somalia” battalions, Arsen Pavlov and Mikhail Tolstikh.”

So much for “free” “democratic” Ukraine…

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[Akademgorodok, Western Siberia]

Diary Blog, 15 August 2023

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[painting by Volegov]

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From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12406567/EXCLUSIVE-EU-blocks-deal-allowing-Channel-migrants-sent-France.html

Of course. All part of the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan (to destroy all the societies of white Europe by importing millions of blacks and browns).

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12406055/Colonialism-blame-imposing-male-female-divide-society-NHS-staff-told-official-hospital-policies.html.

More madness. Make no mistake, though— there are politically-motivated persons deliberately promoting, and funding, the madness.

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Chips with Everything?

Watched a pretty good episode of Endeavour. The only silly thing about it, as with other drama series of recent years set in the 1960s (Inspector George Gently etc) , 1950s and 1940s (Grantchester etc) is the number of blacks and other non-whites shown. People today under the age of about 50 will of course have little notion that what they are being shown is a false picture. Cambridge in 1950, Oxford in 1968, had few black or other non-white individuals, except a few foreign students.

The TV series Vera, very entertaining, and set in contemporary Newcastle on Tyne, yet has the same false narrative running through it. Even today, the North East is a fairly white British region, yet in Vera every second major character is non-white.

Of course, this is no accident. Again, all part of the propaganda barrage around the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan. Older people see the falsity, but those much under 50, and especially the under-30s, probably have little idea exactly how false is the picture of Britain shown, particularly the Britain of the 1960s etc.

The aim? To normalize a UK society largely non-white.

Incidentally, Endeavour, made 2012-2021 and set in the 1960s and early 1970s, is a prequel to Inspector Morse, made 1987-2000 and set in the 1980s and 1990s.

Tellingly, however, the Oxford of Inspector Morse contains far fewer blacks and browns than that of Endeavour, made later but set 20-30 years before!

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/12/10/tv-ads-and-soaps-are-the-propaganda-preferred-by-the-system-in-the-uk/.

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“Namaste 123” seems to be the main new “sock account” of “Jack Monroe”, the absurdly-renamed “grifter”/fraudster.

“Namaste 123” is a Twitter account created only in July 2023. Zero Twitter “followers”.

“Jack Monroe” must really be getting desperate…

I read that the “Jack Monroe” event at the Edinburgh Fringe had to be moved from the original 400-seat hall to a smaller hall because so few tickets were sold. 100? As many as 200?

That refers to just one of “Jack Monroe’s” fraudulent claims, years ago in this case, i.e. that she had been diagnosed with cancer. Well-meaning but silly people sent her money on the back of that. Where are the police? Are they too busy snooping on “antisemitic” social media posts, or seizing politically-incorrect teddy bears?

That one refers to yet another “Jack Monroe” lie, that she was “working on” something called the “Vimes Boots Index” to measure the higher inflation rate pertaining to basic or staple items in supermarkets. In reality, that “Index” has never existed except as something she said as part of the overall “Jack Monroe” “poverty” and food “expert” scam.

I have never been sure why quite a few very silly people, in this case one “Kerry Fisher”, like to make up “fantasy Cabinets”, then post their half-baked (“half-baked” being rather appropriate if “Jack Monroe” is involved) musing on Twitter. It must be one of the least interesting or useful ways to use Twitter.

Very true, but both/all System parties are full of wealthy servants of the “Money Power”, so radical solutions are out, at least from them.

Interesting. Unexpected people are now, at least on the face of it, moving slowly towards a social-national direction.

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That woman, Hannah Ingram-Moore, is just an outright embezzler and “grifter”, along with her husband. As for “Captain Tom”, he was, in my view, a well-meaning but probably none-too-intelligent dupe of the System. I have no doubt that he meant well but, in the big scheme of things, his fundraising result was tiny when compared to the huge amounts wasted on the “Covid” “panicdemic”/”scamdemic” by the Government and NHS. He was used by the System for propaganda purposes. People loved the human story, of course. That is why he was so “useful” to the System.

I have blogged in the past about my day out at the UK’s Porton Down biolab complex in Wiltshire, about 28 years ago, escorting the then Ukrainian Ambassador (who is, by the way, now director of a biolab in Ukraine itself).

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Diary Blog, 23 June 2023

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As regular readers of the blog will know, yesterday afternoon I was at the Magistrates’ Court at Southampton for a while, at a case management hearing in relation to the prosecution of me instigated by the evil and malicious pack known as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (any trial will not be until November or December 2023, or possibly even on a date in 2024).

Later, in mid-afternoon, I was driving out through the nearby suburbs of Southampton. I happened to pass a pharmacy or, as people used to say, a chemist’s shop, on a mini-roundabout: the Bassett Pharmacy.

The Bassett Pharmacy, which I recognized from having seen a picture in the newspapers a couple of years ago, was called the Sunak Pharmacy at one time, and was owned until 2014 by the mother of Rishi Sunak, the Indian money-juggler presently posing as Prime Minister.

The Bassett Pharmacy sits on the corner of the road, next to a dentist’s surgery; there are a couple of other shops, one called, amusingly, “Talons— hair and nails”. Round the corner, a scruffy small area with cars parked, then, around another, similar, corner, an Indian-Bangladeshi restaurant, a cafe, and several more shops.

What struck me was not that a prime minister might have come from such humble circumstances —that is not so unusual, thinking of Mrs. Thatcher, John Major and others— but that Sunak should have originated there (I think that his family lived in a house not far away) and yet now is almost suffused with great wealth by reason of his own finance-business activities and also marriage into one of India’s richest families. What a contrast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishi_Sunak.

I wonder whether the money-juggler will still be Prime Minister this time next year. The opinion polls say no, but these things rarely work out as expected. I have no completely fixed view, despite the evident incompetence of the present government.

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As some lady said during the French Revolution, “those who live shall see…“, but I should not be surprised.

Some people, and peoples, never learn.

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Will there be some kind of second Civil War in Russia somewhere down the line? Maybe.

Uh-oh…what is going on? Just when the Ukrainian counteroffensive has been beaten down and run out of steam.

Is this true? What a time to have an internecine squabble, when the first priority must be to eliminate the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev.

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[Moscow State University]

Diary Blog, 30 May 2023

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[Generalife, Granada, Spain]

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From the newspapers

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/29/britain-welfare-rich-art-artists-housing-social-security.

Some good points are made.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12137635/BRENDAN-ONEILL-revolution-against-wokery-Oxford-University-campuses-begun.html

A step in the right direction, but only when the Zionist and pro-Israel lobby is confronted and defeated can there be free speech again in the UK. The Jew-Zionist lobby is the primary anti-free-speech concentration in this country.

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In other words, (((the usual suspects))).

Talking about Sven Longshanks (James Allchurch), it is good to see his resettlement fund growing:

Putin and the ruling circles in Moscow may now have to consider whether they will actually need the city of Kiev intact at the end of this war.

War is horrible, and had this war been planned and executed properly from the start, it would have ended after a few weeks with complete Russian victory, and with relatively slight harm done. Now, it may have to end with the ancient city of Kiev again being levelled (as also happened —in central areas— in 1943).

Come what may, Russia now has to fight on until it achieves victory, even if that victorious end is bitter.

To the bitter end…

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On another aspect of the present conflict, I see that the pound sterling now buys about 100 Russian roubles. When I was last in Moscow, in 2007, the (tourist) rate was a fifth of that, 1:20.

Having said that, the mass of the Russian population is as good as unaffected by the long-term slide of the rouble. As I have blogged previously, Russia could even survive quite well as an autarky, and that is not presently necessary, because trade between Russia and much of the world has not only continued but expanded. China, of course, is key.

..as I and many others said long before (in my case, 15+ years before) “Boris”-idiot rose effortlessly (?) to his high position.

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For me, the whole “Partygate” thing is a classic Westminster Bubble pseudo-scandal, and in any case the “pandemic” was a “panicdemic”, if not a “scamdemic”; but, having said that, it is remarkable the extent to which decent administration and governance has vanished from the UK in the years since both Government and Opposition became packed with Jews, Indians, Middle Easterners of various kinds, and blacks. Co-incidence?

It must be a grave temptation for Putin and his group to say, simply, “**** it!” and fire all nuclear missiles at the USA, London, Kiev, Warsaw, Tel Aviv etc. Fortunately for Europe, Putin is far more measured than that.

Sometimes, “liberation” and “a desert” are not far apart, as Tacitus noted (more or less) over 2,000 years ago.

Let us hope that Europe as a whole does not look like that in 2030…

If I were Putin, that is one task I would delegate.

It seems obvious to me that today’s attack on Moscow was designed to irritate and cause fear to the ruling and wealthy Muscovites who live in neighbourhoods such as Barvikha, where many leading members of the General Staff and other institutions live.

The aim of the attack seems to be to show Putin and his immediate circle as weak, and unable to protect, crucially, those who themselves support his power.

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