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Diary Blog, 20 February 2025

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[Tangier on a wet afternoon]

Covid “vaccine” dangers— latest

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14414367/covid-vaccines-new-syndrome-biological-changes-yale.html

Experts from Yale University have discovered an alarming syndrome linked to the mRNA Covid vaccines.

The previously-unknown condition – dubbed ‘post-vaccination syndrome’ – appears to cause brain fog, dizziness, tinnitus and exercise intolerance.

Some sufferers also show distinct biological changes, including differences in immune cells and the presence of coronavirus proteins in their blood, years after taking the shot.”

[Daily Mail]

Yet another dishonest MP

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14413809/Tories-demand-ethics-probe-misrepresentation-Labours-Jonathan-Reynolds-Business-Secretary-falsely-claimed-solicitor.html

The Tories today demanded a probe into claims of ‘misrepesentation’ by a Cabinet minister after they were revealed to have falsely described themselves as a solicitor.

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has been accused of fabricating his CV by stating he worked as a solicitor for Addleshaw Goddard before becoming an MP.

He claimed on his website that he was employed as a solicitor in the Manchester branch of the law firm.

[Daily Mail]

That is the useless drone I saw on TV (only for about half a minute) last week, mouthing typically meaningless “New Labour”-style soundbites.

Incidentally, note the semi-literate Daily Mail scribbler referring to that single individual as “them“. Unbelievable.

Oddly, Reynolds, who was born in 1980, has never had a non-political job, except his brief period as a trainee, and never properly-qualified, solicitor. Graduated from Manchester University in 2001, then took a BPP law diploma course (one-year), but became an MP only in 2010, so even if you factor-in a year as a trainee solicitor, that leaves about 7 years unexplained.

Such is the calibre of political drone now reaching MP and even Cabinet ministerial rank…

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Yes, the NWO/ZOG globalist puppets (Starmer, Macron, Tusk etc) are still pretending that the brutal, corrupt and shambolic Kiev regime can somehow “defeat” a Russia which, compared to Ukraine, has 30x the area, 4-5x the population, far more powerful and sizeable armed forces, a functioning and in some respects thriving economy and, last but not least, nuclear weapons, including hypersonic missiles that could, if so tasked, rub out not only all major Ukrainian cities but also those of Central and Western Europe and those of North America.

Starmer is a disaster as UK Prime Minister, of course. Totally out of his depth.

The almost funny thing, of course, is that Starmer, by reason of the alliance with the USA, was able until recently to pose as powerful by proxy, but now that the USA has completely changed its strategic stance, Starmer is left to pretend that he and a few others can somehow face down Russia (and why do that anyway?), despite the fact that the British Army can field, out of its notional c.70,000 strength, only about 30,000 troops (on paper) and only about 5,000 (in reality, in full battle order). So at least say many military experts.

As a character in the film Cleopatra [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_(1963_film)] says, “a general without troops is naked indeed.”

Yes, the UK has a few nuclear-armed submarines, but any attack by those on Russia would result in a response so devastating that the UK would be written out of the book of future history. Complete annihilation.

Again, it is almost funny to read the increasingly pointless newspapers of the UK, as they talk up “national service” (conscription; the draft) as somehow relevant. In the nuclear age! The “readers’ letters” are funnier.

Where is the strategic sense of the clowns pretending to run this country? Russia is not Britain’s enemy unless those who misgovern Britain make it so. Russia today is not the Soviet Union of the Cold War or the 1920s and 1930s. It has no wish to take over all of Europe; indeed, there would be no point in its doing so, even if it could. Also, the old Soviet Marxist-Leninist and expansionist doctrines have been dead for 35 years, at least.

In reality, we have seen a 30+-year attempt by the “New World Order” to take over Russia and, after the initial attempt failed in the late 1990s, to make a renewed attempt via the fake states surrounding Russia, particularly Georgia and Ukraine.

I love what is happening now via Trump. The little NWO/ZOG hangers-on to the USA, people like Starmer, are being shaken off like fleas, and are left looking utterly stupid and powerless.

Incidentally, if the UK and some EU states think that they can “step up” and fund the Kiev regime without American money, arms, and ammunition (etc), think again. That would impose a burden on UK and other European taxpayers about 3x higher than at present (in relation to Ukraine).

Britain is already suffering under the present incompetent fake-Labour misgovernment. Will the British people now be forced into greater poverty and lack of decent life just because idiots such as Starmer want to pose, risibly unconvincingly, as “world leaders” and “statesmen”?

Don’t forget that only 4 out of every 20 eligible voters voted Labour last year, at GE 2024 (4 out of every 12 actual voters).

Labour support is now around 25% in the opinion polls, which means that, probably, at the next general election, the actual voting support for Labour would be only about 2/3 of that in 2024, maybe 2 or 3 out of every 20 eligible. Starmer has no mandate.

[“No, wait! I voted Labour in 2024!“…]

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Most people accept msm propaganda uncritically, so their views are without weight.

Examine the beneficial (((ownership))) carefully.

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So 18% of the British people are absolutely stupid?

Only a small minority of (real) British voters want to see a Nigerian, or any non-white, as Prime Minister of the UK.

Sunak, the little Indian money-juggler, must have known that, which is why he kept putting off calling a general election until he had no choice; he then got hammered.

See my assessment of Rory Stewart (from 2019, but updated frequently since then):

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Diary Blog, 5 March 2024

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Sam Melia/Laura Towler crowdfunder

[Sam Melia and his wife, Laura Towler. A hero and a Valkyrie]

Sam Melia has now been imprisoned for 3-4 days. Another 6-12 months to go, probably.

I am glad to see that their crowdfunder, established to help Laura Towler (expected to give birth to their second child soon) and Melia both survive and thrive, and to maintain political struggle both during the coming year and thereafter, has gathered in, as of time and date of writing, some £54,000, and is still increasing rapidly. When I first mentioned the crowdfunder on the blog, last Thursday, it was at nearly £48,000, so well over £1,000 a day has been donated over the past days. Excellent.

If anyone wants to donate and/or leave a message of support, the link is at https://www.givesendgo.com/sammelia.

Minimum donation £4. Show solidarity, stick it to the System, and help what seem to be good people (for sake of clarity, I am personally unacquainted with them, and do not belong to Patriotic Alternative).

Incidentally, this is what the CPS have had to say about the Sam Melia “case”: https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/updated-sentence-far-right-organiser-found-guilty-intent-stir-racial-hatred-through.

It will be noted that the clowns are unable even to spell correctly the name of Oswald Mosley… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley; https://www.oswaldmosley.com/. The CPS report has Mosley down as “Moseley“, like the Birmingham suburb.

So that is how the CPS and police waste huge amounts of public money, prosecuting a mere sticker-posting campaign as if it were an IRA bomb plot of the 1970s.

If the CPS and (more so) police behaviour is “Stalinist”, then so in the sense of the words of Karl Marx in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon: “first time tragedy, second time farce“…

All the same, Sam Melia is still going to sit in prison for 6-12 months, thus punishing his wife and small children. Justice? I think not.

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Britain in the 21st Century.

See also: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13154677/young-people-having-heart-attacks-lead-seemingly-healthy-lifestyles-suffered-heart-problems.html.

Bukele won 85% of the vote and is by all accounts one of the most popular leaders in the world now. This is why liberals in the West call him a threat to democracy – democracy for them just means institutionalised pluralism. The number one threat to that is someone who bypasses the institutions of mass democracy to embody popular will.”

[Adolf Hitler amid thousands of well-wishers at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin]

Bukele has maintained record high approval ratings of around 90% among Salvadorans throughout his tenure.[9][10]

[Wikipedia]

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

Canadians— do what has to be done, and install a different government, and a different kind of government.

Not quite like-for-like, because the “vaccinated” population consists of more people than the “unvaccinated”, I believe, but even so the figures are alarmingly divergent.

More from the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13156261/Uzbekistan-nation-miserable-Britain-Global-report-says-Dominican-Republic-tops-world-wellbeing-charts.html

Uzbekistan is the only nation more miserable than Britain as the Dominican Republic tops the world wellbeing charts, a ‘worrying’ global report has found.”

[Daily Mail]

Many will dismiss that out of hand. I am not so sure that the report is mistaken, though. The UK of 2024 is an unhappy land.

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I tried but failed to get called in oral questions today. My question would have been. “Can the minister explain why I am struggling to get my district council to accommodate Anthony Preston a disabled homeless UK citizen who has recently returned from Saudi Arabia, while at the same time my constituency is forced to accommodate 360 illegal channel migrants in 4 star hotels?

[Andrew Bridgen MP]

If only…

Europe will have nothing to defend itself with, in case it is dragged into a hypothetical conflict, retired Lieutenant General of the Armed Forces of Belgium Mark Thies said, reports the German “Mercury”.

” After a few hours we would have to throw stones. We are already in trouble. Be sure that our opponents, regardless of whether they are in Moscow, Beijing or anywhere else in the world, know about our lack of ammunition, ” Tees said.

According to his opinion, the main problem of the EU is small stocks, which consist of high-quality ammunition, and the process of replacing them and filling the warehouse is a difficult task that requires a lot of time. ” If you order them today, they may take up to seven years to deliver ,” he believes.”

The other problem, not mentioned, and never mentioned by System msm outlets, is that, if things continue for much longer as they have been in European societies, there will be nothing to defend anyway. Nothing worthwhile, at least.

Incidentally, it seems rather amusing to hear a Belgian, of all possible European nationalities, talk about fighting a war.

Belgium has frequently provided the battlefields (in the various 18thC wars, then at Waterloo, at Ypres, in the Ardennes in 1940, and the Ardennes again in the Battle of the Bulge of 1944) but Belgian arms have rarely been distinguished in battle. Belgium is, of course, a very small country, hard to defend: 11,000 square miles, not very much larger than Wales, or Israel, or New Jersey (all around 8,000 square miles).

The link, again, to the crowdfunder set up so that Sam Melia’s wife, Laura Towler, and children (one as yet unborn) will not be pushed into poverty or even destitution by reason of the truly unjust and harsh sentence passed upon Melia last Friday: https://www.givesendgo.com/sammelia.

Goodwin again boosting Reform UK. For me, Reform UK is just “controlled opposition”, a kind of pseudo-national, “conservative nationalist” facade-party. Not the real social-national party Britain needs.

Having said that, I hope that Reform UK does get plenty of votes at GE 2024, and so helps to stamp on the Conservative Party, even if helping the now-equally-evil Labour Party into “elected dictatorship”; and that a Con Party collapse will in turn help in breaking up the “two main parties” scam that still bamboozles many people.

Good riddance.

Seems that Macron has received his latest orders…

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/09/on-recent-events-in-france/.

They know that the Kiev regime is a lost cause.

New film title— Gone Guy?

Once more they cannot resist mocking the powerless women and children they have rendered homeless and starving. An evil pack.

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Diary Blog, 17 June 2023, including information and thoughts about the “Covid” “panicdemic”

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Saturday quiz

Not so good this week, and in fact one of my worst-ever scores, 4/10, the same as political journalist John Rentoul. The only answers I knew were those to questions 5, 7, 8, and 10, and I was even uncertain about one or two of them..

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Ukraine now is a failed state. In fact it is not really a state at all. It has scarcely any industry still functioning, its agriculture continues but soon will be unable to export, its population is declining via low birth rates, and about 20% of that population has fled to other countries. It cannot replace its Army personnel who are being killed in large numbers, and has had to resort to press-gangs pulling young men off the streets.

Now we see that even more money from the American taxpayer will be sent in order that Ukraine will be able to offer its citizens basic goods and services— water, food, medical help.

Without foreign arms, ammunition, and money (much of which money is stolen by the members of the Zelensky “government”), “Ukraine” as a quasi-state would almost immediately cease to exist. The war would end shortly thereafter.

“Jack Monroe” has obviously decided that she cannot simply refund cheated and actively-aggrieved donors in case the trickle of refund demands becomes a flood. She has therefore resorted once again to outright lies, now apparently even claiming to her hardcore mug followers that she has “successfully sued Lee Anderson” (or so many of said mugs believe). In reality, of course, she never sued the MP Lee Anderson (after a year, the time limitation barred action), and simply raised funds in order, ostensibly, to sue him, but then diverted those funds to her own use.

Why is “Jack Monroe” not being actively investigated by Essex Police? I know that that police force has been very busy seizing “racist” teddy bears from English people, but it might consider investigating some real crime as well.

To hell with what “Jack Monroe” may or may not need. She should be being investigated on multiple allegations of fraud.

“Panicdemic”/”scamdemic”

https://twitter.com/michael_riordan/status/1669965587961856002?s=20

https://twitter.com/michael_riordan/status/1669965593812893696?s=20

https://twitter.com/michael_riordan/status/1669965598443307010?s=20

https://twitter.com/michael_riordan/status/1669965602935517184?s=20

https://twitter.com/michael_riordan/status/1669965608052506624?s=20

https://twitter.com/michael_riordan/status/1669965613203087360?s=20

https://twitter.com/michael_riordan/status/1669965618395717635?s=20

https://twitter.com/michael_riordan/status/1669965623529439234?s=20

https://twitter.com/michael_riordan/status/1669967078244200449?s=20

https://twitter.com/michael_riordan/status/1669967082920787970?s=20

https://twitter.com/michael_riordan/status/1669967087069016064?s=20

https://twitter.com/michael_riordan/status/1669972670908100615?s=20

A very important (for once) Twitter thread.

The “panicdemic” started not because truly qualified scientists urged “lockdowns”, as well as the facemask nonsense and ludicrous other “measures” such as Boris-idiot’s “rule of six”, but because people not in any way qualified were promoting a panic agenda. One of the worst, of course, was the idiotic Professor Ferguson, member (why?) of “SAGE” (aka, for me, “DUMB”, the “Department Under Matt and Boris”); Ferguson trained in physics and statistics, not medicine.

Huge numbers of other specifically-unqualified persons added to the clamour for “stricter measures” etc— doctors who were just ordinary GPs, or specialists in other disciplines (eg psychiatry), and numerous “doctors” on Twitter, who on closer inspection turned out to be “doctors” of sociology, Trade Union Studies, criminology etc (if even those).

The results of the shutdown of society for ~2 years have been terrible: an enormous and continuing death toll, the NHS working even less efficiently, the economy facing severe and continuing downturn, the public facing harder and harder times; and so on.

Of course, the so-called “pandemic” was weaponized and used by Western governments (mainly), guided by transnational bodies such as the WEF, in order to introduce and test methods for the psychological control of mass populations. “The Great Reset” etc.

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Jesus H. Christ!

Like something from the Spitting Image sub-series The President’s Brain is Missing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitting_Image;

Never mind. Biden is not going to launch a nuclear war…is he?…

Imagine idiots like that thinking that “Jack Monroe” has somehow “beaten” Lee Anderson MP, when in fact she never even started a libel action against him, would have lost spectacularly had she done so, and has now slunk away even from attending the County Court matter in which she is the defendant, and in which one of the people she cheated via Patreon is the claimant (“plaintiff”, as was, years ago).

Stunning to consider that idiots of that type all have a vote…

I hope that “grifter”/fraudster “Jack Monroe” does stop getting subsidized by (as of today) 413 utter mugs via Patreon, and that she really does fall to the point where she is living on State benefits alone. Let’s see then whether she can feed herself (as she claims) on about 33p a day (11p x 3) or (as she confusingly also claims) £20 a week (for 4 people, so £5 a week or 70p a day per person).

It’s all nonsense and lies, of course. “Jack Monroe” has thousands of pounds per month in cash via the Patreon grift/scam, and some other sources of income as well.

I think that there is some kind of familial relationship; one certainly seems likely from her looks.

Disgrace. Better said, another disgrace.

The tweet from Lucy Allan MP, an alumna of Durham University, also betrays the fact that she does not know the difference between “principle” and “principal“. Good grief.

What is happening to this country? A slide into decadence and evil, that’s what.

That event looks like The Masque of the Red Death

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Some idiot calling himself “BrianMoore666”, who is happy to take the uncorroborated word of a long-term serial liar, thief, and fantasist that she donated the unused “sue Lee Anderson” monies to an unnamed foodbank…

What can one say?!

As for “we were all with you”, who’s “we“? The Mugs’ Union?

“Jack Monroe” cheating disabled pensioners, and cheered on by Guardian-reading Twitter-posting “wokerati”, and by affluent/overpaid msm idiots such as Alice Beer and Nigella Lawson (until recently).

Ha ha. Drug and drink-sodden person who lives in total chaos (by her own admission) is going to “check the spreadsheet“…Yeah, right…

Note the fake “I’m standing with the poor and starving” bit, and the general nastiness of the reply. I have seen other mendacious “Jack Monroe” replies similar to that on Twitter over the past 1-2 years.

Ha. That silly woman, “Julie B”, aka “bluemoonjules” has the cheek to describe herself on Twitter as “Smartass” and a “BrainyFanGirl“.

Twitter really is, often, the home of the deluded (as one can see by looking at almost all “Jack Monroe” fans).

Ha. That Jew (Krassenstein) is really rowing against the tide (of obvious fact). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_and_Ed_Krassenstein.

I agree, except that “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” is from the (U.S.) Declaration of Independence, not any British document (though “pursuit of happiness” was first formulated by Locke).

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/13/judge-jails-barrister-who-tried-to-buy-drugs-from-two-men-he-represented.

I missed that in the newspapers a few days ago. It made little impact in the Press as a whole.

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They all knew it was just a scam.

Apart from that, look at those idiots, at their stupid drunken faces. Those are the people at least at the foot of the pinnacle of UK politics? Bloody hell…

Can that be true? Like Soylent Green

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

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Diary Blog, 11 June 2023

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Battles past

From the newspapers

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/11/thousands-afghan-refugees-uk-homeless-crisis-operation-warm-welcome.

Strange. I did not see such concern about British people facing homelessness.

We have to stop, and then reverse, this tide of migration-invasion.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/10/uk-launches-150m-fund-help-ukrainians-into-own-homes.

More nonsense. 90% of Ukraine is not directly in a war zone.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12182003/Deputy-headteacher-reported-foster-mother-social-services-questioned-teaching.html

Britain 2023, and it is getting worse daily.

Peter Hitchens

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12181455/PETER-HITCHENS-70-years-sex-education-proof-doesnt-work.html.

Hitchens gives some information about the “Hungarian” Communist activist Georg Lukacs, but not the crucial fact that Lukacs was a Jew: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Luk%C3%A1cs.

One has to ask, at least rhetorically, why so many in the UK msm, politics, legal professions etc run so scared of the Jewish lobby? They need backbone.

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/09/abuse-has-led-sathnam-sanghera-to-more-or-less-stop-doing-book-events-in-uk.

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

Another enemy of Britain’s history and legacy. Whatever the flaws of the British Empire, it was still a hugely civilizing influence in the world. It should never have been dismantled so swiftly (if at all). The same goes for the other European empires (especially the French).

Good to see that people (on both sides) are actively rescuing and helping animals affected by the human conflict.

“Grifters” of the “Supertanskiii” and “Jack Monroe” type are, from what I have read and seen, subsidized mostly by pathetic men “of a certain age”. God knows what motivates anyone to give anything to such idiots, who however are cunning enough to be, apparently, making a good living out of their nonsense. “Supertanskiii” seems to be a one-trick-pony, who thinks that regularly saying “fuck the Tories” is a serious political statement. The mystery remains, though (with her even more than with “Jack Monroe”)— why do the mugs keep paying out?

The Trigan Empire

I notice that Boris Johnson, as a child, apparently seems to have enjoyed a series of cartoons, published in various magazines and in book form, called The Trigan Empire. Some years earlier, in 1966, I myself, aged 9, had enjoyed the same series, though only for a year (in 1967, my family relocated from the UK to Australia, where the weekly publication Look and Learn was unavailable; at least, I never saw it).

Quite a striking saga: I can still recall a few scenes. I was, until today, unaware that it had been published elsewhere than in Look and Learn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trigan_Empire; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_and_Learn.

Diary Blog, 9 May 2023, including Ukraine news, and something about Oliver Reed

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Interesting. I wonder what the truth of it is.

Is it just my own subjective perception— or does Charles not look uneasy in that photograph, as if he does not find himself very credible?

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown” [Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 2]

The Kiev regime killing their own soldiers? An accident? Or what?

I have often wondered over the past year why the Russian side has left most of the rail system in Ukraine intact. Is there some special reason, or is it just slackness and/or lack of capability?

https://twitter.com/Syribelle/status/1655885018177187844?s=20

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[Germany 1945— “We are fighting for the future of our children“]
[Dresden 1945]

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…tweets “Dr” Louise Raw, who applauded, inter alia, the prosecutions of Alison Chabloz, and her being barred from entering France for 40 years, merely for singing satirical songs about Jewish frauds…

Another hypocrite.

Oliver Reed— quite a character. Despite the hellraising reputation and lifestyle, he could be quite pleasant and polite. My parents told me that they had met him (would have been in the late 1970s, I think, though maybe early 1980s) when stopping off for a drink at an inn on the Hog’s Back in Surrey, not far from Reed’s large Victorian country house. He was at the bar with a (male) friend, and was interesting and courteous, they said.

The conversation had ended prematurely when the publican whispered to Reed that “she’s outside!“, at which Reed and his friend ran out the back way, behind the bar. A moment later a blazingly-angry woman arrived, and said to the barman “has he been in?“, to which the barman diplomatically said “haven’t seen him“! She then stalked out. This turned out to have been Reed’s then wife, Jacquie.

Yes, Oliver Reed. The sort of character rarely seen then, and never seen now (arguende). Descended from Peter the Great, supposedly, and someone who started a romance with a 16-y-o schoolgirl when he was 42 (they later married, when she was about 21 and he was about 47).

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

The darker side of Reed: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-mail/20130706/282724814519990.

…but “Fr Twohig said: ‘‘Oliver Reed was a very nice fellow. He wasn’t such a bad egg as is said.

‘He was quite shy and he used to need a few shots for Dutch courage. Drink set him off but he was a decent chap and very kind.’’

[The Irish Examiner]

The generality of the public want people to be either saints or sinners, but few people are unalloyedly either. “Blame and praise alike befall, when a dauntless man’s spirit is black and white mixed, like the magpie’s plumage” [Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival]

You see that wish of many to perceive people in a very rigid saint/sinner way in almost every political or social (or historical) scenario: the contending forces of the Second World War have to be either “evil” or “good”, despite it being obvious that bad things were done by all major forces contending.

The same is true of contemporary social or political matters in the UK. Those living on State benefits are often seen as either “scroungers” or “fraudsters” (though by some as suffering “victims” of society). Both can be true, even in one individual case, but people only want black and white, not grey.

Likewise, anyone who has served in the Army is now (following the American usage) a “veteran” and, if ever anywhere near a war zone, quite likely a “hero”, a usage that the Sun “newspaper” started in the early 1980s, when anyone who had set foot in the Falklands during the campaign was a “Falklands hero”.

Nurses of course are all seen as good, or even “angels”. Same, more or less, with doctors etc.

There is now no or very little nuance.

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Funny. In 1988, when I first went to Poland, driven by a former schoolfriend who had met a Polish girl in London when I very nearly slipped into the Thames and drowned— long story…), he opined, after we had spent some weeks there (I think about 6 weeks, in the end) that maybe poor Poland, then still under socialist control, might one day overtake the UK and France, in the Biblical “the last shall be first” way. At the time, I thought it highly unlikely, but look now…

In fact, my addiction to Google Earth and its Street View has revealed to me in recent years how much Poland has changed since I was there in 1988 and 1989 (I went several times over a couple of years). The roads look better by far than most of the UK ones now, especially the motorways and main highways that now exist. As for Warsaw, completely different.

The above changes must be interesting to my then friend and driver (I did not drive at the time), who married that Polish girl a year or so later, in the Autumn of 1989 (I was the best man, and the wedding was a lavish affair held in the St. Mary Basilica in Krakov, in the main market square).

[the nave of the Basilica of St. Mary, Krakov, where in 1989 a darkly-besuited Millard played the role of best man at a wedding reminiscent of that of Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren in the epic film, El Cid]

Incidentally, the last I heard, some years ago, the pair were still married, and living in leafy Buckinghamshire with their two teenage children (who by now must be well into their twenties).

Some mainstream and more or less international dishes, such as steak, sea bass with green asparagus, coquille of crabmeat and scallops; salad with duck and tomato; a meringue; a Russian favourite, Solyanka with meat (a traditional Russian soup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyanka); also (for the Central Asian guests?) Sherbet with lime.

…until a nuclear missile lands. Who, or what cabal, is stirring these revanchiste sentiments?

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The Western msm, especially in the USA and UK, is more or less controlled, in its output, by Jews and those working in the Jewish and Israeli interest.

The same is true of, eg, UK governmental and legal systems.

Madness. Escalation of the conflict. Those missiles are not capable of reaching Moscow or Petersburg from Ukrainian territory, but are still able to reach far inside Russia. How long can it be before at least tactical nuclear weapons are used in Ukraine?

At one time, I wondered why the Palestinians in Gaza did not try to replicate the German V-1 technology of the Second World War era (which is almost all now openly available). My conclusion in the end was that the slow maximum speed of the V-1 (about 400 mph) would make it very vulnerable to Israeli jet fighters as well as to ground-to-air defensive missiles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb.

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