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Diary Blog, 20 November 2025, with material about the ever-encroaching nanny-state, the unwanted revival of msm “Covid” nonsense, the migration invasion, and Ukraine

Afternoon music

[Volegov, On the Coast at Deauville]

Thoughts out of season…

I happened to drop by my local supermarket, a Waitrose outlet. I bought a few basic items (bread, coffee, water, tomato, banana, paw-paw etc) and then went to buy some Euromillions lottery tickets. The draw tomorrow has a high-value prize, £132M, so I decided to buy 20 tickets. The elderly woman cashier told me that the machine told her that she was “not allowed” to sell so many to one person! A mere 20 tickets (£50 worth)!

I told her that I had had as many or more in the past. Oh, no, this is a “new rule”, I was told. A supervisor was called. She commiserated with me but explained that the new National Lottery company (a Czech thing called Allwyn) had just brought in this rule to “protect” people. I presume she meant “problem” gamblers.

£50! I recall that, in the 1980s, some City of London barrow-boy trader whose name escapes me (Terry-something) gambled £500,000 each-way on his own horse running in the Grand National. Equivalent to at least £2M each-way, i.e. £4M altogether, in today’s money.

Incidentally, though that horse lost, coming in fourth, Terry-something’s bet did not lose, because an each-way bet in a race with so many runners covers the winning horse (win and place) and the three placed horses behind the winner. In other words, Terry-something lost his £500,000 win bet but won on his £500,000 place bet, which paid out either a quarter or a fifth of the odds. His horse was at a fairly high price, so Terry-something collected enough to go away with a profit of about a million.

Anyway, returning to Waitrose and the lottery tickets, I was “allowed” (!) to buy 10 Euromillions tickets. When I mentioned the nonsense of it all to another cashier, on paying for my groceries, she also commiserated but added, “I suppose it is because we have to be mindful…some people lose their houses and so on…“, to which I retorted that people have to grow up and bite the bullet, not be monitored and controlled by nanny-state rules.

Jesus H. Christ! This country is going mad (as I expostulated during the above-described events), and is becoming just impossible.

The stupid thing is that the nanny-state restriction is on tickets bought per transaction, so there would have been nothing to stop me going round the store, returning to the kiosk, then buying more tickets! Or, indeed, going to another store and buying there.

So typical of the UK today. A stupid box-ticking rule, brought in by some drone with (probably) a ridiculous job title such as (my guess) “community engagement nobody”, which rule accomplishes nothing, not even on its own totally fake “caring sharing” bs basis, and which just inconveniences people and takes even more joy and hope out of life in Britain.

Of course, the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic accelerated all of this fake communitarian bs, and was designed to do that.

**** them all.

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The idiots are still trying to interest the public in a war with Russia. Roll up! Roll up! Roll up to have your family killed and your home town (and every town) destroyed by nuclear attack!

Those corrupt and/or stupid MPs seem to be unaware that the real invasion started some time ago, is continuing, and involves the influx of a million non-whites every single year, thus ruining the UK economically, culturally, socially, and causing shortages and/or price increases in housing, food, water supply, NHS provision etc.

As for China, not only is China vast, with a huge population dwarfing that of the UK (and with commensurate military and naval resources) but it poses no direct threat at all to the UK.

There is no direct Chinese military or espionage threat to the UK at all. What terribly important secrets is the declining, decadent UK supposed to have that China might want to know? Which Labour MPs have been involved with young girls or little boys? What have Eastern European rent boys have been doing with Starmer-stein?

What China is doing (not only in the UK) is exporting people. Taking over societies such as the UK by the sheer numbers of “legally-admitted” immigrants, businesspeople etc. Gradual and peaceful takeover.

To win without war is the supreme excellence” [Sun Tzu].

The irony is that the MPs most agitated about both Russia and China are those most compromised by the actively spying Jew-Zionist and Israel lobby. Iain Dunce Duncan Smith, that disgusting individual, to name just one.

Ha ha! I am very much looking forward to most of those stupid little Labour MPs (Con MPs too) losing their seats (and then, I hope, suffering).

Yes, the “North-South divide” certainly is being closed, but only because the South of England is now catching up with the North in terms of being flooded by migrant-invaders, and by poor housing, poorly-paid work, and services that scarcely work (police, NHS etc). Wonderful…

What a shock. Not.

Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.

Net”. Meaning that, every year, in recent years, about 1.5M non-white migrants have entered the UK, about 100,000 have left, and about 250,000 (real) Brits also left, fleeing this country.

“Boris”-idiot should be put up against a wall.

Our animal friends.

[“Every race is tribal. However, Whites have been taught for decades through Marxist ideology that it’s bad for them to be like this despite natural instincts. This has led to the British becoming a underclass in their own land as other races have been uplifted and celebrated for their culture and communities in comparison. 1 million Indians alone in 5 years is absolutely insane. We do not have the capacity for this and certainly not for it to continue.“]

As an interim measure, restrictions could be placed on what types of person can use what types of public or other transport.

Sterilization of certain types of person must also be on the table.

Anyone voting for a System party candidate in any election is facilitating this abuse.

See also: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/scientists-reveal-jewish-history-s-forgotten-turkish-roots-a6992076.html

The UK level now is about 8%. In England, about 9% or even 10%. In many towns and cities, far higher. Once the level gets to 20%, 30% etc in any particular city, town, or region, you will have either an attempted takeover, an actual takeover, or a civil war of some kind.

As a matter of fact, that is already happening, though —so far— only in certain areas of the country.

I keep reading that Jews have been expelled, historically, from 109 countries, territories, and regions.

Are you thinking what I am thinking?

No, because the regime of the Jew dictator, Zelensky, is a brutal, corrupt, shambolic tyranny, in which dissidents get shot or arrested.

I hope to see self-publicizing, incompetent, malicious, dishonest Jew-Zionist solicitor Mark Lewis finally struck off the roll of solicitors before he snuffs it.

For more material about Lewis, just type the bastard’s name, or those of Patron Law, or Mandy Blumenthal, into the search box on the blog. Here is one result, anyway:

Our animal friends.

As previously examined on the blog, Morgan McSweeney, though not a Jew, is pretty obviously, and at the very least, an Israeli agent of influence (use the search box to see more), and the Starmer-stein “Labour” government of utter clowns is better described as a Labour Friends of Israel government. Almost all of them belong to Labour Friends of Israel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Russell-Moyle

The System talking heads and scribblers have still not woken up to the fact that Labour now has no “natural supporters” except some of the blacks and browns, some of the public service employees (teachers, NHS staff, local council staff), and a fairly small number of middleaged and elderly people who think they are living in 1975, not 2025.

Look at the opinion polls. The Labour vote at present seems to be 15%-20%, i.e. about the same proportion as non-whites in the UK.

[“Hundreds of medical whistleblowers have come forward to me with concerns about the English language skills of countless foreign NHS staff, along with questions of competence.

I raised those issues today in the Public Accounts Committee with the most senior Department of Health civil servants. I will be officially following this up, requesting all relevant data – published or unpublished.

Poor communication, and lacking competence, from foreign staff is playing a significant role in clinical malpractice. It’s a debate I am determined to force through, regardless of how uncomfortable some may find it. This is a serious issue – lives are on the line. I want to thank every NHS nurse, doctor, midwife, surgeon, manager and more who has come forward. All are considered, and I am acting on your concerns. I will continue to pursue answers in Parliament.”]

Unfortunately, though, Parliament, as it stands, is an almost complete waste of space, time, effort, and money.

The Americans, especially in places such as New York City, have been struggling with this for at least 35 years.

[“Though I yield to nobody in my view that BoJo was just about the least appropriate person to have as PM when Covid struck, I’m sceptical of the Hallet report’s claim that had he locked down a week earlier 23,000 lives would have been saved. First, it’s easy to be wise after the event. At the time nobody was quite sure what was happening. Second, that figure depends on modelling. And by now we should all have learned to be extremely sceptical of modelling.“]

The msm is still trying to push the line that “Covid” was some kind of massive international existential threat to humanity. In fact, a rather small “blip” virus was weaponized in order to serve the WEF/Davos/globalist agenda, and the propaganda was mostly prepared in advance— well in advance, in fact.

The motive seems to be to have the quasi-dictatorial measures rolled out again as and when required by the System, and as conditioning for a possible defence scam which might posit Russia, China, or both, as an immediate threat “requiring” a kind of martial law of sorts, as with the Covid scamdemic/panicdemic, but more intense yet.

As for “Boris”-idiot, I was exposing his nonsense (and sheer lack of ability) on Twitter years before this blog was even established (in 2016). However, his supposed defaults re. “lockdown” are scarcely worth talking about, because “lockdown” badly and perhaps irreparably damaged this country’s economy and society, and was entirely unnecessary, in reality.

As for “Panic-spreader General” Professor Ferguson, and the Michie woman, some societies would have them in prison, or up against a wall; some of the “vaccine” scientists and producers as well.

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

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Diary Blog, 10 May 2023

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I find myself turning back to Nietzsche, particularly Also Sprach Zarathustra, not read for many years.

The nanny state…again.

About 22-23 years ago, I was en route from a social call in Hereford to the South Coast when the police stopped me in Wiltshire in the middle of the night. I had expected to overnight in or near Hereford, but in the end decided to drive through the night, starting after midnight.

I had had a couple of pints of cider during the (hot summer) day, and a couple of pints of Guinness in the evening. I was not intoxicated in the slightest.

The drive back was devoid of traffic. I scarcely saw any other vehicle, though I had to brake urgently when a black deer ran in front of my car before scrambling into woodland on the road that follows the course of the river Wye.

Sometime around 2 in the morning, I crossed an empty roundabout in Wiltshire and, not long after that, I noticed in the rear-view mirror a car a distance behind me. That car, a police vehicle, then blasted my car with bright headlights, so bright that they were shocking. Irresponsible. They then applied their blue lights.

I pulled over, and one of the two police approached. He asked me where I was headed, from where I had come, and why was I out so late. They probably had already checked the car’s registration (it was not my car), and so asked for no licence or insurance details. Just as well. I had a foreign licence at the time, and I find talking/explaining to the police rather boring.

The policeman had a perfunctory look and rummage in the back of the car, and then decided (on my admission that I had had a Guinness) to breathalyze me. Zero reading.

Turned out that a police camera operator had seen me cross that empty roundabout “erratically”. I was probably tired.

Anyway, the policeman was polite and friendly enough and, above all, let me go!

Still, how long before one has to blow into devices even in the car to test both sobriety and wakefulness?

True, sleepiness, like intoxication, can be dangerous to both a driver and to others, but sometimes these State control measures go too far, and destroy all freedom and pleasure in life.

Incidentally, that was both the first and the last time that I was breathalyzed. I rarely have even one drink now if driving (and drink little generally in any case). The only time in my life when I would have been driving actually intoxicated on a regular basis would have been when living in the Caribbean for a while, nearly a quarter-century ago. A few mojitos and a few daiquiris can seriously impair your driving ability…

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From the newspapers

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/10/west-opportunity-risk-ukraine-counteroffensive.

Written by Timothy Garton Ash [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Garton_Ash], someone whom I have always thought a rather sinister individual (from a distance— I have never met or seen him).

I am at least assuming (for now) that what we read there, in that Guardian piece, is effectively the sort of judgment (about aid and assistance to the Kiev regime) being channeled to Downing Street by SIS.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12067209/Lib-Dems-demand-electoral-reform-price-propping-Keir-Starmer-No10.html

I shall believe it when I see it, but Proportional Representation is the only way to restore, to some extent, the credibility of the pseudo-democratic circus in the UK.

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An army, however huge, well-motivated, and well-equipped, against a nuclear power, even one which may not be ideologically-motivated or efficient, is little more than a display of strength which may become a field of cinders.

The sections of that Ukrainian-language graphic are, from top, Black Sea, Sea of Azov, and Mediterranean Sea. Presumably all or most ships etc are from the Black Sea Fleet.

Good to see young people on the right track. That tweeter now has over 89,000 Twitter “followers”.

See my assessment from a few years ago: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/11/15/when-reality-becomes-subjective/.

Looks similar to the village of Dunsford, not far away, where I once stayed for about a third of each month when on “kommandirovka” (i.e. work journeys, as a barrister based in Exeter) from my then home in Brittany.

Seems long ago now. I was last there in 2008.

Clever idea. BTW, I have no financial interest in the product!

The “trans” nonsense has just become absolutely ridiculous in the UK and USA.

Leaving “Madame Hatchet” aside, that is quite right, but what is not said in the tweet is that any visionaries are frozen out by the System, and also attacked relentlessly by, mostly, the Jew-Zionist element and its “antifa” “useful idiots”…

Not so sure that the graph does show that, but I cannot think of many people or types of people, who would go out and vote Conservative Party at present, certainly not from active approbation of Conservative Party policy or actual rule. The most the Con Party can hope for is that there are enough people who actively oppose the Labour Party to mitigate the losses.

Even the “stop the migration-invasion” policy (re the cross-Channel invasion) has been proven to be pretty much hot air. The invaders still flood in, aided and abetted by those who could be called many things but “traitor” is closest, albeit in the “non-legal” sense.

It is very doubtful that Starmer-Labour will do any better in any area than the present bunch of idiots but, as a plea to the voters, that is not much to say…

Once again, a battle based not on which party is most popular but which party is least popular. Not very inspiring.

Good grief. I wonder whether that always works. After all, you only get one chance.

Might be useful sometime.

Various UK institutions such as the civil service, police, CPS, legal professions, judiciary, RNLI, even the National Trust are, so to speak, “riddled with traitors“.

Lost Doggerland

I have written about Doggerland and, also, large engineering projects, previously on the blog: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2020/05/19/lost-doggerland-some-historical-changes-and-some-large-scale-projects/.

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Isn’t that a Masonic distress signal?

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[St. Petersburg, winter scene]