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Diary Blog, 8-9 November 2021

8 November 2021

I thought to start today’s blog with a feel-good video first seen a while ago…

Afternoon music

Tweets seen

If I am not mistaken, a misquotation (from Marx), but no matter, if the cap fits…

[first time, tragedy…]
[second time, farce…]

Whatever one may say of Churchill, whatever one may say of his being hugely over-rated, especially as a strategist (hopeless), there is no doubt that he was a world-historic personality. “Boris”? A mere footnote to contemporary history, at best.

More tweets

This is why both conservation and rewilding are essential. Sad that so many who have hundreds of millions, or even billions, would rather make even more money (which at that level means nothing but entries on electronic or other ledgers) than create habitat for wild creatures.

Look, for example, at Zac Goldsmith, the much-puffed eco-champion. Worth maybe nearly (?) a billion, it seems, but not doing anything like as much as he might. He does donate to environmental causes, but he could do a great deal more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zac_Goldsmith#Fundraising.

An acre of “useless” land, or woodland, or farmland in the UK (depending on area) costs £2,000 to £10,000 an acre. Even at the higher figure, £100 millions therefore buys 10,000 acres or more. That’s a tenth (or more) of the size of the Isle of Wight (which totals 148 sq. miles), or nearly a fifteenth of the total area of the National Forest (200 sq. miles, but much of it is not actual forest): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Forest_(England).

[the National Forest]

Wagner: analysis of how he is presented

Late tweets

Any “intimidation” or deterrence should happen before they ever reach Europe.

The doctor speaking (from 1:31) is especially interesting.

Late music

9 November 2021

“Is it ‘coz I is white?”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10179527/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-feel-comfortable-applying-job-know-odds-against-you.html

Action directe?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10177431/Vandals-graffiti-corrupt-scum-red-paint-Tory-MP-David-Jones-constituency-office.html

Sweden, lockdown-shutdown, and reality

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10178701/How-Sweden-swerved-Covid-disaster-WITHOUT-lockdown.html.

Little twerp plays at being a Stalinist censor

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/08/cambridge-union-launches-stalinist-blacklist-banned-speakers/

Keir Bradwell, the student president of the 200-year-old Cambridge Union debating society
[would-be “Stalinist” censor, student Keir Bradwell, aka a little twerp]

…and most of the threat to freedom of expression in the UK comes from the Jew-Zionist element. I note that the Keir Bradwell individual cites the so-called “international definition” of “antisemitism”, which in fact has been adopted by only a couple of dozen states out of about 200 in the world.

Most people have not yet noticed, but this (meaning the whole thing, the wider question, not just the Cambridge storm in a teacup) is not a “debate”, nor even a “dispute”, but a war, or the beginnings of a war, or the approach to a war, a socio-political war.

Late tweets

Late music

Diary Blog, 28 February 2021, including a few thoughts about trees and forests

I happened to see a report in the Independent about trees: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/prison-green-space-trees-mental-health-b1808251.html.

As Chekhov said, either (I forget) in one of his famous works, or perhaps to Gorky, and later recounted in Gorky’s memoirs called Literary Portraits, that “there are men to whom a tree is sacred“.

[RUSSIA – JANUARY 01: Russian writers Anton Pavlovich CHEKHOV and Maxim GORKY at Yalta in 1900. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)]

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_Gorky; https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37129/37129-h/37129-h.htm]

It is hard to imagine anywhere, or any architecture, that cannot be improved by the proximity of a few trees, or which will not be impoverished if existing trees are cut down.

Trees have several enemies in modern Britain, not least local councils who often resent the cost of sweeping leaves etc. The “health and safety” aspect is sometimes brought into play, often unecessarily. Yes, occasionally, tree branches do fall on people or, more usually, parked cars, during storms or other periods of high wind. That is not a good reason to cut down trees wholesale.

Britain has relatively low tree cover, comparing the UK to other European countries by proportion. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_countries_by_forest_area. Britain’s tree cover, though greater than it was in the recent past, is still only 13%. Germany has 33%, France 36%, and Finland 73%.

There have been attempts, still continuing, to create new forests in the UK: the Heart of England Forest is one, created by the one-time Oz magazine defendant, Felix Dennis [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dennis; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_England_Forest; https://www.heartofenglandforest.com/].

Another is the National Forest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Forest_(England); https://www.nationalforest.org/

[the National Forest, northeast of Birmingham]

Britain needs more forests, more woods, more tree cover generally, eg in urban and suburban areas. The Woodland Trust, which has planted over 43 million trees over the past four or five decades, can help and even gives away saplings in some cases: https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodland_Trust.

The Golden Madonna

Watched an old (1949) British film, The Golden Madonna [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Madonna]. A few silly bits, but overall quite good and rather entertaining.

Tweets seen today

I can understand why Hitchens has acceded to the softly-spoken insistence that he have the Covid-19 vaccine injection. He wants to travel, and that is being made all but impossible without vaccination. Many in the old Soviet Union, the vast majority in fact, made the same sort of compromise: unenthusiastic compliance with the regime, in order to live a quiet life, avoid penalties, and receive modest benefits such as good jobs, flats, or (for the few) travel outside Soviet borders.

The latest Peter Hitchens blog: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9307363/PETER-HITCHENS-Ive-Covid-jab-cost-freedom.html

Afternoon music

More tweets seen

https://twitter.com/ResurrectedTyr/status/1365815796367253514?s=20

https://twitter.com/Amy_amorie/status/1366035690350346240?s=20

This is her: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Khan_(activist) (“activist” and careerist, who was a hospital pharmacist before getting into her well-paid anti-free-speech government sinecure).

If even part of her “report” were to become law and actually implemented, that is the end of even the limited free speech that now exists in the UK.

https://twitter.com/London19721/status/1365643932026228736?s=20

An idealized view, to be sure, but essentially accurate. Britain was a better place before migration invasion, before Zionist control of the mass media (and now even online space), before multikulti and other nonsense.

https://twitter.com/sakkoira/status/1365952476906741761?s=20

https://twitter.com/Amy_amorie/status/1365985227710074881?s=20

https://twitter.com/GreenManEng/status/1365643964888539138?s=20

https://twitter.com/SilkenThread88/status/1366011619348733953?s=20

“European Housewife” was one of the most charming and unusual Twitter accounts. Historical and environmental as well as political and social. Now “suspended”. The latest victim of the war on free speech.

https://twitter.com/AlphaGoII1/status/1366005643283468298?s=20

https://twitter.com/Paleocon_USA/status/1366003652599635968?s=20

https://twitter.com/SilkenThread88/status/1365988382489346055?s=20

An old German lady told me, long ago, that “it will take a long time, but people will eventually have to face the fact that the only answer is National Socialism.

Hitler, in his Table Talk [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler%27s_Table_Talk] remarks, not far from the disastrous end of the Second World War, that National Socialism (as known) was finished, but that in maybe a century’s time, the essence of National Socialism would be reborn in another form and then would seize the world with the force of a religion. God mote it be!

Interesting. The never-ending movement of history.

Further aspects of the relationship between National Socialism and spirituality (etc): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_aspects_of_Nazism, though it is necessary to note that Wikipedia is rather (((occupied))), so read with an alert mind.

Britain 2021

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fix-welfare-system-more-people-23577979

I have blogged in the past about Therese Coffey, who is the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions at present: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/09/16/deadhead-mps-an-occasional-series-the-therese-coffey-story/.

Late music

Final word for tonight

Some readers of my blog may have noticed that a small group of (((trolls))) and nuisances on Twitter have recently been making untrue allegations of criminal or near-criminal behaviour by me and two other named persons.

In relation to the allegations against me specifically, I have already been forced to complain to the employer of one of the said nuisances, an NHS consultant. I may be making further complaint (regulatory and/or official) in relation to that person and others.

I am not a natural complainer (and usually ignore trolls and nuisances because of my belief in free speech), but was forced, by the harassing tweets of these individuals, to take action.

Update, 22 June 2023

The individual who made the false allegations against me was one Tim G. Stevens, NHS psychiatrist and soi-disant novelist, who self-publishes derivative spy thrillers on Amazon.

He had to eat crow, the horrible bastard.

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/07/18/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away-ha-ha/.