Well, this week— 6/10, beating the 2/10 scored by political journalist John Rentoul. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 4, 5, and 9.
Tweets seen
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev stated that there can no longer be any rules against Kiev, which is increasing attacks on Russian cities:https://t.co/7HHtZDyaR0pic.twitter.com/WruJXLGyzC
Nick Griffin was prosecuted and branded a racist for warning about organized grooming gangs raping British girls more than twenty years ago.
His past as a far-right nationalist made him an easy target to dismiss. The political class and media had no interest in hearing it.… pic.twitter.com/3J6EuOfTCZ
[“Nick Griffin was prosecuted and branded a racist for warning about organized grooming gangs raping British girls more than twenty years ago.
His past as a far-right nationalist made him an easy target to dismiss. The political class and media had no interest in hearing it. Neither did the people.
Independent inquiries into Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford and other towns later confirmed the scale of the abuse where thousands of children had been systematically groomed and raped while police and councils failed to act, partly paralyzed by fear of racism accusations.
The messenger was destroyed. The message never went through. The victims paid the price.
But like him or not, he was right.”]
Imagine. You recline in your comfy chair, the kids are outside playing with the neighbours children. You have no rent to pay, no mortgage, no bills, your wife has quit work. Your larder is full of fresh vegetables and fruit and there's a steak in the fridge. pic.twitter.com/Eg8BUGxfzB
Orania proves an ethnostate built on self-reliance can thrive. With virtually no crime, strong schools, economic growth, and environmental sustainability, it stands in stark contrast to the dysfunction of Western “multiculturalism.” Demographic homogeneity drives its prosperity. pic.twitter.com/wipg0iRz1O
The whites of South Africa were mad to give up power to corrupt and incompetent blacks. That ethno-community is a very positive sign, but may have to fight for survival in the end.
Labour MP speaking to the Guardian Andy Burnham, Wes Streeting, Angela Rainer, Ed Miliband we just have to face up to the fact that every single one of them is fucking useless
As a matter of fact, I tipped Burnham as future Labour leader on my then Twitter account as long ago as 2010, and again in 2015 (I was expelled from Twitter at the behest of a pack of Jews in 2018) . At the time, I regarded Burnham as the best of the very poor bunch vying for the position. That is still my view. He is not much good, and his colleagues are worse.
A Pakistani migrant was apprehended by locals in Birmingham after allegedly trying to rape a 13-year-old girl, and police closed the case with no action taken. He bragged that he had a lot of friends on the police force. I'm inclined to believe him. pic.twitter.com/G4Fb54QXrT
Reform UK is not “extreme” (social-national) enough. Not at all.
Resident of Moscow region detained for intimidation acts against three servicemen — FSB. The suspect was recruited via Telegram and in May 2026 carried out intimidation acts at the servicemen's residential addresses:https://t.co/9ILC9diHjMpic.twitter.com/HhZ9C6F5RX
Battlegroup South liberated 94 buildings and destroyed up to 95 Ukrainian servicemen in Konstantinovka over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/6z1yEUC19Rpic.twitter.com/hammuoAzQR
Iran is closing the Strait of Hormuz because of Israel's ongoing aggression against Lebanon in violation of a memorandum signed with the United States, the army said:https://t.co/qLs5l9R0Abpic.twitter.com/yuUmGViu9F
Israel is deliberately sabotaging the ceasefire agreement.
Russia’s Su-34 multifunctional fighter-bombers have struck at the Ukrainian points of drone deployment and control in Dobropolye, Kucherov Yar and Nikolayevka of the DPR with FAB-1500 and FAB-500, the Defense Ministry said:https://t.co/M7xQyDnu20
A Su-34M destroyed the "UNIT" customs and logistics complex on the outskirts of Kharkiv with a FAB-500 strike.
The hub was used as a warehouse for UAVs and their components. Objective control footage is being published by the Ministry of Defense. pic.twitter.com/rjYtWxo7Ps
"In connection with Israel's crimes in Lebanon and the US's violation of its obligations to establish a ceasefire, the Strait of Hormuz is closed to all ships. Ships should not approach the Strait of Hormuz. Otherwise, their safety will be at risk," – a statement from the IRGC. pic.twitter.com/2E4tuPGcjs
British Prime Minister Starmer blocked a bill banning marriages between first cousins
Naturally. After all, migrants from Pakistan and the elites regularly practice such marriages. You can't betray your own allies. pic.twitter.com/oNVEL9TDKN
🐝 When bees can't eliminate a threat, they render it harmless and neutralize it.
Sometimes a mouse will enter a hive, attracted by the warmth and the smell of honey. The bees will then attack it as a group until they neutralize the intruder. But there's a problem: the body is… pic.twitter.com/M9RQ4tW4vR
[“When bees can’t eliminate a threat, they render it harmless and neutralize it.
Sometimes a mouse will enter a hive, attracted by the warmth and the smell of honey. The bees will then attack it as a group until they neutralize the intruder. But there’s a problem: the body is too heavy to be carried out of the hive.
And that’s where one of the most fascinating behaviors in the animal kingdom comes in.
To prevent the carcass from decomposing and contaminating the entire colony, the bees completely cover it with propolis, a natural resin they collect from trees. This substance has powerful antibacterial and antifungal properties.
Little by little, the body dries out, is preserved, and becomes completely harmless to the hive.
This phenomenon, observed by scientists and beekeepers, is considered one of the most impressive examples of collective hygiene in social insects.“]
The inherent wisdom of Nature.
🚨 A senior government figure told The Telegraph Sir Keir Starmer was realising that the “game is up” and his thoughts were now turning to how he could “shore up his legacy”
“Legacy“? The bastard thinks that he has a “legacy” (in any but the most negative sense)? The self-delusion of Starmer-stein may be scarcely unique in System politics, but is still striking.
Photo fact: KABs temporarily closed the swimming season in Zaporizhia
The Russian Armed Forces carried out strikes on the Preobrazhensky Bridge across the Dnieper and the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station, as well as on the Zaporizhia-1 railway station. pic.twitter.com/JVHcO8Lm1R
Russia is increasingly approaching the point after which withdrawal will be impossible The increasingly frequent messages coming from Moscow in recent months are interpreted in different ways across Europe. While some countries advocate continuing political dialogue and seeking a… pic.twitter.com/wx7FvO0czY
A major war in Western and Central Europe must be avoided at all costs. However, if the NWO/ZOG cabals trigger such a war, and if the British people or part of them survive, that might be an opportunity to remove and eliminate System people and parties, and non-European parasites and predators, and then to create, down the line, something new and free.
Final stray thought
A while ago, I blogged to the effect that Trump said one thing one day, another —and contradictory— thing the next. Well, Trump now says several contradictory things within a single day. This is no terribly clever negotiating tactic; it becomes just totally mad.
“MPs have voted in favour of measures to decriminalise women terminating their own pregnancies in the biggest change to the law on reproductive rights for half a century.
Women will no longer face prosecution for aborting their own baby for any reason and at any stage up to birth under the proposed legislation, which was backed by 379 votes to 137 on Tuesday night.”
[Daily Mail]
Horrifying. A form of infanticide or even murder, in lay terms. The deliberate killing of a completely viable foetus (which after all only means unborn baby). When you consider that it is commonplace for babies to be born days or even weeks prematurely, and then go on to thrive, this proposed law, which will obviously become law now, decriminalizes the killing of any unborn child, even if done only hours, minutes, seconds even, before actual birth, and for any reason whatsoever, so long as the expectant mother does the killing. Truly horrifying.
379 MPs voted for this abomination. These people don’t represent us – they are enemies of humanity. pic.twitter.com/KEFklaGaTD
Not sure whether the new law will validate that, exactly, because the killing will (from what I have read, anyway) have to be by the mother to escape legal sanction.
Disgusting
Labour cheered as they voted to become the party of baby killers
[“Witnesses have described scenes like “a horror movie” in Gaza after Israeli forces fired towards a crowd waiting for trucks loaded with flour near Khan Younis, on one of the bloodiest days for weeks in the devastated territory.
At least 51 Palestinians were reported to have been killed and hundreds more wounded in the southern city. People at the scene and doctors described seeing injured and dead with wounds typical of those caused by artillery or tank fire. Unverified video shared on social media showed about a dozen mangled bodies lying in a street.
Multiple other incidents of violence involving crowds of desperate Palestinians trying to get food were reported on Tuesday.
The Israeli military acknowledged firing in the area of the crowd in Khan Younis and said it was looking into the incident.
The IDF said it was aware of reports of casualties “from IDF fire.”
[Guardian]
What the Israeli Jews in uniform do is not so much a copy of what the German SS are alleged to have done in WW2 (there are no similar recorded instances, in fact) but a kind of horrific and ahistorical parody of what the Jews (Israeli and other) claim the SS were like.
“The stream of wounded in Imam Khomeini hospital in Tehran had been steady since Friday. On Sunday evening it became a flood. A renewed wave of Israeli strikes on Iran’s capital overwhelmed the hospital’s emergency unit, turning it into what one doctor described as a “bloodbath”.
“It was a bloodbath. We were overwhelmed by chaos and the screams of grieving family members. Dozens upon dozens of people with life-threatening injuries, minor wounds and even bodies were brought in,” a doctor at the emergency unit of the hospital told the Guardian on Monday under condition of anonymity.
As fighting between Israel and Iran entered its fourth day, Iranian hospitals were receiving a surge of wounded people, overwhelming medical facilities and exhausted personnel. Medical staff described scenes of bloody chaos and an influx of injured people that has only seemed to grow as Israeli strikes increased in intensity.
I’ve seen toddlers, teenagers, adults and the elderly alike. Profusely bleeding mothers were rushing in with their children injured by shrapnel,” the doctor said, adding that some parents did not realise they themselves were injured until they put their children down.“
[Guardian]
So…Israeli Jews killing children and others from the air. Of course, the Jews say that noticing such facts about their behaviour constitutes a so-called “blood libel”…
“Swifts’ decline: how can Britons help these remarkable birds?
Campaigners are calling for compulsory ‘swift bricks’ in new homes to provide nesting sites.
What are swifts and why are they in trouble?
The swift (Apus apus) is an acrobatic aerial bird, a remarkable sprinter and endurance flyer that rarely touches the ground. When these sickle-winged birds do come down – after several years in perpetual flight, even sleeping midair – it is to nest in the eaves of roofs across Europe after spending winters in sub-Saharan Africa, migrating 7,000 miles (11,000km) every year. They are celebrated by nature lovers, artists and poets as they race through city skies on long summer evenings, filling the air with their screaming calls.
The fastest bird in level flight (top speed: 69mph/111kph), they feed on airborne insects. Swifts are in trouble because of steep declines in insects, but also because they are losing traditional nesting sites. Swifts once nested in caves and hollow trees but moved into buildings hundreds of years ago. Modern insulation, particularly in roofs, removes the crevices and cavities where they have nested for centuries.
What are the prospects for swifts?
Grim. Swift populations in Britain slumped by 66% between 1995 and 2022 and have continued a rapid downward trend. Since the last count of 59,000 breeding pairs, the population this summer is set to be just 40,000 pairs. In five years’ time there could be fewer than 25,000, unless action is taken.
A swift brick is a hollow brick that slots into the brickwork of new or old homes, providing a cavity where swifts can nest. The bricks have also been found to help other cavity-nesting birds, including the rapidly declining red-listed house martin, house sparrow and starling. Other species including blue tits, great tits, nuthatches and wrens will also nest in the bricks.
Swift bricks are made by brick manufacturers large and small, and typically cost about £35. There is a British standard for them and some developers are already fitting them to new homes.
— Wholesome Side of 𝕏 (@itsme_urstruly) June 17, 2025
“There is no weapon there. Trump is just mouthing off.”@IAEAorg’s former chief nuclear inspector in Iraq Robert E. Kelley completely dismisses Trump’s claim that Iran is on the cusp of developing a nuclear weapon.@JPonpolitics | #TimesRadiopic.twitter.com/MPeXk7dejL
'We're not firing on civilians' Andrew: 'I'm sorry, but the evidence says you are' @AndrewMarr9 demands answers from the Israeli Ambassador over the death of 51 civilians in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/9uM78v7xah
The Israelis are not like us. They are alien. Their supporters in the UK should be deported and/or otherwise punished.
“And still, even under attack, we’re treated as a threat, not as people.”
As Israelis gather in shelters amid Iranian missile attacks, Palestinian citizens say they continue to face discrimination and are being locked out https://t.co/nRILoAUY0lpic.twitter.com/O01BhtW4RE
The Israelis claim, for foreign consumption, that Israel does not practise a form of apartheid, but it obviously does. This is only one of many examples.
Washington insiders are saying ODNI Tulsi Gabbard will resign if President Trump orders the U.S. military to join Israel in their strikes against Iran.
Trump shows every sign of reverting to what he was 9 years ago— a squawking parrot surrounded on all sides by a phalanx of Jews.
Well, we shall soon know.
Had the Arabs (inter se) and Iranians not been so divided over the past 80 years, Israel would not now exist. Now look: one by one, the Israelis, via their influence over Washington, London, Paris, have had taken down for them all their surrounding potential enemies— Lebanon (invaded, part-occupied), Jordan (suborned), the Gulf Arabs and Saudis (suborned), Egypt (defeated and then suborned), Libya, Iraq, Syria etc. Only Iran and Yemen are left standing.
Even the way things are in the UK now, hard to believe that that is the “Deputy Prime Minister”.
American media: Israel's missile defense capability will last only 10 to 12 days. 🤦🤦🤦 pic.twitter.com/mODhTrX8gk
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
Good news, if true, though possibly leaked by Israel and designed to push Trump into getting directly involved in bombing Iran.
Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, “We’ve pulled off a number of surprises — when the dust settles — your going to see some surprises on Thursday night and Friday, that will make the “Beeper” operation almost seem simple.” pic.twitter.com/o37KP01KBn
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 17, 2025
Official statement from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps:
The eleventh wave of the proud Operation True Promise 3, using the first generation Fatah missiles, marks the beginning of the end of the mythical air defense of the Zionist army, the confusion and self-destruction… pic.twitter.com/p5Ukqy8Tf0
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
[“Official statement from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The eleventh wave of the proud Operation True Promise 3, using the first generation Fatah missiles, marks the beginning of the end of the mythical air defense of the Zionist army, the confusion and self-destruction of the Zionist villains. We congratulate you, commanders and loyal fighters of the IRGC Aerospace Force. Fattah’s powerful and maneuverable missiles, having penetrated the anti-missile shield tonight, repeatedly shook the shelters of the Zionist cowards and conveyed a message of Iranian strength to Tel Aviv’s military ally, which lives in illusions and empty dreams. Today’s missile strike showed that we have complete control over the skies over the occupied territories, and their residents are completely defenseless against Iranian missile attacks.“]
Russia could, in theory, tell the United States that, should the US bomb Iran, Russia will bomb or rocket Israel. That would stalemate the situation, and stop the Americans from attacking Iran. It might also trigger WW3, though, and make “Armageddon” reality, both in Israel/Palestine and elsewhere.
However, Putin will not want to get Russia directly involved.
So far, Russia is winning all ways: the oil price is rocketing, gold is rocketing too, and Russia is one of the largest producer-states of both.
Also, Trump has apparently signalled to Zelensky and the Kiev regime that American military aid hitherto given to Kiev will be cut back, and priority given to the Middle East. That, as Russian forces press forward on all relevant sectors of the overall front.
In short, Putin is winning the geopolitical chess game.
The 28th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum will take place from June 18-21, 2025. This year, SPIEF’s theme is "Common Values — The Foundation of Growth in a Multipolar World":https://t.co/h4z4s6JMDzpic.twitter.com/2XXEUI9ihW
“Here comes the sandman to send you to bed, here comes the chopper to chop off your head…one, two, three…chop.” [traditional English children’s bedtime words]
“Countries that refuse to take back illegal migrants from the UK could be stripped of visa access”
Another policy we pushed in our Substack a year ago is now going mainstream. Use visa penalties/foreign aid to force deportations https://t.co/xRsmjcykWY
On that basis, Reform 326 MPs (and a bare majority), Lab 129, Con 76, LibDem 50, SNP 39.
Different from other recent polls in that the Cons have edged ahead of Labour in terms of popular vote, though not enough to go ahead in terms of Commons seats; however, the Cons are seen there as the third-biggest party in the Commons, not, as in most other recent polls, fifth-placed. https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html.
If we are honest and not idealistically blind, we can admit it will be the end of politics and the start of conflict in Britain.
How else will a newly made minority native people in their homeland, without a sense of democratic hope of undoing what has been done to them, react?
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
Ah…
Israelis flee war through Sinai
The Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that due to the ongoing closure of airports in the occupied territories, a large number of israelis are leaving the country, traveling through Sinai and then Cairo, to escape the war. pic.twitter.com/Wq4nU9RkMA
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
No comment necessary.
Netanyahu's Thirty-Year Lie
…. compiled a collection of clips of Netanyahu making statements he has made repeatedly since 1996, claiming Iran is close to nuclear weapons.
For almost 30 years he has been lying, saying that Iran is very close to creating nuclear weapons. pic.twitter.com/2hzDmEd3gw
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
The Guardian: Israel's attacks on Iran, including the killing of nuclear scientists and damage to some facilities, have had no impact on Iran's nuclear programme and may even have accelerated the pace of enrichment. pic.twitter.com/grS89WGWc6
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
Israel Claims 1,100 Strikes on Iranian Targets in Five Days, Says It 'Operates Freely'
Israeli military spokesman Rear Admiral Effie Defrin said the Israeli Air Force had struck 1,100 targets inside Iran over the past five days, saying the military was "operating freely in Iran,… pic.twitter.com/lWrxVZ1ZlG
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
Iran: We will respond decisively in case of direct US intervention
Iran's representative to the United Nations: 🔴 Iran will set a red line and will respond decisively if the United States crosses it. 🔴 We are closely monitoring the level of US involvement. 🔴 We are vigilant… pic.twitter.com/ylQvQvmqoh
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
Iranian Leadership:
Americans should know that any US military intervention will undoubtedly cause irreparable damage. pic.twitter.com/KvdIpcvsSd
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
— Iran War Designer (@IranWarDesigner) June 18, 2025
The Financial Times quoted a US defense official as saying: The Nimitz aircraft carrier will take at least a week to reach the region. pic.twitter.com/qSQd49BIKm
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
If it is true that Israel will run out of ground to air missiles within a week, and if it is also true that Iran still has thousands of missiles of various types, then Tel Aviv really will soon start to look like flattened Gaza as those Iranian missiles rain down, unimpeded, onto their targets.
Stray thought
Amusing to see rubbish newspapers in the UK, such as the Daily Mirror, talking about what occupations might be exempt from conscription if WW3 were to start! In the nuclear age, when immensely powerful missiles can reach UK targets in minutes (I am told, maybe 8 minutes) from launch sites thousands of miles away…
I wonder how many people actually read and believe all this 1940-cosplay?
The fact remains that, in any continental-level war, with Russia on one side, and NATO states on the other, the UK would quite soon be a charred and irradiated giant bombsite. In that terrible scenario, the Daily Mirror, the other “lying Press” outlets, and warmongers such as Tobias Ellwood, would be among the first to go (whether with a bang or a whimper).
Alternative idea: Britain enters into loose alliance with Russia, leaves NATO, kicks the EU hierarchy to the kerb (while maintaining correct relations with all European powers and peoples), and stands opposed to fanatical Jewish Zionism, extreme Islamism, and all other negative influences in the world.
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
Iran has a legitimate right to self-defense in front of a terrorist state " – Turkish President Erdogan pic.twitter.com/HKVAiufZcb
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
Iran is defending itself. Israel is the aggressor. Israel attacked without declaration of war and without any warning, and Israel drew first blood.
Israel is running out of "Arrow" missile defense system Israel's stock of "Arrow" anti-missile systems is rapidly decreasing, writes the "Wall Street Journal". pic.twitter.com/IreRs07DFu
— Iran War Designer (@IranWarDesigner) June 18, 2025
The arrest of mercenaries linked to Mossad who attempted to launch a drone towards the city of Shahriyar in western Tehran pic.twitter.com/yQnCKETfsW
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
Whether guilty or not, they are probably not having a good day. I have no idea how efficient Iranian security may be; in the days of the Shah, SAVAK was feared, and its reach extended well beyond Iran itself.
SAVAK’s last three chiefs all met similar ends in the same year, 1979, after the fundamentalist clerics seized power in Iran: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK.
Rafael Grossi, head of the IAEA, confirms no proof of Iran's nuclear weapons program pic.twitter.com/r5OeOc3sK8
— Iran War Designer (@IranWarDesigner) June 18, 2025
They will stab you in the back every time. Same thing will happen with Trump as soon as they're finished with them.
Gideon Lifi, Haaretz journalist: 🔹Everything is paralyzed. Everything is at a standstill. The economy is at a standstill, you can't live like this. I don't think Israeli society will be able to tolerate this situation for long.
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
[“Gideon Lifi, Haaretz journalist:
Everything is paralyzed. Everything is at a standstill. The economy is at a standstill, you can’t live like this. I don’t think Israeli society will be able to tolerate this situation for long.
We feel safe in public shelters, but not everyone has access to these shelters. There are many people who have no shelter from danger.
At first, we were all happy because we were witnessing important achievements in Tehran. But everything changed quickly because the price we had to pay became high, and I fear that this price and cost we are paying will be much higher.
I don’t think Israeli society can tolerate this situation for weeks or a whole month or years. The airports are closed. There is no way in or out. Life here is not easy.”]
Late tweets
As usual John you give them way to much credit, its not that they don't know. Many of the sick and disabled community have been writing to our mps for months.
There are still plenty of people around who do not understand that Labour, as understood during almost all of the 20thC, ceased to exist during the 1990s, which was why it was called “New Labour” for a while. A different party supplanted 90% of what had been Labour.
That process, connected to the overall collapse of socialism after 1989, has continued in the UK to the extent that Starmer, or Starmer-stein, now sounds far more like Conservative Party leader than a Labour one. Why is that? Because he is more like one…
Keir Starmer mistakenly shakes hands with a Korean interpreter instead of the President of South Korea (2025) pic.twitter.com/OYDjij1aJ1
— insane moments in british politics (@PoliticsMoments) June 18, 2025
Day after day, more evidence emerges that the mass immigration experiment has been a total failure pic.twitter.com/IzIzsEQovr
Iran has launched about 400 ballistic missiles and 1,000 drones at Israel so far." – CNN. pic.twitter.com/doBQmF2RPK
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
Iranian Fars News Agency: The Iranian army launches the sixth phase of its attack on Israel using suicide drones equipped with anti-fortification warheads. pic.twitter.com/wiuaIxmUTy
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 18, 2025
I have no further news of the persecuted satirical singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz, currently in prison after having been sentenced to 18 weeks’ imprisonment for contravention of the notoriously bad law, the Communications Act 2003, s.127.
The imprisonment was the result of years of plotting by the malicious Jew-Zionist cabal known as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”].
The sentence of 18 weeks is in fact about 7-8 weeks after taking into account normal and particular discounts and reductions. Alison has so far done about 2 weeks actually in prison (as of Wednesday 14 April 2021), and will in any event be released sometime late next month. In the meantime, her trial Counsel is thought to be applying for bail on her behalf (pending appeal). The progress of that application and that of her appeal lodgment is at present unknown to me.
Should anyone wish to send Alison a card, letter, or book, the address is:
Please note that any books should be *paperback, *new, and *sent direct from Amazon or other online seller. Please remember always to include the prisoner number (A6478EK).
Tweets seen
Jewish officials in Marine Le Pen's National Rally party are writing a blacklist of party candidates with neo-Nazi ties: https://t.co/NjvQ2YlfjM
“Jewish officials” in the (renamed) Front National?! Non, non! Very disappointing (though not surprising).
Perhas, @annehoo77837961 Yet far less radical ways of making life quieter, such as better trains, more trams, more bicycling and walking, are not popular and have tiny political support. And millions love, play loudly (and make) hideous noise which they call 'music'. https://t.co/V9jBxkS6Ef
A 'Sunday Times' survey finds that more than 40% of those surveyed actually *enjoyed* house arrest, strangulation of the economy, travel bans etc. Yes, I know it;s an unreliable sample, but even so, I never knew bondage was so popular. https://t.co/uqHwbl9VTJ
I think that many did “enjoy” aspects of the initially-strict “lockdown”. Several reasons. Life was simpler overnight, in a world and a UK which seemed, and now again seems, often too noisy, complicated, stressed.
The iniquitous “British” so-called “long hours culture” (that in fact started to appear in the early 1980s) is part of that “society under stress”.
Then there is the fact that the now-ubiquitous “pleb”/”chavscum” element (both poor and not so poor) was stopped from driving around, crowding into places, beaches and country areas and, indeed, shopping areas. Same applies to the blacks and others in the larger urban concentrations.
Less road traffic meant that Nature could come back in a way many (including me) liked: birds, animals. Where I live is a semi-rural part of England anyway, but the effect was still noticeable.
Also, many people suddenly did not have to attend boring jobs in offices, factories, hospitals (yes, many NHS people too worked from home), pubs, restaurants. Many “worked from home”, which especially for those with comfortable detached houses, maybe with pleasant gardens, swimming pools etc, was a welcome change from the daily commuter grind.
Most of those unable to work from home were chucked furlough monies amounting to —again in many cases— 80% of their net pay, which taking into account commuting costs etc, meant that quite a few were better off than they had been when actually working!
Even those forced to rely on State benefits were better off, inasmuch as the post-2005 and then post-2010 bullying and harassment regime instituted by such as Alastair Darling (“Labour”), Iain Duncan Dunce Smith, and the Jew “lord” Freud was put on hold for the duration.
Of course, I was impelled to oppose “lockdown”, because of the enormous damage that it has caused to the UK’s society and economy, as well as to any notion of properly passed and applied law and civil rights (and because it had little effect on the spread, over time, of the dreaded virus), but there is no doubt that some aspects of it, on the ground, were welcome to many.
The challenge, of course, is to create a society with the positive aspects but without, as far as possible, the negative.
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Look how smart everyone looks. And the streets are so clean.
“Pointless” from the point of view of “keeping the public safe” but certainly not pointless from the point of view of the secret cabals hiding within and behind the State.
A “vaccine passport”, “track and trace” etc are very very useful tools in the armoury of State snoopers. The old Stasi, in the DDR (East Germany), would have fallen over itself to get hold of such tools and technology. Every citizen to be registered, tracked, identified in all locations visited, followed everywhere by electronic impulse (in the near future?). A microchip under the skin? Don’t say, “no, that would never be done” or “people would never stand for that!”… The mass psychological experiment of the past year or so has put paid to such complacent certainties.
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@lf_group France has many admirable features. But it is only under the Magna Carta/Bill of Rights tradition that freedom is the default position, rather than the conditional gift of the state. This is precisely the advantage that we have been busily trashing in the past year. https://t.co/JXdd9GI5lC
@lf_group France has many admirable features. But it is only under the Magna Carta/Bill of Rights tradition that freedom is the default position, rather than the conditional gift of the state. This is precisely the advantage that we have been busily trashing in the past year. https://t.co/JXdd9GI5lC
Hitchens may be right in some Oxford Union, theoretical, newspaper scribbler way, but is wrong in practical terms.
Workhouses, appalling prisons, low pay and no employment rights etc have all been features of British life in recent centuries, as has been detention for political purposes without trial (in both the First and Second World Wars). The Bill of Rights and Magna Carta did not much help those who were directly affected by the foregoing.
Ian Robert Millard 