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Diary Blog, 22 July 2025

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Talking point

Farage is, of course, correct. This blog has been warning about it for the past 8-9 years (since 2016/2017), and in exactly the same terms.

Societal collapse is not usually immediate, but may take decades, or even hundreds of years (as in “the Fall of the Roman Empire”). It does not necessarily look dramatic, especially in the early stages.

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It would be very good to see freeloading and thick-as-two-short-planks “diversity hire”, Lammy, indicted and on trial.

Imagine what might happen if a couple of atomic “suitcase bombs” were to explode in the USA, say one in New York City and another in Washington D.C….

The Jewish lobby in countries such as the UK is “standing with Israel”, and so is complicit in the crimes of Israeli Jews. Organizations such as the evil/malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, operating anonymously out of post office boxes etc, are semi-clandestine offshoots of the Israeli Embassy, and abuse the English legal system, including the criminal justice system, in a kind of politically-motivated “lawfare”.

In the UK, we harbour a “fifth column”, which should be rooted out.

…about which the Jew-Zionist lobby is either silent, or actually blames the child (and other) victims, and while continuing to whine endlessly about what the Germans are alleged to have done to Jews sometime around 1944, over 80 years ago…

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Notional result at election— Reform 304 MP (22 short of bare majority), Labour 171, LibDems 71, Cons 44, SNP 26 (etc).

The important thing is that, as in all opinion polls for almost the past year, Reform still leads Labour. Also, the decline of the Con Party continues. It is bumping along the bottom of its core support now. Most are very elderly people, and many of them will not even survive to see the next general election, still anything up to 4 years away. I feel that the Con Party is finished. It has lost relevance, and really much of its default credibility.

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[A Rainy Day at Lower Regent Street, by Tushar Sabale]

Quite atmospheric.

The Foreign Office once had a kind of down-at-heel outstation in Lower Regent Street, a building called Charles House. Further down the street, out of view of that painting (behind where the artist must have stood), and on the other side of the street, a building so unmemorable that few will have noticed its departure. I do not think that it even had “Foreign and Commonwealth Office” on the outside, just “Charles House”.

I see now that, the outside obviously having been cleaned of a century of grime, it is currently, or was recently, being offered for commercial rental: https://www.gryphonpropertypartners.com/property-details/charles-house-5-11-regent-street-sw1/154.html

[Charles House, 5-11 Lower Regent Street, SW1; photograph c.2025 (?)]

Just found it on Rightmove. Lease offered by something called Levy Properties or similar. Wouldn’t you know?…

The interior seen on Rightmove now looks very bright and open-plan, quite different to what it was in 1978 or 1979, when I had to go there once (some bureaucratic nonsense about my passport, which was being held by them).

The building was then very dark and gloomy, there were few if any people about, and the visitor (I was the only one, it seemed) was, and had to be, closely escorted by an unsmiling old dragon dressed in a dark-blue uniform, a bit like the female prison guards sometimes seen in old British films. The few windows were draped in thick and filthy net curtains (to deter both snoopers and bomb fragments; this was still IRA-terrorism days).

The dragon took me to the room in question, and waited for me outside, later escorting me back to the very unwelcoming front desk, and making sure I left.

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A reshuffle of the pack….and all the cards are jokers.

What rudery! After all, Cleverly has a degree in Hospitality Management Studies from Ealing College of Higher Education, no less! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cleverly.

So the msm should stop saying that Russia is a threat to Europe.

[“NEW POST. Here are four things that just happened in Britain. A 24-year-old father was brutally stabbed to death in an affluent part of London after a man tried to steal his watch. An Albanian with 50 criminal convictions was allowed to stay in the country after a judge ruled his crimes were “not extreme enough”. A pensioner who said he “just wanted to go home” was beaten to death in Islington by three teenage girls who filmed the brutal assault on their phone for entertainment. And an asylum-seeker from Syria, Mohammed Wahid Mohammed, who was working illegally in Britain, repeatedly raped a 12-year-old girl in Birmingham. What do all these shocking, hideous, and truly awful cases have in common? They are all utterly depressing symbols of Lawless Britain —a chaotic, dark, degraded society that looks more like the fictional city Gotham than a modern, civilised nation. A place where the hardworking, law-abiding majority have completely had enough and which could easily decide the outcome of the next general election Welcome Lawless Britain“]

Goodwin may be right. It is getting to the point where whatever Farage and Reform do, what they fail to do, whatever deficiencies they display, people are just going to say, in effect, “the old parties have failed; time for something or someone else.”

Salus populi suprema lex esto [Cicero].

[“The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump increasingly views Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “madman” who undermines Washington’s diplomatic efforts in the Middle East, reported “Axios”.

Despite the ceasefire, American officials have become significantly more disturbed by Netanyahu’s behavior and policies, “Axios” reported on Sunday, citing sources familiar with the situation. “Bibi behaved like a madman. He constantly bombs everything,” the newspaper quoted White House officials as saying.“]

I should imagine that the Israeli intelligence services find a fertile field for agent-recruitment in Iran, in view of the existing political tensions there. The big deterrent, for the potential agents, is of course what happens to them if they are caught.

France, more than any other country, is the preserver of traditional European culture (though UNESCO’s remit is of course wider than that).

If I were a rich man“…

Just don’t come here…

(applies also to Arabs and others…).

[“In Saudi Arabia, illegal migrants are imprisoned, fined & deported with no legal process In Qatar, they are detained & deported without appeal In Australia, they are detained offshore with no chance of settling In Britain? We put them up in luxury hotels with welfare and swimming pools then wonder why they keep coming.”]

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Diary Blog, 10 April 2025, including a few thoughts about the knock-on effects, internationally, of the Trump tariff regime

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Talking point

Britain has still to make the decision as to whether it wants to be an advanced, European-race, high-IQ, high-tech, environmentally-aware country, or a multikulti black-brown and mixed-race mess, a “Congo-North” if you like, with ever-declining standards, pay, “welfare”, environment and culture.”

[from this blog 5 years ago, 25 June 2020]

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I told you so…

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/09/rwanda-scheme-asylum-seeker-claims-processed-uk

Thousands of people left in limbo since plans to deport them to Rwanda were axed will now have their asylum claims processed in the UK, Labour has confirmed.

More than 5,000 asylum seekers were on an initial list drawn up by the previous government to be sent to Rwanda under a deal between the two countries.

One of the first acts of the Labour government was to scrap the Rwanda scheme, resulting in many of the 5,700 people the Kigali administration had agreed to accept having their claims processed in the UK asylum system. Some subsequently received decisions on their claims but it is estimated that thousands have remained in limbo.”

[Guardian]

As predicted on this blog, the Keir Starmer-stein “Labour” (Labour Friends of Israel) misgovernment is “solving” the problem by simply rubberstamping the applications of the migrant invaders.

Even under the fake “Conservatives”, at least 80% of the applications were “processed” leading to acceptance. In other words, over 80% were being allowed to stay, meaning that they then get rights to housing, social security/”welfare” payments, and all other benefits available to the actual British population.

This latest news is, of course, the tip of the iceberg. It is probably correct to say that over 90% of migrant-invaders are now being allowed to stay in the UK, with most of the rest also in effect allowed to stay by reason of not being removed from this country. In fact, the few actually leaving are almost all doing so voluntarily, and there are very few of them.

The next step will be, as I also predicted, “processing” invaders before they even get on those rubber boats. They will then enter the UK superficially “legally”, along with the enormous number of other “legal” migrants (migrant-invaders). Between half a million and one and a half million a year.

Meanwhile, brace yourselves for the impact of vast new waves of “legal” immigration (invasion) from India: see https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/09/we-are-nearly-there-uk-and-india-agree-90-of-free-trade-agreement.

Talking point

[from 2020, during the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic]

Businessman Simon Dolan is trying to block the government enforcing new restrictions. His lawyer tells the High Court: Deaths are 2-3% of total, considerably lower than the flu. The gov prioritises only suppression of the virus. It has an obligation to weigh all harms...”

[online news report from 2020]

Pity that, at that time, the courts (and the Government, and the news media, especially idiots such as Piers Morgan) were driven by panic and by “me-too” thinking or non-thinking.

As I predicted on the blog, the stupid shutdown of the economy and society because of a virus which was actually killing almost no-one would damage the UK for many years, and so it has transpired.

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[“The Fuhrer as friend of animals“]

Shut up. New York City is a hellhole. Admittedly, I have not been there for 32 years, but I knew it fairly well and am still, nominally, a member of the New York Bar.

Some thoughts around the Trump tariffs etc

Assuming that the tariff wars continue and even escalate, what will result?

To my mind, the basic or overarching result will be that trade between the USA and the worst-hit other states will fall away, fall off, and then become trade among those tariff-hit states. China will deal more with Russia, India, Japan, European (including EU) states etc.

It is said that diplomacy has three main branches: classical or straight diplomacy (diplomats, intergovernmental contacts, military pacts etc), economic “diplomacy” (trade and trading incidents, eg tariffs, sanctions etc), and cultural “diplomacy” (such as that which used to exist between the Soviet Union and the West, via such bodies as the UK Foreign Office-funded G.B.-U.S.S.R. Association, to which I myself belonged in the 1980s).

Already, we can see that Russia is gradually forming a trade axis with a core group (China, North Korea, Iran) and a wider outer group (India, and numerous other states across the world). Now, the American or Trump tariffs will create a different bloc of tariff-hit states trading inter se and interpenetrating that first bloc. A kind of Venn diagram.

I can only assume that those advising Trump have it in mind to rebuild American industry and commerce by choking off the supply of foreign goods and maybe also services entering the United States, thus stimulating domestic production. That might work, though at the cost of driving up prices in many cases. However, there would obviously be consequential effects, in that retaliatory tariffs would hit American industry and commerce. China is leading the way in that regard.

The ultimate effects are still unknown. Of course, economic warfare can result in real warfare, and that has been seen time and again, as with the US-Japan situation prior to 1941.

It is not unlikely that the next major war will be between the USA and China.

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[“One of the UK’s biggest police forces has just temporarily blocked applications from white British candidates in an attempt to “boost diversity”. This is ‘positive discrimination’ or some might say ‘anti-white racism’ that could well be lawful. It will also fuel claims of a two-tier justice system.”]

Many of the ethnic “minority” recruits are later dismissed, often after having committed serious crimes.

“Our wonderful police”?

I do not know why the Hamas organization decided to attack Israel eighteen months ago. I have no idea why they did not wait until they had constructed much deeper and much longer tunnels, perhaps reaching as far as the Tel Aviv area.

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

Diary Blog, 7 March 2024

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

Talking point

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Well, that pretty much puts the cap on the expected “Conservative” Party debacle at the upcoming General Election.

The Con Party is presently running at between 19% and 27% in various opinion polls, with most closer to the lower level. Call it 23%. Of those 23 points, about 20 points consist of the votes of persons over 65. If that demographic were all to vote elsewhere or abstain, the Con Party would be looking at a vote of about 3%, the same sort of level as that typically achieved nationwide by the Greens (2.7% in 2019).

Of course, that will not happen. Many middle-aged and elderly people are people of habit. Many have habitually voted Con for decades. Many say “so if I don’t vote Conservative, for what can I vote?” Brainwashed by the “two main parties” scam.

Having said that, I now think that many people even of advanced years are now angry enough to either abstain or vote elsewhere as a protest.

I do not think it totally impossible now for the Conservative Party to go one or two points below 20% at GE 2024. That would mean only a few Conservative Party MPs left— between 20 and 50, depending on all the other factors in play.

Sam Melia and Laura Towler

[Laura Towler and Sam Melia]

I see that their crowdfunder is now at (as of time of writing) £56,350, a magnificent sum, and still increasing, though more slowly than in the days since Melia’s sentencing hearing (last Friday, 1 March 2024; he was sent down for 2 years, meaning that he will probably not emerge for 12 months, maybe 8 months).

The money will support Laura Towler (who has a young child, with another expected within weeks), will make Melia’s time in prison more tolerable, and will support the couple and their socio-political struggle in 2025 and thereafter.

https://www.givesendgo.com/sammelia

[Update posted on that crowdfunder site:

UPDATE: Firstly, we would like to thank everyone who has donated so generously to this campaign, from the bottom of our hearts we are thankful for such a wonderful outpouring of support.


Secondly, as most of you will now be aware, Sam has been sentenced to two years custodial sentence.

Sam is now incarcerated in a British prison for the ‘crime’ of producing messages the prosecution admitted were ‘totally lawful’. What’s more, under this particular law, the Judge reminded that the jury that the ‘truth was no defence’.

This campaign will remain live for the duration of Sam’s imprisonment and the money raised will support Sam’s pregnant wife Laura and their child Catherine.“]

A modest donation (the minimum amount is only £4) not only supports a young family (and particularly a young mother who is also a staunch social-nationalist and who is imminently expecting a baby while her husband is —unjustly— in prison), but also sticks it to the System.

[Update, same day: the following message is believed to have originated from Laura Towler:

We can now write letters to Sam 

I’ve just spoken to Sam. He is in HMP Leeds. He won’t be staying there for the whole of his sentence but it might take a while for him to move. He’s safe and has made friends. He’s been exercising and reading a lot. He says the worst thing (other than missing us) is that it’s quite boring, although the library is pretty good. He said he would appreciate letters from people to help pass the time. Please don’t get too political or the letter won’t get through.

Samuel Melia A3370FCHMP Leeds 2 Gloucester Terrace Stanningley Road Leeds West Yorkshire LS12 2TJ

You can include a stamped address envelope in the first letter if you want him to write back. We can also send him books from their preferred suppliers and also email him. I’ll provide some more information on this shortly.].

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Rachel Reeves. Evil. A Labour Friends of Israel member, in fact “vice-Chair”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Reeves#Political_positions_and_views.

Rachel Reeves was also caught trying to defraud the Parliamentary expenses system in various ways.

Now Rachel Reeves is intending to increase the existing harassment and bullying of the sick and disabled, and unemployed, in the UK, a theme she has supported previously.

The present Government has to be removed, but anyone who imagines that “the party formerly known as Labour” will be better is deluding himself.

Labour’s main problem in getting to its GE 2024 “victory by default” is its own MPs, and especially its own front bench. Every time they open their mouths, they seem less pleasant, and indeed less competent. I suppose that is why Starmer keeps them gagged whenever possible.

Liz Kendall, yet another “Labour Friend of Israel”…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Kendall#Defence_and_foreign_policy

Ha. Very true. Without the TV fear-propaganda, the System could never have got away with, for example, the 2020-2022 “Covid” panicdemic or scamdemic.

That tweet reminded me of a scene from this film:

A rather odd film, which (as has often happened with me when I encounter experimental-style films, like those of Tarkovsky) grew on me when I saw it for the second and third time (on video).

I first saw Alice in the Cities in the early 1980s, at some art-house cinema, as the Americans say, in Hampstead. I was rather reluctantly dragged there by someone I knew, “Major Tillman” (a nom de guerre), and his French girlfriend. His girlfriend apparently later complained that I had “fidgeted...like a little child“. Probably. I do not have a lot of patience with films. I believe that I heard that they eventually married, and now live in Paris.

On seeing the film again, I think twice more, so three times altogether over 20 years, the film grew on me, though I still think it not entirely a success, artistically.

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

BlackRock also “owns”, now, much of the rich farmland (“black soil” or chernozem) of Ukraine, bought for a song, of course.

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

…and guess who is the chief? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Fink

Laurence Douglas Fink (born November 2, 1952) is an American billionaire businessman. He is a co-founder, chairman and CEO of BlackRock, an American multinational investment management corporation.[1]

BlackRock is the largest money-management firm in the world with more than US$10 trillion in assets under management.[2][3]

In April 2022, Fink’s net worth was estimated at US$1 billion according to Forbes.[4] He sits on the boards of the Council on Foreign Relations and World Economic Forum.[5]

Fink was born on November 2, 1952.[6][7] He grew up as one of three children in a Jewish family[8][9] in Van Nuys, California.

[Wikipedia].

https://www.givesendgo.com/sammelia.

In reality, the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan is being implemented by cabals of evil persons embedded in the Government, Parliament, msm, and Civil Service. They scarcely even try to conceal the agenda any more.

Another talking point

In fact, that person’s opinion is legally incorrect.

“1)A person is guilty of theft if he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it; and “thief” and “steal” shall be construed accordingly.

[Theft Act 1968, s.1]

It is a long time since I practised at the Bar (2008) and even longer (nearly 30 years, early/mid 1990s) since I did any ordinary criminal law, but my clear recollection is that someone can be convicted of shoplifting (theft) without having left the store. That is because the immediately-relevant component of the offence is that the person has “appropriated the rights of the owner” to the goods taken (with a dishonest intent) and with the intent of permanently depriving the owner.

Assuming that the foodbank basket is (as the one in Waitrose is, and I think at Tesco etc) under the name and control of [name]-Foodbank, then anyone taking food from the shelves, with the appropriate intent, and then “giving” that food to the foodbank by placing it in the foodbank basket or bin has committed the offence, even if the shoplifter does not get any (material) benefit.

In fact, I doubt whether it would be any different even were the foodbank basket or bin to be labelled with the name of the supermarket, because the shoplifter has still “appropriated the rights of the owner” to the goods, and intending to permanently deprive. I have no idea whether that exact situation has ever been tested in court, or in appellate court, though.

The same is true of a shoplifter who places items in a shopping bag or pocket (assuming that the “mental element” of dishonesty is present). It is not necessary, to ground the offence, for the shoplifter to have left the store with the goods taken. This is a common misconception.

It is true that store detectives and the like usually do wait until the suspected shoplifter has exited the building before stopping the suspect. That is because the shoplifter can hardly then claim to have intended to pay (as he or she might be able to say if stopped somewhere inside the store); there have, though, been appeal cases reported (often in the 1970s, the Theft Act 1968 still then being quite new) where convictions were upheld under such circumstances.

It is just easier for store detectives to stop suspects outside.

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Public libraries are vital even though most people, most of the time, do not use them. A component of a civilized society.

Quite right.

Because the German Government 1933-45 has to be demonized…

The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan, or a large part of it.

Nice.

God. This whole invasion is like a skin condition, a spreading rash of some sort.

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[painting by Victor Ostrovsky]

Diary Blog, 8 June 2023

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[Lazienki Park, Warsaw]

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12169327/Worlds-advanced-humanoid-robot-Ameca-describes-nightmare-AI-scenario.html

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The animals which suffer by reason of human conflict despite having had no part in its instigation or execution.

God knows what it would look like if one or more nuclear missiles were to land. When I was living intermittently in the New York/New Jersey area in the early 1990s, much of New York City already looked in a bad way, to say the least, but a nuclear attack would take everything to a level no-one wants to see.

It was always more likely that the Kiev regime blew the dam, rather than the Russian forces.

Embarrassing, but the avoider cannot be entirely blamed. Serving on the front lines of the Ukrainian Army seems to be tantamount to a death sentence. The Kiev regime is running out of soldiers, and having to use press-gangs.

A reminder about the fund set up to enable “Sven Longshanks” (James Allchurch) to resettle when he is eventually released from prison sometime in 2024.

Well, I disagree with the assumption of the question, but that result must be accurate as far as it goes.

When will the UK (particularly England) be majority non-white? Some say 2066, others 2050. Maybe even 2040. The Great Replacement. The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.

Eventually, the sliding standards in all areas (NHS, policing, education) will be scarcely noticed, because the non-whites accept rubbish administration, potholed roads, creaking railway infrastructure etc as normal.

The police in England, in 2023…

Of course, get accused of saying something about the bad behaviour of some ethnic group (especially Jews) and the police will spend endless hours “investigating” your speech, tweets, blog posts etc…

Mad.

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Watch this space. The “bad law” of Communications Act 2003, s.127 and its “grossly offensive” meaningless nonsense definition (frequently abused by Jewish “lawfare” groups such as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”) is being replaced by the concept of whether actual harm has been done (once the Online Safety Bill currently going through Parliament becomes law).

So the transnational conspiracy found another use for Greta Nut now that her one-trick-pony “I’m an autistic little girl speaking up against climate change” act started to bore people.

I blogged about Macron’s peculiar and largely unexamined (by the msm) background a few years ago: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/09/on-recent-events-in-france/.

If only the UK had (a) real leaders, and (by) leaders who put the British people first…

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