It seems to me that the existence of dedicated cycleways between road and pavement/sidewalk is the key factor, an arrangement I first saw when I was first in the Netherlands, in 1975.
The Vale of Glamorgan farming family being evicted by landowners Legal & General to make way for a new business park. https://t.co/jG06E1UEnd
Crete, as part of Greece, uses the Euro, but even if the £5,000-£6,000 a night cost is nearly 6,000 Euros, that makes little difference. In fact, the ad is clearly aimed at UK people paying in pounds.
On the face of it, there are questions to be answered here.
That man is right. What we are witnessing across the white Western world is an exercise in psychological conditioning on a vast scale. A distortion of the truth on the scale of the “holocaust” narrative, and with far more immediate, and on-the-ground, effects.
Once more, Peter Hitchens trying to fit actual facts into the very outdated “right”/”left” structure of thought. Why bother with this? It is at least 80 years out of date, if not 250 years.
They have gone @jenswoone, not by some accident but because the tax and benefits system, and the greed of employers for cheap labour, brought them to an end. You can get state help for any sort of childcare except the sort you can do yourself. https://t.co/xjUto3OO7y
Lovely to see Blairism still has its defenders in the media even after all this. I never forget the women in Baghdad who gave birth prematurely during the Blair-backed, Bush-imposed 'Shock and Awe'. Shock indeed, but an absence of awe, I rather think. https://t.co/ZErIxhV3Ru
Yes, those who sit in London, or New York City, find it easy to give glib support to the various NWO/ZOG “interventions” in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Libya etc. It is all very different when your own city comes under attack. Two buildings were destroyed, unexpectedly, in New York City in 2001, and the Americans have still not got over the “shock and awe”…
If they tell people to stock up, and people do, then there will be less pressure. Bring down the biosecurity “woke” Australian and New Zealand police state(s)!
Australian former NBA star Andrew Bogut says he was offered money to promote lockdowns, but refused. Clip below, and link to the full 11 minute video released on Instagram yesterday: https://t.co/M2nRfvHlpnpic.twitter.com/vuqk340sM7
Man jailed for eight months for promoting an antilockdown protest in Australia. His sentance was handed out just 1 day after he was arrestedhttps://t.co/KqteLBHzYN
…and all the pseudo-socialists, and self-descibing “Left” on Twitter will welcome the useless untermenschen, and say that they must be prioritized before white Brits. Just as they support “strict lockdown”, the facemask nonsense, “Covid passports” etc. Sick. They have thrown away the substance of socialism while retaining the outward forms of its mid-20thC coercion and propaganda.
I have even seen some (mostly rather old) lunatics (pretending to offer or) offering rooms in their modest homes to migrant-invaders (via Twitter or local newspapers). The same people never offer homeless Brits shelter. Why? Those people are virtue-signallers and/or deluded.
It is absolutely shameful someone should be sent to prison for saying something that offends. Obviously I understand that governments, laws and sentencing are influenced by pressure, funding and lobbying but I didn’t think it would ever be made so obvious.
The ensemble of Prussian palaces and parks of Berlin and Postdam is an architectural and scenic masterpiece. Our #DailyDrone will take you to the UNESCO World Heritage Site. pic.twitter.com/XU29mm9jSA
@lelllel1. It is certainly the case that the use of steroids, along with the use of some antidepressants and of course marijuana is often found in perpetrators of such violent acts. The problem is that the authorities are uninterested, and do not research or record this. https://t.co/GBpCmexLjz
I notice that the said Jewish scribbler, Jennifer Rubin, is an “opinion writer” at the Washington Post. She is also pro-“Covid-19” vaccination, pro-the facemask nonsense, pro children being forced to be masked in class, pro- forced vaccination for schoolteachers, pro-abortion, pro the doomed multikulti society, anti-white and, of course, pro-“intervention” in other countries (i.e. pro-NWO, ZOG, and Israel). She seems to tick all the boxes.
That is how (((Court News))) sees fit to report on an appeal which has in fact not yet come to an end. I think that the, er, orientation of “Court News” is clear (and has been for some time).
Seems that “Court News” needs more information (or less bias)…
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Moldova
Moldavia, as was. Whatever people say about Belarus, or Lukashenko, the fact is that Belarus would now be exactly like Moldova, had Lukashenko opened Belarus up to finance-capitalism, Jew carpetbaggers, fraudsters, etc.
See also:
On the larger scale, we have Russia itself. Yeltsin and his finance-capitalist thievery and chaos was replaced by Putin, who whatever his flaws has at least created the basis for a better future.
Alison Chabloz
Latest news is that Alison’s appeal, at Southwark Crown Court, has failed.
It will be recalled, by those who have read yesterday’s blog post, that one of the two magistrates who flank the presiding Circuit judge at such an appeal had to be removed when it came to light that he had actually been a trustee of a Jewish “charity” to do with the Anne Frank “diary”.
It seems, on the face of it, incredible that such a person could be allotted such an appeal, bearing in mind the subject matter and the defendant!
Well, there it is. The appeal proceeded, with only two of the usual three members sitting.
According to a source thought reliable, the presiding judge today expressed the view that the sentence passed by the lower court on Alison was “lenient”; a very strange idea of leniency, bearing in mind that the sentence passed had been 18 weeks’ imprisonment out of a maximum of 6 months (i.e. c.26 weeks).
The usual practice in a case of this sort (where only a small increase of sentence can be handed down) is to remand the defendant on bail to reappear for sentence on (in this case) Monday 16 August. Alison, however, has been remanded in custody over the weekend.
The presiding judge is, apparently, “minded” to pass a further custodial sentence on Monday, though that sentence will be short. In fact, even were the maximum sentence (6 months) to be passed, she could expect to be released at the halfway point, and Alison has already done about 2 months in prison, so she might only serve 3 weeks or so.
I have to say that this looks more like (further) persecution rather than unbiased justice.
Another interesting fact: “To the surprise of everyone in court, including the judge and the prosecutor, the representative of the Probation Service after making enquiries informed the judge that access to Alison’s probation file is restricted and higher authority will be required to view it. No doubt this very strange circumstance will catch the interest of the conspiracy theorists. It is on any view a very odd thing.” [from a reliable source].
That, apparently, was why the judge did not pass sentence immediately.
Well, the fanatical Jew-Zionist element will be rubbing its hands tonight, but whatever happens on Monday, Alison will be out of prison within a few weeks at the latest. There also remains a slight possibility (perhaps very slight) that she will not be imprisoned on Monday.
[Alison Chabloz, satirist, singer-songwriter, and imprisoned dissident revisionist; https://alisonchabloz.com/]
Steroids have featured in several recent outrages, including the Anders Breivik massacre, the Raoul Moat episode, Omar Mateen's Orlando rampage, plus the three killers in the 2017 London Bridge attack. https://t.co/r0z2cFen7j
Which point @helloitsgavin? What evidence? Huge numbers of normal adults would never dream of using illegal drugs. People living in Bobo (Bourgeois Bohemian) Bubbles shouldn't imagine their world is the same as everyone else's. https://t.co/a98mpaTrSQ
So what, @brucescribbler. When this country had strongly-enfoirced drug laws, there was similar social pressure. The collapse of law enforcement has udnermined it. So many people now alive are utterly ignorant of what this country was like even 50 years ago. https://t.co/rE5wappOVq
FRANCE: of course police were always going to crack down on the makeshift restaurants that are popping up everywhere 🙄 This is what they do now: check the Pass & harass Free citizens #NonAuPassDeLaHontehttps://t.co/gC9R3TBL7m
I heard a few minutes of the ever-more-pathetic BBC Radio 4 PM programme. Jewish journalist Jon Sopel was excitedly saying how surprised “we” have all been at how swift has been the Taliban advance.
No…those of us who recall how quickly the Taliban advanced in 1996 are not so taken by surprise.
When the cross-Channel migration-invasion started in earnest a few years ago, even I was slightly sceptical at the idea that the Royal Navy, Border Force etc were “providing a shuttle service” for these unwanted guests. No longer. The conspiracy has become impossible to ignore.
If, every single day, dozens and often hundreds of migrant-invaders set to sea from the Channel coasts of France, knowing that they will probably be “intercepted” a few miles off the French coast and then brought to the UK, they are not people unexpectedly caught out at sea; they are migrant-invaders, and the Royal Navy, Border Force, RNLI and others are not only providing what amounts to a shuttle service but are part of an enormous scam in which the victims are the British people and their children’s futures.
The RNLI should never be in a position of picking up illegal immigrants from the English Channel. The Royal Navy should be patrolling and intercepting the dinghies and simply towing them all back to France.
This comment 100%. It's fine to criticise the way that the RNLI is operating in the English channel to help facilitate a problem that the French authorities are also facilitating. Stop these illegal migrants leaving the safety of France and the RNLI won't have to 'rescue' them. https://t.co/Nye74ODZ07
— Dave 🇬🇧🏴🏍 Big Eejit. (@dave00_d) July 29, 2021
The Royal Navy was once the most powerful and feared navy in the entire world. Today, it's not allowed to even protect the English Channel.
Nadhim Zahawi…a Kurd, posing as a British government minister. In that part of the world, Kurdistan, as in India, Pakistan etc, nepotism and cronyism are rife. Import the natives from those countries, and you also import their nepotism, corruption, greed and so on…Is that so hard to understand?
Technocratic tyranny is here. Get ready for when the Mask of the Beast soon becomes the Mark of the Beast. No Mask No Service, No Vax Passport No Service will soon become No MARK No Service, in fulfilment of Revelation Chapter 13. https://t.co/bBtivkW0ZE patents. WO2020/060606 pic.twitter.com/jh992dhbye
Exactly. I have seen it even in my limited sphere of influence.
First, the Jew-Zionist lobby attacked my Amazon UK reviews (I was in the top 50 of reviewers, out of millions). One or two obsessed (and pseudonymous, of course) Jews started to troll my reviews (all of them), from about 2010, by leaving comments about me being “antisemitic” etc. Then they got the Jewish Chronicle interested. It wrote about my reviews and pressured Amazon UK until Amazon deleted a third of my reviews (not selectively, just at random). Finally, by 2018, my remaining reviews were hidden from view.
At the same time, my reviews on Amazon USA were simply expunged suddenly. No appeal, no rights. So much for the Jew-dominated “land of freedom”…
On Twitter, a small cabal of Zionist Jews, clustered in the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] finally managed to have me expelled in 2018. They had already, in early 2017, made malicious complaint against me to the police in South Essex (where their would-be “enforcer”, Steven Silverman, lives): see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/13/when-i-was-a-victim-of-a-malicious-zionist-complaint/.
[erratum: an earlier draft had “Silverman” as “Slitherman”. Still, if the cap fits, I suppose!].
Previously, in 2014, similar and connected Jews (a large degree of overlap), calling themselves “UK Lawyers for Israel” (UKLFI), and including the self-publicizing “reputation specialist”, “Mark Lewis Lawyer” (the official complaint was made under the signature of a Jew QC), had made a complaint against me to the Bar Standards Board: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/. That resulted, in late 2016, in my being (wrongfully, and indeed unlawfully) disbarred, some 8 years after I had actually ceased Bar practice.
This activity (and “they” themselves) constitute the largest single problem that the UK has. Infestation. Destruction of all freedom of expression on socio-political and historical topics.
The enemies of free speech should seriously consider what might happen if all, or effectively all, dissident speech or publication is effectively forbidden.
1/2 To get the approval of the modern liberal elite, and to make them cackle, two things are necessary. The use of at least one crude word by an allegedly educated person, and a rejecton of any sort of formality. https://t.co/HhNrOftbJ7
@takethatct. But, as I have no wish to talk to you, have not addressed you by name at all, and am glad to have a reason to end this tedious encounter, you may whistle for that. https://t.co/1zObLHw0Ph
I suggest that those who disagree with the above buy (as can be done) a set of “A” Level papers from the 1960s, 1970s, and even 1980s (any subject) and place them in front of a school student of age 16-18 today…
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[“We are fighting for the future of our children”]
Forward— to the future!
[“Come with me, and I shall show you where the Iron Crosses grow…”]
Biden
Incredible, but perhaps significant: at such a moment in world history, the West is under the overall figurehead command of an American President who seems not only to be suffering from dementia, but has (apparently) to wear anti-incontinence pants…
The Powers of Evil must be rubbing their hands as the Western ruling circles put into play the NWO/ZOG agenda for the 33 years from 2022-2055, built partly around the “Covid-19” fear campaign. Still, all things are yet possible.
In Sydney! When I was at school in Sydney (1967-69, nearly 3 years), you scarcely saw a policeman! In fact, the police had fewer powers to enter private property even than had the UK’s police forces. That was then. Australia now has twice the population, and has become a rather dystopian emergent police state, partly by reason of the “panicdemic”, partly because the population is now very mixed, racially and culturally…
Revealed: The UK has spent £350-million promoting regime change in Syria
Important investigation by @markcurtis30 for @declassifieduk which blows apart media lie that UK has been largely uninvolved in Syria's war. Most of this spend came from aid budget.https://t.co/Q5tF2gLyKI
Amber Rudd, now politically washed up, was a talentless “ho”, who inherited a great deal of money, and “knows the right people” (both characteristics common to many in the David Cameron-Levita regime); her daughter, Flora Gill, the offspring of the ghastly A.A. Gill, may call herself “journalist”, as so many do these days, but she is an even less talented “ho” than her mother.
Once again, political journalist John Rentoul loses out to me, his quite creditable score of 6/10 having been pipped by my 7/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 2, and 4.
Almost all liars try to build their structure of lies on a foundation of truth. Thus the “holocaust” farrago (“gas chambers” and all) has been built up on the foundation of the fact that a large number of Jews and others in the German Reich and some surrounding countries were interned and then deported to the East after 1939 (though in fact there were still 900 Jews living in Berlin itself by early 1945).
If someone says “someone woke up, had breakfast, took a bus into a nearby town, then returned the same way, until the bus took to the air and went into outer space”, is that sentence “true” or “untrue”? It is (perhaps) true in part, but the most spectacular part of the sentence is patently untrue.
If you then say “well, the basic narrative happened, but not the bit about the bus going into the air and then into space”, then you are telling the more exact truth, but someone who is trying to sell books based on the “flying bus” might be harsh enough to say that you are “telling lies” or, to put it another way, being a “flying bus denier”, and engaging in “flying bus denial”.
My “progressive alliance” calculator applied to average of most recent polls https://t.co/LeE4FlIWUg Con 40% + LibDem/Green 4% = 44% Lab 34% + LibDem/Green 7% + SNP 4% = 45%
Security panic, 1939 style. London street maps removed from my vintage atlas. The Germans would obviously have had no other means of finding their way round the capital, had they got here. pic.twitter.com/w9o6mQD4yW
One of the silliest aspects of the UK public’s perception of 1939-1945 is that “the war was won” not by the vast hordes of the Red Army advancing west (fuelled and supplied largely by American industry), and not by the equally-huge American forces committed to the fight after 1941 and actually fighting on the western flank after 1942 (not to mention the secret atom bomb project), but by terribly clever little wheezes dreamed up by terribly clever little people in Whitehall back rooms. Country signposts turned round, or removed, maps of London not published (because the Germans will not have had even one streetmap of London in their possession) etc.
Thus the constant (80 years later) wave of books, TV shows etc about such as the actually shambolic and (overall) pointless activities of the Special Operations Executive [SOE], stabbing the odd German sentry, or vandalizing bits of rail track; or about the (tiny) “Secret Army” of gamekeepers and farmers etc, who were supposed to be ready to set the UK ablaze should German forces invade. Such plans owed more to John Buchan’s books, or those of other authors, than to reality.
@bananas1968 Whatever she needs, I wish more people would believe in Frizelda. If they did (she's the opposite of Tinkerbell here) she might go away. But lots want to believe all's OK, there's no shadow-banning, no rigged algorithms, the internet is free and fair. Sweet, really. https://t.co/BPbmfFrNve
Still, just as every lock has a key, so every internet company has a boss, and a cadre of those with the power to ban, unban, restrict etc. At present, it could be said that if they have a Luger at their heads, it is that of the State, or perhaps of the Zionist lobby.
Tweeter “@kieronf2” does not seem to me to merit the label “freethinker”, or even “thinker”…though I am sure that he is generally well-meaning; a retired Metropolitan Police detective, now resident in Minorca.
I would not oppose such a programme if it were voluntary. The population is largely overweight and largely sedentary. I myself am now a prime example, if truth be known. The days when I trekked miles, sometimes dozens of miles in a day, through landscapes such as the African bush, Welsh and English countryside, and the Tien Shan mountains, have long long gone! Ditto the almost daily 1-2 mile swims that I once undertook.
The NHS and society generally is paying out huge sums for treatment for “lifestyle” diseases, and the most widespread of those are caused at least partly, if not mainly, by dietary and exercise deficiencies.
The devil here is in the detail. The spending cuts of 2008-2019 have closed large numbers of, not only libraries, but also swimming pools, lidos etc. There should be a programme of constructing swimming pools, as well as other health-leisure facilities, such as athletics tracks. Many parks have been closed or built upon. Britain needs new parks, both for aesthetic reasons and for the gentle exercise of strolling in the park.
Boris: The New Blair 'What Mr. Johnson has done, in my view, is portray himself as the new Blair, a friendly, smiling figurehead, accessible and charming, who appears unthreatening while concealing a vast agenda of change.' https://t.co/wUg5ZmlUYK
I have blogged repeatedly about the 33-year cycle. It brings in huge changes for the succeeding few decades. The last key year was 1989. That ended old-style socialism as a serious force in world affairs. Yes, some actions preceded 1989, and a few remnants of the old world order persisted after 1989; a few still do, here and there: tiny or backward states such as North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela. Yes, China still (ludicrously) labels itself as a socialist country ruled by a Communist party, but the reality is quite other.
Look at the UK. Before 1989, Britain had an avowedly “socialist” (basically social-democratic) party, the Labour Party. After 1989, the “socialist” MPs took a back seat, Clause 4/ Clause IV [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clause_IV] was dropped, and “Labour” just became a label, with a policy overview not very different from that of the mainstream of the Conservative Party.
Indeed, after Labour’s 1997 “landslide” (not really a landslide in terms of popular vote), Labour prime ministers and other ministers started to look not unlike “Conservative” ministers. Indeed, Cameron (Cameron-Levita) and Blair are often called similar in terms of policy.
Now, we see another change about to happen, as the New World Order [NWO] and ZOG seek to tighten their grip on the world, and especially on the West.
Thousands of people are campaigning against vaccine passports, face masks and further lockdowns in Trafalgar Square today as part of The Worldwide Rally For Freedom.#talkRADIO | #londonprotestpic.twitter.com/wd5waFDEr2
Goodness me! Can this be right? Cloth face masks are 'comfort blankets' that do little to curb Covid spread, Sage adviser warns https://t.co/7j16kpIGqP
This whole nonsense of over-reaction to the virus must be ended! People who are completely or effectively OK are now being told to isolate, not to go out, not to go to work. Important functions such as control rooms for power generation and transport are ceasing to operate, all because of this pathetic testing and tracing regime.
At some point, the country must wake up from this whole delusion.
“Well, I now have to praise the BBC’s Nick Robinson for saying this on the Today programme on Wednesday: ‘The evidence is that the masks that most of us wear, the one I have got here in my pocket, a sort of cotton mask that you either make yourself or that you buy, gives you no protection at all, absolutely none.’ After ages of assuming that loose cloth masks are effective, this must be the first time a major BBC presenter has stated the experimental truth. Yet nobody seems to have noticed.” [Peter Hitchens, in the Mail on Sunday].
“Ultra-feminists despised the decent, honourable tasks of motherhood, claiming that the only road to fulfilment lay in wage-slavery outside the home. Any fool could have told them that paid employment is not the road to freedom, but they did not want to hear this. And nobody has yet devised a way of getting men to embrace the tasks wage-slave women no longer have time to do. So they don’t get done.” [Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday].
Join me and Peter tomorrow @talkRADIO TV – the home of common sense. Accept no substitutes https://t.co/VVWV7sdEyV
“Lots of idiots still admire Cuba, believing the propaganda of its nasty, despotic junta. I think this is because so many of the former student revolutionaries of the 1960s imagine themselves in beards and fatigues riding at the head of a triumphant revolutionary parade into the fallen citadels of conservative, Christian civilisation.
The truth about Cuba – that it is a miserable, rationed secret-police state that even has first-class money for the elite and second-class money for its ordinary people – has always been unwelcome.
So has the fact that this potentially wealthy country is run by drearymiddle-aged bureaucrats, fearful of their subjects, with brains of solid Marxist concrete, about as rebellious and romantic as a public lavatory. Yet the youthful, barricade-storming image must still be maintained. Its official radio station, a conduit of weary, censored propaganda, is called Rebel Radio.
But now a real rebellion against these self-styled rebels has broken out on the streets of Havana. It looks to me like a proper uprising from below, not orchestrated by anybody.
And the admirers of Castro’s squalid state – who still litter the BBC, the universities, the schools, the media and the Civil Service – don’t know what to do or say. For they do not want to admit that, like the man they long admired, they have themselves become an intolerant, inflexible ruling class.“[Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday]
Very true. I have argued all my life against idiots who thought that Marxist-Leninist or derivative regimes in the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Vietnam, Nicaragua, and now Venezuela were decent and worth supporting.
As far as Cuba is concerned, the sort of people who even now support it are (generalizing wildly) like the NHS doctor whose cottage near Totnes I was once (2001) thinking of renting. She could not show me the place because, I was told, she is “cycling in Cuba”. Cuba is revered by some because it trains vast numbers of health professionals, who are then ordered to work in other countries so that Cuba can get foreign exchange, or barter goods.
As for the British and other mugs who supported the Cuban-inspired Sandinistas in the 1980s, they are still around, those that never woke up (to reality, not “wokeness”), and now support Venezuela, “Black Lives Matter” etc. Nicaragua itself is now suffering under the ex-Sandinista rebel, Ortega, and is a complete mess, but the “woke” idiots have other idols these days.
“Che” would not necessarily now be on their side, had he escaped being given a couple of rounds in the head in Bolivia over 50 years ago:
Socialism of the old type has frozen Cuba in time, to an extent that even the Soviet Union was not. Occasionally one sees TV people doing travel shows about Cuba. I think that Michael Portillo did one mainly about Cuba’s shambolic trains; Chris Tarrant certainly did.
Cuba’s trains are apparently kept going by all sorts of weird and wonderful methods, rather like those “iconic” 1950s American cars that ferry tourists around Havana.
Havana itself is falling to pieces. Occasionally, buildings just collapse after decades of little or no maintenance.
To some extent, I can see why some British, other European, American, people “support” Cuba: it has stood its ground against its superpower neighbour, it has its own identity etc. Other people have felt that way about other small and embattled states: Rhodesia, Israel, Taiwan, even North Korea. However, that is a sentimental attachment (if any) better indulged from a distance.
Cuba is basically a shambles. Admittedly, I myself have only seen it directly from the air (overflying from Tampa, Florida, to Grand Cayman), and from the sea (between Cuba and Jamaica).
My only contact with Cuban bureaucracy was when some British and expat Iranian scientists asked me to help find a sponsor for their biofuel project (I called it, to myself, “making gold out of straw”). A couple of countries were interested. This was in or about 1995.
The Ukrainian Ambassador in London even accompanied me (in his rather nice chauffeur-driven Lexus limousine) to Porton Down research centre (Wiltshire) one day, to meet with the team at their labs. That led to nothing, but at least the Ukrainians were interested. The Cuban Ambassador did not even reply to my letter! That despite the fact that Cuba would have been ideal— a country in need of fuel, with a huge quantity of otherwise unusable biomass (sugar cane detritus), and with a large cadre of scientifically-trained labour. Useless. Well, there it is…
🇨🇺 All of Cuba was left without electricity, ten million people in the dark
▪️The entire island of Cuba was left without electricity yesterday, which left ten million inhabitants in the dark, the Ministry of Energy and Mining of that country announced.
“All of Cuba was left without electricity, ten million people in the dark.
The entire island of Cuba was left without electricity yesterday, which left ten million inhabitants in the dark, the Ministry of Energy and Mining of that country announced.
The Ministry announced on Platform X in the afternoon that the national electricity system was completely shut down after one of the main power plants on the island failed.”]
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Johnson sees a crowd protesting and runs to the front to pretend he's the leader. https://t.co/yO9PcEk64d
UK PM Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak will now self-isolate after Health Secretary Sajid Javid tested positive for Covid, after criticism for joining pilot daily testing schemehttps://t.co/HqN323Lkc3
How many millions of humanoid rabbits will be pointlessly “self-isolating”, and to what extent need the country collapse, before enough people wake up to the fact that this whole thing is a nonsense? People are being played like balalaikas.
The streets of Paris, France are packed with people protesting the governments mandatory vaccine and vaccine passes.
The vaccine passes will restrict unvaccinated individual's access to restaurants, shopping malls, hospitals, trains, and planes. pic.twitter.com/1O28IVdzdG
President Macron announced that vaccine passes would be required to access theaters, restaurants, hospitals, to use trains & planes starting next month. Also the pass will be required to visit leisure and culture venues starting July 21.
evicted from West Jerusalem. Under Israeli law they have no equivalent right to evict those who now occupy their ancestral homes in West Jerusalem. The property rights are asymmetric. And here you can see the police compelling a Palestinian to bring down a Palestinian flag…
usually with professional qualifications. This is a picture of the house opposite the el-Kurds that is occupied by settlers and has become the symbol of a conflict that is both very local and represents a much bigger problem. By the way, as many of you… pic.twitter.com/yVNLY3pxE6
know, I am not anti Israel. Quite the oppose. But this is an injustice that would be important to highlight wherever it was. And here, in case you missed it, is @chedwardes moving interview in @thetimeshttps://t.co/SXf5ZHsL2C
Robert Peston is Jewish (or possibly part-Jewish…I am uncertain), but not particularly, if at all, sectarian. He was not brought up to be sectarian, I believe I read somewhere. That kind of distinction was recognized, up to a point, in National Socialist Germany, under the “Nuremberg Laws”, where those who were Mischlingen, or part-Jew, were treated in law differently depending on whether they adhered to Jewish religious communities etc, or not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws#Classifications_under_the_laws.
As can be seen in those tweets and reports, the Jews in Israel use “lawfare” (“legal” warfare) to get what they want. When that fails on its own, they use illegal methods, pressure, corruption, and ultimately violence. In the end, it is little different in the UK, France, and other places where Jews exist in large numbers.
Late tweets seen
But not the sinister and racist Labour Against Antisemitism whose members range from posting the most antisemitic filth, to being charged with affray and harassment https://t.co/FrFEwndUi7
If this was Muslims harassing Zionist Jews @BBCNews and the whole of MSM would be calling them terrorists and dog whistling Holocaust remembrance? https://t.co/PaQ5qi1fG2
Permanent capital is buying up entire neighborhoods expecting you to work harder and longer in the world they've made where you'll own nothing and be happy https://t.co/fpdV2nrko8
I am waiting to see what happens when facemask-wearing is no longer mandated by law in supermarkets etc (tomorrow). “Boris”-idiot has of course weaselled by saying ppl still “should” wear them! What a spineless bastard he is! He has all the leadership and prime ministerial qualities of a jellyfish.
I think @SirGrahamBrady has been a strong advocate for sanity & balancing risks, amidst great political pressure to conform to the lockdown/fear narrative. 👏
— Helena Morrissey DBE (@MorrisseyHelena) July 18, 2021
3) Peter Hitchens: Britain turns out to be the great nation of the gormless.
Thanks @darrenjsaudners, but you'll be lucky if you get free minds for all. Voluntary masking( and much of it *is* voluntary) is a gesture of submission to the allegedly benevolent loving state. https://t.co/7Ea4IDpnTT
Yes. Much of the scare regime of the past 19+ months has been superficially “voluntary” (the idiots wearing facemasks while cycling in the country etc). There was some Jew, a few years ago, who ran a thing at Downing Street called the “Nudge Unit”, trying to pressure the public to do this or that without using law. Is that unit still around in some form?
The massive 1995 Rhine floods appear to have been forgotten.
And don't build on flood plains.
— Laurence Lowne – Combyne Grp (@LaurenceCombyne) July 18, 2021
…and the usual idiots and Greta Nut supporters are already saying that Germany is flooded because of “climate change”, despite the fact that it has happened many many times before.
'Hannah Cloke, professor of hydrology at Reading University, said that a “monumental failure of the system” had led to one of postwar Germany’s deadliest natural disasters, which had by last night claimed at least 133 lives since Wednesday' https://t.co/KVEZrTR7jc
Actually, @golbadock_dan it is a freedom, not a right. But it is one of the very few actual powers the people possess. Imagine if they held an election, and nobody came. A close-to-zero vote would deprive the current political class of legitimacy, and force major reform. https://t.co/oyPsMrP61Q
Peter Hitchens is sadly deluded here, though perhaps if only a tiny handful were to vote, it might present a moral challenge. That never happens. Not in major elections. Voting is usually pointless; abstention is always pointless. Something else might get rid of the present nuisances, but I think that, in the present climate, I prefer not to suggest it…
“Boris”
Surely it cannot be denied that his presentation and manner are closer to those of Jew comics than of English statesmen?
Eton and Oxford may put a gloss on someone such as “Boris”, but that gloss is a very thin veneer.
The gloves are off. The NWO/ZOG emergent transnational police state is coming into plain sight now, mainly disguised as a parcel of health and safety, and biosecurity, measures.
The creeping “virus” tyranny is ultimately no better than, and in the future will be worse than, the tyrannies of the past. Anything is now justified in the essential removal of the emergent tyranny and its puppets.
— TheEndOfEverything (@EternalEnglish) July 14, 2021
From what I have heard recently, there is already a creeping refusal-of-service ethos spreading across the NHS. This is one version of a declaration of war on the British people by its own government, and by the salaried officials of that government. So far, only one side is ready for that war.
— TheEndOfEverything (@EternalEnglish) July 14, 2021
Grand Cross Commander, for services to ZOG, NWO and Common Purpose.
More Covid scammery
I happened to see a tweet by a typical Twitter virtue-signaller, citing a Guardian report about 1,500 NHS workers having died “with” Covid in the past (I think) 18 months.
Well, that is very unfortunate for those people and their connections, but then look at the numbers. The NHS employs about 1.6 MILLION people in the UK as a whole. In other words, about one in a thousand NHS staff has died “with” Covid. The chances are that the vast majority really died from other causes. In any case, the proportion, even on the bald figures, is about the same as in the general population.
As Mark Twain said, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics…
Late tweets
WTF are people waiting for? We know they use the stats to lie & deceive and keep us peasants locked down while they do as they please. Delete the Hancock app!#DeleteNHSApp#FreedomDayhttps://t.co/fqo4XdifCh
I have never had any “app” (and certainly not that one!), nor the Covid vaccine(s), nor a Covid test, and I shall be ditching my (rare) use of facemasks, together with the facemask nonsense, next Monday.
@guffynicola. That would not be the question. Here https://t.co/Px97P0Yvew for example is a comparison study between different *types* of mask. As you will see, it shows that the loose cloth masks whose use you support really aren't much use. https://t.co/twmO7NFJbQ
@mayorofwy . Please give details of the objective research on the effectiveness of face coverings on which you base this decision. https://t.co/UH5TCZJg9T
That is Tracy Brabin, apparently a former actress [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Brabin], and who took over the Batley and Spen seat, left vacant by the assassination of MP Jo Cox in 2016, in what amounted to a rigged by-election, in that the other main System parties and UKIP agreed not to put up candidates. Now she is “metro-mayor” of West Yorkshire.
These people, these System puppets, may be idiotic, but give them power, even over bus stations in West Yorkshire, and they will use, misuse, and abuse those powers to the maximum in order to pursue an agenda…
🔴@NASA is warning of a "wobble" in the moon's orbit that is set to see the world face significantly more natural disasters.
An onslaught of coastal flooding starting in the mid-2030s is expected, Nasa has warned
Listened to part of the pathetic and irritating BBC Radio 4 Today Programme. Little Matt Hancock promoting his NHS app and medical records non-privacy nonsense. No concern for personal rights, or personal privacy.
Little Hancock expressing pleasant surprise that (apparently) almost no-one has had flu in the UK for 18 months. Seems, on the face of it, to see no connection between the “Covid-19” “panicdemic”, the faked statistics thereof, and the “surprising” statistics about flu.
Good sense has almost fled from the UK.
The UK was shut down pointlessly, with huge economic damage and huge but non-Covid health damage. The Government are a bunch of clowns, advised by twerps such as Professor Ferguson and crazed quasi-Communists such as the Michie woman. The propaganda pumped out has led to a population resembling fearful rabbits (especially older people), and all the nonsense around the situation, especially the facemask nonsense, is supported zealously by the Twitterati twits (of course), who are always wrong about everything.
Look at the latest news. “Vaccine passports”, which liar-in-chief “Boris”-idiot swore would never be introduced, now are going to be introduced, though under other names. Meanwhile, it is clear that “Freedom Day”, already postponed once, will probably never happen, and if it does, will both not live up to its name and/or be short-lived, until the next (supposedly “necessary”) “lockdown” shutdown.
When will people wake up and “just say no”? Ever? I am doubtful. The UK population is now so weakened by political correctness, and also by the fear of the State and social pressures brought on by State propaganda, that I fear that few will dare to be dissident.
Tweets seen
Flying Scotsman failed yesterday – had to be rescued by a diesel – with blame being put on Russian coal leading to poor steaming. Not so long back,the thought of imported coal being used in the UK would have been laughable.
— Chime Whistle Publishing (@ChimeWhistle) June 20, 2021
Yet @bobfrombrockley, you say you were enthused by the attack on Mother Theresa, which is surely about as aggressively atheist as you could get. I wonder what @ben_gidley thinks. I am trying to get in touch with him. Do you know a good way? https://t.co/lJAYkSR4Xo
I think that I was the first, or one of the first, several years ago, to identify Jew troll Ben Gidley (@bengidley), who writes absurd sociological gibberish at Birkbeck/Goldsmiths (University of London), as being the same as “@bobfrombrockley”, and also various Twitter trolling accounts, including “@inthesoupagain” and “@antinazisunited”. That troll used to tweet against me on a daily basis until, finally, he and other Jews conspired successfully to have me removed from Twitter in 2018.
Incidentally, Hitchens has the wrong Twitter name there: the correct one is “@bengidley” (not “@ben_gidley” (though that latter may well be yet another of the little bastard’s Twitter accounts) .
Johnson could have said ‘We will never have another lockdown as long as I am Prime Minister’. That he refused to rule another out another lockdown this winter – and is already mentioning flu problems (in June), is a very big hint that one is already being planned.
We can all see now what the govt strategy is on domestic Vaccine Passports/Covid Certification. They’ll be promoted as ‘a way to keep pubs & hospitality open during what will be a v. difficult winter’. They’ll be sold as a ‘ temporary measure’ – but we all know what that means.
What is now happening in System party politics, eg by-elections etc, is a “Schauspiel” or spectacle to fool the British people, akin to when teenage louts take a beachball from a small boy and then tease him by throwing it to each other as he stands, upset and confused, in the middle, until some sensible adult sorts them out.
Yes, there might be a slight change or tweak of policy, but not much, if, say, the LibDems were to win 80 seats (in some unlikely scenario) and so deprive the misnamed Conservatives of the Commons majority. The LibDems usually back the present Government; indeed, Labour, the supposed official Opposition, usually votes with this absurd Government of complete idiots.
Don’t be fooled though. Behind Boris-idiot, behind the other “dirty democratic politicians” (as Hitler called the same sort in the Germany of the 1920s), behind fake “Labour”, behind the LibDem play-politicians, stand the ZOG (Zionist Occupation Government) and NWO (New World Order) cabals.
Well, I do not remember 1970s London as particularly wonderful, but overall it was still better than London in 2021. It had rough edges, but was not yet the zoo it has become.
There are shortages now. I notice that in the local Waitrose (the nearest small town to my home has only that one supermarket, and a Marks & Spencer food hall). Sometimes there are very limited choices in the fresh food areas. Fruits, some vegetables too. Is that the eventual idea, to make people line up for rations, as (at times, for some) in socialist East Berlin, or provincial Soviet cities in the pre-1989 era?
Think “The Great Reset”…NWO/ZOG…depressed scurrying crowds, all wearing masks, clutching their vaccine passports, desperate to be allowed to buy basic foodstuffs and to be permitted to travel beyond their local areas.
Question: at what point does actual uprising become the only choice left? Another question: will there soon even be any people with both intelligence and spirit, and who are both willing and able to rise up?
Well, having known a few Finns, including one girlfriend (in the 1990s) I very much doubt that Finland really is the happiest country in the world, but it is a very good country all the same, I think. Why would they spoil that by inviting immigration, especially non-white immigration? Are there (((snakes))) in their cold Garden of Eden?
“Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?” [Shakespeare, Hamlet]
Kirklees Council is within the Batley and Spen constituency area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirklees_Council. Labour has a plurality though not a majority of councillors (32 out of 69). The Mayor? One “Mumtaz Hussein”. Leader of the Council? “Shabir Pandor”. The Deputy Leader is Peter McBride.
“Shortly after the 2016 local elections, Labour councillors initially decided to replace incumbent council leader David Sheard with Shabir Pandor…Pandor eventually resigned as Labour group leader. Sheard was re-elected as leader of the council and appointed Pandor as his deputy.[14] Pandor was subsequently elected leader of the council in 2018.” [Wikipedia]
You can see that Labour monopolizes the positions of importance at that council and that, over recent years, the non-whites have taken over from the former sort of Labour councillors, who were English, or at least ethnically British.
“In June 2016 the Huddersfield Daily Examiner exposed several councillors who had failed to pay their Council Tax. Five serving councillors, four Labour and one Conservative, had been issued with court claims after previously receiving reminder letters.[15]
Two councillors who had denied the allegations, Deputy Leader Jean Calvert and Amanda Pinnock, were suspended by the Labour Party. It was the second time in as many years that Calvert had failed to pay her Council Tax when it was due, and Pinnock had accused the Examiner of racism.” [Wikipedia] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirklees_Council#’Ratesgate’_scandal
Looks like Labour (especially) needs a big and damaging kick at the by-election. Looks as though the voting will be split mainly on racial/ethnic lines.
Be a psychopath and burn down buildings (etc) and you are “spared jail”, but sing a few songs about Jewish behaviour (Alison Chabloz), or make a short political speech in Whitehall (Jez Turner) and you are sentenced to imprisonment (despite, inter alia, being of good character, i.e. no previous convictions). Justice? Or an unjust and biased farce?
More tweets
Stop the repression of Palestine Solidarity in Britain's schools
In an open letter, a group of human rights organisations express their concern about the growing effort to silence pupils' expressions of solidarity with the Palestinian cause in UK schools https://t.co/o8ymtFJdpp
#Starmer is just keeping a seat warm for #Blair.#Adonis has now tweeted twice that Blair should replace Starmer and it does look as though that's Blair's ultimate ambition.
Not satisfied with going into one illegal war Blair wants a second bite at the oil wars cherry.
Though superficially seeming impossible, is it impossible?
I see Blair as just as much a puppet of NWO/ZOG as, say, Boris-idiot, but one with more ability.
Jeremy Corbyn, anti-Zionist though not really “anti-Semitic” (regrettably), was removed by what amounted to a Jewish and Israeli covert operation, and was replaced by Keir Starmer, who has a Jewish wife (a lawyer), and children who are being brought up as if fully-Jewish. However, it is clear that, while the pro-Israel lobby on Twitter and in the msm likes Starmer, the voting public is unconvinced. Twice as many people prefer (even?) “Boris” to Starmer as future Prime Minister. Bearing in mind how incredibly poor “Boris” has proven to be, that is really something.
If Starmer were to be jettisoned, and with no obvious way forward for Labour, I can imagine that Blair might just be reinstalled, though most Labour members and (voting) supporters seem to be hostile. In one sense, almost impossible; in another, almost inevitable (?).
As to the voters generally, given a choice of “Boris” or Blair, more of them might say “Blair” than would say either “Boris” or “Starmer”… Never say never, I suppose.
People now, many of them, cannot see that an historical figure can do “good things” while also doing things now (100-200 years later) thought of as “not good”….There is no nuance in 2021. It’s all black and white, good v. evil…[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egerton_Ryerson], and adjudged as such by, usually, those ill-equipped to make such determinations.
When Tony Blair insists on vaccine passports, it's not because he cares about our health. It's because he cares about his money, power & influence – nearly $16 million from Bill Gates since 2019https://t.co/CcCHu3jYLzpic.twitter.com/NLxnGHgAec
The Cabinet no longer makes any decisions. All key lockdown decisions have been made by Gove and Hancock for many months now, then simply rubber stamped by the PM. Cabinet ministers don't have any say in their own departments. This is not how the British govt is supposed to work. pic.twitter.com/X7dKp8nnbb
There's talk of a 2 week delay to June 21st. Why? What happens in those 2 weeks to make anything different? A few more people get jabbed – so what? The jabbed aren't free already – so what? Why aren't journalists doing their job?!
— Dr Zoe Harcombe, PhD (@zoeharcombe) June 7, 2021
Reasons for lockdown: Flatten the curve Save the NHS 5 steps to ease restrictions Save Christmas Save Easter Jab the vulnerable 4 criteria to lift lockdown Variants Mutant strains Cases… Now it's "68 million jabs is still not enough." They lie and this never ends.😡
— Dr Zoe Harcombe, PhD (@zoeharcombe) June 6, 2021
The (relative) few can see what is happening, but the majority either cannot see or can see but still go along with the conspiratorial agenda because they think that nails that stick out get hammered down.
It is ever thus: only the few are the leaders, or in the vanguard. Only the few are the dissidents. There are innumerable historical examples, perhaps the most obvious being the dissidents of various kinds in the Soviet Union. Others would include the early scientists who stood up against, inter alia, heresy laws from the late mediaeval period still extant in the Renaissance. Or again, those in the present age who stand up against quasi-mediaeval “holocaust” “denial” laws and repressions.
I don’t even think it’s about money, as some people are suggesting. It’s purely about popularity. He doesn’t want to lose his celebrity doctor status. Follow the ‘popular’ opinion, stay cool.
At first, both as MP at Westminster and later as PM, especially when meeting the American President at Camp David, Blair was quite naive-looking, or as Mephistopheles puts it in Faust, “an intelligent youth, easy to instruct”. Later, he took on a “devilish” look, and now, at times, looks quite mad as he evidently sees himself as a prime mover and shaker of the Western NWO/ZOG conspiracy/consensus.
Listened to fairly pathetic BBC Radio 4 PM. Talk about the migration invasion, and in particular the cross-Channel traffic of illegals in small boats. Guest interviewee was one “Nick Thomas”, whom I now see was Nick Thomas-Symonds [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Thomas-Symonds], the Shadow Home Secretary.
So irrelevant has the Labour Party now become that I (someone who takes a fairly close interest in political and Parliamentary affairs) was actually unaware that Nick Thomas was in that post. In fact, I had never heard of him.
Turns out that, on paper, this is a well-educated person, and a barrister who belongs to Lincoln’s Inn, as did I until the Jew-Zionist lobby procured my disbarment in 2016 (thus triggering my expulsion from my Inn).
Sadly, but not at all surprisingly, in answering questions about the migration invasion, Nick Thomas showed himself to be yet another Welsh windbag, taking a great deal of time to say absolutely nothing. Incapable of criticizing mass immigration as such. No real “solution” except to demand that more money be spent in the migrants’ home countries, thus magically stopping the waves of migration. Yeah, right…
That interview was telling, for me. Labour has absolutely nothing to say. Labour has nothing to offer the British people. Even less than has the chaotic government of “Boris”. Labour is washed-up.
It will be interesting to see how far Labour will fall in the two presently-upcoming by-elections.
Well, so today is St. George’s Day. I rarely see the TV news now, so do not know whether the fact was reported on at all. It’s connected with England and the English by historical convention, so it will probably only be reported en passant, and/or probably used as an excuse to say that any alien flotsam and jetsam living here are “really” just as “English” as you and me…
Alison Chabloz
As I relayed via this blog a couple of days ago, the word from usually-reliable sources is that Alison will be released early, on electronic tag, next Wednesday. Not 100% certain, but pretty certain. If so, she will have served exactly 4 weeks out of the 18 weeks headline sentence. About 22% of the full sentence.
It could be worse, though only repressive societies lock up satirists and commentators, of course. The BBC/msm-subsidized Jew and other comedians, who mock the English and other British people constantly, never face such censure. Well, not yet, anyway. Perhaps their time will come.
There seems to be nothing new to report about Alison’s situation. I have already (see previous days’ blogs) relayed the news that she has received hundreds of letters, cards and books from all over the world, and has managed to keep in contact with people via telephone, her prison money account having apparently been topped-up by generous donors.
The most amusing news, arguably (apart from the fact that the “CAA” put out 5 years of conspiratorial plotting in order that Alison should spend only a few weeks in a not-entirely uncomfortable confinement) is that Alison has been able to sing her songs to an enthusiastic audience of prisoners (and staff?), some of whom apparently “sang along” at times!
A victory for Alison Chabloz “on points”, as the boxing people say…
"It is a strange fact that the potentially attractive political combination of liberty, domestic socialism, well-armed patriotism, and social conservatism seldom exists in the advanced countries of the West."
In other words, in the British context, a British and especially English form of social nationalism.
In the past, meaning before the 1990s, the UK Labour Party was “social” though not very “national”; the Conservative Party was at least semi-“national” but not very “social”. Blair destroyed most of the socialism and even social-democracy in Labour, while the Conservative Party was (like Labour, in fact) taken over by Jews and Jewish money, and threw away its “national” credentials. Both “main parties” became basically non-national and non-social. That remains the case today. Both parties are mere facades, behind which lurk Jewish-Zionism, globalist finance-capitalism, and the agenda of the international conspiracy (or “consensus”, if you prefer): the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan, the New World Order, Zionist Occupation Government(s). In a word, “White Genocide”.
Corbyn and those around him tried to resurrect the dead corpse of “social” Labour, which had been killed off in the 1990s by the superficially-talented puppet of the NWO/ZOG conspiracy, Blair (cf. Macron in France).
Corbyn, those around him, many rank and file Labourites as well, thought that you can be “anti-Israel”, yet pay lip-service to the “holocaust” faked history and so on. In other words, they thought that you can be anti-Jewish lobby (to put it that way; “anti-Zionist lobby”, perhaps more accurately) if said Jews are in Israel/Palestine, yet pro-Jew if the Jews in question are in the USA, UK, or France!
The Jewish lobby in the UK, and internationally, killed off Corbyn-Labour after several years:
Why does @ChtyCommission allow Zionist groups to ‘police’ UK citizens using tactics synonymous with The Cheka police. How long before ‘volunteers’ claim leather coats on expenses? Make no mistake #Chekism is alive and well just watch Joe Glasman’s video. https://t.co/zZvuGe5HWg
Now the headless chickens of the Labour rank and file either try to depose Keir Starmer, the puppet leader put in by the Jewish lobby, or retreat to comfort zones such as Twitter.
The Zionists don’t care whether or not Labour ever wins a General Election again. Most of them vote low-tax (supposedly) “Conservative” anyway. They are in the position of a punter who backs both the first and second favourites in a race with only two likely outcomes, and where the other runners have effectively no chance. The fix is in. One of those two horses will win, but whichever one wins, the Jewish-Zionist punter has won. The colour of the winning jockey’s silks is of no real matter.
All the same, there could be an upswell of popular support for a new social-national party, if one existed, if it were credible, and if it had a leader destined to arise to supreme power. Also, if circumstances or Fate were favourable…
A suspended sentence! This was, and should have been charged as, attempted murder.
Say something that (allegedly…) “offends” a Jew (or, eg, sing a song about “holocaust” fakery) and you may end up in prison in the Britain of 2021, but admit to trying to poison your own 2-y-o child, and to causing 80 injuries to him, and it’s a suspended sentence…Sick.
Those idiots probably think that they have accomplished something. I bet that the one who pleaded guilty felt sick as the rest were acquitted. As for the jury, I do not know whether they are stupid, feeble-minded, or directly subversive. They should be ashamed of themselves.
Because both Government and Opposition are pro-“The Great Reset” and “the Great Replacement”, both are riddled with agents of the Jewish lobby, both are pro-ZOG [Zionist Occupation Government], pro-NWO [New World Order] and in favour of the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan, and therefore both following exactly the same agenda. Understand now??
Every day I try my best to report objectively but when the country is run by a bunch of slippery, self serving law breakers with absolutely no respect for the truth & no obvious comprehension of right & wrong it’s not always easy
BBC news now becoming a government mouthpiece for number of covid jabs given out. Ten minutes every night. Barely any coverage of protests and emphasis on pice injuries. Wonder if they are real this time unlike Bristol.#bbcnews
And this year hymns are still forbidden, most wear masks and proper Holy Communion is banned. Still far from satisfactory @alex_komnenos . https://t.co/oX6rcD1bsh
That, @guffynicola, depends on which icons are being clasted. Michael Wharton, writing as 'Peter Simple' in the Daily Telegraph of the early 1960s, was a hugely funny satirist of the emerging age of self-regarding liberalism. Colin Welch did a reasonable job of following him. https://t.co/s2yrUK3vZV
Not sure that I can agree with Hitchens. “Peter Simple”, whose stuff I occasionally saw in the early 1970s, always seemed to me to be a rather unfunny propagandist of a kind of faux-English suburban pseudo-reactionary mindset. Fake. At least, that was my occasional impression, a long time ago.
Gosh, @barbatosalv. Leaving aside the fact that the Christian 'explanation' of the origin of the universe is a parable, not a literal account, Einstein was not an atheist . Why not? Please read : https://t.co/XbQF3HtZYrhttps://t.co/a07Rb3u4qy
'We have made a religion out of politics, have ascribed to government power and state power things which ought to be ascribed elsewhere, and that we are now reaping the reward of that mistake.' https://t.co/2xNPVNmKys
There's now an effort to rewrite history on the Covid frenzy. The government does not want to admit that it once told the inconvenient truth (they're not much use) about masks: https://t.co/j2OyGYNOT7
There are plenty of examples of socio-political madness at present in the Western world, not least the near-worship of the blacks (as in the “BLM” nonsense), and in respect of “the virus”. The former is nonsense partly because much of our present world has been created over the past few thousand years, and especially the past 600 years, by white European people(s). The blacks were and are mere adjuncts, bystanders, spectators, sometimes nuisances and, yes (and as the “BLM” proponents themselves say) sometimes “victims”.
As to the latter of my two examples, i.e. “the virus”, in some respects that seems to be a deeper-embedded sort of madness, perhaps because based on a deeper emotion— fear.
The Coronavirus or Covid-19 virus has (supposedly) so far killed somewhere around 2 million people in the world. That is about one person in every 4,000 people. In the UK, the death toll per unit of population has been far higher (taking the statistics as given, though they are obviously faked or wrong to a great degree). In the UK, there have been well over 60,000 people who have died at least “with” Coronavirus. That is somewhere around one person in every 1,000 people in the UK.
Conclusion as to seriousness: serious but not existentially so.
Conclusion as to measures taken: absolutely mad. Society has been crippled, normal life largely put on hold, civil rights abrogated, and the UK economy facing a very serious hit. A cowed and frightened population have been walking around (even on solitary country walks etc!) in facemasks (despite such masks being of doubtful use), and every kind of busybody and self-appointed guardian of public behaviour given loose rein. That applies also to the police.
Meanwhile, millions of people are all but abandoned by the NHS because their ailments (including the most serious) are priotitized as secondary in importance to the supposed battle against “the virus”.
The public debate, such as there is, is futile, because a huge propaganda campaign has frightened the unthinking mass of the people into imagining that their lives are in danger from this virus, whereas for 999 out of 1,000 people that is simply not so. Reasoned arguments from such as Lord Sumption, the former Law Lord (Supreme Court justice), cut little ice, because emotion almost always trumps reason.
Oh, well. In the phrase of the day, which so well sums up the present apathy and complacency, which applies in almost everything now (apart from the “panicdemic”), “we are where we are”…
Alison Chabloz
On this Easter Sunday, let us not forget brave and persecuted satirist, singer and songwriter, Alison Chabloz, presently sitting in prison because a malicious Jew-Zionist cabal instigated a prosecution under the notoriously flawed Communications Act 2003, s.127.
It is to be hoped that Counsel for Alison Chabloz will soon be able to secure her release on bail pending appeal (to Crown Court) against an egregiously poor verdict and sentence by a magistrate. Unfortunately, that is unlikely to happen (if it does happen) before Tuesday [6 April 2021], at earliest.
Bored by 'University Challenge', I wrote my own quiz, with questions which are interesting even if you don't know the answers. Guaranteed free of African flags, Pacific island statelets, obscure mathematicians or quantum physics: https://t.co/mwMA4HCOs3
That last is interesting as a metaphor. The same view, pretty much, that John Buchan, or Zuleika Dobson, might have seen before the First World War, or that others might have seen between the wars. Oxford now is hugely different (not just in terms of buildings but socially too) from both 1911 and the 1930s world of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, from that of C.S. Lewis, Tolkien and the Inklings, but that view remains essentially the same.
When I was a (rather belated) law student, in the 1980s, there was being discussed the question of whether barristers would continue to wear wigs and gowns. The wisest answer came from a lecturer who said that the Bar would cast aside everything except the wigs and gowns. The outward forms would remain.
In fact, while the above has proven to be mainly the case (in Crown Courts especially), in County Court the judge has discretion to dispense with the old form of dress, and in High Court and other fora (particularly in commercial cases) the old form of dress is often not in use now (neither is it in family law cases).
Nonetheless, most people do encounter the practising Bar in Crown Courts, and there the old forms remain in force. The substance of the Bar has, however, changed out of all recognition even since I was finally (having spent time in the USA) Called to the Bar in 1991.
Looking at the UK, the same is true in many other ways. Look at, for example, the Monarchy. It looks, at least largely, similar to what it was in, say 1956, the year of my birth. In reality, it has changed to something rather different. As I have blogged on previous occasions, whatever one may think of the Queen and Consort, no-one could mistake them or their lifestyle for that of “ordinary people”.
When you look at Charles, Anne, Andrew, Edward, there is less of the “royal”. You could just about (certainly in the case of the last three) imagine them living in some expensive part of suburbia, as part of (if the term now has any meaning) the rich “middle classes”, or indeed the “nouveaux riches”; or (as indeed is the case) living in Gloucestershire or Surrey, racing around in Range-Rovers, like characters in an “Aga saga”.
What about William and Kate, Harry and the Royal Mulatta? Notionally “royal” (in the case of William and Kate), but only in a “holding on by the fingertips” sense. Certainly there is nothing royal about Harry the “Royal Cuck” and Meghan the “Royal Mulatta” (who, not so many years ago, was actually married to someone else, a Jew businessman in Southern California!).
I do not want to be too hard on Harry. He obviously has emotional or mental problems, and was bagged by the Mulatta easier than the Duke of Edinburgh used to bag grouse, but he is basically now a peripheral nobody, albeit with plenty of money and still holding (so far) a couple of English titles.
William and Kate? At present still lined up to be King and Queen at some point, but I rather doubt that they will reach the finishing post.
Ian Robert Millard 