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Diary Blog, 3 November 2024

Afternoon music

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xaver_Scharwenka]
[painting by Adolf Hitler, 1912]

London. Zoo.

https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/knife-wielding-london-underground-watch-30275697?int_source=nba

[defendant]

“A ‘calculating and dangerous’ thief who threatened Tube passengers with knives as he stole or attempted to steal their high-value watches. Muridi Bahdon demanded one victim hand over his £10,000 Rolex while on a London Underground service, threatening him that “I’m a killer”.

The 25-year-old was sentenced on October 22 at Inner London Crown Court to eight years imprisonment with an extended period of five years on licence after he was found guilty by a jury of two counts of attempted robbery, one count of robbery, two counts of threatening a person with an offensive weapon, and possession of an offensive weapon.

[My London]

London. Zoo. (2).

https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/teen-robbed-4-people-wandsworth-30282722

A teenager who violently robbed four people in South London while brandishing a machete and threatening to behead and kill them has been jailed. Elijah Caesar-Harrison, 19, was sentenced at Kingston-on-Thames Crown Court on Thursday, October 31 after pleading guilty to several charges of violent robbery and possession of a bladed weapon on the first day of his trial earlier this year.

The judge sentenced Caesar-Harrison to a total of 6 years and 6 months in a young offenders institution for the offences. This was reduced from 12 years due to Caesar-Harrison’s lack of maturity, low functioning, vulnerability and additional challenges of prison, the judge explained to the court.”

[My London]

London. Zoo. (3).

https://www.mylondon.news/news/north-london-news/teenager-jailed-life-after-gang-30262711?int_source=nba

[defendant]

A teenager has been jailed for life after being found guilty of the murder of a man in North London in May 2022. Reuben Bernard, 19, was a member of a gang of men who travelled to Barnet in the early hours of May 11, 2022.

The group planned to attack and rob 30-year-old Olsi Kuka, and forced entry into the flat before attacking Olsi. The 30-year-old was stabbed numerous times by at least two different knives.

[My London]

London. Zoo. (4)

https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/woman-left-mobility-issues-after-30276391

[suspect]

A woman has been left with ‘mobility issues’ after being assaulted at an East London railway station. Police are now hunting for a man in relation to the incident.

[My London]

London. Zoo. (5)

https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/harrow-man-locked-up-after-30276039?int_source=nba

[defendant]

A man will be locked up for eight years after killing a man outside a London Underground station.

Gabriel Silvera, 20, pleaded guilty to manslaughter after the incident outside Burnt Oak Tube station in Edgware. Silvera, of Uxbridge Road, Pinner, was sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Thursday, October 31, to eight years imprisonment, plus a further four years on licence.

[My London]

I should not want to live or work in London (as I once did), let alone wearing a Rolex (as I used to do).

ps: to any thieves reading this— my Rolex watches are now long gone, (sold to make ends meet), and I no longer bother to wear a watch at all.

Even at a considerable distance (thank God), one can sense the “diversity”…

Tweets seen

The Israelis obviously intend to demolish the whole of Gaza, kill or drive out the Arab population, then resettle Gaza with Jews. A kind of smaller-scale copy of what they did in the 1948 “Nakba“, i.e. ethnic cleansing and theft of land. After that, settlement by Jews.

Southern Lebanon too?

Those tweets refer to this:

As predicted for the past 1-2 years on the blog, the Kiev regime is running out of cannon-fodder. Sometime soon, probably in summer 2025, the whole circus will run out of road, the front(s) will collapse, and all of Eastern Ukraine will be abandoned to Russian forces.

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/26/the-tide-is-coming-in-reflections-on-the-possible-end-of-our-present-civilization-and-what-might-follow/

I keep seeing stories on msm platforms such as various newspapers, such as Sky News etc, telling of how someone or other (e.g. “young mum with two children“), someone actually British, is homeless, cannot even get secure (if inadequate) temporary accommodation; and that is all very enraging for many (including me).

Few, however, in the msm or in the ranks of the Labour Party pseudo-socialists (or have Labour partisans now given up even pretending to be “socialist” in any real sense?) openly link the housing crisis or homelessness crisis with the migration invasion (not just the “small boats” but the whole invasion). Between half a million and over a million every single year.

Rachel Reeves and the rest of Starmer’s Labour Friends of Israel cabal (posing as a legitimate government) want to build hundreds of thousands of hutches on England’s once green and pleasant land. Most will be going to non-whites. Fact. Will any go to the real British homeless? I doubt it. Already, the migrant-invaders (even the “small boat” invaders) are being prioritized before real British people.

Britain needs a social-national revolution.

Stray thoughts about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election

I do not know who will win. At present it looks quite open, though Kamala Harris is, more than Trump, looking like the favourite.

For me, it is almost incredible that anyone could vote for a semi-educated and non-white woman such as Kamala Harris, even as compared to a man such as Donald Trump, with all his flaws.

However, one always has to consider the very low level of education and culture among the vast bulk of Americans. Also, the unbelievably naive and simplistic motivations for voting. I saw some silly old woman on TV news a couple of days ago, seriously (in her own little mind) saying that she had never voted before, but was going to vote for Kamala Harris because…Kamala Harris is a woman. That old woman voter is not alone. There are millions, maybe tens of millions, who will vote for Kamala Harris purely on the basis of her sex.

Likewise, it can be surmised that there are further tens of millions, almost all non-white, who will vote for Kamala Harris because she is non-white. We saw that during the Obama campaign of 2008, in which Obama, despite being half-European by racial background, was always described as “black”; later, too, as “the first black President“, not “the first mixed-race President”…[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama#Early_life_and_career].

So the dice are loaded against Trump, though no doubt some will also vote for Trump because he is a white man. As Jack London said, “I am a socialist, but a white man first“…

I should prefer a Trump win, but mainly, if not entirely, because Trump would, I hope, stop the war in Ukraine by —I hope— cutting off arms, ammunition, money, and intelligence assistance to the Kiev regime.

“Their” true face…and their true nature.

Just as the msm constantly brings up heartrending stories about homeless people, young couples unable to buy a house even with a mortgage (which are often unavailable anyway) without once mentioning the fact that the UK is experiencing a migration-invasion— not just the “small boats”, either. 500,000-1,000,000 a year.

[except for “4 million”, substitute “15-20 million”..]

The UK Government, urged on by Labour and almost all the media, spent £450,000,000,000 on Lockdowns with worse results than Sweden. This could have been invested in :- 18 nuclear power plants OR 60 Aircraft Carriers or 1,285 Hospitals or 15,000 Universities or 15,000 Secondary schools or £793,218 for every teacher in the UK or £73,770 to everyone claiming Universal Credit in the UK £35,714 for every pensioner in the UK.

I could go on, but it is absolutely clear that the lockdown response has totally wrecked this country, and this is before you factor in the cost of living caused by lockdowns.

On top of that, we have a generation of children damaged emotionally, socially, mentally and physically by lockdowns, huge chunks of their lives torn from them, sacrificed on the altar of a nonsensical and unscientific public policy disaster.

We will be paying for this for years, if not decades. The politicians and, their media lackeys, the civil service and the rest of the establishment who pushed for lockdowns need to be held accountable.”

Many, perhaps most, people just prefer, maybe subsconsciously, lies (if easier on the mind) to uncomfortable truths.

For many, it is the same when it comes to mass immigration and/or migration-invasion.

As this blog has said for over 2 years, Russia cannot lose this war and will not lose this war.

Late music

[Arnold Bocklin, Villa by the Sea]

Diary Blog, 3 December 2022

Morning music

[Oxford]

On this day a year ago

On the blog 5 years ago

Saturday quiz

7/10 this week, thus again beating political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10. I did not know, or could not bring to mind, the answers to questions 3, 5, and 7 (and I admit that my correct answer to question 1 was a pure guess).

Tweets seen

There are a lot of mugs around.

“Jack Monroe”, even after the latest fall in “patrons” (donors) still presently has a gross monthly income from Patreon of between £2,222 and £27,940; probably around £6,000, at a guess. That’s every month, and possibly taxfree. For nothing.

A few months ago, “Jack Monroe” had 800 mug donors sending her money, so it seems that the Twitterstorm around her this year has had an effect.

If what I read is accurate, she had only, or about, 200 “patrons” until part-Jewish TV cook Nigella Lawson promoted her by mentioning her somewhere, after which the total soared to 800+.

The public is fickle, easily manipulated.

I blogged about the Chester by-election result yesterday.

The House of Lords is a Gordian Knot. Cut it.

In any case, Meghan Markle, aka the “royal” Mulatta, is not “black” but a “half-caste” (“mixed-race”), just like Obama, and in her case with more than half of her racial background white European, originally.

A war, not a race war as such but a race-culture-ideology war, is coming; in the UK, across Europe, in North America.

More tweets seen

It is some kind of semi-occult signal. I expect that, were they to be suspended upside-down and questioned about it, they would reveal what they know.

Late tweets seen

In our hearts, we know that this can only end one way, that there will only be one way out, in the end.

Weak parts of the body politic, weak parts that must be excised.

Late music

Diary Blog, 6 February 2022

Afternoon music

On this day a year ago

Tweets seen


America’s first “black” president (in fact, only half-African, and half-European), showing his true nature, the nature that allowed him to kill so many people (almost all non-European).

The unmasked (so to speak) ex-President gives his directions to the (masked or muzzled) plebs building his latest house.

My Australian (though sometimes resident in London) niece, about 25-y-o, contracted “Covid-19” in 2020, and lost her senses of taste and smell for a week or so. She was advised to stay home, drink water, and take a paracetamol. No medical intervention necessary. She recovered completely after 2-3 weeks.

A pack of idiots posing as the UK Government closed down the country for this…Now look. National Insurance rising, taxes for most rising, cost of living rising, pay inadequate for most, State pension age rising. Still think that the unnecessary “lockdowns” and “furlough” payments were great? Think again.

As for Boris-idiot, it took the bulk of the British people about 15 years to catch up with my opinion of him, and it took the msm almost as long, if not longer, but now almost everyone wants him to get kicked out. The only problem with replacing him is that there are so few MPs who are both actually English and also not total deadheads…

A thought out of season…

Two young boys aged 10. One of the two becomes, for a few short years, the master of Europe; the other, an “ordinary citizen”, at least so far.

[Me, aged 10]
[Adolf Hitler, aged 10]

What weight do we give to genetics, environment, Nature, nurture, education, personal destiny, reincarnation etc? Rudolf Steiner was, I think, right to say that, in terms of society, education of the child carries huge weight. On the other hand, so do the other factors. I suppose that education of children is something that can be decided upon rationally in policy terms; it is within the power of humanity to change policy, purpose, and content.

[Adolf Hitler on the terrace, Obersalzberg]

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The last bit is the killer: “with family help“. Quite.

Every now and then, you read some silly comment on Twitter or in the newspaper readers’ comments sections to the effect that young or not so young people could buy houses, even in the UK’s ludicrously-inflated property market, if only the people concerned would cease patronizing Starbucks or Pizza Express. I suppose that some idiots even believe that.

It is true that many waste money; few of us never do that. How much, though? When the deposit alone for even a very modest house, on sale for, say, £200,000 (and that is far below the national average), is something like £20,000 to £40,000, it is going to take the hypothetical young twenty-something couple rather a lot of saving-up, when many people are living hand to mouth to start with. They might manage it by the time they are 40-50 years old. Maybe.

Not everyone has a father who was the Chairman of Christies…

Actually this type of unwanted and silly “advice” broadcast to the poorer part of society is not very English, despite making appearances in Dickens and elsewhere (eg the works of Samuel Smiles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Smiles). It is rather American: the poor are poor because feckless and useless, the rich are rich because clever, virtuous and well-organized.

As with all propaganda, there is a kernel of truth there, but as Churchill noted, the truth often has to have a bodyguard of lies. In this case, the amount of truth is very small, the false large though persuasive to many.

At least the pre-revolutionary Russian aristocracy was honest enough not to claim that most Russians were poor because of character flaws, despite their often having some.

The David Cameron-Levita government specialized in nonsense of the Kirsty Allsopp sort, and that rhetoric underpinned the “welfare” “reforms” of the part-Jap sadist Iain Duncan Smith, a charlatan whose very name is fake! As were his “degrees”, and work history. He has never been punished for the misery he has inflicted.

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The above tweeter fondly believes that “#ToryScumOut” will not result in what might be termed “#LabourScumIn“…It was Labour who trashed lower-level pay by importing cheap labour from all over the world, Labour who, from 1997 and especially 2005 started to screw down on the unemployed and disabled, Labour who introduced the fraudulent ATOS carpetbaggers. Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper, and others around the present Jewish-lobby puppet Keir Starmer have all made statements similar to those of Conservative MPs on these topics.

Labour-label is no answer (to anything).

Quite. When I was 19, in 1976, I was doing various kinds of low-paid work, and living in the attic of a friend’s house in Little Venice, London. The work paid less than £100 a week, and the house was valued (a few years later) at £100,000. In 2022, that same house is valued at around £4 million, and the kind of work I was doing in 1976 would pay today maybe £400 a week, quite possibly less than that.

So in those 45 years, the price of that house has risen by 40 times its original value, but the work in question now pays no more than 4 times what it did in 1976.

Outside the better parts of London, the ratio might be lower, but not very much so. I recall idly gazing into the window of an estate agency in Seaton, Devon, in 1998. I just happened to be there for a few hours.

I noticed three small bungalows for sale for between £25,000 and £28,000 each! They were very small, 1-2 bedroom places no doubt once used as weekend (near) beach places (pre-WW2). Out of curiosity, I looked online a few years ago. There was a very similar one for sale in the same town: £200,000. Probably far more now. An inflation of ten times the valuation in about ~20 years. Pay in 2022 is generally not ten times what it was in the late 1990s.

This Anglo-American “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” idea is quite ingrained. Homeless and without capital or income? Well, just start a roadside lemonade stall, and soon you too will be a millionaire or more…

That nonsense, fed to children and adults in the USA (especially) in various ways, has been socio-politically very influential. Retailed via such as the old and now-defunct Reader’s Digest (which I am sure had some kind of CIA connection): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reader%27s_Digest.

When I was having a cappuccino in my old haunt of the 1980s and early 1990s, Raoul’s Cafe, Little Venice, I happened to share a table with someone, an American, who turned out to have been the former head of the Reader’s Digest. I suppose that politeness prevented me from asking him who laid down the overall ideological line (and he would not have said anything about that anyway).

Exactly.

One of the total cancers in our society is the huge money available to approved TV monkeys-on-sticks. A few random examples? The “celebrity chefs”, some of whom do not actually even have restaurants (and some that do have them are not apparently very good anyway). Some are genuine chefs, others are not, but almost all seem to make much of their large incomes from TV shows.

When I read that some of those chefs have £50 million or £100 million capital, I cannot believe it. I concede that I am no businessman…

Other examples? The general “celebrity” TV (etc) world. Admittedly, I usually have never heard of said “celebrities” when I see them on charity quiz shows (almost invariably they are extremely ignorant). It sometimes feels like the whole world and his dog are “celebrities”.

The BBC, with its enormous budget, enormous because people have to pay the “licence fee” (tax), is responsible in part. Imagine paying an unpleasant idiot like Gary Lineker a million a year just to shoot the breeze about football games!

Television, in practice, by which I mean the kind of (((occupied))) television that exists in the West, especially, is very corrosive. South Africa started to lose its strength after TV was introduced in the mid-1970s. Import American (((American))) TV, and you import the mores of the you-know-whos…

Those who make huge money from TV are desperate to stay, to use a dated expression, “in with the in crowd”. Any remark designated “racist” and/or “anti-Semitic”, will kill the maker’s career stone-dead, of course. The Jews, exercizing great influence in the TV world, will blackball anyone not thought to be on board with their agenda.

Television, along with its accomplice, advertising, is a malign influence, very often. See https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/12/10/tv-ads-and-soaps-are-the-propaganda-preferred-by-the-system-in-the-uk/.

Ukraine

I have little to add to what I have said in earlier blog posts. The present regime in Kiev is a corrupt and shambolic Jewish-Zionist set-up that must go. Russia must take Kiev, Eastern Ukraine, and the Black Sea littoral. It must do it swiftly and overwhelmingly, to minimize civilian casualties and general damage. By this time next year, it will be impossible, so do it now, for the right reasons and in the right way.

Vandalism by the Environment Agency

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/06/anglers-heartbroken-as-stretch-of-river-tone-stripped-of-trees

River Tone before removal of trees.
Banks of the River Tone after the Environment agency cleared a 250-metre stretch.

Just absolutely disgusting.

Late tweets

I can think of a few things in the past few years that really wiped the smirks off the faces of the System conspirators.

Seems that, suddenly, a host of previously harmless habits are now (supposedly) causing serious heart problems (and no need to mention the “vaccines”…).

It’s probably starting to happen here as well. Many teachers are infected, not with “Covid” but with multikulti mentality.

Every single day they flood in. Most despise us for “our” weakness, many hate us. None are of the slightest use to us.

The Ukrainians probably had a good laugh at Lammy’s expense after he had scuttled back to the UK.

The word “Government” could just as well be replaced by “Jewish lobby” or “Campaign Against Antisemitism”…

Late music

[Motherland Monument, Kiev]

Diary Blog, 4 September 2020

Tweets seen

The Protocols of Zion are not (as Jews always assert) “a forgery” or “Tsarist forgery” but literary fantasy clothing reality and a real agenda pursued by real cabals. One has to ask why the Jewish lobby, in particular, is always so keen to dismiss the Protocols, and ban their sale etc, if they are just a silly forgery which no sensible person could believe…

https://twitter.com/VGloves51/status/1301571368354549762?s=20

No doubt the cause was just, but I had to laugh too: “the strikers used their cars to drive to working mills and spread the strike.” Imagine, say, similarly and indeed far more downtrodden workers in that year in, say, the Soviet Union. No cars for the workers, and any workers brave or foolish enough to attempt a strike certainly arrested by the NKVD and probably shot (some might be “lucky” enough to get 10-20 years in the brutal labour camps run by the GULAG administration).

Slightly off-topic, not many people in the West know that, as late as the 1980s, a black in South Africa had a statistically higher chance of owning a car than a citizen of the Soviet Union. Somehow, the BBC never did explain that to its audience.

Even more off-topic, I was listening to BBC World Service last night, and some on-message drone was referring to “the racist apartheid regime” of South Africa under white rule. In the 1980s that became the invariable BBC way of referring to South Africa. Biased journalists such as John Humphrys.

The idiot on the radio last night then went on to describe the South Africa of those days as “totalitarian“, which is just silly and inaccurate.

“Totalitarian” has always proven a difficult word. Orwell himself got slightly muddled using it in one or two essays and, in the film version of John le Carre’s book, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Claire Bloom’s character refers to Dão as “a totalitarian wine” (because Portugal was at the time a semi-“fascist” dictatorship, akin to that of Spain under Franco). Dictatorial yes, “totalitarian”, no.

Brexit

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I favoured Leave, and still favour Brexit, in principle, but it has been criminally mishandled by at least two Prime Ministers now, and shows every sign of being what Johnny Mercer MP called “a shitshow“. If he thought that of Theresa May’s term of office and her handling of Brexit, what can he think, secretly (?), of Boris-idiot?

Jessica Krug

White“? More accurately, Jewish.

Well, “white” had better be put to one side. Let’s just say that Jessica Krug (of whom I had never heard until yesterday) is just another Jewish fraud. Not old enough to be a “holocaust” fraud or hoaxer (though plenty get sympathy and/or make money by claiming to be the offspring of “holocaust” “victims” or “survivors”). Google “holocaust frauds” or “holocaust hoaxes”.

Some people just want to be part of something of which they are, in reality, not part. “My father/grandfather/uncle/friend/man I met in a pub/someone or other… liberated Belsen“… There are hundreds on Twitter alone that claim that.

Another example, more niche perhaps, is mentioned by ex-SAS personnel in their memoirs, to the effect that hundreds of people, even ex-soldiers, claim to have taken part in the Iranian Embassy siege assault in 1980. In fact, about 30-35 SAS personnel were there, either assaulting the building or in other roles.

Memory can be faulty over time, even where no fraud or dishonesty is involved. Some of the SAS soldiers who were at that incident have fallen out over who did what. I was thinking back to where I was on that day. It was a warm sunny day, and I was in a pub in Whitehall. I remember (quite mistakenly) being in that pub in the late afternoon when the assault took place. In fact, my memory (often described as far better that that of others) is faulty here, because the SAS assault actually started later, in early evening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Embassy_siege#SAS_assault. I also “recall” it being a Sunday (it was a Monday).

This latest hoax or fraud, by Jessica Krug, may not be quite on the “Anne Frank diary” scale, but she was doing OK out of it until exposed. Now she hopes to make more by recounting her (compelled) “confession” on TV etc. She will probably even write a book about it.

Every single time…(you know what I mean…).

In fact, the whole black/white question in the USA is a mass of contradictions. One of the absurd aspects is how a “half-caste” or mixed-race person is always “black”; and so Barack Obama, whose mother is or was a white Northern European by origin (Scottish, German etc) was “America’s first black President”.

Obama made a big thing of it, writing a pretty dull short book about having gone to Kenya in search of his “roots”, but he never did that in respect of his (Scottish or German etc) European roots…Yet, when you think of it, from where came Obama’s cultural landscape, Europe or Africa? It’s not really even a question.

Everything that Obama had came to him from European ideas, jurisprudence, ethics, but through an American prism. Africa contributed nothing, really. What could it contribute?

Trump

Interesting opinion piece. The author is anti-Trump, whereas I myself am both anti-Trump and equally (if not more so) anti-“antifa” and the anti-Trumpers…

I can see the potential for some kind of civil war in the USA, but for a war you need two (or more) organized sides. I say “or more” because sometimes a war even in one region or one country involves several different sides.

One reason why the war in and around Bosnia was so poorly reported on (not only in the USA but the UK) was because there were a number of warring parties even within Bosnia, and reporters and their organizations were unable or unwilling to explain the complexities to perceivedly dim and/or ignorant readers, viewers and listeners in the USA and UK.

So far, the USA has not reached the “civil war” threshold. If it ever did, the stance of the US military machine would not only be important but in every way determinative.

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Below: when a TV or radio presenter thinks he knows who is being “stupid” (etc…)

Brainwashed…

The toytown police state in action.

https://twitter.com/tom39607278/status/1301836198281969664?s=20

https://twitter.com/RandomWagz/status/1301872361038381062?s=20

…and the tweet below made me laugh!

In her case, a bag over the head might be better…

It is not often understood that, in the world of publishing, there was, until the advent of the Internet, a stranglehold over what was published, exercized by publishers, agents etc. Many if not most were (and are) Jews. Now, self-publishing is easier, but the Jewish influence is still pervasive and has been worsening. For example, many well-known works, as well as obscure ones, are now “not available” from Amazon and other outlets (e.g. Abe Books). Why? I think that you can guess (((the reason)))…

I recall giving my (as yet unpublished) work, The End of the Millennium and the New Age of Alexander to a reader at, in American terminology, a very “preppy” literary agency with an office in Fifth Avenue, New York. I recall the personable Ivy League fellow who saw me; Brooks Brothers clothing, and expensive-looking spectacles. I am not sure, though, whether I still have his eventual letter which said, in part (and in rather Anglophile language), “Thank you for letting me have a crack at it. It is the most extraordinary work I have ever read…[but]…it will never be published in New York.” Again, I think that one can guess (((why))).

That was nearly 30 years ago. Were I less lazy, I should have put my book on the Internet, or self-published, but so far have not done either. Perhaps I should. Still, it exists in the Akashic Record, and for me that is the most important thing.

Hardly surprising when you look at the present Cabinet, full of drug abusers such as Boris-idiot and that little expenses cheat, cocaine abuser, drunk and Jews’ doormat, Michael Gove.

As ever, I suppose that I should point out again that I am neither follower nor fan of Peter Hitchens; he is however one of the few msm scribblers and talking heads to point out the “emperor’s new clothes” emptiness of contemporary politics and society. My assessment of him from a year or so ago: https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/05/19/peter-hitchens-and-his-views/

The difference being that, in the 1950s, no government would have dared to make facemasks or muzzles compulsory, even in those more “authoritarian” days.

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https://twitter.com/LauraMStuart9/status/1301865672201441280?s=20

What is it about these American politicians?! Biden thinks that a black invented the light bulb (I suppose that blacks have invented some things…or maybe not). Dan Quayle could not spell “potatoes”, Hillary Clinton said that she had been fired at in Bosnia, while Al Gore “invented the World Wide Web”, which must have surprised Tim Berners-Lee.

Is it because they are American, or because they are what Hitler called “dirty democratic politicians“?

Incidentally, an Englishman, Joseph Swan, invented the light bulb parallel to Thomas Edison. The pair set up a company together in England: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Swan

Brilliant. Reminiscent of [the original] The Flight of the Phoenix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flight_of_the_Phoenix_(1965_film)

Musical interlude

Britain goes Kafka, 2020

I was listening to the news on BBC Radio 4 in the early evening. A litany of the absurd. First of all, the news that air travellers from Portugal and parts (!) of Greece who arrive in Scotland and Wales will (suddenly) now have to “self-isolate” for two weeks on arrival, but not if they arrive at an airport in England or Northern Ireland!

So…if an aircraft is going to, say, Manchester, but gets diverted to, say, Glasgow, the passengers, instead of going home, will have to go into quarantine? Or will they just be allowed to go home, but have to “self-isolate” there for two weeks? If that latter is the case, the passengers would go to their homes whether the plane lands at Glasgow or Manchester, but in the one case, they will be prisoners in their own homes for 14 days, but in the other case they will be free to roam!

Johnny Mercer was right to call Theresa May’s administration a “shitshow”, but he says nothing about this ******* circus! Of course, he has a Government job now (junior minister, Defence): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mercer_(politician). At one time I thought that he must be a rare honest MP, but then all his moneygrubbing came to light. Shameful…

In that same news broadcast, we were told that “local lockdowns” were being lifted in some parts of the Manchester area, but not in Bolton!

Political Kafka.

Also, how does anyone in “authority” (if that term now has any meaning) know that the hapless “self-isolaters” are actually complying? Do police check? Once? Twice?

This is a bad joke, like everything now.

Music at midnight