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“It was his love of England, slanting across time, that made him a traitor.” [Dame Rebecca West, in The New Meaning of Treason, writing about the heroic but ill-starred William Joyce]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Joyce; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_West.
Battles past
Saturday quiz
Well, this week I scored 5/10, the same as political journalist John Rentoul. Different questions, though. I got the answers to questions 4, 6, 7, 9, and 10.
From the newspapers
Irish tinkers/”travellers” (again).
Neil’s headline conclusion is right, but the rest of the screed is doubtful.
It is also disappointing to see a former editor of the Sunday Times using the word “graveness” when he means “gravity”…
It may not be “wrong” to use “graveness“, but it does read as only semi-literate.
“A ‘cat killer’ caught kicking an innocent pet like a football has admitted animal cruelty after MailOnline footage of his sick act went viral.
Terry Bree, 71, from Leamington Spa, was spotted on a video doorbell lashing out at Lenny, a 21-year-old cat who died three weeks later.
The father-of-five admitted causing unnecessary suffering to the animal.”
[Daily Mail].
Deserves a good kicking himself.
Tweets seen
“The foul allegations of rape have been dropped by the Israeli government. The forty beheaded babies has been downscaled to one dead baby, not beheaded, and killed by persons unknown.
Two thirds of Israelis killed on October 7 were military personnel. The killers of the remaining one third are definitively revealed to have been in part the Israeli armed forces themselves.
Those with influence who spread the propaganda to the contrary stand exposed as War Criminals and now much blood stains their character for ever. It is a spot which will not out. #Gaza_War #GazaCeasefire #GazaHolocaust #GazaHospital.”
Send it to Douglas Murray.
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More tweets
Six years ago, I wrote this: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/10/09/football-lads-alliance-march/.
Looks like not much has changed in that respect in six years…
South African scientists were working along similar lines in the 1980s. I believe that the results of that work were later sent or taken to Israel.
Incredibly, the distance from the northern border of Gaza to Tel Aviv is only 44 miles.
Late tweets
Ha. While not endorsing that tweet particularly, the point about the uselessness of the “security and intelligence” bods echoes my blog over the years. Not just SIS and MI5, but also the armed forces. What are they for, now? They cannot even stop the cross-Channel migration-invasion, let alone the wider mass immigration influx. The prospect of war with France, Spain, Germany, Denmark has receded into history. So what are the Navy and other forces for? To ferry yet more invaders to our shores?
As for SIS, and MI5, they still seem largely stuck in the era of “burgling the War Office safe”, or that of the key spy or defector (Penkovsky, Lyalin, Gordievsky etc), the existence of which will change everything (but never does).
Irrelevant in a fast-changing world.
Alarming.
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