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Diary Blog, 20 September 2023

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Battles past

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12538083/Grandfather-74-slipped-broke-neck-Premier-Inn-bathroom-forced-wait-excruciating-pain-10-hours-ambulance-arrived.html.

Britain in 2023. A 10-hour wait for an ambulance summoned by a 999 call.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12536765/Nurse-drugging-patients-amusement-easy-life-stroke.html.

No comment, purely because the trial is ongoing.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12535433/Convicted-rapist-mugged-model-Rolex-Cartier.html

[Afghan “asylum-seeker” robber living in London; why are they even here?]

“Diverse” Britain…

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/robbery-baby-pram-patek-philippe-watch-mayfair-london-b1107897.html.

[North African robber living in London; why are they even here?]

More news from “diverse” Britain…

London. Zoo.

We all know that, in the end, many of the problems of the UK will only be solved one way, but our freedom of expression is now so restricted that we cannot speak or write the truth.

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Remarkable clip.

The USA has an even more serious problem in academia than has the UK, from university level right down to government-operated schools in black/brown “hoods”.

Surely Biden will not be put forward for a second term? If he is, and if he were to win (unlikely as both now seem), he might be replaced while in office by Kamala Harris, which would be just absurd.

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See also my own blog post from 2019: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/02/04/white-flight-in-a-small-country/.

[symbolic burning of degenerate literature, Germany, 1936]

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[Adolf Hitler at the Olympic Games, Berlin, 1936]

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Whether that fall in inflation will help the present Government either in the upcoming by-elections or in the 2024 General Election is an open question. My feeling is that even usual Conservative Party voters have given up, and are shaking their collective head at the present incompetent misgovernment. I see no enthusiasm for Labour, though, just a kind of angry apathy, which may be reflected in abstention from voting, or in protest voting. One thing is sure— not very many people, relatively, are going to vote “Conservative”, as things stand.

Madness. Get rid of them, one way or another. This is all part of the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan].

At least there is one piece of good news.

More good news.

Positives and negatives. One positive is that the new Act will supersede the notoriously “bad law” of the Communications Act 2003, s.127, which has been so badly abused over past years, mainly by the nasty little Jew-Zionist cabal called the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”.

As regular readers will know, as things stand I myself still face trial in late November 2023 under that same 2003 Act, which however was recommended for repeal by the Law Commission a couple of years ago. Indeed, it may well be that (if the trial actually takes place) I may turn out to be the last person to be prosecuted under its very-poorly-drafted provisions criminalizing the posting of so-called “grossly offensive” material (which can mean anything or nothing).

However, it now seems that internet websites will be forced to censor material, and we can be sure (((which kind))) of (((pressure groups))) will be pulling the levers from the shadows…

As always, the cloak for censorship is “protect children!” and “protect the public from terrorism!“…

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Jacinda Ardern is part of a conspiratorial transnational cabal; call it “NWO/ZOG” if you like. I am not sure, in fact, that she is fully human. Same goes for Tony Blair, among others.

There will only be one way to survive the encroaching darkness, in the end.

More from the newspapers

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/19/hard-work-rich-social-mobility-uk-wealth-life

Now it’s clear: hard work doesn’t make you rich. Surely that’s the death knell for the myth of social mobility…Where you are born in the UK and the wealth of your family are the key factors that determine life outcomes, new figures reveal.

[The Guardian]

Very true. What puzzles me is how many people were or are unaware of that…

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I agree with him (and have been saying this, and more, for years).

I believe that Griffin does read my blog, at least from time to time.

…and, only a couple of years ago, Patriotic Alternative people Mark Collett, Sam Melia, Laura Towler etc were all deprived of their personal bank accounts for political reasons.

The Ukrainian counter-offensive has failed, overall. The Kiev-regime forces have so far managed to advance only a few miles in a few areas of the front, and at the expense of perhaps 50,000 or more killed, wounded and/or captured.

At the same time, the Kiev regime has been exposed yet again as corrupt, brutal, and shambolic.

The cold weather is only a few weeks off. Rain and cold, followed by ice and snow by November-December. When the ground is hard, Russia may launch a massive armoured onslaught, supported by thousands of missiles and drones attacking military formations, rear-area supply and logistics hubs, and the energy infrastructure of the Ukrainian cities. After that, in early 2024, there may be an advance by armies hundreds of thousands strong.

The Kiev regime cannot “win” this war, even to the extent of taking Crimea, Lugansk, and Donetsk. Where it is now is the best it is going to get for Zelensky’s cabal.

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The bitch gave the game away. “Ukraine” (Kiev regime) likes to pose as fully European, democratic, with free speech etc, when it is really a corrupt and brutal dictatorship which has existed for 30+ years in a state of semi-chaos.

Ah…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Ashton-Cirillo. More or less a lunatic…

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Bush]
[1930s Soviet cinema; an imagined “socialist city”]

Diary Blog, 8 June 2023

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[Lazienki Park, Warsaw]

From the newspapers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The police in England, in 2023…

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

Mad.

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

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

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

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

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Diary Blog, 29 May 2023

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[painting by Laurent Parcelier]

Reminders

Statement

Readers of this blog who spend time on Twitter may have noticed comment triggered by the tweet below, tweeted recently by the small but well-funded (and malicious) Jew-Zionist org known as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”:

In fact, that report is not entirely accurate.

I was intending not to blog at all about the above-misdescribed matter.

For one thing, the whole thing is an absurd abuse of the law, and I was intending to simply ignore it, so far as the blog is concerned.

Secondly, though the matter is in the magistrates’ court, and so involves no jury (and is under the conduct of a single District Judge), I am very aware of the need to avoid publishing anything which might be taken to be a contempt of court.

Having said that (and contrary to what can already be found, misleadingly, on Twitter), I can say, for the record:

  • that I am presently charged with five counts under the Communications Act 2003, s.127, i.e. it is alleged that 5 of the (so far) over 1,500 blog posts published on this website contained material that was “grossly offensive“;
  • that the allegations relate to five alleged blog posts dating from 2021 and 2022;
  • that the complainant is, nominally, expressed as “The State“, i.e. not the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, nor any individual;
  • that I have not been, at any time, actually arrested in relation to the present matter (a couple of Jews on Twitter have tweeted, falsely, that I was arrested); nor was I ever under arrest in relation to the equally-malicious and false claims made against me by the “CAA” (and/or its poundland inquisitors) in previous years, notably in 2017 and 2021;
  • that in fact, and in relation to the present matter, I was simply summonsed by post, a couple of months ago, to appear at the magistrates’ court at Southampton on 23 May 2023;
  • that I did appear on 23 May 2023, for half an hour;
  • that I have pleaded Not Guilty to all charges;
  • that, in relation to the present matter, I have never been interviewed by the police; in fact the police did not speak to me at all about the allegations wherewith I am now charged;
  • that any trial of the matter (if there is a trial at all in the end) will not take place until much later in the year, possibly November or December 2023, or even later, on some date in 2024; the learned District Judge has not yet made any order as to date of trial;
  • that the present matter, depending on whether a trial actually takes place at all, and on whether at any such trial I am found guilty on any or all charges, and on whether (if found guilty on any of the charges), I then choose to appeal any conviction and/or sentence, may only determine in 2024, or even 2025;
  • that there will be one or more preliminary (procedural) hearings;
  • that, in the meantime, I remain (since 23 May 2023) on unconditional bail; and
  • that this blog will continue to be published both before and after any such trial.

I regret that, for reasons to do with avoidance of any contempt of court, I cannot at present go into detail about a number of related facts which I daresay the readers of this blog would find interesting.

Eventually, meaning after the final determination of this legal case, I shall blog about it all.

In the meantime, I doubt whether I shall blog further about the matter at all, not until after any trial.

Finally, I have to say that that “CAA” website report itself does seem to come close to the line on contempt: see https://www.gov.uk/contempt-of-court, and some tweets by Jews supportive of the “CAA” have certainly crossed that line.

Incidentally, readers may be aware that, with the advent of an “Online Safety Act” (as yet only the Online Safety Bill, but expected to become law by late 2023 or early 2024), the very concept of “grossly offensive” online posting will have been superseded by a very different legal framework based around “harm done”.

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GB News, though, is 99% “controlled opposition”. Useless.

Anyone of or over State Pension age who votes Labour-label now is a turkey voting for Christmas, not because the fake “Conservatives” are somehow kinder, but because the Con Party desperately needs the pensioner vote, and will therefore continue to pay for it!

Without the votes of the over-65s, the Conservative Party would only have about 50 MPs, maybe even fewer. Call it a “devil’s contract”, if you like: the Triple Lock will continue only so long as there is a Conservative Party government but, conversely, the Conservative Party in government will only continue so long as the over-65s stay on board, and that means only so long as the Triple Lock stays in place.

If the “Conservative” Party loses the pensioner vote, that vote may not go to Labour, but mere mass abstention (or a LibDem protest vote) would be enough to sink the Con Party electorally, and possibly permanently.

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I never had much time for Trump, and for various reasons, not least the fact that, as President, he seemed to be a squawking parrot in a gilded cage, guarded by a troop of Jew-Zionists, but at least he, if re-elected, would not escalate the Ukraine war and would probably take away Zelensky’s ricebowl (arms, ammunition, other aid, cash bungs). That would effectively end the war.

For the infantry, warfare is changing fast, and becoming even more dangerous.

Look at that. The UK in the worst position, except for Poland.

London. Zoo.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12135751/EXCLUSIVE-Met-officer-allowed-shoeless-sweet-thief-drag-female-cop-hair-blasted.html

Britain’s Police Federation today blasted a Met officer who allowed a suspected sweet thief to drag a female cop by her hair and throw her into a wall in an attack that sparked ridicule on social media.

The video saw a female officer swung around by her ponytail by an enraged 26-year-old woman in Willesden, north-east London – while her male colleague repeatedly pleaded ‘madam’ in a futile attempt to calm her.

Chiefs say it is evidence of officers being too afraid of repercussions to use the force needed to apprehend violent criminals.

[Daily Mail]

The SS might have machinegunned not only the “suspect” but those standing around and cheering-on the untermensch…

More from the newspapers

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/we-need-to-talk-about-just-stop-oils-class-privilege/

Very true. I have blogged repeatedly over the past few years about the connected “Just Stop Oil” and “Extinction Rebellion” crazies: see, eg, https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/08/16/the-extinction-rebellion-levellers/; and https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/10/09/extinction-rebellion-greta-thunberg-cressida-dick-and-the-madness-of-protesting-crowds/; and https://ianrobertmillard.org/2020/09/08/diary-blog-8-september-2020-including-further-assessment-of-extinction-rebellion-as-well-as-of-tim-crosland-and-plan-b-etc/; and https://ianrobertmillard.org/2021/08/25/diary-blog-25-august-2021-with-more-about-extinction-rebellion/.

Incidentally, I have heard little of late about or from Greta Nut (thank God). I suppose that she is now yesterday’s news. Maybe she has served most of her purpose now.

A few tweets seen about Greta Nut:

Are (((they))) still promoting her from the shadows? Odds-on…

Greta Nut is but one of the monkeys put forward for msm use; look more closely at the organ-grinders behind her.

Note the “help me” (i.e. “send money to me“) gormless expression, similar to that employed by, eg, “Jack Monroe” (when extracting more money from mugs some years ago by pretending to have cancer).

Greta Nut is a total fake, a kind of promoted Schauspiel for the easily-fooled.

More from the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12135667/Russian-leaders-former-supporters-say-faces-growing-threat-Wagner-mercenary-army.html

Vladimir Putin is facing a growing threat of a coup from the fearsome Wagner mercenary army and anti-Kremlin rebellions on the border regions of Russia, the despot’s former supporters have said.

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is acting with unidentified figures within Putin’s circle in a bid to oust the dictator, war analyst Igor Strelkov, ex-defence minister of Donetsk People’s Republic, claimed.

[Daily Mail].

I do not know. It is true, though, that the central power of the Russian state has rarely been so weak.

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I suppose one could say “one out of three ain’t bad“. Pity the two women escaped being hit.

Interesting. I can recall having a few anxious landings but only as a passenger. In fact, I was once on the flight deck of a commercial aircraft as it landed at Heathrow (in good weather), but very long ago; as we all know, security concerns and regulations would make that impossible today. Really very interesting for me.

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Ha ha! I like the sentiment at least…

In fact, it is the Zelzal: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelzal-3. The range, though, is below 150 miles, so (to me) of limited interest.

A typical Kiev-regime thug. He speaks as if Russia were not a nuclear power, and a major one.

It cannot have escaped Erdogan’s notice that the NATO, aka NWO, powers wanted him to lose the recent election, while Putin supported him.

Russia cannot “lose”, though admittedly that is, to some extent, a question of definition.

See also: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10531509/Senior-SAS-officer-vows-hang-doctors-politicians-nurses-responsible-plan-demic.html

Late thought

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge” [Nietzsche];

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Diary Blog, 3 October 2022

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[Palekh art]

On this day a year ago

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Globalism at work…again. That, and a country (the UK) where people are now taught from childhood to be ashamed of their race, culture, history and former Empire. Also, the fact that much of the UK economy is in the hands of various kinds of foreigners, in this case Turkish, but more often Chinese, Jews, whatever.

Remarkable, coming from a long-term Con mouthpiece and supporter.

The time is coming when free speech, open debate etc will be banned by stealth and Lilliputian ties. To a large extent, in the UK and elsewhere, it has already happened— in the msm, in publishing, in academia etc. All areas, incidentally, where the Jew-Zionists often hold sway.

When Alexander the Great was confronted by the Gordian Knot, he realized that there was only one way to win— he drew his sword and cut the knot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_Knot.

[Ignore the “Bake Off” bit above].

https://mattgoodwin.substack.com/p/meet-the-zoomers

Frightening. Also, rather facile.

They are also the most highly-educated generation on record. This year, a record number of 435,000 18-year-olds in Britain —like my students— will arrive on campus. And this higher education, for many, helps to explain why, alongside the slightly older Millennials, they are also the most socially liberal generation in history.

[Matt Goodwin blog].

The idea that attending a “university” (whether an ancient one or a 5-minute-old “McUniversity”) makes the attendee “highly-educated” is risible, looking at most of the graduates, let alone undergraduates.

Consistently, Zoomers are the most supportive of Britain re-joining the European Union, the most likely to think immigration is having positive effects, and to voice strong support for rising diversity in all its forms. When I asked my students to name the most pressing problems facing the country today they either said climate change or racism. Nobody, interestingly, mentioned the economy.

[Matt Goodwin blog].

Actually, his students sound like complete idiots. Obviously spouting the simplistic ideas pumped into them, for about 13 years, by semi-educated teachers, or via the BBC and other mass media..

Many of these Zoomer graduates are also coming of age amid what philosopher John Gray has called ‘hyper-liberalism’ —and what others call ‘left modernism’, ‘progressive authoritarianism’, or ‘woke’ politics. While its supporters are often driven by good intentions, this is a more dogmatic, moralistic, and polarising brand of politics which promotes much looser definitions of terms such as ‘racism’ and much stricter, if not oppressive, speech codes that are used to try and curtail discrimination.”

Personally, I suspect we are on the cusp of an entirely new cultural revolution in the West which will not only be driven by demands for more radical economic change but far more radical cultural and social change, too. And the Zoomers, as they trickle out of the universities into the institutions, will be in the driving seat of that revolution.

[Matt Goodwin blog].

Well, it may be possible to turn the current in a more social-national direction. If not, those people will not be required.

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…and all of [see above] Matt Goodwin’s eagerly “woke” students can then clap the “diversity” —and their own “tolerance”— as a torrent of cheap non-white labour continues to flood in, rendering their useless degrees about as valuable as a used bus ticket.

I am happy to see the fake “Conservative” Party about to go down the plughole, hopefully for good. Downside is, of course, that equally-fake and wrongheaded Labour will thereby grow stronger, in a basically rigged and binary system.

Still, if the Con Party can be reduced to somewhere below 200 MPs (1997-2005 levels), perhaps to as few as 100, that would be a good start to breaking up the whole rotten system.

Sometimes things have to get worse before they can get even worse

Sometimes things have to get worse before they can get even worse.’

“Alt-right” schoolboy and “controlled opposition” GB News talking head, Tom Harwood, reports from the Con Party Conference.

What strikes me is how few delegates and visitors there are. Only the central part of the hall full. Would assess it as no more than 500 people. Not many, considering that the Conservative Party has 357 MPs.

Meanwhile, a Spectator scribbler thinks that the market should rule:

…though he is scarcely uncritical of the past 12 years of Con government: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-do-the-tories-have-to-show-from-their-time-in-power-.

Reverting to his energy price theme, he writes (I have highlighted the key fact):

The core problem is that without Russian gas there isn’t enough energy to go around Europe. It’s a problem that has been compounded by the fact that half of France’s nuclear reactors have been offline this summer and Norway, a major supplier of hydroelectric power, has had record low rainfall. With limited supply and high demand, people are bidding against one another for energy use. Prices will rise, and keep rising, until demand is reduced sufficiently to match supply. That’s if the market is allowed to function.Part of the problem is that the Conservative party is just the Labour party on a five-year lag...

A far better idea would be to scrap the price cap entirely, letting households pay the full cost of their energy use while doling out massive quantities of cash to those on lower incomes or with higher needs. This would preserve price signals and the incentive to use less, while also giving people enough money to keep their homes warm.

Instead, Liz Truss is apparently planning to freeze household bills at or below £1,971, well below the actual market price of supply; the wholesale price alone for October-December is expected to be £2,491. The Times carries a slightly different version of the story where the cap is allowed to rise to £2,500 – still below the total cost of electricity.

[Sam Ashworth-Hayes, in the Spectator].

I agree with his first sentence, and have been —probably pointlessly— blogging (for 5 years) and tweeting (until the Jew fanatics had me expelled from Twitter in 2018) about how the UK should be getting closer to Russia and, indeed, leaving NATO in return for, (among many advantages) getting cheap or even (it is possible) near-free gas from Russia, which would solve our energy problem overnight.

Instead of which, “Boris”-idiot, and now the stupid Liz Truss “ho”, have been giving billions in various ways to the Jew dictatorship in Kiev, and even threatening Russia with nuclear attack via “our” (controlled in reality by the USA) Trident nuclear submarines.

In fact, that Spectator article is worth reading in full. Ashworth-Hayes concludes by looking at the wider background:

Part of the problem is that the Conservative party is just the Labour party on a five-year lag; once Starmer suggested freezing prices, the blue team were inevitably going to follow along at some point. But a bigger problem is that the Tories are increasingly the party of the non-working and economically inactive.

The Tory vote is old. Pensioners don’t work and don’t pay much in taxes. They certainly don’t benefit from investments that pay off 20 years down the line. They’re very happy to rack up massive bills in the present day and pass them off to their grandchildren. And they vote in massive numbers.

This gives Conservative politicians strong incentives to find ways to take from the young and the future to give to the old and the present-day. It is toxic in the long term – we have a dysfunctional housing market, twisted to prop up pensioner assets, and high taxes to fund pensioner healthcare and pensions that are destroying family formation and living standards among young people. This is the only way the current Conservative party can see itself clinging on to power. Changing the prime minister isn’t enough to change that.

Well, there is much truth in all that, and if the “grey vote” wakes up to the fact that Liz Truss —albeit in 1995, aged 20, so be it— suggested scrapping the State Pension entirely, then the Con Party will rapidly pass into history.

The one demographic that votes Con heavily and actually votes is the (mainly) English “grey vote”, however defined (I am really talking about the 60+ age group). If that goes, the Conservative Party also goes.

Well-regarded“? That idiot who, after a few too many glasses of whisky, shouted out that the Scottish regiments had beaten Russia in the Crimean War (according to him) and so the British Army could beat Russia today. 170 years later.

Britain has 60-200 nuclear weapons and a land area of 93,600 square miles. Russia has about 6,000 nuclear weapons and a land area of 6,601,000 square miles (about 71 times the size of the UK).

As to the “conference”, looks as though only a few dozen people are bothering to do more than drink in bars.

Is there anything the Jews will not complain about? The fact is that Schindler’s Ark, the novel (yes, novel) on which the film Schindler’s List was based, is a work of fiction: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler%27s_Ark. The fact that Jews have “edited” the Wikipedia entry for Schindler’s List, the film of the book, to refer to the book as a “non-fiction novel” is meaningless, as is that term itself, the more usual term being “faction”.

The famous “faction” novel by Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal, is not “non-fiction” just because a few characters in it (eg President de Gaulle) actually existed. The book is still basically fiction; so is Schindler’s Ark and the film based on it.

As a matter of fact, Schindler’s Ark was not even written by someone who experienced Germany or Poland during WW2; it was written by an Australian, Thomas Keneally, who, at the material time, was 5-10 years old and who only left Australia for the first time in 1968. Schindler’s Ark was written and published in 1982. Keneally seems to have visited Poland in or about 1980, not long before the novel was published.

Many of his novels are reworkings of historical material, although modern in their psychology and style

[Wikipedia].

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I recently assessed the “Bootstrap Cook” on the blog, having seen the Twitter (etc) storm that started a couple of months ago. https://ianrobertmillard.org/2022/09/30/diary-blog-30-september-2022-including-an-assessment-of-jack-monroe-aka-the-bootstrap-cook/.

This England

Saw the first episode of This England, following the pretty disastrous tenure, as Prime Minister, of “Boris” Johnson.

It kept the interest. The casting was remarkably good, headed by a performance by Kenneth Branagh that was amazingly like the real “Boris”, to look at. Other leading characters were also well-portrayed.

I felt that it could have been harder-hitting in some areas. Still, good overall.

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https://www.gov.uk/home-education

People on £150,000 a year are of course not the “super-rich”, but they are still making several times the average, and 10x the amount earned by huge numbers of people in this country.

Only 1% or so of the population earn that much in terms of income.

That Tony Parsons tweet shows the gulf between the msm cosmopolitan talking heads, scribblers, entertainers etc, and the vast bulk of the British people.

In a sense, surprising that Parsons should be so unaware, but “put a beggar on a horse and he rides it to death” [German proverb]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Parsons_(British_journalist)#Background.

Britain needs a new kind of social-national movement.

The war can be brought to a halt by the West/NATO/NWO simply cutting off supplies of money, arms and ammunition to the forces of the Kiev regime. The fake state and failed state of post-1991 Ukraine will then crumble within weeks if not days.

If escalation continues, there will eventually be a strategic nuclear exchange between NATO/NWO and Russia, after which anything could happen.

It can still be stopped.

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Diary Blog, 13 July 2022

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On this day a year ago

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When, though, will “Prison Planet” Watson carry through, identifying the group or cabal responsible for the continuing war on free speech in the UK?

In fact, the ZOG MPs in the Commons are panicking as they try to force through the fraudulent “Online Safety Bill”: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/13/online-safety-bill-tories-free-speech-david-davis.

Once again, much of society runs scared from a condition which is taken care of in almost all cases by a couple of paracetomol tablets and a few days’ rest. Pathetic.

We tend to think (or used to think) that it was very odd that people, only a few hundred years ago, in the 15th and 16th centuries, were hounded and even executed for speaking in favour of a particular theory of cosmology or theology.

We in the West also thought, during the Soviet period, how odd that people in the Soviet Union or its satellites could be imprisoned, or even executed, for not going along with the “reality” imposed by a half-crazy regime.

Well, look now: many European countries imposing quasi-mediaeval laws against “holocaust” “denial” (free historical research and publication) at the instigation of the Jew/Israel lobby, while “Black Lives Matter”, “trans” activist loonies and others try to restrict freedom of expression in the USA, UK and elsewhere. Behind it, or most of it, “them”. (((Them))).

We know what has to be done, but are “not allowed” to express it openly.

Most of those girls would not have been exploited had they and society more reasoned “racism” and “discrimination”. Fact. As it was, though, they were bombarded from a young age by “anti-racist” propaganda. Behind much of it, at the strategic level? Yes, “them” (((again))).

It is still happening.

We must purge several milieux in the UK, starting with almost everyone and everything in the msm, both print and broadcast media. Not just journalist-liars and “commentators” all singing from the same basic hymn-sheet, but most comedians, many scribblers etc. Take away their rice-bowls. Close down the BBC and other TV stations. Eliminate the corrupters.

Suella Braverman

Looking at the Conservative Party leadership contest, I saw part of an interview with Suella Braverman. Unimpressive. Her knowledge-level is inadequate for the role she wishes to play. Indeed, many have said that she should even never have been appointed Attorney-General (and, with that, granted automatic letters-patent as Queen’s Counsel).

There was a time when any barrister who became an MP could apply to become QC, and be granted it on the nod, which is how otherwise unlikely barristers such as John Mortimer (the Rumpole writer) got the rank. Now no longer so.

Ironic in a way, that it is now more difficult for barristers who are MPs to apply for letters-patent to become “QC” when, for all other barristers, it has never been easier. About 10% of all practising barristers are now “QC”. Devalued, like most other ranks, titles, and honours these days.

Husband is one “Rael Braverman”. Jewish? She herself, though, identifies religiously with Buddhism, not with Judaism or her original Hinduism (mother was a Hindu, father may have been Roman Catholic, having originated in Goa).

Suella Braverman, though, must have been born under a lucky star in that, from being a run-of-the-mill barrister, she is now, only 7 years later, at age 42, in the running (in theory) to be leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister.

Even the Spectator is not too impressed by her: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/does-suella-braverman-understand-welfare-

Pop. The sound of a balloon being burst. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suella_Braverman.

She seems to be in favour of free speech, though. Credit where due.

Tobias Ellwood

Look which gung-ho “let’s fight Russia” MP seems to lack the most basic moral courage and decency: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/13/tobias-ellwood-home-attacked-after-tory-mp-ran-over-local-cat.

Drove over a cat, failed to stop, later claimed not to have known. Also showed his lack of empathy by “offering to buy a replacement animal“. What? “A replacement“?! You cannot “replace” a dear animal friend.

The Hawas family, owners of the cat, did not want to speak in detail about the cat’s death, but a family member told the Daily Mail: “We just want to mourn our cat. We want nothing to do with Tobias Ellwood.” [Guardian].

Ellwood is very tied-up with the NWO/ZOG matrix, and the Jew-Zionist lobby. He is a fairly senior “Reserve” (TA, as was) officer, attached to the rather notorious psychological warfare unit, 77th Brigade: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)#Activities.

One aspect of that report made me laugh, albeit bitterly, at the cretinous mindset of a possibly typical Conservative Party voter: “Julie Holland, 61, who lives opposite the former vicarage owned by Stephanie Hawa, also 61, was also not sympathetic to the MP. Holland, who owns a cat called Boris, named after the prime minister, and a dog called Stanley, after Johnson’s father, said: ‘It’s a disgrace. If he had done that to my cat I would have done something about it. But, she added: “I’m still a supporter.”” [Guardian].

More on the Conservative leadership contest

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11009845/Blow-Rishi-Sunak-Tory-MPs-brace-vote-TODAY.html

Results of latest Tory leadership knockout at 5PM: Blow for Rishi as bombshell poll finds frontrunner would LOSE to Liz Truss OR Penny Mordaunt in head-to-head ballot of party members – as MPs finish voting to decide who will stay in contest.” [Daily Mail].

Well, guess what? Most rank-and-file Conservative Party members would actually quite like to be led by someone who is English (i.e. white). What a surprise. They do not want a party leader or Prime Minister who is Indian, Pakistani, or African.

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I wonder who these “activists” etc are? Probably “them” (((them))).

I have still not seen GB News. I doubt that I ever shall, or will ever regret not having seen it.

How? Mainly because there are groups or cabals working to destroy any vestige of national feeling in the young and very young. They have infiltrated the schools via the (often poor-quality) teaching staff.

Roma gypsies, hordes of them…

The Conservative party leadership contest is a classic example of a rigged “false choice” election. Not one candidate who is really social-national (even slightly), and most candidates Jew or non-white.

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Diary Blog, 7 February 2022

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On this day a year ago

Historical and geopolitical thoughts

I am convinced that no one understands our work better than the German woman. (long-lasting, jubilant applause) Our opponents think that Germany has tyrannized women. I can only reply that without the support and true devotion of the women of the party, I could never have led the movement to victory. (renewed enthusiastic applause) And I know that also in hard times when the know-it-alls and those who think themselves wise lose confidence, women’s hearts will remain true to the movement and be bound forever to me.” [Adolf Hitler, speaking at the Women’s Rally, part of the Nuremberg events of 1936].

[https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/pt36frau.htm].

We often think of the decisive moments of history as those involving mass movements of people, the invasion of territory by large military formations, and so on. That is, however, at best only a partial truth.

What was the (if there was only one) “decisive moment” in the ascent of the German National Socialist movement? The invasion of Poland? The 1936 Olympic Games? The filmed Nuremberg Rally of 1934? The Beer Hall Putsch of 1923? I should say none of these, important though they were.

I should designate, as most significant, that moment in 1919 when Adolf Hitler joined a small and rather depressing circle of half a dozen men, the committee of the tiny DAP, in the closed restaurant of the Sterneckerbräukeller in Munich.

Going further back in history, one could say that one of the most significant moments in the post-Aryan history of the world occurred when (according to legend) Zoroaster, or Zarathustra, formed a small group or community in ancient Iran, of little apparent importance.

Likewise, events which appear today to have been of great —many would say the greatest— significance in terms of the development of Western civilization, such as those involving Jesus Christ, the disciples, the apostles, were so insignificant at the time, certainly outside Palestine, that the Roman Empire was almost unaware of their having even occurred.

To speak of the “butterfly wing effect” has become commonplace, but few really live by it. The “big battalions” still seem to be bound to “win”, many think; and that despite events such as the Fall of the Berlin Wall, and indeed the Fall of Socialism worldwide since 1989.

It is now known, via DNA studies, that most ethnic Europeans can trace their ancestry to only three persons of the Bronze Age, and that only one such legendary yet anonymous figure was the progenitor of half of the whole population of Europe living today, so between a third and a half of the real European population of Europe in 2022.

Who knows how, or under what circumstances, our present European population was initiated? Yet that is the primary fact upon which all our subsequent history is based.

I made an attempt on these and allied questions a few years ago: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/26/the-tide-is-coming-in-reflections-on-the-possible-end-of-our-present-civilization-and-what-might-follow/.

You carry in your blood the holy inheritance of your
fathers and forefathers. You do not know those who
have vanished in endless ranks into the darkness of the
past. But they all live in you and walk in your blood upon
the earth that consumed them in battle and toil and in
which their bodies have long decayed.

Your blood is therefore something holy. In it your parents gave you not only a body, but your nature. To deny your blood is to deny yourself. No one can
change it. But each decides to grow the good that one has
inherited and suppress the bad. Each is also given will
and courage.

You do not have only the right, but also the duty to pass
your blood on to your children, for you are a member of
the chain of generations that reaches from the past into
eternity, and this link of the chain that you represent
must do its part so that the chain is never broken.

But if your blood has traits that will make your children
unhappy and burdens to the state, then you have the
heroic duty to be the last. The blood is the carrier of life. You carry in it the secret of creation itself. Your blood is holy, for in it God’s will
lives.”

[SS Verlag: material for instruction of the Hitlerjugend]

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Mrs. Thatcher was, despite superficial intelligence, a deeply stupid woman in strategic terms. She really did think in terms of the “housewife’s shopping basket” economically. She really did imagine that “there is no such thing as society, only individual men and women, and families“.

Not all the ills of Britain in 2022 can be laid at the door of “Thatcherism”, but many can be.

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Quite. The “conservative nationalists” are self-deluding fakes. So long as someone is waving a Union Jack, no matter of what race, nation, or origin, they are happy.

No mass migration“? Ha ha! Just go to any English or even British city and look around. Mass migration does not stop, in any case, when the migrant arrives in the UK, because said migrant will, usually, start to breed. That is also “migration invasion”.

Don’t mention the “vaccine”!

I am in two minds as to whether the international “vaccination” (etc) promotion is medical negligence, governmental and regulatory negligence, and an unfortunate by-product of too-fast rollout, or whether we are looking at a planned major crime and human rights default. Whatever. I have never had any of that stuff, and will not be having any.

Don’t forget that Nadine Dorries [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Dorries] is presently steering through Parliament a bill which, if it becomes law, would prevent and indeed criminalize even such mild speculation as printed above. My words would be removed, and I myself might even be prosecuted for having raised the question(s).

That makes Nadine Dorries an enabler of tyranny. The same goes for all MPs who vote for such laws.

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Democracy’s end-game? Or should one call what the UK, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada have, “fake democracy”? How do evil-intentioned idiots such as Jacinda Ardern, Justin Trudeau, Boris-idiot etc become prime ministers? Stupidity on the part of the voters, or System propaganda presenting them as worthy and competent?

Hard to believe. I read a piece in the New York Times about 30 years ago about how the slide in standards in New York City started. I was in and around New York City myself quite often in the 1989-1993 period.

Apparently, in —I think— 1953, a messenger was in Manhattan during the summer heat, which can be fierce and humid in the city. That messenger took off his tie and jacket in the elevator, was seen by people, and lost his job. I cannot recall how his own matter ended, but that incident, and the subsequent furore, started the avalanche, it seems.

Today, air-conditioning (far better than what you experience in London) is ubiquitous in New York, but standards, at least in the street, and I think often inside as well, have never recovered.

Johnson’s days are numbered. The longer he stays as (posing as) Prime Minister, the longer will it take his successor to pull the Conservative Party out of the hole.

People say “why is Boris not resigning, and then going back to penning rubbish for the Sun and Daily Telegraph for £250,000 or more?” Partly because he love to pose as Numero Uno, secondly because, while he was paid that much by (in effect) Rupert Murdoch and the Barclay Brothers to scribble rubbish, when he looked likely to become Prime Minister, they will not want to hire him again once he is a washed-up and discredited ex-PM.

Ex-Muslim apostate, member of Conservative Friends of Israel, and even took his honeymoon in Israel…

I have my own opinion about what should happen to MPs of that sort, but were I to be too critical of them, I should probably find the employees of the emergent toytown police state at my door (again).

No doubt even my present mild criticism would be enough to have me prosecuted under Nadine Dorries’ new police-state “Online Safety” Bill, which will soon no doubt become law (with the support of Keir Starmer’s fake and pathetic “Opposition”).

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

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The incomparable Sadie Marquardt…what a woman…

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Starmer is useless, and a complete puppet of the far-too-influential Jewish lobby in the UK. That lobby now controls, in effect, both main System parties. Whichever of the two “wins”, “they” win as well. Or so they think.

We have seen the emergence of a (so far, “toytown”) police state over the past 20 years; it gets more repressive, and more serious, every year. At some point, the people, their lives, living standards, and freedoms threatened by the Westminster cabals, will rise up. Not yet, but I think that even in the UK, it can happen. Corrupt System politicians may think that they can take away our liberties and lives with impunity, but they may well be proven wrong.

That poor old guy meant well, of course, but it was always part of the “panicdemic” propaganda…

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[panorama of Kiev and Dnieper river]

Diary Blog, 1 November 2021

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In other words, anyone posting anonymously on the Internet will be tracked down and harassed in various ways, if the poster is deemed “anti-Semitic”. On the other hand, the legion of Jew-Zionist trolls abusing people anonymously should have their identities and other details protected. That is what those bastards (tweeting above) really mean.

Is there any longer doubt that the part-Jew, part-Levantine chancer currently posing as Prime Minister is a puppet of the “New World Order”?

https://twitter.com/HerbertTirol/status/1455126115165614080?s=20

https://twitter.com/AlphaGoII1/status/1455117169713422338?s=20

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[building the Berlin Wall, 1961; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall]
[couple look from West Berlin to East Berlin, 1960s]
[Berlin Wall; de jure, in international law, the DDR extended 5-10 feet outside the Wall in places; any fatalities there, e.g. of fugitives, were therefore, legally, on DDR territory]

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For once, I cannot blame Biden! What is he thinking? Anything? Maybe “they told me I would be the most powerful man on Earth, but here I am sitting listening to some idiot droning on about nonsense, and I cannot —diplomatically— just get up and leave“…

Ha ha! Justin Welby, who has bent over backwards for the Jewish lobby for years, has now blotted his copybook by suggesting that the so-called “holocaust” is not the most significant event, or series of events, or possible events, in history…

That tweeter, Pollard, is editor of the Jewish Chronicle. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Welby#Early_life_and_education.

All in all, Welby is an interesting character, it has to be said: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Welby.

Interesting as far as it goes, that article, but the author, as a Jew, naturally does not mention the most egregious acts of “cancellation” or censorship in the UK in recent years, such as my own nominal disbarment in 2016 for having tweeted 5 entirely true tweets (mostly about Jews and part-Jews). See https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/09/the-slide-of-the-english-bar-and-uk-society-continues-and-accelerates/; and see also https://ianrobertmillard.org/2017/07/13/when-i-was-a-victim-of-a-malicious-zionist-complaint/.

The author of the cited piece says that many dissidents are forced to “keep quiet” in order to avoid being “cancelled”. He does not explore the possibility that some dissidents, “cancelled”, censored, unable to express views, or put forward ideas, might decide to strike back at their imprisoners, or tormentors, or at the self-appointed “leaders” and “influencers” of the very sick society that is developing fast in the UK, USA etc. Action directe?

On the wider point, the people generally, “the plebs” if you like, do not want “authoritarianism” as such; they want “authority”, in the sense of statesmen in charge of government, rather than clowns like “Boris” and his cronies. People who know what they want for the country, and know how to get things done. Look at the part-Jew/Levantine chancer! He can do nothing except to spin fantasy islands, fantasy bridges, fantasy airports etc. Incapable of being a Prime Minister. Totally unfit for his, or any, office. Not that Jewish-lobby puppet Starmer is any better. He is equally useless, simply less colourful.

The people also want TV news that reports facts, rather than the present BBC/Sky propaganda mouthpieces.

The people also want decent and working administration, both at central and local government level.

The people want a proper NHS, a National Health Service, not a “National Covid Service” run for the benefit of those who work in it.

The people also want to be a functioning nation-state, with a basically white European population, not a multikulti, dystopian chaotic mess, kept like that for the profit and benefit of “a certain tribe”.

The above is in fact only part of the entire problem.

A declaration of war on freedom of expression in the UK

Seems that the System’s MPs never learn…

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The new Australian biosecurity (and finance-capitalist, and multikulti) police state.

https://twitter.com/Paleocon_USA/status/1455256020914147339?s=20

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Diary Blog, 21 October 2021

News seen

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10112239/Mother-lover-murdered-16-month-old-girl-stamping-causing-catastrophic-injuries.html.

British society, 2021.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10112163/Law-student-29-sues-university-women-vaginas-row.html.

British society, 2021…

What strikes me as crazed is that, firstly, students “reported” (denounced) a fellow-student for stating a simple fact, and, secondly, that the university then sided with the denouncers! Like a Komsomol witchhunt in the old Soviet Union…

…and what about this?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10111731/Boris-Johnson-promises-tough-sentences-people-foul-material-online.html

The part-Jew, part-Levantine chancer currently posing as Prime Minister is planning to repress freedom of expression even further in the UK. He is supported in that by Jewish-lobby puppet Keir Starmer and his declining “Labour” pack of idiots.

Starmer: “Dangerous algorithms on Facebook and Instagram, and Hope Not Hate have shown me an example of violent Islamism and far-right propaganda on TikTok.’

He called on the Prime Minister to ‘commit to bring forward the second reading of the Online Safety Bill by the end of this calendar year’, adding: ‘If he does, we’ll support it.’” [Daily Mail].

The bastard is taking his “facts” from the malicious and misnamed Jew-Zionist snooping organization “Hope not Hate”!

Here we see the complete fakery of so-called “democracy” in the UK: repression of free speech rolled out swiftly, with the so-called “Opposition” mostly voting with the Government (of clowns). “Democracy” in the UK is a complete sham.

“Zionist Occupation Government” is not just a phrase or a “conspiracy theory”. It’s fact. It’s right in front of us.

Read the above now, while you still can…

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See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/09/29/greta-thunberg-system-approved-wunderkind/; and https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/10/09/extinction-rebellion-greta-thunberg-cressida-dick-and-the-madness-of-protesting-crowds/; and https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/08/16/the-extinction-rebellion-levellers/.

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[Veronese, The Wedding at Cana]
[Raphael, The School of Athens]

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Glasgow is not the only area badly-administered. I have just had a ghastly and (in the end) 2-hour roundtrip, unavoidable and made awkward and irritating by several simultaneous lots of roadworks (I suppose at least some of the roads are being repaired), both in the country and in a small town.

How is it that (especially in respect of smaller roads), repairs have evidently not been carried out for years? I saw tiny lanes never seen by me before , many with terrible surfacing, road bumps and potholes. Even at (at times) 20 mph, a journey of bumps and jolts.

To make it worse, I turned on BBC Radio 4, which had a programme of such surpassing awfulness that I looked it up when I arrived back at my very humble abode: Laura Barton’s Notes on Music. The only reason I did not snap it off was because I wanted to know when it was midday (I sold my watches long ago, and the clock in my old car no longer works).

Does anyone not trapped in a traffic jam (or similar chaos) actually listen to Radio 4 any more?

There were compensations today, though. At one point, a stag, not large but with impressive antlers, crossed the road not far ahead of me. Fallow deer.

Still, despite that pleasant reminder of the animal kingdom, I had time to wonder why nothing seems to work in England any more, and why everyday life seems to have become unnecessarily complicated.

A sneak

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/pub-goer-reports-bbc-presenter-25265871

A sneak has reported the radio presenter James Naughtie to the police for drink-driving. Read the above report.

The facts were that said sneak observed Naughtie downing a glass of Chardonnay, and even went into the pub garden to watch him, before reporting the matter to the police (and taking a picture of Naughtie’s car).

Naughtie was then confronted at his home (or one of them), and blew a mark of 35, which would be borderline in England, where the limit is 35 (and would have been below the legal limit by the time a court-admissible sample was taken at a police station), but is well above the legal limit in Scotland, where that limit is 22.

Now I would not complain about this had Naughtie (or anyone in that situation) been plainly legless, but the man had only had one or two glasses of wine!

Time was when (in both England and Scotland, I think) the sneak was despised rather than admired. That was then. Now there are a whole host of petty sneaks and denouncers all too ready to, as the Australians now apparently say, “dob someone in”.

You see it all the time on Twitter and other social media platforms, the denouncers (often, though not always, Jewish), whose whole life seems to revolve around “reporting” people to (say) Twitter, or to employers, or to professional organizations, or even to the police. Pathetic.

Incidentally, I do not make the above points because I am a drink-driver. I can probably count on one hand the number of times (over about 25 years) when I have driven —probably— over the local limit; at least three of those times would have been in the Caribbean, maybe once or twice in the UK. In fact, I rarely drink (even one glass) and drive now, so I am not pleading in my own interest at all; I just despise the “informer” type.

Final point: I never liked Naughtie’s radio persona or views much, so I have not written the above because I favour Naughtie himself.

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Yet the mask zealots rule supreme on Twitter (though not in the real world). Many are are still pushing for renewed facemask nonsense, the plainly not very effective vaccinations, strict social distancing etc etc. It makes me wonder, not for the first time, whether there is not a psychological basis for their zealotry and unwillingness to move on. Many are also the hardcore “rejoin EU” types, such as those “FBPE” idiots you see on Twitter.

Off the Cluff

Memoirs of oil and publishing (etc) tycoon, Algy Cluff. The book looks interesting, but seems to be unavailable on Amazon, despite having an entry on that site. Is that because the Foreword is written by Taki, who is a bete noire of both the “woke” and the Jews? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taki_Theodoracopulos. Maybe, though, it is because there has been too heavy a demand; the book is not on retail sale until next week.

Whatever the truth of that, I was interested to see the piece about David Tang [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tang]. He seems to have been a more benevolent and philanthropic (and Chinese) version of the Jew fraudster who was called “Robert Maxwell” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell].

There have very recently been some newspaper stories about the book, Cluff, and Tang (who was once an intern at Cluff’s organization): https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10109561/EDEN-CONFIDENTIAL-Fraud-David-Tang-lived-high-life-claims-old-boss-Algy-Cluff.html; https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/21/truth-sir-david-tang-billionaire-socialite-went-riches-rags/.

While Tang’s businesses are or were not the sort of places I usually frequent (I do not really like to shop anyway), I have in fact been to what was his flagship Hong Kong store, Shanghai Tang, in 2006.

I was in Hong Kong, getting some suits, jackets, shirts etc made at the famous Sam’s Tailor [https://www.samstailor.com/— I recall talking, about racing, mainly, to the present owner, whose photos are on the website, and who is the son of the one who was the owner in 2006].

Among the many items (all custom-made/bespoke) I bought was a very nice Chinese dark blue silk dressing gown with Chinese symbols on it. I asked if I could have made a similar but rather smaller one in another colour for my wife, as a present. They demurred because they would be unable to measure her (I was in HK alone). They were quite firm about it, even after I pressed them, so I asked where I might get one for her. They said Shanghai Tang. I went there.

Well, I did find a suitable but ready-to-wear dressing gown for my wife, and it was actually far better quality than my (still good) one from Sam’s Tailor. It was also far more expensive— about 15x the cost, in fact. That’s life…

[Shanghai Tang, Hong Kong, as it was before 2011; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Tang]

I hope that I shall be able to read Cluff’s book; it sounds like it might be an interesting read. Apparently, Tang once tipped a waiter at a casino USD $90,000! Talk about playing the big shot!

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A 1930s Agfa-colour film showing Berlin at the time of the 1936 Olympics, suggested by one of the regular readers of this blog:

Only three years into the currency of the NSDAP government! Imagine that! Boris-idiot has been (posing as) Prime Minister of the UK for nearly as long, and the Conservative party has been in office in the UK for some 11.5 years…

Another similar film?

In this case, not colour film, but more recently colourized.

More? In the following case, not moving pictures but some still colour and b&w photographs.

Pity about the repetitive soundtrack of that one, though.

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It is absurd that we now have GPs who work 2-3 days per week in some cases, and yet are paid over £100,000, particularly when many see few patients face to face.

Published in the interest of open debate, without (necessarily) being endorsed by me. In any case, I am no medic.

Goodbye, decent British policing, hello maladministration, corruption and many other evils.

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[Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire]
[Windsor Castle, Berkshire]