Well, there it is, and at Davos, no less. In effect, promoting the replacement of Europeans by non-whites, and inciting war against us, the Europeans or Post-Aryans, by both Jews and Muslims.
Incidentally, that particular Jew was expelled from Russia for supporting the brutal and corrupt regime of the Jew Zelensky in Kiev.
Every. Single. Time. (as they say)…
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Which is what the Israeli Jews are doing to the Palestinian Arabs, most obviously and flagrantly in Gaza. However, something similar is happening to Europeans in Europe, as in Britain.
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Ukraine is trying to influence the results of the upcoming parliamentary elections in Hungary because it knows the current government won't allow it to join the EU, Viktor Orban told reporters:https://t.co/lfBrPaM7oRpic.twitter.com/fQ0ZtFysT7
Air defenses shot down 12 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over Russian regions overnight, the Defense Ministry reported. TASS has compiled the main information about the attack:https://t.co/CKO1XWamOnpic.twitter.com/O40ll5zyCe
More people on the right need to start calling this out.
Seems like certain groups, especially the Jewish, are immune to scrutiny.
I have no allegiance to any group of people but my own. Nothing is off limits when it comes to calling out those who revel in our demise. https://t.co/ycKJosM1tV
Time after time, people and peoples reliant on the USA find themselves let down.
The US and NATO agreement on Greenland provides for the United States' rights to exploit mineral resources on the island, Bloomberg reports.
According to the agency, the agreement also includes the deployment of American missiles in Greenland and strengthening NATO's presence.… pic.twitter.com/qjGBZ4pyix
Europe is becoming "unrecognisable", says Trump. Globalist elites are "destroying" our nations and "doing nothing about it". He is right. Just look at Europe's major cities. New post⬇️https://t.co/FoHc2qBS1W
To that extent, he is right. How can that be denied?
“More than 75% of Brussels is now foreign-origin, with over 60% coming from outside Europe. Nearly 60% of Amsterdam’s population is of migrant background while only one in three children have two Dutch parents.”https://t.co/5FLYUSoWWx
"According to Pew Research, if current trends continue, by the year 2050, only 24 years from now, around 31% of Sweden, 20% of Germany and Austria, 18% of France and Belgium, and 17% of the UK will be Muslim"https://t.co/9iKbFgoAwW
Turns out that she is a LibDem who worked for disastrous Clegg when he was Deputy Prime Minister during 2010-2015. She then, according to herself, co-founded the (sank without trace) Women’s Equality Party (Wikipedia does not mention her doing that anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Equality_Party), before working at think tanks and, now, appearing on —yes— Times Radio podcasts with the Jewish scribblers Danny Finkelstein and Hugo Rifkind.
As far as I know, his predecessors were mostly, if not all, also either Jews or pro-Israel non-Jews.
We hear a lot about “terror plots” etc, including “far right” ones, but most (certainly all the supposedly “far right” ones) seem to consist mainly of teenage boys or others downloading bomb-making manuals, or buying samurai swords, or trying to create 3D firearms (but would you really trust your life to such a defective kind of weapon?) and talking big on the Internet (but never doing anything).
The System narrative about all that is mainly a Schauspiel for the bamboozled public, injected into their tiny minds via the mainstream media.
As one of those tweets above says, the descriptor “independent” (certainly in the sense of “unbiased”, and maybe in itself) seems to be not quite accurate…
court finding… "delusions of being persecuted because of his Jewish identity, and his lawyer stated that these delusions were formed in part while spending time at The Holocaust Museum." https://t.co/80OhMlNaVX
— Polly St. George (formerly Amazing Polly) (@FringeViews) January 19, 2026
Three Australian and Palestinian legal groups have formally called on the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to investigate Israeli President Isaac Herzog for his role in alleged war crimes in Gaza, amid reports he will visit Australia early next month.
[“We have formally challenged my draconian bail conditions imposed by the London Met Police. Following my fourth arrest in under three months, they combined these restrictions:
1. Banned from Palestine events in London. 2. Curfewed to live and sleep at one address. 3. Must notify a detective if I leave my address for more than 48 hours. 4. Not to incite ‘hatred, discrimination, or harassment’. 5. Not to ‘support’ proscribed organisations.
All of this is for perfectly lawful and protected speech and social media posts. For naming one ideology of supremacy. For exposing Britain’s capture by the ‘israel’ lobby. For affirming the Palestinian right to armed resistance as per international law.
This is the political persecution of a part-Palestinian British citizen doctor. This is Britain under a zionist political order.”]
It took years for TV face Neil Oliver to wake up (his Coast TV series of long ago made some comments against National Socialist Germany) but it looks like he has emerged from the fog.
Kemi, please name just one way in which the “social media ban” for children will not require the 68 million internet users in the UK, of all ages, to provide our digital ID or biometric data?
After his failed defamation case against me and The Spectator the man also known as ‘Mohammed Hijab’ has declared himself bankrupt. pic.twitter.com/Bom3Gykkz4
Good, because that means that (Jewish and now officially Israeli) “no win, no fee” “litigation insurance” solicitor, “Mark Lewis Lawyer”, notoriously dishonest and incompetent, will probably now not get paid (again) (I hope).
More news today about Lewis and his behaviour in relation to yet another case, that of James Wilson:
Here’s the link to my Substack piece which explains the conduct of the defendants’ lawyers:https://t.co/mtWgbLg93w
That might be taken to have been a mere joke, but is troubling in a case with as many twists as that of Wilson and the Jews Mendelsohn, Cantor, and Newbon (deceased).
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What grinds my gears about my litigation is that it was obvious what was going on.
Here I am in February 2022 trying to tell Benjamin May – the managing partner at Patron Law – that Mark Lewis was out of control.
I was just looking yesterday, as I drove through, at the shopping area in the town very close to where I live. An affluent small town in coastal Southern England.
The big chains are mostly still there (Boots, Costa Coffee, Greggs, Holland & Barrett, M&S food hall, Waitrose etc), but the small independent shops have, many of them, closed up and disappeared. Why? Well, as I predicted at the time would happen, the sinister yet farcically-stupid “Covid” “rules”, “laws”, restrictions etc, so unnecessary (and utterly ridiculous), killed off those small businesses (despite furlough payments etc), and the knock-on effects of a poorer population also drove those shops to the wall over the past few years.
Examples? Well, the small barber-shop I once used, run by an old retired merchant seaman and his wife, which also employed a few local ladies, is no more. The old man died (nothing to do with the scamdemic/panicdemic, by the way), and his wife decided that she preferred to shut up shop. However, that was 2-3 years ago. The shop remains empty, as are those on either side (formerly a computer and office supplies place, and a junk shop).
A couple of new barber-shops have opened in the nearby High Street, true, but those are staffed by non-Brits (either Turkish or Kurdish).
I noticed, yesterday, that several small cafes are now closed, as is what had been a Cornish pasty shop. Some independent clothes shops too.
I went to the local Waitrose for the first time in months, mainly because I had £50 in gift tokens, and found that it has further declined since last summer. Not as many customers as there used to be at a similar time of day. Still, I bought 6 or 7 jars of red caviar, so that must have helped them.
More seriously, it is clear that people in the UK have been made much poorer not only because of the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic and its knock-on effects, but also because pay —not only recently but over the past few decades— has not kept pace with inflation, and particularly inflation in that most basic of needs— shelter, or housing.
Now “Rachel from Accounts” Reeves is sucking money out of the economy, and particularly out of the retail sector. The result will be further economic decline.
A measure of Basic Income must be the way forward.
Angela Rayner has a disabled child. Did she claim benefits to help with his living costs? Does she think he should be denied benefits now? https://t.co/WsSRWZvicq
That reminds me of the hypocritical part-Jew, David Cameron-Levita, who despite inherited tens of millions, went all-out to claim disability benefits and Carer’s Benefit for his sick and disabled child, but later —via Iain Dunce Duncan Smith and the Jew “lord” Freud— took away the same monies from poor people who really needed the cash.
I truly hate Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner, David Lammy, Liz Kendal.
They are the scum of the earth and traitors to the British people.
Well, hello everyone! Yes, it is really me. I am back! As a great number of you had noticed, I have been missing online for almost two months now. I disappeared almost as soon as the trial for the Southport Massacre ended.
[“Where did you go, Charlie? Well, hello everyone! Yes, it is really me. I am back! As a great number of you had noticed, I have been missing online for almost two months now. I disappeared almost as soon as the trial for the Southport Massacre ended. Public opinion and concern has been split as to why I went missing; between those who thought I had a breakdown after covering the massacre, and those who thought I had caved to government pressure to stop reporting upon the cover-up. Neither of these, thanks to the strength of public feeling and the support of my colleagues, is true. What really happened? Three days after the trial ended, my X/Twitter account was hacked. My profile remained intact; live but inactive. Except for one thing…My viral timeline of the Southport massacre had been unpinned and DELETED. This timeline had been collated on the day of Axel Rudakubana’s sentencing, and detailed exactly what had taken place on that dreadful summer’s day in Southport. It exposed how the UK Government had failed time and time again to prevent this monster from moving about with freedom, and what they and other authorities had done to cover-up their incompetence, and the devastating consequences of their political agenda. This timeline had been see by 50 million people within 3 days – and was recognised as one of the most authoritative records of the Southport massacre. But, just as my account was gaining momentum, and I had the platform to explore the depth of the corruption in this case – including the anti-white sentiment of Rudakubana being glossed over by the Establishment and mainstream media – this detailed timeline of evidence was deleted, and I was locked out the account until this morning. (More on this to follow.) I do not know who did this to me, or what caused X to withhold my account from me for almost two months. But there is one thing of which I am certain: Whoever did this did not want the hideous truth about the Southport Massacre in the public domain…“]
Maybe GCHQ, maybe 77 Brigade, maybe some other actor.
While looking into the cover-up in the Axel Rudakubana case, @astor_charlie was hacked and locked out of X for MONTHS. She's finally back today – and here is the shocking truth she uncovered.
Last week, I also joined @LukexDaniel and @Con_Tomlinson over at @CourageMedia___ to discuss some current affairs, including the new OFSTED Chief, the US deportation debacle, and cultural desecration of the Bard by the custodians of his legacy. https://t.co/L5XzWIKQPf
NEW. The British people are not just giving up on the Labour government –they're giving up on everybody. Thoughts on the Spring Statement and the mood out there in the country https://t.co/KRAVNW68RI
That is good, because eventually the people will seize at the most radical alternative potential salvation— social nationalism.
Why are we slashing billions in welfare for British people and pensioners while wasting billions on foreigners who break our laws?https://t.co/KaihWoYU3i
Channel One's war reporter Anna Prokofyeva was killed while performing her professional duty in the Belgorod Region, while cameraman Dmitry Volkov, who accompanied her, was injured, the channel said:https://t.co/OwDJa3GHFlpic.twitter.com/dzuNaZFuGf
At least 37 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the Qatar-based Al Jazeera television reported citing Gaza’s mass media department:https://t.co/aHBdsMoKVTpic.twitter.com/lkSgVemjZa
That’s a good question. The SRA seems to be very reluctant to confirm anything. My next S-stack piece will be about the SRA’s various irrational decisions. I’m also going to publish some of Lewis’ emails to the SRA. It’s wild stuff!
Lewis will have to scuttle back to Israel if he wants to avoid being sued by his own former (?) clients and/or his own colleagues, I think…
11 days now. You’d think that where there is evidence that lawyers might present a risk to the administration of justice, their regulators might think:
Those tweets from James Wilson, successful claimant in the libel case Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon (deceased), and Cantor, refer to the dishonest and negligent conduct of some (and it seems all, from what Wilson is saying) of the Jewish lawyers instructed by the unsuccessful defendants in the matter (one of whom, a vicious social media troll and Zionist, committed suicide before the case finished).
This must be the death of the Labour Party as anything even notionally “socialist” or even “social-democratic”. It goes way beyond anything done by Blair and Brown, or even Cameron-Levita’s “Conservative” regime during 2010-2015.
Why would anyone, especially anyone English/British, vote Labour-label now?
The by-election at Runcorn and Helsby now takes on an importance few would have expected. It is or was the 16th-“safest” Labour seat. Now, Reform has a good chance of winning it, according to opinion polls, bookmakers etc. I would go further: Reform has at least a pretty good chance of smashing the by-election, and thus humiliating both Lab and Con.
At the 2024 General Election, Labour got over 50% of the vote. We are now in a different political world. Reform came second last year, ahead of the Conservative Party.
The by-election is between Reform and fake Labour. The Cons have no chance, and their former voters, if they want to bin Labour, should vote Reform, even if only tactically. That is, surely, obvious.
I blogged about the by-election in more detail yesterday:
“The European Union is pushing for every household in the 27-nation bloc to have a three-day survival kit ready in case of war or natural disasters.
EU crisis management commissioner Hadja Lahbib said the proposals will be formally presented today as part of a broader ‘preparedness strategy’.
Brussels is hoping to ensure every citizen is equipped for 72 hours of self-sufficiency amid the growing threat of continental conflict breaking out.
EU citizens will be told to stock up on a dozen key items, including matches, ID documents in a waterproof punch, bottled water, energy bars and a flashlight, as part of their ‘resilience’ kit.
European leaders have said the invasion of Ukraine could soon break out into a ‘global’ war.”
[Daily Mail]
So what do the unfortunate people of the EU states and UK do once the 72 hours have passed, and the 3-days’ supplies have run out? Kill themselves? Kill the System politicians? (Hey, now… wait a minute…).
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The sanctions pressure on Russia has intensified in recent years, though the country’s economy continues to grow, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said addressing the State Duma with a report:https://t.co/RVTXaV6ufXpic.twitter.com/2Q8iSBWzAa
Russian forces struck Ukrainian military airfields, an equipment repair plant and UAV assembly workshops over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/gKvuBNWAchpic.twitter.com/ZYD2klUHm8
— Mark Hazard 🏴 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇺🇳🦖🐉 (@MarkHazard2020) March 26, 2025
There are two ridiculous shibboleths around politico-economic discussion in the msm of the UK. The first is taking seriously the absurd “Office for Budget Responsibility” or “OBR”, which is wrong most of the time. The second is the phrase “the markets”, as in “the markets will not accept this, that, or the other“.
— Betrayed by @ukLabour, #Excluded by @Conservatives (@ChrisPDuck) March 26, 2025
Only 11% of Brits think Rachel Reeves is doing a 'good job'. Only 16% think Labour is managing the economy 'well'. And only 14% feel 'better off' under Labour
While the elite class spits feathers about cuts to foreign aid, the vast majority of Brits support them & think we should cut further. We are sending £13 BILLION overseas while stripping welfare, winter payments and public services from the British people. Makes no sense.
Dmitry Medvedev was briefed on the development of laser weapons.
According to the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council, the Ukrainian armed forces are actively using drones to attack civilian infrastructure in Russia. pic.twitter.com/6PVZuhd8b4
The fear that Rachel Reeves is putting on disabled people and those that already suffer from conditions is horrific. I would never have voted Labour at the last election if I had known about their disgusting plans. They are no better than the Tories.
It only takes one individual to stand up, step up, and send a message that will never be forgotten.
Rachel Reeves has no credibility. She had a company credit card taken away because of misuse, she had her parliamentary credit card suspended because of misuse, she falsified her CV,and her recently published book was riddled with plagiarism. The chancellor is a fraudster #Fraudpic.twitter.com/iAJjUGOo3n
Reeves to put £2bn into affordable housing to ‘sweeten the pill’ of cuts https://t.co/4NxN5nL5KZ Chancellor will announce plans to fund 18,000 social homes before fraught spring statement on Wednesday
I am sure that the migrant-invaders and other non-Brits will appreciate the free housing. Then they can start (or continue) to breed.
More of the green countryside lost to featureless sprawl.
Is this a pic of Rachel Reeves? This homeless looking crack slag doesn't look like a gov't bigshot. She looks like she really needs a shower, a shampoo and some deodorant. Eww! https://t.co/RALSio7ein
About time that the British people awoke to the fact that most of those purporting to rule over them are their enemies.
"Take a good look at Labour’s roll call of benefits scrounges: Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner, Rachel Reeves, Wes Streeting, Bridget Phillipson, Lucy Powell, and Anas Sarwar—each one a master of mooching off the system they claim to fix. Starmer’s hauled in £107,145 since…
[“Take a good look at Labour’s roll call of benefits scrounges: Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner, Rachel Reeves, Wes Streeting, Bridget Phillipson, Lucy Powell, and Anas Sarwar—each one a master of mooching off the system they claim to fix. Starmer’s hauled in £107,145 since 2019—£20,437 for a lord’s flat, £16,200 in suits, £2,435 for glasses, and £18,000+ in football tickets while fans queue for crumbs. Rayner’s £3,550 wardrobe and £1,250 New York getaway, courtesy of Lord Waheed Alli, scream entitlement—she can’t even dress herself on £150,000 a year. Reeves, our tight-fisted Chancellor, snatched £7,500 in outfits, while Streeting grabbed £1,160 Taylor Swift tickets as the NHS staggers. Phillipson’s £14,000 ‘event’ cash from Alli—birthday bash, anyone?—pairs with her concert freebies, and Powell’s £40,289 since 2019 marks her as a seasoned scrounger. Sarwar’s £10,117 in Scottish perks tops his MSP rivals. Together, they’ve gorged on £220,000 in shadow cabinet handouts—£700,000 across all MPs in a year—preaching equality while pocketing privilege. Hypocrisy doesn’t just drip from this lot; it pours, a rancid flood of greed proving they think rules are for us plebs and benefits are their divine right. Utterly revolting!“]
Dear Rachel Reeves MPs claimed over £200 million in expenses over the last 3 years. Why is it their electricity, gas, council tax, and contents insurance for second homes is paid for by us, the taxpayers? #GMB#BBCBreakfast
Delegations from Russia and the US have conducted technical consultations in Riyadh and sent reports to their respective leaders; the talks’ results will not be published, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said:https://t.co/LcsV1esmZ4pic.twitter.com/cmt6GgmWHF
A widely circulated video shows secondary detonations at a Ukrainian Armed Forces ammunition depot in Sumy Oblast after an Iskander missile strike pic.twitter.com/GCDA9QtAnc
Ukraine continues attacks on Russia's civilian energy infrastructure amid the Moscow-Washington consultations in Riyadh, the Defense Ministry reported. TASS has compiled the main information on the Ukrainian attacks:https://t.co/20sDdznUpWpic.twitter.com/mCNJVWJR0s
Russian troops liberated two communities in the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Zaporozhye Region over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/jyPEVoOAJRpic.twitter.com/Jdt0qhbmzI
The more that I think about the upcoming Runcorn and Helsby by-election, the more I think that Reform are going to smash it.
No matter that I could imagine Reform with a better candidate (someone such as Matt Goodwin), though the Reform candidate seems voter-acceptable, anyway. The important thing, surely, is the hatred so many people now feel for the main System parties and even more —because of the feeling of betrayal— from Labour (in fact much more than for the Conservatives who, despite their appalling record 2010-2024, are now seen as near-irrelevant, finished, washed-up).
That’s before you even factor-in the fact that the Conservative Party is now led by a Nigerian woman who also seems totally clueless. Also, Kemi Badenoch’s thunder (on social security, tax, spending cuts etc) has been stolen by Labour. Labour is just a label now, and is even less social, let alone socialist, than the Conservative Party.
For me, it is telling that the Labour candidate for the by-election is trying to ape Reform, demanding the closure of hotels occupied by migrant-invaders etc. It is clear that Labour considers Reform to be its main rival, and not only at Runcorn and Helsby.
In the past nearly 9 months, the Labour “brand” has been totally trashed. The whole population, I should have thought, has turned away from Labour. Pensioners, the young, anyone receiving any State benefit at all, anyone anti-migration invasion, anyone with any genuine feeling for the English countryside, will not be voting Labour.
The petty corruption and sleaze of the Labour Cabinet may be dwarfed by the corruption of the past years of “Con Party” misgovernment, but the point, I think, is that people, especially in the North of England, somehow expected Labour to be somehow better.
The sheer “we are the masters now” arrogance and callousness exhibited by Rachel Reeves, Liz Kendall, Starmer-stein, and their lesser followers such as Torsten Bell, has disgusted millions.
People now, after only 9 months, see this Labour-label regime as being quite as bad, and in fact worse in every way, than those of 14 years of Conservative misgovernment.
I do not think that Labour’s appalling handling of foreign affairs (by thick “diversity-hire” Lammy, as well as by Starmer-stein himself) will count for much at the by-election, either way, but people can surely see that Starmer has made a fool of himself by threatening to send (almost non-existent) troops to Ukraine etc. That is so even for people who support the Kiev regime.
I think that important factors at the by-election will include the continuing migration-invasion, the petty sleaze and corruption of Labour’s top echelon, the hypocrisy of the same, the sense of Britain as a country sliding to chaos and even civil war (albeit not this year), the behaviour of the former Labour MP, the wish to give Labour a real kick and, perhaps most important, the sense of total betrayal by Labour.
At present, both polling orgs and bookmakers predict a modest or narrow win for Reform.
I may be wrong, but I think we could be looking at a huge win by Reform. A win in the region of as much as 50% or even 60% of the vote-share. Labour? Maybe 20%-30%. Cons? 10% or below; maybe even a lost deposit.
This might turn out to be a very significant by-election result. If Reform can win it, the win might pave the way for dozens of others in this Parliament.
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The shocking sense of unfairness that now pervades British life —millions of hardworking, tax paying, law-abiding Brits now feel they’re being taken for a ride by a political class that puts immigrants first https://t.co/KaihWoYU3i
Wrong. The “political class” in the UK puts itself first, then its cronies and bribe-makers, and only then the migrant-invaders etc, with most British people last in line.
Only 11% of Brits think Rachel from Accounts is doing a 'good job' –YouGov, today
[“A British school scrapping Easter to celebrate “refugee week” & “diversity” is not a trivial story It reflects something which unites today’s ruling elite –a belief in “asymmetrical multiculturalism”. And what’s that? It is the belief you must celebrate every identity, culture & people except your own I wrote about this and the attack on who we are here https://mattgoodwin.org/p/the-war-against-our-past-inside-the“]
[Philby on a 5-kopeck late-Soviet commemorative postage stamp, and described as “Soviet Razvedchik“, a term which might be translated as “intelligencer”, rather than the grubbier-sounding “spy” (in Russian, “shpion”); “razvedchik” is a more polite or dignified term]
“Secret surveillance of Britain’s notorious double agent, Kim Philby, made public for the first time in archived documents, reveals how keenly the Security Service wanted to confirm or disprove early suspicions of his high-level treachery.
In daily bulletins submitted to MI5 in November 1951, undercover operatives describe how Philby, codenamed Peach, moved about London.
They said he gave “no outward sign of being either nervous or on the alert, but your well trained man should not do so; every movement is natural – again as it should be”
[Guardian]
The whole Philby thing has always been hugely overblown. Philby himself has been over-rated, too. Superficially well-educated, yes, but really a rather dogmatic Marxist-Leninist who, under other formative circumstances, might have been like some of the other basically mediocre professional-level bourgeois Englishmen I have met in my life, and who were not in secret-intelligence work but, variously, Roman Catholic converts, and/or military officers or barristers or other activity.
Philby was certainly no great mind, though he evidently thought himself very clever. Likewise, he was a bit of a plodder ideologically.
I recall that Philby wrote in his supposed memoirs (possibly part-ghosted by KGB helpers), My Silent War, or elsewhere, that “you choose your side and stick with it“, i.e. rather as others do to the Labour or Conservative parties, or to (the contemporary British obsession) football clubs. Unthinking loyalty. Stick-in-the-mud loyalty.
The puffing of Philby as the “masterspy”, or even “spymaster”, suited both sides in the Cold War: the Soviet side getting the gloss of having not only suborned Philby and other “Establishment” Englishmen to the Marxist/Soviet cause, but also having outplayed Western intelligence agencies in the spy game.
As for the British part of the Western side, Philby’s prominence could be presented as an example of why pervasive “security” (and the whole Cold War stance) was necessary. Also, his supposed “brilliance” in a way bolstered the reputation of institutions such as the more expensive English schools (Philby was at Westminster School) and, of course, the supposedly elite universities, in particular Cambridge.
The whole “Cambridge spies” story tends to puff the reputation of SIS and MI5 (despite their having been outplayed) by making their role seem terribly important. One scribbler even penned a well-known book called Philby— The Spy Who Betrayed A Generation, as if the Cambridge Spies were pretty much the centrepiece of British history since the 1930s, rather than an obscure footnote to it.
In the 1930s (when Philby started to work for Soviet organizations), there was (in the first half of the decade) the Great Depression, and the initial triumph of National Socialism in Germany. In the middle of the 1930s to 1939, the Spanish Civil War, while in Britain itself, the economy was recovering and society changing .
Then, in the early/mid 1940s, there was the titanic Second World War (in the Soviet Union, the Great Patriotic War).
In Britain, after 1945, there were the great social changes of the 1950s and 1960s. By that time, the “Cambridge Spies” were mostly not even in the UK. Maclean and Burgess had fled in 1951, and Philby was in journalistic exile in the Middle East. The economic and social changes in the UK were the main events, together with the start of the disastrous migration-invasion of non-whites into the UK, and Britain’s retreat from Empire.
The “Cambridge Spies” were not even footnotes to much of that. Near-irrelevant, despite the obsessions of the Westminster Bubblers and newspaper scribblers.
What damaged Britain in the 1940s through to the 1960s, and then on to today, was not a few spies passing on information to the Soviet Union, but the abandonment of Empire, the importation of blacks and browns in vast numbers, the cultural decadence etc.
You often see Philby and his fellow Cambridge spies described as “upper-class” or even “aristocratic”. In fact, not one was of “aristocratic” background, though all (except Cairncross) were affluent or wealthy. Philby’s own father was from an affluent government-connected family [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John_Philby] but a fact generally ignored or covered-up is that Philby’s mother, Dora, was half-Indian, a so-called “chi-chi” (pron. “shi-shi”), which may have subtly affected his loyalties.
General Kalugin, in his memoirs, describes how his superiors had the idea of using Philby, then in Moscow, as a kind of lure for potential agents in the West, by showing that he was respected, had a good life etc. His first meeting with the shambling drunken Philby makes a memorable picture.
Incidentally, Philby never learned to speak or read Russian beyond a rudimentary level, and had English-language books supplied to him via the KGB (presumably via people at the London embassy, and the diplomatic bag).
In the early 1990s, sometime around 1994, I was slightly acquainted with a Russian businessman living in London, and with an office in Regent Street, who had some legal business (I was a barrister at the time). We had lunch at least once at my Inn (of Court), Lincoln’s Inn. I recall that the Spanish waitress was very taken with “Ed” [Edvard] and his rather Scandinavian looks (he was from the Baltic regions) and even asked me later if I might effect an introduction for her (that never happened).
“Ed” was quite open about the fact that, prior to his taking to capitalist business activity, he had been in the KGB, though that would only have been, at a guess, for a relatively few years. He recalled having been at a lecture or two given by Philby in Moscow (he said that that had been at the Lubyanka).
Incidentally, those comments in the Guardian from the MI5 surveillance directorate in 1951 do tend to beg the question; after all, if a surveillance target is acting naturally, then either he is not guilty, or is literally acting (and/or has been trained to act) naturally, so in fact may be guilty. If, though, the target looks nervous, looks for reflections in shop windows etc, does that mean that he is guilty, or is he just a nervous wreck and/or afraid of being thought guilty? Wilderness of mirrors.
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This is getting obscene now. How do you give people greater dignity by removing their ability to wash below the waist and get in and out of the shower. https://t.co/Htcx53yS2A
The sheer hypocrisy of the Labour Friends of Israel “Labour” government is simply unbelievable. Surely Liz Kendall, Rachel Reeves, Torsten Bell, Starmer-stein etc can see that? Or are they so removed from truth and decency that they cannot see it? That might be even more alarming.
A new MP for Runcorn? Bring on Reform, say disillusioned voters | Reform UK | The Guardian https://t.co/EgBKUoNgaE
I should imagine that even Labour-inclined voters will be voting Reform UK (or staying home) at the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, in order to send a message (and/or a kick) to this horrifyingly callous and irredeemably incompetent misgovernment.
As to Conservative Party loyalists in the area, I should say that the Cons have no chance— so vote Reform in order to stick it to fake Labour.
From “tepid bath of managed decline” (really offensive) to blood bath. On top of 30,000 NHS England jobs. We are the party of work, it’s in our name, says Starmer! I don’t think you are. What a disgrace and totally counterproductive in an already struggling economy. https://t.co/HNL1ZdmhUP
“Given that there is a lot of talk about changes to special educational needs provision and reform plans for the NHS, we should worry about what the government might focus on next. Equally alarming, it seems to me, is a belief in Downing Street that reviving the UK demands embracing the wonders of artificial intelligence, which Keir Starmer believes will have an almost magical effect on everything from social work to education, and realise his new dream of “totally rewiring government”. Because this is an administration so lacking in everyday humanity, that is a much more scary prospect than he and his colleagues seem to realise.“
[John Harris in The Guardian]
I should not be surprised to find (if I am still around) that, somewhere down the line, in 5+ years’ time, the members of the present Cabinet will find themselves up against a wall.
A super piece. I simply don't take Kemi Badenoch seriously. She will never be Prime Minister. I rate her 1/10. Keir Starmer, who I rate 3/10, surely can't believe his luck. Even so, tangentially, I increasingly wonder how much longer Starmer is PM? He'll be gone well before 2029.
Russia and the US have a long way to go to resolve the situation in Ukraine, and there is no point in deceiving ourselves about imminent prospects, said Russian Presidential Press Secretary Peskov pic.twitter.com/SmBOg59npJ
Sumy Oblast or region is in NE Ukraine. Sumy city is NNW of Kharkov; about 150 miles from Kharkov by road but only about 90 miles as the crow flies. About 200 miles east of Kiev.
So Russian forces are in Sumy Oblast now. There seem to be Russian advances in all material parts of the overall front. Kiev-regime forces are falling back.
I don't think people properly understand the extent to which Labour is now the party of the rich. In 1997 the Tories led Labour by 10 points amongst the most affluent AB social class. But Labour led the Tories by 23 points amongst C2s, and 38 points amongst DEs. In 2024 Labour…
Why do many think it impossible that “the lion will lie down with the lamb” in a future age? All things are possible.
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Instead of addressing the root causes of the Ukrainian conflict, Europe is only exacerbating them by increasing military spending and considering the deployment of its troops in Ukraine, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said:https://t.co/g3iz7sEnq1pic.twitter.com/JlZGOa4D4b
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If you want the full story about Beth Grossman of Doughty Street, Mark Lewis of Patron Law, and Daniel Berke of 3D Solicitors, here it is:https://t.co/02BP64b6sl
I think it was Daniel Berke’s firm 3D Solicitors who acted for Pete Newbon in relation to Northumbria. Maybe it was them who advised him not to make the agreed apology?
As to why they gave that advice, my theory is that the plan was to sue Michael Rosen and making the apology…
For those who are unaware of the outline of James Wilson’s (now-successful) libel case against three defendants (all Jews; in one case, possibly only a part-Jew), the defendants were advised and/or represented by Jewish solicitors and barristers who seem to have been, all or variously, professionally negligent and/or incompetent.
Mark Lewis and Daniel Berke were the main solicitors for the defendants, Beth Grossman of Doughty Street Chambers was the barrister (possibly the only barrister; I do not know, and only heard of her recently, via Wilson’s Twitter/X account and Substack blog).
Are people reading your Substack blogs?
— Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 (@MichaelRosenYes) March 21, 2025
I get about 900 views per piece on average. And the daily visits keep going up so far.
I definitely have some very committed readers in the legal field.
I expect they know Mark Lewis professionally and are keen to see his antics finally exposed?
“Lewis’s reputation“? Ha ha! Only ignorant fools think that that is worth more than a plugged nickel. I have blogged many times about him, over many years; he has never once threatened to sue me (no doubt partly by reason of my impecuniosity, but truth as defence –or other defences— may also have much to do with it).
Feel free to republish any of my blog posts. After all, I was a barrister until a pack of Jews procured my wrongful and, it turned out later, actually unlawful disbarment (in 2016): see
Success and failure are never certain. The great Stephen Sedley tells a funny story about when he started as a barrister doing work for North Kensington Law Centre. pic.twitter.com/TC4nydR6P6
Ha. Amusing. As a matter of fact, I myself appeared as Counsel in the High Court several times before Sedley, a High Court judge at the time (early 1990s), notably in a case involving a former member of the Angolan Secret Service.
I doubt that there are many barristers who have never suffered excruciating embarrassment in open court. For example…
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