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Diary Blog, 31 May 2026

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Links in with the “de-banking” of many other people, from —briefly— Farage to people without Farage’s connections, support base, or money; I am thinking of, inter alia, Sam Melia, Laura Towler, Mark Collett and (I think also) Nick Griffin at one time.

There are the powers of the State, but there are also the powers of corporate entities such as banks, exercised arbitrarily.

No (real) British citizen, i.e. white “proper” Brit, should have his citizenship revoked, for any reason.

That pathetic yet still quite sinister, and plainly defiant, Scottish lesbianka is full of both malice and, indeed, deceit. Apparently, she never noticed that her husband (I believe, now ex-husband) had bought both a motorhome costing £140,000 and a Jaguar SUV costing over £81,000.

So…Nicola Sturgeon visited her parents-in-law, where the new £140,000 motorhome was apparently parked (I thought it was at least once parked outside her own house, too; maybe not) and she remained, she says, totally unaware of its existence because it was parked alongside and not at the front of their house. Possible, if they live somewhere such as Blenheim Palace; otherwise not…

So, also…did Nicola Sturgeon’s “in-laws” never once mention her husband’s (and therefore also her own) massive, newly-bought, and very expensive motorhome to her? Does that seem even marginally plausible? Not to me. They never politely said “we love your lovely new motorhome” or “where do you think you will visit in your new motorhome?“?

As liars go, Nicola Sturgeon is not very believable.

It amuses me that, in order to seem sober, and not spendthrift or dishonest, the SNP has replaced Nicola Sturgeon with a dull fellow called Swinney, but he looks like a head-in-trough bureaucrat type anyway.

Incidentally, latest news is that Nicola Sturgeon is moving to, or perhaps has already moved to… London. London, England…

The history in that part of the world is amazing, and history is still being made there.

The “Parliamentary road” can only be a part, and probably a minor part, of the social-national revolution, in my view.

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[from The Wicker Man (1973)]

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I know what I should like to say about that but, were I to do so, I should probably have to endure, yet again, the boredom of dealing with woodentopped plods at my door, or at a police station.

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[“Been a lot of debate about the Blair article. But strip away all the froth, and it boils down to three key arguments.

a) A quarter of a century after the Iraq War British foreign policy should still be based around the principle of always being prepared to pay the “Blood Price” to maintain our “special relationship” with the United States.

b) Britain needs to reintegrate with the EU. And it can do so by forcing its way back in on our terms. Europe needs us more than we need Europe.

c) Having seen whole regions and communities of working Britain hollowed out economically, socially and culturally by uncontrolled immigration the exercise should now be repeated via uncontrolled and unregulated automation.

It’s insanity. It’s not bold thinking. It’s not provocative thinking. It’s not challenging thinking. It’s absolute, copper bottomed lunacy.“]

[“fervent Labour Friends of Israel member“, Blair, wearing the Jewish skullcap known as a “yarmulka“]
[Blair with now-deceased child-abuser (the Jew MP and later peer Greville Janner) and some other Jew]

Europe, including the UK, needs a massive chistka. It is coming anyway, whether we like it or not, and whether we prepare for it or not. The only question is whether we shall be the victors or the victims.

[“We are fighting for the future of our children!“—Germany 1945]

Barbarian hordes atop the ruins of the “City of Light”. Can anyone now doubt that the 1939-45 war ended disastrously for all the peoples of Europe?

The more aware and intelligent, and far-sighted, people in the West began to understand that even in the 1960s. I myself certainly did, even as a child of 11 (in 1967-1968).

Now, the younger part of the mainstream population, for example in the UK, is coming to the same conclusion.

No-one can rule guiltlessly” [Saint-Just].

Talking point

When “they” have numbers and armed force, that is what happens. Look and learn.

Meanwhile, in Europe and elsewhere, other tactics are utilized:

See also:

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The regime of the Jew Zelensky— brutal and shambolic.

Belgium is scarcely a state anyway, or rather is a state but not a genuine country. A contrived geopolitical solution to an historical problem.

Where’s that? Arbat? If so, very different to when I saw it in 1993! On my last visit to Moscow, in 2007, I was not in that part of the city at all.

Ah, yes; just saw a shop called (translated from Russian) “My Arbat”, so that street is the main one of the Arbat.

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See also:

If I lived in Kiev, I should not like to bet too heavily on my survival right now…

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[A.K. Savrasov, The Rooks Have Flown In; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Savrasov]

Diary Blog, 11 April 2026

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[Levitan, Birch Forest]

Saturday quiz

Well, this week a convincing victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored a modest 21/. My score was 6/10. I did not know that answers to questions 2, 4, 6, and 7.

Talking point

I happened to see again the following, a blog post I published nearly 2 years ago in 2024:

Basic Income

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton,_California#Experiment_in_Guaranteed_Basic_Income

As part of a privately funded experiment in Universal Basic Income in 2019, the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (S.E.E.D.) conducted a pilot project that gave a $500 stipend to 125 randomly selected residents for an 24-month period with “no strings attached.[51] “

[Wikipedia]

SEED was a Randomized Control Trial that distributed $500 a month for 24 months to 125 recipients. The cash was unconditional, with no strings attached and no work requirements, and recipients were selected randomly from neighborhoods at or below Stockton’s median household income.

Results gathered from the first year, which spanned February of 2019 to February of 2020, found recipients obtained full-time employment at more than twice the rate of non-recipients. Recipients were less anxious and depressed, both over time and compared to the control  group. They also saw statistically significant improvements in emotional health, fatigue levels and overall well being. Recipients had a greater ability to pay for unexpected expenses.

People spent the SEED money on basic needs, including food (nearly 37%), sales/merchandise (22%, on home goods, clothes/shoes and discount/dollar stores), utilities (11%) and auto costs (10%). Less than 1% was spent on alcohol and/or tobacco.”

https://www.stocktondemonstration.org/press-landing/guaranteed-income-increases-employment-improves-financial-and-physical-health

In my view, Basic Income must be the way to go, with AI and robotics impacting employment and set to do so more. The alternative to Basic Income is to have a tiny sliver of the population ultra-wealthy, a wider layer wealthy, and about 80% of the population near-destitute.

I think that that is even more obvious in 2026.

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A country that has forgotten its culture, history, traditions and national heroes is doomed to extinction” [Tolstoy]

That is where the UK now is; or very close to it.

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Give white men a pile of bricks and they will leave you with a civilization. Give blacks a civilization and they will leave you with a pile of bricks” [Anon.].

Simplistic, of course, but true none the less. The white inhabitants of London, and many other European and North American cities, can vouch for the veracity of that.

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Field Marshal Starmer-stein…

Perhaps, after Reform UK gets into government but then fails to satisfy the needs of the British people, real social-national politics will come to the fore. We do not need universal support, nor even a majority, just a large enough minority (disciplined and equipped etc) to take over regardless of rigged System elections.

[“The IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) officially made Argentina the head country member of the alliance last month. This is why they want Argentina to become a safe haven for Israelis.

If you look at every other country who is a member of the IHRA, or observing the IHRA, you’ll see most have been seriously impacted with mass immigration from the third world in recent years.“]

The “fifth column” in most advanced and/or wealthy states…

Incidentally, depending on definition(s), there are between 193 and 330 states, countries, territories etc in the world. The so-called “international definition of antisemitism” has only been adopted by between 38 and 47 (again, dependent on the details) of those states, territories etc.

[“Around 700 years ago, there was a bottleneck phenomenon with Ashkenazi jews.

About 40% of Ashkenazi jews’ maternal DNA traces back to only four women from this time period.

Genetics are destiny with behaviour.

Ashkenazi jews are far more prone to schizophrenia, and just general paranoia, than White populations because of this.

Also, with such a small gene pool to work from, if their ancestors had strong dark triad traits, it’s certain that most living descendants today also have them which explains this awful behaviour below.“]

See also:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/scientists-reveal-jewish-history-s-forgotten-turkish-roots-a6992076.html

Our animal friends. (yes, they attack chickens etc, so protect your chickens more effectively; “good fences make good neighbours”…).

I remember it well. I called that area home for many years.

[Little Venice, London W9; the Lagoon]

Israeli Jews did that, and much more besides, and even the Jewish-lobby organizations in the UK and other parts of the world admit (indeed, claim) that most Jews living in the UK and other countries support what the Israeli Jews are (once again) doing. Mass slaughter of civilians.

Need one comment?

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Britain would have been better off had Johnson been put up against a wall 25 years ago.

Peter Hitchens debates with Zoe Strimpel, American Jewish Zionist. She comes to the UK, and is allowed not only to live here but also to scribble, remuneratively, in the Press, and to talk on TV etc, purporting to tell us, the British, what we should think and do. A propagandist for Israel and Jews generally.

I doubt that I should be allowed to go to Israel, or even some Jewish enclave in Connecticut, and make a good living in the local msm, while criticizing and lecturing the inhabitants of either of those regions. Why do we allow it to happen here?

The same goes for all the foreign bodies in our Parliament, not only Jews but also various other types of non-Europeans.

[“Tim Dillon: “Israel is just blowing up apartment complexes in Lebanon.”

“Massacring women and children.”

“The blowback that Israel will get from this—and the US will get for funding it—will be insane.”

“You are creating terrorists all over the world.”

“It’s going to radicalize them.”

“Israel bombing Beirut 100 times in … 10 minutes.”

“In a densely populated urban area.”

“I’m starting to get this nagging feeling that Israel doesn’t really want this ceasefire.”

“Israel claims in all of these buildings, there are terrorists doing terrorist things.”

“Their argument is like, if we kill everyone, inevitably some of the people will be terrorists.”

“I’ve never seen the brutality of this type of warfare.”

“You can’t just indiscriminately kill civilians and not expect that people are going to be radicalized.”]

I sincerely hope that someone shoots that bastard, and that it takes him several hours to die, just as he slowly killed that wolf.

The same goes for all those who stood by in that bar two years ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/10/wyoming-wolf-bar-animal-abuse

Are the abusers still around? Is that bar still standing? Apparently, the bar owner shown above is the aunt of the primary criminal.

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Diary Blog, 15 December 2024

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[David D. Pearce, Bird Souk, Cairo. Pearce was a U.S. Foreign Service officer, latterly at ambassadorial level: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D._Pearce]

Announcement

As of today, my 9-month “community order” has expired, though in reality it ended 3 months ago, in mid-September 2024.

Regular readers of the blog will be aware of the background. For those who are not, see:

Despite my having been subjected to false accusations from the Jew-Zionist “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (amounting to attempted perversion of the course of justice from its “Director of Investigations and Enforcement”, one Stephen Silverman), despite my having had to suffer “voluntary” interview by police, despite my having been (quite wrongfully) put on trial (and convicted), and despite having been sentenced to a “community order” (and a financial penalty) in mid-March 2024, the blog continues, and has been published on a near-daily basis throughout.

24/7 surveillance of the citizen

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14193881/air-fryer-gadget-spying-investigation.html

They are the must-have kitchen gadget of the moment – but your air fryer might just be spying on you.

Now the UK’s data watchdog is planning new rules after a shock investigation revealed just how much information apparently innocuous gadgets have been harvesting.

Consumer magazine Which? discovered several popular models were capable of snooping on their owners, listening in to conversations via their associated phone apps.”

[Daily Mail]

If this is happening in 2024, what might things be like in 2034, 2044, or 2124?

Thick as two short planks (Angela Rayner)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14194041/Angela-Rayners-plans-build-1-5million-homes-2029-leave-Britain-risk-drought.html

Angela Rayner’s plans to build 1.5 million more homes by 2029 will leave Britain at risk of drought, experts said last night.

The extra households will create demand for an extra half a billion litres of water every day.

Yet the Environment Agency says the UK is already heading for a shortage of more than a billion litres a day by the end of the decade.

An industry source said: ‘This country hasn’t built a reservoir in 30 years despite the population surging. 

‘Ofwat and the Government have got to step up this week if the country is to avoid this catastrophe.”

[Daily Mail]

Stop mass immigration. Start “remigration”. The two essential measures to be taken. After that or, rather, at the same time, nationalize the water industry.

What to do with the pro-immigration traitors

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14192629/PETER-HITCHENS-Heres-need-people-supported-mass-immigration-need-pay-terrible-consequences-themselves.html

PETER HITCHENS: Here’s what we need to do to the people who supported mass immigration – and why they need to pay for the terrible consequences themselves…

[Daily Mail]

Behind a paywall, so not read by me. Anyway, I have my own view on what should happen to those who have supported mass immigration into the UK. Including those in the present Cabinet. ‘Nuff said…

Interesting commentary on Syria

https://www.patrioticalternative.org.uk/al_qaeda_israel_s_private_army

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In the UK, they try to shut down free speech; in occupied Palestine, they try to burn out non-Jews.

Soon, they will be charging the Syrians rent…

Life goes on.

I shall not believe that any “revolution” (of any type) has happened, if Harriet Harman and her type are still free to talk on TV or to sit in Parliament.

@matthewjgoodwin

They’re gaslighting us—labeling our valid concerns as “misinformation” while hiding the facts. Demanding answers isn’t “misinformation”—it’s our right as taxpayers! Here’s a sneak preview of what I told the @reformparty_uk Conference in Wales this weekend. #MattGoodwin #ReformUK #Wales #EnoughIsEnough #ShowUsTheData

♬ original sound – Matt Goodwin – Matt Goodwin

As for that peculiar-looking young woman, Marianna Spring, before she became the face of BBC disinformation she committed a fraud by inventing details on her CV to try to get a job. She was found out, but still (later) hired by the BBC as its “truth verification” person! You really could not make it up!

Looking at her, I think that she must be (((the usual))) or partly so.

Whatever the truth of that, she must somehow “know the right persons”.

Outrageous. An academic claims he was “sacked” by a university after writing a paper that was negative about foreign migrant workers. Professor Steve Fothergill said his contract was terminated by Sheffield Hallam University after he found that half of the jobs in former coal mining areas were taken up by immigrants. Unfortunately, this does not surprise me at all. As I show in my new book “Bad Education”, out in February, academics who challenge the left-wing consensus on campus are routinely sacked and shunned https://amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1787635244/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=” [Matt Goodwin]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan

Seems that, finally, much of England is awakening to the facts obvious to me for half a century or more.

https://twitter.com/Ted_Wellread/status/1868262019444695075

Historical interest

https://www.netfilm.store/film-62803/

Die Deutschen Wochenschau (German weekly newsreel) from 1941, including, at 06:09, Hitler meeting, at the Reichskanzlei in Berlin, with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, spiritual leader of the Palestinian Arabs.

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Diary Blog, 20 October 2024

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[The Bronze Horseman]

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[clown]

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https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1847593598449021335

“Israel” is not just that small country in the Middle East; it is also a global web consisting of the worldwide Jewish-Zionist lobby, and also those in public life whom that lobby has bought or otherwise suborned. Look at the UK. Both remaining contenders for the Conservative Party leadership are Israel-lobby puppets, as is the present “Labour” Prime Minister, “Tel Aviv Keith” Starmer, and also his close colleagues (such as Rachel Reeves and Yvette Cooper).

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13979249/city-migration-breaking-point-Coventry-arrivals-overseas.html

A city at migration breaking point: An unvarnished dispatch from Coventry – which saw over 22,000 arrivals from overseas in a single year – exposes how housing, schools and GPs are being placed under unbearable strain.

Another development has already started in Bennetts Road in the suburbs of Coventry. ‘There were green fields as far as the eye could see,’ said Gillian Collinge, a former Home Office official.

Today the once idyllic vista is scarred by a brutal two-metre-high security fence just feet from the back gardens of their homes, which have names such as Springfield Cottage, Lilac House and Harefield.

Beyond the metal perimeter are diggers, mud, noise and men in high-viz jackets.

‘It’s absolutely heartbreaking,’ added Gillian, who lives next to the chaos with husband Peter, also 66, a retired software engineer.

The building site – until just over a year ago a green-belt haven for wildlife – is now the location for 3,200 new houses. More than 500 have already sprung up.

[Daily Mail]

Read the full report. Even those badly affected by migration-invasion are often so sadly brainwashed that they imagine that there is some kind of moral imperative requiring the UK to accept settlement by backward people from all over the world.

Both main System parties are guilty not only of allowing migration-invasion, but of promoting it: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints

The Camp of the Saints (French: Le Camp des Saints) is a 1973 French dystopian fiction novel by author and explorer Jean Raspail.[1][2][3] A speculative fictional account, it depicts the destruction of Western civilization through Third World mass immigration to France and the Western world. Almost forty years after its initial publication, the novel returned to the bestseller list in 2011.[4]

Truth is not only “stranger than fiction“; truth is often foreshadowed in works of fiction.

Unsustainable. Impossible. Anyone who supports this disastrous state of affairs must be called traitor.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13979353/NHS-set-millions-smartwatches-wearable-tech-track-health.html

Millions of people are set to be handed smartwatches to track their health as part of Labour’s 10-year plan to save the NHS.

Wearable tech, including devices to track blood pressure, glucose spikes and how cancer patients are responding to treatment, will be issued across the country to help prevent illness and treat more people at home.

[Daily Mail]

So it begins…

All very reasonable, at first blush. Helps citizens, saves public money etc. However, this may well be one of the first steps to microchips implanted under the skin. Anyone refusing to have one will not be punished directly, at least not at first, but will simply be cut off from accessing most health services. Later, perhaps cut off from receiving State benefits, even pensions. Then, once most people are on the system, your beliefs and political activities will be added to the mix. The “racist“, “antisemitic” etc will be cut off from services and State financial help, and be even more marginalized for their views etc. After that, taken into “protective custody”…

Most schools, most of the time, are just useless. For the mass, a school is a place where children are “warehoused” during the day while the parents are (both?) at work making money (mostly for someone else).

Contrary to what many believe, you do not have to send your children to school in the UK, though there are conditions: https://www.gov.uk/home-education.

I should love something seriously bad to happen to “Boris” Johnson.

No wonder that the Kiev regime has to use press-gangs to “recruit” new cannon-fodder. No-one wants to volunteer, or even be drafted.

A good example, the above Twitter/X thread, of the ever-more-apparent split in the UK between those who see the realities and those who choose not to see them. The fact is that Winter Fuel Payment is or was a great boon to pensioners, and now huge numbers of them are going to be deprived of it; both those who are entitled to apply for Pension Credit but have not done so and those who are above (often not far above) the Pension Credit capital or income cut-off points, and will therefore not now be given WFP.

The press-gangs of the Kiev regime

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13980181/desperate-ukrainian-men-hiding-houses-army-russia.html

Desperate Ukrainian men have resorted to hiding in their houses for up to eight months just to avoid fighting Russia.

Stories include missing a daughter’s birth, avoiding public transport, and not attending weddings – all to get out of being conscripted into the Ukrainian military.

This comes as Ukraine is on the look-out for more fighters as it has struggled to replenish its army while thousands of soldiers from North Korea join Russia.

Roman, 33, an entrepreneur in Lviv, said he pays $1,000 a month to receive an exemption. 

He explained: ‘Eighty per cent of my friends who went to fight have been killed and I don’t want to join them. By now we all know what happens.

‘I am lucky I have money and my own business so don’t need to be on public transport or in places where the mobilisation gangs operate. I don’t go to restaurants or weddings.’

Desertions from the Ukraine army are at an all-time high since the recent escalation of conflict began in 2022.

This comes as Ukraine passed a controversial new law in May that requires every man of draft age — 25 to 60 — to register so they can be called up.

[Daily Mail]

Few if any want to be caught and forced onto the front-lines to fight for the shambolic and corrupt dictatorship of the Jew Zelensky. Who can blame them? 6 weeks of rudimentary training, and then transported (presumably under guard) to the front. I wonder how long the average such “recruit” lasts before being killed or badly wounded, or taken prisoner? A month or two?

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Near the end of that clip, a (presumably Jewish) woman shouts out “racist” at the old woman shown. Voice very similar to that of Mandy Blumenthal, the wife of negligent/dishonest solicitor and Israel fanatic Mark Lewis.

Mandy Blumenthal shouted out, at the audience, something similar during her recent attempted Jew-Zionist scam and political stunt at the Edinburgh Fringe show of Reginald D. Hunter.

Were they there, at the above-shown demonstration?

Cuba— a country crumbling to nothing, a country with no future in its present form.

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[painting by Arnold Bocklin]

Diary Blog, 13 October 2024

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[painting by Jo March]

Peter Hitchens

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13952661/PETER-HITCHENS-Stop-worshipping-MI5-just-Blairite-secret-police-force-budget-boost.html

“PETER HITCHENS: Stop worshipping MI5 – it’s just a Blairite secret police force with a budget to boost

[Daily Mail]

Ha. I should like to read that but it is behind a paywall, and I refuse to pay.

London. Zoo.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13952631/Rapists-jailed-girl-Met-Police-Tube.html

Three men who filmed themselves while gang raping a 13-year-old girl have been jailed  have been jailed for a total of 34 and a half years.”

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Odds-on that the 13-y-o victim was white.

Incidentally, the misleading Daily Mail report talks about “34 and a half years” whereas, in fact, the heaviest sentence was one of 12.5 years, meaning that the untermensch will be released in about 6 years.

Rhetorical question: do we need such untermenschen in our society? Of course not.

Imagine what this poor country will be like in 2034, 2044, 2054. If you encounter another actual English person, you will have to greet him by saying “hello, Robinson Crusoe!“…

“Traveller” pest

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13940739/Travellers-illegal-camp-woodland-smell-noise-hell.html

“Travellers who illegally set up camp next to family homes have finally been given the boot – but only after distressed neighbours endured years of ‘misery’, ‘noise’ and ‘stench’ at their hands.

Shocking aerial photos show the state the land has been left in following an expensive legal battle by the council to win back the plot which lies in the picturesque Kent village of Vigo, near Gravesend.

[Daily Mail]

The so-called “traveller” menace is one of the biggest law and order problems in the UK, but the police and politicians are unwilling to do what it takes to “solve” that problem.

Can you imagine this chaos and official weakness happening during the 12 years of the German Reich of 1933-1945? I think not.

As with so many aspects of life in contemporary Britain, the people suffer while evildoers prosper.

Roma gypsy convicted

[defendant]

https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/24643626.buckinghamshire-mobile-phone-thief-caught-red-handed-cctv/

A serial thief who targeted restaurant customers in Buckinghamshire and Berkshire has been caught on CCTV swiping a mobile phone from an unassuming victim.

Nirex Stanescu, 24, was jailed for eight months after pleading guilty to nine counts of mobile phone theft at Reading Crown Court on Friday, September 27.”

[Reading Chronicle]

A few points to note: firstly, that the Reading Chronicle does not identify the defendant as a Roma Gypsy (other than by publishing a photo). The newspaper does not even take the usual msm-weasel approach of calling her “Romanian”, which is so often seen but rarely strictly correct (the Roma gypsies are, ethnically, not Romanians, as such, even when they hold Romanian passports and/or live in Romania).

Secondly, the woman in question is obviously a persistent nuisance, yet is sentenced to only 8 months (for a total of 9 offences), meaning that she will do 40% of c.32 weeks, about 12 weeks.

Thirdly, why is she even (allowed) here? Get rid of her, and all the others like her, and stop similar trash from entering the country.

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https://twitter.com/IhabHassane/status/1844142058925326687

Reform UK is still “controlled opposition”. Goodwin himself is welcome on TV etc, and is pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby. All the same, Reform UK is helping to break down the existing structure.

“They” are behind much of the migration-invasion.

The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan. [“They” have vandalized the Wikipedia entry, but it still gives the overall picture].

When I was (wrongfully) put on trial in 2023, Prosecution Counsel made a pathetic suggestion that the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan was a (mere) “conspiracy theory“. I answered quite firmly that it certainly was not, and that all he had to do was to open his eyes to what was happening all around him. He did not attempt to take the matter further.

For those unaware that I was subjected to a free speech trial last year, please see:

Israel’s “Warsaw Ghetto”, but the (Israeli) Jews often treat the Gazans far worse than the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto were treated.

[SS troops escort non-combatant Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Note the generally good physical condition of the Jews]
[Warsaw Ghetto, 1942, a year before the armed uprising. Shown are Jewish Ghetto Police guarding a gate into the Ghetto]

Philosophical note: Earnest Sevier Cox

https://counter-currents.com/2019/08/earnest-sevier-cox/

I had not previously heard of Earnest Sevier Cox. A regular reader of the blog suggested the link.

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…and “those” (((those))) in the UK, France etc who support what the Israeli forces are doing are not only supporters but also propagandists, facilitators, agents, and fundraisers for the Israeli state and its war crimes.

What goes around comes around…

Reports that Halevi, the Israeli Chief of Staff, has been killed are at time of writing unconfirmed.

News reports are also suggesting that weapons due to be used against Iran “by Israel” will in fact be operated by American serving soldiers or Air Force personnel. If so, that constitutes a direct act of war by the USA against Iran.

That will be, increasingly, the fate of British people (and European people generally) unless and until we take back control.

In Ireland, but there are undoubtedly similar crimes being committed in the UK.

ps. I could suggest a couple of extra policies to add to that list.

…and illegal migration invasion is only 10% or even only 5% of all immigration into the UK. A looming catastrophe for us.

For those with eyes to see, Starmer hits all the buttons: Israel lobby, Jewish lobby, Bilderberg Group, freemasonry, WEF/Davos, you name it.

Starmer is basically just a traitor to the people of this country, and unfit to be Prime Minister.

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Diary Blog, 28 July 2024

[painting by Volegov]

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How much of all that, though, has been caused or made far worse by the invasion of the UK by “migrants” (migrant-invaders)? An invasion which, by the way, has been fully supported and encouraged by Jewish-lobby puppet Yvette Cooper.

Her predecessors as Home Secretary were no better, as seen below— weird Israel fanatic Sajid Javid:

I was last at Sacre Coeur about 30 years ago. Despite it being only a 19thC building (completed in the 20thC— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacr%C3%A9-C%C5%93ur,_Paris), for me it has or had a unique atmosphere, and one not experienced (by me, at least) at the much more ancient (12th-13thC) Notre-Dame de Paris [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_Paris].

That atmosphere may be due to the fact that a Roman Catholic mass is perpetually celebrated at Sacre-Coeur: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacr%C3%A9-C%C5%93ur,_Paris#Role_in_Catholicism.

[Sacre-Coeur]
[View of Paris from the Basilica of Sacre Coeur]
[Notre-Dame de Paris]

Living conditions in 1940s Paris were certainly austere at times, at least for some, but life went on, e.g. under German military occupation:

[Paris in 1941: an unarmed Wehrmacht soldier relaxedly chats with a stylish Parisienne on the terrace by the Trocadero Gardens, beneath the Palais de Chaillot, and across the river from the Champ de Mars and Eiffel Tower]
[Palais de Chaillot and Jardins du Trocadero, Paris 16-ieme]

In 1970, and 1971, Paris was distinctively not only French but also specifically Parisian. By the 1980s, and especially 1990s, I noticed that it had become less so, more a “convergence” Euro-metropolis. Now? God knows. From what I hear and read, a multikulti nightmare, at least in part and in parts.

Quelle surprise…

Regular readers will know that I have blogged recently about the fact that Starmer-Labour has no real mandate. The electoral system of the UK has been broken beyond easy repair.

At GE 2024, out of every 20 people eligible to vote, and in very rough terms, 8 did not vote at all, 4 voted Labour, 3 voted Conservative, 2 voted Reform UK, 2 voted LibDem, and 1 voted Green.

That is Starmer’s and Labour’s mandate— 4 out of 20. For pedants, arguably, 4 out of 12. Not much of a mandate either way.

Talking point

[Ella Baron/Guardian]

I would not waste my time in any case.

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Diary Blog, 7 July 2024

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Jacqui Smith. Expenses cheat. Labour Friends of Israel. Anti-free speech.

Apparently, the unpleasant Alan Milburn [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Milburn] is also being brought back into government by Starmer.

We can already see the road being taken by the Starmer-Labour “elected” dictatorship. Cabinet members who are not even MPs (which has always happened, but not I think to this extent), and a likelihood of policies imposed with little or no consultation.

I covered the appalling Jess Phillips on yesterday’s blog, and have also done so in years past (see, for example, https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/05/07/deadhead-mps-an-occasional-series-the-jess-phillips-story/).

https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/the-tories-are-on-life-support-reform

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[Nymphenburg, the Cascade]

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[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13608615/Former-Tory-MP-lost-seat-Thursday-nights-bloodbath-quits-party-says-no-chance-electable-again.html]

Even had all Reform UK voters in Yeovil voted Conservative instead of Reform, Fysh would still have been soundly beaten: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeovil_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.

British justice, 2024

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24435263.hampshire-deliveroo-driver-bit-off-customers-thumb/

A female Deliveroo rider who bit a customer’s thumb off in an argument over pizza has escaped jail.

[defendant]

Jeniffer Rocha caused Stephen Jenkinson a ‘permanent, irreversible injury’ while delivering him a Pizza Express order in a ‘reckless’ attack, a court heard.

Mr Jenkinson, 36, and Rocha, 35, had a brief argument over a delivery code before the Brazilian Deliveroo rider bit his thumb off.

Rocha, a married mother of two who was making deliveries on her moped as a replacement rider for her husband, admitted grievous bodily harm in March on the eve of her trial.

On Friday, at Salisbury Crown Court, Wilts, she walked free from court as she was handed a 16 month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, by a judge who accused her of ‘excessive self defence‘.”

[Daily Echo]

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Poorly advised by Mark Lewis“? Surely not…(ha…).

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/11/update-re-mark-lewis-lawyer-questions-are-raised/.

Peter Hitchens is a confirmed political spectator, and has certain fixed views, one of which seems to be a huge over-valuation of the importance of voting every 4-5 years. He thinks that MPs are terrified of their voters voting them out. No, because they have incentives to vote according to other motivations, such as lobby money, outside “work” as “consultants”, party discipline (careerism), possibility of a paid “peerage” down the line etc.

Another Hitchens characteristic is that he is very fixated on the “two main parties” set-up which has dominated British politics (with LibDem and SNP distractions) since the Second World War and to a large extent since the First World War.

Hitchens seems to think that it was wrong for the public to turn to Reform UK, and that it would have been better to have had a Labour government with a much smaller majority.

I disagree. That would change nothing, and the UK needs to change (though not in the Starmer-Labour way). Hitchens seems to support a different kind of Conservative Party, if possible, but you cannot put new wine into old bottles.

Regular readers will know that I have little time for Farage, let alone Tice etc. They are not social-national. However, their Reform UK project has moved the “Overton Window”, and has started to break up the rigged political system that has been in place all of my life.

Hitchens is right in saying, as he does, that Reform UK is just Farage, but you could have said that about, say, on a higher and more significant political level, Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP.

As Rudolf Hess said, famously, at Nuremberg in 1934, “Die Partei ist Hitler, aber Hitler ist Deutschland wie Deutschland Hitler ist!” [see https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6uajey at 1:43:00].

For me, Reform UK is but one means to an end, not the final destination.

I wrote an assessment of Hitchens some years ago: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/05/19/peter-hitchens-and-his-views/.

Does Hitchens really imagine that Starmer-Labour is or will be worse than (or even very different from) the “Conservative” governments of the past 14 years?

Talking point

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Nolte

In his 1991 book Geschichtsdenken im 20. Jahrhundert (Historical Thinking in the 20th Century), Nolte asserted that the 20th century had produced three “extraordinary states”, namely Germany, the Soviet Union, and Israel. He claimed that all three were “abnormal once”, but whereas the Soviet Union and Germany were now “normal” states, Israel was still “abnormal” and, in Nolte’s view, in danger of becoming a fascist state that might commit genocide against the Palestinians.”

[Wikipedia]

Written in 1991…

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Good grief. What a list! Only one or two are even European. Suella Braverman of Indian origins; James Cleverly of mixed African and English origins; Kemi Badenoch, Nigerian; Priti Patel, East African Indian origin; Tom Tugendhat, quarter-Jewish; Robert Jenrick, possibly fully-English (uncertain); Victoria Atkins.

So leaving aside the obviously non-Europeans, that leaves only Victoria Atkins [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Atkins], Jenrick [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jenrick] and Tugendhat [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tugendhat].

Speaking personally, if I were in any case a Conservative, I should find Jenrick unacceptable by reason of his seeming (?) corruption, his Jewish personal links (not just his wife, his social circle, which seems to consist largely of Jewish business sharks), and his poor judgment in office.

Tugendhat? Apart from his part-Jewish origins, he is very very keen on support for Israel and the Kiev regime. Also, I am always suspicious when someone, especially from a privileged background (his father was a High Court judge), has a large hole in his or her CV.

Tugendhat seems to have graduated in or about 1994, then spent a year (?) getting a Master’s degree in Islamic studies. After that, he spent a brief time as a journalist on an English-language newspaper in Beirut.

We next hear of Tugendhat about 6-7 years later, in 2003, when he is gazetted as a Territorial Army officer (after a month or two, joining the Intelligence Corps); as of 2013, Lt.-Colonel in the Int. Corps. He was also working, ostensibly for the Foreign Office and in a civilian capacity or role, in Iraq in 2005.

As MP and minister, Tugendhat has been associated with both “security” matters and allied matters of so-called “extremism”. He seems to be hostile to free speech, especially about Israel and the Jewish/Zionist lobby.

Well, one can draw one’s own conclusions.

Not much to say about Victoria Atkins. A barrister by training, and married to a multi-millionaire who is a director of numerous large companies, including British Sugar.

I cannot see any of the above appealing to the British voters.

The only Conservative Party MP for whom I would have any time at all would be David Davis [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Davis_(British_politician)], who at least has proven that he has principle, respect for civil rights and, also, courage. He, however, is now 75, and may not want to lead that rabble anyway.

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https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/britains-looming-demographic-crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s

I am rarely sorry for System politicians.

Yes, that is the point. Despite the “arrangement” concluded by the System parties and the other anti-French parties, the RN hugely increased the number of RN deputies elected.

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[painting by Vicente Romero Redondo]

Diary Blog, 14 January 2024

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[Kennet & Avon Canal]

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12960047/PETER-HITCHENS-foreign-brawl-Oh-grow-fix-pothole-peppered-roads.html

Oh, when will Britain just grow up? We have no money, yet we spend billions on arming Ukraine in a dubious war in which we have no national interest. We cannot control the beaches on our southern shores, on which strangers land almost daily, but we tail along behind the Americans in the pretence that we can control the Red Sea as we seek (as far as I can grasp) to get entangled in yet another war in the Middle East. Haven’t we had enough of these stupid brawls?

We spend decades failing to do justice to wronged postmasters. We cannot keep order in our pothole-peppered streets. Our children can’t read or write. Our universities, when they are not imposing mad speech codes on students and teachers, sell themselves to the highest bidder to ensure they can pay their vice-chancellors’ enormous salaries.

We have created a society in which working hard is probably the worst possible route to riches. If you want to be comfortably off (and perhaps get a decoration or a peerage too), go and strip some assets, or sell dodgy PPE to the NHS, or some such.

[Peter Hitchens, in the Mail on Sunday]

Also, from the same Peter Hitchens column:

Might I too be sanctioned for saying the ‘wrong’ thing?”  

At some point I shall write at more length about the High Court’s failure last week to come to the aid of Graham Phillips, the unlovable video blogger sanctioned by the Foreign Office.

The case is not about Mr Phillips. It is about free speech, and whether the Government can punish people for exercising it.

I might say I was (in the judge’s words) ‘an objective independent and fair-minded journalist’ who had happened to say things that ‘did not align’ with UK Government policy. But how would I prove it? The Government would be its own prosecution, judge and jury, and my only recourse would be to take the matter before someone, well, like Mr Justice Johnson. Be warned. These are dark times for dissent.”

Don’t I know it! Sad to say, the likes of Peter Hitchens, Toby Young, Farage, the “Free Speech Union” etc have not mentioned my “case” once. Disbarred (wrongfully and unlawfully, which the Bar Standards Board itself accepts was the case) in 2016, and now facing court sentence (in a few weeks’ time) for having allegedly posted a few home truths about the Jew-Zionists in the UK and Israel/Palestine.

People might argue that the apparent lack of interest (or is it out of fear of the Jewish lobby?) on the part of Hitchens (himself of course part-Jew), Toby Young (uncertain) etc is because I am not sufficiently well-known (and so of too little importance) for those puffed-up characters to take an interest in how my rights to freedom of expression are being trashed.

Well, if so, that scarcely chimes with the assertion of the malicious Jewish or Jew-Zionist cabal known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] itself, on their own website and Twitter/X account, to the effect that it has taken them seven years of effort to finally have the (corrupt and/or suborned) police and Crown Prosecution Service get me into court (magistrates’ court) and have me tried and convicted of having posted supposedly “grossly offensive” remarks, cartoons etc about Jews or Jew-Zionists on my blog (those remarks and cartoons being only a small part of the allegedly posted blog posts, and those five blog posts only 5 of over 1,700 posted since this blog started to operate in late 2016, over seven years ago).

As to my case itself, anyone interested might like to know that, though I am inclined to appeal the conviction (the trial was a couple of months ago), I shall only decide on that after the sentencing hearing.

If I do appeal, the appeal would be, in effect, a complete retrial, but this time in the Crown Court. There does exist another route of appeal, by “case stated” to the Divisional Court (i.e. High Court) on point of law, but I should probably take the more usual route if I do appeal, i.e. via the Crown Court. If that happens, the appeal might not be heard until late 2024, or even on some date in 2025.

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https://twitter.com/DefundIsraelNow/status/1746321843026571503

“They”, meaning (((they))), have thoroughly infiltrated the UK mass media, publishing etc over the past 75+ years. That applies even more to anything published about the Second World War, “holocaust” etc.

Ha ha. The Financial Times has lost all credibility in recent years, and politically is on or about the same level as someone such as Paul Mason. Pathetic.

Yemeni Houtis maintain offensive capabilities despite US bombing US and British forces in the Red Sea struck 30 targets of Yemen’s Houthis.

It is stated that “about 90 percent of targets were damaged or destroyed.” Lieutenant General Douglas Sims even states that “the strikes achieved their goal of crippling the Houthis’ ability to conduct sophisticated drone and missile attacks.”

At the same time, two American officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The New York Times that even after massive bombing, the Houthis retain “three-quarters of their offensive capabilities.”

“Locating Houthi targets has proven more difficult than expected,” as, according to the officials, “US and other Western intelligence agencies have not spent significant time or resources in recent years collecting data on the locations of Houthi air defenses, command centers, ammunition depots, as well as facilities for the storage and production of drones and missiles.” Currently, the Pentagon is forced to conduct an urgent analysis of the situation and literally in real time assign targets for troops to strike.

The USA has a short collective memory. “What goes around comes around”…

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/07/18/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away-ha-ha/.

You cannot compare the Israeli-Jew mindset with that of nominally Christian countries, or even that of the Soviet Union under Stalin; you have to revisit the Old Testament, in which the ancient Israelites wiped whole tribes and nations off the map.

So in just over three months, the Israeli war machine has killed or injured over 84,000 people, the vast majority civilians. It is worth remembering, also, that about half of those killed or injured have been under 18 years of age, and about half of those under 12 years of age. Israeli war crimes.

Those supporting those war crimes, and who are resident in the UK, France, USA, are also guilty.

I certainly disagree with the overall state of society in Russia (as well as in the UK and Western Europe, let alone USA etc), but the fact remains that Putin “bestrides the narrow world like a colossus” when compared to political pygmies such as Sunak, Starmer, Macron etc, and of course poor old dementia sufferer Biden.

If you would not have sympathy for predators and pillagers who get hurt trying to break into and enter your individual home, why would you sympathize with predators and pillagers trying to break into our collective home— “this England“?

Gonzalo Lira’s last public statement is chilling. He knew that if arrested, he would die in a Ukrainian prison. He pleaded for public outcry to put pressure on the U.S. State Department to do what it ordinarily does for American citizens trapped in these circumstances. But the outcry never came. The mainstream media ignored his story. So State Department officials were free to ignore the plight of a journalist who had criticized them. Gonzalo was abandoned.

And so the Ukrainian government could treat him as they wished, as they treat other dissenters and critics — with imprisonment, brutality and murder.”

I published Lira’s last tweet (before his final arrest) a few months ago on the blog. Sadly, it looks as though the brutal, murderous, corrupt yet shambolic Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev has finally killed him.

Meanwhile, Rishi Sunak, the little Indian money-juggler presently posing as UK Prime Minister, is just now gifting the Jew Zelensky another £2.5 BILLIONS of UK taxpayers’ money.

The Kiev regime is toast regardless of how many billions are thrown its way by Sunak, Biden etc. Its people are not reproducing themselves, its population numbers are collapsing, it has no volunteers asking to join its armed forces, only foreign mercenaries from poor parts of the world (the Western ones have all gone home or been killed off in battle), and the Kiev regime is press-ganging any Ukrainians able to walk and talk, regardless of health, fitness, and age (except the gilded offspring of the pseudo-elite).

“Ukraine”, the failed state, only keeps fighting because the UK, USA etc are supplying arms, ammunition, medical supplies, food, and vast amounts of UK/US/EU taxpayers’ money.

All the same, strategically, Ukraine has already lost. The failed 2023 summer counter-offensive proved that. Once the ground is hard, very soon, Russian armour will rule the land, as Russian air already rules the skies.

Ukraine’s electricity infrastructure is already largely shattered.

The Russian economy is doing better not only compared to the collapsed economy of Ukraine but also better than those of the UK, USA, and EU.

In any case, even if (which cannot now happen, realistically) the Kiev regime could contemplate advancing in eastern Ukraine or (impossible) southern Russia, Russia has devastating weapons which have not even been used yet, not least tactical and strategic nuclear weapons.

I repeat, “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime) simply cannot “win” this war.

Jesus H. Christ! There are still idiots, or maliciously tendentious types, like that Dominic Campbell tweeter, who can claim that Europe (inc. UK) is somehow better off because it is flooded by huge numbers of low-skilled, often hostile, immigrants. “Treason” is a word often bandied about carelessly, but what else is such deliberately misinformed and misinforming nonsense?

The said tweeter is obviously one of those who thinks himself part of a self-regarding “enlightened”/”woke” fake “elite”. Wrongly, at that.

Immigration is good for the ultra-wealthy, and exploitative transnational companies, because a larger population creates more consumer demand, and because pay rates and benefit rates are automatically lower as more potential workers flood in. For 99% of the population, though, mass immigration is a disaster.

We, the British people, do not need more “debate”, more research papers, more msm yapping on chat shows or Question Time, more pointless dialogue with idiots or enemies. We need political action to create an ethnostate.

I myself am already facing a sentencing hearing in court, after my recent political trial, for having published the truth about what is happening in our society. I therefore cannot speak freely. Read between the lines, dear blog readers…

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[pine martens in the New Forest]

Diary Blog, 19 November 2023, with brief reminiscence of Charleston, South Carolina, and mint juleps

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[“At the end stands Victory”]

Peter Hitchens

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/columnists/article-12765795/PETER-HITCHENS-Liberty-fought-tyranny-barely-noticed-court-hearing-week-believe-one-important-cases-time.html.

Liberty fought tyranny in the High Court in London last week, in what I believe is one of the most important court cases of our time. The issues were simple. Is it permissible to disagree publicly with the British Government‘s foreign policy?

If not, how much do you have to disagree with it to be in trouble? And can you then be severely punished without a proper trial?

I have a strong personal interest in this, since I often (in fact, almost always) disagree with British foreign policy. This frequently seems to have been made by bomb-happy teenagers who have never looked at a map, opened a history book or done any proper travel.

These are surely huge issues for any country. Apart from anything else, if foreign policy cannot be criticised, how long before domestic policy is protected in the same way?

[Mail on Sunday/Daily Mail]

Well worth reading.

[cf. my own trial, just now finished (at least at first instance)].

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From over a year ago but nothing has changed since then.

Anyone who thinks that misnamed “Labour” will be somehow better than the equally-misnamed “Conservatives” is self-deluding. Having said that, the “Con Party” does deserve to be stamped on and reduced to a tiny caucus at the 2024 General Election.

Stop the migration-invasion. Remove those not wanted in this country. Eliminate rogue landlords and buy-to-let parasites. Build decent homes for British people.

Bob Stewart was at least well-known. Any replacement will probably attract fewer votes even before the slide in Con Party fortunes is taken into account.

Beckenham has been a fairly safe Conservative seat since its creation in 1950. The Conservatives won easily even at the General Election of 1997, and the scandals around Piers Merchant [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Merchant] did not prevent his successor from winning the seat at the by-election (also in 1997): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beckenham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_1990s.

That it looks as if Beckenham will go Labour in 2024 is of wider significance, and underlines the almost existential crisis of the Conservative Party.

Another fact of straw-in-the-wind significance is that the likely new MP for Beckenham is one Marina Ahmad, a Bangladeshi who moved to the UK when 6 months old. The Great Replacement?…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Ahmad; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Stewart_(politician)[.

[Update, 13 October 2024: in the end, Marina Ahmad was shoved aside (I think after being labelled “antisemitic”) in favour of one Liam Conlon, the 30-something son of Keir Starmer’s collaborator, former civil servant and would-be queen bee, Sue Gray, who held the position of Chief of Staff at 10, Downing Street from July 2024 until (it seems) her interference and politicking made Starmer demote her and chuck her out of the first circle of power in October 2024. Conlon won the new Beckenham and Penge seat with 49.3% of the vote. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beckenham_and_Penge_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beckenham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2010s].

Mint julep

A word about a favourite drink, though one not had by me for some 20 years.

I must descant a little upon the mint julep, as it is… one of the most delightful and insinuating potations that was ever invented, and may be drunk with satisfaction when the thermometer is as low as 70 degrees.

There are many varieties, such as those composed of claret, Madeira, &c., but the ingredients of the real Mint Julep are as follows. I learned how to make them and succeeded pretty well. Put into a tumbler about a dozen sprigs of the tender shoots of mint, upon them put a spoonful of white sugar, and equal proportions of peach and common brandy, so as to fill it up one-third, or perhaps a little less.

Then take rasped or pounded ice, and fill up the tumbler. Epicures rub the lip of the tumbler with a piece of fresh pineapple, and the tumbler itself is very often incrusted outside with stalactites of ice.

As the ice melts, you drink.

I once overheard two ladies talking in the room next to me, and one of them said, “Well, if I have a weakness for any one thing, it is for a mint julep!”–a very amiable weakness, and proving her good sense and good taste. They are, in fact, like the American ladies–irresistible!

[Captain Marryatt— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Marryat].

The typical mint julep of today, however, uses quality Bourbon more often than peach brandy and cognac.

Dickens also enjoyed the odd mint julep: https://www.foodhistory.com/foodnotes/leftovers/bev/julep/01/.

[Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, and a giant mint julep]

Reminds me of happy times in Charleston, South Carolina, which I visited a few times in 2001 and 2002.

[Charleston S.C.]
[conservation district, Charleston S.C.]
[The Battery, Charleston S.C.; I stayed nearby]

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Diary Blog, 12 November 2023

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Battles past

Peter Hitchens

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12738547/PETER-HITCHENS-fiercest-critics-agree-time-make-peace-Ukraine.html

Worth reading.

From the newspapers

https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/straight-student-sobs-shes-jailed-28080284

Two women tried to cover up a brutal postcode stabbing by washing the killer’s blood splattered clothes as he ran home in his pants…Straight-A student Simmonds gasped and sobbed as she was jailed for nine months, while Johnson-Davies showed no emotion as she was jailed for 14 months.”

[My London]

Straight-A student“…meaning that she can spell “Nel-son-Man-de-la”…or something…

More of the fruits of “diversity”…

[the murderer— what use are they to our European society?]

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As Peter Hitchens writes, and as I have blogged previously, the police have, to a large extent, stopped doing their proper and previously-usual job, and started to be, quite consciously, a poundland KGB or poundland Stasi, enforcing politically and socially biased agendas on behalf of several special-interest groups, perhaps the worst being the Jewish lobby or Israel lobby..

Within a few days, I myself shall be defending a case brought —officially— by the CPS but procured from behind the scenes by the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” cabal of Zionist Jews and Israel propagandists.

I am unable to blog in detail about the several injustices around my upcoming trial, at least unable to do so until the trial ends (on or about 20 or 21 November 2023).

Rod Liddle

I do not usually agree, or disagree, with the shambolic mess that is Rod Liddle. As with what he has to say in that clip, I usually find that I can agree with some of what he says or writes, but also disagree with much, and often more.

My view is coloured by the perception that Rod Liddle is basically just not a good person. In other words, my view of him is determined not only by what he writes, or what he says on TV, but by what I think he is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Liddle.

Labour’s opinion poll lead

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12740065/Polls-Labour-Tory-Rishi-Sunak-Keir-Starmer-Gaza-Braverman-Blair.html

Polls show Labour lead stretching after week of damaging infighting over pro-Gaza protests and Covid inquiry… with fears Keir Starmer is on track for bigger majority than Tony Blair.”

[Daily Mail]

As often blogged previously in the past months, this situation has actually nothing much to do with Labour or Starmer, and everything to do with the fact that the once-great Conservative Party has been reduced to an incompetent snake-pit occupied mainly by careerist know-nothings, most of whom are not even British in any real sense.

Look at the past few years! First of all, the “panicdemic” or “scamdemic”, with its huge and unnecessary hit to the UK economy and society (don’t forget the latter). Vast sums spent on propaganda (including building pop-up “hospitals” that were never used, “test and trace” centres that were scarcely used, equipment that was mostly never used etc).

A Prime Minister who had no idea what to do, and so just did what sinister or crazy in-groups wanted: “SAGE”; Cummings, that cretin; Johnson’s own uneducated and foolish wife; over-promoted idiots of the Matt Hancock type.

Then we had that vacuous creature, Liz Truss, assisted by Woollyhead Trussbanger (Kwasi Kwarteng). 7 weeks of chaos.

Now we have, as supposed Prime Minister, Indian money-juggler Rishi Sunak, and a Cabinet such as has not been seen in the modern era, if ever— a collection of non-whites, Jews etc, few of whom are capable of running the whelk stall of popular perception.

The voters are mostly voting with their feet, not to Labour, as such, but away from any relationship with Sunak’s desperate rump of a party.

What lack of self-confidence has led the once-solid Conservative-voting ranks of (mostly) the South of England to accept as their MPs the likes of Suella Braverman, Kemi Badenoch etc? The idea that race and nation is irrelevant? The idea that someone such as (soon stepping down) Sajid Javid, a cultureless Pakistani obsessed by the worship of Jews, including the horrible “philosopher of selfishness”, “Ayn Rand” (Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum), might make a suitable prime minister?

I attribute much of that to the worship of money. Sajid Javid made millions by helping to run Deutsche Bank into the ground. Sunak worked for Goldman Sachs, and married an ultra-wealthy Indian woman. What though, of Suella Braverman, a mediocre —at best— former practising barrister? What of Kemi Badenoch, who (though born in London) only lived in the UK from age 16 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemi_Badenoch], and who only had a few fairly mediocre jobs?

The political crisis, a crisis of personnel largely, has come out of a race-culture crisis. British people are somehow embarrassed to express a wish for their leaders to even be, in any real sense, British.

Labour is no better, but the present Government is “Conservative”, at least in name. It is their General Election to lose, and it looks as though they are going to do that in style.

What is the present Sunak government actually doing that is good? Funnelling money and support to “Ukraine” (Zelensky’s regime) and Israel? Who in the UK, outside the special-interest cabals, wants that? Railways? Disastrous. Roads? Disastrous. Standards of living? Poor, and declining. Crime? The police are useless, the courts are useless. Immigration? Still they flood in…

Some, mainly elderly, people will still vote “Conservative” no matter what. Perhaps 20% of the whole. The rest will not.

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