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Diary Blog, 13 June 2026

Afternoon music

Saturday quiz

Well, this week 7/10 (two of which being “educated” guesses), thus trumping the 3/10 scored by political journalist John Rentoul. I did not know the answers to questions 4, 5, and 7.

Tweets seen

Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan. A global conspiracy.

[Kreisleitertagung auf der Ordensburg Vogelsang vom 22.-29.04.1937]
[girls of the BDM (Bund Deutscher Madel) riding in a German forest, 1930s]
[Hitler signs autographs for some young supporters near Berchtesgaden, 1930s]
[“The Fuhrer as friend of animals“]

Should read “...Muslims and Jews and the government“, of course…

Sophie Meaden. A young Valkyrie.

The bad-joke “Talk TV” online-only “television” channel, which not only crowed along with the malicious lying and perjuring Jews of the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” after my 2023 free speech trial and subsequent 2024 sentencing, but tweeted (completely wrongly and, indeed, libellously) that I had been “imprisoned“. In fact the penalty imposed on me was both a financial one (amounting to over £700), and also a fairly brief (in the event) and not too onerous “community order”: see

“Talk TV” is an Israel-lobby front, and often invites the liar and perjurer Stephen Silverman, of the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” fake “charity”, a volunteer arm (some of them are paid, in fact) of the Israeli Embassy in London.

Reverting to the Reform/Restore situation, my attitude to Restore is not very different to how I see Reform, i.e. a useful tool in moving the overall Overton Window, meaning moving the general weight or bias of public opinion. Even if Reform or Restore were to win a general election, the (((usual fix))) is already in, certainly in Reform, and possibly soon in Restore.

What matters is not the next GE, or which party “wins”, but what happens when the party that wins that GE is unable to improve the degenerating situation in this country, and so loses both credibility and control. Then…

Good point(s).

More good points. See also:

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For over 30 years, living standards in the corrupt and shambolic Ukrainian fake state have been declining. Only now, and only in the regions under Russian rule, are they starting to improve.

[“NEW: Bloomberg Saturday read

— Andy Burnham is planning to move quickly after Makerfield to secure a coronation. His supporters think John Healey’s resignation kills off Keir Starmer’s chances of survival. They think Wes Streeting and Al Carns don’t have the numbers, and that Burnham can quickly get 250+ Labour MPs and most of the cabinet to back him.

— Starmer insists he’ll fight, but the question is what the cabinet does. Burnham’s supporters want them to tell the PM to agree a handover. Before Healey resigned, Starmer’s allies hoped he could battle on because most of the cabinet would back him to stay. Aides suggest the calculus is changing and Healey’s brutal exit makes it more likely they tell Starmer it’s over.

— Even Starmer loyalists are very critical of the PM. They wish he’d been bolder, found the defence money from welfare, net zero or elsewhere, and sacked Ed Miliband. Several allies say they can’t believe Miliband and Shabana Mahmood (who they say privately plotted with Burnham and Miliband to oust Starmer) are still in the cabinet, but Healey isn’t. One says that’s the final evidence of his lack of authority, political judgment and decision-making ability.

— Starmer’s relationship with Rachel Reeves has been tested to the limit. Her resistance led Starmer to renege on his Munich speech and overrule Healey and Jonathan Powell. She effectively buried his survival strategy of focusing on security. Reeves allies argue it’s her job to make the numbers add up and if Starmer wanted more money for defence he could have imposed more departmental cuts but was unwilling.

— Burnham will not keep Reeves on as his chancellor, despite her allies pitching her to stay. Reappointing her would not be the change he’s promising, one Burnham supporter says. They say they spoke to Reeves around the locals and came away believing she would help them persuade Starmer to go, but she didn’t follow through.

— The turmoil is rattling UK allies. European diplomats contacted British counterparts in recent days complaining about the uncertainty over the UK’s defence spending plans, the slow pace of the uplift and Healey’s departure. They’ve also asked for information about Burnham’s plans for foreign policy and defence but got no answer.

— If Burnham does become PM he’ll face the same problems. His critics say he’s never uttered a word of substance on defence or foreign policy, shows no interest in it and has no plan. It is not impossible that in the next few months the British PM has to join negotiations with Putin over Ukraine. “Can you imagine Burnham doing that?” asks one official, especially with Powell likely to leave with Starmer.

— Starmer’s chaos also distracted from what might otherwise have been a bad week for Burnham. He got away with his WASPI gaffe thanks to Healey. Labour MPs are also critical of his plans on immigration. One aide said his proposal to end asylum hotel contracts and move responsibility for housing migrants to local authorities is amateurish and toxic.

— It all leaves Labour MPs in a state of total despair. Starmer looks finished but Burnham has no obvious plan and keeps making basic mistakes that foreshadow another troubled premiership, one said. If Burnham loses Makerfield, Labour appears to have no other options.“]

Interesting, but fails to make the point that any money spent on “defence” at this point is simply money thrown away.

The “threats” to our country and society do not come from Russia, not at all (that’s just msm propaganda nonsense) but from demographic change, the change from being a relatively civilized white European society to a multikulti dystopian mess, an approaching near-anarchy made worse by falling living standards and migration invasion.

Our animal friends.

Ed Miliband. That crazy Jew.

Incidentally, I have never found an answer as to where the family money came from. I have tried to analyze it on the blog previously. We are told that the Miliband father arrived in the UK during the early stages of WW2, young and as a “penniless” “refugee” who had lost his family wealth by reason of the “Nazis”. However, not long after WW2, in the 1950s, certainly by the early 1960s, the family (mother was also supposedly a “refugee”) was in a house in expensive Primrose Hill, and then in —really?— The Boltons, Kensington, one of the most expensive addresses in the country.

Did the Milibands, like so many Jews, have money secreted overseas/offshore? We do not know. What about today, in 2026?

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

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

I remember that, sometime around 2010 or 2012, Jeremy Paxman interviewed Ed Miliband, and made an oblique reference to the Miliband family wealth, but Miliband deflected and tried to laugh it off.

Many of Britain’s ultra-wealthy have considerable funds offshore.

Actually, on a personal and not directly-related point, I remember being told, prior to a flying visit to Liechtenstein in 2002, that the person I was flying out to see (you have to fly to Zurich and then drive to Vaduz, which takes another ~2-hours), a quintessentially-English-named Mr. Jeeves, who was in the offshore industry and was also the Honorary Consul (British Consul) in Liechtenstein, was also an agent of, or at least source for, SIS.

Mr. Jeeves apparently dealt with large amounts of offshore (i.e. tax-avoiding) monies on behalf of some very or ultra-wealthy British people, including the then Queen (Elizabeth II) and Mick Jagger. So I was told, anyway.

Looking up today, online, the global Jeeves Group, though, I notice that the person I went to see in 2002 is not now directly involved in operating the organization; he and his brother were at least in their sixties, I should imagine, and may well be deceased, 24 years after I met one of them.

Wouldn’t those “antifa” cretins get a massive shock if [REDACTED BY REASON OF UK POLICE-STATE CENSORSHIP]…

[“The British People are fully on board with deporting all illegal migrants. Good.

Now it’s time to turn to the reality that legal migration is the far bigger problem.

There are approx 14 million third-world descent migrants in Great Britain.

If we do not urgently reverse legal migration, we will soon become a minority in our homeland. We are already a minority in a quarter of schools.

Some might say that remigration is extreme, but I would argue that being willing to give up our only homeland is far, far more extreme.

Without the Native British People, there is no Britain.“]

Losing“? That boat sailed long ago, Goodwin. A major factor has been the promotion of mass immigration for 80+ years (mostly, though not entirely, by the Jewish element in politics, law, and the mainstream media).

Only wading through very unpleasant swamps will now save the British people, and I doubt that Reform UK is up to what may need to be done.

[“What’s living in the UK like? I’ll tell you. In the last week alone we have had to process:

-an attempted beheading by an illegal migrant from Sudan in Belfast
-while still trying to make sense of a boy, Henry Nowak, being stabbed to death while police were more anxious about allegations of “racism” than trying to save his life

-then we learn children in Scotland were assaulted by Bulgarians while the police didn’t believe them either
-while reading that a vulnerable 18-year-old was rped by an asylum-seeker from Pakistan -while an asylum-seeker from Iraq got only 6 years for rpe
-while an Iraqi national, was found guilty of eight counts of r*pe and grooming children as young as 12
-and his friend from Iran who arrived illegally skipped bail and is on the run
-and now we learn that a teenage girl has been stabbed in the neck by no doubt “a local man” in Burnley.

That’s one week in the UK. Oh, and the Left say talking about all this is “divisive”, they blame social media and Elon Musk, and local councils have told us not to fly our national flag because it might “intimidate” migrants. One week. The UK.”]

A couple of point: first, the “Bulgarians” mentioned were almost certainly Gypsies from Bulgaria, not ethnic Bulgarians. Bulgarians, like Romanians, are often tarred, very wrongly, with the brush that should be reserved for the Gypsy element from both countries.

Second, why does Goodwin never mention the fact that Jews such as now-dismissed p/t judge, barrister Simon Myerson of Leeds, have actually set up “charities” to import more Afghans etc?

In fact, Goodwin always avoids criticism of Israel and of any Jews (with the exception of the Green Party leader, Zack Polanski, but Polanski is one of those Jews other Jews love to hate).

In my view, one element that really does need to be addressed, urgently, by Government in the UK is not black or brown (etc)— the nasty Irish-origined tinker/”traveller” element. In fact, properly “addressing” that problem might encourage some of the blacks and browns (etc) to depart “voluntarily”.

Apocalypse Now

Saw a long recording of the final director’s cut of the famous film, Apocalypse Now. More than impressive, and makes much more sense than the usual much-cut-down version that I have seen in the past.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now#Apocalypse_Now_Final_Cut

Quite many films have been butchered; to what extent, you only understand once you see fuller versions: The Wicker Man (1973) is far far better in the rather longer versions. I once had a copy of the Director’s Cut version.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man#Director’s_cut

Same goes for Taxi Driver:

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

One film that I thought only just made sense when I first saw it in France is Les Rivieres pourpres. I read later that the director had cut out a high proportion of the film as originally made; as far as I know, no longer cut exists in the public domain.

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

A great pity.

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Look at them. As I suspected, not “Bulgarians” but Gypsies from Bulgaria.

Now, those little Scottish girls have been vindicated, the Gypsies convicted, and Police Scotland (and Humza Yusaf) shamed (yet again).

All the msm etc are talking about the Makerfield by-election as if the whole future of the UK rests on it. No, because even if Burnham wins, which is now probable though not certain, he has, and Labour has, nothing much in the tank. Same-old, really.

Good point.

People are getting desperate for a real Britain and a real British political vehicle. Unconsciously, they want social nationalism but are, by reason of a century of mostly Jewish anti-“Nazi” propaganda, mostly completely unaware of that.

I believe the graph. When I was in the Caribbean, I was told that, if a local (i.e. black) man marries a woman with existing teenage or even pre-teen daughters, it is almost expected that the girls come with their mother as a kind of sexual package deal for the man.

Incidentally, why do so many “woke” cretins not understand “per capita“? Must be an educational failure.

Not hard to believe at all. It is simply that Starmer-stein has outlived his usefulness by reason of not only his own incompetence but also that of his entire Labour Friends of Israel Cabinet.

By reason of Starmer’s failing credibility, the organ-grinders need a new monkey to draw in the punters…Arise, Andy Burnham…

Oh, I see that System mouthpiece and “asset” Paul Mason is there too. What a surprise…(use the search box on the blog to see my assessments of Mason).

Always. The “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, for example, has repeated “form” for claiming thousands on the streets at their events, when the true number has, at times, been no more than 100 or even 50.

I repost that tweet despite the individual in question having repeatedly tweeted against me a decade ago. #MoralHighGround.

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Diary Blog, 17 December 2024, with thoughts about Royal Mail, the Miliband family story, the Sara Sharif case, and homeschooling

Morning music

The “woke” police state, and homeschooling

https://www.itv.com/watch/news/englands-most-vulnerable-children-will-no-longer-automatically-eligible-for-homeschooling/hs59y96

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/17/home-schooling-laws-to-be-tightened-up-after-of-sara-sharif

In reality, the aim is to give indoctrinated local authority drones the power to refuse parents the right (it has been a right up to now) to homeschool their children. You can see the way this will go, eventually: parents who are labelled “racist”, “anti-Semitic” etc will be told to send their children to be brainwashed in State or other schools, or else.

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

You can see, in that ITV report, the dishonest way in which these things are presented; the introduction of the Bill in question conflated with the sentencing of the Pakistani family members who killed Sara Sharif, who was taken out of school 4 months prior to her murder.

Instead of shaking up the police and social services, which failed to do their job(s), this government has used the Sara Sharif case to drive forward its latest police-statist measures.

“Sara Sharif’s father and stepmother get life sentences –good riddance–but the real issue is how on earth authorities missed these FIFTEEN chances to intervene. How a system failed a child and why there must now be a national inquiry into Surrey/police/social services. Read this: 1. Jan 2013. Sara is allowed to remain with father at birth despite him having already been arrested for attacking 3 women and hitting and biting two children 2. Feb 2013. Month later, social services + police told he slapped child around face 3. May 2013. social worker spots burn on child’s leg. Father says “barbecue accident”. 4. Oct 2013. Child seen with burn mark from iron. Child tells social worker father punched mother. 5. Nov 2014. Sara taken into foster care after another bite mark but is RETURNED to father 6. Feb 2015. Child tells foster carer Sharif hit them with belt. But Sara returned to Sharif again. 7. May 2015. Sharif partner tells social workers he put belt around her neck. Social workers complain he is coercive. Sara put into mother’s care. 8. 2015. Sharif reported waving knife at home. Social workers report he abused his partner. 9. Dec 2016. “A child” tells social services they don’t like Sharif because he punches them and gives them bruises. Social workers observe Sara “flinch” when Sharif tells her off during supervised contact and seem “surprised” when he cuddles her 10. Oct 2019. Sharif applies for custody of Sara after claims of abuse by her mother. Sharif IS GIVEN CUSTODY OF SARA. Wtf. 11. Jun 2022. Teachers report Sara has bruises under eye. 12. March 2023. Teachers see more bruises. School makes referral. 6 days later social services “decide to take no further action”. 13. March 2023. Sharif’s new partner, Beinash Batool, is overheard calling children in the playground “motherfucker, sister fucker, bitch, whore” 14. March 2023. Sara face has new mark. Teacher records another safeguarding concern. 15. April 2023. Sharif decides to homeschool Sara. School do not make referral/share concerns. She is never seen outside her home again. Shame on all those involved. RIP Sara Sharif. https://thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/sara-sharif-what-happened-timeline-sqrnpwmtq

[Matt Goodwin]

Tweets seen

It underlines that Britain scarcely exists now as a nation. Everything up for sale to the highest bidder, whether the bidder is Arab, Jew, Chinese or, as in this case, Czech (if so).

Royal Mail. National Lottery. Water industry. Electrical power generation and distribution. Railways. You name it.

Russia has to make decisive moves to crush the Kiev regime before the end of 2025.

Liz Kendall. Yet another member of Labour Friends of Israel.

Political journalist and hardcore Blairite, John Rentoul, managing to get it wrong again…

The whole system is incestuous.

Ed Miliband and his even worse brother are, of course, Jews, Jews whose parents supposedly “fled Hitler”: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Miliband.

Said “flight from Hitler” occurred, we are told, “during the Second World War“.

The father, Ralph Miliband, real name Adolphe Miliband, was not only a Jew but a Marxist. He hated the British, despite having been harboured by them:

The Englishman is a rabid nationalist. They are perhaps the most nationalist people in the world … When you hear the English talk of this war you sometimes almost want them to lose it to show them how things are. They have the greatest contempt for the continent in general and for the French in particular. They didn’t like the French before the defeat … Since the defeat, they have the greatest contempt for the French Army … England first. This slogan is taken for granted by the English people as a whole. To lose their empire would be the worst possible humiliation.[14]

[Ralph Miliband, father of Ed and David Miliband, in his wartime diary, quoted on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Miliband#Early_years_in_Britain:_1940%E2%80%931959].

The mother of the brothers Miliband was one Marion Kozak, supposedly sheltered by Roman Catholic nuns and others during the wartime occupation of Poland. Having been born in 1934, she would have been 5 to 11 years old in those days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Kozak.

Ralph Miliband was eventually a lecturer and academic writer.

Puzzling. Here are two Jewish persons, one a teenager, one a young child, supposedly “fleeing” German forces and having, impliedly, lost everything, yet by the early 1960s they owned a house in the affluent enclave of Primrose Hill, London (a house still owned by David Miliband, though he lives mostly on the Upper West Side of Manhattan), and for a while lived in The Boltons, Kensington/Chelsea, one of the best addresses in London. How?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/nw1/edis-street.html

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/The-Boltons.html

Houses ranging, in 2024, from a couple of millions (Edis Street, Primrose Hill) to £30M (in The Boltons).

As so often, these “holocaust” and “holocaust” “survivor” tales really do not add up.

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If accurate, that means that the Kiev regime has lost 800 in 2 days in the Kursk region alone. No wonder Ukrainian men, young and middle-aged alike, are pulling out all the stops to avoid or evade the draft; it’s a death sentence.

Well, you know what to do about him…

Tel Aviv Keith.

[“No— wait! I voted Labour!“]

Late tweets seen

“Relatives of forcibly mobilized Ukrainians stormed the office of the Territorial Recruitment Center in Sumy. This scene is becoming increasingly common in the premises of military registration and mobilization departments across the country, as military commissars practically kidnap citizens on the streets.”

Notice how the many of the “recruitment” (press-gang) goons of the Kiev regime have to hide their faces. One day, they will decorate the local lamp-posts and trees, and they know it.

Final thoughts about the Sara Sharif case

Just read this report: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14201293/Sara-Sharif-father-stepmother-sentenced-years-prison-murder.html.

As I had wondered, the report details that the murdered little girl was half-European (Polish).

It is clear, at least to me, that a —perhaps the— key factor in the abuse was the Pakistani family’s hatred of the girl for one reason only, or rather two connected reasons, meaning because she was both half-European (i.e. white) and also more beautiful than the abusers or other members of the family, who were and are all Pakistanis.

Is there a wider point, a point about society generally here, i.e. that the non-Europeans we have allowed to settle here and breed in the past 60 years often hate us, and merely await the time when they can allow their true feelings to emerge?

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[El Greco, Adoration of the Name]

Diary Blog, 29 September 2024

Afternoon music

[Clare Bridge over the river Cam at Cambridge]

Tweets seen

Labour MP Rosie Duffield has resigned the Labour whip with immediate effect.

Her resignation pulls no punches:

“As Prime Minister, your managerial and technocratic approach, and lack of basic politics and political instincts, have come crashing down on us as a party after we worked so hard, promised so much, and waited a long fourteen years to be mandated by the British public to return to power

Since the change of government in July, the revelations of hypocrisy have been staggering and increasingly outrageous.

I cannot put into words how angry I and my colleagues are at your total lack of understanding about how you have made us all appear.

How dare you take our longed-for victory, the electorate’s sacred and precious trust, and throw it back in their individual faces and the faces of dedicated and hardworking Labour MPs?!

The sleaze, nepotism and apparent avarice are off the scale. I am so ashamed of what you and your inner circle have done to tarnish and humiliate our once proud party.”

I might not agree on everything with Rosie Duffield (specifically, her support for Israel and the Jewish lobby), but she certainly has principle. These days, in the political milieu, that is as rare and as valuable as rubies.

Starmer shows no embarrassment because he is not really a politician, let alone a statesman, but a technician, put into power by the Israel/Zionist/Jewish lobby to do a job: firstly to get rid of Corbyn and any non-Zionists in Labour, secondly to impose the ZOG/NWO regime, meaning pro-Israel and pro-“Ukraine” (the Zelensky Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev) internationally, and a kind of “great reset” domestically; thirdly, to destroy what little free speech and freedom of expression still exists in the UK, fourthly, to impose a “woke” dictatorship intent on shipping into the UK as many non-whites as possible.

Interesting. Something of which I was previously unaware. I suppose it might just be co-incidence, but there so often do seem to be so many “co-incidences”…

I think that it goes deeper than that.

That kind of Jewish lobby (which after 1948 became also an Israel/State of Israel lobby) did exist prior to WW2. Churchill was its main agent; but it did not really or fully embed itself until after 1989, in the 1990s. Blair was, in this as in so many other negative things, the one who opened up the portal of darkness.

Ha. Seems that her principles do not extend as far as giving up, or risking having to give up, the pay and perks of an MP. She understands all too well that, in a rigged system like this, the voting masses only vote for a label, at least 99% of the time. Which makes me wonder why she has left Labour. Maybe she will jump to Reform UK. Seems unlikely, though, especially in view of her solid electoral support at GE 2024— 41.4%, with Cons second on 23%.

I was just looking at Rosie Duffield’s bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_Duffield. Not very impressive; not at all. The main thing that stands out is her pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby stance. I have noticed that the prolific and fanatical Jewish tweeters on Twitter/X always support her— a very bad sign.

Rosie Duffield cannot return to a well-paid outside profession or career, because she never had one. She dropped out of school at 16, and her main activity apart from being a mother was as a teaching assistant for a number of years. She was 46 when she became an MP in 2017.

Maybe Rosie Duffield, in the end, is just quite genuinely horrified by the evident unfitness of Starmer-Labour, and has simply decided to sit it out as an MP for the next 4+ years and then either not stand for re-election or maybe stand for Reform UK or as Independent. She might yet have a chance if she goes to Reform and if Reform is by then the main challenging party.

She is older than she looks and (born 1971) is now 53. By 2029, she will be 58. Perhaps she has little interest in continuing beyond that point.

As for Starmer, I said on the blog, about a week or so after GE 2024, that he had already failed in government.

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Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s main opposition party, the CDU, said that “Ukraine can never defeat Russia, and that was never the goal.” In an interview with Bild, he said that the allies are helping Ukraine “not to lose the war.”

Asked whether Ukraine should win the war, he replied: ” Ukraine will never be able to defeat Russia, that was never the goal. But for me victory means: it must restore sovereignty over its territory. And Russia must stop attacking this country. We must do everything to make Russia consider the continuation of the war hopeless. But we are quite far from that.”

https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/anonymous-zoomer-its-impossible-to?r=6g7nl

That horrible creature of Evil, Jacinda Ardern, has been a major player in the attempt to create a world anti-white, anti-free speech dictatorship. New Zealand may be far away from almost everywhere but until about 30 years ago was an almost entirely English/Scottish new-ish society. That, of course, had to be trashed… How did they do it? Same as everywhere else of importance— imported non-white populations, and destroyed free speech.

People talk a lot of nonsense about how the white settlers took over the existing Maori state in the 19thC. There is of course a kernel of truth in that, but the main Maori invasion and/or settlement was in the 14thC AD, only c.400 years before the white European settlement. In any case, after the Europeans and Maori came to agreement, New Zealand was a progressive and peaceful society until the late 20thC.

Jacinda Ardern worked at a fairly high level for the UK Labour Party under Blair-Brown for 1-2 years before relocating back to New Zealand.

15 years as MP, of which about 6 were also years as Prime Minister (2017-2023).

One puzzling aspect of Jacinda Ardern’s political regime is that she came to power as Prime Minister with a rather small amount of capital, yet is now said to be worth tens of millions of NZ dollars. How?

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Anyone who has lived in the USA knows to what extent the Israel/Zionist/Jewish lobby controls the major parts of the news media (TV stations, radio stations, the newspapers, magazines etc). I do not hear John Kerry talking about that, though…

While admittedly not germane to the tweet above, I do find it puzzling that the parents of Ed and David Miliband were supposedly “poor refugees” “fleeing” “Nazi-ism”, so how did they obviously have so much money?

Miliband was born in the Fitzrovia district of Central London to Polish Jewish immigrants Marion Kozak and Ralph Miliband, a Marxist intellectual and native of Brussels who fled Belgium during World War II. He graduated from Corpus Christi College, Oxford and later from the London School of Economics.”

[Wikipedia]

Belgian-born Marxist sociologist Ralph Miliband and Polish-born Marion Kozak [were] both from Polish Jewish families.[1][7][8] The latter was a teacher before she became a homemaker. He was given the middle name of “Wright” after the American sociologist C. Wright Mills, a friend of his father.[9] He has said “I am the child of Jewish immigrants and that is a very important part of my identity.”[7]

Both his Polish Jewish paternal grandparents lived in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw. His paternal grandfather, Samuel, a trained leather worker, served in the Red Army in the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921 before moving to Belgium.[10][11] His paternal grandmother, Renia (later known as Renée), also moved to Belgium, where she first met Sam, and the couple married in 1923.[12]

The German invasion of Belgium in May 1940 split the Miliband family in half: Ralph and father Samuel fled to England,[13] while Ralph’s mother Renée and baby sister Nan stayed behind for the duration of the war. They were not reunited until 1950.”

[Wikipedia]

Miliband’s parents grew up in the impoverished Jewish quarter of Warsaw, Poland. His father Samuel Miliband (1895–1966) was a member of the socialist Jewish Labour Bund in Warsaw.[11]

[Wikipedia]

Ralph married Polish-born Marion Kozak in September 1961.[25] She was the daughter of a steel manufacturer, David Kozak, with a Polish Jewish heritage, and also one of his former students at the LSE. They made a home in Primrose Hill, and later in Bolton Gardens, South Kensington, and had two sons, David in 1965 and Edward in 1969.

So they flee penniless, supposedly, from mainland Europe, and not only get jobs in London; they have a house or apartment (I think house), firstly in the affluent area of Primrose Hill, and then in the extremely affluent/wealthy area of The Boltons, in South Kensington.

Even in the 1950s and 1960s, those were very expensive areas.

Moreover, their two children both go to university, and not just any university but Oxford (Corpus Christi).

Ed Miliband had so much money that, when he became Labour Party leader, Jeremy Paxman actually taxed him in interview with the question as to whether he had ever had trouble paying a bill. He floundered.

I suppose that the riches came from the maternal side: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Kozak#Early_life_and_education

Puzzling all the same. We always hear how the “Nazis” confiscated all Jewish property. Does that mean that those Jews had riches stashed in other countries? If so, at least some “Nazi” propaganda would seem to be based on truth…

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She does not sound at all intelligent (whoever she is).

Are there only about 20 people at that conference?

Make that 120…

If you take away the msm scribblers and photographers, maybe 20 Young (not to say “callow”) Conservatives…

Labour are rubbish (and malicious), the equally-fake Conservative Party is equally-rubbish (the only reason Labour are in government is because almost all voters wanted the Cons out rather than Lab in).

People are looking for a new way forward. At present, only Reform UK, more or less “controlled opposition”, is looking likely to be able to mount an electoral challenge of any significance any time soon, but what Britain really needs is social nationalism.

Benedict Pringle— I write about political marketing” (apparently). So learn when to use and when not to use an apostrophe!

Stray thought

Watched something called Abandoned Railways from Above. https://www.channel4.com/programmes/abandoned-railways-from-above.

The episode I saw was about the Varsity Line, of which I knew a little already. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varsity_Line.

I like that kind of aerial travelogue, and this one was done reasonably well, except that the (Northern English) voiceover insisted on using the term “Nazi” when she meant “German“, as in potential “Nazi invasion” of the UK, or “Nazi bombs” falling on this or that city. I was glad, though, to see/hear the amusingly nerdy young custodian (?) or historian at Bletchley Park refer, correctly, to the encrypted matter and codes being studied as “German“, rather than “Nazi“.

Late tweets

In the time of the Reich, the untermensch would have been guillotined.

“Populism” is not enough. It may be a way-station en route to social nationalism, though. “Overton window” etc…

Late music

[Victor Ostrovsky, Spy Games]