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Diary Blog, 4 April 2026

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Saturday quiz

Well, this week brings a narrow victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored a modest 3/10; my score was 4/10, being questions 2, 4, 8 (an educated guess), and 10.

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Translates to a Commons with about 331 Reform UK MPs (small majority), 71 Greens (extremely weak official Opposition), 64 LibDems, 62 Cons, 50 Lab, 45 SNP [etc].

As in all other recent polls over the past couple of months, on those figures Starmer would lose his own seat.

Interesting. In the UK, you would probably get a response within an hour, or a few hours, or be directed to some online website, but nothing would actually be done for weeks, or months, if at all.

Historical note: “Eisenhower’s Holocaust – His Slaughter Of 1.7 Million Germans

https://rense.com/general46/germ.htm

Nick Griffin’s blog

https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/its-the-maps-stupid

Worth reading.

Talking point

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An American museum, established in New Orleans in 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_WWII_Museum.

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Starmer’s lukewarm stance or fencesitting stance re. Iran/Israel and the war will please few, if any.

Starmer is being pulled both ways, and his misgovernment is all over the place.

You read it here first (some time ago).

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[painting by Leonid Afremov]

Diary Blog, 4 September 2022

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On this day a year ago

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There was no need for sanctions against Russia, which hit Germany and the rest of Europe harder than they do Russia. Russia still stands ready to supply gas to Europe, but we cannot expect Russia to sit still while it is literally under attack by Western arms and ammunition supplied to the Kiev regime.

As to the water levels in the Rhine, let’s see what happens over the cooler months.

[Rhine]

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Just get rid of them, either out of the UK, or generally and permanently. The present System parties are not going to do either, of course.

I happened to be watching one of those police “reality” shows recently. They raided a house turned into a cannabis farm, and caught an Albanian who was apparently minding the crop for others higher up the food chain. He was charged, prosecuted, and pleaded guilty to “possession with intent to supply” the drug. His sentence? One year. Meaning out in 6 months. The police, CPS, and judiciary might as well not bother, and so save the State the money for [play-] acting in this farce. Alternatively, eliminate the criminal and anyone associated with him. In fact, the lot.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/20/who-is-graham-phillips-the-youtuber-accused-of-war-crimes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Phillips_(journalist).

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The “berk” in question is a science and law popularizer, a professor at the University of Alberta, apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Caulfield.

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[Pissarro, Avenue de’Opera in the rain]