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Diary Blog, 24 July 2025

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[Clare Bridge, river Cam at Cambridge]

Stray thought

I wonder whether the vitriol he has recently been experiencing from the Zionist Jews has woken James O’Brien up a little to the menace to free speech that they represent?

Tweets seen

Israeli war crimes. Whether the overall war on civilians be called or labelled a “genocide” or not is almost immaterial. The cruelty and/or sadistic brutality of the Israeli Jews (and that of the Jew-Zionist support cabals in Europe, North America etc) speaks for itself.

“Rubio is a staunch supporter of Israel. He is a co-sponsor of a Senate resolution expressing objection to the UN Security Council Resolution 2334, which condemned Israeli settlement building in the occupied Palestinian territories as a violation of international law.[328] Rubio condemned Hamas’s October 2023 attack on Israel and expressed his support for Israel and its right to self-defense.[329] He called for the complete eradication of Hamas in Gaza.[330] When asked if there was a way to stop Hamas without causing massive civilian casualties in Gaza,[331] Rubio said Israel cannot coexist “with these savages…. They have to be eradicated.”[332]

[Wikipedia]

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

A bloody Cuban.

Rubio is a semi-lunatic and, like almost all prominent American politicians, a puppet of Israel and the American Jewish lobby.

[“An Israeli official told the Jerusalem Post: “Turkey’s agreement to purchase 40 Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets isn’t a game-changing threat to our Air Force. The Typhoon is a capable but not superior aircraft compared to our fighter jets. But it’s a clear and worrying signal that Turkey is accelerating its arms buildup in a way that could eventually challenge Israel’s military edge in the region. The deal isn’t an immediate threat, but still a headache for Israel”.]

This is the sort of thing that matters, not well-meaning people holding up placards in the UK to protest against the evil actions of the Israeli Jews in Gaza or the West Bank.

Eventually, both Turkey and Iran will have the means available to stamp on Israel and kill it off, very likely, notwithstanding Israel’s nuclear capabilities. Iran’s power rests, at long distance, on missiles, presently conventional, but perhaps eventually nuclear; Turkey’s power rests mainly on very powerful, and becoming more powerful, conventional forces; millions of soldiers, 2,500 tanks, and ever-more-powerful military air fleets.

I fully expect the Jews to be driven out of the Middle East eventually, but that will not, of course, be the final chapter.

Does Trump really think it effective grand strategy to threaten Russia, China, and Brazil (among other states) at the same time?

[“Peter Kyle – Labour MP for Hove and Portslade (East Sussex). Peter has been an MP for ten years and is now the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology. Peter previously worked for children’s charities and helped set up an orphanage in Rumania. He held senior positions while Labour were in opposition. Peter is also a Parliamentary ‘officer’ and Vice Chair of Labour Friends of Israel. Peter was a persistent critic of Jeremy Corbyn when he was leader of the party. The @ElectoralCommUK donations page shows that Peter has received £270,596.59 in donations and perks. In 2023/24/25 these have included: £118,433.22 from the Labour donor, banker and founder of Albourne Partners Simon Ruddick. £16,000 from international banker Anthony Watson. £13,000 from the @CWU, £99.840 from @PublicDigitalHQ to cover a staff secondment. The individual concerned was a ‘policy fellow’ at the Trevor Chinn funded/Morgan McSweeney run consortium; @LabourTogether £5,000 from banker and Chief Executive of Coutts & Co. Michael Morley £5,000 from Baron Patrick Carter. £15,000 from Simon Kime. £10,000 from Labour donor Lord Matthew Oakenshott. £10,000 from political donor Susan Ruddick. £13,665.57 from Lord David Sainsbury for international trips by air and on the Eurostar. £3,584 in hospitality and tickets from The Football Association for the Brit Awards and Taylor Swift and Madonna concerts.£1,835 from @SkyArts for hospitality and tickets to various events. £2,758.95 from the intelligence linked firm @HakluytCompany for a trip to San Francisco to meet with personnel from the tech industry. With his £93,904 salary, expenses, allowances, perks and very generous donations, there’s no doubt that Peter is living the good life as a Labour MP. ‘Poverty in Hove, part of Brighton & Hove, is a significant issue, with child poverty rates being a particular concern…Brighton & Hove has higher levels of pensioner poverty than the national average and contains the ward with the highest level of pensioner poverty.’ On 9th July 2025, Peter voted for the welfare/PIP cuts that will result in further distress and hardship for people who are disabled and unwell. Peter also voted to scrap the #WinterFuelPayment to pensioners and voted to retain the two child benefit cap which ‘significantly contributes to child poverty’ in the UK. @UKLabour @peterkyle.”]

“Oakeshott”, not “Oakenshott“, though [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Oakeshott,_Baron_Oakeshott_of_Seagrove_Bay].

Peter Kyle, MP for Hove and Portslade, is a typical member of the present Labour Friends of Israel government (arguably the least competent UK government in memory). A freeloader, out for what he can grab.

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

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[elevated view of Stratford-upon-Avon; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratford-upon-Avon]

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…and which (((group))) is pushing that the hardest, at root?

…which many will misuse in order to commit street crime, shoplifting, sexual offences etc.

I had already considered that possibility. Would probably give Reform over 300 —maybe even 350— MPs, Labour perhaps 100, Cons and LibDems about 75 each, and the new “Corbyn” party maybe (at most) 10. Something like that. Not as much difference as one might have imagined, but cementing Reform’s presently-likely triumph.

Late tweets seen

[“Everything Corbyn always was in a nutshell. Never a leader, always an activist. And whilst I think Gaza is an abomination and tragedy beyond measure and I personally would’ve both suspended arms to Israel and sent the Israeli Ambo home by now, it does not belong in the mission statement of a new British party. He’s had a lifelong obsession with Palestine and lost his political career over anti-Semitism. It will continue to cost him. Who isn’t in favour of helping Gaza? Nobody.”]

“Who isn’t in favour of helping Gaza? Nobody.”

Really? Nobody?!

The lady tweeter seems to have forgotten about Israel, certainly the Netanyahu government, almost certainly most of the Israeli Jews, and (probably) most of the Jews in the UK and elsewhere.

As far as Corbyn being an “antisemite” is concerned, I wish he had been; he might then not have been so easily removed by a conspiracy consisting of Labour Friends of Israel MPs, murky Jew-Zionist orgs circling like vultures overhead, and Israel-lobby msm scribblers, talking heads etc; also, pro-Israel mass media platform-owners such as Murdoch, Desmond and others …

From my perspective, Corbyn is not really “antisemitic” at all, or only marginally.

“Wow” indeed…if that opinion poll is accurate (and it may be), Reform would get 436 MPs at a general election (a Commons majority of 110), Labour 78, LibDems 55, SNP 37, Cons 15, Greens 4 (etc).

Any result like that would certainly spell the end of the long-lived Con Party, would knock the stuffing out of Labour, and would write Reform UK a blank cheque (subject only to the House of Lords, where Reform has no peers at all, out of 836 peers at present. However, Farage could just create hundreds of new Reform peers, or simply abolish the Lords).

Among the hundreds of Labour MPs who would be booted out would be Stephen Kinnock, Angela Rayner, Dan Jarvis, Jess Phillips, Ed Miliband, Luke Akehurst, Stephen Timms, Andrew Gwynne, Bridget Phillipson, Liz Kendall, Nia Griffith, Maria Eagle, Angela Eagle, Lucy Powell, Yvette Cooper, Anna Turley, Paul Waugh, Sarah Champion, Kim Leadbeater, Gareth Snell, Torsten Bell, Emma Reynolds, Wes Streeting etc.

Interestingly, Starmer-stein might survive, but no doubt would resign as Labour leader. He would not be interested in staying on anyway.

Prominent Cons in the bin would include Dunce Duncan Smith, Mel Stride (the Con “moderates'” great white hope), Kemi Badenoch (present Con leader and “great non-white hopeless”), Suella Braverman, Jesse Norman, Oliver Dowden, Julian Lewis, Desmond Swayne (my own local MP, and entirely useless, though I do not disagree with him on everything), Jewish-lobby puppet Robert Jenrick, Rishi Sunak, Mark Francois, Andrew Rosindell, the deadhead Gavin Williamson, “chocolate soldier” Tom Tugendhat, Nick Timothy, James Cleverly, Alex Burghart, David Davis, Jewish-lobby minor puppet Alec Shelbrooke etc.

Some LibDems and Greens would also be binned, but none of them is of the slightest consequence.

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html

If “Carpetbagger Kemi” does that, the Con Party, presently on 16% public support (almost all of which consists of people over State Pension age), will fall to 6%. Oblivion.

Incidentally, David Gauke, yet another puppet of the Jewish lobby, yet another expenses cheat, yet another shameless freeloader, was chucked out of Parliament in 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gauke; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_West_Hertfordshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2010s.

I sometimes feel ashamed at my country these days, once a world leader, once ruler of a great empire, when I see the new trains, train lines, bridges, roads, cityscapes etc in China, Russia, and even some parts of Europe, as compared to the UK. (ps. I regard Russia as sui generis, not —as such— part of either Europe or Asia).

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Diary Blog, 27 June 2020

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Alison Chabloz

Some of my blog readers will have read my previous blog posts about the lengthy persecution, by a Jew-Zionist cabal gathered around the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”], of the satirical singer-songwriter, Alison Chabloz.

It now appears that the latest malicious CAA attempt to get Alison sent to prison, this time for “breach of condition” (the condition being part of her 2018 suspended sentence) has failed. I shall be blogging more fully about this victory for Alison. In the meantime, it is now confirmed that the Crown Prosecution Service [CPS] has decided not to offer any evidence against her at the appeal which had been set down for hearing at Derby Crown Court on 10 July 2020. The matter will now be withdrawn from the list. In other words, the CPS has given up, and Alison has won.

“They” will be tearing their hair out! I do not mean the CPS, primarily, but (((them)))…

[above: satirical singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz at the piano]

Robert Jenrick

That little pissant, Robert Jenrick, he of the many houses and the Jewish corporate-lawyer wife, is now in trouble again, having already been caught out in Conservative Party-linked corruption in respect of the Jew billionaire Richard Desmond.

Once again an ultra-weathy Jew, this time with an Israeli passport:

“Labour has called on the beleaguered housing secretary, Robert Jenrick, to explain a ministerial meeting with a “family friend” who had a financial interest in the future of a rival mining project that Jenrick was overseeing.

The Guardian revealed this week that Jenrick met the Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer while the then exchequer secretary to the Treasury was considering a request for financial support from Sirius Minerals for a mining project that would have rivalled Ofer’s own firm Cleveland Potash.”

“Labour has already reported Jenrick to parliament’s watchdog over separate claims about his relationship to the Conservative donor Richard Desmond while serving in his current role as housing secretary. Jenrick appeared to have acted “on direct instruction” from Desmond, Labour said, saving the property and media tycoon tens of millions of pounds on a £1bn property development in east London.” [The Guardian]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/27/robert-jenrick-admits-israeli-billionaire-in-donor-row-is-family-friend

“As exchequer secretary, [Jenrick] presided over Sirius Minerals’ application for financial support for at least six months after meeting with Ofer, before handing responsibility for the project to Liz Truss in early 2019.

In March 2019, one of Ofer’s other UK firms, the Mayfair-based Quantum Pacific UK Corporation, donated to the Conservative party for the first and only time, giving the party £10,000 in March 2019.

Ofer has said the request for the donation came at the behest of Conservative Friends of Israel and was not discussed with Jenrick, who is a member of the group.

Six months later, in September 2019, Sirius Minerals revealed that the government had refused to provide financial support, a decision that in effect left the company on the brink of financial collapse.

Sirius was eventually bought out in a cut-price deal by the mining firm Anglo American in January 2020, wiping out the shareholdings of hundreds of small investors. Some lost most of their life savings because of the collapse, which Sirius Minerals said would not have happened if the government had supported the project.” [The Guardian].

So…Jewish financial manipulation, leading to small (non-Jew) shareholders losing their investments and in some cases their life savings. Now where have I heard that before?…

Somewhere like that, I expect…

So Jenrick has a Jewish wife, children he is bringing up as Jewish, and he belongs to both Conservative Friends of Israel and to a Cabinet in which most of if not all of the ministers are Jewish, part-Jew, pro-Israel, members of Conservative Friends of Israel, and/or have worked as bankers in the past. Added to all that, it seems that Jenrick’s “family friends” are all ultra-wealthy Jews as well!

Even Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, itself now under the Jew-Zionist thumb, has started to criticize Jenrick. I suppose that he has gone too far.

After all, the Israelis themselves have, in the recent past, tried both the President of Israel and its Prime Minister for corruption. A race of con-men, to a large extent.

Free speech and freedom of expression

Yesterday, I touched yet again on the important subject of free speech, by which I mean freedom of expression on social, political, religious and historical topics. I noted that Oliver Kamm was a hypocrite and, in my opinion, a liar, in constantly saying that he supports free speech, when he applauded my 2016 disbarment (I was disbarred for having spoken the truth in tweets), and when he thinks that platforms online and offline should be closed to anyone deemed “anti-Semitic”.

Well, here’s another example.

I refer not to the writer of that article, nor to tweeter “Thane Prince”/”@ThanePrince”, but to one Matthew Scott, a barrister who tweets under the name “@Barristerblog”. This Scott today retweeted the above tweet and article. So far so good. However, when I was disbarred, not only did Scott join in the (mostly Jewish) mob pile-on, attacking me, but went out of his way to insult me when I took up the matter with him on Twitter (I had a Twitter account then; the Jewish cabal on Twitter finally managed to get me expelled in 2018). Scott, among others, was gratuitously rude. Yet here is Scott, just like Kamm, pretending to support free speech. When it suits…

Another bloody hypocrite… It’s pervasive.

Politicized police

More accurately, “socio-politicized police”, who are most at home on “Pride” marches, or bending the knee in sign of fealty (or surrender) to the mob (so long as said mob is black, brown, or multikulti). Oh, but give them a “hate crime” (someone speaking the truth) on Twitter or Facebook, and they are out of their kennels faster than a dog after the hare!

[“police” car in toytown UK]

Some of the replies to that tweet are amusing, some despairing…

Some tweets seen today

The above tweet from BBC drone Jeremy Vine is of course correct. There was always the fact that people with family or similar money (provided by gift, loan, or inheritance) had a far easier time buying real property than those without such help. The latter either had to win a large sum, somehow, or have a job or profession in which it was possible to make a fairly large or at least adequate income.

All the same, there were various forms of help in the 1950s through to the 1980s. The first of these was an economy in which almost-full employment was the norm. Until the late 1970s, a base-level job could be had for the asking. Mass immigration was not such a factor, and labour was required.

Few people in the 1960s or 1970s would have believed that, 30, 40, 50 years down the line, anyone wanting a quite standard job such as dustman, worker in a shop, salesman, or even cleaner, would need a “CV”! Few would have believed that a “degree” from a “university” would be so common that it would almost be the default position. Neither would they have believed that almost everyone who took a “degree” would get a “First” or a “2:1” (at Oxford University now, 93%!); nor would they have believed that, as the supply of “graduates” from McUniversities became a flood, that the demand for graduates would become a trickle, relatively; that there would be a bottleneck resulting in low pay, and graduates getting jobs in warehouses and cafes on minimum wage.

Then there were other factors: the MIRAS scheme, which allowed people to deduct mortgage payments from taxable income; the Thatcher “Right to Buy” council house scheme (which in the long run has proven disastrous but at the time created a “feel-good” atmosphere of tenants buying their council houses at a heavy discount, which houses, over time, became valuable assets).

Now we see 2020: for most young people without family money, and that does mean most young people, the idea or dream of being able to buy a house, even with a mortgage, is a non-starter.

The other factor is cost. Britain has invested its money in property rather than whatever else. The semi-detached Victorian villa in Little Venice, London, where I spent many years on and off from 1976 to 1998, and which a friend had bought from her original lessors (the Church Commissioners) for a discounted £66,000 (the full value then, in about 1979, being £100,000), is now valued (looking at similar ones in the same road) at somewhere between £3 million and £4 million!

The exploding price of residential property in the UK over the past decades and especially since about 2000, has made owning even a modest house an impossible dream for many. Especially most of the under-30s. This will have political consequences.

Other tweets seen today

…and that tweeter claims to be a physicist!

Sarah Vine; Douglas Murray

I would not usually repost anything by either of the above, but Murray’s article on the Cambridge University scandal is worth a look:

Schools re-opening

I cannot really understand why there is such a fuss about re-opening the schools. I am constantly surprised to find that I have, once again, underestimated the huge ignorance in this country. Most people seem to spend what is now a mandatory 13 years in full-time education, with many then doing another 3 years (4 years in some cases in England and Wales, and I believe usually 4 years in Scotland) without actually knowing very much.

When we see anyone over 18, and under the age of about 30, that person has spent about 13 years in education (with a few vocational exceptions); about half have also done the extra 3-4 years mentioned above; yet the educational level, even of many “university graduates” is low, on average.

This is not a problem confined to the “McUniversities”, the redbricks, or any other tranche. Oxford is just as bad. For example, Louise Mensch, the crazed one-time chicklit scribbler (and, briefly, MP), who was at Oxford, is one of the least informed, least educated of the semi-“celebrity” Twitterati.

[above: one-time Conservative Party MP, Louise Mensch, smoking drugs]

I have often wondered what schools in the UK are for, really. There are years of language teaching, yet few British people speak even a rudimentary version of any foreign language, years of mathematics teaching, yet the level in the population is, at best, basic. As for History, Geography etc, don’t ask…

Are schools valued as a kind of “warehousing”, while the parents are occupied at work? Is that it?

Newspaper quiz

I tried this quiz. Got 7 out of 10, so room for improvement, but I feel a bit better having seen that political commentator John Rentoul only managed 5.

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Those questions are not very taxing; about the level of The Chase on TV.

Jew, disappointed

https://twitter.com/nathanjoseph198/status/1276972934658232321?s=20

“Nate#protected”/”@NathanJoseph” has obviously not heard the news. Alison Chabloz has —in effect— won her appeal, in that the CPS have thrown in the towel. There will now not even be a hearing. Alison is home free, finally, in relation to the fallout from her 2018 trial. Bitter herbs for some…

More tweets seen

https://twitter.com/MarkACollett/status/1276798734395830272?s=20

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Diary Blog, 16-17 June 2020

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The msm are mostly still parrotting the line that “Coronavirus” caused the impending UK economic and social tsunami, when in fact it was the “lockdown” (shutdown) that (mostly) caused it and is still causing it (and don’t be duped into thinking that a few thousand fat young women poured into tight jeans and lining up outside Primark (desperate, presumably, to buy a larger size?) will make much difference.

Some commentators are belatedly forecasting 3 million unemployed, one or two are going as high as ten million.

Meanwhile, an opinion poll says that a third of the whole UK population are too scared to leave their houses! All because of a propaganda campaign which has been, arguably, the biggest farrago of untrue nonsense since the non-existent “gas chambers” of the “holocaust” narrative.

It recalls to my mind a weekend I once spent with the British Army, over 30 years ago, and “somewhere in Kent”. A mixed male/female group. We had to do exercises such as one where an area of woodland had been marked out with tape. This was “contaminated ground” and we had to work out weird and wonderful ways of crossing that area without touching the ground.

It was all taken very seriously by the attendees, all of us dressed in olive-green jump suits and with a number on the front and back. I think that mine was 22, or perhaps 21. People were only addressed by their number, not by name. That was a rule. Another was that the “contaminated ground” was to be treated as if real, though we knew that it was not.

That is “lockdown”, with its crazy rules that are mostly senseless, in accord with the make-believe “facts” about the “virus”.

You have to keep 6 feet apart at all times, and (until very recently) not drive (even in a sealed car) anywhere beyond X-miles from your home (the distance not specified but to be decided by any stray motorized Plods that you may encounter en route).

You can (now) go to Bicester Village shopping outlet with a thousand or more other shoppers inches apart, but you may not visit any friends or family not in your designated “bubble” (the details of which only you know about and no policemen can know about and so cannot enforce even if there were enough Plods to do so).

You must wear a facemask on buses, trains, or in hospitals, but only in England (not in Scotland or Wales), and no-one (in England) not wearing a mask or similar can use a bus or a hospital (but shops are OK…). Oh, and the World Health Organization said (until last week) that facemasks were unnecessary for most people. Still, “rules are rules”, so all wear one anyway, then go stand outside your houses and clap like complete idiots to show that you are good citizens or whatever…

If you are a Brit living overseas, or a foreign visitor, you can come to the UK, so long as you promise on Bible, Koran, Torah or the Selected Works of Marx that you will “self-isolate” for two weeks, and at an address which you will provide to immigration officials (no proof required) at Heathrow on arrival. Priti Patel truly is as thick as two short planks.

The whole thing has just become madder and madder.

Talking of madness…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8424625/Topple-Racists-says-colonial-warmonger-Sir-Arthur-Bomber-Harris-removed.html

I myself would not object to the removal of the Bomber Harris statue, partly because he was —even bearing in mind the terrible war in which he led a major contingent— something akin to a mass murderer; partly because the statue is not so old (1990).

The mad thing is that the “Black Lives Matter” idiots want Harris’s statue taken down not because the bombing campaign Harris led in the years 1941-1945 was a major factor, probably the major factor, in the killing of an estimated 800,000 German civilians during the Second World War, but because Harris spent 5 years in Rhodesia (when aged 17-22) and so was a “colonialist”! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet

[above: ruined Dresden, 1945, after British bombing destroyed the city]

More “anti-racist” nonsense

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8423841/Disgraced-ex-MP-Fiona-Onasanya-slams-Kelloggs-using-MONKEY-mascot-Coco-Pops.html

I had wondered what Fiona Onasanya was up to. I suppose she is on the dole now, and trying to latch onto some (paid) role in the “Black Lives Matter” contrived “movement”. I blogged about her last year:

https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2018/12/21/deadhead-mps-an-occasional-series-the-fiona-onasanya-story/

Some interesting tweets seen this morning

: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident#Ongoing_controversy_and_unresolved_questions

https://twitter.com/PanNationalist/status/1272560246314196992?s=20

Click to access Camp_of_the_Saints.pdf

Robert Jenrick

That little pissant, Robert Jenrick, is in trouble.

“A minister admitted last night he knew he was saving a Tory donor tens of millions of pounds in approving a £1billion property scheme.

Robert Jenrick faces claims of ‘cash for favours’ over his dealings with former newspaper tycoon Richard Desmond.

He over-ruled the local council and a planning inspector a day before the introduction of a community levy that would have cost the billionaire between £30million and £50million.” [Daily Mail]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8424291/Housing-Secretary-Robert-Jenrick-admits-giving-green-light-1bn-development-helped-Tory-donor.html

The Daily Mail fails to point out that Richard Desmond is a Jew.

“Jenrick is married to Michal Berkner, an Israeli-born corporate lawyer. They have three daughters, whom they are bringing up in the Jewish faith.[1][39][18]

Jenrick owns two £2m homes in London, one of which is a £2.5m townhouse less than a mile from the Houses of Parliament. He also owns Eye Manor, a Grade I listed building in Herefordshire which he purchased for £1.1 million in 2009.[40][41] His constituency of Newark is 150 miles (240 km) from his ‘family home’ in Herefordshire.[42] He rents a £2,000-a-month property in his Newark constituency,[38] which he bills to the taxpayer.” [Wikipedia]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jenrick#Personal_life

China and other places

I was idly looking at pictures of some of the Chinese cities. Some are massive yet quite new. Take Shenzhen, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen , which scarcely existed until recent decades, though there were once historic villages in the area, much as Manchester in the UK expanded hugely in the 19thC from a modest starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester

I suppose that the same was true of Chicago in the 19thC; in 1833, Chicago had only 200 inhabitants, but over 4,000 by 1840 (1900, 1.7 million; 1930, 3.4 million) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago#19th_century

Once China had taken “the capitalist road”, albeit under “Communist” banners, the economy expanded, indeed exploded. I saw these photographs of Shenzhen:

[above: Shenzhen in 1982, not long after the trial of the Gang of Four]
[above: the present main business centre of Shenzhen as it was in 1998; below: the same general area today]
[above: Central Business District]
[above: Luohu, another part of Shenzhen; surprisingly, one of the oldest parts of the city]
[above: within the Shenzhen Central Business District]

Europe, to the Chinese, is something rather quaint, to be made into part of a theme park!

[above: European-style tourist village in Shenzhen]
[above: within central Shenzhen]
Longgang District in 2017
[above: an outlying part of Shenzhen]
[above: a country park; the Shenzhen area is not without beauty]

I was in Hong Kong, and also Macau, in 2006. Fascinating, though I should not like to live there. I do tend to find fascinating what human beings can create in terms of cities and parks.

The Internet is incredible, though I expect that anyone born after 1985 or so simply accepts it as part of normal life. It is only now, looking at maps etc, that I realize how close and closely hemmed-in by massive Chinese urbanizations is Hong Kong. That is not obvious to the visitor, because Hong Kong is still cut off from “mainland” China both by high hills and by a “frontier closed area” which was initially established under British rule. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_Closed_Area

In some areas, the border fence echoes those between the USA and Mexico, or between Israel and the West Bank

It may not be the same for Hong Kong inhabitants, but for the visitor, Hong Kong seems a world unto itself. It is only when you look at the map that you realize to what extent Hong Kong is a kind of isolated or reserved part of that vastly larger surrounding Chinese urbanization which laps at its borders like an ocean surrounding an island. The Shenzhen area has about 13 million inhabitants, compared to 7.5 million in Hong Kong.

I dislike the Chinese attitude to the natural world and particularly animals, but at the same time the Chinese are impressive in their capabilities and in their sense of scale.

From the sublime to the ridiculous. Monaco.

I saw on TV the second of a three-part series about the microstate. I have never been there, though I have heard about it from people I know. I once had a Finnish girlfriend who loved it, and had been accustomed to going there once or twice per year. What she liked about it was the absence of detritus (inanimate or human) as compared to London and other cities; also the enveloping luxury.

I find (see above) “self-generating” cities and states very interesting. Places like Singapore. It does not mean that I should wish to live in one! Monaco is another place which would not suit me, for several reasons.

For one thing, whenever I see Monaco on TV, it looks so crowded that it resembles an anthill. This is in fact accurate, because the population density is about 48,000 persons per square mile, nearly three times as dense as Hong Kong and 2.5 times the density of Singapore.

There is a (slight) resemblance to Hong Kong…

Another aspect (admittedly judging only by what I have seen on TV) is that the foreign residents seem to have nothing but dollar signs, greed and emptiness in their eyes. As for the Monegasques, who are only about 8,000 out of a total population of 38,000, they are more of a clan than a nation, it seems to me.

The ultra-wealthy, who are there for the tax advantage and the police-state security, pay for their behaviour by having to spend at least some of their time there (again, my possibly jaundiced view…).

A “state” which covers only 4/5ths of a square mile, and which is therefore smaller than the combined Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens in London, is a bit of a joke from one point of view, but there it is. It has its function, just like, say, the Vatican, which has an area of less than 1/5th of a square mile. The one may not have many divisions in its “army” but has the spiritual allegiance (even today) of hundreds of millions of people; the other’s power lies in the facilitation of matters of money.

The TV documentary I saw spent some time with the ruler, Prince Albert, who (in what is almost rule by Divine right) is seemingly held in awe by his subjects and foreign residents. I was surprised to hear him sound exactly like an American. I knew that his mother was the film star, Grace Kelly, but to see him sound and look rather like an American businessman was unexpected. On the surface, he seemed amiable enough, though.

Prince Albert lives in a rather Ruritanian set-up, which made me laugh, but in fact Monaco’s princely house is actually one of the oldest in Europe, if not the very oldest. I suppose that that is because, until the late 19th Century (when Monaco’s fortunes were transformed by the Casino), this was one of the poorest parts of Europe. In other words, no-one could be bothered to invade it, especially with it being so small (though it was relieved of Menton and another town during the 19thC).

The documentary showed the Palace Guard, in smart white uniforms spoiled rather by black parade boots. Behind the scenes, there was an efficient-looking military and bodyguard operation.

A strange little enclave, but efficiently run. I did not know before (or from the documentary), but saw today in Wikipedia, that there is still a railway there (underground).

Coronavirus lockdown nonsense etc

Patronizing insults from the ignorant are a Twitter speciality. When I was on Twitter, I was called everything under the Sun by people who (often behind a pseudonym) evidently thought themselves far better informed, educated or intelligent than me. I recall one little Irish bumboy who, having read my background in brief, as on this blog, informed his few Twitter followers about how unimportant I was and how far I had fallen into obscurity and poverty. Yes, a little student bumboy from Southern Ireland (who has probably never been beyond — or even to— Dublin in his life, who has no profession, no job, no future…).

Twitter specializes in the sort of people who, though semi-literate, will call you an idiot, or a “knuckledragger”, for not wanting the UK to become even more of a multikulti dustbin. Then there are those who will say “he must never have met a black/Muslim/Jew/whatever“. They would probably be quite surprised to discover, inter alia, how many countries I have been to, including some, in various parts of the world, where I have even lived, worked and, indeed, been married! Yet people whose sole exposure to other cultures has been a week in Majorca, or a gap-year stint teaching English in Thailand or bumming around in Goa (or even just a weekly Chinese takeaway), will assume that they are far more informed than me…

Likewise, you get people (who have never achieved the slightest thing in their whole lives) who will talk about how those with whom they disagree are “old”, “failures”, “without influence”, even “morons” etc. They, almost invariably, are looking in the mirror (even as regards age, sometimes)!

That’s Twitter. Peter Hitchens is (must be) far more patient than me. As I have speculated before, he must regard it as some kind of duty, perhaps a religious duty, to debate, at least for a while, even with those who insult him.

I just have no time for the nonsense of it.

Dim tweet of the day?

Ha ha…how original…

More tweets

https://twitter.com/MarkACollett/status/1273163703584796673?s=20
https://twitter.com/BaronStrucker/status/1272644138337554432?s=20

More virtue-signalling nonsense from the USA: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8431721/Aunt-Jemima-syrup-pancake-mix-renamed-Quaker-drops-stereotype-130-years.html

Interesting archaeological discovery in Hibernia

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8431929/Irelands-ancient-kings-married-sisters-fathered-inbred-children-maintain-dynasty.html

Tweets seen

One wonders where the discontented voters of 2021-2024 will go. Misnamed “Labour” is no alternative, not being far from “the same old” convergence LibLabCon, but with different puppets on sticks. There is effectively no LibDem party now, and the LibDem bolt was shot some time ago. As to radical parties of any kind, there are, as yet, none.

tweet about Sweden

2020-2022 and beyond

My knowledge of numerical cycles told me that 2022 is the first really significant year, in terms of the Zeitgeist, since 1989. However, the logical Western post-1400 AD brain said to me “how?”.

Now, with two years to go, it already looks more likely than it did a few months ago that 2022 could see a sea-change. In the UK, with unemployment, poverty, lack of opportunity all set to soar, with a government of near-imbeciles in power, and with an official Opposition no better and just as Jew/Zionist-ridden, there is a real chance for a social-national movement of importance, for the first time since 1939 or even 1929.

Tweets seen

[above: journalist and columnist Peter Hitchens jeered by a mob of “useful idiot” Oxford students and other dim “Black Lives Matter” wastes of space]

This is funny (see below):

Many of these “trans people” seem mentally afflicted.

Ha ha! See below.

I want as many BBC —and other msm talking heads and scribblers— to lose their jobs, or freelance work, as possible. 99% are enemies of the people and/or useless and ignorant tools of ZOG/NWO.

Soon, the catastrophe brought onto the UK and much of the rest of Europe by evil-intentioned or incompetent governments will be with us. We, as the vanguard of the social national movement, which as yet hardly exists, must be ready to strike. The ground is being prepared for us.

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