I feel happy today, thinking of all those evil individuals who have attacked me in the past and who are now dead or almost dead.
What a nice sunny Spring day it is.
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☝️ With new baseless anti-Russian allegations London is making last-ditch effort to obstruct progress towards a negotiated resolution of the Ukraine conflict.
— Russian Embassy, UK (@RussianEmbassy) April 8, 2025
❗ If the UK & its people are imperilled by anything, it is by the British establishment's policy of fostering confrontation with Russia, creating hotspots of tensions along Russian borders & exacerbating the military & political situation across Europe.https://t.co/a9iec0IhxCpic.twitter.com/foUWaZl9V8
— Russian Embassy, UK (@RussianEmbassy) April 8, 2025
🤦 A tidal wave of hastily concocted fantasy stories about the so-called "Russian threat" has been sweeping the pages of the UK press.
There should be a concerted governmental push to improve the UK’s natural world. Many private landowners and others are doing much but much more needs to be done, especially from the side of government.
[“The Fuhrer as friend of animals“]
[“Love of animals— the Fuhrer has that before anything else“]
On the subject of American cliches, can we lose 'side hustle'? It sounds like you're running a numbers racket in Atlantic City, rather than flogging your old clothes at a car boot.
Of course, “Rachel from Accounts” Reeves is a pathetically-incompetent System political drone, elevated (like so many MPs and ministers) far above her level of both competence and education, let alone integrity.
Easy to overlook in the noise, but is worth pausing on these stats – barely 4 in 10 Brits now say the US is an ally of the UK. Just 28 per cent think the US President is an ally & 30 per cent think he's an enemy of the UK. Whole idea of the special relationship seems in tatters. https://t.co/hzrVVzfyJj
I’m loving this. The future for the UK lies in a loose but friendly relationship with Russia (and, if possible, the rest of Europe), not with the outworn UK-US “Special Relationship” which, for at least the last 70 years, has been a one-way colonial relationship, with Britain as the colony.
NEW POST. This British woman should not be in jail. The shocking case of Lucy Connolly –and what it tells us about the free speech crisis https://t.co/b9vIoUSGQ8
Fair enough, but I am still waiting for Goodwin and other similar “controlled opposition” “free speech” types to say a word in defence of my free speech rights, or those of Alison Chabloz, Sam Melia, Jez Turner, Sven Longshanks etc.
— Common Sense Is Dead (@commonsense1191) April 8, 2025
Never too late. Just ban them EVER getting residency or nationality. Make a law stating their children are their home nationality,not British. Spend the next 10yrs tracking them down and deporting. If they refuse to state their true nationality, set up a camp on S Sandwich Isles.
What is needed is not just a political movement but a political movement which has the spirituality and force of a religion. As Hitler said, “those who see in National Socialism only a political movement do not know much about it.“
Ex-Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny has confirmed that a clandestine headquarters was established in Germany’s Wiesbaden in 2022 for Western countries to assist Kiev in planning military operations against Russia:https://t.co/Sm1FBBGPqgpic.twitter.com/9QPRY3kcxI
Russian forces have liberated the settlement of Guyevo in the Kursk Region, the Defense Ministry said. TASS has gathered the key information about developments in the region:https://t.co/hYExPXvWJmpic.twitter.com/3AIDeTKjdO
UK police now make 12,000 arrests EVERY YEAR for speech crimes while since 2014 they’ve logged more than 133,000 “non-crime hate incidents”. This is insane. https://t.co/b9vIoUS90A
…and that does not even include many cases where people are questioned or charged without ever having been arrested, as in my own experiences detailed above. Even in the case of my free speech trial (a process spanning all of 2023 and three months of 2024, I was never arrested, and was eventually charged by “postal requisition”, i.e. a letter was sent to me requiring me to attend court.
Jess Phillips looking like a lemon whilst this being said… supposedly the safeguarding minister. Vile woman she is. When is something going to be gone about this? Hopefully Trump will impose stricter measures on Britain until the idiot in Downing St does something.
Minister for Safeguarding & Violence Against Women & Girls @jessphillips has just announced she is scrapping the 5 inquiries into Pakistani heritage rape gangs, including Oldham. pic.twitter.com/ngwAin4oyY
As previously noted, I do not know the details of this case, but “Legal Gengar” has previously exposed a number of “grifting” frauds, including “Jack Monroe” (Melissa Hadjicostas, aka the “Bootstrap Cook”) and the Essex Jew known as Simon Harris (aka “Man Behaving Dadly”).
I'm sick & tired of MSM saying welfare reforms. These are not reforms. These are indiscriminate cuts to incapacity and disability benefits. Besides, this tour only seems to be for appearances & to avoid court. DWP is still not consulting on 12 policy measures. @leicesterliz
🇮🇷 The Guardian: Iran is believed to be in the final stages of preparations for Operation True Promise 3 and could launch a major strike on Israel in April. pic.twitter.com/PyB8eVmMhg
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 7, 2025
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) April 7, 2025
Without oil and gas, of which they knew nothing, did not discover, did not develop, did not refine themselves —at first—, and had no use for —at first—, the Saudis and other Gulf Arabs would be back in the pre-industrial age, and even the pre-Middle Ages age.
Even with their great riches, look how the Gulf Arabs have misused their unmerited wealth. Look at their soulless pointless cities (eg Dubai and Doha).
The United States will start applying 104% customs duties against Chinese products from April 9, Fox Business reporter Edward Lawrence said, citing the White House:https://t.co/GM6qwwLpTEpic.twitter.com/sWLjWOOs05
If the Chinese economy starts to collapse as a result, the political, and also directly military, consequences could be vast.
Why on earth would you ever consider rejoining the EU now?! Higher tariffs, share of global trade declining not rising (esp since 2016), dumbass decisions on energy, non-serious on defence, continent split left to right on culture, north to south on economics. Better off out https://t.co/xIlPi2mVnT
The problem here is that many people will, foolishly, look up to someone called “Professor”-somebody, even if the person concerned is basically a TV talking head and science popularizer, and even though the rank of “professor” has anyway been devalued in the past 30+ years by the proliferation of “universities” in the UK, and the consequent growth in the number of professorships, some of which are in the Mickey Mouse area.
Russian forces struck Ukrainian missile/artillery depots and massed enemy manpower and military equipment in 149 areas over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/ma9U9DabkLpic.twitter.com/AbNAFZcK8u
The former MP, unimpressive Labourite drone Mike Amesbury, stepped down a few days ago, having been convicted of common assault and sentenced to 10 weeks in prison. He had drunkenly assaulted a complaining constituent in the street one evening.
The sentencing judge (district judge/magistrate) expressly refused bail pending appeal, so Amesbury was hauled off to prison briefly before, a couple of days later, having his bail application and appeal very expeditiously heard, his sentence then having been suspended. He does, however, have to do 200 hours of unpaid work; the imprisonment, unpleasant though it would be, might have been less onerous; also, the “10 weeks” would actually have been only 4 weeks long. Still, few would choose the imprisonment (given that choice).
Amesbury, to give him his due, could have simply put one or two fingers up to Labour (which has suspended him) and society, and carried on as an independent MP for the next 4 or so years (though a recall petition might have forced him out later this year). Instead, he decided to step down. I have to admit that I would not have done so, were I in his place.
As to the by-election, Labour won easily in 2024, but that was then; its 52.9% of the vote is not going to be replicated in the by-election. In the opinion polls about the by-election, Labour is only a point or two ahead of Reform UK (in the 30%-33% zone), with the Conservative Party on 20%, a few points higher than in 2024 (perhaps surprisingly).
The “experts” mostly think Labour will win the by-election, though the bookmakers (often unreliable guides in political betting) think Reform has the better chance.
My own view is that only dummies would vote “Labour” (aka Labour Friends of Israel Con-lite) now, after the disastrous past 8 months. Still, there are plenty of dummies out there…
The Conservative Party only scored 16% in 2024, and has no real chance in the by-election, so if Con voters want to stick it to Labour and Starmer-stein, then the obvious thing to do is to vote Reform. As I said, though, the UK is not short of dummies. Time and again we see voters march out to vote for parties that have no chance in a given seat.
Reform itself has been damaged by the recent infighting, perhaps, but the anger and frustration of many voters should not be underestimated. People wanted rid of the 14 years of “Conservative” misrule, only to find that, by reason of a semi-rigged FPTP electoral system, they are now misgoverned by a “Labour” regime even worse (and even less compassionate) than its Con predecessors.
On that basis, I think that Reform has a good chance, a very good chance.
[“Russian troops have liberated five localities in the Kursk Region over the past day, the Defense Ministry said. TASS has gathered key updates on the situation: https://vk.cc/cJDTgt“— TASS]
Russian troops liberated two communities in the Donetsk region over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/7J5BAzsjebpic.twitter.com/50VRpm8J0S
[“Russian troops liberated two communities in the Donetsk region over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported: https://vk.cc/cJDU4u“— TASS]
🚨POLICE GET BETWEEN STEVE BRAY AND LEE ANDERSON🚨
"That's assault"🥊
"You're a liar, you're a cheat, you're a coward, you're a charlatan"
I hope that the voters of Runcorn and Helsby protest at least by voting Reform, not because I like Reform that much, but because I despise the LibLabCon System parties. Anyway, the only party capable of beating Labour in that seat at this time is Reform.
NEW: We showed a nationally representative sample of British adults a picture of Rupert Lowe and asked them to identify him
[“Vladimir Putin has held a meeting at a command post of the Kursk group of forces, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters: https://vk.cc/cJEDS8“— TASS]
[“Vladimir Putin has set the task to defeat the Ukrainian armed forces in the Kursk Region as soon as possible: https://vk.cc/cJEFHz“— TASS]
The Russian army needs to defeat the Ukrainian army in the Kursk Region as soon as possible and establish a regional security zone, Putin said during a visit to a command post of Battlegroup Kursk, where he listened to a report by Army General Gerasimov:https://t.co/nhOF8ipMWMpic.twitter.com/edo8fqABIA
[“The Russian army needs to defeat the Ukrainian army in the Kursk Region as soon as possible and establish a regional security zone, Putin said during a visit to a command post of Battlegroup Kursk, where he listened to a report by Army General Gerasimov: https://vk.cc/cJEGax“— TASS]
Late music
[F. de Haenen, 1912, Soldiers Dancing in Barracks]
Israeli Jewish woman commenting. No compassion, no reserve, no decency. Typical.
Asked how many Gaza civilians have been killed, this Israeli woman sums up the attitude of much of Israeli society: "Who gives a shit?!"
A question never asked in the West: How can the rest of the Middle East live in peace with an Israel whose public is fine with genocide? pic.twitter.com/AsDm3G4qpO
Again. Listen to the accent, too. American. Another carpetbagging Jewish settler or other incomer, living on land on which she wrongly believes her ancestors lived (and which therefore gives her and others some kind of divinely-ordained right).
Translation: “I remembered that I am a Zionist Jew, and that that trumps anything else, including everyone else’s rights“…
Even if Israel were to kill a million non-Jewish women, children, and other non-combatants (and the Israelis are well on the way, even in the past 15 months), many, perhaps most, Jews in both Israel and the West (including the UK) will respond to the expressed horror of others by referring back to the several hundreds killed by the Hamas assault of 7 October 2023.
A 15-month mechanized killing-machine operation, compared to an attack in one relatively small part of Israel abutting Gaza, which latter attack lasted a few hours, or a day or so.
Now the Israeli state is basically killing the surviving population in Gaza, via cold, hunger, destruction of hospitals, removal of help, medical aid, shelter, and also by randomly killing Gazan civilians of all ages.
No doubt, Israel will eventually settle the bulk, maybe the whole, of Gaza with militant Jews from places such as the slums of Brooklyn, or American/Australian/whatever suburbia.
At present, the Israelis are doing to Gaza exactly what the Romans did to defeated Carthage, but worse, because they are not even providing the survivors of the Gaza slaughter anywhere to go. Look at this report from the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz:
“ISRAEL: Members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee say IDF’s actions in Gaza foil war’s objectives; all food, water sources must be destroyed.“
“It’s now time to fix the border,’ said one of the members of a group that gathered on the northern border during Hanukkah, to press for the expansion of the Galilee, into Lebanon.”
““Diluting the population,” “evacuating homes,” “expulsion,” “exile,” “emptying” and even “transfer.” A broad array of words was used by Israeli government ministers during the historic deliberations in the 1960s and 1970s.”
[Haaretz]
“Resettlement”? That sounds familiar. Where have I heard that before?…
Is that the plan? (as well as taking over all European and European-origined states from the inside, via the “you know who” fifth column)…
A few Israeli Jews are dissenting from the mainstream Jewish opinion, it seems:
“Early Americans Were Feeding Wolves and Coyotes, Study Suggests
The story of dog domestication isn’t as straightforward as assumed, analysis of large canid remains in ancient settlements in Alaska implies. Doesn’t mean the wolves or coyotes were pets.”
[Haaretz]
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Just when you think Suella Braverman couldn’t say anything more moronic than: “Being homeless is a lifestyle choice”, she gifts us with this fresh slice of idiocy: pic.twitter.com/nX9FeWNtFE
Suella Braverman is just yet another useless and pretty stupid “diversity hire”, like Lammy, and Shabana Mahmood.
A female TikToker was molested, groped, sexually assaulted, and stripped naked by hundreds of Pakistani MusIim men during a Pakistan Independence Day event in Lahore.
Once you learn about this culture, you shouldn’t be surprised about the Muslim grooming gangs in the UK. pic.twitter.com/klKZn52ivl
If there is one (now-ex-) politician I despise, it is Clegg. In 2010, a gullible voting public gave him enough MPs to demand electoral reform. Gordon Brown was willing to give him the halfway house of AV (Alternative Vote) at once (in 2010) without even having to hold a referendum; then later a referendum on real proportional representation, in return for basic LibDem support in the Commons for a minority Labour government.
That could have changed everything, but Clegg and his pathetic LibDem crew sold out to the fake “Conservatives” under David Cameron-Levita, and for what? Ministerial jobs, red boxes, government cars, higher salaries, and the fiction that the LibDems were finally “in government” in a meaningful way. That and, as a figleaf, a rigged AV Referendum.
Clegg and his LibDem crew acquiesced in all the terrible and damaging policies carried out by the part-Jews Cameron-Levita and Osborne between 2010 and 2015, then jumped ship to work (at a salary in the millions) for the Jew Zuckerberg at Facebook in California.
Someone completely venal, and completely useless, with neither honour nor integrity.
Incidentally, “Shortly ahead of the election, Clegg was asked about his own expenses by Andrew Neil of the BBC. Clegg allegedly claimed the full amount permissible under the Additional Cost Allowance, including claims for food, gardening and redecorating his second home. The Telegraph also said Clegg claimed £80 for international call charges.” [Wikipedia].
He took every penny he could despite his inherited family monies and trust fund, and despite both he and his wife being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds annually via salaries and (possibly) more legitimate expenses claims. The “food allowance”, by the way, was (until done away with sometime after 2010) a boondoggle via which MPs could claim up to about £500 a month, no questions asked or receipts required, “for food”. Many MPs, like Clegg, and like that horrible Jewish-lobby puppet Tom Watson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Watson,_Baron_Watson_of_Wyre_Forest], claimed the full amount (worth at least £950 a month in the money of 2025) every single month.
“Graduate pay is falling – and an aggrieved generation could join white-collar workers in supporting Reform UK.“
[Guardian]
Reform UK is but a stepping-stone, not the ultimate destination, and in multiple error ideologically, but the basic premise, based on the revolt of the “graduates” (whatever that really means these days), is interesting. The NSDAP was supported by many students and —often disenchanted— graduates.
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Russia is militarily invincible while Ukraine is trying to withstand in the armed conflict with the West’s help at least ‘not to lose in it,’ Kazakh President Tokayev said in an interview with the Ana tili newspaper on Friday:https://t.co/VdnV1are0ppic.twitter.com/95EAQHkRax
Russia strikes Ukraine’s military-industrial sector, mercenaries’ sites over week. Russian air defenses down Ukrainian Su-27 fighter jet, 559 UAVs over week:https://t.co/MHoR5Gq3vSpic.twitter.com/c28ulwzaZG
The Trump team is not offering anything interesting to the Russian Federation in its signals regarding Ukraine ," says Russia's permanent representative to the UN Nebenzya. pic.twitter.com/FRqnjHpScX
My tentative opinion on that is that Trump is someone who likes to present himself as someone who gets things done. If Russia stays firm, Trump will offer more, probably.
From the Russian side, all that matters is whether Trump continues to give arms, ammunition, and money to the Kiev regime. There are three possibilities— more, less, or the same. “Less” can be split into “some” or “none”. My money is on “less” (but still “some”). That would mean that, in view of Russia’s superiority in numbers, arms, ammunition, and money, as well as having the backstop of both tactical and strategic nuclear weapons, Russian forces will continue to advance steadily in Eastern Ukraine during 2025.
As often said on this blog, Russia cannot lose this war and will not lose it.
Having said that, it is tragic that the Russian forces seemed pathetically incapable of executing a swift “Blitzkrieg for the sake of mercy” in early 2022, when the whole of Eastern Ukraine, as well as Odessa and Kiev, might easily have been taken with minimal loss of life and minimal damage generally.
I have been watching, recently, a TV mini-series (three episodes) called Zen, which though a British production and using some British actors and actressses, is filmed entirely in and around Rome. It is a about a detective called, oddly, Zen, who works in the Questura (the Italian police detective branch).
As with many other well-known fictional detectives (Inspector Morse, Inspector Alleyn, Wallander, Sherlock Holmes), Zen himself is rather an outsider, in his case because he is both incorrupt and from Venice.
Zen is a quality production in every respect, and maintains the seriousness while not omitting a small amount of passing humour here and there.
Having never been to Rome, I cannot say how well the series captures the grandeur-meets-squalor of that great and ancient city, but it seems a plausible representation, to me at least.
Until last week, I had never heard of Zen, which is from 2011. Apparently, the then controller of BBC1, a Jew called Cohen (why? Always…every single time…) decided to cancel the series because “there were too many male crimefighters on TV“…Why do “they” always ruin everything decent that they touch? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_(TV_series).
Strange Twitter
I had a Twitter “account” from 2010, and started to tweet regularly and quite prolifically from 2011. I used my own name (“@ianrmillard“). The loud Jew-Zionist cabal on Twitter (really just a small number of unpleasant individuals) had me expelled from Twitter in 2018.
Since then, I have not posted on Twitter; I have no other, and never have had other, Twitter accounts. Recently, I have noticed that, if I look on Twitter, I sometimes notice accounts of people and organizations which carry the notice “Follows you“.
How and why, when I have no Twitter account? I am not very technical, so it is a complete mystery to me.
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So now we know: the 'covid' death toll is in fact largely the result of frightening & forcing even more people to live on junk food takeaways. And having imported huge numbers of people with sickle cell anaemia & vitamin D issues.https://t.co/yJ05pegOdo
Quite so @when_cats_away . But far too few. I well recall the first full evening of 'clap for carers' and being dispirited by the strength of the din all around me and by how long it lasted. I knew then that dissent was going to be tougher than I'd hoped.. https://t.co/Ce7Z5RUYs4
Part of the Big Brother “weekly clap”, I mean the reason why many did clap, was that there was and is a feeling that Britain was ceasing to be a community. People therefore, many people anyway, bought into the fake communitarianism of the “weekly clap” etc.
I wonder, though, how many, overall, did stand outside their houses clapping. Where I live, a tiny minority.
No @trophy4too Depression is irrational grief, not explained by actual circumstances but lying within the affected person. There's nothing irrational about being grieved by the current state of this country. https://t.co/VsMI7xYSoj
In general @ianvincnetscott, people did not believe there was a danger. I was able to see it because I have spent so much time in unfree countries. Most had never been to one. Soon they will live in one. https://t.co/pOVV1642tI
Alas, @rosearosey, it has formal *objective* legitimacy But it could have faced moral challenge a year ago, before the strangulation policy hardened into normality. The large-scale failure to challenge this (& the crushing of the Great Barrington Declaration) were key moments. https://t.co/UBlj7J6uN9
2/2 @Ianvincentscott. I'm reminded of the once-famous 1906 incident of 'The Captain of Kopenick', in which a man in a uniform successfully fooled everyone into doing what he told them. We in Britain used to laugh at this event as an instance of Prussian submissiveness. https://t.co/7kOvffkS4K
1/2 @ianvincentscott. *Timing* is hugely important. The state and the police seized huge new powers a year ago in a colossal bluff, which could easily have been called by Parliament, the media and the courts. Now this bluff has solidified into accepted normality. https://t.co/7kOvffkS4K
Unherd has a fascinating interview with J.Sumption. https://t.co/mrGvz5Geiu He's mistaken to refer to individuals ignoring bits of the law as 'civil disobedience', as it has no moral/political content. Also, once obedience to law ceases to be a moral duty, we face chaos.
“Jonathan Sumption was once the epitome of the Establishment — a brilliant barrister who represented the Government in the Hutton enquiry, Supreme Court Justice, supporter of the Remain campaign and esteemed historian of the Hundred Years’ War. But then Covid happened.
Over the past year, his unabashed criticism of lockdown policies has turned him into something of a renegade. It is a development that mystifies him; as he sees it, his views have always been mainstream liberal, and it is the world around that has changed.
In the course of our conversation, the retired judge doesn’t hold back. He asserts that it is becoming morally acceptable to ignore Covid regulations, and even warns that a campaign of “civil disobedience” has already begun.” [UnHerd magazine].
Lord Sumption, a former Lord of Appeal and Justice of the Supreme Court, who has been treated recently as a crank and half-mad dissident by the msm. The problem that Lord Sumption faces is that he is talking on the ground of reason, whereas the “lockdown” fanatics, facemask zealots and others of that type (who, with a mob of scared rabbits, may well even be a majority of the population) are dealing in fear and unreason, which is inherently more powerful as a tool of persuasion.
“John Stuart Mill regarded public sentiment and public fear as the principal threat to a liberal democracy. The tendency would be for it to influence policies in a way that whittles away the island within which we are entitled to control our lives to next to nothing. That’s what he regarded as the big danger. It didn’t happen in his own lifetime; it has happened in many countries in the 20th century, and it’s happening in Britain now.” [Lord Sumption, on UnHerd/Lockdown TV]
That “Lockdown TV” interview is the sort of intelligent, reasoned, quite lengthy interview that is now never seen on any msm television station in the UK; reminiscent of the interviews done by the late and great Brian Walden on Weekend World about 40 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend_World; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Walden.
Interesting to see and hear Lord Sumption has come to the same conclusion that I came to nearly a year ago about the various tyrannical “laws”, “rules”, “guidance” around “Coronavirus”. That is, that there will be little mass public anger, but more of a hidden or half-hidden defiance. In other words, “Yes, repeat No“…
This is the power we gave to the state by not standing up for our liberty a year ago: Mother strolled to get coffee – but fell foul of long arm of the law https://t.co/sP4HjrJ14a via @MailOnline
'The contemporary ‘Left’ is no longer worthy of the name.'. I agree with a great deal of this Marxist analysis of the 'The Virus, Lockdown and the Left'. https://t.co/2mho1qhuGB via @LSceptics
'Of all political entities, it is the Left that should have been attuned to the damaging politics of fear and how it swiftly generates mass hysteria and political obedience to the fear-peddlers.' So, why weren't they? https://t.co/2mho1qhuGB via @LSceptics
1/2 'During the lockdown lunacy, it has largely fallen to a sensible segment of the conservative Right (whether libertarian ‘Ultras’ or pragmatists concerned for the well-being of lockdown-threatened capitalism) to, almost inadvertently…' https://t.co/2mho1qhuGB via @LSceptics
2/2 '…stand up for traditionally leftwing causes – working class jobs & living standards, education, democratic accountability,critical thought, intellectual openness, freedom of speech, freedom of association, integrity of science, plain old civility.' https://t.co/2mho1qhuGB
As I have written often before, I never use the terms “Right”/”Left”, but the self-describing “left” now has nothing to offer people, no vision of a better society etc. It concentrates on “deplatforming” anyone described as “Right”, which apparently covers anywhere from Brexit Party, UKIP and the “alt-Right” wastes of space right through to National Socialists and those who, like me, postulate ideas and concepts which might form the basis for a society far in advance of where we are.
You can see it on Twitter, that element which is mostly pro-Corbyn-Labour, anti-Israel (mostly) while at the same time (mostly) supporting the Jewish Zionists! Also, connectedly, paying lip-service to the “holocaust” narrative etc.
Basically, the post-1989, post death-of-socialism self-describing “Left”, or pseudo-socialist position, has nothing at all to offer the people. It is an ideological and political dead end.
Some reflections on Olivia Manning's superb and often-neglected Balkan and Levant Trilogies, a more clear-eyed view of Britain's wartime experience than Evelyn Waugh's. https://t.co/zJAzAT4H6E
Hitchens writing of Olivia Manning’s Balkan Trilogy put me in mind of another literary work, in fact a “dilogy”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaka_(fiction) (extended and adapted for British TV about 30 years ago).
It occurs to me that Scotland might become a kind of “Slaka” if (when) it achieves faux-“Independence” under faux-“nationalist” political party, the SNP.
The present kefuffle around Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon etc is a straw in the wind. Salmond (obviously guilty of sexual shenanigans despite his plainly politically-motivated acquittal a while ago) and Sturgeon (a petty tyrant) are the Romulus and Remus of Scottish (fake) Independence.
I have no objection, as such, to Scotland breaking away from the UK. I wonder, though, how many in Scotland understand in what sort of country, poor and politically-repressed, they may end up living?
As a matter of fact, I can see upheaval coming to Scotland, in that only about 50% (it may be 55% or even soon 60%) of the Scottish voters support the SNP and/or Independence (as presented). If, then, the anti-SNP or anti-“Independence” 40%-50% are forced to live under a corrupt and incompetent SNP regime (even now putting forward extreme anti-free-speech laws), expect fireworks.
— Dame Minxy Mann-Yeager #IStandWithUkraine. . (@SadieWhy) March 3, 2021
Actually, that condensation and adaptation of part of the New Testament is rather kinder on the Jews than the original:
“When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.” [Matthew 27, King James Version]
“And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate. And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answering said unto him, Thou sayest it. And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing. And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee. But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marvelled.” [Mark 15, King James Version]
“Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would. And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas. Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ? For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him. But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus. The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas. Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified. And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.” [Matthew 27, King James Version]
“When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children. Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.” [Matthew 27, King James Version]
Re. the Royal Mulatta, it is so funny watching the self-describing “Left” defend “Meghan”, simply because she is “black” (actually, of course, a half-caste, like Obama). No matter that she has, apparently, bullied her staff etc, she’s “black”. That’s her anytime Get Out Of Jail Free card.
As for the Royal Cuck, what can one say? Why are the “socialists” of Twitter not asking the question “why should we respect the Royal Cuck anyway?“
Were Prince Harry mere Harry Who?, he would be, at best, a junior Army officer or something like a car salesman.
The concept of royalty, in the real world, is mainly dependent on blood descent. Even leaving aside the Royal Cuck, the Royal Mulatta has no right, really, yet she is given the title of “duchess”. They have both forfeited any right to position and respect, and they have done what they have done for money and to be “celebrities” on American TV.
Actually, these contaminated British titles (duke, duchess, earl, baroness etc) are now so devalued that they really should be done away with.
I suppose that the ludicrous “Royal Married with Children” soap will continue. It’s a good alternative, for American TV, to other wealthy “celebrity” riff-raff such as the Kardashians.
A good “conspiracy theory” might be that the Royal Cuck and the Royal Mulatta are being built up as a way of engaging the interest of Britain’s new raceless, cultureless masses, who have little time for the traditional royals. I don’t suppose that such is the case (it’s too subtle for the royals, I expect) but an interesting idea an sich…
Musing….it seems to me that the Harry and Meghan marriage might be described as “White royal privilege meets black affirmative action privilege”. Just an idle thought…
The best way of describing Meghan Markle would be as in the old German saying, “Put a beggar on a horse and (s)he rides it to death“…
Late afternoon music
Interesting film
New York in the 1930s…
Amazing how different many of the places shown are today (and were even when I was last in New York, 28 years ago).
Late tweets
The Gulf Stream is among the mightiest rivers you will never see, carrying far more water than all the world’s freshwater rivers combined. Some scientists fear global warming is causing Atlantic currents to weaken. https://t.co/jaD7EiphpJpic.twitter.com/g0IMoi1Mma
If the Gulf Stream really were to falter, and to fail to reach the UK, Britain might be plunged into something akin to an ice age, albeit (?) limited.
“We’re all wishing it’s not true,” Peter de Menocal, a paleoceanographer and president and director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, said of the changing ocean currents. “Because if that happens, it’s just a monstrous change.”https://t.co/P6SM3h6xmt
@belfastbuoy. Easy to say. Perhaps you have not experienced actual chaos. I have (principally in Mogadishu) and I do not recommend it. https://t.co/UEvD2poWkb
Ian Robert Millard 