Iran’s National Security Council warns that if attacks continue in southern Lebanon, missile and air units could strike Tel Aviv within hours. pic.twitter.com/KUcfPeZ9qV
Russian troops struck fuel and energy and port infrastructure used by the Ukrainian army and enemy deployment sites over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday:https://t.co/EFFX4j60w9pic.twitter.com/xVzF5Pcilr
New Delhi will continue to purchase Russian oil regardless of whether the US extends suspension of anti-Russia sanctions, a source in India’s government told TASS:https://t.co/r8PjIpub0lpic.twitter.com/90nVSojksV
All ships planning to cross the Strait of Hormuz must follow two alternative routes proposed by Tehran to avoid potential collisions with mines, the Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, an elite unit of the Iranian military) said:https://t.co/txQ67kzGc6pic.twitter.com/Q0ZIPUEKTz
Over the past day, Russian troops have strengthened their tactical positions near Ilyinovka and Novodmitrovka, close to Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, despite strong resistance from Ukrainian forces, Andrey Marochko told TASS:https://t.co/KPPX0GUdU5pic.twitter.com/sWCm73QCJB
If ANY other country in the world did this, they would be wiped off the face of the planet. It’s time for the world’s super powers to unite, against this demonic regime of Satanist’s. Only then will this world be able to start the process of healing. pic.twitter.com/mhhc3pLBiE
Absolute panic in Tel Aviv. Expert Alastair Crooke reveals the Israeli military is completely collapsing. Top generals are begging to retreat from Lebanon, admitting they have utterly failed against Hezbollah and are suffering massive, unsustainable damage. pic.twitter.com/uood8tB64F
I believe that Crooke was an officer of British SIS, who now lives somewhere in Lebanon. [note: a reader of the blog informs me that Crooke is now resident (living) in Italy].
Why does every country in Europe and the Anglosphere have a Jewish council that has the powers to influence our borders, I wonder?
Apparently the London/UK economy will have lost about £30M by reason of the ban on that black entertainer (and the subsequent/consequent abandonment of a music festival), he now having been banned from entering the UK.
All because a few Jews felt (pretended to feel) “offended” by his planned brief presence here.
Tucker Carlson: "Israel named this operation killing hundreds of civilians in Lebanon, mostly in Beirut, 'Eternal Darkness.'"
"It's a euphemism for hell—and that's exactly what Israel brought to Christians in Lebanon today," Carlson adds before sharing videos of the assault. pic.twitter.com/WYpFpOhsih
When the karmic pendulum swings, Israel and the Israelis will suffer blows of Fate compared to which the early 1940s “holocaust” farrago will be seen as nothing.
“America has proven itself, and I hate to say this as an American, to be an unreliable ally…”
We can't enforce anything. We have – right now- no surface combat ships that are available.
— The Return Of Mr Bav (@CaptainJustic14) April 9, 2026
Exactly but as always on the international stage Starmer is performative , virtue signalling pantomime with no attempt to ‘ achieve’ anything of substance , integrity or strength. Never has there been such a weak insignificant diplomatically illiterate PM
— TheMovingFingerWrites (@FingerWrites) April 9, 2026
Not entirely sure how that's better for the country than Labour, who are all over the place but in Government. https://t.co/sHIyCcwK8j
Ha ha. I doubt that Putin will be shaking in his boots. Does that political pygmy, Healey, really imagine that his empty threats will concern a country whose leadership controls, apart from large numbers of ships and submarines, something like 6,000+ nuclear weapons?
It really is ludicrous watching little System-party people such as Healey enjoying their 15 minutes of fame on (what they obviously imagine is) the “world stage”.
In any case, Britain should be out of NATO and seeking closer relations with Russia. Apart from, in that event, not being a prime target in any major conflict, the British people would then get their required oil and gas at cost price, from Russia.
Oh no. Please don't tell me the Government's now going to pretend the reason we didn't have a single ship in the Med was because we were chasing Russian submarines. https://t.co/JH4ACcVo0t
As already said…ludicrous. Like all present Labour-label ministers, Healey is just a silly little joke.
The reality of what happened is now clear. Trump ramped up the rhetoric to hysterical levels (again). Iran called his bluff (again). He needed an off-ramp. He asked Pakistan to negotiate it, agreed to Iran's terms, then completely invented different terms to try and save face.
Iran is now able to tax all ships, or all it wants to tax, using the Strait of Hormuz. The “going rate” is said to be USD $2M per ship per transit. Normal traffic, i.e. when there is no active conflict, was about 150 ships per day (westward and eastward combined). That adds up about about USD $300M per day into Iran’s coffers. “A nice little earner”, if you like. Even if only the eastward ships are to be taxed, that would still be about USD $150M daily.
[update, same day: Iran now says that, during the 2-week ceasefire, only 15 ships per day will be allowed to traverse the Gulf. I presume that that is designed to keep economic pressure on the West.]
Almost identical to another poll yesterday. Main points: a solid Commons majority for Reform (about 383 MPs), and Starmer losing his own seat (as in all polls for months now).
Every other race can say this and everyone applauds them for “sticking with their culture”, but when White people say it, they’re racist? No, this doesn’t work anymore. Fuck off. https://t.co/x8HO1wIl3b
I gave a talk on international swaps (and informal trading tactics) at the University of South Carolina, one sunny afternoon in 2002. A pleasant-enough place, located in Columbia, South Carolina, and about a 2-hour drive from Charleston.
Hezbollah are a dangerous group, but Im done with Israel bombing innocent civilians. Absolutely done with them. Entire Christian villages have been blown up by them using "Hezbollah" as an excuse. Im done with war, and Im done with Israel. They had all my backing and sympathy and… https://t.co/0cPcsFqRl4
SCOOP: Labour's soon-to-be mayoral candidate for Newham Forhad Hussain bought a council-subsidised property in 2016 despite already being a homeowner, whilst serving as a cabinet member.
Import millions of such types, and you also import their corruption and thievery, inter alia. Fact.
And now I’m here at this lovely rooftop bar in central London. It’s a gorgeous, hot, sunny day, with a balcony that overlooks all of the London landmarks, so have a guess why nobody is sat outside? That’s right; you’re not allowed drinks outside anymore. They had an incident on… pic.twitter.com/XSEU7ZYsVO
[“And now I’m here at this lovely rooftop bar in central London. It’s a gorgeous, hot, sunny day, with a balcony that overlooks all of the London landmarks, so have a guess why nobody is sat outside? That’s right; you’re not allowed drinks outside anymore. They had an incident on Saturday and since then have banned drinks outside. This is everything that’s wrong with this country. A few people do something stupid and instead of dealing with them, everyone has their fun stopped. Bloody depressing.“]
Exactly.
A moment in time. A couple sit outside in the sunshine at a cafe in Clerkenwell yesterday afternoon. Just a moment in time that was there for a second and now gone. Photography helps to capture those moments though. pic.twitter.com/KTa51rK10F
This is Leather Lane. It used to be a proper market. Now from morning until mid afternoon it is chockablock full of food stands. The whole street full of them.
I used to use Leather Lane Market occasionally in the 1980s. Near Hatton Garden and other places. Have not been back since about 1993.
Little Venice today and the sunlight on the feathers of this Canada Goose was just so beautiful, with the rather pleasant mansions across the water glowing bright. Taken on my Fujifilm XPro3 as all of the photos with this ‘feel’ are. I download them onto my iPad Pro 13” before… pic.twitter.com/jvgE43gzrE
But first; coffee. Day after day of delicious sunshine here in London. Walking through Paddington Basin with the sunlight pouring across the canal and onto the people sat enjoying their morning coffee. A most pleasant way to start the day. pic.twitter.com/pN903TgVr2
More has been made of the canal since I lived in London.
And now I’m here and thought you might like a little wander through the gorgeous setting of Lincoln’s Inn Fields in London. The place of work for barristers. Stunning buildings and I even give you a glimpse of one of my favourite little chapels and undercroft. pic.twitter.com/IEmU8qd0O7
Russian troops struck fuel and energy infrastructure used by the Ukrainian army and enemy deployment sites over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Thursday:https://t.co/zlVxC0775zpic.twitter.com/yxVpv6e8ht
The Israeli 12th Channel reports that the Israeli Cabinet has been informed that Iran is preparing to significantly increase the frequency of missile launches. pic.twitter.com/AvbZRE7mtr
🟥 URGENTE | MISILES IRANÍES IMPACTAN TEL AVIV 🇮🇷🇮🇱
Varios misiles lanzados por Irán han alcanzado Tel Aviv, causando daños en edificios y dejando al menos una persona fallecida y decenas de heridos, mientras los sistemas de defensa israelíes intentan interceptar los ataques.… pic.twitter.com/aiM3ZiMFa2
Misil Hipersonicos de Irán impacta una reunión del gabinete de seguridad israelí en Tel Aviv. Hasta el momento, se han recuperado los cadáveres de siete generales del ejército israelí. Se esperan más muertos, ya que el edificio quedó totalmente destruido. pic.twitter.com/YdYjKeyrP1
The video is real footage of damage from an Iranian ballistic missile strike on a Tel Aviv residential area early March 1, 2026—wrecked cars, rubble, collapsed sections of buildings, and emergency crews responding. Multiple outlets (Times of Israel, Haaretz, Al Jazeera) confirm…
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) March 1, 2026
Wilfully deluded. Self-deluded. That mirrors my own experience of “them”. Always the “victims”, even when they are the ones conspiring, attacking, behaving as criminals and terrorists, and drawing first blood.
Wow…
English journalist and @Channel4News correspondent Secunder Kermani to an Israeli spokesman at scene of a deadly Iranian missile strike in Tel Aviv:
“Your prime minister is a wanted war criminal. You don't have the moral high ground here, at all” pic.twitter.com/rMu6QxYJ8l
Not enough people are talking about the fact that Israel likely tested a nuclear weapon last month in Dimona and that most of humanity is within range of its Jericho III nuclear missiles pic.twitter.com/uMaYluhkm8
They are a danger to the entire civilized world, in more ways than one.
Dubai Airport is closed. Abu Dhabi Airport is closed. Doha Airport is closed. Kuwait Airport is closed. Bahrain Airport is closed. Ben Gurion is closed.
All her money, and she chooses to live there. Hard to believe. Ghastly unaesthetic architecture, few trees beyond the palm trees lining some of the main roads, a mediaeval legal and political system, Dark Ages religious and cultural basis, few civil or legal rights for European residents, arrogant and culturally-backward locals, and a climate unbearable for a good part of the year.
I have been to the region a few times (though I admit that my experience of Dubai itself does not extend beyond having been to the airport —in transit— several times). Nein danke, anyway.
Also, in reality Dubai is a backwater, for all of its —until last week— frenetic business and tourist activity. If I wanted to live in a non-European backwater, and could choose, it would be somewhere like Rio, or the Caribbean, not the Middle East, certainly not the Arabian/Persian Gulf, and certainly not Dubai.
I suppose that Dubai, if it had Jews, and Jewish money as well as Arab, would be some kind of globalized template for UK society in the eyes of the likes of Richard Tice (Isabel Oakeshott’s personal partner), maybe Farage, and others in the leadership of Reform UK.
That is why Reform UK can only be a means to an end (destruction of the Labour and Conservative parties); in any other way, Reform is a dead end, a fact which will only become obvious to the British people after it forms a government (assuming, as I do, that that will happen in 2-3 years).
Incidentally, I now see that Isabel Oakeshott is International Editor at the online-only “Talk TV” platform, where (according to Wikipedia) her salary is £250,000 per year (there is no personal income tax in Dubai). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_(streaming_service)#Change_to_TalkTV
Talk TV, owned by a Rupert Murdoch company, is so amateur that it reported, inaccurately (and the lie may still be up on the Internet), that I was “jailed” after the malicious Jewish-lobby “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] pressure group cabal (a volunteer arm of the Israeli Embassy in London) managed to procure a criminal prosecution of me a few years ago (2023; sentencing was in 2024).
In fact, I did not even get a suspended sentence, just a brief “community order” (basically, a few hours of discussions with a probation lady, about 5 hours altogether) and a fine (some internet sites “reported” that I had been sentenced also to do “community service”, i.e. slave labour. No, I was not).
For the truth about my trial and its aftermath, a rather more accurate account than you will see on rubbish platforms such as Talk TV, see:
Talk TV also hosts, occasionally, the one-time notorious Internet troll Stephen Silverman from the “CAA” (he grandly terms himself “Head of Investigations and Enforcement”), who is always whining about “antisemitism”. He used pseudonyms to target anti-Israel tweeters (almost all women). A very nasty individual.
I call it the “does anyone actually watch?” Talk TV.
UPDATE from Dubai as the sun goes down. Busy! Iftar soon! Gorgeous evening. For now, all strangely normal. Who knows what tonight will bring? Thank you @modgovae pic.twitter.com/6U0p8zh4z6
She seems to think that wonderful: a fairly underwhelming promenade, evening sun, a few palm trees, a few cafes, tall buildings and a marina nearby. There are worse places in this world, yes, but frankly I cannot see anything so great there.
I see you've realised you've got to stick to the government narrative or you can end up in trouble.
Israel's Iron Beam laser air defense system was developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems (primary contractor), in partnership with Elbit Systems (laser source) and funded by the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
Rafael has led the project for over a decade, with recent…
There's no template for how markets respond to the Iran crisis, writes @johnauthers. But the longer a shooting war goes on, the greater the risk of a major shock https://t.co/PPtJxUMqkq
NEW: The combined US-Israeli force has struck over 2,000 targets in Iran and achieved air superiority over Tehran. The combined force has continued to target Iranian internal security institutions responsible for maintaining stability and suppressing protests, including security… pic.twitter.com/mpCgt7UkEx
Why have the Iranians spent years not building up an air defensive capability? They know what the Israelis are like, and what their capabilities are. This is criminally negligent, as is the failure to provide the urban populations with hardened shelters.
Not Tehran 🇮🇷
This is Beirut 🇱🇧 last night, bombed by Israeli 🇮🇱 airstrikes
Trump 🇺🇸 has given Netanyahu 🇮🇱 the regional war he always wanted
Reuters ·Follow 16h · Tanker owners, oil majors and trading houses suspended oil, fuel and LNG shipments through the Strait of Hormuz after Tehran said it had closed navigation, raising fears of a major supply shock https://t.co/gylptEgbOE
Not if you have no investments. I have none, and if the UK financial outlook becomes gloomy, all the better for social national revolution somewhere down the line.
We’re at the occupation stage of *immigrants claiming to be a “darn sight more English & British” than English & British people* pic.twitter.com/FzU1D33enp
Here is @ShabanaMahmood being interviewed advising she would be okay living with her family, next to a barracks filled with illegal migrants.
It's much easier to say when you are on the other side protected, women are frightened to go out in Braintree and we have a migrant… pic.twitter.com/awPRqZPmJO
— Free Speech Shell (@FreespeechShell) March 2, 2026
Not English, not really British. Not a legitimate MP or minister…and not right.
My favourite go to when they say that we’re “one race, the human race” is stating “if that’s the case, why are “racially aggravated” offences a thing?”
— Anglo Restoration 🏴 (@AngloRestore) March 2, 2026
European civilization has more than one enemy.
The US and Israel have launched new strikes on eastern, western, and southern areas of Tehran, the ISNA news agency reported. TASS has compiled the key developments in the Middle East conflict:https://t.co/P9acoDMO6epic.twitter.com/KrbSxsWXOC
A Russian Emergencies Ministry aircraft has arrived from Egypt to Moscow with over 80 Russians, who left Israel via the land border, on board, a TASS correspondent reported:https://t.co/6umKrsjgBO
One good thing may come out of the Zionist-instigated American attack on Iran: the USA and others will not be sending so many missiles etc to “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime).
The condition of the Gandhi Hospital in Tehran after the night attacks by Israel and the USA. pic.twitter.com/SgkzyhZiE2
The Israeli Jews up to their usual tricks— bombing schools and hospitals.
According to a report from Hebrew 12, the Israeli military cabinet has informed the army that Iran is just warming up and escalating the war. The missile strikes will intensify, and there's no end in sight yet.
The Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters announced that three American warplanes were downed by Iranian air defense systems. pic.twitter.com/iuP4uJsHeo
I wonder whether the Iranians have saboteurs embedded. The Iranians are of course Shia, Kuwaits Sunni, but it might not be ideological; could be mercenary, if it was sabotage at all.
One troubling thing starting to emerge is that the Iranian drone strikes are proving more effective than military planners expected at the start of this conflict. They are much harder to detect and neutralise than Iran's ballistic missile capability. And much easier to produce.
One other thing about Keir Starmer's increasingly hopeless vacillation over the Iranian attacks on UK targets. It's obviously bad enough in its own right. But Vladimir Putin is sitting and watching this. What signal are we currently sending to him.
For once, I have a word of faint praise for Starmer-stein. After all, why should the UK join in (yet again) on the Jewish/Israeli side. As for “British base was attacked“, those bases now serve NWO/ZOG “American” interests, not those of the British people.
👀Looks like Iran has hit the oil facilities at Ras Tanura. Very big deal. Ras Tanura is not just the world's biggest oil export terminal. It's an iconic site that goes back to the very birth of Saudi as a petrostate. Here's something I wrote about it in Material World👇 https://t.co/aAuHc4xjP2pic.twitter.com/qw6MrhWmzL
Ah. “Saudi Arabian” oil (and gas). Discovered by Europeans and European-descended Americans. Extracted by Europeans and Americans. For a long time, refined by Europeans and Americans. Transported across the oceans by Europeans and Americans. Consumed mainly by Europeans and Americans. In another century, the Saudis will not be arrogantly visiting the cities of Europe and the USA, ostentatiously flaunting their unearned wealth. They will be back on their camels, and probably living in tents again. The same goes for the Gulf Arabs in general.
The thing about RAF Akrotiri is that it's not just another base, it's technically a British Overseas Territory like Gibraltar or the Falklands. Iran is attacking British sovereign territory. https://t.co/Q6xB6IxLBw
No. Reform UK could have won at Gorton and Denton if it were social-national, rather than a farrago of pseudo-“libertarian” finance-capitalist nonsense and worship of money, and also worship of Israel and the UK Jewish lobby. Also, it could have won if more English voters in that constituency had actually bothered to turn off the TV, and had got off their rear ends, and had voted. Also, had Farage put in more walkabout time there.
That said, the by-election result is most significant for the fact that Labour was trashed and trodden down. The fact is that Reform UK, despite its flaws, is still riding high, up to 30% in opinion polling, with both Con and Lab as low as 15%. Gorton and Denton may have rejected Reform UK, but Reform is still on track to gain hundreds of MPs in other areas at the next general election.
Stray thought
I was just reminded that the distance from Tel Aviv to the border of Gaza is a mere 47 miles, almost exactly the distance from my one-time (2002-2008) barristers’ chambers in Exeter to my (leased only, sadly) country house on the Cornish side of the Tamar. Once or twice, in emergencies, I managed to go door to door in only 30 minutes (on the dual-carriageway of the A30 for most of the journey but including single-track lanes and, in Exeter, traffic and traffic-lights).
It's crystal clear from the Hegseth press conference the United States has no coherent mission objectives or strategy. It's essentially bomb, see what happens, hope the Iranians rise up in some undefined way.
Starmer-stein is moving from being a mere clown to becoming a total joke.
No 10 says Starmer is ‘getting on with the job with the support of the Cabinet’ – but is unable to point to *any* public expressions of support from members of the Cabinet in the last 24 hours
They need street-cleaners in Vienna…(Mandelson has toothbrush, and will travel…).
It's hard to see how Starmer survives resignation of both his chief of staff and his director of comms within 24 hours of each other… feels like a No 10 operation in crisis and that this could be over quite quickly now.
HMS Cattistock comprises 50% of the operational UK based MCMV force. The other is Ledbury. Brocklesby has been out of service for 1026 days & Hurworth for 183 Chiddingfold hasn't been officially decommissioned, but has been laid up for 306 days. Bangor hasn't sailed for 750 days. https://t.co/TqEuQKYT0n
The suspects detained in the case of an assassination attempt against Russian Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev confessed to having acted on orders from the Ukrainian Security Service, Russia’s FSB reported:https://t.co/nwlLAxQn6ipic.twitter.com/9ZcTAYnLm3
I do not doubt that they confessed (whether guilty or not).
Triggers a few memories.
When I lived in Almaty, Kazakhstan (1996-1997), I lived on Prospekt Lenina, one of the main boulevards. One day, I heard that an American who apparently lived across the (very wide) boulevard from me had been found tortured to death in an armchair in his own apartment.
At the time, I was sole expat lawyer for a British firm in Kazakhstan. The other office staff, however, about 5 people, were under a Kazakh ex-policeman turned fake lawyer (I am sure that he had either bought or forged his qualifications).
This individual in my office had links to the KNB, the renamed Kazakhstan KGB, and told me that the murdered American had been a gay who had picked up two men at a casino. They had murdered him, thinking that he had cash. They had also stolen items from the apartment.
What interested me most about the story, however, was the assertion that, because the KNB had apparently suspected the American (a supposed journalist, working for an obscure Texas-based journal, of which no-one had ever heard) of being a CIA operative, and so had bugged that man’s apartment (both audio and video). There was therefore both audio and video evidence of the torture and murder, though (sadly for the victim) not seen until the next day. Had the KNB been watching in real time, they would have been able to save the victim.
The murderers were, it seems, arrested the next day, and (of course) confessed. I imagine that they were shown the evidence, but would very likely have confessed even had there been no evidence at all. The Kazakh police are rather rough.
There were few foreigners resident in Almaty at that time. I was told that there were about 50 Brits, and quite a few more Americans (in a city of, even then, nearly 2M inhabitants). I doubt, though, whether I myself was suspected of being more than a boring/innocent expat lawyer, but who knows?
Incidentally, I went for a talk at the British Embassy there, not long afterwards, about “personal security”, given by a visiting expert from London. I was often at the Embassy anyway, had met the Ambassador and others several times (and it was walking distance from my home).
There were about 30 British people, businessmen mostly, assembled to hear the words of wisdom.
“Von Smallhausen” mentioned the murder of the American, cast doubt on the idea that he had been a journalist, and also mentioned the not dissimilar case of a Swiss banker, also murdered in the city not long before.
The “visiting expert” also said that most expats he had met on his brief visit had assured him that Almaty was safe for foreigners, yet he himself had visited a nightclub in the centre of the city a day or two previously and, on exiting the club, had tripped over a dead body.
I have to say that I never had serious trouble while I lived in Kazakhstan (1 year), and what minor trouble I did have was handled one way or another. There again, I usually avoid nightclubs, bars, and casinos in most parts of the world. In fact, unlike most foreigners in Almaty at that time, I not only travelled by car but also on foot and even by local bus, trolleybus, and tram (there was no Metro at the time). My then girlfriend remarked that I had to be the only foreigner in the city with a monthly public transport pass, though I had my own driver to take me to the office and back. I like to wander and explore alone sometimes.
[view of Almaty, Kazakhstan. The boulevard shown is former Prospekt Lenina, now called Dostyk (Kazakh for “Friendship”). I lived on the right-hand side of the avenue, in a kind of Soviet penthouse at the top of the first of the two similar apartment buildings, about halfway up the photo]
Hard-to-believe news
Apparently, Tony Blair has been talking up the possibility of —of all people— Shabana Mahmood taking over from Keir Starmer, and so becoming, by default, Prime Minister! Jesus H. Christ! Has the woman not been over-promoted enough? She has already been appointed as Justice Secretary/Lord Chancellor and, since then, Home Secretary, despite having not practised at the Bar (beyond her one-year pupillage); she was a salaried “gopher” at a firm of solicitors for about 2 years after that.
Actually, I hope she does take over. That would sink the Labour Party completely.
Drone operators of Russia’s Battlegroup East destroyed a US-made Abrams tank of the Ukrainian army in the Zaporozhye Region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/78vkCY7xNh
[“I’ve canvassed every day, several times a day, for over 2 weeks
Overwhelmingly positive
Just had my first negative reaction
Labour voter
On the border of Longsight
“fascist!” he shouted
Interesting
The last time I checked the party that backed cancelling elections, scrapping jury trials, two-tier justice, repression through non-crime hate incidents, investing more power in unelected Quangos, presiding over a regime that arrests comedians and parents for merely sharing their views online, and brands its political opponents “extremist” isn’t the Reform party
It’s the Labour Party
Vote Reform, Get Starmer Out, Put Gorton and Denton First“]
That sort of tribal Labourite is more funny than anything. I suppose that the best-known of that type would be the talking-head hypocrite and scribbler, Kevin Maguire [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Maguire_(journalist)].
Incidentally, I was just looking at Betfair Politics. I have found that the betting odds are poor predictors of by-election results, but for what it might be worth, the Greens are now favourite, and are marginally odds-on, Reform is now around 7/4, but Labour has now gone way out, and stands at around 17/2 (Advance UK 150/1, LibDems 500/1, Conservatives 1,000/1).
Wes Streeting admits to Mandelson the Government has no growth strategy. Like I said, we've got months and months of this to come. Again, the idea Starmer can move on from this is for the birds. https://t.co/RwVmWTob6C
We've reached the point where what constitutes a good day for Keir Starmer is one in which:
a) His Communication's Director resigns b) His Scottish leader calls on him to resign c) His Health Secretary (again) accuses Downing Street of briefing against him
The naivety of the BBC and other msm can be stunning…
Ukraine will open ten arms export centers in Europe as part of a major wartime policy shift, Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Monday. pic.twitter.com/o7woycWHHr
Alex Soros, son of billionaire George Soros, praised Pedro Sanchez for granting legal status to up to 500,000 illegal migrants in Spain, calling it "true leadership" and urging other governments to do the same. pic.twitter.com/8Ri5uNMApr
They are like a poison in the body politic of every country where they operate.
"There are no real military bases in Ukraine. They would have been bombed. The entire army is scattered across abandoned houses in villages in the east of the country, in rented apartments and basements…"
5/10 this week, trumping the 3/10 of political journalist John Rentoul. I knew the answers to questions 2, 4, 5, 6, and 8.
Tweets seen
After the X platform revealed its algorithm, users discovered that critics of Israel were being heavily censored, and the reach of their posts had dropped by 90- 95 %. The entire algorithm now depends on whether a user criticizes Israel or not. pic.twitter.com/YHN8krvbEq
The poisoning of the world and the global conversation.
A group of Israel tourists in Morocco is provoking Algerian border guards by raising the "Israeli" flag on the Morocco-Algerian border. pic.twitter.com/LhtmCZ7Y8D
The US Department of War has published its new National Defense Strategy, which names the protection of US interests in the entire Western hemisphere as its key priority:https://t.co/Omgi455OL2pic.twitter.com/VIgc4VXfrb
"The Ukrainians have gone on the offensive. They are making threats and openly interfering in Hungarian elections. Their goal is to obtain funding and join the European Union as quickly as possible. As a member of the European Union, Hungary has… pic.twitter.com/Iv3O5sS5b1
The Guardian: The UAE is funding the first Israeli ghetto for Palestinians in Rafah. "The residential complex is like a large prison under Israeli control, with entry and exit controlled by biometric data (fingerprints)". pic.twitter.com/0BNe8NoT5u
A good week? This is the point the Government has reached. Keir Starmer has a few strong words for Donald Trump. And that's now the benchmark for good UK governance. https://t.co/MT0D2KMxNE
I would have gone harder on the economics here. Even UK/EU pro-immigration elites concede the economic arguments of 1990s/2000s no longer make sensehttps://t.co/KPXX4VnTqThttps://t.co/ghaeILeKh1
— The National Museum of the Royal Navy (@NatMuseumRN) January 24, 2026
Someone who killed several great empires: the German Reich, then (after 1945, when subject peoples were eventually allowed “independence” because the European nations were exhausted) the French, Belgian, Spanish, Portuguese etc, and…the British Empire as well.
Had Churchill not blagged his way into taking over as Prime Minister in 1940, an honourable armistice might have been, and almost certainly would have been, concluded between the British Empire and the German Reich.
Western and Central Europe would thus have been saved from the ravages of war, and Eastern Europe from at least some of the ravages of war. Stalinism would either have been defeated in the field, or contained east of the Urals. Eastern and parts of Central Europe would then not have fallen under the rule of the Soviet Union in the 1940s (which rule of course lasted until the late 1980s).
In such a scenario, there would have been no premature decolonization in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere. Massive damage to the environment and wildlife would have been largely averted.
That never happened, mainly because Churchill became Prime Minister of the UK. Almost everything else was consequential.
Disastrous.
We in the UK would also have avoided being gradually and largely taken over by the “you know who” special interest tribe. Oh, and would never have been invaded, whether by Windrush (etc) Caribbeans or by rubber boat migrant-invaders from every failed state in the world.
Seriously? What the hell America? How did it get so bad? I have a friend who was over recently, and he was saying it's even rough around Hollywood Boulevard… pic.twitter.com/5kFDOMIWCO
Not sure I've ever RTd Nadia before, but she's saying out loud what every Labour MP I know thinks and says in private.Starmer has never once shown any shred of interest in the views of his backbenchers since he became LP leader.Most of us knew his Govt was failing by end July 24. https://t.co/H554W0X29n
My blog posts from summer 2024 clearly show my own understanding of the early failure of both Starmer-stein and his Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment.
Konni Zilliacus was of affluent background, and had attended both Bedales (school) in Hampshire and, later, Yale.
The Zilliacuses met both Stalin and Tito, inter alia, during the late 1940s.
More of Trump’s “a little back from the frontline” antics with 42 Commando in contact in Helmand late 2006. (Too bad about the camera wobble – there was a lot going on) @thetimes pic.twitter.com/mnWxaBK109
The Royal Navy has reduced from 8 – 6 frigates (a 25% reduction) in just 2 months. While 13 replacements are under construction, they are years away from entering service.
This is an understandable move given hull fragility, but poses real challenge to RN to cover gap. https://t.co/A4VPqdLOG5
Congratulations to the @HMSOardacious crew on completing the World's Toughest Row. The Atlantic crossing raises vital funds for @RNRMC, supporting mental health and wellbeing for serving personnel and their families. An extraordinary achievement in the most demanding conditions. pic.twitter.com/yB7uWpbaud
I used to find it tiring (and boring) rowing on the Thames (when I was at school, well over half a century ago), but these people row the Atlantic! What a feat.
I've found a little gem in the Archives – an MI5 late Cold War paper referring in part to, and confirming the presence of, Soviet KGB & GRU Illegals in the UK. It'll take time to write up the whole paper, but it will be worth the wait!
Only real social-national policies can now save this country.
The London School of Economics ran a piece by Irene Coslet promoting her new book claiming Shakespeare was actually a Moroccan Jewish woman. Her evidence is shockingly poor: She says it must be true because Shakespeare wrote about women too well for a man. https://t.co/6VgI5cQV24
I, on the other hand, will presume that Irene Coslet herself is a Jewish woman, until I see evidence to the contrary. She may not be Jewish, in fact, but there is certainly more likelihood of her being Jewish than there is of Shakespeare having been a Jew.
We no longer have academia in this country, but a kind of degenerate pseudo-academia. “They”, of course, are well represented therein.
"We discovered Home Office guidance that quietly blurs the line between terrorism and “counter-cultural” views, viewing conservatives as being somehow equivalent to terrorists."https://t.co/pi5h9xhDnS
Britain must leave NATO, stay out of the EU, cold-shoulder Israel, and forge new and strong links with the Russian Federation.
Evain Incir, Member of the European Parliament: Belgium should be followed as an example, and the transit of aircraft carrying weapons to Israel should be banned. pic.twitter.com/IZgWuHZQeH
…and a detailed, much older but frequently updated blog post about the milieu of the now-defunct Jew rapist, sex trafficker, and Israeli agent, Epstein, which very long post goes into, inter alia, Epstein’s (and Ghislaine Maxwell’s) relationship with Israeli Intelligence, including both MOSSAD and Aman (Israeli military intelligence):
The Epstein inner milieu was essentially Jewish, though non-Jews with useful intelligence information, influence or “clout” (such as American future or ex-Presidents) were also invited to travel to “Lolita Island” on the “Lolita Express” private jet(s), and to stay on the island.
Some of the Jews invited by Epstein included Peter Mandelson, the famous Jew-Zionist lawyer Alan Dershowitz [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Dershowitz], and prominent members of the Israeli intelligence apparat.
…and this, showing Mandelson walking amiably in conversation with incredibly wealthy Jewish woman and Labour Friends of Israel member, Margaret Hodge (nee Oppenheimer) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hodge]:
As my old mum used to say "always judge by a person they keep" and boy Peter Mandelson keeps some shitty company. Toss up which one is worse pic.twitter.com/PWc3lWr3Hr
Starmer is, of course, also a Labour Friends of Israel member, as is Mandelson.
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Keir Starmer expelled Jeremy Corbyn from The Labour Party but he made Peter Mandelson the British Ambassador to the United States. pic.twitter.com/iWZDWosBVB
I would love to discover whether Starmer, when en famille, and during the Jewish religious dinners which he himself has said happen at his home on certain significant dates (his wife being Jewish, and his children brought up as if fully-Jewish), wears one of those little skullcaps (a “yarmulka“, I believe is the term).
[Starmer in discussions at a Jewish synagogue in London in 2022]
Peter Mandelson, now Starmer's Ambassador to the USA, with Jeffrey Epstein. I was sacked as Ambassador for opposing torture and illegal rendition. The worlid of power is a dark place indeed. pic.twitter.com/PJG4Byfh21
Bloomberg has a stash of more than 100 emails between Peter Mandelson and convicted paedophile, the late Jeffrey Epstein. Their disclosure are humiliating for the British ambassador to Washington and highly damaging for the man who appointed him, Sir Keir Starmer. I have… pic.twitter.com/JtXXqhD5my
So there it is. Starmer sacrifices Mandelson because the clamour became too loud.
Surely (?) Starmer will realize, if he has not already realized, that he is really not very good at this prime minister stuff…
Russian battlegroups made Ukraine lose a total of about 1,440 troops in the special military operation zone in the past day, according to data from the Russian Defense Ministry:https://t.co/fbB9wrdcEkpic.twitter.com/2hnEWX4aNR
I have noted this before on the blog, but I am always amazed to see the development that has taken place in Doha since even my second visit there in 2008, let alone my first in 2001.
The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, expressed the opinion that the war between Russia and Ukraine could last for several more years. pic.twitter.com/Y6JvAKJLmq
One factor alone: a couple of days ago, the first “unescorted” migrant-invader boat for about 2 years came to UK shores. In other words, every day, give or take, for the past 2 years, the migrant-invader untermenschen have been “escorted” to the UK by the Royal Navy, Border Force (farce?) or the (captured by traitors) RNLI’s vessels. Or, to put it another way, the invaders have been ferried here. Google “Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan”…
Translates to a Commons with about 445 Reform UK MPs, 71 Lab, 48 LibDem, 41 SNP, 14 Con, 7 Green (etc).
Who would ever have thought it? Not only the Reform upsurge, but a mere 14 Con Party MPs in the Commons, only seven more than the Green Party, and scarcely more than a quarter of the LibDem contingent.
Also, Labour projected to be on 71, having won or retained 412 MPs only just over a year ago, in 2024.
What makes recent polls even more remarkable is that Reform has climbed so high despite most people polled residing little trust in Farage, Reform’s leader (and I dare say that Tice, Reform’s deputy leader, and a total doormat for the Jewish lobby and Israel, would poll even lower, assuming that the public generally are even aware of his existence).
Imagine where an upsurge-party could be if it had a leadership cadre in which the public could reside trust!
The main two System parties have been binned by the British public already. They are running on empty (and their 2024 election results).
All too close to some human behaviour. I recall that Lenin had a statuette of a monkey holding a small human skull on his desk, supposedly a gift from the Jewish business exploiter, Armand Hammer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Hammer]
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US President Donald Trump has demanded a commitment from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to strike Qatar again, the Axios portal said, citing sources:https://t.co/dkKBHEb5YCpic.twitter.com/TYDzupcLtk
The Jewish “leader” of the misnamed “Green Party”, who thinks that a million migrant-invaders per year is “not a huge number” (not just the rubber-boat invaders —50,000-200,000 a year— but also the “legal” migrants).
It is easy to say that the open-borders Greens are just loonies that have no traction, but those loonies are currently polling at 12% in some polls. That is almost as high as the current polling of the “Conservatives” and the LibDems (both around 15% in some polls; in others the LibDems are on 12%, Cons 15%).
Of course, the Green Party is mainly default voting for some disenchanted former Labour Party voters. They are unlikely to poll, in a general election, as high as 12% (6.39% at GE 2024), but it is disturbing that so many people are willing to accept such rose-tinted socio-political fantasies as having any reality.
The fact is that the legal framework around “asylum” is totally outdated. It was never meant to apply in a world which is in such chaos that maybe 10% of the entire population of the planet, i.e. 800 Million persons, might plausibly have a “well-founded fear of persecution“…
One of the unexpected (?) detriments of the disastrous ending of the Second World War, which led to premature decolonization etc.
We are asking for the public's help identifying this person of interest in connection with the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University. 1-800-CALL-FBI Digital media tips: https://t.co/K7maX81TjJpic.twitter.com/ALuVkTXuDc
Well, Starmer can only be pushed out by his own MPs, unless he resigns.
In any event, Labour is toast whichever clown may replace Starmer-stein. Labourites can take comfort in the undoubted fact that the Con Party is even more “toast” than Labour.
Commuting into London = having to pay £33 for a 30 mile journey while navigating a tube strike because lazy people want to work 32 hours a week & say £72,000 isn’t enough while foreigners take off their shoes, treat the train like it’s their living room & have conversations on… pic.twitter.com/rl2frhkgXM
I cannot now remember how much my First Class monthly season ticket Brockenhurst-London Waterloo cost when I used that line near-daily in 1999 and then again in 2001, but it seemed extortionate, and for a not very reliable service. I just looked up, out of curiosity, what it would cost this month. £1,400 for the month. Nein danke!
A half-caste who cannot even express himself in the English language.
Oxford University, like the rest of the UK, is sliding very fast now.
Incidentally, the Oxford Union elections brought forth the following names:
“The full breakdown of results is as follows:
President-elect: George Abaraonye
Librarian-elect: Brayden Lee
Treasurer-elect: Matthew Chiu
Secretary: Samy Medjdoub
The six candidates elected to the Standing Committee are Arwa Hanin Elrayess, Liza Barkova, Prajwal Pandey, Daniel Eldridge, Katie Pannick, and Catherine Xu. Victor Marroquin-Merino was the runner-up.
The eleven candidates elected to the Secretary’s Committee are Vijay Pathak, Will Lawson, Milo Donovan, Sara Hughes, Qasim Ahmad, Zahra Saeed, Dheeraj K. Singh, Catherine Kola-Balogun, Trishaad Surty, Oliver Douglas, and Oliver Green.”
Had the Arabs inter se, and Iranians, not been very divided, very inefficient, and very corrupt, “Israel” would not have lasted a tenth of the time (77 years) it has.
The New York Times: Putin's message to Ukraine, Europe, and Trump — I will not back down pic.twitter.com/4oaz22WFLP
“Jeffrey Epstein was a very wealthy man, but exactly how wealthy and where that money came from remains shrouded in mystery.
Newly unearthed emails last week shone light on Epstein’s role as freelance client development officer, acting as a channel between political figures and business titans, greasing up the former with lifestyles they could not afford and the latter with avenues of political influence.
…the questions about the source of Epstein’s wealth have never been fully resolved. He was worth nearly $600m at his death, thanks mostly to two wealthy billionaire clients – Victoria’s Secret founder Les Wexner and, later, Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black – as well as Johnson & Johnson heiress Elizabeth “Libet” Johnson, sister of former US ambassador to the UK Woody Johnson.
Between his collection of lavish homes in New York, Palm Beach and Paris, two private Caribbean islands, two jets and helicopter, Epstein held nearly $380m in cash and investments, according to his estate.
That wealth arrived suddenly. According to associates, until the end of the 90s, Epstein was living in a two-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side close to the river. It was only when Maxwell arrived from London that his lifestyle was dramatically elevated.
Epstein moved to a townhouse on 68th Street and later to a 28,000-sq-ft mansion on 71st Street, later transferred to him by Wexner in 2011.
Steven Hoffenberg, a former business partner of Epstein convicted of running a Ponzi scheme, claimed that Maxwell’s father, disgraced press baron Robert Maxwell, introduced his daughter to Epstein in the late 1980s.“
Jews and others in the UK, USA, France etc who support the Israeli armed forces are at least morally complicit in Israel’s war crimes taking place in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and elsewhere. Some of those individuals and collectives are also directly complicit, sending financial aid to Israel, doing business with Israel, and sending young Jews to Israel for training in military skills, unarmed combat etc.
The present faux-“Labour” government is really a Labour Friends of Israel government.
It seems to me that early-morning raids should be kept for extremely serious and dangerous cases. Why for a contentious Facebook post—the reasoning escapes me, but guessing: personal power-trips? Or perhaps just—"the process is the punishment"?
I'm sorry to hear that. It's all very sinister and seemingly beyond any reasonable rationale. As I said in a separate post 'anarcho-tyranny' seems a good description of the general state of affairs with regard to the police pouncing non-issues like this; and, at the same time,… pic.twitter.com/VepqCu4k9F
All good points. When I was still a barrister, I occasionally, only very occasionally, had cases of that sort, despite not being at all a criminal specialist.
Incidentally, regular readers will know that I was both wrongfully and unlawfully disbarred in 2016, long after I had ceased practice, and by reason of a conspiracy by connected packs of Jews, particularly the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, and “UK Lawyers for Israel” [“UKLFI”].
For example, a case where a lady (married, young children, living in a private house in a close) was arrested in front of her children at about 0700 hrs because someone in the same little street thought that she might have thrown a stone 2 days previously that might have caused a scratch on the car of the complainant.
No evidence was ever adduced as to whether that car even had a scratch in the first place (it seems not); neither was there any evidence at all that anyone, let alone the lady in question, had thrown anything at all at any car. There was a complete lack of evidence not only as to whether the lady had committed a crime, but even as to whether any crime had actually been committed. There was no evidence, as noted, as to the car having been damaged at all, by any event or action.
Despite all that, Devon and Cornwall police woodentops actually arrested the lady (who, by the way, had no previous convictions), took her to the police station at Exeter, and held her there for 4 hours. She was never interviewed, and was eventually released without charge, left to find her own way back home. Her workplace was not informed of her arrest, and her young daughters had to find their own way to school.
The police these days often, indeed usually, do not do their proper job at all, but then they go completely over the top, especially if they can persuade themselves that “far right” “extremism” (“oooh!“) is involved.
Having said that, though I myself have been bothered at home by police nuisances several times over the past decade (once or twice by real police, once or twice by “PCSO” toy police), and always as a result of malicious complaints made by Jew-Zionists such as “Slitherman”, the liar and perjurer (albeit unconvicted), who is the main spokesperson for the “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, I have never been forced to suffer a “dawn raid” or night-time raid, not yet anyway. Indeed, when I was charged with my free speech “crime” in 2023, it was merely by “postal requisition”, i.e. a letter in the post, and I was not interviewed prior to that in relation to the bad-joke alleged “offences”.
British military leaders have arranged something in Kyiv. Officially, in front of cameras, and without publicity. This time, the Chief of the British Defence Staff Sir Anthony David Radakin and his future deputy, Chief Marshal of the Air Force Sir Richard John Knighton, came to… pic.twitter.com/84qiMVLAnI
[“British military leaders have arranged something in Kyiv. Officially, in front of cameras, and without publicity. This time, the Chief of the British Defence Staff Sir Anthony David Radakin and his future deputy, Chief Marshal of the Air Force Sir Richard John Knighton, came to Kyiv. The British General Staff is working on the participation of the British Air Force in a military mission in western Ukraine to close the airspace.“]
So the British state that cannot patrol the Channel, cannot keep order in its own streets, and cannot maintain a functioning Navy somehow has the means to close Ukrainian airspace. The grandeur of empire without the basics of sovereignty. One might almost think our rulers prefer…
[“So the British state that cannot patrol the Channel, cannot keep order in its own streets, and cannot maintain a functioning Navy somehow has the means to close Ukrainian airspace. The grandeur of empire without the basics of sovereignty. One might almost think our rulers prefer proxy wars abroad to confronting the slow-motion collapse at home.“]
Quite.
Look at those idiots, posing in Kiev in battledress, as if Kiev is in, in some real sense, a war-zone. They look so happy to be filmed with the Jew Zelensky and to find themselves on TV news. Promising to put the UK in the firing line on behalf of a fake state which did not even exist 35 years ago, and with which the UK has no commonality of interest at all.
Meanwhile, the real invasion of the UK continues, and our brave sailors and airmen do nothing to stop it.
Painted ships on a painted ocean. That Radakin person may be an admiral, or indeed a Sea Lord, but what is an admiral of a navy almost without ships? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy.
The same applies, mutatis mutandis, to an Air Marshal of an air force with very limited capabilities. In the Second World War, the RAF sometimes used a thousand bombers on a single raid, and lost hundreds overnight. Now, the entire RAF consists of about 200 combat aircraft, if not fewer.
Of course, even more money will be wasted on the Kiev regime, while the UK slides into disorder and need.
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What are you talking about. Reform is on 33%. It is No. 1 in the NATIONAL polls. Nobody has ever done this before. If you are idiotic enough to think “not good enough for me” then, with all due respect, good luck in the wilderness. Now is your one chance. Now. https://t.co/Z6rnSRPUDE
Yes. Reform UK, for all its faults (pro-finance-capital, pro-Jewish lobby etc) is, all the same, the only game in town to smash the existing main System parties. Later, after the next general election, the national revolution may devour its own children, and a new reality may emerge.
That translates to a Commons with about 348 Reform UK MPs (a comfortable majority), Labour 118, LibDem 72, Cons 39, and SNP 36 (etc).
Conventional wisdom has it that the Reform lead in the polls will flatten out, and the main System parties will challenge that lead, or come close. I wonder. My sense is that the British people have had enough, and are ready to try something other than what has failed for decades and especially since 1997.
It is not impossible to think that Reform, now on 28% in the latest opinion poll, and which has been as high as 33%-35%, might get up to 35% or even 40%. That really would be an electoral revolution (the 40% figure all but wiping out both Lab and Con).
Russian GDP will grow by at least 1.5% this year as estimated by the Ministry of Economic Development, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said at the meeting of President Vladimir Putin with the government:https://t.co/qbbnWxWVCGpic.twitter.com/RW7Fq4Rfku
The Kremlin will never accept the idea of NATO troops in Ukraine because NATO’s expansion is one of the reasons for the conflict, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said:https://t.co/1ypBJJGo4Opic.twitter.com/ISpVQOQ0Wf
…as predicted on this blog. A fairly obvious point, of course, but still one that the lying UK mainstream media concealed.
Germans believe Ukraine should cede territory to Russia, Die Welt poll finds. “Just over half of German citizens (52%) believe Ukraine should be prepared to cede occupied territories to Russia in order for a peace agreement to be possible,” the publication says. pic.twitter.com/nH6Dut7UvP
"If Russia does not take steps to end the war, it will be necessary to increase the pressure. The European Union is preparing new sanctions. The US President, for his part, will impose additional tariffs." pic.twitter.com/YUrN3s9W5L
“A woman was sexually assaulted at London Bridge station. It happened just after midnight on Wednesday, July 16, in the Tube area of the station when an unknown man walked up to her in the station and grabbed her by the neck before carrying out a sex attack.
“In the CCTV image provided by police, the man officers want to find is a bald black man wearing a navy or black t-shirt with white and blue stripes. Detectives believe he may have information to help with their investigation.“
[suspect]
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Ukraine troops tire of leaders’ words: ‘We live in trenches with rats’.https://t.co/sguMztqhHl
The Kiev regime’s front lines are crumbling. Russian forces are slowly advancing in all important areas of the overall front.
Matt if money wasn’t so tight to survive my daughter would have had another child, she simply cannot afford to
When I was younger it was always expensive having a baby but as my dad said you will make it work, that simply isn’t true anymore when they are counting every penny to…
Also, we only want real English/British people to breed more. Let’s be clear about that.
German investigators have reportedly identified all the saboteurs behind the explosions that damaged the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipelines, according to Die Zeit newspaper:https://t.co/0hiKChWYsBpic.twitter.com/quSoZJmUUA
In the capital of Greece, Athens, pro-Palestinian demonstrators launched fireworks at the Israeli embassy building in protest against the attacks on Gaza. pic.twitter.com/zmhAH22NFf
North Korea: 🔹 “Our stance is that we will never give up nuclear weapons, because they represent our credibility and security, and that is absolutely unchangeable.” pic.twitter.com/pHnUSaldu8
Koreans have a long historical memory. In the early 1950s, American bombing killed outright perhaps 300,000 civilians in North Korea. Subsequent starvation and exposure is estimated to have killed several millions (according to American air force general Curtis Le May, 20% of the entire population of the North).
Some may say that the North Koreans would not relate that to the present-day and to their pursuit of nuclear missiles, or have forgotten about what happened 75 years ago. I am not so sure about that.
It’s amazing that these people are losing all sense of reality. They are in panic mode.😂
The Prime Minister accused the leader of the opposition, Kemi Badenoch, of "echoing Kremlin talking points" as he quoted her from a previous interview on Sky News.
Ecce the System parties, squabbling while Rome burns.
Both pretend that Russia is some kind of invasion threat to the UK, which is total nonsense. Both are in the pocket of Jewish and/or Israeli interests.
Meanwhile, as the System-party Punch and Judy show continues, day after and week after week, the migration invasion also continues. 1,000-2,000 per day in small boats across the Channel, and another ~5,000 per day via “legal” routes (“business visas”, “students”, “fiances/fiancees”, “spouses”, fake “tourists” etc).
Kemi Badenoch's parents visited Britain from Nigeria for a couple of weeks to give birth to her and steal a British passport. Later she returned at 16 to get all the benefits of British citizenship by this fraud on the British taxpayer.. #pmqspic.twitter.com/ke9N6Eb3sR
— Dick Mackintosh🌹#StopTheWar (@DickMackintosh) June 4, 2025
Israelis deeply believe we're the chosen people, and if we are the chosen people, we can do what we like to the Palestinians. We present ourselves as the victims, we don't believe the Palestinians are human or equal to us.. #pmqspic.twitter.com/fFvuAfilU1
— Dick Mackintosh🌹#StopTheWar (@DickMackintosh) June 4, 2025
I read The Slaughter of the Innocent when I was in my early twenties.
Well worth reading, but wearing at the same time.
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The choice was there. In 80s Japan's PM Nakasone went on TV and offered a choice, immigration or economic pain with preserved/functioning culture at end. The Japanese chose wisely. We were never asked what we wanted. Those responsible should pay.
— Cultural Christian (@Japanology101) June 4, 2025
In the 1960s, 1970s, Britain still had avenues open to it that would have taken the country in better directions. Now, in several ways, but mainly by reason of the demographic changes, the black/brown (etc) invasion and births etc, we are being painted into a corner.
That poll is an outlier, in that other recent polls give Reform a Commons majority (this one would be 27 short, but in practice about 17 short), and this poll has the Cons in third place instead of fifth.
Stunning new research from @GoodwinMJ: at current rates of migration, the White British will be a minority by 2063, and by 2100 two thirds of the population will be migrants or the children of migrants.
— Sam Ashworth-Hayes (@SAshworthHayes) June 3, 2025
At that point, the UK might as well not exist. The only point of importance is to create an English/British/pan-European breeding bloc, to be the pool of genetic material for a people which can become the foundation for a much later super-race in Eurasia.
Free speech is fine as long as Israel isn't criticised.
The Jew-Zionist lobby has been gunning for Dr. Miller for years.
As to the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”], this blog addressed the CAA “lawfare” campaign(s) both recently and on previous occasions:
[“The CAA is a foreign influence operation which acts on behalf of the State of Israel, a hostile and illegitimate genocidal Jewish supremacist state. Its directors, staff and donors should be investigated by the security services under the National Security Act. This attempt at a private prosecution is a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP), and an act of desperation by the State of Israel in a propaganda war it has already lost. The State of Israel, via the CAA, is attempting to buy its way into the criminal justice system to silence critics of Zionism. They will fail. The Left Legal Fighting Fund is aware of several SLAPPs being brought by the CAA on behalf of the State of Israel against British public figures. We will defend those who are targeted with lawfare by the Zionist movement. To donate, go to: http://fightingfund.org/donate To notify us of a SLAPP the CAA is pursuing against you, DM me or email info@fightingfund.org We will defeat them. #DismantleZionism.“]
Rachel Reeves received £27,000 in donations from a lobbying firm owned by the private equity giant which tried to buy Thames Water, @theipaper can reveal
More corruption from the Starmer-stein/Rachel Reeves Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment.
"It's incomprehensible. Children are livestreaming appealing for their lives."
Israel has paused what little aid it was allowing into Gaza and UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram says it has reached a "critical risk of famine"@maitlis | @jonsopelpic.twitter.com/hM4zqeJnSn
…and the main Jew-Zionist orgs in the UK are still busy whining about what may or may not have happened to some Jews in the Europe of 80-100 years ago…and are privately prosecuting anti-Israel voices such as Dr. David Miller.
Incidentally, as the children (and others) of Gaza starve, the Jews (in Israel and elsewhere, including the UK) have just held their annual religious festival involving foods, especially dairy foods and sweet foods (symbolic of the Old Testament “land of milk and honey“)…
Part of the answer to that is the reason why it is pointless for General Blimps in the British Army to issue statements about the (non-existent) “nation” pulling together to face war with Russia (which is unnecessary and being contrived by secretive cabals in London, Paris, and Tel Aviv).
War with Russia is unnecessary. Conflict of any kind with Russia is unnecessary. War with Russia would leave the UK a charred and irradiated wasteland, and the way things are going, most of the survivors would not be English/British anyway.
he United States was not aware of the Kiev regime's plans to attack Russian airfields, American leader Donald Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin over the phone, Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov said at a briefing following the conversation:https://t.co/HH4gm9itYlpic.twitter.com/vfQmV38a1u
The British and French wanted to deploy their contingents in Ukraine under the guise of "security forces", but the US refuses to provide them with air support , Bloomberg reports, citing sources pic.twitter.com/XH5fvIMwgP
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 4, 2025
As noted already, secret cabals in London and Paris seem intent on triggering another truly major European war.
Starmer-stein has fewer troops every day. Officers and others are leaving, few are joining up. If the ones “training” in Ukraine are wiped out, the British Army will be left with little but headquarters staff and the odd online and “diversity” unit here and there.
Over the past three days, the Russian military leadership has been finalizing plans to respond to the recent Ukrainian airstrike targeting airports.
What happens next will be unforeseeable to Zelenskyy and his Western sponsors.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
The Russian Ministry of Defense received the first batch of new Su-35S fighters this year pic.twitter.com/6zxSefJmID
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
American naval group in the Middle East on the eve of Iran's attack on Israel pic.twitter.com/8X9XxAEmmg
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
Ukrainian failure will be “worse than Vietnam” for the West, Johnson predicts
If Russia takes control of Kyiv, it will become a disaster for “American leadership on the world stage” that is much greater than the outcome of the Vietnam War, Boris Johnson is sounding the alarm.… pic.twitter.com/uvlNUNyXJp
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
“Ukrainian failure will be “worse than Vietnam” for the West, Johnson predicts.
If Russia takes control of Kyiv, it will become a disaster for “American leadership on the world stage” that is much greater than the outcome of the Vietnam War. Boris Johnson is sounding the alarm.
He also said he was “praying” that congressional Republicans would end the roughly $60 billion blockade of funding to Ukraine, adding: “The situation is grim and the delay is appalling.”
The British politician also said that the chaotic flight from Afghanistan in 2021 is “nothing compared to a possible Russian victory in Ukraine.”
There are exciting possibilities opening up, potentially affecting not only the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, but also Central and Western Europe, including the UK.
You’re the Senator for Arkansas, not Israel.
America has no business meddling in the Middle East, let alone when it’s already $34 trillion in debt, you warmongering scumbag. https://t.co/GzGkZqk3EN
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 11, 2024
Promising to hear that the US is considering dropping charges against Julian Assange, but there is no undoing the irreversible psychological and physical damage that has been done to Julian and his health.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) April 10, 2024
The USA lost any right to claim the “moral high ground” post-Cold War when it engaged in torture and/or depraved humiliation of captives and/or the innocent at Guantanamo Bay, Bagram, Abu Ghraib etc.
As for the UK, the old term “America’s poodle” covers it well enough (or “Israel’s poodle“, as far as the Westminster monkeyhouse is concerned).
Why did every single institution of western Governments apply as much force as possible to ensuring everybody got at least three doses? We’re are just now starting to find out https://t.co/re2euaoZkL
After the senseless murder of. Pensioner,by a migrants. Weak inferior Westminster MPs ignore the heartfelt plea from Hartlepool MP, as she has constituents coming to her offices on a daily basis TERRIFIED of asylum seekers pic.twitter.com/hbB3FDPvqT
“my office…is besieged by asylum-seekers. Most of them are young men, illegal migrants, who should be expelled“.
Bravo!
Truth (for once) in the Westminster monkeyhouse.
Royal Navy recruits no longer need to be swimmers A source says there is concern about the change to entry requirements, which means there will no longer be a 30-minute swim test prior to being recruited, and brands the move "a sign of true desperation to increase recruitment… pic.twitter.com/WiwmSZYCFW
Very few choose to join any of the armed forces now, because the services have no prestige, a poor career structure (certainly for “other ranks”), poor housing and, at the end, after 3, 5, 10, 22 or however many years, are just dumped into civilian life, in many cases without non-military skills, without accommodation, and without much money.
Another point is that some potential recruits are being forced to wait for months, even a year or more, before being approved by the rotten private contractor, Serco.
Back in 1975, I was told by someone in the Intelligence Corps of the British Army that some people were desperate to join immediately because they had no roof over their heads, and literally no money. The Corps would stretch a point, and allow them to come in even before the paperwork had been completed, and before any binding commitments had been made.
Such recruits would be given accommodation (at Templer Barracks, Ashford, Kent, now turned into a housing development like everything else in England), would eat in the NCO’s mess (there are no private soldiers in that Corps), and something would be found for them to do for a few days or a week while the necessary box-ticking was being done.
If accepted, they would join the next recruit squad; if not, they might go elsewhere in the Army or, at worst, leave having had a week of food and shelter; no harm done. Not now.
Apparently, the various military units at Ashford (the Intelligence Corps at Templer Barracks, and also the much larger ordinary Army base which surrounded the guarded Intelligence Corps centre) have long since been moved on, and the area, redeveloped as housing, is now known as Repton Park, though I have just seen that there is a small reserve Army military presence nearby even today.
“George Henderson had to sell his home to repay nearly £20,000, years after ticking wrong box on carer’s allowance form.
A carer who says he was “dragged through the courts” and had to sell his home to pay back almost £20,000 in benefit overpayments is fighting to clear his name after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) acknowledged he made an innocent mistake.
George Henderson, 64, said he made a gain of just 30p a week while claiming carer’s allowance for his son John, who has learning difficulties and is addicted to heroin. He now costs the Treasury £1,000 a month more in benefits, having become homeless and too unwell to work.”
[The Guardian]
Really absolutely disgusting. Britain in 2024.
Also, look at the sentence imposed by a Crown Court judge in respect of the matter:
“He protested his innocence but was found guilty. In 2018, a judge at Preston crown court gave him a 32-week suspended sentence and ordered him to wear an electronic tag for 16 weeks.
Henderson is one of a number of carers the Guardian has spoken to after exposing how people looking after disabled, frail or ill relatives are being forced to repay huge sums to the government and threatened with criminal prosecution after unwittingly breaching earnings rules by just a few pounds a week.”
“In the high street of Crookes, a leafy hillside suburb of Sheffield with a large student population, there were plenty of people saying they would vote Labour at the next general election – but most weren’t too happy about it.
“It feels like the lesser of two evils – it’s definitely better than going back to what we’ve got,” said Amy Pattison, a 24-year-old occupational therapy student at Sheffield Hallam university. “All I know is I won’t be voting Tory. And whatever I do vote will be tactical.“
Most people said they would vote Labour for one simple reason – to get the Conservatives out of power.
“I’ll be voting for Labour. But I’m more anti-Conservative than I am pro-Labour,” said Chris Macdonald, a 30-year-old teacher. “If our voting system was different I would be tempted by other parties, but it feels like it’s Labour or Tories, and I want them out.“
[The Guardian]
That chimes with my feeling about overall voter sentiment. Few people really like the Starmer version of the Labour Party, but almost everyone wants the Conservative Party to go down (and preferably never get up again).
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
25 years ago, on April 12, 1999, on the second day of Easter, around 11:40 a.m., NATO bombers fired rockets and burned international passenger train 393 on the route Belgrade – Nis – Skopje, full of passengers, in the Grdelica Gorge, while it was crossing the Bistrica Bridge over… pic.twitter.com/xO1RT6SDaS
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
Another twist in the ‘hate incident’ shambles: @PoliceScotland say complaints against @HumzaYousaf did not ‘meet threshold to be recorded as hate incidents’. But this contradicts their own policy. And different from approach in my case. https://t.co/mgW05ttCFv
Exactly the sort of double standards now entrenched in England as well, where the Jewish/Zionist lobby has suborned the police and Clown Prosecution “Service”, “the usual suspects” never really facing the sort of nonsense “investigations” etc social-national people such as myself do.
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The US military transferred 12 F-15 fighter jets from the UK to the Middle East pic.twitter.com/T1P4YlgahD
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are ordering their citizens to leave Israel and Iran immediately.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 12, 2024
“A Utah mother whose harsh parenting advice made her a YouTube influencer has been sentenced to at least four years in prison for child abuse.
The two women were arrested in August 2023 after Franke’s malnourished 12-year-old son climbed out of a window at Hildebrandt’s house in Ivins, Utah. Police said the child then ran to a neighbour’s house and asked for food and water. He had lacerations from being tied up with rope, according to police records.
“[YouTube] fans started to become suspicious in 2020, when one of her sons mentioned that he had been forced to sleep on a bean bag for seven months.
YouTube viewers combed through her archives and pointed out other disturbing and controversial methods used by Franke – such as withholding food, threatening to chop the head off a toy stuffed animal and “cancelling” Christmas as a punishment.
Franke then began appearing in YouTube videos posted by Ms Hildebrandt – a counsellor and life coach – on her site, ConneXions Classroom.
Away from the camera, however, Franke’s children were being subjected to even harsher abuse.
This included tying them up, beating and kicking them, neglecting to feed them and forcing them to work outdoors in the summer without sunscreen, resulting in serious sunburn, according to police records.
In a plea agreement, Hildebrandt stated that she either tortured the children or was aware of the abuse and that she forced one of Franke’s daughters to “jump into a cactus multiple times”.
[BBC]
Terrible, and comes against a background of too-strict American parenting, though plenty of too-indulgent parenting exists there too. I concede that, as someone without offspring, I write as a mere observer. I do think, though, that many Americans are too strict with their children, but I admit that I have also seen much of the opposite tendency (children allowed to behave and speak rather rudely).
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Shapps should not be our defence secretary. He is a venal and corrupt politician. pic.twitter.com/iXOtZswHYm
From its proposed Racial Equality Act to exposing British children to critical race theory, the next Labour gvt plans to import the very same divisive ideologies that are tearing America apart https://t.co/NiXqpUIdeMpic.twitter.com/tT6JPf3Qba
Some type of civil war is coming. It may be in 2025, it may be in 2035 or later, but it is coming…
As to Matt Goodwin, I am wondering why he appears to be bolstering the electoral case for not only Reform UK but also the Conservative Party.
Having said that, I doubt whether anything can now save the Conservative Party, let alone the little Indian money-juggler, Sunak.
'Humphrey Burke was given an indefinite hospital order for the manslaughter of a prison van attendant & grandmother who he kicked to death while on his way to court.' Two years later, he is free https://t.co/QEkBWfnNzy Official who made this decision should have their signature…
As Powell said, “we must be mad, literally mad“, but it is not the British people themselves but a small minority —at Westminster, in the newspapers, on TV and radio, in the legal professions and the universities etc— who are the guilty parties.
In fact, the British people as a whole do bear at least some of the guilt, for being so apathetic as to allow themselves to be repressed and then, as is now happening, replaced.
"Over the next twelve years, 92% of all of Britain’s population growth will be driven by immigration"https://t.co/fvp6Iunciv
Nearly 100%, in fact, because almost all of the remaining 8% will be births to first, or second, or third-generation non-white women, and a relative few to white women but first/second/third-generation immigrant fathers. Hardly any to white couples.
“My daughter is two years-old. She’s already lived through three prime ministers, four chancellors, two monarchs, a global pandemic, and wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. What will she live through in the years ahead, I often wonder?
It’s a question most parents ask themselves. And it’s one I asked myself again yesterday while reading a new forecast on how Britain’s population will change over the next twelve years —which is not a very long time at all.
The forecast, from the independent Office for National Statistics, is striking to say the least. And I suspect many people out there in the country, many of the people who are perhaps reading this Substack, will find it deeply worrying.
By the year 2036, by the time my daughter turns fifteen, Britain’s population will have grown by another 6.6 million people. In just fifteen years, in just three election cycles, the population will surge by 10 per cent, rising from 67 million people to nearly 74 million. And of the additional 6.6 million people in the country —another 6.6 million people using the NHS, the GPs, the schools, the roads, and looking for a house to buy or rent— some 6.1 million will be here because of immigration.“
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 21, 2024
The Gaza slaughter is only continuing because the Jewish lobby in the USA now effectively controls, as it has done since at least the 1960s, both U.S. policy in Washington and, also, the American mass media, thus cheerleading the largely-ignorant and easily-led American masses.
Russian President Vladimir Putin: “Helping the people of Gaza is our sacred duty. It is our duty as humanity, and this is the requirement of our convictions.” pic.twitter.com/JP86WtJiGo
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 21, 2024
Russia and China have announced that they will stop using the US dollar in their commercial transactions. pic.twitter.com/JJuebgSzRz
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 21, 2024
Boris Johnson asked for 1 million in “US dollars, gold or bitcoins” for an interview on the situation in Ukraine, Tucker Carlson said
The journalist reported the politician’s demand to Blaze.
Carlson tried to arrange an interview with the former British Prime Minister, who… pic.twitter.com/zf2CNeqTvY
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 21, 2024
“Boris Johnson asked for 1 million in “US dollars, gold or bitcoins” for an interview on the situation in Ukraine, Tucker Carlson said.The journalist reported the politician’s demand to Blaze.
Carlson tried to arrange an interview with the former British Prime Minister, who called him a “tool of the Kremlin” because of the interview with Putin. But he asked him for a meeting for 1 million in “US dollars, gold or bitcoins”:
“I’m not defending Putin, but Putin didn’t ask me for a million dollars. So Boris Johnson is a much more slippery and nasty guy than Vladimir Putin.”“
NATO Secretary General said that the best way to honor the memory of Navalny* is to ensure victory for Ukraine
“ I deeply believe that the best way to honor the memory of Alexei Navalny is to ensure that President Putin does not win on the battlefield, but that Ukraine wins , ”… pic.twitter.com/SdwhGzfUsq
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 21, 2024
Does that idiot even believe what he is saying? Ukraine (Kiev regime) cannot “win”. It cannot regain the oblasti of Donetsk, Lugansk (and/or Crimea etc). It cannot attack, in any serious way, Russia itself.
It could only achieve those objectives by drawing NATO directly into the war (leading, probably, to a world war), or by somehow contriving a palace revolution in Moscow. Neither of those possibilities is likely to take place.
I have been wondering why the Western msm obsession with Navalny. Was it because, after the death of Boris Nemtsov, Navalny was the only high-profile opposition figure in Russia? Like Nemtsov, his support was only about 5% of the population, and could never have reached even 20%.
As blogged previously, I think that Navalny was almost certainly a braver man than me (going back from exile in Germany to almost-certain arrest in Russia), and certainly a more reckless one, inter alia.
The pandemic was never “Covid”. The pandemic was cowardice.
People sat back and watched as they took a sledgehammer to small businesses.
People let them deprive their kids of 2 years of education.
People wore face nappies that did nothing except make them sick.
Cowardice.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) February 21, 2024
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We pay more Council Tax than ever only for the bins to be collected less often than ever.
We pay more road tax than ever, when the roads are crumbing and vehicles are being damaged because of the number of potholes.
Why are we being robbed blind in the UK for nothing in return?
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) February 20, 2024
Various “reasons”, from the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic fallout to “Ukraine” (support for Zelensky’s corrupt, chaotic, and brutal dictatorship, and Israel), to the importation of millions of parasites. Overall, the shorthand terms “NWO”, “ZOG”, “WEF” and “Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan ” pretty much cover it.
Baby is born. Allocated a slave number and given over 20 vaccines before they’ve even spoken their first word.
Child goes to school, gets indoctrinated.
They grow up, get a job just to pay tax all their life.
A few years retirement and it’s over.
We are pawns in their game.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) February 19, 2024
Under Elon Musk’s new “free speech” platform, you can freely criticise the Left, you can criticise woke culture, you can criticise BLM, the LGBT cult, but you CANNOT criticise Zionism.
So many Anti-Zionist accounts vanishing it’s hard to keep track.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) February 13, 2024
Elon Musk, though he strikes me as an interesting person, is at the same time rather disappointing. Take away his untold millions and billions, and what would be left? Not much, really.
Today's Washington Post acknowledged the death in Spain of Russian defector Kuzminov pic.twitter.com/zl7YbnXLpP
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 21, 2024
The “whys and wherefores” are not yet known, as far as I can see, but the news brought to mind the old Chekist saying, “the legs of the traitor are not as long as the arms of the Cheka” [ЧК].
One of the vilest things I’ve heard on Gaza. From a public speaker outside of the Israeli government.
Andrew Roberts, from the UK House of Lords believes that there is a 2:1 ratio of Hamas fighters killed to Gazan civilians.
Roberts is, in my view, a largely ahistorical scribbler, who has posed as a kind of pseudo-aristocratic historian all his life, always having had plenty of money thanks to his father having owned both the well-known Job’s Dairy and also the UK franchise rights for Kentucky Fried Chicken (now KFC).
He is and always was pro-NWO etc. An “Atlanticist”, if you like. Now he seems to be regurgitating lying Israeli government propaganda instead of pro-Churchill ahistory.
A video circulating online shows an Israeli soldier mocking and riding a bicycle, as well as a scooter, reportedly inside a house in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/4Ew3C5h9Js
“Four of the Royal Navy’s smallest ships are preparing to head to the Arctic to represent Britain in a major NATO exercise after the fleet’s largest ship, the £3bn HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier, was forced to pull out due to a ‘propeller issue’.
Four tiny P2000s, which normally patrol coastlines with crews of five, were seen making final preparations before heading to Norway for NATO’s largest joint exercise since the Cold War amid fears of escalating tensions on Europe’s eastern border.
Notably absent from today’s preparations was the 65,000-ton aircraft carrier, usually manned by a team of 780, which experts say could be docked for ‘a couple of months’ as engineers scramble to fix it. “
[Daily Mail]
[from the Daily Mail]
Ha ha! “I see no ships“…
In the Second World War, little boats like that would usually be numbered, not named.
“Police broke up a snaking queue that formed outside a newly-opened NHS dental practice today, in scenes which illustrate the appointments crisis plaguing millions of desperate Brits.
One person stuck in the line outside the surgery in Bristol’s St Paul’s district was a disabled cancer patient who ‘had no choice’ but to brave the cold.
Meanwhile, a carer in her late 70s who chose to sit down on the path after waiting since 8.30am slammed the unacceptable delays.
A local news website compared the queue, eventually shut by police at 2.15pm, as being ‘reminiscent of Soviet-era Eastern Europe’, where queues for basic goods like food were an infamous part of daily life.“
[Daily Mail]
I was blogging several years ago about how basic services in the UK were gradually ceasing to work. Journalists started to catch up with me a few years ago. Now, almost everyone accepts it as a fact.
Happened to come across the local history piece above. I was struck by the relatively lenient sentences. The ringleader (caught ripping off a bank, and in possession of gelignite, detonators etc), got 4 years. He had 10 previous convictions. Even in those days, when people convicted did either 2/3 or 3/4 of their sentence (I forget) rather than half (as today, in most cases), he would have still been out in about 2-3 years. That was in 1962. He would get far longer today.
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Reports on the consequences of the bombing of the Israeli Air Force kindergarten in Rafah in the “safe zone” in the south of Gaza are flying around Arab TV channels pic.twitter.com/JbT7Ryee8s
Russia is said to have acquired a jet version of the Shahed-238, mass production of which is now being established in Alabuga. pic.twitter.com/FKRSFagzPn
Biden recalled his meeting with French President Francois Mitterrand, which took place at the 2021 summit. Despite the fact that Mitterrand died in 1996. pic.twitter.com/nPydUd2omJ
This war created great problems for Israel and the IDF, and there was an increase in the number of soldiers suffering from chronic pain, anxiety, insomnia and impotence. pic.twitter.com/AscgutHvYp
Don't let the door hit you on the way out Kwasi Kwarteng. No doubt several cushy jobs already lined up. Thanks for tanking the economy pic.twitter.com/kDdQyrKoIC
“A Metropolitan Police officer charged with multiple rapes tied up one alleged victim and threatened to ‘slit’ her with a knife, a court heard yesterday.
Cliff Mitchell, 24, came under investigation by colleagues after his alleged victim was seen trying to escape from his car, her wrists bound with cable ties, it is claimed.
His fellow officers were summoned, and after that ‘harrowing’ incident, in September last year, an investigation began, Croydon Crown Court was told, leading to a series of allegations against the policeman.
Yesterday Mitchell, who is no longer in the force, faced 13 counts of rapeagainst two alleged victims. Six charges relate to one female – including one when she was aged just 12.“
[Daily Mail]
[defendant…]
“The case continues”…
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[Stuttgart 1945…]
Europe has already been devastated within living memory. The leaders of Europe, particularly in the councils of NATO and the EU, must stop provoking another and even more devastating war.