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Diary Blog, 6 June 2026

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[The Wicker Man (1973)]

Talking point

Saturday quiz

Well, 8/10 this week, thus again trumping political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 8 and 9.

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Certainly true of the UK, France, and Germany.

The BBC had one of its goblin drones on BBC News this morning, “explaining” that “of course” the recent Southampton murderer, though a Sikh, was “not an immigrant” and is “British“…

Not in any real sense.

For me, there are several types of migrant-invader, among which, the “illegals”, the superficially “legal” and, also, those born here but to those of non-European/non-white parents (either one parent or both).

Incidentally, I still oppose the Southampton protests (and all similar protests), particularly if they are violent or forceful, not because I would —under all circumstances— oppose such protests but because, as matters stand, the protesters have not the numbers, leadership, or discipline to achieve victory in the field.

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[Kreisleitertagung auf der Ordensburg Vogelsang vom 22.-29.04.1937]
[tank commander of SS-Totenkopf (3rd Division Panzer) rides through the streets of Kharkov in 1943; note that he wears the Iron Cross; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Battle_of_Kharkov]

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Fact.

The decline in fertility across the world is a stunning but relatively little-discussed fact.

I think, subject to correction, that that news about India means that the only remaining parts of the world where the populations are growing via births, rather than from mass migration, are Pakistan, Bangladesh, and parts of Africa. Unfortunately, these are some of the most backward, and least useful, people on Earth, and are also those who, among others, are invading Europe (and elsewhere) on the mass scale at the present time.

[Germany 1945: “We are fighting for the future of our children!“]

The population of the world now stands at about double what it was in 1970. There may, quite soon, soon be a collapse in the population of the world. If, then, the European peoples can reassert their supremacy, the whole world will benefit and move into a new age, aided by European-controlled AI and robotics.

Our numbers, as Europeans, or European-origined people living elsewhere in the world, are small compared to the non-whites in the world, true, but our historical armies, navies and air forces can be replaced by huge new robot armies, and by drones in the air and at sea.

This is no longer science fiction but, germinally, everyday fact. Look at the war in Ukraine, and what is happening in the Middle East.

Europe can come back, regenerate. We can come back. This is now possible.

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[“Do I agree with him? No. Do I want another Reform MP in Parliament? Categorically not. The abortion stuff particularly was a disgrace. BUT he certainly did handle himself quite well on QT and I said so and he’s a lot more personable than most Reform candidates and I had a very extreme one in 2024. Suspect there will be some shy Kenyonites. Suspect it will be closer than people think. Whatever I think about Reform, Labour deserves to get battered for calling this by-election. Some of the worst optics in living memory.“]

Even a former “Conservative” lady (ex-wife of a former Con Party MP), and with some very odd and badly-thought-out “antifascist” opinions, rather likes Kenyon, the Reform UK candidate at Makerfield.

Kenyon has made some vulgar remarks (mainly about Carol Vorderman, who is quite vulgar enough already), but is a genuine local person, and not at all like Andy Burnham, who is a pro-immigration and anti-free speech careerist and freeloader.

Labour seem to be slightly ahead at Makerfield, ahead of Reform (Restore also doing well in third place, and the Green loonie nowhere), but the game is far from over. Maybe Reform can still pull it off.

They call that “democracy”, it seems. Farcical.

For once, I agree with him, except that the suggested database needs to go back to 1967, and not be limited to those with Israeli or dual Israeli-UK nationality.

Jews go from the UK to be trained in the use of weapons, explosives, knives, and unarmed martial arts such as the brutal streetfighting techniques of Krav Maga [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krav_Maga].

In effect, such “British” Jews are trained potential terrorists, albeit that they have not, most of them, been activated, but are, effectively, “sleeper agents”. They form a potential pool of active agents, or support-cadres, for Israeli Intelligence agencies such as MOSSAD and Aman and, in times of trouble, a pool of potential active urban guerrillas under direct Israeli control.

A real British government would take the necessary measures to contain, at the least, this potentially dangerous group.

Talking point

Applicable to many institutions and socio-political problems in the UK right now; the NHS, for one.

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[“In 2005, after two British Special Air Service operators were captured in Iraq and approval for a rescue was refused, a lieutenant colonel allegedly disobeyed orders and sent about 20 SAS personnel to retrieve them. When the government pushed back, the entire Special Air Service reportedly threatened to resign en masse.”]

Sometimes, “the rules” laid down by those “on high” have to be bent or broken. Also, if paradoxically, what makes a society work, whether the society of a nation-state, or that of an elite military unit, is mutual loyalty. Without that, the whole thing falls to pieces, as it has been doing in the UK for half a century.

Cathy Newman is a typical UK msm termite, working away to destroy our society (while being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds per year for doing so). Typical pseudo-“liberal” multikulti hypocrite.

Incidentally, while I do not believe that non-Europeans should hold any political office in this country, it would be dishonest of me not to recognize Zia Yusuf’s political skill.

[“Looking to make contact with the prisoners or families of those charged and imprisoned in relation to the Southampton unrest. We still have money in Patriotic Alternative’s Political Prisoner Fund and we can support families or dependents with £1000 per child, just as we did with those after Southport. Please get in touch with me here or at hello@patrioticalternative.org.uk.”]

Never forget “the men behind the wire”, even if you do not agree with their tactics or timing.

Over the past 14 years, my respect for the police of the UK has slid from fairly high to near-zero, by reason of the way the Jew-Zionist lobby (mainly the liars and perjurers of the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”) have managed to demand or whine and so get the police to do what they want, most of the time.

The same is true of the Crown Prosecution Service [CPS], except that I have always had little time for them anyway.

…and completely useless black/brown parasites (there are a tiny number of exceptions).

That idiot is as bad, in his own way, as Starmer-stein.

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One of the big questions is as to whether Restore (not mentioned in that poll) and Reform are fishing in the same pool, or whether one (Restore?) or both are, or will be, able to get usual non-voters, those disgusted by the choice previously available, out to vote. In other words, is the “nationalist” vote around 30%, or could it be 35%, 40%, or even 50%?Open question.

Taking that opinion poll as stated though, it translates to a Commons with about 378 Reform MPs (excellent majority), LibDems 60 (very weak official Opposition), Lab 56, Greens 54, SNP 44, and Cons 39 [etc].

Incidentally, on those figures, Labour would lose both Holborn and St. Pancras (Starmer’s seat) and Makerfield (which may or may not be Andy Burnham’s new seat); the former to the Greens, the latter to Reform.

Let us say, though, that Restore fights all of the GE seats contested by Reform (and the System parties). Even were Restore to win almost no seats, that would badly damage Reform, almost certainly. A hung Parliament might be the result.

[“Latest on Mandelson/McSweeney messages:

  • Downing Street briefed journalists the messages relating to the 5 September reshuffle had been withheld at the request of the Metropolitan Police. But today the Met have told the Mail on Sunday this is untrue, and they did not ask for the messages to be held back
  • Two of the unpublished messages from Mandelson to McSweeney reportedly relate to Darren Jones and Peter Kyle. Both of them were subsequently promoted in that reshuffle
  • On 27 February Mandelson accompanied Keir Starmer to a meeting at the Washington offices of Palantir. No minutes were kept of the meeting, and it was not included in Starmer’s official schedule. The Mail on Sunday has learnt that a week after Starmer returned from Washington Cabinet Ministers received an instruction from No.10 to meet with Palantir representatives.“]

Well…Palantir is the sinister Israeli/Jew organization getting hold of confidential data about UK citizens. Starmer-stein is a creature of the Jewish/Israeli lobby. The same is true of Mandelson, Morgan McSweeney, Darren Jone, and Peter Kyle.

This is a complete Jewish/Israeli set-up, and connected with the Epstein scandal.

Well, you know what to do about it. There are precedents.

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[“The Motherland Calls“, Volgograd; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Motherland_Calls]

Diary Blog, 16 March 2026

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Just the place for a holiday or an investment opportunity. Oh, wait a moment…

Were the UK to leave NATO and cultivate friendly relations with Russia, we could have Russian oil and gas at cost price.

What did you expect from Starmer-stein, a clueless careerist and moneygrubber who finds it hard to distinguish between a man and a woman…

Actually, that reminds me of the so-called “Ukrainian rent boys” trial involving Starmer, and which I believe has now been delayed even longer. Will be interesting to see what transpires.

As blogged previously, Starmer is trying to please both his largely Muslim —and other anti-Israel— voters and, at the same time, Israel and the UK Jewish lobby, that put Starmer into the Labour leadership, and so the office of Prime Minister, in the first place.

A house divided against itself cannot stand“…

Not an issue that affects me personally now, though it would do were I still living in the large country house of which I had a lease in the 2002-2004 period. That house had an oil central heating system so complicated that two engineers had to come from the Midlands, maybe Derby, to tell us how to set the controls on the control panel (in the cellars), a panel that looked like something out of an old sci-fi film, or Stingray.

The oil was delivered by road tanker once a month, and they pumped enough to fill the tanks, so the price varied depending on usage, i.e. on the season.

As to the cost (and bear in mind this was well over 20 years ago), one cold January I got a bill for oil, for the month, of not much less than £700. For today’s value, I suppose you would have to add on the cost of coal and logs for the open fires (another £100 at least), then more than double it. Make it £1,600. For one month. That did not even cover heating the whole house, just some bedrooms, drawing room. library, kitchen/morning room area, Victorian conservatory, and the inner hall. We closed off many sections, including the ballroom.

God knows what the actual cost today, and/or soon, might be.

[my rented “splendour” in Cornwall, lived in during 2002-2004]

Quite. The Jews of Israel started this war, Trump concurred because they effectively control him and his increasingly mad administration (they may be blackmailing him re Epstein etc), and they and Trump must now face the Iranians alone.

Incidentally, should Israel fall at some future point, and Jew “refugees” start to play the victim (again) and want to move en masse to Europe, Europe including the UK, Ireland etc, should reply, “NEIN DANKE!

If only we in the UK had done that in the 1930s and 1940s.

[“Professor John Mearsheimer:

We’re not winning against Iran. We’re not winning.

We’re sending a message that we’re a bunch of fools. That we started a war we can’t win.

We didn’t have the required military forces to achieve any of the objectives that we were floating, and we had no plan.

What does this tell the Chinese and what does it tell the Russians?

It tells them that we are incompetent. Of course the Russians have had enough dealings with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to fully understand just how incompetent we are.“]

Typical of the sort of nincompoops recently heading and/or now heading the armed services in the UK (maybe other services too, in fact). That one wants the UK to send its few ships to the Gulf to assist the evil Israeli regime and the mad Trump regime to fight Iran. A contrived and unnecessary war which has nothing directly to do with us.

Admirals who send ships into unnecessary wars, knowing they may well be sunk, and generals who send troops to almost certain death when they need not do so are unfit and should be dismissed or (if retired, like that one in the Daily Mail) ignored.

Now imagine the situation were there either an effective police force in this country or, failing that, a kind of British Freikorps, a squad of which would immediately detain and/or eliminate the migrant sex criminal.

Monkeyworld.

A former diplomat/intelligence officer (whose brother was a noted SAS officer): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Crooke.

So, possibilities are that Netanyahu has been assassinated, or that he has been hit and badly injured and so is receiving medical treatment in a secret location, or that he is in some bunker or headquarters, plotting his next move.

There has even now been mooted an Israeli nuclear attack on Iran.

If the [Israeli] Jews use nuclear weapons, after having fomented and then started this war, and after their 2.5 years of sadistic destruction and slaughter in Gaza, one thing is sure— the people of the world do not and will not want to hear any more of the old “holocaust” farrago from them.

Ed Davey is a total buffoon, and the LibDems are a joke party, only polling at 10%-15%, but luckily for them their vote is concentrated in 50-100 seats, which therefore gifts the LibDems (at present) 72 MPs.

They should be publicly executed, as a warning to other evil individuals, and to mark societal abhorrence.

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Diary Blog, 9 April 2023

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If you wish to destroy capitalism, first destroy its currency” [Lenin (?)—possibly apocryphal, though quoted in altered form by Keynes].

Actually, Lenin was not always mistaken. His words, “Capitalism is commodity production at its highest stage of development, when labor-power itself becomes a commodity“, reflect a form of reality.

Rudolf Steiner said that, in the 4th Post-Atlantean Age and culture, the predominant form of work or labour was slavery; in the 5th Post-Atlantean Age (which includes the present time), the predominant form is labour or work as commodity, something to be bought and sold, but in the 6th Post-Atlantean Age, work will be, predominantly, “free gift“.

See also: https://anthroposophy.eu/Current_Postatlantean_epoch.

The Western leaders have brought their nations to the brink of disaster. First the banking crisis, then another, as well as the “Covid” nonsense, and now “support for Ukraine” (meaning arms and ammunition and money for the dictatorship of the cabal of Zionist Jews in Kiev, of which Zelensky is the figurehead).

The peoples of Europe are suffering because of the crazed obsessions of the NWO/ZOG leadership of the USA, Canada, UK, France, Germany etc.

The 5th Post-Atlantean Age: fragments

https://steinerlibrary.org/Lectures/121/RSP1970/Lecture_08.html

https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA124/English/RSP1985/19101107p02.html

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The increasing sclerosis of the Western world.

In fact, the above ages relate to the 1776 Declaration of Independence. Washington was 44 at the time, though lived until the age of 67.

Aaron Burr was 20 in 1776, but 45 by the time he became vice-President (1805).

The 18thC was a time of young men rising suddenly to high position, as was the case with Napoleon, who became First Consul at the age of 30 (1799) and Emperor at the age of 35 (1804), having already achieved high rank (Lt.Col at 23, and Brigadier-general at 24).

In the Second World War, young men were able, if they had luck, Fate, and maybe a good start, to rise rapidly, even if they were not always the brightest: Colonel Stirling, the SAS founder, for a start. He was commissioned in 1940, yet left the Army in 1945 as Lt.Col.

Enoch Powell, later famous as politician, enlisted voluntarily as a private soldier in 1939, was commissioned in 1940, and ended the war in 1945 as a brigadier.

Those were exceptional times and exceptional people too— Enoch Powell in terms of intellect and willpower, Stirling in terms of daring, courage, and unconventionality. Stirling in particular would not have gone beyond major, if that, in more peaceful years, certainly not in 5 years of service.

Now, we see that, except for pop singers, hardly anyone comes to real prominence below the age of 30, or even 50. One can think of the catspaws of the transnational System, perhaps, the likes of Greta Nut, or Malala Yousafzai. There are occasional unexpectedly young MPs here and there, such as the fairly idiotic young woman who was 20 when elected in 2015 to Parliament in the SNP interest.

They, however, are not truly prominent. A couple of media freaks, arguably; a minor MP from a minor political party.

The very structure of society and its occupations now militates against early prominence. The pace of promotion for almost everyone is incremental rather than sudden.

The population of society is becoming older. That is to say, the main population, the white population. The UK non-white population grows steadily younger (and larger).

There is also to be taken into account the increasing repression of freedom of expression in the UK and some other countries. Enoch Powell, as a captain in the Intelligence Corps, was arrested briefly (as suspected spy) when singing the Horst Wessel Lied. In wartime England! Nothing untoward happened, and he was promoted to major not long afterwards.

Imagine that today! Impossible. The young officer (Powell was about 29) would probably, at very least, kiss goodbye to his Army career.

That “chilling effect” on freedom is everywhere now, the product of a general fear of sticking the neck out. Behind it? Partly the “political correctness” and/or “woke” element, partly the Jew-Zionist lobby and its constant conspiracy to repress the free speech that used to be one of England’s most treasured possessions.

Out of the loop

I was once,a decade ago, accused by a C. of E. vicar on Twitter of being “a bit out of the cultural loop“. Maybe. I was certainly puzzled to see today on Twitter that “Martial” was trending.

I thought, certainly not the ancient Roman poet [Marcus Valerius Martialis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial], but what else? Something military?

Turned out to be a footballer of the same short name [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Martial].

Maybe the vicar had a point. On the other hand, maybe it is not worth being in “the cultural loop“, if that is the content.

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For once, I agree with Maugham. Yes, the “licence fee” is not called a tax, but it is a tax by any other name, and people can and do go to prison for non-payment (which is a disgrace). The BBC knows that if it annoys the prevailing government too much, the “licence fee” will not be increased, or may be binned altogether, thus taking away the BBC’s rice bowl, and those of its overpaid and mostly pretty poor presenters, “comedians”, and other talking heads.

I think that the only intelligent Ukrainian I ever met was the then Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK, Sergei Komissarenko, with whom I travelled in the ambassadorial limousine from the London embassy to the Porton Down scientific complex (biolab campus) in Wiltshire, about 28 years ago. I have blogged about that previously.

I can think of a few suitable targets myself.

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Diary Blog, 7 April 2023, including San Francisco murder

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[Ipanema, Brazil]

“Thought for the day”

We are not just facing opposing “ideas” or “policies”, and are not just speaking up for what is right, and/or as a contrary social or political bloc. We are facing new forms of Evil in much of the world, especially the advanced “Western” world. Evil must, eventually, be vanquished directly. That time will come. A titanic battle for race, culture, and civilization.

What an earlier age termed a “holy war”.

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11946767/Cash-App-founder-Bob-Lee-seen-video-staggering-collapsing-stabbed.html

Looks like San Francisco is even more of a jungle now than was portrayed in The Streets of San Francisco.

I have never been there, though I knew a few people who did visit, and who liked it, but that was then… 1970s and 1980s.

[Russian Hill, San Francisco]

So far this year there have been 39 murders in the city. The San Francisco Police Department is currently experiencing a shortage of 541 officers. 

Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk was among a host of tech leaders hitting out at the lawlessness in the wake of Lee’s slaying, writing on Twitter: ‘Many people I know have been severely assaulted.

‘Violent crime in SF is horrific and even if attackers are caught, they are often released immediately.’

Locals told DailyMail.com they blamed the ‘soft-on-crime’ progressive policies brought in by the likes of former District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who was tossed from office in a recall election last year.

‘It’s too liberal. Too much. And we’re paying for it,’ said one. ‘Repeat offenders are back out on the streets in a heartbeat and there’s nothing we can do about it. We’re scared.’

[Daily Mail].

So who is that former District Attorney whose policies seem to have led to the present chaos? Here he is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesa_Boudin:

Boudin was born in New York City to Jewish parents.[9]

His parents, Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, were Weather Underground members. When Boudin was 14 months old, both were arrested and convicted of murder for their role as getaway car drivers in the 1981 Brink’s robbery in Rockland County, New York.[10] His mother was sentenced to 20 years to life and his father to 75 years to life for the felony murders of two police officers and a security guard.[11][12]

After his parents were incarcerated, Boudin was raised in Hyde ParkChicago by adoptive parents Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who, like his parents, had been members of the Weather Underground.[13] Boudin reports that he did not learn to read until age nine.[14] Kathy Boudin was released under parole supervision in 2003.[15][16] Gilbert was released in 2021.[17]

Boudin descends from a long left-wing lineage. His great-grand-uncle, Louis B. Boudin,[18] was a Marxist theoretician and author of a two-volume history of the Supreme Court‘s influence on American government, and his grandfather Leonard Boudin was an attorney who represented controversial clients, such as Fidel Castro and Paul Robeson.[19] His uncle Michael Boudin[18] was a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and his grand-uncle Isidor Feinstein Stone (“I. F. Stone”) was an independent progressive journalist.”

[Wikipedia].

Well, who would have thought it?

Incidentally, “Bernardine Dohrn was born Bernardine Ohrnstein in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1942, and grew up in Whitefish Bay, an upper-middle-class suburb of Milwaukee.[1] Her father, Bernard D. Ohrnstein, changed the family surname to Dohrn (his middle initial plus the first letters of his last name) when Bernardine was in high school.[2]

Her father was Jewish, although the name change was intended to obscure that.”

[Wikipedia].

Is London not going the same way as San Francisco?

Sven Longshanks

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65142942.

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Seems to be a really good cause.

It occurs to me that there should be at least a basic “NHS for animals”.

Zelensky, the Jew dictator in Kiev, is blowing out hot air rather than a realistic possibility. There is no prospect of Ukrainian/Kiev regime forces reaching the borders of the Crimean Peninsula.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/bakhmut-why-russia-ukraine-are-battling-so-hard-one-small-city-2023-03-14/.

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[Corcovado, Brazil]

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Yet no less than 458 utter mugs, as of today, are still sending “Jack Monroe” a total of several thousand pounds every single month via Patreon. Why that should be, I have no idea, though quite a few people tweeting in her favour (the ones who are not “Jack Monroe” herself using “sock accounts”) seem either not terribly intelligent, or seem to be mentally…er…odd.

Looking beyond the exact pictures shown, certainly largely true of the past couple of thousand years; however, equally obviously, looking at the central caption, there are exceptions in various parts of the world, mainly in east and south Asia.

All the same, true overall, as well as re. the pictures shown.

Interesting historical sidelight

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/36/a5353436.shtml.

Just before my father died he told me a story of his time in france serving with
A squadren 1st sas. The same story was told to me after his death by one of his old mates who was with him at the time. Their job in france was to sabotage transport, communications, weapons. etc. in the day time they would live in the forests. Making their way back from a hard night blowing things up, they came across a group of french resistance soldiers who had captured a young German soldier. The German was very frightened, he begged the sas to take him with them as he said the french were going to make him dig his own grave and shoot him. One of the sas men said joking, lucky they don’t shoot you then make you dig your grave. The French weren’t very happy when the sas took him but they did. They told him that if he tried to escape the French would kill him. Every night the sas would go out and do their job and when they got back the German would have a brew waiting,as he was happy to be alive. When they flew back home they took the German with them. They had done their job and saved the life of a young German soldier. My dad’s friend also told me that the German soldier had attended an sas reunion many years later. This breed of soldier is fast dying out. I hope these stories will live on lest we forget them
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[BBC website; republished here as originally written].

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Stopping the invaders from invading would require firm political leadership, powerful armed forces and the willingness to use them, and both political and naval/military leaders who really love England and are going to fight to stop it being trashed further. None of that exists at present.

In fact, looking at this country now, it is almost a hollow space, without real content. Look at any major aspect— police, MPs and fake “peers”, legal system, msm, NHS.

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Terrorism and Reason

Thoughts about the recent “Islamist” terrorists

When Joseph Conrad wrote The Secret Agent in 1907, he used as the basis for his plot a real plot of 1894 to blow up the Royal Observatory, Greenwich: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Agent#Background:_Greenwich_Bombing_of_1894

In 1920, Conrad wrote this about a discussion about that real event of 1894:

…we recalled the already old story of the attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory; a blood-stained inanity of so fatuous a kind that it was impossible to fathom its origin by any reasonable or even unreasonable process of thought. For perverse unreason has its own logical processes. But that outrage could not be laid hold of mentally in any sort of way, so that one remained faced by the fact of a man blown to bits for nothing even most remotely resembling an idea, anarchistic or other. As to the outer wall of the Observatory it did not show as much as the faintest crack. I pointed all this out to my friend, who remained silent for a while and then remarked in his characteristically casual and omniscient manner: “Oh, that fellow was half an idiot”.” [Wikipedia re. Conrad— The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale]

The supposed attempt on the Royal Observatory has in the past been described as “pure terrorism”, in that there could be no direct political “reason” to explode a bomb at or destroy the Observatory. I say “supposed” attempt because it was never proven, though it is hard to imagine any other reason why an anarchist carrying a bomb would climb the hill from Greenwich. Anyone who has been there knows that, to this day, the Royal Observatory stands alone, apart from an ice-cream shack etc, at the highest point of Greenwich Park; there is there no obvious other potential target:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Park#Royal_Observatory

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

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

In more recent years, that is in the 1990s, the Provisional IRA blew up buildings in London etc, trying as far as possible not to injure or kill anyone. That secondary intention was not born out of compassion or military decency, but purely out of reasoned calculation: destruction of important buildings in the City of London and elsewhere hit the “British Establishment” but resulted in little or no public outrage.

That campaign of the 1990s was in fact the polar opposite of the 1970s bombings of the Provisionals. Those 1970s attacks were poorly conceived from the political point of view and were, in some of the most outrageous examples, designed to kill or injure as many people as possible. The targeted buildings were often pubs sometimes frequented by British soldiers (entirely or almost entirely “other ranks”) as well as by civilian members of the public.

The Baltic Exchange was one such 1990s attack. I happened to hear the massive bomb detonate. At the time, I was in a small cafe-restaurant in Bloomsbury, nearly 3 miles away, with my then girlfriend. The sound of a bomb of that sort is distinctive. I remarked on it. We were puzzled.

In fact, despite the evening timing, the location of the target (uncrowded in evening) and a 20-minute warning, three people were killed (and 91 injured).

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

The IRA (in collaboration, inconsistently, with Sinn Fein) had a political purpose and a strategy. Basically, a United Ireland, achieved via making Northern Ireland too much of a nuisance to hold on to.

It could be argued that, despite the apparent sincerity of the “peace talks” that led eventually to the Good Friday Agreement, Sinn Fein/IRA “won”, strategically: power sharing in a democratic Northern Ireland (which is leading over time to a Catholic/Republican and so Sinn Fein victory, via the greater birth rate of the Catholic/Republican community); as Mosley predicted decades before, greater concordance of Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic within the EU (until Brexit, at least…); Sinn Fein to pursue a peaceful political strategy in the South— which seemed unrealistic and even quixotic to me, but not now that —over 20 years on— Sinn Fein has become the most significant political party in the Republic and may form a government:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1240551/varadkar-irish-election-sinn-fein-united-ireland-leo-varadkar-gael-bbc-newsnight

Other “terrorist” campaigns have been launched over the years and decades, but they have all had serious political aims: Jews against the British in Palestine, Arabs against the Jews in Palestine/Israel, Communists and Social-Revolutionaries in imperial Russia etc.

Now let us move to these “Islamist” terrorists (in the UK) of recent years. They appear to have no directing brain or organization, and any “allegiance” to the main body of the ISIS barbarians seems to be little more than notional.

More than that, the individuals seem to want to create havoc as far as they can, but in the absence of heavy-duty weaponry can only do so using whatever weapons are freely available: knives, axes etc, cold weapons generally.

Targets have generally been ordinary members of the public. Even the police have mostly been killed or injured not because they were the main targets, but because they became involved in the course of fulfilling their duty.

What is the political aim of the “Islamist” terrorist? There seems to be none, save for a generalized or “pie in the sky” wish that the UK, along with the rest of Europe and the rest of the world, turns to Islam and adopts Sharia law. I suppose that that desire might be described as having been the aim of Islam since its foundation in the 7th Century:

 

The term “Islamist” is in fact only a convenient label. It appears that the recent UK “Islamist” terrorists, such as the Streatham attacker, knew little of their own religion.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51351885

Certainly most have not been noted as having attended specifically-Islamic madrassahs. The Streatham attacker had attended secular schools in or near London and was only 20 at time of death.

No attempt has, as yet, been made by such “Islamists” (in the UK) to assassinate any famous politician or high-ranking military figure. That may be purely because the “Islamist” terrorists, as “lone wolves” or small groups, have not the ability or means to undertake reconnaissance or intelligence work in order to discover addresses, schedules, daily habits etc.

The recent “Islamist” attackers have no real political or religious aims. The connecting thread seems to be a wish to hurt and kill non-Muslims and to achieve a spurious “martyrdom” by being “killed in battle”, i.e. shot by police or SAS during an incident. The secular equivalent is called, in the USA, “suicide by cop”. They have no real strategy and their tactics are pathetic. They not only have no prospect of success or victory but also no way of even forming a conception of what such success or victory might look like.

In short, “Islamist” terrorism, like Islam itself, is a dead end. Islamist terrorism can lead to nothing on the socio-political level and its only results are, and can only be, death. Death for any victims, and death for the “Islamists” themselves. A form of evil not seen in Europe previously, even during the Mongol invasion of the 13th Century.

What can be done? Nothing, directly. If a state has within its borders millions of Muslims, a certain small proportion of them will fall victim, in their own uneducated or semi-educated minds, to Islamism. Perhaps one in a thousand. There are about 3 million Muslims in the UK, so maybe 3,000 potential terrorists. In fact, that is the figure the police are suggesting [see Notes, below]. Others may also be radicalized, usually blacks of non-Muslim origin.

The only long term solution is for Britain to become an ethnostate, and Europe a collection of ethnostates. In the meantime, these stupid, pointless and unpleasant attacks will continue.

Notes

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/05/police-chief-cressida-dick-defends-streatham-attack-surveillance-operation

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/mohiussunnath-chowdhury-terror-buckingham-palace-sword-attack-tommy-robinson-a9322286.html