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Diary Blog, 16 July 2026

Morning music

[painting by Aldo Balding]

Morning thought

Surely the basic things of life and social life should be made available by society to all citizens (not any interloper straight off the boat)? Meaning clean air, clean water, green spaces and a green environment (meaning trees, bushes, parks, not a pseudo-“green” agenda). Basic local transport. Enough money or other wherewithal to buy food. Decent housing. Medical and dental care. Educational services.

In my view, basic income will have to come. There is no point in making the unemployed (still less the genuinely physically disabled) jump through hoops to get a small amount of necessary money against a background of relatively few jobs paying enough on which to live.

AI and robotics are loosening the bonds between work and production, and the links between work and pay.

The basic State Pension is paid to all citizens over the rubric age regardless of real contribution or even real need. The same is true of Child Benefit. It may be that the time has come to supply all citizens with Basic Income, even if on a low level, regardless of contribution or even need. There are economic arguments in favour of providing it, regardless of provable need, just as people over a certain age get a pension from the State regardless of their need.

Tweets seen

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

[“Important statements by Vance:

“I know that representatives of the Israeli government are trying to manipulate public opinion in the United States and change it so that the war continues indefinitely.”

The U.S. Vice President stated that a well-funded campaign is trying to sabotage negotiations and destroy any possible agreement.

According to him, certain individuals are receiving money from a former Trump advisor, and that person, in turn, is receiving compensation from representatives of the Israeli government.

“These people are attacking me and claiming that we should not negotiate with Iran, but must continue the military campaign.

You can’t just say: ‘We’ll bomb until something good happens.’ That approach never works.

I’m annoyed by Americans who say that it’s impossible to negotiate with Iranians. Then what’s your solution?

Some influencers are being paid to attack the agreement.

We are not going to send 150,000 ground troops to change the regime. We will not be involved in such operations.

The era of military interventions and sending thousands of soldiers to change regimes is over. Our army will not replace the people in determining their own destiny.“]

Sounds as though Vance has identified (((the problem))).

There is a cancer in the world. It must be cut out.

[“18 MUSLIMS WIN THE RIGHT TO MOVE TO BRITAIN THANKS TO IMMIGRATION JUDGE GEMMA LOUGHRAN

The case was brought after a Gazan-born mother-of-three – who came to the UK as a refugee and is now a British citizen – was refused permission to bring her extended family into this country.

Her relatives – both parents; a brother, his wife and four children; a sister and four children; and another sister, her husband and three children – won a legal challenge on human rights grounds.

The Palestinians argued they had a ‘right to family life’ under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and won their case under Section 6 of the Act which sets out how it is ‘unlawful for a public authority to act in a way which is incompatible with a Convention right’.

The ruling showed most of the adult applicants could not speak English and that the UK-based sister would only be able to accommodate her parents.

The whole family was granted anonymity by the courts. This is the same Judge that ruled a hairy asylum
seeker with a beard is a child.”
]

So that’s another ~10 houses or flats (whether council, other social, or private) that will now be unavailable to British people…

In essence, Enoch Powell was right. However, even he could scarcely have foreseen the manic migration invasion now happening.

She gets £181,000 p.a.

“Not a bad little earner” for filling this country with useless parasites.

Every. Single. Time.

Incidentally, in the UK, homeschooling is (contrary to what many think) perfectly OK legally: “In the UK, homeschooling—officially known as Elective Home Education (EHE)—is entirely legal. You do not need formal teaching qualifications or government permission, nor are you required to follow the National Curriculum. You must simply ensure your child receives an efficient, full-time education suitable to their age, ability, and aptitude” [The Good Schools Guide].

https://www.gov.uk/home-education

[“The Windrush generation has been one of the most effective propaganda tools used against the native British population to justify mass immigration.

The reality? It’s all a lie. They were never formally invited, the locals did not welcome them, and even the government of the day actively opposed granting them citizenship.

Before The Empire Windrush left port in 1948, Prime Minister Clement Attlee tried to divert the ship to what is now Tanzania. He viewed coloured immigration as a threat to “White Britain.” The British government at the time was so nativist that several ministers publicly declared they would prefer White prisoners of war as domestic workers over Black immigrants.

When the ship docked at Tilbury, passengers were met by angry crowds holding signs reading “Keep Britain White.” Local residents continued to protest the colonisation of their communities by the Windrush arrivals and their descendants for decades afterwards.

The British Nationality Act 1948 proved to be our undoing. It was intended to allow White Commonwealth, Anglosphere, and European citizens to come and work in post-war Britain, but the legislation failed to anticipate the enormous numbers of non-White migrants who would later exploit it.

In 1952, Winston Churchill attempted to introduce legislation to restrict Caribbean migrants from gaining permanent residency and citizenship. His efforts failed, blocked by the very Act of 1948. Britain, unravelled by a single piece of legislation.

The so called ‘British values’ of ‘tolerance’ and ‘diversity’ endlessly promoted today are myths. We conquered the world and then attempted to keep our colonial subjects out of Britain itself. Our history was one of strength, achievement and glory, not tolerance and diversity.

No one voted for mass immigration or demographic transformation. These modern ‘values’ were created by internationalist scoundrels who use them to justify flooding Europe with the third world, so they can profit off cheap labour.

Never let them tell you that Britain invited these people here. Don’t let them gaslight you.“]

Overall, including the later waves of immigration, the most catastrophic thing that happened to the UK in the last hundred years, even more than the Second World War.

Guess what (((element))) has always promoted mass immigration into this country? Yes, that’s right— “them” (((them))).

[“Starmer: “I’ve left Britain in a better place”:

Wide open borders
Record taxes
String of scandals
Record energy bills
Two-tier justice
Disastrous energy policy
A joke on the world stage
Islamism unchecked
Enemies emboldened
Territory sold off
Ordinary people maligned
Failed on grooming gangs
Free speech eroded
No idea what he’s doing
Widely loathed
Most unpopular PM in history

Good riddance.”]

…and soon we shall have Burnham, who will be every bit as useless.

A cast-iron NWO/ZOG puppet to the end. Horrible little bastard.

More tweets

That crazy-looking old bird will be selecting the judges…good grief.

Started her “march through the institutions” as a social worker in Wandsworth and Camden, and has said that she wants more blacks on the judicial bench…

Well, of course, Lammy himself is the prime example of selection not on merit but because of “a focus on diversity“…

Nicola Sturgeon has now abandoned Scotland to live in London, to make money from her memoirs and other books and, she no doubt hopes, from appearing as a TV talking-head eventually.

Once considered, at least by herself but also by many in the mass media, as some kind of “national leader” and even “world leader”, she is now totally washed-up politically, seems to be drinking fairly heavily, and has jettisoned the provincial SNP cronies of the past. Also, with her husband now imprisoned for the next few years (over 5 years sentence, so maybe out in 2 or so), she can consign him to the wastepaper basket and live as a lesbianka in London.

Davis goes a little too far when talking about Alex Salmond. After all, he did not die via murder or suicide but “heroically” trying to open a bottle of sauce for a lady at a picnic in the former Yugoslavia.

Late tweets

As I guessed before 2024 would happen with Starmer-stein, Burnham has failed before he has even started.

I suppose that Burnham can see that the Labour MP cadre is going to be severely culled whenever the next general election is held, so has decided to 1. try to keep the non-white/Muslim/Pakistani vote as far as possible, and 2. try to win back the white English/British etc 2024 Green Party voters.

Burnham’s problem is that both of those groups together add up to no more than 25%, at most, of the potential electorate.

Meanwhile, all the signs are that the whole society is slowly collapsing, leading to frustration, and then rage…and, down the line, a demand for proper social-national government.

Translates to a Commons with about 258 Reform UK MPs (68 short of a majority), 100 Cons (weak official Opposition), 97 Lab, 69 LibDems, 60 Greens, 42 SNP [etc].

Either Reform minority govt. with Con support, or some kind of unlikely “grand coalition” of non-Reform parties.

The uncertainty and weakness will be good for social nationalism to grow.

[“This photo taken around 1900 shows a Palestinian Christian girl in her hometown of Nazareth. Before the Nakba, approximately 8% of the population of Palestine were Christians. Thousands of people were driven from their homes in 1948, and today the majority of Palestinian Christians live in the diaspora.”]

The white South Africans, especially the English-speaking ones, were weak. They compromised, gave up their power (which included tanks, jet fighters and bombers, even germinal nuclear and biological weapons) for a promise of some faked “rainbow nation” bs. In the final analysis, they gave up their supremacy for the chance keeping their swimming pools and wealth, and to drive around in jeeps wearing stupid rugby shirts. They failed.

Now South Africa is only about 5% white, and is descending into savagery. What a surprise.

Wall. Squad. End. (or send him back to the Taliban…).

Late music

[Havana, Malecon]

Diary Blog, 18 January 2026

Afternoon music

[“Moscow Windows“, sung by Leonid Utesov on the album “Favourite Songs“: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Utesov]
[swimming pool “Moskva”, pictured in the late 1970s. At the time, it was the largest swimming pool in the world. I myself swam there later, in the early summer of 1993. In or about 1994, it was closed, and a replica of the 19thC Russian Orthodox cathedral that had once stood on the site was then built: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskva_Pool; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_Christ_the_Saviour]

Tweets seen

I was glad when Trump was first elected, and then later re-elected, and for one reason only, i.e. that he would probably not trigger or launch a nuclear war with Russia. To that extent, my “choice” (notional only, because I am not, nor ever have been, a U.S. citizen, though I was once a “resident alien” issued with a Green Card) has been validated by events. However, much of what is happening in the USA now is somewhere between tragedy and farce.

In fact, it is said that that particular video, above, is yet another AI production. Not unlikely, but my point still stands.

On a related topic, how long before a “long-lost piece of AGFA film” is “found”, and will appear to “prove” that German labour prison/labour camps in Poland in the early 1940s “really did” have “gas chambers”?

I wonder…

[many many years ago, a supposed blueprint plan of the Auschwitz camp was supposedly “found” in a Berlin attic. It had “GAS CHAMBER” marked in big capital letters, in case the point was missed by anyone (nothing else on the supposed plan was so marked). It was a one-day-wonder as a news story, and I have heard nothing of it since, I presume because the fakery was a little too obvious]

So 16,500 (in the civil war in Iran) is “genocide“, but 50,000-100,000 (in the Israeli-Jew “war” on mainly unarmed Arab civilians in Gaza) is supposedly not “genocide”. What a world.

The Kiev regime is doomed.

NATO should have been disbanded in or about 1993.

Interesting…

[“This evening, with sorrow, I have decided to resign from my position as an Opposition Shadow Minister and as a member of the Conservative & Unionist Party. Since joining the Conservative Party at the age of 14, I have been a loyal and committed supporter of the principles advocated by Margaret Thatcher that have always underpinned my own political beliefs. However, the time has come to put country before party. The failure of the Conservative Party both when in government and more recently in opposition to actively hold the government to account on the issue of Chagossian self-determination and the defence of British sovereignty, represents a clear red line for me. Since entering Parliament in 2001, I have consistently argued, both from the backbenches and the frontbench, that the right of self-determination of the Chagossian people is sacrosanct, and that they alone should decide the future sovereignty of the Chagos Islands. Regrettably, these concerns have fallen on deaf ears. Both the government and the opposition have been complicit in the surrender of this sovereign British territory to a foreign power. This was made abundantly clear by the failure of Conservative peers to vote down the British Indian Ocean Territory Bill at third reading earlier this month, following direction from the top of the party. Sadly, I now believe that the Conservative Party is irreparably bound to the mistakes of previous governments and unwilling to take meaningful accountability for the poor decisions made over so many issues. Moreover, the views and concerns of constituents such as mine in Romford have been consistently ignored for far too long. Following a conversation earlier this evening with Nigel Farage M.P., I have therefore agreed to join Reform U.K. as its seventh Member of Parliament. It is clear to me that Reform U.K. is now the only political movement that is genuinely willing to fight for the best interests of the United Kingdom. The views and concerns of the majority of the British people must no longer be sidelined. Our country has endured a generation of managed decline. Radical action is now required to reverse the damaging decisions of the past and to forge a new course for Britain – one that firmly places the interests of the British people first.”]

Another not-very-impressive Con Party MP defects to Reform UK. An expenses cheat, who has accepted freebie trips to Israel with Conservative Friends of Israel.

I agree with some of Rosindell’s views, but not with most.

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

A strategic transport hub for both road and rail. Another example of the slow advance of Russian forces in Eastern Ukraine.

Late music

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geirr_Tveitt]

Diary Blog, 8 September 2024, with some examination of the role of atrocity narratives in modern history

Morning music

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrushka_(ballet)]

Atrocity stories

Nihil novi…

As a matter of fact, most WW2 atrocity narratives in Europe can be traced back to WW1 British “black propaganda”. A few used in the First World War were not recycled for Second World War use, though, because obviously invented and very hard to believe (e.g. the German Army of 1914 allegedly having used Belgian nuns as bell-clappers in cathedrals).

More recently, many will recall the lying 15-y-o Kuwaiti girl who, after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, claimed that Iraqi troops had taken hospital incubators, leaving hundreds of babies to die: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony.

In 1992, it was revealed that Nayirah’s last name was al-Ṣabaḥ (Arabic: نيرة الصباح) and that she was the daughter of Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah, the erstwhile Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. Furthermore, it was revealed that her testimony was organized as part of a wider public relations campaign conducted by the Kuwaiti government-in-exile’s Citizens for a Free Kuwait, which sought to encourage American military involvement against Iraq’s occupation of Kuwait through coordination with the American public relations firm Hill & Knowlton. In the aftermath of the Gulf War, the Nayirah testimony came to be regarded as a classic example of modern atrocity propaganda.[1][2]

Nayirah’s story was initially corroborated by Amnesty International, which published a report about the supposed killings[3] and testimony from Kuwaiti evacuees. Following the liberation of Kuwait, international media crews were given access to the country. A report by ABC News found that “patients, including premature babies, did die, when many of Kuwait’s nurses and doctors … fled” but Iraqi troops “almost certainly had not stolen hospital incubators and left hundreds of Kuwaiti babies to die.”[4] Later, Amnesty International USA reacted by issuing a correction, with executive director John Healey subsequently accusing the H. W. Bush administration of “opportunistic manipulation of the international human rights movement.”[5]

[Wikipedia]

In other words, the guilty parties were Kuwaiti doctors and nurses.

Incidentally, I have myself met only a small number of Kuwaitis in my life, about a dozen, but I have to say that every single one I have met in the past was a useless, unpleasant, and completely untrustworthy waste of space.

I myself was in the USA in 1990, and remember the barrage of TV propaganda pushing that untruthful testimony, as well as other stories designed to get the clueless American masses behind Desert Shield and, later, Desert Storm.

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

Apropos of nothing much, I think that the American names for military and other operations are much more evocative than the British equivalent, which are deliberately disconnected from the operations concerned, so that some espionage plot might be designated “Operation Morris Minor” or some such.

Hard to believe that that happened 33 years ago. The Second World War officially ended on 2 September 1945 (I was born on the same day and month but 11 years later, in 1956).

33 years after the end of that terrible war brings us to 1978. By that time, a new generation, my generation, born after 1945, thought of “the War” as mere long-ago history. I presume that that is how young people today think of the Gulf War or, even more so, the Falklands campaign of 1982 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War].

Atrocity propaganda is now an inevitable part of almost all human conflict, as was seen in the fairly recent (October 2023) attack by the Gazan organization, Hamas, on Southern Israel. At time of writing, people are still arguing over whether Hamas operatives “beheaded babies”, but it seems that they did not. The story that they had done so, though, was much used by Israel and the worldwide Jewish lobby to deflect criticism of the initial Israeli attacks, which happened (on a huge scale, though similar attacks had happened for years) from October 2023, killing, wounding, and making homeless the civilian population of Gaza (including babies).

The ultimate “atrocity propaganda”, of course, remains the WW2 “holocaust” narrative, and particularly the “gas chambers” part of that. Other parts of that narrative (armchairs upholstered in Jewish skin, lampshades made of the same material etc) have joined yet other “holocaust” atrocity stories in what Marx called “the dustbin of history“, abandoned even by the Zionists, but the “gas chambers” remain. Not as actual relics— there are none, unless you count those constructed after 1945 at Auschwitz in order to show the credulous masses of West and East what German SS personnel were alleged to have done. The “relics” that remain are psychological, in the minds of millions, particularly in the Anglophone countries.

One can see why the Zionists persist in trying to maintain the “gas chambers” narrative. Without it, the whole Jewish “holocaust” narrative (as something above and beyond what was suffered by other races or peoples in the 20th Century) falls. What would remain, were the world to accept that the “gas chambers” never existed, would be the actual truth— that quite large numbers of Jews in Europe, especially Eastern Europe, were treated badly, with many of them actually shot, but none actually gassed (as per the “official” historical narrative).

That more truthful version of 20thC history, however, would put Jewish suffering on —at most— the same level as the sufferings of others: in WW2, the sufferings of Russians and others brutalized and/or shot by the Soviet government, and the sufferings of Germans brutalized and/or killed by Soviet forces and or by other forces, including the Allied bombing of Germany 1941-1945 (which killed somewhere between 350,000 and 800,000 Germans), as well as the various groups treated badly by some German forces.

The “gas chambers” narrative is really the only claim that, if accepted, would tend to put the experience of Jews in the early/mid 1940s into a box above and beyond what other peoples suffered during the 20thC (and before, and after). That is why the Zionists keep pushing it.

Tweets seen

Very true.

Many seem to regard Divine intervention as the only thing that might stop or delay the migration invasion of the UK. Whatever one thinks of that, the System parties will not stop it; indeed, they encourage it.

Something for Richard Moore to think about before he broadcasts more pro-“Ukraine” (Kiev-regime) propaganda bs.

Hardball.

Well, as a pensioner now myself, I support that on a personal as well as general policy level, especially as I get a very reduced State Pension (by reason of having been overseas much of the time).

Wait a minute… Only yesterday, Sir Richard Moore, the Chief of SIS/MI6, told the UK television audience that “Ukraine” has “the will to fight“. In reality, Ukrainians are desperate to avoid or evade the draft. The Kiev regime will collapse before long. Russia will ultimately prevail.

If only I had the power to do something about all of that, especially that last item.

Exactly. The NHS is very much a “hit or miss” service now.

What is “on the rise” is a growing anger that nothing works properly or easily in the UK, and a growing anger about the migration-invasion (a million or more each year), and also a growing realization that “two-tier” Keir is incapable of improving this country and indeed is determined to (further) ruin it (as well as being an unmandated petty dictator).

…and another 20,000 who entered the UK “legally” in the past week; at least superficially “legally”.

That is in the northern part of Donetsk Oblast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloviansk.

Only 4 out of every 20 eligible voters voted Labour at the 2024 General Election. About 3 voted Con, 2 voted Reform UK, 2 voted LibDem, and 1 voted Green. 8 refused to vote.

Labour has no real mandate.

Hard to know what to believe.

So far, mainly threats. In a sense, a clever tactic, in that Israeli government, society, and economy seem paralyzed by the fear or expectation.

Late music

[Bishop Rock Lighthouse; I have been there]