What struck me as much as anything is that, in 1966, Trelford bought a 4-bedroomed house at Kew (presumably detached) for £6,000. That is somewhere between £120,000-£130,000 in the money of 2026. How much is a 4-bed house in Kew today? Between £1.3M and £2.5M [https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/87831852#/?channel=RES_BUY]. The real-terms inflation in residential property values continues to amaze (and appal).
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“ The end of the bees is the end of the world.” ~ Chinese proverb
Throw a millions of third world immigrants and ever increasing crime into this mix and you have the future for Britain that all of the mainstream political parties will bring forth. https://t.co/BivPGrHPnc
Pretty much where I stand. I’m centre left and liberal on most issues with the exception of ethnic demographic security. Logically it shouldn’t be such a hard sell to the left/liberals.
Russian forces continued delivering group strikes with precision weapons on Ukrainian ports overnight to July 24, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
Last night's Ukrainian attack on Russian regions one of year’s largest, according to TASS estimates based on data released by the Russian Defense Ministry:https://t.co/ggaHky4lFxpic.twitter.com/ENqaien30m
Russian Ministry of Defense: Air defense systems shot down 571 Ukrainian drones overnight.
The drones were destroyed over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Vladimir, Kaluga, Kursk, Leningrad, Novgorod, Oryol, Pskov, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tver, Tula regions, as well as the Moscow region,… pic.twitter.com/08b4hyTaTn
Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited the Irkutsk Aircraft Plant of Yakovlev PJSC, where he inspected the innovative MS-21-310 medium-haul passenger aircraft. Celebrated for its 100% Russian-made components and systems, the aircraft marks a significant milestone in the… pic.twitter.com/xCkt46ONBj
A 30-year-old Russian woman has been detained in Moscow after being caught in the act trying to plant a bomb under the car of a security officer, the Russian FBS Public Relations Center reported.
Those fake states in the Gulf are just an historical anomaly. It would be better if the region were ruled by a supervening imperium (so long as it is not Israeli).
US analysts: Iran successfully targets secret CIA bases – with Russian assistance.
A CIA base in eastern Iraq and the US embassy in Riyadh were targeted.
Some in the US speak of assistance from "Russian engineers." Others believe Iran receives satellite intelligence support… pic.twitter.com/6T5xSSq6w7
Russian forces carried out a group strike on a facility outside Kiev where drones used in attacks on civilian targets in Russia were demonstrated, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.
🚨NEWS: The village of Piddington with a population of just 350 people have been told 1,250 illegal male immigrants will be housed in a military base nearby
It should be a general legal rule that for people who commit wilfil abuse of animals, the punishment is to have whatever they did to the animal, done to them. https://t.co/uUpIAjVKKp
He says one thing one day, the opposite the next day. Farcical. Demeaning.
The Trump administration is increasingly concerned that the conflict in Iran is causing the U.S. to consume its advanced air defense interceptor missiles and precision-guided munitions at a rate faster than they can be replenished.
The new goal in Britain is to build 370,000 homes a year. But according to analysis we need to build 550,000 a year just to keep up with mass immigrationhttps://t.co/pWTmH3GVcU
If you look at this poll in detail you’ll find Reform are more popular than the Tories among everybody under 65, are more popular among men, are already taking 1 in 5 2024 Tory voters & are most popular among “none of the above” non-voters https://t.co/SnwoSmwwFz
The police can’t ban anything. The police can only apply to the Home Secretary for a ban if there’s a belief there will be serious violence or disorder or serious damage to property. Disruptions don’t meet the threshold.
Jew-Zionist barrister Simon Myerson getting the law wrong (again)…
[Update, 14 August 2026: I believe that Myerson’s Twitter/X account was hacked sometime in 2025, and the account then either closed or made not open to public view, so his legally-inaccurate tweet, answered above, is not now visible].
On a wider point, that whole traditional rank of “King’s Counsel” or KC should be done away with. Outdated, and now all but meaningless. As an ordinary barrister from 1991 (in practice from 1993) to 1996, and then from 2002-2008, I encountered QCs (as they then were) in court a number of times, and did OK against them quite a lot of the time, if I say so myself. Sometimes they won, sometimes I won.
I believe that about 1 in 6 of practising barristers are now “KC”. In the past, particularly before the Second World War, the proportion was far smaller, partly because those in a position to recommend and/or make the decision were more selective; partly, also, because there were fewer applications, and that was partly because a “KC” then usually had to “lead” a junior (non-KC) barrister, and so cost the lay client 2x, sometimes 3x or more, in fees. Some took silk only to find that they became far less busy. These days, not only does a KC often appear alone, but in some cases even unattended by a solicitor.
I believe that I recall from the memoirs of Lord Denning [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Denning,_Baron_Denning] that when he “took silk” (became a KC), in 1938, there were only 4 such “letters patent” granted that year, including his own. In 2024, no less than 100 persons became “KC” (5 honorary only, 95 ordinary).
Of course, in recent decades, arguably starting in the early 1990s, the pernicious influence of “political correctness” (now often termed “woke-ness”) has had its effect; it has never been admitted that the Bar now has some King’s Counsel appointed at least partly by reason of their “ethnic” background, but that such is the case is the opinion of not a few (including me).
Well, there it is.
As to Lord Denning, in his day, he was the most popular judge among the public; arguably the only popular judge, as well as the one with the most name-recognition. Opinion among barristers was less unmixed, though few if any would dispute his very great ability.
I saw Lord Denning up close only once or twice, notably when hurrying to the Library at Lincoln’s Inn in the early 1990s. My chambers were in the Inn at the time, and I was also a member of the Inn then (I was much later —2017— expelled, as an automatic consequence of my politically-procured disbarment of 2016).
I pushed open the very heavy oakwood Library door and missed, by only an inch or two, knocking over Lord Denning, who must have been about 94 (b.1899). I recall that he did not flinch, and smiled benignly as I held open the door for him.
[Lincoln’s Inn Library]
Incidentally, just now looking at Wikipedia’s article on Denning, I see that, by 1936 (2 years before he took silk), his income was some £3,000 a year (arguably worth about £200,000 in the money of today, and income tax was far lower in 1936). Impressive, but the leading silk of the day, Birkett, at about that time had an income of £25,000 (between £1.5M and £2M today).
By comparison, in that era, domestic staff in a large country house might receive between £100 a year (kitchen maid) to £250-£500 a year (chief gamekeeper, or for a valued chief cook or butler in a great household). Of course, most were fed, clothed, and given accommodation as well.
Still, Denning, in the mid-1930s, was making about 10x the income of a head gamekeeper, and perhaps 30x the income of a kitchen maid. Birkett, on a fee-income of between £25,000 and £40,000 a year, was making as much as ten times even those figures! Several millions a year, in 2024 money.
Social history. Interesting.
I see that, when Denning was made a High Court judge in 1944, his salary was set at £7,000, perhaps £300,000-£400,000 in today’s money, so rather more than High Court judges now get (around £225,000; and income tax is higher today).
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Ukrainian police are throwing more and more forces into forced mobilization The video shows the detention of a "hijacker" with the purpose of sending him to the front in the city of Khmelnitsky pic.twitter.com/LwZ0kPXqXd
“Towns targeted by Labour’s ‘bulldozer blitz’: The English councils that must build up to 21 TIMES more homes than they had planned to as Angela Rayner releases list of targets.”
The traitors at Westminster have to be rooted out, and the migration-invasion first stopped, then reversed.
“A homeless man who killed an NHS worker mother-of-three by repeatedly orally raping her as she lay unconscious on a park bench has been jailed for life.“
[Daily Mail]
So why was the bastard even here in the UK? Nothing in the Daily Mail report (of course). Looks Somali, but nothing in that very poor report about the origin or background of the criminal.
The Daily Mail “journalist” also describes the untermensch in question as having been “homeless” at the time that he killed the victim, but then goes on to say that the defendant drove away, went shopping after the attack, and then returned to his home!
No indication in that report as to why the defendant was even in the country. Nothing about the savage having a job, either, yet here the bastard is, in the UK, and with a home and a car, at that. Oh, and he had enough money to buy cocaine, apparently.
At least he thought to buy food for his cat, as it seems. I hope that the cat was not made homeless.
This country is so screwed, incredibly so.
Nothing that mass deportations or executions could not at least start to solve, though.
Ian Robert Millard 