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Diary Blog, 21 June 2025

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[London: Knightsbridge meets Brompton Road]

Saturday quiz

Well, this week 7/10, thus beating, again, political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 5/10.

I did not know the answer to question 2 and also (had forgotten, really) the answers to questions 7 and 9.

Thoughts about Brize Norton and Palestine Action etc

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/20/palestine-action-to-be-banned-after-vandalising-planes-at-raf-base

So Yvette Cooper, the would-be dictator, Labour Friends of Israel puppet, and expenses fraudster, currently posing as Home Secretary, will probably ban Palestine Action. Pretty silly.

For one thing, this seems to have been decided not because a couple of activists vandalized RAF planes by daubing graffiti, but because they have made the RAF, the woman “commander” of that base, SERCO (who apparently provided the outsourced and in fact non-existent “security”, no doubt at a high price), and the Government, look very very silly.

Had there been even one dozy military policeman on duty and doing his duty, the protesters could have been told to get lost, or been arrested before they got anywhere near those planes.

This was not “terrorism” but fairly standard protest of the “action directe” type. The action that makes sense would be to actually have proper security on Britain’s few remaining RAF bases, and not to label a small protest group “terrorist”; which will, in any case, only drive the situation underground, I should imagine.

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In the 1930s, both the Soviet Union and National Socialist Germany allowed tourism, in the case of Germany free individual travel as well as group tours, in the Soviet Union mostly escorted and tightly-monitored group travel. Where they differed more was in the reverse situation: the German authorities were happy to let their citizens travel, knowing that few if any countries in the world would eclipse Germany under Hitler in terms of lifestyle, facilities etc. In the Soviet Union, of course, only the approved few were allowed out to tour foreign countries.

Sardonic?

The treacherous ones should be punished.

[“Kent County Council spends £100,000,000 of taxpayer money per year on employees that ‘work from home’.

Reform’s DOGE team spent several days there and the office was a wasteland.

Nobody working.

The CEO says these employees have monitoring software on their laptops but she does not “actively check” whether their employees are using them.

Kent Council is refusing point blank any analysis of the (anonymised) data.

I wonder why?

There is much, much more to reveal about just how much Kent Council is taking advantage of taxpayers.“]

Good grief. Shocking. Even worse than I should have imagined.

British/English people, most of them, are not having children. Those that do have children are restricting the number to one or two, for the most part. Not enough. Below replacement-level.

We need to have a bloc, however small, of English ethno-national people, even if most of them are “non-political”— that does not really matter, in the big scheme of things. A basis for the foundation of a later people who in turn can be a foundation for a super-race, a quantum-leap in human evolution.

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

Social threefolding aims to foster:

  • equality and democracy in political life,
  • freedom in cultural life (art, science, religion, education, the media), and
  • uncoerced cooperation in a freely contractual economic life.”

[Wikipedia].

A template for a civilized society.

The society, though, must be European.

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It is not, for me, a question of “hating” non-whites, but of providing a platform for the evolution of consciousness, for the eventual development of what might be called a “super-race”, in the sense of a people whose capacities would be seen by us, today, as “superhuman”.

Only the European people, speaking ethnically, can provide that platform and foundation for the later development. That is why we must oppose importation of non-whites into Europe, not because we “hate” them as such but because, primarily, their presence in Europe makes more likely a mixed-race population, which would make further evolution impossible.”

[from a blog post of early 2024, citing one published years earlier yet]

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Verrater. Traitor to European race and culture.

Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations etc…

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

Councils housing 10x more migrant-invaders than British people

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14794189/homeless-asylum-seekers-analysis-interactive.html

Seventeen councils are accommodating up to 10 times more asylum seekers than homeless people, analysis suggests.

The biggest disparity was seemingly in Pendle, a borough inside Reform’s newly-gained Lancashire authority.

Latest Government data shows 453 asylum seekers are being housed in Pendle. In contrast, only nine homeless households are in temporary accommodation.

[Daily Mail]

One wonders how long Britain can accept 500-1,000 migrant-invaders every single day without either civil/social/race/culture war breaking out, or society just gradually (or perhaps suddenly) collapsing.

We need national revolution.

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When I lived in Devon and Cornwall (both, first in a large country house in Cornwall, then in a farmhouse in Devon), I would see badgers at night quite often; sometimes, on the Devon side of the Tamar, I would drive down an almost unused single-track lane at night which was a back-lane off a back-lane. Badgers would be there, unafraid of the car because they rarely saw one, and would mass ahead of the car, about ten at a time. I would have to wait until they deigned to move aside. Lovely creatures. I cannot understand why backward cruel people sometimes hunt and kill them, but then Marx did talk about “rural idiocy“…

Yes to that. These days, very common errors.

Stunning.

Exactly right, as I have blogged both recently and in the past. We know that that will not happen, though.

As usual, the (Israeli) Jews thought they were so clever making that sneak attack on Iran, but now look— not only have they not (yet?) subdued Iran, but Tel Aviv, their “window on the world” and second-largest city, lies in ruins, much of it anyway. Tourism is dead, investment is dead, trade and commerce is all but dead, and Iran still has thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of missiles, and untold numbers of drones, while Israel is running out of defensive missiles, we are told.

The damage is so bad that anyone photographing it, or posting photos online, is subject to arrest.

Meanwhile, those Jews who can, are fleeing.

Diary Blog, 15 May 2025

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[painting by Vicente Romero Redondo]

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(Connolly, not “Connelly“, though).

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Russia will eventually have a different state-form yet.

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery“…

Pretty pathetic, Starmer-stein’s fake “conversion” to stopping the migration invasion his party, and he himself, have both promoted for decades, half a century in the case of Labour-label.

Starmer and fake Labour are getting desperate. As for the “Conservatives”, irrelevant, and may well reduce to fewer than 50 MPs next time.

The once-great Conservative Party is now either a lame duck or a dead duck.

Time was, when I would have defended the BBC and its non-commercial funding, albeit while recognizing that it needed radical reform to get it back to its founding Reithian principles (“inform, educate, entertain“…in that order), but it has become a politically-correct, “woke”, anti-British, anti-white-Northern-European monstrosity. I just want it gone now; either that or very radically changed, pared back to about a tenth of its present size, and not paid for by the so-called “licence fee” (tax).

Ha ha. Not very polite, but that resident is not wrong.

As for the canvasser, just a pawn. People like Starmer-stein, Rachel Reeves, Liz Kendall, Yvette Cooper etc are making careers and very large amounts of money out of their political life, and pawns like that local canvasser tramp the council estates and other mean streets of decaying England trying to sell a Labour Party which is merely one dishonest face of NWO/ZOG globalism, and which does nothing for the British people.

In fact, tweeter StacyWright/”@Stacywr2277″ is quite wrong about Mandela. He was not locked up for saying anything. He, at the time a middle-aged —46-y-o— failed black law student, was tried (very fairly, too) for having planned a race war in South Africa. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivonia_Trial.

All those on trial were blacks or Jews. One of the Jews alleged to have been involved was discharged by the trial judge at the close of the prosecution case, while another was acquitted. Four others escaped from prison custody.

Incidentally, not only were most of the defence counsel in that trial Jews, but so was the chief prosecutor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Yutar.

Mandela, as thick as two short planks, was a failure as a would-be urban guerrilla and revolutionary, but a race war against Europeans was certainly his objective; he was arrested before he, and the other blacks (and Jews) involved, could put their plans into effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivonia_Trial#Charges.

London. Zoo.

https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/lewisham-teenagers-stabbed-man-12-31639006

Two teenagers who stabbed a young man 12 times over a family feud have been found guilty of his murder. Ryan Wedderburn, 18 and Kirk Harris, 19, attacked 21-year-old Robert Robinson on Carteret Way, in Surrey Quays, on June 6, 2024 after chasing him down the street with knives.”

[My London]

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[LibDems 13, Greens 7]

Well, same story as in other recent polls— Reform well ahead of Labour, with the Con Party trailing miserably. This poll, though, shows Reform again (for the second time) cracking the 30% “barrier”.

Electoral Calculus suggests, on those numbers, Reform having 334 MPs (an absolute majority of 8, but a working majority of 18). Labour 180, LibDems 58, SNP with only 28 MPs yet still ahead of the Cons (23 MPs).

So once again, the Con Party predicted to be in only 5th place, and with only 23 MPs. Terminal, probably.

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[Shishkin, 1884, Gathering Storm]

Diary Blog, 20 April 2025

[Adolf Hitler, 20 April 1889-30 April 1945]

National Socialism was of its time and place, but the essence of its inner ideology or philosophy —European culture and civilization as the basis for future human evolution— lives on.

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

The version using something such as Bisto is not at all to my taste but, apart from that, Woolton Pie seems at least acceptable for non-carnivores such as me. The original version had either margarine or (non-veg) lard, but the modern version is entirely vegetarian, or can be.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_Kingdom

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Should be “Kiev”, of course.

[“Russian Ministry of Defense: “By order of President Putin, all Russian military formations in the special operation zone strictly observed the ceasefire starting at 18:00 Moscow time on April 19. However, despite the Easter truce, Kyiv forces attempted to attack Russian army positions in the Sukhaya Balka and Bogatyr areas of Donetsk. Overnight, Ukrainian forces used 48 drones, one of which targeted Crimea. Ukrainian forces attempted to bomb Russian military positions 444 times after the ceasefire was announced, and carried out 900 drone strikes. The attacks resulted in civilian deaths and injuries, and damage to civilian facilities.”]

The shambolic and corrupt regime in Kiev, presided over by a Jew-Zionist cabal, is a brutal dictatorship.

The forced “recruits” to the “Ukrainian” forces know that they are being given a 90%-chance death sentence.

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These people should be on our side.

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Is that true? Seems unlikely, but who knows, in this crazy world?

Historical film and music

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[Shishkin, Before the Storm]

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All System parties have outlived their usefulness.

All reservoirs of social evil should be exterminated.

The Conservative Party is close to being finished. Labour is now committing suicide similarly. The LibDems are just a joke party, pointless and stupid. That leaves Reform, which is not social-national, but merely conservative-nationalist, and which may be in government after 2028/2029. After that, the only way to go will be proper social nationalism.

Odessa should either be a Russian-controlled city or a “free city” not directly controlled by either side.

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[painting by Victor Ostrovsky]

Diary Blog, 23 March 2025, including a few thoughts about Philby

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Historical footnote

[Philby on a 5-kopeck late-Soviet commemorative postage stamp, and described as “Soviet Razvedchik“, a term which might be translated as “intelligencer”, rather than the grubbier-sounding “spy” (in Russian, “shpion”); “razvedchik” is a more polite or dignified term]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/22/mi5-surveillance-british-spy-kim-philby-made-public

Secret surveillance of Britain’s ­notorious double agent, Kim Philby, made public for the first time in archived documents, reveals how keenly the Security Service wanted to confirm or disprove early suspicions of his high-level treachery.

In daily bulletins submitted to MI5 in November 1951, undercover operatives describe how Philby, codenamed Peach, moved about London.

They said he gave “no outward sign of being either nervous or on the alert, but your well trained man should not do so; every movement is natural – again as it should be”

[Guardian]

The whole Philby thing has always been hugely overblown. Philby himself has been over-rated, too. Superficially well-educated, yes, but really a rather dogmatic Marxist-Leninist who, under other formative circumstances, might have been like some of the other basically mediocre professional-level bourgeois Englishmen I have met in my life, and who were not in secret-intelligence work but, variously, Roman Catholic converts, and/or military officers or barristers or other activity.

Philby was certainly no great mind, though he evidently thought himself very clever. Likewise, he was a bit of a plodder ideologically.

I recall that Philby wrote in his supposed memoirs (possibly part-ghosted by KGB helpers), My Silent War, or elsewhere, that “you choose your side and stick with it“, i.e. rather as others do to the Labour or Conservative parties, or to (the contemporary British obsession) football clubs. Unthinking loyalty. Stick-in-the-mud loyalty.

The puffing of Philby as the “masterspy”, or even “spymaster”, suited both sides in the Cold War: the Soviet side getting the gloss of having not only suborned Philby and other “Establishment” Englishmen to the Marxist/Soviet cause, but also having outplayed Western intelligence agencies in the spy game.

As for the British part of the Western side, Philby’s prominence could be presented as an example of why pervasive “security” (and the whole Cold War stance) was necessary. Also, his supposed “brilliance” in a way bolstered the reputation of institutions such as the more expensive English schools (Philby was at Westminster School) and, of course, the supposedly elite universities, in particular Cambridge.

The whole “Cambridge spies” story tends to puff the reputation of SIS and MI5 (despite their having been outplayed) by making their role seem terribly important. One scribbler even penned a well-known book called Philby— The Spy Who Betrayed A Generation, as if the Cambridge Spies were pretty much the centrepiece of British history since the 1930s, rather than an obscure footnote to it.

In the 1930s (when Philby started to work for Soviet organizations), there was (in the first half of the decade) the Great Depression, and the initial triumph of National Socialism in Germany. In the middle of the 1930s to 1939, the Spanish Civil War, while in Britain itself, the economy was recovering and society changing .

Then, in the early/mid 1940s, there was the titanic Second World War (in the Soviet Union, the Great Patriotic War).

In Britain, after 1945, there were the great social changes of the 1950s and 1960s. By that time, the “Cambridge Spies” were mostly not even in the UK. Maclean and Burgess had fled in 1951, and Philby was in journalistic exile in the Middle East. The economic and social changes in the UK were the main events, together with the start of the disastrous migration-invasion of non-whites into the UK, and Britain’s retreat from Empire.

The “Cambridge Spies” were not even footnotes to much of that. Near-irrelevant, despite the obsessions of the Westminster Bubblers and newspaper scribblers.

What damaged Britain in the 1940s through to the 1960s, and then on to today, was not a few spies passing on information to the Soviet Union, but the abandonment of Empire, the importation of blacks and browns in vast numbers, the cultural decadence etc.

You often see Philby and his fellow Cambridge spies described as “upper-class” or even “aristocratic”. In fact, not one was of “aristocratic” background, though all (except Cairncross) were affluent or wealthy. Philby’s own father was from an affluent government-connected family [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John_Philby] but a fact generally ignored or covered-up is that Philby’s mother, Dora, was half-Indian, a so-called “chi-chi” (pron. “shi-shi”), which may have subtly affected his loyalties.

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

General Kalugin, in his memoirs, describes how his superiors had the idea of using Philby, then in Moscow, as a kind of lure for potential agents in the West, by showing that he was respected, had a good life etc. His first meeting with the shambling drunken Philby makes a memorable picture.

Incidentally, Philby never learned to speak or read Russian beyond a rudimentary level, and had English-language books supplied to him via the KGB (presumably via people at the London embassy, and the diplomatic bag).

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

In the early 1990s, sometime around 1994, I was slightly acquainted with a Russian businessman living in London, and with an office in Regent Street, who had some legal business (I was a barrister at the time). We had lunch at least once at my Inn (of Court), Lincoln’s Inn. I recall that the Spanish waitress was very taken with “Ed” [Edvard] and his rather Scandinavian looks (he was from the Baltic regions) and even asked me later if I might effect an introduction for her (that never happened).

“Ed” was quite open about the fact that, prior to his taking to capitalist business activity, he had been in the KGB, though that would only have been, at a guess, for a relatively few years. He recalled having been at a lecture or two given by Philby in Moscow (he said that that had been at the Lubyanka).

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

Small world. “Six degrees of separation” etc…

Incidentally, those comments in the Guardian from the MI5 surveillance directorate in 1951 do tend to beg the question; after all, if a surveillance target is acting naturally, then either he is not guilty, or is literally acting (and/or has been trained to act) naturally, so in fact may be guilty. If, though, the target looks nervous, looks for reflections in shop windows etc, does that mean that he is guilty, or is he just a nervous wreck and/or afraid of being thought guilty? Wilderness of mirrors.

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The sheer hypocrisy of the Labour Friends of Israel “Labour” government is simply unbelievable. Surely Liz Kendall, Rachel Reeves, Torsten Bell, Starmer-stein etc can see that? Or are they so removed from truth and decency that they cannot see it? That might be even more alarming.

I should imagine that even Labour-inclined voters will be voting Reform UK (or staying home) at the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, in order to send a message (and/or a kick) to this horrifyingly callous and irredeemably incompetent misgovernment.

As to Conservative Party loyalists in the area, I should say that the Cons have no chance— so vote Reform in order to stick it to fake Labour.

“Rachel from Accounts” knows no more about economics than George Osborne during 2010-2015. Both promulgating counter-productive fake “austerity”.

See also: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/23/social-care-cuts-benefits-disability-labour-whitehall.

Given that there is a lot of talk about changes to special educational needs provision and reform plans for the NHS, we should worry about what the government might focus on next. Equally alarming, it seems to me, is a belief in Downing Street that reviving the UK demands embracing the wonders of artificial intelligence, which Keir Starmer believes will have an almost magical effect on everything from social work to education, and realise his new dream of “totally rewiring government”. Because this is an administration so lacking in everyday humanity, that is a much more scary prospect than he and his colleagues seem to realise.

[John Harris in The Guardian]

I should not be surprised to find (if I am still around) that, somewhere down the line, in 5+ years’ time, the members of the present Cabinet will find themselves up against a wall.

Send her back to Nigeria.

So 1930s Germany encourages Jews to depart = bad, but 2020s Israel encourages Palestinian Arabs to depart = good?

Will the new office be called something like “Palestinian Resettlement”?

Sumy Oblast or region is in NE Ukraine. Sumy city is NNW of Kharkov; about 150 miles from Kharkov by road but only about 90 miles as the crow flies. About 200 miles east of Kiev.

So Russian forces are in Sumy Oblast now. There seem to be Russian advances in all material parts of the overall front. Kiev-regime forces are falling back.

This blog has been referring to fake Labour as “Labour-label” since its inception in late 2016, certainly since 2019..

Why do many think it impossible that “the lion will lie down with the lamb” in a future age? All things are possible.

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See previous blog posts for more, using the search box.

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For those who are unaware of the outline of James Wilson’s (now-successful) libel case against three defendants (all Jews; in one case, possibly only a part-Jew), the defendants were advised and/or represented by Jewish solicitors and barristers who seem to have been, all or variously, professionally negligent and/or incompetent.

Mark Lewis and Daniel Berke were the main solicitors for the defendants, Beth Grossman of Doughty Street Chambers was the barrister (possibly the only barrister; I do not know, and only heard of her recently, via Wilson’s Twitter/X account and Substack blog).

Lewis’s reputation“? Ha ha! Only ignorant fools think that that is worth more than a plugged nickel. I have blogged many times about him, over many years; he has never once threatened to sue me (no doubt partly by reason of my impecuniosity, but truth as defence –or other defences— may also have much to do with it).

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Feel free to republish any of my blog posts. After all, I was a barrister until a pack of Jews procured my wrongful and, it turned out later, actually unlawful disbarment (in 2016): see

Ha. Amusing. As a matter of fact, I myself appeared as Counsel in the High Court several times before Sedley, a High Court judge at the time (early 1990s), notably in a case involving a former member of the Angolan Secret Service.

I doubt that there are many barristers who have never suffered excruciating embarrassment in open court. For example…

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“They” are just appalling.

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[Kreshchatik, the main street in Kiev, in 1943; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khreshchatyk#World_War_II]
[Kreshchatik, 1980s, under late-Soviet rule]

History moves on. Life moves on.

Diary Blog, 13 March 2025

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[painting by Volegov]

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[“It’s now crystal clear that despite a surge of support for Trump, AfD, Le Pen, etc., there is a huge section of the Left that not only refuses to compromise on immigration issues but wants to become even more fanatically pro-immigration in response to national populism.“]

It is now also crystal-clear that, the way things are going, the matter will probably be settled, across Europe, including the UK, not by rigged elections but, at least partly, by some form of civil war.

[“Kemi Badenoch is less popular than Keir Starmer, which is saying something …. Net ratings Keir Starmer -32 Kemi Badenoch -34 YouGov, yesterday.“— YouGov/Matt Goodwin]

[“It shows a basic lack of humanity.” The government’s reported plans to cut welfare spending by £6 billion will be “absolutely devastating”, Labour MP @BrianLeishmanMP tells @HugoRifkind.”]

Starmer-stein’s Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment.

Let’s hope that Runcorn and Helsby voters send a message to this rotten excuse for a Labour government. Reform can win it if enough disaffected 2024 Lab voters join with 2024 Reform voters and those former Con voters who realize that Con Party has no chance of winning the by-election. Those 2024 Con voters can prevent Labour from winning the by-election if they vote Reform.

[“Starmer echoes Liz Truss on reform of government, @ChrisMasonBBC writes.“— BBC News]

[“Russian troops have liberated Sudzha and two other settlements in the Kursk Region, the Defense Ministry said. TASS has gathered key details of the situation: https://vk.cc/cJFPk0“— TASS]

[“The military buildup plan for Europe, approved by the EU summit, is designed to incite war, Maria Zakharova stated: https://vk.cc/cJFPM5— TASS]

We see the war propaganda everywhere, spread by the usual globalist NWO/ZOG puppets— Macron, Starmer, Tusk, Sikorski etc.

The stupid thing is that, without US backing, none of the European states —not even the UK and France as nuclear powers— can stand up to the Russia they keep pushing.

If push came to shove, and if the push and shove went nuclear, as would probably happen, the USA would stand back, as would China, and the terrible devastation would be only be in Europe and Russia, mostly in Europe, because Russia has about 6,500-7,000 nuclear weapons, whereas France has about 290, and the UK about 225 (about 120 deployable by submarine launch).

The French nuclear force was the force de frappe, changed in the 1960s to force de dissuasion. Deterrence, not challenge to the then Soviet Union, an expansionist power with an expansionist and militant ideology —Marxism-Leninism— at least on the surface.

Russia today is not the old Soviet Union, and its ideology is simple and rather inconsistent Russian nationalism, not one of world conquest.

The fact is that, while the UK and France could badly damage much of Russia in a nuclear match, Russia could wipe out the UK, France, and all other European powers.

These games of “poking the bear” are very stupid and quite likely to light the touchpaper of a major war.

[“Russian forces struck UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) assembly and storage sites of the Ukrainian army over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported: https://vk.cc/cJG55K“— TASS]

Putin appeared, unusually, in a kind of military combat attire, yesterday. Akin to the Zelensky “cosplay”, but with rather more weight behind it.

Trump has put Zelensky in his place. Z. is a “state beggar”, in effect. Without American arms, money, ammunition, intelligence assistance, “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime) cannot continue to fight this war. Trump has therefore been able to railroad the Ukrainian side.

The Kiev regime cabal have little choice, and even their brief show of defiance was based on the hope, a forlorn one, that the UK and EU powers might plug any gap left by the American departure (if it were to happen or continue).

Russia cannot be much pressured by Trump. Therefore, the war will continue unless the Kiev regime at least accepts the minimum reality— that Crimea, and the mainland regions of Donetsk, Lugansk etc (and, a fortiori, that of the Russian oblast of Kursk) will remain Russian in perpetuity. Failing that, the war will continue, and Russian tanks will be in Kiev by 2026.

Russia has its military-logistical problems, but nothing compared to those facing the Kiev-regime side, which is losing hundreds of soldiers daily, and large areas of territory too.

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Not so sure about the Churchill bit…

Waitrose was driven into the ground by a West Indian woman whom they employed as CEO. Madness. It used to be such a good place to shop and, I believe, treated its employees well; gave them a modest cut of the profits as well. Now, like the rest of this country, it is going straight down (I refer to, inter alia, Parliament, the courts, the police, the armed forces, the Royal Mail and Post Office, the social security safety net, the monarchy, the countryside…you name it).

A couple of things strike me about that latest opinion poll. Firstly, that the polls are now quite volatile, especially as to whether Labour or Reform is more popular; secondly, that the Conservative Party is pretty much finished now. Few people see it as offering anything to 90% of the population, its policies have now been taken over by fake Labour under Keir Starmer-stein, and it is now not really even seen as relevant. That is so even if you discount the fact that it is now led by a Nigerian woman who was not even living in the UK until she was at least 16.

Incidentally, those opinion poll results would indicate a House of Commons with about 238 Reform UK MPs; 165 Lab; 123 Con; 58 LibDem; SNP 37; Greens 4 (etc).

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html

So probably a Reform government backed by Con MPs’ votes. Not ideal, but if it failed to satisfy the British people, a real social-national movement (in or out of Parliament) might well emerge.

You see the deficiencies of our FPTP voting system there. Greens on 10% of the popular vote, but with only ~4 MPs, rather than the 65 that the 10% opinion poll would suggest would be fair. Reform, on the other hand, would be overcompensated, getting a notional 238 MPs instead of the mathematically-indicated 175.

[“More than half of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s cabinet have urged his chancellor, Rachel Reeves, to rethink her plans to scale back welfare and spending, in an extraordinary sign of growing concern“— Bloomberg]

[“@YouGov polling for @TrussellUK shows that 77% of people claiming Universal Credit and disability benefits have gone without essentials in the last six months“— Robert Peston]

[“Nigel Farage and Reform averaged 26% of the national vote across all polls this week, are 5-pts clear of the Tories and just 6-pts short of what they need for a majority in the House of Commons.”— Matt Goodwin]

[“N.S. Lyons is one of my favourite writers right now: “A nation is not a corporation. A nation is a particular people, with a distinct culture, permanently bound together by shared relationship with place, past, and each other. A house becomes a home through the relationship with the family that lives in it, a connection forged out of time and memory, between the concrete particularity of place and the lives of a specific group of people present, past, and yet unborn. We can say this house is home because it is our home. In much the same way, a country becomes our homeland because it is ours — and the we of that “ours” is the nation, which transcends geography, government, and GDP.”— Matt Goodwin]

Which is why the Jewish element tends to be hostile to anything truly national in Europe.

At present, a ceasefire would only impede the advances of Russian forces on all fronts.

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[painting by Levitan]

Diary Blog, 25 February 2025

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[Elstead Old Bridge, Surrey, constructed c.1300; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elstead]

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“TFW” both the person posing as Prime Minister and the head of your foreign intelligence service present themselves as little more than a couple of idiots with no strategic sense.

I just happened to notice that Richard Moore has also tweeted in support of the “holocaust” narrative farrago.

Pitiful.

Of course, the real threats to the UK come from quite other directions— the continuing migration invasion, the falling apart of British society via mass immigration, drug and alcohol abuse, administrative incompetence, and the cultural sickness largely mediated by “the usual suspects” (((“them”))).

Russia is not the old Soviet Union (“Sovyetsky Soyuz”) or “Soviet Onion”, as the Soviet Union was sometimes called (also, disparagingly, “Upper Volta with rockets”); it has no interest in invading Western (or even Eastern) Europe, though it does wish to protect itself from NWO/ZOG NATO encroachment (hence the war in Ukraine and the tensions in the Baltic region or “pribaltika” etc, those regions which Russians call the “near-abroad”).

That Moore person strikes me as a bit of a twit, despite his high rank, career background etc.

Come to think of it, the current Director-General of MI5 also strikes me as a bit of a twit. I suppose that, if the UK is falling to pieces in some respects, the security and intelligence services cannot be immune from it all.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McCallum; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Moore_(diplomat)

Dirty democratic politicians” [Adolf Hitler]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14431403/Labours-Jonathan-Reynolds-apologises-describing-solicitor-Business-Secretary-says-doesnt-think-claims-huge-deal.html

The Business Secretary has apologised for describing himself as a solicitor despite having never finished his training.

Speaking for the first time since the solicitor’s watchdog said it would look into complaints against him, Jonathan Reynolds said he was sorry if people had ‘misunderstood’.

In an interview with the Mail in New Delhi where he is holding talks on a trade deal with India, he said that he had repeatedly referred to himself as a trainee solicitor.”

[Daily Mail]

Yet another smug useless nobody who has managed to blag his way into being an MP, and indeed Cabinet minister. Another Labour Friends of Israel member, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Reynolds#Early_life_and_career

More from the wonderfully “diverse” Britain of 2025

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14430873/Met-Police-sacked-football-hooliganism-Arsenal.html

Metropolitan Police officer has been sacked after throwing a firework into the crowd during Arsenal’s defeat to Bayern Munich in Germany.

Detective Constable Gordon Irikefe was found to have committed gross misconduct in acts of ‘unacceptable’ football hooliganism at Arsenal games between October 2022 and April last year.

[Daily Mail]

Nigerian origin, but you would search in vain for that information in the Daily Mail report (musn’t upset the “diversity”, of course… a few Daily Mail readers have cottoned-on, though, looking at the comments section).

More from the migration-invasion

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14431149/India-demands-UK-visas-price-free-trade-deal-Britain-Business-Secretary-says-agreement-speed-not-haste.html

India has said that more business visas for its workers will be the price of a free trade deal with the UK.

Minister of Commerce Piyush Goyal said that allowing British companies access to India’s services sector would require greater access for its staff.

Speaking at a press conference in New Delhi alongside Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds, he refused to put a timeframe on a deal but said it would be done with ‘speed but not haste’.

But he made clear that business mobility visas for Indian workers – a sticking point that derailed the last round of talks – would be part of any agreement.

So even more Indians will now be arriving in the UK, many together with “family members”. After a while, many will have children, who will then be officially (if not in reality) “British”, with full legal rights to live here, eventually bring in fiancees, spouses etc…

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Under a Labour government we would freeze energy bills. We wouldn’t allow them to go up.” ~ Keir Starmer Snake oil salesmanship. UK domestic energy prices are to rise by 6.4% in April to £1,849 a year on average.”

If Britain could form a loose alliance with Russia, the British people would get oil and gas at cost.

[“Foreign aid wouldn’t be my first choice when finding extra cash for defence. The state pension triple lock would be my first choice. (But I don’t have to win elections.)“]

I suppose that the Massie tweeter [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Massie_(journalist)] represents, apart from himself, some strand of Conservative Party thinking, he being the Scotland Editor of the Spectator. Thus we see how the Con Party has no chance, in my view, of revival; willing to impoverish one of the most important voting blocs, those of pensionable age, in order to waste money on “defence” (i.e. the misconceived aggressiveness towards Russia, as well as support for the Israeli Jews’ war machine).

Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon (deceased), and Cantor—latest

[“My next post about Mark Lewis and Patron Law is with their lawyers to see if they object. Some great stuff about Lewis in this one. Like when he claimed to be “loaded with hallucinogenic drugs” for an MRI scan and this caused him to abuse people online. Sign up link in bio“]

James Wilson was the successful claimant in the fairly recent libel case Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon (deceased), and Cantor.

It looks very much as if the self-publicizing Jewish solicitor Mark Lewis once again gave advice that was both professionally negligent and dishonest. As a result, one of the two surviving Jewish defendants, Cantor, will probably be losing his family home in order to satisfy the costs of the successful claimant, Wilson.

Newbon was a vituperative social media troll and Israel fanatic. If I have understood the matter correctly, he was also misled by Lewis and other Jews, and killed himself during the currency of the legal case, and after his wife, kept in the dark up to that point, discovered that his actions might mean the loss of their family home.

As to the egregious Lewis, I have written quite a lot about him in the past: see

That blog post contains links to other relevant posts.

As to Lewis’s claim that he was only aggressive on social media by reason of short-term use of drugs for medical purposes circa 2015/2016, well…he was abusing me on Twitter as early as 2011, together with, at first, his then wife, Caroline Feraday, a very minor London radio/TV wannabee “celebrity” of the late 1990s (they relocated to California, but were divorced after a year by reason of his abusive behaviour towards her etc. Lewis then returned to the Golders Green area of London but now lives much of the time in Israel).

See those blog posts for further details.

Lewis continued to conspire with other Jews (all connected with the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”, and/or “UK Lawyers for Israel” or “UKLFI”) to have me disbarred, questioned by police, even —ultimately— prosecuted. An obsessive campaign that has continued for about 15 years, so far.

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In the end, they will probably have to be sorted out in the same way that the Freikorps sorted out similar elements in Germany and the Baltic regions in the early 1920s.

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Diary Blog, 5 December 2024

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vysotsky]
[Ilyushin Il-14 passenger aircraft; introduced into service in 1954]

Vysotsky musings

I happened to find an old Vysotsky CD in the car. Playing it as I drove along, I found myself musing on Vysotsky. I was actually unaware, until I looked more closely at his Wikipedia profile, that he was half-Jew: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vysotsky#Early_life. Surprising, perhaps, in view of his occasional lampooning of Jewish types and/or accents in some of his songs.

When I got slightly involved with the Soviet and Russian milieu in the late 1970s and then 1980s (though only in and/or from the UK; I never went to the Soviet Union, and first visited Moscow only in 1993), it struck me rather unpleasantly what a decadent society had grown up in that part of the world. In particular, the excessive drinking of some Soviet citizens (mainly men) and also the heavy smoking (especially though not exclusively men). Not everywhere, certainly not everyone, but enough to rot the society from within. That, and corrosive cynicism.

Vysotsky was to some extent the personification of all that. That is not to take away from his great talent as a singer-songwriter, but that sort of unhealthy lifestyle was, in my view, a large part of the reason why the Soviet Union collapsed so completely so unexpectedly, just as its semi-toleration of underhand dealings, criminality, and (largely Jewish) underground business activity in the 1970s and 1980s led, in the post-collapse 1990s, to the glitzy tasteless Russia of the (mostly Jewish) “oligarchs” under Yeltsin and, to a lesser extent Putin, and to the gangsterism rampant in the 1990s (though far less so now).

Andropov was probably a highly unpleasant man, and extremely repressive, as well as possibly half-Jew (it is not certain), but I think that he saw the train coming down the tunnel at Soviet society, and decided to stop it. His unexpected death really sounded the death-knell of Sovietism.

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

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I read a Daily Telegraph piece about “middle class” homeless people (i.e. people who had good jobs, decent houses or flats, and then didn’t). The article waxed eloquent about the pressure on social housing etc, but the words “immigration” and “migration” did not appear; not once.

As Hitler said of many during the Weimar Republic period, “they want not only their daily bread but also their daily illusion“…

While FPTP voting would still be cheating Reform of nearly half of its potential seats under full proportional voting (156), those figures would give Reform about 95 seats, according to Electoral Calculus (Con 219, Lab 207, LibDem 67, Greens 6, SNP 22 etc). Thus Reform would be the “kingmaker”, though even then the Cons would have to agree with another party to get over the 326 line, or even the ~315 practical line.

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/userpoll.html

In fact, as Goodwin implies, the only factor that keeps the Cons even as high as 26% in the polls is the pensioner vote. That may reduce by 2029; we shall see. A result of Reform 26%, Con 24%, Lab 23% would result in a Commons with Lab 195, Con 174, Reform 149. Still unfair and illogical, but on that showing, Labour would be unable to form a government even with LibDem, SNP and Green support, whereas a Con-Reform coalition could, just about.

If Reform, Con, and Lab all got 25% (others as given), then the result would be Lab 245, Con 188, Reform 93, LibDem 69, SNP 22, Greens 6.

I myself tend to think that Reform’s star is waxing, but the others waning, so a result somewhere in the area(s) above is not unlikely, with 3 or even 4 parties having almost equal success.

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Diary Blog, 29 June 2024

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[“Moskva” swimming pool, Kropotkinskaya, in 1980. At the time (it is no longer in existence) the largest swimming pool in the world, capable of hosting thousands of swimmers. I myself swam there daily when I was in Moscow in 1993 but, at that time, a year before its permanent closure, there were only about a dozen or so swimmers when I would visit (quite early in the morning): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskva_Pool]
[Swimming pool “Moskva” as it was in 1969]

Saturday quiz

Well, this week I scored 5/10, the same as political journalist John Rentoul. I knew the answers to questions 2, 3, 5, 6, and 9. I could not quite bring to mind the answers to questions 1 and 8, and had no idea about questions 4, 7, and 10.

GE 2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68079726

My feeling, with a mere 5 days to go before Election Day, is that, firstly and obviously, the Conservative Party has reached the end of its road.

What does it even pretend to stand for now? It has embraced every sort of “woke” nonsense over the past 14 years, and even tried to hit Reform UK yesterday with the accusation that a Reform UK activist criticized a police car flying a “Pride” (LGBTQXYZ) flag. How is such criticism even controversial? The police should not be flying socially or politically contentious flags.

The Conservative Party has also presided over the migration invasion, trying to manage the influx of millions of non-Europeans (over a million a year now) but never seriously trying to stop it; indeed, encouraging “legal” migration, which is 95% of all migration-invasion. Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan.

As for living standards, straight down, and set to continue, under Labour plunging ever-lower. That may give social-nationalism an opening quite soon (but there has to be a movement to capture the sentiment).

My view about Reform UK is that many of those who favour it have already voted, via the postal ballot. Most of the rest who are leaning to Reform UK will not be put off by the contrived scandal in Clacton; some may even like the outspoken comments aired on Channel 4.

There is also the point that maybe 20% of eligible voters are either not going to vote, or are still uncertain. Few will vote Con. They —in my opinion— will not, most of them, vote Lab either. So either Reform UK, LibDem, or Green. I should say that Reform UK will get more than the LibDems, maybe more than the LibDems and Greens combined. Even if that only boosts Reform UK’s vote-share by 2 or 3 points, so from ?18% or ?20% to 21% or maybe as high as 24%, that would be mega in terms of the ultimate results.

If, as seems, anything from 5% to 20% of voters are only going to decide in the last days of the campaign, or even on the day, that means that there is still much to play for.

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Hopefully, when/if Trump becomes President again, American support for the Kiev regime will be scaled back and maybe stopped altogether. Other NATO states, and other states yet, will then and consequently rethink their pro-“Ukraine” (Kiev regime) stances.

The war will then grind to a halt within, at most, a few weeks. Zelensky and his cabal will flee, or be captured, or killed, and Russia will be able to redraw the map in suitable fashion, ruling the “Russian” part east of the Dnieper and along the coasts of the Sea of Azov and Black Sea, as well as Crimea; the rest of Ukraine can be an independent or autonomous state or territory centred on Lvov, peacefully and unthreateningly ruling its own lands and population. About half of Ukrainian territory as it was pre-2022.

As for Zelensky, if he survives, he and his wife can go to one of his villas in the Americas (Gulf Coast Florida, and/or the Caribbean), or to Israel, there to live off his stolen billions.

London in [fill in year]…

Thick-as-two-short-planks David Lammy, arguably the most high-profile useless “diversity hire” in the UK.

That ridiculous creature may soon be Foreign Secretary. Looks like James Cleverly’s status as most ludicrous (ever?) Foreign Secretary will have been as brief as those of Liz Truss and “Boris” Johnson…

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The Conservative Party deserves to disappear, but Starmer, the Israel and NWO/ZOG puppet, will lead an “elected” dictatorship, which will intensify the attack on free speech and the future of the British people.

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The System parties want even something as semi-System as Reform UK to be squashed flat by propaganda lies and by State repression (and electoral trickery). Is this really “democracy”?

Simon Myerson’s unwavering confidence in his views, despite compelling evidence he is obviously wrong, puzzles me. He posted to accuse Assange of causing deaths. It’s an allegation of the utmost seriousness for a judge and KC to make? But the court judgments make it clear Myerson is wrong. And Assange’s sentencing judge has now confirmed nobody suffered physical harm. Will Myerson delete his false allegation about Assange? No chance.”

[James Wilson]

Myerson’s status as Recorder (p/t judge) should be reviewed by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office. He is plainly unfit to sit in judgment on others.

Breaking: Soap Star Link To Farage C4 Sting: Reform Party Chairman Richard Tice has alleged that @Channel4 bought undercover film from specialist firm called Lee Morrell Media. According to Companies House UK Govt website, Lee Sorrell, the Director of Lee Sorrell Media, is also Director of another company named COCO MOCHA FILMS LTD. Another named person as a ‘director’ of COCO MOCHA FILMS LTD is former Emmerdale Farm actor Neil Lennon. We’re not sure to what extent Mr Lennon is linked to the apparent ‘stage managed hit piece on the @reformparty_uk and @Nigel_Farage in Clacton? WTF is going on here? Undercover media firms based in Barnsley, ITV rejected soap stars, leftist filmmakers working for @Channel4, all heading over to Clacton to destroy the Reform vote there.”

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[Berlin 1945]
[1960s— couple look over Berlin Wall from western side to eastern side]

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

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13581155/Boy-12-referred-counter-extremist-Prevent-officers-school-declaring-two-genders-Im-gay-not-queer.html

A 12-year-old schoolboy has been investigated by counter-extremism officers after he declared there ‘are only two genders’.

The child made a video, posted online, in which he also stated: ‘There’s no such thing as non-binary’.

And in response to school bullies who mistakenly believed he supported transgender ideology, he said: ‘[I’m] gay not queer.’

Originally a homophobic slur, trans activists claim the word ‘queer’ now describes people who don’t adhere to ideas of sex or gender.

But the school told the boy’s mother they would refer him to Prevent, the Home Office programme that attempts to stop people becoming terrorists, amid fears he could be at risk of being radicalised by the far-right.”

[Daily Mail]

Britain’s poundland Stasi…

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/05/30/one-mans-extremism-is-another-mans-struggle-for-liberty-and-justice/.

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https://twitter.com/Ted_Wellread/status/1588268283177754624

…and the rest…more like 500,000-1M a year now.

Imagine if all the Johnson clan took a luxury family holiday somewhere, on a private jet, and then, while over the Atlantic or Pacific…[REDACTED]…

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Diary Blog, Christmas Day, 2023

Merry Christmas to all well-intentioned readers of the blog.

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The enemy celebrates when we are divided, I demand that the leadership restrain the campaigns.”

Political and social instability is observed in Israel after heavy losses in the Gaza Strip. Israel has already announced hundreds of dead officers, but the number of ordinary soldiers killed has not yet been disclosed.

Yesterday at the cabinet meeting there were also great disagreements and criticism of Netanyahu.

Protests from the families of the hostages are intensifying, knowing that without a ceasefire their loved ones will not survive the war in Gaza.

The economy is knocked down, there is a huge decline, large numbers of Israeli settlers in the border areas of Gaza and Lebanon have been displaced and are unlikely to return anytime soon.”

Map of military operations in Ukraine at the end of 2023 from ISW The American Institute for the Study of War indicated in red on the map the territory that is under the control of the Russian Armed Forces, and in blue – what the Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to occupy during its counter-offensive.

For the sake of such “success,” the Kiev regime destroyed almost 160 thousand military personnel, hundreds of tanks and aircraft, and never overcame the tactical defense of the Russian Armed Forces.”

2024 will see, by grace of God, a general Russian advance across Eastern Ukraine; an advance to, and northward along, the Dnieper, and then towards the Kiev area. If so, that may precipitate a collapse of the Zelensky dictatorship.

Meanwhile, in the UK, the Jew-Zionist supporters of Israel pretend to be “afraid” (of mild or non-existent “antisemitism”). They constantly whine (or, more often, demand) that people such as myself be dragged into court for having the temerity to criticize both Israel and “their” behaviour. In a month or so, I myself am to be sentenced, having been convicted of publishing [the truth] on this blog.

Most seem, though, to be being destroyed while still in flight.

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Diary Blog, 5 April 2023, with a reminiscence about a Soviet ocean-going yacht, and some thoughts arising

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[Bishop Rock, Isles of Scilly]

On this day a year ago

Memories of long-ago triggered

I happened to see the 2008 article below:

In 1989, when the Soviet crew of the Whitbread Round-the-World Race contender, Fazisi, were in the yachting hub of Hamble (Hampshire), I was also there for a couple of days. I was, with my then girlfriend, an Anglo-Russian (the Russian part being from pre-revolutionary White Russian origins), visiting my parents, who lived in Hamble at that time. In fact, they lived in a small private road, Crowsport, built upon in the 1920s, and only a stone’s throw from the marina where the Soviet yacht was being made ready. You could see the tops of the masts of the yachts in the marina from their house.

Having heard about the Soviet yacht (this was about 2 years before the official end of the Soviet Union in 1991), we decided to walk down to see the yacht and maybe say hello to its crew.

The yacht was there, crew aboard, and we started talking to one of the sailors, a handsome blond giant who was very taken with my girlfriend and, in a polite way, said at the end that we (it sounded more like she —not sure that I was included!) would be welcome to visit any time (she didn’t, though).

The crew spoke Russian language only, apparently.

I remember that the blond sailor said that he was from “Novgorod by Moscow“, more or less a suburb, to distinguish it from the large and historic town halfway between Moscow and the then Leningrad.

We were briefly introduced to the captain, who was carrying a rope, and who seemed stressed. He was going ashore, presumably to the marina office or repair sheds. He nodded to us, maybe shook hands (I do not recall), and trudged away.

The article above, written in 2008, mentions “tragedy” during the race, but does not mention the fact that the captain of the Fazisi committed suicide on the journey round the world, hanging himself in a wood in Uruguay: see https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-13-sp-245-story.html.

In the end, the Fazisi, which had been delivered to Heathrow in one main piece (minus masts) in an Aeroflot cargo plane, the largest in the world, then on a road transporter, did not win the ocean race but still put in a creditable performance, including a one-day run of 386 miles which may have been a world record for a monohull.

That was a more hopeful time for Russia and the world. Sovietism had collapsed in all but name, all the chatter was about Russia becoming partner to the West, rather than enemy, and no-one was thinking about nuclear war any more.

This was before the horde of Western carpetbaggers hit Russia in the 1990s, and before the pack of Jew “oligarchs” got their claws into Russia’s money and natural resources during the Yeltsin years.

It was also before it became publicly known, in the 1990s, that the USA had a “secret” game plan to keep Russia down, and the USA as “world’s only superpower”.

Another, and even less-likely, scenario in 1989 was that Ukraine would break away from Russia, and then much later be at war with it. The captain of the Fazisi was himself of Ukrainian origin, judging by his name (Gryshenko).

It all seems a long time ago now.

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From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11940365/Cleo-Smiths-abductor-Terence-Darrell-Kelly-sentenced.html.

Australian aboriginals are very odd. I don’t know why so many people (in the msm, that is…) lionize them.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/05/decline-of-the-west-causes-moral-decay-living-standards.

For once, I can agree with at least some of what Owen Jones has written. Not his pro-“diversity”, pro-immigration stuff, though. Those and other factors have to be included in the reasons why western societies are decaying, declining, and not unlikely to collapse.

See also my assessment of Owen Jones from a few years ago: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/04/a-brief-word-about-owen-jones/.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/05/jeremy-hunt-benefit-conservative-welfare-poverty

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Musicians” seems to be the self-designation of Wagner Group contract soldiers, as I noted recently on the blog. Presumably a reference to Richard Wagner.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group#Origins_and_leadership; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Utkin.

How shallow. Immigration is a key factor in dragging down wages, and overwhelming the NHS and other services. It is not a discrete or a side issue unconnected to the others.

You can fool some of the people some of the time but not all the people all of the time“… [Abraham Lincoln].

As a voter, you can vote for the misnamed “Conservative” Party, which at times has talked a semi-good game on immigration but done little or nothing to fulfil the big talk talked, or you can vote equally-misnamed “Labour”, which does not even bother to pretend that it would slow (let alone stop, or reverse) mass immigration, but weasels about “managing” it better, meaning automatically allowing most applicants for asylum or visas of various kinds to enter the UK.

They call it “democracy”…

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Not a completely bad point, in my view…

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https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/faces-behind-biggest-ever-child-26638671

A very shocking case, and unusual in the ethnic background of the defendants. Still, it would not be right to turn a blind eye just because most of the defendants appear to have been white.

Not quite the usual fact matrix as in the Asian/Pakistani cases, in fact. As bad, though.

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I agree with the young woman. 100%.

North Americans always seem surprised when, in their own phrase, “what goes around comes around“…

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[Hotel Lutetia, Boulevard Raspail, Paris VI-e arrondissement, 1940s]