Tag Archives: Special Relationship

Diary Blog, 8 April 2025

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Thought and feeling of the day

I feel happy today, thinking of all those evil individuals who have attacked me in the past and who are now dead or almost dead.

What a nice sunny Spring day it is.

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Much better than nuclear missiles. Do not prod the Bear…

Amazing, and heartening.

There should be a concerted governmental push to improve the UK’s natural world. Many private landowners and others are doing much but much more needs to be done, especially from the side of government.

[“The Fuhrer as friend of animals“]
[“Love of animals— the Fuhrer has that before anything else“]

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Of course, “Rachel from Accounts” Reeves is a pathetically-incompetent System political drone, elevated (like so many MPs and ministers) far above her level of both competence and education, let alone integrity.

I’m loving this. The future for the UK lies in a loose but friendly relationship with Russia (and, if possible, the rest of Europe), not with the outworn UK-US “Special Relationship” which, for at least the last 70 years, has been a one-way colonial relationship, with Britain as the colony.

Fair enough, but I am still waiting for Goodwin and other similar “controlled opposition” “free speech” types to say a word in defence of my free speech rights, or those of Alison Chabloz, Sam Melia, Jez Turner, Sven Longshanks etc.

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What is needed is not just a political movement but a political movement which has the spirituality and force of a religion. As Hitler said, “those who see in National Socialism only a political movement do not know much about it.

and that does not even include many cases where people are questioned or charged without ever having been arrested, as in my own experiences detailed above. Even in the case of my free speech trial (a process spanning all of 2023 and three months of 2024, I was never arrested, and was eventually charged by “postal requisition”, i.e. a letter was sent to me requiring me to attend court.

My assessment of moneygrubbing grifter Jess Phillips, from some years ago:

Walls. Squads. End.

As previously noted, I do not know the details of this case, but “Legal Gengar” has previously exposed a number of “grifting” frauds, including “Jack Monroe” (Melissa Hadjicostas, aka the “Bootstrap Cook”) and the Essex Jew known as Simon Harris (aka “Man Behaving Dadly”).

Rachel Reeves, Liz Kendall, Yvette Cooper, and Starmer-stein himself should all [REDACTED]…

In an emergent police state, there are many truths that cannot be publicly uttered or published…

[“But I trusted the Labour Party, and voted Labour!“…]

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Without oil and gas, of which they knew nothing, did not discover, did not develop, did not refine themselves —at first—, and had no use for —at first—, the Saudis and other Gulf Arabs would be back in the pre-industrial age, and even the pre-Middle Ages age.

Even with their great riches, look how the Gulf Arabs have misused their unmerited wealth. Look at their soulless pointless cities (eg Dubai and Doha).

If the Chinese economy starts to collapse as a result, the political, and also directly military, consequences could be vast.

The problem here is that many people will, foolishly, look up to someone called “Professor”-somebody, even if the person concerned is basically a TV talking head and science popularizer, and even though the rank of “professor” has anyway been devalued in the past 30+ years by the proliferation of “universities” in the UK, and the consequent growth in the number of professorships, some of which are in the Mickey Mouse area.

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Diary Blog, 2 January 2021

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Over the past year, I have often wondered what will be left once the UK emerges —if it does— from the “panicdemic” measures…

Example: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/dec/05/courts-logjam-leaves-227000-waiting-for-justice-in-london-alone

Those tweets place me in a difficult position, opposed as I am to both parties and “lockdown” measures…

In any case, China is (obviously) a huge country with a huge population, and only small parts were “locked down”. The main Chinese economy was not much impaired. In the UK, the economy has been crippled by “lockdown” and other nonsense, the effects of which are mostly yet to be felt.

Until I went to stay and live in the USA (on and off, mainly in 1989-1993, but also in 1999-2002), I thought that the “Special Relationship” was at least to some extent real. I soon understood, however, that to Americans, even Anglophile ones, and certainly to the broad mass, the UK was down the other end of the telescope, hardly visible.

Long ago, in the mid/late 1970s, I was friendly with a lady of unusual and obscure Eurasian origins (part-Afghan, I believe; part-Irish too), who lived in London (in Kensington). She had been a journalist at one time in her youth, covering the Algerian conflict, unusually, mostly from the side of the Algerian rebels rather than from that of the French government and so-called pieds-noirs (French and other Francophone people long-settled in Algeria). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_War

It was not until years later that I knew that, on one side, her descent was from the mediaeval Norman rulers of Cyprus. Her maiden name had been de Lusignan [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_of_Lusignan].

Strange to think that, under other circumstances, this odd but rather fascinating (at times) woman (I should add that I was a possibly impressionable teenage boy of 19 when we first met) might have been a princess or whatever of a royal house.

Woodrow Wyatt, in his very entertaining multi-volume memoirs (of which I once owned copies), said that his son, who worked as a restaurant manager in the USA, was by descent the only Plantagenet pretender to the throne of England! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wyatt#Marriages,_children,_and_death; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wyatt; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wyatt#The_Journals.

Those memoirs are a good read, by the way. Incidentally, also, Wyatt’s daughter, Petronella, now a more or less washed-up journalist, was once and notoriously involved with the person presently posing as the Prime Minister of the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronella_Wyatt.

Petronella Wyatt, however, is not descended from the Plantagenets.

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Well worth reading that whole thread.

I too prefer the traditional notation, though it is 45+ years since I was a chess enthusiast.

Maybe in 2019, but not now or in 2022, or 2024…

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Rentoul got 3/10 this week (he claims an extra bit because he got part of question 4 right…). I usually beat Rentoul, but did no better this week, also 3/10, I think the worst I have ever done on these Saturday quizzes (I only knew the answers to questions 2, 5 and 6).

Alison Chabloz

The latest song from persecuted singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz:

Non-political, though maybe socio-political, by reason of the censorship imposed upon her.

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Interesting report.

Good grief…what next?

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