Days ago, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper ordered a review into tackling violence against women and girls in the same way as far right and islamic extremism.
This will focus on the rise of "misogynistic influencers" who are reportedly radicalising young men. pic.twitter.com/h62VWgqzvr
What Labour could do to help women and girls is punish instances of violence, explicit incitation of it, and indirect and direct discrimination (sackings etc.) more harshly.
In the wake of the Southport/mass immigration protests and riots, it was revealed that specialist officers were investigating hundreds of social media posts suspected of "spreading hate and inciting violence". pic.twitter.com/eTH45Td6YB
This getting completely out of hand. The west is doing everything it can to censor as many anti-establishment voices as possible and dumb liberals are cheering this on.
The speaker was Haneen Zoabi, Palestinian & member of the Israeli Knesset (parliament)
According to several reports, Mandy & Alan barracked Zoabi, filmed her without permission, called her a racist, refused to stay seated and kept approaching her 2/ pic.twitter.com/8jlQKcjVeC
The whole thread is worth a look, despite my blog having covered much of the information (though not all), and despite the prolific tweeter “Dr” Louise Raw being a naive “antifa”-supporting (and pro-mass immigration) person who always reminds me of Lenin’s criticism of “left-wing Communism“.
Zoe Gardner is merely an extreme example of the commonly-found pro-migration invasion type who usually lives, it seems, in a leafy area not so much affected by the tsunami of “migration”.
Zoe Gardner has always supported mass immigration into the UK. I also seem to recall her tweeting negatively about me a decade or more ago. She also makes some kind of living out of being pro-immigration.
I am unaware of her provenance, but whatever it may be, she is certainly an enemy of the future of Europe.
She is almost (?) obsessed with the idea that hundreds of millions of backward people have every right to swamp the UK if they so want or decide. No. I resist that evil stupidity, and resist stupid or ill-intentioned enemies of Europe such as Zio Zoe Gardner.
The "average voter" last month voted for Labour (certainly the modal average). You, presumably, voted for Reform. Either you're wrong about their similarity to you or Reform has done an appalling job of attracting voters who agree with them; which is it do you think?
The “Larry the Cat” (Labour propaganda) Twitter/X account is wrong, of course. Out of every 20 eligible voters, 8 refused to vote, 4 voted Labour, 3 voted Conservative, 2 voted Reform UK, 2 voted LibDem, and 1 voted Green, roughly speaking. Hardly a ringing endorsement of Labour, to get 4 voters out of 20, or even out of 12.
Indeed, even the 4 out of 20 (or 4 out of 12) who did vote Labour at GE 2024 mostly did so to make sure that the Conservative Party candidate did not win in that particular seat. I think that the core Labour support was really about 2 out of every 20 eligible voters, not more.
If the voting system continues to be unrepresentative of the votes cast, and if governments continue to rule as if hugely popular, when they are actually very unpopular, disliked and distrusted, there will eventually be an upheaval.
Also, other forms of migration (invasion) are far far higher in the UK as compared to France: “fiancees/fiances”, “students”, “spouses”, “family members”, work visa holders” etc, not forgetting fake “tourists” who arrive for (supposedly) a week or two, then disappear into the black economy. Overall, between 500,000+ and a million and a half a year.
Labour will soon be rubberstamping 90% of “asylum” claims. That will be presented as “solving” the crisis.
No you’re not. You’ve sided with the Eco Commies, some of the worst people on earth. “Active travel” = take huge amounts of taxpayers’ money to shut old and disabled people in their homes & ensure males who score highly for psychopathy can cycle dangerously down the street. https://t.co/NQ8bpU8nNxpic.twitter.com/ZLd2nkGATE
The economic situation in the Israeli regime according to the newspaper "Calcalist", which writes that the economy is collapsing, GDP is falling and only government spending is growing. Economic growth in the second quarter was only 1.2%, which is significantly lower than the… pic.twitter.com/nZDwZz8Ajw
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) August 21, 2024
Medvedev: After the Ukrainian attack on Kursk, there will be no negotiations until victory pic.twitter.com/4UrUS1ULrX
(a scam or attempted scam aided and abetted by both Mandy Blumenthal and a Jewish woman scribbler, Sabrina Miller, formerly best known for defending then MP and Israel-puppet, Ian Austin, after he tweeted that bestiality pornography should be decriminalized).
Sabrina Miller was also, when still a student, the main driver of a Jew-Zionist campaign to unseat Dr. David Miller (no relation) at Bristol University, a campaign which succeeded in its objective (after having been amplified by “the usual suspects” in the Press), though Miller later won his unfair dismissal case in the Employment Tribunal.
Is this about the professional pro-Israel agitators Mark Lewis and Mandy Blumenthal who atttended that gig to stage a provocation and embarrassed themselves Gideon Falter style?
LOL! You are a complete disgrace & if @MailOnline had anything about them, they would sack you for submitting that piece of fiction for publication. You are utterly shameless https://t.co/orwq4Vf5LN
— Ban billionaires, improve society somewhat (@Olliek74) August 18, 2024
Those tweets are all about the latest Mark Lewis/Mandy Blumenthal scam (attempt). If they are so afraid of “antisemitism” in the UK, why would they 1. even come here (and so often); 2. why would they choose to go to Edinburgh to see a comedian said to tell “antisemitic” jokes? Also, 3. have they fled back to the UK from their beloved Israel because it is actually safer here?
They spend a great deal of their time in the UK, in fact.
I covered on the blog yesterday the minor storm around their most recent scam.
Jim Davidson is right. The two-tier justice system is fast tracking & jailing social media users, yet those carrying swords & machetes, stabbing children, r@ping women and calling for Brits to have their throats cut, go about their lives uninterrupted. #TwoTierGovt#TwoTierPolicehttps://t.co/KrdUL79Qxg
Having dealt with Mark Lewis in my litigation for over three years, I have to say this is all of a piece. I’m reminded of the two times – that we know of – that Mark Lewis provided untrue information to the Court and then got found out. pic.twitter.com/AbOoFaiRk4
Operation Early Dawn, a measure that allows defendants to be held in police cells and not summoned to magistrates' court until a space in prison is available, has been activated https://t.co/ZXuiEvlvJ9
'The priority is to ensure those found guilty of rioting are imprisoned.'
Former foreign sec Sir Malcolm Rifkind speaks to Sky News as the govt seeks to tackle possible overcrowding in jails as more rioters are sentencedhttps://t.co/HT8JQ3sK0q
That Jew-Zionist liar, Rifkind, seems to be unaware that many of those held have not been convicted of anything, and have not even made a first appearance in the magistrates’ courts.
This is now just mad. Akin to the days of Lenin and Stalin, though no-one is actually being executed. 12-year-old boys arrested for “rioting”, even 13-year-old girls, and men of 70. This is mad, and we have to oppose it.
Indeed, the whole situation has become an instant myth. The country was not full of burning cities a week or two ago. In a few streets in a few towns, cars were overturned, fires set, a few hotels accommodating migrant-invaders briefly besieged, the odd sausage-roll shop looted. It was not St. Petersburg in 1905 or 1917.
[“Off with their heads!“]
Why is this criminalization of "bad speech" a bipartisan issue in UK? It seems that both parties are in agreement about it. Tories have been doing it for 10y+ without Labour objections and now Labour seems eager to continue.
Every single instance of mass migration in history has been met with conflict … This is Labour’s problem and we have seen how it will solve the problem…To achieve its goal of a world without borders with socialism Labour will have to use a lot of force indeed, because ‼️ https://t.co/3smPmxZOf4
NEW POST. The Tide IS Turning –leaving Labour and the Elite Class DANGEROUSLY out of touch with the British people on what is now the MOST important issue for the country. Mass immigration.https://t.co/PpLNNnvuqF
Some hope…Starmer wants to facilitate migration invasion, as does Yvette Cooper. They are openly treacherous.
We have a stabbing epidemic. It moves so quickly that a lesbian couple stabbed in Bournemouth Beach, one killed, was quickly moved on from, to an 11-year-old girl and her mother stabbed in Soho last week, to Crawley to Manchester. How about activating emergency measures, Starmer?
Two-thirds of British people link the recent riots and protests to the disastrous mass immigration policy (as I argued at the start). I joined GB News to talk about ithttps://t.co/bt5seb8wMzpic.twitter.com/XoOs9T0QER
Some animals instinctively know when their lives are in danger. In the same or a similar way, the British people know instinctively that this society is facing existential peril. A million or more immigrants every single year. Completely unsustainable.
That feeling, on the part of the people, is not an academic or quasi-intellectual judgment, which is why the recent protests were often filled with the relatively uneducated. However, the instinctive feeling of the mob is not mistaken, even if some of the actions taken were mistaken.
Keir Starmer's ratings have already crashed since the election while Labour is now pursuing an extreme policy of mass immigration at exactly the same time as most Brits are becoming more concerned and sceptical about this policy 👇👇👇👇 https://t.co/OYj0lSoPiE
Just as I blogged in the past few days. Real criminals (mostly non-white) released early, after having served 40% or even (after other early-release measures) 20% of their headline sentence; meanwhile, white English protesters incarcerated. Some are literally children, some are of pensionable age, many have done nothing but make online comments, shout at a paramilitary police drone, or even simply be present where “disorder” is happening.
Those are the bulk of the people that that Starmer-Labour drone on TV thinks “need to be in prison“. He (whoever he is) is a disgrace, as is Starmer-Labour.
Hard to imagine it, but that stupid and surely drunken woman might be President of the United States by early 2025.
Think of some of the past holders of that office: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, F.D. Roosevelt, Kennedy, Nixon etc. All flawed, yes, but all persons of real weight, persons of stature, with real ideas.
There is something sick about a society in which a woman of that sort can rise so high. Not that the UK can boast too much, looking at, inter alia, “Boris”-idiot, Liz Truss, Theresa May etc.
Talking about the over-promoted, what happened to the little Indian money-juggler? I have not heard a peep out of Sunak for weeks. It is as if he was binned years ago rather than a mere 6 and a half weeks.
The Cult gets what the Cult wants when the Cult owns the Prime Minister. https://t.co/DCYGTBTX9x
Lorraine Cox, 32, was murdered by Azam Mangori, a failed Iraqi Kurd asylum seeker, in 2020. He "suffocated Miss Cox with a T-shirt she had been wearing, before dismembering her."
Root causes like not checking on the asylum status of men? This one was “served with a deportation notice as an overstayer on 14 August 2019”, stayed and killed his girlfriend in 2022.
Just imagine— had the UK prevented non-white immigration, that murder would not have happened; neither would London have had to endure Sadiq Khan. Win-win, as they say…
Sabrina Miller made it her obsession to get @Tracking_Power sacked while at Bristol Uni. She attended his lectures even though she wasn't studying his course, with the sole intention to feign offence.
She then used the UJS to lawfare him out of his job. Point is, she has form.
…and arguably the least credible, apart from “Boris”-idiot and Liz Truss.
The poll by the way is by Savanta. It finds 64% of Brits hold immigration policy responsible. They mention other factors, too, like social media, right-wing figures, but migration policy once again centralhttps://t.co/i2VLFRi0ne
Member of the Bundestag Sara Wagenknecht called on the authorities to remove from the draft state budget for 2025 the clause on providing military aid to Ukraine in light of reports on Kiev's involvement in the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipeline.
“Member of the Bundestag Sara Wagenknecht called on the authorities to remove from the draft state budget for 2025 the clause on providing military aid to Ukraine in light of reports on Kiev’s involvement in the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipeline.”
Instead of continuing to force German taxpayers to finance, including through the EU, the Ukrainian state budget and the supply of weapons, it is time to discuss reparations ,” she added.
Germany plans to allocate four billion euros for aid to Ukraine next year, which is two times less than in 2024.”
Israeli airstrikes now hit Lebanon just minutes after Tony Blinken announced the US would continue to “defend” Israel. pic.twitter.com/sBEvrPeJWW
Good grief. Lewis is now in a far worse medical condition than I had thought. All that, and also quite likely to be sued in professional negligence quite soon, it seems (arising out of his most recent legal debacle in the case of Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon and Cantor). I expect that he will scuttle back to Eilat (Israel) in order to try to escape the consequences.
Late music
[swearing-in of SS-men before the Feldherrnhalle, Odeonsplatz, Munich, early 1940s]
Basically, 1,000+ people have now been arrested following the recent protests and connected minor “riots” (or violent outbreaks) here and there.
Many of those people have been charged, and many of those have been remanded in custody, meaning put into prison until trial (which might be as long as a year or more later, unless fast-tracked). Those who have pleaded guilty so far mostly seem to have been imprisoned anyway.
The fact is that many (probably almost all) of those imprisoned, either pending trial or after having pleaded guilty, are not in any way, even in the lay sense, “dangerous”. Many have no previous convictions, and even those who do (and the sentences of which have been reported after guilty pleas) have convictions mainly for non-violent offences (shoplifting, drugs etc).
What Starmer, Yvette Cooper, and (absurdly) Shabana Mahmood, have done is to release known and active criminals early (many non-white, and after they have completed only 40% of their sentences), in order to free up space which is now being used to incarcerate English people who are, almost all, not active criminals.
Those released early under that scheme will, many of them, re-offend within a fairly short space of time, whereas relatively few of those arrested in the aftermath of the recent protests will re-offend at all, ever, and certainly not in terms of violent disorder. That of course applies even more to those arrested/charged/imprisoned because they merely made comments, justified or otherwise, on social media.
It is beginning to look very much as though Starmer, Yvette Cooper, and the ridiculous Shabana Mahmood (currently posing as “Lord Chancellor” and Secretary of State for Justice) have no idea what they are doing. To me, their over-reaction to the recent minor disorders that took place (by English people— those done by Roma Gypsies in Leeds, and Pakistanis in Birmingham etc, have gone largely unpunished) seems much like that of the Queen of Hearts in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: “Off with their heads!“
[“Off with their heads!“]
Incidentally, was there ever a “Lord Chancellor” and Justice Secretary less qualified? A moot point after some in recent years, I concede. However, Shabana Mahmood is an absurd choice for the role. She was only at the practising Bar for a few months, if that (after a year of pupillage), and then worked as a salaried gopher in a firm of solicitors, and only for a couple of years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabana_Mahmood#Early_life_and_career.
Shabana Mahmood’s entire legal career only lasted about 3-4 years.
She was probably appointed to placate the Pakistani Muslim element in the UK.
Pakistanis as such are now about 3% of the population; Muslims as a whole (many of which are also Pakistani but born in the UK) comprise 6% of the UK population now. Both anyway are significant voting blocs, and important in general political terms.
“Nearly early two weeks after its surprise incursion into Russia, Ukraine finds itself struggling to find a balance between seizing territory across the border in Kursk and losing it at the heart of the eastern front in central Donetsk.
On Friday, Ukraine’s commander-in-chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, claimed advances were being made of up to two miles a day inside Russia, but Moscow’s forces have gained about three miles this month as the Kremlin bets heavily on capturing the hub of Pokrovsk.
In Pokrovsk, meanwhile, officials have stepped up civilian evacuations. Serhiy Dobryak, head of the city military administration, warned that Russian forces had “almost approached” the city and that alarm about its future was growing.
Until a year ago, Pokrovsk was considered safe enough to act as a regional base where journalists and aid workers could stay overnight. Its road and rail connections link the central city of Dnipro with Kramatorsk and Sloviansk. Capturing it would in effect cut the part of Donetsk oblast still in Ukrainian hands in two.
There are persistent rumours that Col Emil Ishkulov, the popular commander of Ukraine’s 80th brigade, now among those involved in the incursion into Kursk, was removed from his position at the end of July because he was opposed to the incursion into Russia – unsure his unit had the strength for the task. At the time, soldiers from the unit issued an unsuccessful public appeal for him to be reinstated.
Sumy, which has a population of about 250,000, has remained busy and lively in the summer heat, though the noise of explosions from Russian glide bombs in the distance stepped up over last week. Its hospitals, though, have been filling up with frontline casualties, and an appeals for blood donations went out to help treat wounded soldiers a week ago. It took an hour for the need to be met.
The city has also received about 4,000 people fleeing the agricultural villages in the area towards the border in the north, many of whom plan to rent apartments.
In the border zone, six miles from the boundary, meanwhile, only a tiny handful of civilians and little functioning infrastructure remain. One shop with smashed windows was still selling groceries, but most places were boarded up. An aid agency, Global Empowerment Mission, supplies nearly 26,000 food rations every month because market supplies are absent, visiting frontline villages every week to distribute to the remaining population.“
[Guardian]
I recently examined this situation on the blog. My thoughts were that either Putin might push the incursion forces back using conventional military means, or blast the entire area from the air, destroying the Kiev-regime forces (as well as any unfortunate Russian and Ukrainian villagers still trying to live there).
Another possibility, less likely, would be a massive bombardment of either Kharkov or Kiev, using bombers and missiles.
Now, I have come to think that there is a fourth possibility, one which has roots in Russian and Soviet history.
When, as Tolstoy put it, in War and Peace, “the forces of Western Europe invaded Russia” in 1812 (the forces commanded by Napoleon were not all French, though about two-thirds were), the strategy adopted by the Russian leadership under Kutuzov, once he was appointed, was to withdraw and withdraw out of reach, while carrying out some limited flanking attacks and what we might now term “special operations”.
According to the preferred strategy, St. Petersburg, the capital, was protected both by troops and by distance, and so was never threatened by the Grande Armee. Moscow, however, was abandoned and set on fire.
Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow was famously disastrous, his armies all but destroyed by attritional flank attacks, cold, lack of food, and by disease.
Of the initial half million men, only about 100,000 made it back to France or other countries.
“On 24 June 1812 and subsequent days, the initial wave of the multinational Grande Armée crossed the Niemen River, marking the entry from the Duchy of Warsaw into Russia.
Employing extensive forced marches, Napoleon rapidly advanced his army of nearly half a million individuals through Western Russia, encompassing present-day Belarus, in a bid to dismantle the disparate Russian forces led by Barclay de Tolly and Pyotr Bagration totaling approximately 180,000–220,000 soldiers at that juncture.[21][22]
Despite losing half of his men within six weeks due to extreme weather conditions, diseases and scarcity of provisions, Napoleon emerged victorious in the Battle of Smolensk. However, the Russian Army, now commanded by Mikhail Kutuzov, opted for a strategic retreat, employing attrition warfare against Napoleon compelling the invaders to rely on an inadequate supply system, incapable of sustaining their vast army in the field.“
[Wikipedia]
In the German invasion and war of 1941-1945, the Wehrmacht advanced to within sight of central Moscow, but were then held and pushed back. Stalin was unwilling to abandon Moscow, the capital, for reasons of morale and administration.
However, elsewhere in European Russia, the Stavka (high command) allowed the Germans to advance and advance into the apparently limitless space (prostor, in the Russian word), as the German supply lines became elongated and eventually unable to supply enough food and ammunition; this came to a head particularly during the battle for Stalingrad.
Reverting to the Kursk situation in 2024, it can be seen that the operation was designed by Zelensky, against the advice of some of his commanders, as a public relations exercise. The suppliers of arms and vast amounts of Western taxpayers’ money had to be shown that the Kiev-regime forces were not beaten. Those forces achieved surprise, and, at first, considerable success.
The Kiev-regime forces were advancing several miles a day in that Kursk border region, but have probably now almost stopped.
Russian forces far to the south, in the Donbass, are advancing 1-3 miles a day, apparently. The Kiev-regime forces are outmannned and outgunned there, a situation made worse by the use of some experienced Ukrainian troops for the Kursk incursion.
What Putin could do (though it might be politically difficult) would be to do little but just about hold the line in the Kursk region, or even fall back on Kursk city (about 30-40 miles from the present front-line), while pounding the Kiev-regime supply lines and rear echelon areas. The Kiev regime forces do not have the manpower or ammunition etc to advance endlessly. Their tide may already have reached its fullest extent.
In other words, Putin could almost let those Kiev-regime forces in the Kursk region “die on the vine”, in MacArthur’s memorable phrase.
Once those Kiev regime forces are stuck in the Kursk region, or have retreated, or are destroyed, those forces will not be able to be deployed, or re-deployed, on the Donbass front. Even now, it looks as though Russian forces will soon split the Kiev-regime forces there into two. Once that results in further crumbling of the front, startling Russian advances may be seen, either in the next few months or next summer. All of Eastern Ukraine may fall to Russian forces in 2025.
Tweets seen
🇬🇧 UK : Liverpool – Mohammed Arazul, illegal immigrant from Iran, attempted to rape a 13-year-old British girl, caught and arrested. Mohammed says, "Respect me. I am new here; I don’t know it’s illegal." pic.twitter.com/LDE9o28MTA
The British people are becoming more sceptical of immigration at exactly the same time as Starmer’s Labour is doubling down on an extreme policy of mass immigration https://t.co/bt5seb8wMzhttps://t.co/B69OP48ooL
“A source told the newspaper [defendant’s immigration] appeal was ongoing when he pushed Mr Potoczek on the tracks and added: ‘It makes you wonder what exactly you have to do to be deported from the UK.‘
Shorsh had 12 convictions for 21 offences including assault, anti-social behaviour and outraging public decency.“
[Daily Mail]
Put him up against a wall.
Notting Hill Carnival starts in seven days. I hope it’s peaceful and have enjoyed it in the past. But last year the disorder was terrible. 71 knives were recovered and 'one or two firearms'. Labour have set the bar high – or rather, the threshold low – for arrests. Let’s see. https://t.co/HbM9XS9Q0Rpic.twitter.com/Unjvl7iYoL
The Notting Hill Carnival should never have been allowed in the first place, and should be terminated now but will not be, because the Government is afraid of weeks of rioting and looting by blacks if such a step were to be taken.
I attended that carnival once, out of curiosity. In the early or mid 1980s. Absolutely ghastly. Intolerable noise, mostly from horrible amplified “music”. Intolerable crowds. Also, no way of getting out without walking miles. In the end, I walked all the way back to Little Venice.
492 illegal migrants entered Britain on small boats yesterday, taking the total since Labour's election to 5,492, & the total this year to 19,066. As I've said, with no serious plan it's only going to get worse … https://t.co/NmI46TvxuA
He did however remember this woman and her partner, because these were the very people who disrupted his humorous stories. He ALWAYS remembers people who disrupt his humourous stories. He loves telling humourous stories. pic.twitter.com/DptzEKs1xN
So it seems that the “poor and victimized” Jewish couple, supposedly targeted by an American black comedian, then booed out of an Edinburgh Fringe comedy show by the irritated audience, were none other than Mark Lewis, the egregious self-promoting solicitor, and his wife/partner/carer Mandy Blumenthal. They made a big fuss about emigrating to Israel six years ago. They said that Britain was too “antisemitic” for them to remain here, and so were, in effect, getting out while they could.
A pack of lies. They spend quite a bit of time here, and do not seem to feel any obligation to stay and help Israel in its hour of need.
If those tweets by Reginald D. Hunter are true (accurate), that puts another complexion on the “victimized Jewish couple” story as first published and broadcast recently.
First of all, one has to ask why Lewis and his companion went to such a show in the first place, if the comedian, one Reginald D. Hunter, is known for being “antisemitic” (I have to admit that I had never heard of him at all).
What was their motive even for going there if they were aware of the comedian’s expressed views?
It will be remembered by some that Mandy Blumenthal deliberately tried to book passage, quite many years ago, on a Middle Eastern airline operating out of Heathrow, and made it known that she was Jewish (perhaps using her Israeli passport rather than her UK one). Once refused by the airline, a “typical” fuss was made, both at the airport and in the (((Press))), and the airline quickly stumped up, apparently, quite a few thousand pounds by way of “compensation” (to shut her up).
Is this yet another cynical way to get money, this time out of the comedian, the promoter or the theatre? Was the whole thing contrived in advance, like that airline scam, or not? We do not know, and can only try to draw logical conclusions from what we know.
Reading about what the comedian said on stage, it seems that he recognized the “anonymous” Jewish couple of the Press stories, and that that is why he said that he had been “waiting” for Lewis, assuming that it was Lewis, to turn up:
That’s even before one considers the way in which he treated his ex-wife, one-time low-level TV face, and radio voice (now washed-up and over the hill), Caroline Feraday. I have little time for her anyway, so let’s leave that aside for now (she joined with Lewis in abusing me very unpleasantly on Twitter, about 12 years ago, so she deserved to suffer once she married him, in my view).
Sabrina Miller, when a vociferous Jewish girl student at Bristol, found time to defend Jewish-lobby-puppet and then-MP, Ian Austin, who had tweeted that bestiality pornography and other similar material should be decriminalized. Now she is a “journalist” with the Daily Mail.
The Mail might not have the best reputation, but it really should draw the line at contrived “stories” such as this Edinburgh Fringe scam.
Looks to me as though the audience recognized Lewis specifically, and were loudly disapproving for that reason.
As for the comedian, the promoter (if any), and the theatre, they should resist any contrived legal claim that “any” ambulance-chaser might make…
This all makes me feel that “a certain person” was right (about “them”)…
And as you probably know, Sabrina Miller has form: see her role in trying to smear @Tracking_Power (David Miller – no relation) as an antisemite when he was working at Bristol University (claims which were destroyed in court).
There’s an air of unreality to prosecutions designed to nip unrest in the bud by handing down disproportionate sentences. English law, honed over centuries to match punishment to evidence, is misfiring. Many defendants have pled guilty without trial. Cases need testing by juries. https://t.co/ykuP6ExHuX
What does Starmer think those imprisoned protesters, tweeters, Facebook posters feel about the UK government of traitors now? Happy? Angry? Determined?
"More than 1,000 people have been arrested, with almost 600 charged so far. Some of those charged have been children, including two 12-year-old boys, a 13-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy."
God help John Betjeman, were he still alive. “Come, friendly German bombers, and drop your bombs on Slough“… he would probably be arrested by the “Anti-Terror Command” or other poundshop UK Stasi police, and/or imprisoned for years.
Misleading headline. She’s talking about the dangers of deifying the NHS.
Also look at this nuts analysis from Sky’s Health correspondent. “The health service is our most cherished institution. Very few people would dare to attack it.”
Almost anything now published or spoken by msm scribblers and talking heads can be discounted. If they ever cross the line into uncomfortable and “unapproved” reality, they soon lose those lucrative jobs— and they know it.
Quote: ‘A report two years ago by Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of terror legislation, revealed that Muslim terrorists had been able to seize control of prison wings and set up sharia courts behind bars because prison staff were so concerned about being accused of…
The Ukraine calls on the residents of Krasnoarmeysk (Ukrainian: Pokrovsk), Dimitrov (Mirnograd) and Selidov to evacuate because the front line is approaching them pic.twitter.com/PfEZtK9NIU
All in the Donbass, where Russian forces are now steadily advancing at a rate of up to 3 miles per day.
Bundeswehr: The attack on Kursk did not stop the Russian offensive on the central front in Donbass RUSSIANS SUCCESSFULLY BYPASS UKRAINIAN POSITIONS FROM THE FLANKS, SO THEY HAVE TO LEAVE THEM General Christian FREUDING, who in the Bundeswehr is responsible for the coordination of… pic.twitter.com/R2eKodQw7m
🇺🇦 Ukraine is threatened with disaster – the Kiev regime welcomes winter in fear. The energy system of Ukraine is in a critical state, and the current production represents only half of the amount that will be necessary for the winter, announced the European Commissioner for… pic.twitter.com/HJNCkFkI2X
— Newspaper articles collection (@NewsArticleColl) August 18, 2024
Russia cannot lose this war and will not lose this war.
A poor week. I scored only the same as political journalist John Rentoul— 3/10. I knew only the answers to questions 1, 2, and 5; had I thought a bit more, I should also have recalled no. 9 and no. 10.
Talking point
As David Starkey says, Starmer is (along with others and, particularly but not exclusively, in “the party formerly known as Labour”) attempting to institute a kind of “woke” and multikulti police state.
Where I differ from Starkey is in having no faith in the idea that a different ethos of national identity can suddenly emerge or be fostered, not without a homogenous population. The UK population is going the other way, becoming ever-more heterogenous, and spinning out of control.
I also differ from Starkey in that he thinks, or hopes, that, if he or someone else puts forward a reasoned and reasonable argument, eventually people will accept the propositions put forward. The credo of the traditional or classical academic.
All very well, as far as it goes, but Mao put forward the credo of Realpolitik, that is “political power comes out of the barrel of a gun“.
Not that that I agree wholeheartedly with that Maoist quotation either. The —by any other name— “revolution” in the DDR/East Germany in 1989 was not violent. There were vast, though peaceful, demonstrations in several major DDR cities (Dresden, Leipzig etc). The Lutheran Church was part of all that.
The East German state was still arresting some dissidents even in 1989, but the heart had gone. I recall the strange feeling I had when spending a couple of days in the DDR in 1988. Like a stage set of a state rather than a real one, an impression made stronger by the seemingly almost-depopulated southern parts of East Germany through which I travelled by car. I have blogged once or twice previously about my impressions of the place(s).
As a matter of fact, the slightly contrived “revolutions” of the late 1980s in Romania, Czechoslovakia etc were mainly non-violent, as they were in the pribaltika (Baltic states). I myself saw Czechoslovakia briefly in 1988, just before it all happened, and was in Poland several times in 1988 and 1989.
In Poland, even in 1988, one got the impression that the state there was going through the motions of being a “socialist” state but that, just under the surface, the whole population, pretty much, was “dissident” in one way or another; a kind of vast, non-violent anti-socialist conspiracy of a whole people.
Even in the Soviet Union, a huge “revolution” happened over several years in the late 1980s and early 1990s, mostly though not entirely peaceful, and including (as in Romania and elsewhere) many elements of the socialist-state structure.
Starkey is or was a Conservative, politically. He seems at least slightly taken with Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick. Why? The first is a Nigerian (though born in London) and so, in my opinion, unfitted by that fact alone to be a British political leader, let alone Prime Minister. I have, also, never heard anything worthwhile from her.
Born 1982, qualified late as solicitor, aged 26, but was in legal practice for only about 4 years (with two of the leading American law firms, sequentially; presumably quite junior), and was then (somehow; how?) a director of Christie’s auctioneers (though only until he became an MP a few months later).
Jenrick’s provenance interests me. It also disquiets.
Jenrick, yet another member of Conservative Friends of Israel, is tied up with Jewish businessmen and property-developer sharks, and pushed for the ruination of the small park by the Palace of Westminster by the proposed construction of a hugely-ugly “holocaust” “memorial” and propaganda centre.
In addition, Jenrick ordered, as minister for immigration, murals for children of migrant-invaders to be painted over because the colourful murals might give them pleasure and comfort.
No-one, I think, could accuse me of being either pro-immigration or in favour of granting privileges to migrant-invaders, but that mean-spirited targeting of any small children of such invaders by Jenrick felt morally wrong to me.
Like Starmer, Jenrick is married to a Jewish woman and has had children with her.
Jenrick just feels wrong to me. He’s a bad apple.
As to the Starkey interview, while I can agree with much of what he says there, he is too much in the ivory tower in the end.
Ironically, for someone “cancelled” by the System for making “racist” remarks, he seems to me insufficiently so. How does he imagine this country will recover in the way that he hopes when 20% of the population is already non-European, and with another ~million coming in every year at present? Make that, conservatively, about a 2% increase annually.
It seems to me that Starkey knows in his heart that I am right (even if, as is quite likely, he has never heard of me), but fears to say so; don’t forget that he “apologized” and tried to retract after he was “cancelled”. Never pretend to apologize to either the mob or to “them” (((them))).
The video is worth watching, though.
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Good grief.
Listen to that “muppet” (on the second video clip), one Benjamin Butterworth. Complete idiot. Complete traitor to this country’s people and their future, too. Former (?) Chairman of Young Labour (in London). Scribbled a few times for the Guardian some years ago, apparently. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/benjamin-butterworth.
Poor thinking skills. Very poor, in fact. A fanatic, but one with nothing of interest to say. Claims that “legal immigrants” (the vast majority of all immigrants) all “come into the country with a job“. A straight lie. Huge numbers enter as supposed “fiances”, “fiancees”, “spouses”, “students”, “family members”, “asylum seekers” etc; and even those supposedly entering “with a job” (on work visas) are often not bona fide at all.
I fear that much of Starmer’s strongest support comes from semi-educated and anti-British fanatics of that sort.
I rather think that GB News had that Butterworth on because they knew that he would create a kind of petty storm among the discussion panel.
Labour’s master-strategy for industrial peace: throw money at the (unionized) groups in society that shout the most (train drivers, junior doctors etc).
MOST READ this week #1. Here comes the free speech CRACKDOWN –which we must RESIST. How Labour and the left plan to undermine our hard-won freedomshttps://t.co/zV4J9VyUSV
Interesting to note that the msm always applauds “resistance” (including violent “resistance”) in, for example, historically, the Third Reich, the Soviet Union, Italy, Spain, and in various other parts of the world; in South America, even in contemporary North America and Europe, so long as Jews, non-whites, or sometimes Communist partisans, are doing the various forms of “protest”, but as soon as contemporary white people do the same, they must, apparently, be shut down, “cancelled”, even prosecuted and, indeed, even imprisoned. Not even because they have been violent, in fact. Look at Jez Turner, imprisoned for making a speech, Alison Chabloz, for singing satirical songs and posting cartoons; more recently, Sam Melia, for having published stickers the subject-matter of which was not even unlawful.
Remember “two-tier Keir” and thick-as-two-short-planks Angela Rayner being photographed literally “taking the knee” (bowing down before) the fraudulent “Black Lives Matter” nonsense?
You’re an idiot.
Farage is the least of our problems. What is Ed Miliband doing getting £99k from a green finance company to advise on national wealth policy and why are his staffing costs being paid for by a Swedish philanthropist? https://t.co/2CBrHW0BLjpic.twitter.com/eEbjnhF02O
Carol Vorderman thinks that Nigel Farage is a snake-oil salesman. Well, not much argument from me on that, but wait until La Vorderman discovers the truth about Starmer, Yvette Cooper, Rachel Reeves etc…
Of course, the main reason that Farage recently distanced himself from the English protests, and especially their riotous offshoots, was because he does not want OFCOM to pressure GB News to cut off his work (and money).
One of my British followers, Wayne O'Rourke, who runs the @WayneGB88 account was just sentenced to prison. Three years. For memes.
The judge decided that his humorous, snarky posts had stirred up racial hatred. The one post that got him was him urging people to protest in… pic.twitter.com/fj5aBoWvEd
Well, I certainly hear what tweeter Paul Embery is saying there, but look at the alternative— Kamala Harris, a hugely-ignorant non-white who will be but a figurehead while the “Deep State” around her, and really running the show, foments war with Russia, a war they think they can “win” but which —if it happens— will leave Europe, as well as North America and European Russia, in irradiated ruins.
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The only question is whether Putin will simply utilize conventional military methods to push the Kiev-regime forces out of that part of the Kursk region which they have recently invaded, or whether he will do something entirely unexpected by the Western msm, such as use very powerful bombs and missiles (even tactical nuclear ones) to blast clear the whole of the occupied area. There is an outside chance that he might even launch a massive air bombardment on Kharkov or even Kiev.
Whatever the Russian response is, the Kiev-regime forces will be unable to hold the recently-invaded territory. Zelensky himself has admitted as much, though saying that Kiev “is not interested” in doing so. If that is so, why invade that territory in the first place? Clearly, as a public relations exercise to keep Western arms and money flowing in.
Meanwhile, in the Donbass region to the south, Russian forces are steadily advancing at present. About a mile per day. Not spectacular, but the Kiev-regime forces, short of —most of all— soldiers, will have no chance of regaining those areas, or of stopping the Russian advance, all the more so now that some of the better Ukrainian detachments have been re-deployed to assist with the Kursk incursion.
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Jewish rabbi tells a victim of pedophilia that he’s not allowed to go to the non-Jewish authorities (the police) to report the crime that he was raped many times as a child, by a Jew… pic.twitter.com/C8VvWlBprD
Anyone know what happened to the far right riots that were kicking off here in the UK 2 weeks ago? Funny how these things start/blow up all over MSM, pushed by the Government then immediately it all fizzles out. Nobody talking about it. Now we are on to the next…
Still convinced they're challenging the establishment while cheering on fortune 500 companies undermining free speech for the plebs pic.twitter.com/WxpzZu3lNV
Israeli civilians are invited in to watch Palestinians get tortured naked.
We have known this since February thanks to Israeli soldiers themselves, and in spite of the UK and US supporting this war crime, it has never been on mainstream media.https://t.co/kXloQhYf1h
Further digging has revealed that the assassination of Dr. Jumann Arfa and her newborn twins was probably in revenge for a social media post. pic.twitter.com/Il1LRD5vsn
A simple and, in many respects, hard life. Not completely isolated, though. I see that they seem to have electricity (“Socialism means Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country“— Lenin) , and that their milk comes from a carton rather than from their one cow.
The old lady is cooking (I think) manti [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manti_(food)] or pelmeni [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelmeni], foods quite similar inter se, and not dissimilar to ravioli. Cuisine is not really my forte, so I had better say no more. As for what she is frying, maybe cubes of bacon, maybe pork fat.
The old man is seen mending his fishing traps (there is a nearby small river).
Retired people in Russia now get a pension of about £200 a month. Not much (under Yeltsin, it was only about £25, and not always paid), but it must go quite far in a Siberian village. Milk, tea, bread, flour etc.
It occurs to me that, were the world to be hit by nuclear war, and depending on how severe that would be, people of that type might survive better than those who live, as most of us do, in Western (or Russian) cities, towns, suburbs, or partly-suburbanized countryside.
As someone once said of the Louisiana Cajuns living in and around the Mississippi Delta, “when the rest of the world is starving, these people will still be eating.”
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The Government is going to borrow money to fund the National Wealth Fund that will then give private investors guaranteed returns on expensive technology like Carbon Capture and green hydrogen, guaranteeing high energy bills for decades to come. https://t.co/Wrv3I9I7ZX
Starmer-Labour is clueless. The time for a National Wealth Fund would have been in the 1970s and onward, using North Sea Oil revenues, but the System parties gave most of the benefit to oil companies and foreign speculators.
Again, clueless. Mad. Crazed. Would-be dictator Yvette Cooper, who is closer to her evil dream than ever before, is even more of a police-statist than Starmer. She must be stopped. Starmer must be stopped.
Already, people who have nothing to do with “terrorism” (even taking the term at face value) are being snooped upon and sometimes raided by the police, under (some of them) their new-ish Stasi-lite grand title of “the Anti-Terror Command”. I think that even the satirical singer and entertainer Alison Chabloz was arrested by them one day, several years ago.
Keir Starmer’s ratings have now tanked 26 points since the election (Opinium tonight). As I wrote, this Labour gvt will be very unpopular very quickly https://t.co/QlAxC1PaF4
So the Israelis have now killed over 40,000 people in Gaza, the vast majority non-combatants, and the majority of them women and children (or at least juveniles under 18).
According to the Israeli authorities themselves, the Jewish/Israeli death toll in Southern Israel arising from the attack by Hamas operatives on 7 October 2023 was just over 1,100, of which about a third were Israeli soldiers, police, and operatives of the Shin Beth security organization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Hamas-led_attack_on_Israel#Revision_of_casualty_numbers
So, Israeli death toll on 7 October 2023— about 1,180.
Palestinian Arab death toll in Gaza since 7 October 2023 to date— over 40,000.
40x the number…
Also, the Israelis have made Gaza all but uninhabitable.
The question arises: at what point will the “Israelis” consider that they have received sufficient “payback”?
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I myself have not thought that for a long long time anyway…
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Did you know that British Future gets taxpayer funding? Its trustee report for the year March 2023 says BF “strengthened [its] position as a thought leader on issues of identity and immigration, race and integration.” Mr “thought leader” with his lists⬇️ https://t.co/2G3UAaYQmohttps://t.co/YeAJyNjBs4pic.twitter.com/B8oCZBm6mh
Britain is now infested by these fake “think tanks”, “institutes”, fake “charities” etc, staffed and headed by useless persons (often, though not always, non-European), and subsidized (often, not always) out of public funds. A kind of propaganda industry dedicated to the subversion of our race, culture, and civilization.
You often find that MPs who are chucked out after having lost elections, and especially those who belong to “Friends of Israel” groups, are found well-paid jobs either heading such fake think-tanks etc, or similar “jobs” with various commercial regulatory bodies.
The young Palestinian boy Salah endured unimaginable loss, having lost his mother, father, grandparents, and had his leg amputated due to an Israeli airs & trike on his home in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/Cljc8cc2q4
Rasheed Abdel Qader Sada, 23 years old, was brutally murdered by terrorist settlers during a pogrom targeting the village of Jit in Qalqilya, West Bank.
The settlers shot Rashid while he was trying to stop them from setting his home on fire. pic.twitter.com/3WKeE4VrWo
The Jews in Israel/Palestine will not be content (and in fact not even then) until they “own”, by conquest or trickery or terrorist gangsterism, all of the land in the country. Many of those Jew “settlers” (terrorists) are not even of “Israeli” origin, but have recently arrived from the USA, Australia, the UK, France etc.
Harold Wilson was (in the 1960s; he returned for a couple of years in the 1970s) Prime Minister at a time of transition, when Britain still had (more) remnants of our once-vast Empire, and when it still stood up sometimes to the demands of our supposed “ally” across the Atlantic. Wilson refused to join the USA in the Vietnam War, though Australia and New Zealand did, considering themselves bound by their SEATO membership [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia_Treaty_Organization]. The UK, though, was also a SEATO member, as were other states.
Domestically, the UK still had so many possibilities (in the 1960s as well as the 1970s), partly because mass immigration had scarcely started, as compared to 2024 (you rarely, almost never, saw black, brown, or other non-European persons). The very few (literally one or two, except at Oxford University) seen by me in the 1960s in Berkshire and Oxfordshire, where I lived, were occasional people such as NHS consultants.
I should know what the UK was like back then: I was born in 1956.
In the 1960s, there were many modernizing developments in the UK (for good or ill, sometimes for good) such as the Open University, the first motorways (M1, M4), Concorde etc. Also, after 20 years, Britain was just starting to pull away strongly from the restricted post-WW2 atmosphere that had hung over the country since the Pyrrhic victory of 1945.
As for Wilson himself, I encountered him when I was 9, or maybe just 10, in 1966 (my birthday being in early September). I was for some reason determined to meet him and, knowing that he was on the island, stalked a few people who looked, to my mind, a bit like him until I found my quarry on the quay at Hugh Town, St. Mary’s, accompanied by his sole bodyguard, a slim “British officer” type with a pencil moustache, his pistol and holster hidden under a cricket jumper tied around his waist, only the thin brown gun belt over the shoulder giving it away.
[the 9-10 year-old Millard, at left, with younger brothers and Harold Wilson, in 1966]
Wilson has been much-criticized over the years, but had some good qualities, not only personally but politically. He was unlucky inasmuch as the trade unions were all-powerful at the time, and because Britain was still, psychologically, fighting the Second World War.
Imagine the money the government could save if every crackpot scheme was defunded. Nothing like this is the business of government. https://t.co/N2LXwdGzuz
NEW POST. Anonymous Zoomer: "We spent years talking about #MeToo but why does nobody in the elite class want to talk about how mass immigration is undermining women and girls in the West like me?"https://t.co/EFaq4bAKWg
Darren Grimes cannot believe it…he must have missed the times when, to take only one or two examples from recent years, Jez Turner (Jeremy Bedford-Turner) was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for making a brief speech in Whitehall which merely suggested, in one sentence, that Jews should be expelled from England, as they had been (more than once) centuries ago. Darren Grimes and all those other “alt-right” talking heads and scribblers must have also missed the imprisonment of Alison Chabloz for having posted a few satirical songs and cartoons.
Other such free speech martyrs have included Sam Melia of Patriotic Alternative and “Sven Longshanks” (James Allchurch).
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"Social media influencer" in London finds it funny he's on the train without paying for the privilege. He knows there won't be any cops to remove him, he's black, it's all a big joke. pic.twitter.com/pRGNPyiD7U
Completely useless, and in fact negative, a millstone round the neck of our present society, let alone any more advanced version. Not needed, not wanted.
I have seen examples of that attitude in London (including, but not only, on trains) since the early 1980s.
Those without respect for society, or for (real) British people, may at least be controlled, and their behaviour contained, via fear.
"Many Western governments deliberately hide data on the race and ethnicity of criminals, including people who assault women. If you don’t want people spreading “misinformation” then how about you start by making this information available?" https://t.co/1g3ZHqzrRU
"I don't think it's extreme to peacefully protest the policy of mass immigration. But I do think it's extreme to put mass immigration on steroids, which is exactly what the Labour government is now doing"https://t.co/bt5seb8wMz
"The urge to control what people say & think is a sinister trait of elites whose authority's been undermined in past decade. It's a technocratic authoritarianism by which the left seeks to guide the ignorant masses to wisdom" (Gerard Baker, Times). Indeed 👇…
I very much dislike Douglas Murray’s pro-Israelism and pro-Jewish/Zionist-lobby stances, but he is surely on the right track here, leaving aside his wrongful negativity towards National Socialism.
Mainstream media, show business, and academia have embraced the authoritarian left. That is why they are so keen on suppressing freedom of speech and controlling social media. If they managed that, the narrative would be almost completely unified, and what people don't know does…
“The current effort by those in power to once and for all silence opposition is oddly seen as a sign of the tyranny exerted by the left and center right. But it’s much more than that, it seems to me: it is a sign of the tyranny exerted by the Genocidal Bloc over all opposition,…
Incidentally, the only reason there are any cases at all of “mpox” (monkeypox) in Sweden and a few other European countries is because there are African populations in Europe.
Academic at a UK university says that the biology of sex is 'colonial'.
Stalin asked, sardonically, “how many divisions has the Pope?” (Pius XII), yet Stalin is gone, the Soviet regime is gone, and the Pope (albeit a successor-Pope) is still around, as is the Roman Catholic Church (though many think it will not outlast the present century).
Trump says he’s disappointed that the Israel and Jewish lobby isn’t as powerful now as it was 15 years ago.
“15 years ago, if you said anything bad about Israel or the Jewish people, you were finished as a politician — the most powerful lobby in this country by far, was Israel… pic.twitter.com/zYpbSfyGOe
“Trump says he’s disappointed that the Israel and Jewish lobby isn’t as powerful now as it was 15 years ago. “15 years ago, if you said anything bad about Israel or the Jewish people, you were finished as a politician — the most powerful lobby in this country by far, was Israel and Jewish people. Today it’s almost like, what happened?“
People at last, and at least, started to wake up, that’s what happened.
Part of that is younger people (worldwide) not using the Jewish/Zionist controlled or influenced “legacy media”, aka “mainstream media”, very much these days.
Trump, as President, always was a squawking parrot in a gilded cage, guarded by Jews, but at least he might be able to prevent WW3, if re-elected.
I thought, before Biden stood aside, that Trump was “nailed on” to win, but the Kamala Harris candidature changes that, stupid and incredibly ignorant though she is.
For one thing, the American masses now vote mainly according to identity box-ticking. Many of the blacks will vote for Kamala Harris just because she is non-white (half-Jamaican, half-Tamil Indian). Many American women will vote for her simply because she is a woman.
I am beginning to think that Trump might lose this. Maybe that is why he is trying to get the Jews on-side. They may only comprise 2% of the American population, but their influence over the mass media makes their support all but indispensable for Trump.
I now find the US Presidential Election impossible to call.
Shoplifters caught on cctv. The police describe them both as “white“, which they plainly are not.
I wonder how accurate many such reports are (or, rather, are not).
The police of the UK are pretty close to being just useless now, and are utterly suffused with “woke” nonsense.
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Immigration is the most important issue for British people, Ipsos confirms. This is what happens when people ask for lower numbers but you instead give them an extreme policy of mass migration on steroidshttps://t.co/bt5seb94C7pic.twitter.com/ji0h41Ia1u
Ukrainian soldiers in the Kursk region are throwing weapons, changing en masse into civilian clothes, stealing cars of local residents and trying to get lost among them due to lack of evacuation and supplies. pic.twitter.com/vfm2NZ7e0n
@Fox_Claire we don't live in a democracy! It's a lie we are given as an illusion of choice otherwise people would riot. The Blue , Green , or Red pill options all lead to the same path. Look at Brexit never happened. Thats why riots are happening, then the law starts to work!
When Starmer was booed at the Southport commemoration – that’s his next five years. And if the rozzers arrest people for booing, they will just maintain a stony silence.
This 53-year-old woman, a full-time carer with no previous convictions, wrote on Facebook 'Blow the mosques up'. It was a wicked thing to say, and she deserves public shaming. But 15 months in jail? When violent thugs are often given suspended sentences? https://t.co/lwPDd1y9Uo
People have already lost faith in the UK political process, and the police. Until now, the courts have retained a measure of public respect. Will the courts and the judges now go the way of the politicians and police?
“Respect” is not quite the same as “fear”. Judge Jeffreys was feared but not respected. Look what happened to him.
“George Jeffreys, 1st Baron JeffreysPC (15 May 1645 – 18 April 1689), also known as “the Hanging Judge“,[1] was a Welsh judge. He became notable during the reign of King James II, rising to the position of Lord Chancellor (and serving as Lord High Steward in certain instances). His conduct as a judge was to enforce royal policy, resulting in a historical reputation for severity and bias.”
The judge said: "Of the people I have thus far sentenced, you are the person who provides me with the most difficulty because it cannot be levelled at you that you hit anyone, neither have you thrown anything, neither is it said that you…
“This is how ludicrous things have become. The judge said: “Of the people I have thus far sentenced, you are the person who provides me with the most difficulty because it cannot be levelled at you that you hit anyone, neither have you thrown anything, neither is it said that you spat at anybody. But it is accepted by you that you were a party to this disorder and I have to sentence you on that basis, and you know that anyone party to it has to receive a custodial sentence.” Man described by judge as the ‘least involved’ in riot jailed for a yearhttps://telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/13/youngest-female-rioter-13-court-mother-step-father/“
I was not familiar with the facts of the case until (just now) reading the above link, but if the defendant did actually nothing, neither by deed nor by word (of incitement, though he did say things of an insulting and profane character), then how could any judge, properly directing himself, either find the defendant guilty (even on a plea of guilty, which may have been procured by fear of a heavier sentence yet) or hand down any custodial sentence?
I see now, in the Daily Telegraph report, that the defendant did in fact push at a police riot shield, though once only.
The judge was fair enough to have gone into recess at the trial, until further video evidence was screened.
Surely appealable, at least on sentence.
Indeed, if the defendant’s only action had been to be at the scene, and even if, so to speak, “silently in agreement” with the acts done by others, then that surely would not be enough? His words actually said were at worst ambiguous, in my view. Meaning that, on those premises, arguende, there was no actus reus sufficient in law (?). However, the pushing of the riot shield might (and obviously did) change that, in the mind of the judge. Rather thin, though.
Even if the judge felt impelled to imprison that defendant, surely 3 months would have been more than enough? He would then have been released within 4-5 weeks. Now, he will be spending about 5 months in prison, unless he gets bail pending any appeal on sentence.
Strongly favours migration-invasion, and mass immigration generally. Pretends to think that it actually benefits this country! An enemy of Britain’s future.
@Fox_Claire on @BBCNewsnight just pointed out that while there are dedicated squads of police trawling social media for people to prosecute, if you call the cops because someone has burgled your house or stolen your car they're always too busy.
Victory of @elonmusk over #GARM is an enormously significant moment in the struggle to preserve free speech – Gerald Warner in @reactionlife. Have made this piece free to read. https://t.co/tKZhvCZ1tZ
(to British families or individuals only, though, not to migrant-invaders or any other non-Europeans).
A 53-year-old woman, the primary carer for her husband, who led a "kind and compassionate lifestyle". Sentenced to 15 months of prison time for a quickly deleted FB post. As she was convicted, she replied, “Thank you, your honour". Just awful. .https://t.co/7dTwlaI049
Again, plainly excessive. A suspended sentence would have been appropriate; the immediate 15 months, in all the circumstances, and seeing the strong personal/family mitigation— savage. As it is, the defendant will only be released after 5 months (minus a few days).
Starmer and his compliant judges may have repressed the recent protests (which were coming to an end anyway— the (((Hope not Hate))) cabal just invented the spectre of 100 more “far right” protests— but, in my opinion, people are getting even angrier, albeit under the surface, and with both the general situation in the country and about the “elected” dictatorship (“elected” by a mere 20% of eligible voters) of Two-Tier Keir.
People are just wary of openly saying or publishing online anything now, because of the open repression of free speech, and because of the police-state over-reaction by both Two-Tier Keir and those judges who have recently been giving out Cold War East European-style “People’s Court” sentences (for political “crimes” only).
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He really sickens me , do this to pensioners and curtailing the British natives freedoms hard won , such as the freedom of expression our freedoms set down in Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights. https://t.co/nHbXjgmc1p
🇺🇦ZELENSKY APPROVED PLAN TO BLOW UP NORD STREAM PIPELINES
Despite the mainstream media saying for months that Russia blew up the pipelines, the Wall Street Journal has now revealed it was planned and executed by Ukraine at a cost of $300,000.
“ZELENSKY APPROVED PLAN TO BLOW UP NORD STREAM PIPELINES
Despite the mainstream media saying for months that Russia blew up the pipelines, the Wall Street Journal has now revealed it was planned and executed by Ukraine at a cost of $300,000.
When the CIA learned of the plan they told Zelesnky to abort it, however it still went ahead. According to senior Ukrainian defense and security officials, the pipelines were a legitimate target. They are jointly owned by Russian, German, French, and Dutch companies, and the explosion caused 800 million cubic meters of gas, equivalent to about 3 months of Danish gas supplies, to escape.
It’s a problem for Germany, as a senior official said: “An attack of this scale is a sufficient reason to trigger the collective defense clause of NATO, but our critical infrastructure was blown up by a country that we support with massive weapons shipments and billions in cash.” Ukraine still officially denies involvement in the attack.
The vulgar mercantilist influence comes out in the language, and has for a number of years.
Apart from that, throwing money at a trade union or its members, in order to ensure a period without strikes, is easy enough, and not some masterstroke of Labour Party industrial relations.
You have until Monday to apply to be in charge of the UK's trade with Poland: a top-15 UK trading partner with £31 billion (up 15% YoY) and buffer against Russia.
Pay: £33k.
Otherwise, a nearby Bill’s restaurant is advertising for a sous chef: £40k https://t.co/9gTRkXsVfP
Wow. Reform is ahead of Tories in 2nd. Labour 33%, Reform 21%, Tories 20% (WeThink)
"Farage is winning over cultural conservatives who are economically populist, who loathe mass immigration and think global corporates are taking them for a ride"https://t.co/6tTOpMRoCr
You consistently opposed the one law that created a legal duty on UK universities to promote free speech& protect scholars who do not support the woke orthodoxy. So we shall take no lectures on free speech from you. https://t.co/dxoYS3KRmn
Then compare that to the equally inaccurate and one-sided BBC and Sky News (etc) reportage about the Ukraine conflict, the migration-invasion and much else.
Other than in the most egregious cases, such as where there is clear evidence of incitement to violence or law-breaking, I don't think anyone should be sent to jail for something they wrote on social media. That is a hill worth dying on.
I agree completely. The UK has gone slowly mad in that regard over the past 50 years and especially the past 25 years.
.@simoncalder. But the poor old taxpayer has to fork out far, far more on the pretend private rail franchisees( who delay my journeys far more often than any union does) and their bonuses. And drivers drive trains.I’ve never worked out what the operating companies do for me. https://t.co/YWcq7OmJr3
Example(s) of and from what Katie Hopkins calls “Batshit Bonkers Britain”.
Quite remarkable to see so many colleagues on the left reveal themselves as true "hang 'em, flog 'em" reactionaries after spending years berating me for the same thing!
As frequently noted on the blog over the past 7 years, the self-describing “Left” has almost nothing left except hysterical demands that “the authorities” should “deplatform” anyone of whom they disapprove, or who is not of the “woke” orthodoxy. It even came out during the “Covid” hysteria of a few years ago.
The once-socialist so-called “Left” and/or “antifascist” tendency has actually nothing to offer the British people. No ideals. No ideas. Just witch-hunts.
Incidentally, anyone wanting to confirm that those sorts of individuals really are of “Batshit Bonkers Britain”, read this
During the past night there was a new eruption of Etna volcano in Sicily. Due to the emission of ash into the atmosphere, the airport in Catania was closed until 18:00 pic.twitter.com/oghP9qmYl6
The lady in the white bikini better start running…
Megregor: The Kursk operation serves to create the illusion of progress
🇺🇸 It is possible that the United States participated in providing the intelligence that the Armed Forces of Ukraine needed to attack the Kursk region, said former Pentagon adviser Douglas McGregor. The… pic.twitter.com/bLAjIz8Wf7
“The Kursk operation serves to create the illusion of progress.
It is possible that the United States participated in providing the intelligence that the Armed Forces of Ukraine needed to attack the Kursk region, said former Pentagon adviser Douglas McGregor.
The goal of the operation is to create the illusion of success so that warmongers in Washington will continue to send money to Ukraine, he emphasized.“
Exactly.
A group of over 100 Israeli settlers invaded a Palestinian settlement near the city of Kalkilja in the West Bank. Burn houses and cars. pic.twitter.com/uvNGJ9Ktbd
Ian Hislop became editor in 1986. He then became part of the BBC's HIGNFY team in 1990. Some 600 episodes later, at 20k a pop, Hislop has made 12 million quids. Becoming a BBC whore lapdog entailed selling out the entire raison d'etre of Private Eye.
Private Eye, Have I Got News For You etc are on the same level of System-approved fake “satire” as was the Soviet publication, Krokodil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krokodil.
Working class people concerned about immigration? Private Eye really is dedicated to 'punching down' these days.
When people are first promoted they often shrink away from the bigger responsibilities and wider vision required by the new role, and search frantically for something they know how to do. Which usually turns out to be the thing they did pre-promotion.
As I blogged a week or so ago, Starmer, the “file-clerk given power unexpectedly”, has retreated into his “legal people” comfort zone, and (despite the sycophantic tweets of many of the usual pro-Labour Twitter-twits) has shown himself not a proper person to be Prime Minister.
BREAKING: A 60-year-old man named Glyn Guest has been jailed for two years and eight months at Sheffield Crown Court over the Rotherham riotshttps://t.co/cFJoMDPECj
A 60-y-o man imprisoned for 2 years and 8 months for merely pushing a policeman to the ground. True, he should not have done it, but (as with almost all of the recent reactive sentences following the protests) this seems highly excessive.
I hope that he appeals on sentence. 40% of 2 yrs 8 months is about 13 months. If he can get the sentence reduced to 20 months, he might be out in 8 months. Still pretty stiff. A suitable sentence might have been either a “suspended” or maybe 5 months, allowing for his release in 2 months.
Top marks for cheekiest job application for a recently sacked Tory MP so far. Theresa Coffey applied for a well paid, senior post with the Labour government. You'll be amazed to hear she didn't get it, but top marks for the sheer cheekiness. https://t.co/Cp0rX9XJcI
Therese Coffey, like Iain Dunce Duncan Smith, falsified her CV in several respects, and is little better than a fraud. I blogged about her 5 years ago:
The truth is already inconvenient to a number of influential groups in society (and not just “them”)…
Why is the @britishlibrary, which we all pay for even though it has been effectively shut for the last 9 months, telling us we must share its values before it will talk to us? https://t.co/gvPlFvYxvP
As frequently blogged, the West needs a thoroughgoing cultural purge, as well as a political one. TV, radio, the Press, the academic and other cultural institutions, the advertising industry etc.
Woman, 52, is remanded in custody after appearing in court accused of buying eggs and water for rioters to throw at police.
My rapist didn’t even get remanded and there was DNA evidence.
Keir Starmer and the Labour Party are never going to live this down.…
Two-tier Keir has already failed as Prime Minister, but what will sink him is not so much his blatant attack on free speech and protest, but the fact that he and his cohorts have no idea at all how to tackle the real and pressing national issues, especially immigration (not just the rubber boats aspect), which causes or makes far worse all the other pressing issues— housing, benefits and pensions, pay, housing, crime, overcrowded roads, the environment; even water supply.
NEW POST. NO. Nigel Farage didn't cause the RIOTS. The ELITE CLASS did.https://t.co/6tTOpMRoCr
“One of the most dangerous trends of our times”, said American writer Thomas Sowell, “is making the truth socially unacceptable, or even illegal, with ‘hate speech’ laws”. And this is exactly what is taking place in Britain.“
“What all this reflects is a wider point about the political left; in the end, as history shows, it will always sacrifice free speech and free expression on the altar of “social justice”. This is what we see in the online ramblings of people like Paul Mason, Oliver Kamm, Jessica Simor, and Edward Luce, all of whom have called for the shutdown of social media platforms, alternative television channels, and, ultimately, conversation among concerned citizens.“
I have already blogged occasionally about Paul Mason and Jessica Simor, as well as Oliver Kamm (all partly-Jewish, by the way); the last-named has an honoured place in my 2019 blog post They’re Coming to Take Me Away, ha ha! which (updated to quite recently) examines the linkages between mental illness, the self-describing “Left”, and Zionists (both Jews and non-Jews): see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/07/18/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away-ha-ha/.
"It wasn’t Farage who decimated the communities that saw the worst rioting by ushering in globalisation, mass immigration, & deindustrialisation; it was the elite class. It wasn’t Farage who promised they'd lower immigration only to do the opposite; it was the elite class" https://t.co/5Iw0i5rJAZ
#MCCFeszt recap No.4#Hungary is often criticised by the Western elites, but while he was here, @MCC_Budapest’s speaker @GoodwinMJ saw ‘no crime, no homeless people, no riots, no unrest, no drugs, no mass immigration, no broken borders, no self-loathing and no chaos’. ❕ pic.twitter.com/HCtFY3VW6I
Recession will hit the West most hard at the end of 2025 and will deal two blows IT IS UNPREDICTABLE WHAT CONSEQUENCES THE NEW LEVEL OF DELEGITIMIZATION OF THE SYSTEM WILL HAVE IN THE USA pic.twitter.com/iunobb2Wr9
What about the UK? Will this prove to be the open doorway for social nationalism, for which we have been waiting for most of our present lives?
In Kiev, another car of the Territorial Military Department, which distributed the war schedule and calls to the front, was burned. pic.twitter.com/avgefmvrj5
Ukrainian men generally are avoiding the draft, when that is possible. They have to be forced into uniform. Some are fighting back against the press-gangs of the Zelensky regime.
Johnson: Russia – especially after Kursk – will not negotiate with Ukraine
ZELENSKI IS MAKING FATAL MISTAKES BECAUSE HE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SUPPLY THE BRIGADES HE SENT TO RUSSIA
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson: The sitting offer will not be as generous as the previous one. It… pic.twitter.com/k73zmRlRSZ
“Russia – especially after Kursk – will not negotiate with Ukraine
ZELENSKI IS MAKING FATAL MISTAKES BECAUSE HE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SUPPLY THE BRIGADES HE SENT TO RUSSIA
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson: The sitting offer will not be as generous as the previous one. It will sound like this: withdraw troops from Odessa and transfer all others behind the Dnieper, and also demobilize your army, otherwise we will destroy it.”
I have been saying that recently on the blog and (with regard to the last bit) for 2 years. Who would have guessed that my analysis is swifter and better than that of the CIA?…
Sullivan: The future of the Ukrainian state causes pessimism
FORMER US AMBASSADOR IN MOSCOW: CONFLICT IN UKRAINE WILL NOT END WITH PUTIN'S CAPITOLATION
FORMER ambassador of the United States in Moscow, John Sullivan, assessed that the future of the Ukrainian state is… pic.twitter.com/01z019GVey
“Sullivan: The future of the Ukrainian state causes pessimism
FORMER US AMBASSADOR IN MOSCOW: CONFLICT IN UKRAINE WILL NOT END WITH PUTIN’S CAPITOLATION
FORMER ambassador of the United States in Moscow, John Sullivan, assessed that the future of the Ukrainian state is pessimistic.
The conflict in Ukraine will not end “with the capitulation of Russian President Vladimir Putin,” Sullivan said in an interview with Foreign Policy. He admitted that he is pessimistic about the future of Ukraine: “The two sides do not want to negotiate, which could lead to a stalemate, and that is the best the West can hope for in the foreseeable future.”
Previously, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that Ukraine does not have enough soldiers to continue the conflict.“
The Pentagon is pessimistic about its ability to confront Russia, China and North Korea in a nuclear war, according to The Economist pic.twitter.com/4wckS3be10
A nuclear war would of course be terrible for all participants, and even those states not part of the conflict as active players.
Having said that, I feel that China and Russia would just about survive as peoples, probably, even if the states themselves were to implode. The USA is, relatively, more highly-centralized, more dependent on technology, more likely to fall into anarchy (meaning chaos).
If the top 100 population centres in the USA ceased to exist, the USA as a functioning entity would cease to exist.
Israeli newspaper Haaretz: “The war in Gaza is the bloodiest war of the century in terms of civilian deaths. Israel has killed many Palestinians in what it declared as safe zones.” pic.twitter.com/G6nriZrUDB
We hear little now of that rather fascinating tunnel network, said last year to add up to maybe 100-200 miles in length.
The armed forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region did not foresee that Russia would fight to the end and not retreat, Apti Alaudinov said.
▪️The goal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was initially to capture a part of the Belgorod region in addition to the Kursk region, he added. pic.twitter.com/3LtRkXxB6g
The world would be much better were both of those bastards not there.
Russian commander: More than 11,000 Ukrainian soldiers were engaged on the Kursk direction
"What can I say to Zelenskiy? Your 11,600 or 11,900 soldiers and all that combat equipment and all the tanks that were engaged did not fulfill their task," said the commander of the… pic.twitter.com/L3uUjtArIX
The Dictator Zelensky is so desperate to cling to power that he will do anything to impress his NATO masters. Bomb a nuclear power station, destroy his population
“Call this justice? Family of millionaire travellers who kept homeless men as slaves in filthy caravans are ALL out of jail and back at work – while 15 of their victims have died without ever getting compensation.”
[Daily Mail]
Parasites, scavengers and predators. I should like to offer a solution here but, sadly, “the usual suspects” and their political, police, and CPS puppets, have almost destroyed free speech in the UK, making any comment difficult, presently.
— هيئة تطوير محمية الإمام عبدالعزيز بن محمد الملكية (@IARDAKSA) August 11, 2024
Shows how the left creates and uses sensible-sounding legislation to censor. See it says nurses can withdraw care for “discriminatory behaviour”. But parts of the Left think discrimination includes things like not addressing someone by their “chosen pronouns”. https://t.co/FXmbN2PSXv
That sort of thing is being driven by relatively small groups within each occupation, profession, and vocation.
I cannot say anything directly on the blog because we now have so little free speech in the UK (by reason, indeed, of those same “small groups”), so I shall just say “are you thinking what I am thinking?“…
A man has been jailed for posting 3 memes over 2 days showing real images of Asian gangs with the words "Coming to a town near you".
This is becoming like a scaled down and ridiculous copy of Stalin’s purges. As Marx noted, first time— tragedy, but second time— farce [Karl Marx, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon].
Of course, that poor fellow quite wrongfully sentenced to 8 weeks in prison, will not see the (unfunny) joke, even though his 8 weeks will in the end be something like 3 (he will be out after 40% of the headline tariff).
In my opinion, the defendant should have pleaded not guilty. Unfortunately, he seems to have pleaded guilty (perhaps on advice of his solicitor) to get a notional sentence reduction from 12 to 8 weeks.
Starmer’s thoroughly wicked and unconstitutional suggestion (almost a demand, at least an expressed presumption) that anyone pleading not guilty to any charge arising —however peripherally— out of the recent protests) would be remanded in custody until trial (which these days might be months or even a year later) was a direct attack on the rule of law. Plainly intimidatory, and designed to make defendants cave and plead guilty.
The latest I heard, something like 700 arrests have been made. How many charges, I do not know.
Compare those sentences of imprisonment merely for giving out a few online opinions (though the Court, “Clown” Prosecution Service and politicized police all try to make the “offences” seem far worse) with those handed down for real crimes committed in the same area, such as this one:
“A thief told the manager of a Carlisle Co-op store who had caught him stealing alcohol that he would return and “stab him” if he called the police, magistrates heard.
The defence lawyer representing prolific offender Elijah Ali, 34, told the city’s Rickergate court that the defendant denied making the threat. He did, however, plead guilty to the theft and to using threatening behaviour.
Prosecutor George Shelley outlined the facts.
He said the defendant and a second unknown male walked into the Central Avenue branch of Co-op at around 9.30pm on August 5 and began brazenly stealing alcohol from the shelves, picking up “numerous” bottles of booze and putting them in Ali’s jacket.
This prompted the store’s manager to make a 999 call, reporting that a theft was in progress and requesting urgent help.
The second male left the store but as he left, said Mr Shelley, Ali told the store manager: “If you call the police, I’m going to come back and stab you. That placed [the manager] in a state of fear.”
Ali’s record comprises 98 previous offences, 25 of them thefts and kindred crimes. “He’s a prolific offender,” said Mr Shelley.
Magistrates imposed a £200 fine and told Ali to pay the Co-op compensation of £200 as well as £85 costs and a surcharge.“
So a few online comments about a news item results in immediate imprisonment, but for a “prolific thief” (called Ali) with 98 previous convictions, and who threatened to stab a shop manager, only a minor fine (probably paid off at £5 a week).
Any comment, “Prime Minister”? That’s you, two-tier Keir.
I don’t understand this. Why does the Crown Prosecution Service “stand with” any community? It’s supposed to be an impartial body taking decisions based on the law of the land. Why does the CPS need “panels”? Who is on the panels? What influence do they exert? Worrying. https://t.co/1hx2LcA55w
The language gives it away (“our communities” etc).
I DARE YOU: Call me a racist! 😠@ThatAlexWoman is apoplectic. She breaks down mass immigration, women's safety & Two-Tier Kier. Pls share because the media WON'T show this.
Exactly. Some completely blameless tweets by seemingly blameless middle-aged ladies, and which I reposted on the blog, are now gone completely (including from the blog, because I usually embed them). The ladies in question seem to have been frightened into deleting not only the (entirely lawful) tweets but also their Twitter/X account(s).
“Two-tier Keir” is a hateful bastard. Yvette Cooper is no better. They are conspirators, trying to impose a “woke” multikulti police state upon this country.
Today’s authoritarianism knows no boundaries. London’s Metropolitan Police Chief just told the world that he will be coming after anyone who violates British social media censorship rules with international extradition requests – to include American citizens. Simultaneously, the…
“Today’s authoritarianism knows no boundaries. London’s Metropolitan Police Chief just told the world that he will be coming after anyone who violates British social media censorship rules with international extradition requests – to include American citizens.
Simultaneously, the EU’s Censorship “Kommisar” Thierry Breton just told Elon Musk he can’t allow EU citizens to witness tonight’s interview with President Trump.
The elites who want to decide what is permissible to read and watch justify their censorship by labeling dissenting opinions as “misinformation,” “hate speech,” “far right,” or “extremist.”
During the lockdowns, MI-6 designated me and other health freedom activists as potential “terrorists.” But the label applies more closely to themselves, as they try to scare us into submission again with bird flu hoaxes, debt-fueled financial collapse, and ever more dangerous imperial wars of choice.
His uncle, President John F. Kennedy, once said this:
Something about which Britain’s new “Labour” government (“elected” by only 20% of all eligible voters and a mere 33.7% of those who voted) might care to think.
Three white police officers were discriminated against because of their race.
A judge ruled they were passed over for promotion in an anti-white racist decision, where bosses chose an Asian instead to "boost diversity". Disgusting anti-white racism. https://t.co/PQxbQzYeVp
Journalists should be reading the signs about growing authoritarianism instead of enabling it. Unfortunately many are ideologically identical to the people they're paid to criticise. https://t.co/UlZDALPcNW
The point is that the UK’s authoritarian/totalitarian laws and procedures have, in many cases, yes, been in place for some time, but have not been extensively used; in fact used mainly during and after the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic of 2020-2022.
NEW POST. Here comes the free speech CRACKDOWN which we must RESIST. How Labour and the left plan to undermine our hard-won freedoms https://t.co/zV4J9VyUSV
One reason I challenge the elite consensus on mass immigration and broken borders is because unless people feel respected and safe in their own country they will find other ways to express their frustration https://t.co/6S1tPfCRHdpic.twitter.com/J4eckNLR5z
Bureaucrat-drone-dictator Starmer thinks that, by repressing free speech following the recent protests (and their riotous offshoots), he has somehow “solved” the problem that came across his desk. No. Every one of those recently sentenced, or sitting in some overcrowded jungle prison awaiting trial or sentence, now resents and hates Starmer and also the multikulti police state which he, Yvette Cooper, and Rachel Reeves, now head.
What does Starmer imagine will be happening in 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028 and 2029, with British people scarcely able to make a living, to pay exorbitant rents, to buy houses the cheapest of which cost hundreds of thousands of pounds, or to walk the streets of their own cities safely?
Every day, hundreds, sometimes thousands, of migrant-invaders arrive illegally on our shores. Thousands more, every day, enter at least quasi-“legally”.
Britain is heading for a dystopian conflict never seen before.
"The Labour government will soon expand the definition of “Islamophobia”, creating a blasphemy law that will shut down debate about Islam, not least as it tries to appease its shaky coalition of Muslim and radical woke voters"https://t.co/zV4J9VyUSV
Maybe also making “holocaust” “denial” (i.e. examination and historical revision, particularly of events of the 1940s and 1930s) illegal in the UK. Don’t forget that Starmer is a member of Labour Friends of Israel, and that his wife is Jewish.
"You're really no longer a country if you don't have a secure border"
703 illegal migrants entered Britain yesterday, the biggest daily number since Labour took power. Total this year now 18,342, 13% up on same point last year.
As I said, this crisis is only going to get worse until somebody takes control of our bordershttps://t.co/NmI46TvxuA
Don’t forget the others, the ~1,000,000 migrant-invaders that entered “legally” in the past year, or the births to non-European mothers.
Israeli media reports that the psychological war between Hezbollah and Iran continues. Iran's psychological warfare has completely taken over Israel's social media. pic.twitter.com/ZSFatgotyG
He would have been justified in smacking her in the face, in the circumstances. Not immediately, but by the end of her contrived and sustained confrontation.
Kiev-regime announcement
The Kiev regime has announced that it “is not interested” in hanging on to the little strip of land it recently invaded in the Kursk region of Russia.
Translation: the forces of the Kiev regime only made the incursion so that Zelensky and his cabal could claim to Western mass media that they are “winning”, or at least continuing to fight.
In reality, the Kiev-regime incursion forces, mostly press-ganged and poorly-trained serf-soldiers, have been mainly wiped out, and the rest are —literally— dying to be able to drive back over the border to Ukraine and relative safety.
The Kiev-regime incursion was never sustainable; the territory gained for a day or two, or a week or two, could never have been held.
I am worried, though, for the dim Ukrainian soldiers and their grieving, or soon-to-be-grieving families, and also for the Russian civilian families in the Kursk border region, their lives disrupted by this stupid publicity stunt.
At the same time, the Russian advance in the south-east continues steadily.
More tweets
Now it's a fight for simple human decency…perhaps already lost…thanks in part to degenerate media class..I know as I worked in it
“Just walked through Huddersfield city centre. Really struck by the starkest of contrasts.
Some older women sat outside a Merrie England cafe (remember ‘em?), trying to enjoy a civilised afternoon tea.
They were surrounded by the stench of weed, people shouting in foreign languages, couples in tracksuits hurling abuse at each other, gangs of lads hanging around, beggars off their faces.
Nothing noteworthy about the scenario – just everyday stuff in yer standard Red Wall town. But I was impressed by the dignity and stoicism of the women. The rest of it almost reduced me to tears.”
[Dr. Philip Kiszely]
I would suggest a few things, but no doubt that would bring the boring police drones to my door once again, as has happened several times in the past decade. They are the footsoldiers of the multikulti “woke” police state now re-energized by Starmer.
Had a break from Twitter for a couple of days just to come back and see the censorship brigade quote tweeting me hoping for my arrest. 🤣
Thanks to the trolls for the almost 1 million impressions, you just paid my rent this month. 👍🏻 https://t.co/KpUdTZRB5m
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) August 12, 2024
Late tweets
📍Dundrum, Tipperary.
This tiny Irish village of 200 people was forcibly planted this morning. 280 ‘asylum seekers’ are to be housed in this hotel, replacing the local population overnight.
Why is pathetic Sinn Fein supporting the migration-invasion of Ireland, and certainly not properly opposing it?
I really want someone to do this. There are a number of projects that are going to need to be people-led as 80% of the media seem to have abdicated their duty. We need better statistics to understand patterns, authority failures; to diagnose etc. https://t.co/c9SmOc0T0N
I remember seeing this sorta thing a few years ago and it worrying me, due to my "Patsy from Ab Fab" ways. Somehow in July last year I gave up booze. Everything improved! You don't need a "rock bottom" or epiphany. You can just feel "blurgh". Tomorrow could even be the day 🙂 https://t.co/7VLtoJ9Qtn
Strange. I have read about the increase in alcohol consumption during the “lockdown” nonsense or 2020-2021. I went the other way, almost stopping my relatively-modest consumption.
There have been times in my life when I drank little or nothing, other times when my consumption was quite high. I suppose the latter was true of when I was living in the former Soviet Union, in the Caribbean, and in France, as well as when I was practising at the English Bar (during the years 1992-1996 and 2002-2008).
Now, most days, I drink no alcohol at all. No particular reason predominates. It may be partly a function of increasing age (I shall be 68 next month, ironically on the same day as the birthday of “two-tier Keir” Starmer, though he is six years younger than me).
Another reason is that the wines, especially the red wines, that I once liked, such as Chateau Margaux, are extremely expensive (I suppose they always were, but that I notice it more now), or are hard to source (some Moldavian and Georgian wines).
One kind of booze I do like is what the French term eaux de vie, such as 40%+ Kirsch and Poire Williams etc.
A Central and Eastern European taste too, that I must have picked up somewhere or other, is Slivovitz (plum spirit), which UK Lidl had on sale recently (I bought 2 bottles, 42% alc.), and what the Hungarians call palinka, fruit spirit, which may be distilled from one fruit, or a mixture. Apricot is probably my favourite, though I have not had any for well over 20 years.
On a hot day, though, beer is often the best drink (apart from water). I used to like (30-40 years ago), Zhiguli beer from Russia, which was at that time sold in the UK, in Selfridges. Czech beer is pretty good, of course, as is some Polish.
When I was living in Turkey for a few months, I liked Tekel beer, made by a State enterprise. It no longer exists, at least in that form.
One type of wine that I liked a lot in the 1980s, and early 1990s, was the kind of white wine produced in Australia at that time, especially heavily-oaked quality Chardonnay. Harder to find now, of the same type. Maybe tastes have changed, and the producers have followed suit..
Late tweets seen
The people cheering on the destruction of #FreeSpeech in the UK (because they think it gives them power over their peers) reminds me of the crowds cheering Mao's regime as it murdered citizens and erased history.
The most frightening revolutions happen to the sound of applause.
As I noted on the blog during the “Covid” hysteria, the self-describing “left”, including almost all of the “human rights” tribe, were all in favour of more severe “lockdowns”, more severe penalties, dissidents and people ignoring the “Covid” hysteria to have all civil rights taken away, deprived of all medical treatment, even when entirely unconnected to “the virus” etc.
Indeed, the self-describing “left” has lost of of its former ideology and direction, and seems to exist purely to cheer on the right labels (“Covid”, “Ukraine”, “BLM”, “trans”-whatever) and of course “Labour”, despite Labour (also) having lost all or 99% of its former ethos. That, and to “deplatform” from everywhere possible any people who are labelled derogatively by them.
I agree. She was scapegoated. I'm not saying her tweet was fine. When I saw it, then her mistake, I thought, bloody hell. But NEVER did I imagine her being carted off for police questioning. I think the fact she's wealthy & good looking plays into some of the glee over her arrest https://t.co/Xx4JfqCvha
Professor Tettenborn is someone I met a couple of times in Exeter circa 2002-2003. He was at that time the professor at the law faculty of Exeter University. I was in a small set of barristers (now very much larger and, under another name, the largest in the South West outside Bristol; the former head of my old set is now a Circuit Judge).
I sat with Professor Tettenborn and another as a notional “Lord Justice of Appeal” at a moot competition held in the Guildhall at Exeter in mid-2002. My only day as a Lord Justice of Appeal, or indeed any sort of judge.
Incidentally, the winner of the moot (out of three student contenders) was a young Anglo-Armenian who had engaged in some sharp practice during the competition. We three “Lords Justices of Appeal” discussed disqualifying him, but in the end relented. As a student advocate, he was head and shoulders above the other two students, and we thought that that had to be recognized.
A few years later, as a young barrister, the same person got into trouble over allegations of sex harassment (not in my own Chambers but another set), I heard. Not sure whether that went to the Bar Standards Board (I think it did), but the person in question is still, I believe, at the Bar and still based in Exeter; I think that he was also, quite a few years ago, an unsuccessful Conservative candidate for MP at Exeter.
All a long time ago now.
Professor Tettenborn also made a very cogent case at the Law Commission inquiry as to whether the very bad law known as Communications Act 2003, s.127, should be repealed. That was what was recommended, but the section has so far not been repealed, and is regularly misused either by the police/CPS or by the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism”.
“Children will be taught how to spot extremist content and misinformation online under planned changes to the school curriculum, the education secretary said.
Bridget Phillipson said she was launching a review of the curriculum in primary and secondary schools to embed critical thinking across multiple subjects and arm children against “putrid conspiracy theories”.
[Guardian]
So “conspiracy theories” such as the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan will no doubt be examined (with an inbuilt and hostile a priori bias, though…). The brainwashing will probably fail if the children subjected to it open their eyes to what is happening all around them…
“Tory grandees have accused senior figures in their own party of using divisive language that inflamed anger over immigration before the recent rioting, amid warnings that too many Conservatives have “turned a blind eye” to a shift to the right.“
[Guardian]
Alistair Burt and Timothy Kirkhope. Both former solicitors, and both former members of Conservative Friends of Israel.
A slow-motion coup has installed multi-cultural socialism in the West. Britain currently is experiencing its own equivalent of the Prague takeover of 1948. The show-trials of Douglas Murray and Elon Musk (if they can apprehend him) will no doubt soon follow. https://t.co/lcSDMs0PL6
— Tom Gallagher NEW book Europe's Leadership Famine (@cultfree54) August 11, 2024
I saw part of Douglas Murray’s interview. Usually I have no time for him, or for any puppets of Israel and the Jewish lobby, but I have to say that I agreed thoroughly with much and indeed most of what I heard.
I can only imagine that Murray said such unambiguous things deliberately in order to throw down the gauntlet to “two-tier Keir”, to provoke his own, Murray’s, arrest, charge, and prosecution, with the idea that a British jury will never convict him. A gamble, but a calculated one.
Of course, a “British jury” may now contain blacks and browns who may not agree with Murray’s views, and let us not pretend that such cases are somehow objective fora searching for truth— they are purely political, just like the joint trial of Nick Griffin and Mark Collett about 20 or so years ago (they were both acquitted, a smack in the mouth the “Clown” Prosecution Service was not expecting).
However, a British jury might well acquit Murray, if he does end up being charged and tried. That would raise his profile immeasurably. Then, in a few years, he might become a Reform UK candidate (as might Matt Goodwin) in circumstances in which the “elected” dictatorship of “two-tier Keir” and his clowns will undoubtedly be extremely unpopular with everyone outside the msm and the Westminster Bubble. In fact, Britain might really be on the brink of revolt by then.
If, on the other hand, Murray is not arrested/charged/prosecuted, then the poundland “tough guy” image “two-tier Keir” has been trying to project over the past 5-7 days crashes and burns. Indeed, if Murray escapes prosecution, many now charged will be able to plead not guilty in the hope that juries will acquit them for reasons as openly political as many of the prosecutions themselves.
Assuming that Murray’s statements were made quite carefully and deliberately, I think that it can be said that he has made a stunning political move.
The legal arguments at any trial would revolve at least partly around the (apparent) fact that the now-famous interview was filmed in the USA, though broadcast or sent to the UK, and aimed mainly at a UK audience.
During the Black Lives Matter rioting and protests, it was considered entirely legitimate to ask what lay behind black anger. But today, it's apparently illegitimate to ask what lies behind white anger. I think many people see the double standard.
I've done a lot of international media this week and I can tell you that when it comes to how the UK is managing free speech much of the world thinks we're going insane. "You're the home of Magna Carta", a journalist just said. "What the hell happened to you?"
NEW POST. What REALLY lies behind the UK's riots and protests. A collection of counter-cultural perspectives in a national debate that is clearly failing.https://t.co/i2VLFRhsxG
“I’m a Lib Dem member of the House of Lords who lives in trendy Islington. I am a citizen of nowhere. All these foreign people benefit from my patronage (lucky them). But none of them is ever invited to my dinner parties. Virtue signal over.” https://t.co/xkxre1PyYM
What we are now seeing might be described as a struggle between Islamists who want to rule Britain (and mainland Europe), and Jew-Zionists who, partly and perhaps to a large extent, and more quietly [own and] rule Britain and much of the Western world generally.
What is wrong with our civilization can be said with one word — unreality. We are in no danger either from the vices or the virtues of vikings; we are in danger of forgetting all facts, good and bad, in a haze of high-minded phraseology.
My own prediction was, and remains, that Starmer will “solve” the “small boats” problem by setting up some kind of fake “processing” lines in France, and/or elsewhere, then rubberstamping perhaps 90% or even 95% of the applications. That ~90% will then enter the UK “legally” (along with the —ten to twenty times the number— existing “legal” entrants), while the others will still cross the Channel without authorization.
The 1.3M+ figure noted by Matt Goodwin is dwarfed by the c.15M who have arrived “legally” over the past 30 years; also, do not forget the question of births to non-European mothers in the UK. Another form of “migration invasion”.
Only a few writers are willing to challenge the established narrative on what is REALLY driving the unrest in Britain. Here are a few of them 👇https://t.co/i2VLFRhsxG
The Batley Grammar schoolteacher is still in hiding. Three years after he supposedly “insulted” Islam. Why is no one in the political class talking about this? Because they are abject moral cowards, says Brendan O’Neillhttps://t.co/z2cOHtM55Q
It is easy to just laugh at nonsense of that sort, but behind all such manifestations is an urge to lead all of society into the abyss. “Anti-sexism”, “anti-racism” etc. Also, generally, the inferior valued above the superior in terms of cultural value. Historical civilizations and cultures, religions, other belief systems. Music too, and visual art.
Some “artists” have made tens of millions, even hundreds of millions from their “art” of that sort. In Britain we have had Damien Hirst (in my opinion, both a con-man and a fake, as well as mentally-unstable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Hirst) and Tracey Emin (another fake and money-grubber): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracey_Emin.
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Incidentally, the above piece of “art” by Tracey Emin was auctioned by Christie’s in 2014 for £2.5M. Do we need any further evidence of the decadence of our society?
The existing System in the UK has lionized “artists” of that sort, not only by selling their “art” for millions, but by awarding them System or Establishment medals or titles: Tracey Emin is now a member of the Royal Academy, and its Professor of Drawing. She was also awarded a CBE and later DBE “for services to art“. You couldn’t make it up.
Having said that, I recall a woman whom I encountered occasionally in the 1980s, and who was awarded an MBE around 2006 or 2007, “for fostering relations with Russia“. From what I heard, mainly carnal ones…
Incidentally, the infamous Tracey Emin Bed “artwork” was bought by (((Charles Saatchi))) for £150,000, then later, eventually, sold, as noted, for £2.5M.
Art covers a wide field, and many forms, but the above examples show a degradation not only of art but also of a whole society.
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This morning Netanyahu decided that he will appoint a Civil Service Commissioner by himself. The whole cabinet supported his decision. This is contrary to Israeli law and against the opinion of the Attorney General. The Israeli government’s ongoing coup d’etat is not a “judicial…
— Fania Oz-Salzberger 🇮🇱🟣⚖️ פניה עוז-זלצברגר (@faniaoz) August 11, 2024
“This morning Netanyahu decided that he will appoint a Civil Service Commissioner by himself. The whole cabinet supported his decision. This is contrary to Israeli law and against the opinion of the Attorney General. The Israeli government’s ongoing coup d’etat is not a “judicial overhaul” but a destruction of the country’s rule of law. The Attorney General was verbally attacked during the meeting, and Ben Gvir called for her immediate dismissal. Netanyahu’s hostile takeover of the Civil Service Commission will mean that evert future appointment will be subject to the appointee’s groveling submission to him personally and to the extreme right’s agenda.”
Israel will not exist at some point in the near or medium-term future. The external pressures already lead to unsustainable internal stresses.
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We need to address the root cause of why so many British people feel so unsafe in their own country. We need to fix the borders. We need to end mass immigration. We need to replace the policy of multiculturalism.https://t.co/liUeIhMiRYpic.twitter.com/HuMHFW8XKf
Giant wind turbines, reaching up to 850 feet tall – over 250 feet higher than London's Gherkin building – could soon dominate the British countryside, after Ed Miliband dismissed calls for a height limit. https://t.co/HSb3Fa4Mj7
Today's Daily Sceptic update is here. Were the 'spontaneous' anti-racism rallies even real? asks Steven Tucker; Richard Dawkins's Facebook account is deleted after a gender critical post; and Boris Johnson says Starmer is "deaf" to immigration concerns. https://t.co/P8mKXn4RM2pic.twitter.com/JPIGWQohFp
Specialist police units are scouring social media to clamp down on "hate influencers" accused of inciting the riots seen on British streets. https://t.co/XwC6wxc1QM
BBC News, Sky News are now just propaganda pushers. Reminiscent of Soviet TV. For example, I saw a few minutes on either BBC or Sky this evening. Some little technocrat twerp called Hadley, itching to snoop on and censor social media; the woman presenter a nodding dog, unwilling and probably incapable of challenging said twerp’s police state ethos.
Well, another victory over political journalist John Rentoul this week: Rentoul scored 4/10; my score was 6/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 3, 7, and 8.
So, in the end, British free speech and civil rights were killed off, not by “Nazis”, and not by Communists (as such), but by a bespectacled, mealy-mouthed, charisma-free, little bureaucrat-lawyer turned Labour Party MP, with a Jewish wife and some buy-to-let properties.
“Sargon of Akkad” (Carl Benjamin) echoing, inter alia, my recent blog posts about the lack of legitimate mandate for Starmer-Labour. As said previously, out of every 20 people eligible to vote at GE 2024, 8 decided not to vote at all, perhaps because no social-national party or movement exists (as yet).
Out of every 20 eligible voters, and out of every 12 voters who voted, only 4 voted Labour (Con 3, Reform UK 2, LibDems 2, Greens 1), in rough terms.
The Starmer-Labour government has no legitimacy, and no mandate.
Well, sad to say, that is nonsense. Human beings cannot live on other planets (the ones we know about) because the atmospheres are poisonous, and because the gravity is either too little or too great (meaning the human body cannot, over time, take the stresses).
There is no soil or water on other known planets which might be available for agriculture.
Other planets in our solar system are either too hot or too cold for human life to survive.
Several known planets are “gas giants”, and have no hard surface on which even to land or locate an artificial colony.
There is no way (short of somehow living in giant glass bubbles) for human beings even to live on the Moon, let alone Mars or Jupiter. There is also no point in human beings living —if they could— on other planets.
This whole idea of interplanetary colonization is a waste of effort. What it comes down to is a few billionaires who, however you look at it, have far too much money, and who are engaged in a puerile competition with each other, the prize seeming to be the status of having been the first to send loads of affluent tourists on joy-trips around the Earth and, eventually, Moon.
Incidentally, using current technology, it would take 200+ days to reach Mars. Jupiter? Between 600 days to get close, but up to 2,000 days to get into Jupiter’s orbit and/or land. So 2-6 years. Uranus? Perhaps 9 years. Neptune? Estimates vary between 9 and 18 years.
Musk and his fellow-ultra-rich should come down to Earth.
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German air force colonel confirms what anyone with even a passing interest in military strategy already knew.
The Kursk "raid" is a waste of men, materiel and time. It's a PR stunt.
“The Russian Army has destroyed a column of Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment that broke through in the Kursk region.
The enemy was moving in the Malaya Loknya area – this is approximately 15-20 km from the border.
The equipment stopped, where it was overtaken. The vehicles were destroyed by Ka-52M helicopters, and the infantry in the forest was finished off by artillery.“
The Ukrainian (Kiev regime) advance appears to have no goal other than to reassure the suppliers of money and weapons in the West: “look what we can do!” etc.
The Kiev regime has insufficient men and armour to penetrate Russia more deeply, and it has no supply capability for such a serious operation. The Kiev regime advance will (even taking it at face value) run out of steam and then be unable to resupply its columns.
If the Wehrmacht in the early 1940s found itself lost in the vast prostor (apparently-limitless space) of Russia, how could Zelensky’s pitiful forces do better?
Is the Kiev regime trying to get Russia to use tactical nuclear weapons (either in the field or on Kiev) as a way of dragging NATO into the war directly? Let us hope not.
A 26-year-old man has been sentenced to three years and two months in prison after he pleaded guilty to publishing written material to stir up racial hatred: https://t.co/8fe6PPq9srpic.twitter.com/O1LoHHSTvC
So despite the relatively young age of the defendant, despite the fact that the judge decided not to ask for any pre-sentence reports, and despite the fact that the defendant pleaded guilty, the judge in his wisdom decided to inflict upon the defendant an immediate custodial sentence of no less than 3 years (plus that mean little extra two months). Purely political, emanating from “two-tier Keir”, his recent poundshop-dictatorship speech, and his pathetic “Lord Chancellor” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabana_Mahmood#Early_life_and_career].
I know nothing about the case or the defendant but, in view of the harsh sentence, frankly my feeling is that he might as well have pleaded not guilty and gone for jury trial. He might have struck lucky.
It occurs to me that the present wave of repression in the UK has, as its psychological foundation, the way in which a medically-camouflaged police state structure of law and regulation was set up during 2020-2021; the years of the “Covid” panicdemic/scamdemic. The System was interested to see how craven most people were, meekly giving in to the demand to “wear a mask!” (in some places but not in others), “keep 2 metres apart!” (in some places) and all the other nonsense, such as the crazy and arbitrary “Rule of 6” made up by stupid poseur “Boris” Johnson. All that and, even more Draconian, the “lockdown(s)”.
We saw during the “panicdemic” how the courts at first went along with all the nonsense, though sense generally prevailed later on. As for the police, their behaviour during the “Covid” scam was nothing short of absolutely disgusting. Now look— they are again acting as a poundland KGB or Stasi.
"The media narrative that endowed the [defunct] English Defence League & right-wing figures with formidable organising resources was & remains the invention of the propaganda machine of the British Establishment. No doubt right-wing activists posted provocative statements & a…
“The media narrative that endowed the [defunct] English Defence League & right-wing figures with formidable organising resources was & remains the invention of the propaganda machine of the British Establishment.
No doubt right-wing activists posted provocative statements & a handful participated in rioting. But their influence has been blown out of proportion to inflate the role & threat posed by the far right”
– Frank Furedi Substack.“
Quite. The bottle-throwers and/or “Tommy Robinson” fans are just an amorphous mass, pointed in this or that direction by those behind the “controlled opposition”.
I predict now that within 5 years criticising immigration, radical Islamism, and our broken model of multiculturalism will be considered "fake news".https://t.co/liUeIhMiRYpic.twitter.com/gozJAO07Hz
This can only end one way, but under the already -considerable repression in the UK, I cannot specify anything without having to endure —yet again— the boring nuisance of having to talk to police drones at my door (as has happened a number of times in the past decade), and must therefore hope that readers can read between the lines, as in all authoritarian/totalitarian states…
“Britain’s almost 60-year experiment in hate-speech legislation is a warning to the world. We first introduced an offence of ‘inciting racial hatred’ in 1965, in the Race Relations Act. Fast forward to today and we now have laws against ‘incitement to religious hatred’, ‘grossly offensive’ online communications and a police force who routinely harass women for calling men men on the internet. Cops have also taken to quietly recording ‘non-crime hate incidents’ against citizens’ names, when the pesky law gets in the way of their authoritarianism.
The upshot of this is a scale of speech-policing that is surely unprecedented in our history. In 2017, an investigation by The Times found that nine people a day were being arrested for ‘posting allegedly offensive messages online’ – with 3,395 arrested in 2016 alone. Even then, that investigation was limited to one piece of legislation – the Communications Act – and the real number is almost certainly higher, not least because many police forces didn’t respond to the survey. Greg Lukianoff, president of America’s estimable Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, argues that, on the basis of those partial numbers alone, Britain is comfortably locking up more people today for speech crimes than America did during the first Red Scare.
When people think of hate-speech laws they probably imagine some vicious fascist, being dawn-raided for airing toxic, ancient hatreds. There’s still a bit of that. But as those racist rioters remind us, while they are mercifully small in number, censoring racists doesn’t make racists go away – it just forces them to spew their bile out of sight, at the fringes and in fetid echo chambers, where they can’t be clocked or challenged. What’s more, there are many supposed speech criminals who – while offensive to some – are hardly dangerous bigots. There’s Count Dankula, the YouTuber who was convicted in Scotland for making a ‘grossly offensive’ comedy video in which he taught his pug to do a Nazi salute. Feminist Kate Scottow was convicted of causing ‘needless anxiety’ via persistent ‘misgendering’ – thankfully, that one was overturned. Christian street preachers are often arrested by the police for airing their predictably less-than-liberal views on homosexuality and transgenderism. This has been going on for decades now. Indeed, it’s been almost 20 years since Sam Brown, a student at Oxford University, was famously arrested for calling a police horse gay.
More alarmingly, the British state is increasingly taking an interest in things people say in private. There have been a fewcases now in which people in England have been convicted for racist posts made in private WhatsApp groups. In Scotland, the great, sinister innovation of Humza Yousaf’s Hate Crime Act is that it forgoes the usual dwelling defence – a feature of existing hate-speech legislation that prohibits arrest over speech uttered in your own home. Now, any Scottish dinner-table chat could be a crime scene.
Certainly, incitement to violence, true threats and so on are crimes in every civilised society – even in America, where the First Amendment renders any censorship of speech and the press unconstitutional. But ‘incitement to hatred’ and ‘grossly offensive’ speech are different things entirely. One man’s hatred is another man’s passionately held moral conviction. Offence is always in the eye of the beholder. We all think we know hate or offence when we see it, but at the end of the day everyone will draw the line slightly differently. You’re then left with someone having to decide, and nowadays that means someone like Keir Starmer – a man who until about five minutes ago thought it is ‘not right’ to say that only women can have a cervix.“
[Spiked magazine]
Part of all that is also to do with the numbers of people now in the UK who are actually either foreign and born overseas, or foreign, born of foreign parents, but in the UK.
Such people are now often to be found in public sector jobs, having acquired a degree from one of Britain’s new “universities” (with their ingrained “antifascist”-type bias). Police, probation people, civil servants, lawyers, academics, MPs, “journalists” (ill-informed scribblers), TV talking heads etc.
They are the foot-soldiers of the “woke” police state, and have no centuries of freedom of expression, or the struggles for that, to look back upon. They just have no inbred respect for free speech.
Sadly, their numbers now include English/British people as well, many of whom are entirely ignorant of English history, let alone world history, and have no respect for, or even understanding of, freedom of expression, free speech.
This is an excellent piece by @FraserMyers addressing not just the reality of two-tier policing but the underlying reasons the authorities practice it 👏 https://t.co/IJZUG6UPCg
Keir Starmer is considering a clampdown on “Islamophobia”. That would be a disaster. It would be an intolerable assault on our right to think and say whatever we want. No religion, including Islam, should be protected from blasphemy, says Brendan O’Neillhttps://t.co/z2cOHtM55Q
Another step on the UK’s road to perdition. Already, almost any criticism or even observation made about Jews, or Jewish behaviour, is likely to be treated as some kind of “hate speech”, either by police and CPS drones, or by the self-appointed defenders of Jewish/Zionist “entitlement”, such as the malicious and so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”].
Already, the laws of the UK are such that almost any leading historical thinkers such as Jesus Christ, St. Paul, Luther, Marx, Nietzsche etc would be prosecuted were they alive and living in contemporary Britain.
(An old one, but still relevant on the whole).
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[nb. in the UK, that —American— figure of 2% should be about 0.25%…]
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Labour confirms it is dropping plans to have a "UK connection test", which would have restricted social housing to long-term UK residents
Whatever the nuances of housing supply and demand, mass immigration is the major factor in driving up both purchase prices and rental costs.
Between 500,000 and a million new “inhabitants” in the UK every single year, almost all non-white, non-European, newcomers.
Only idiots such as now-washed-up former MP, Pakistani pro-Israel puppet and Muslim apostate, Sajid Javid cannot see, or refuse to accept, the connection
(Make that 10M+, though, not 4M…)
Let me get this straight:
Keir Starmer is releasing violent criminals from prison just to replace them with people who commit thought crimes on @X.
And he is spending police resources investigating and going after people for retweets and Facebook posts when there is a shitload…
“Let me get this straight: Keir Starmer is releasing violent criminals from prison just to replace them with people who commit thought crimes on @X. And he is spending police resources investigating and going after people for retweets and Facebook posts when there is a shitload of violent crime all over Britain.“
There is an historical precedent of sorts for what Starmer etc are doing.
In Stalin’s day, the Soviet criminal legal system regarded ordinary, i.e. real, criminals as “class allies“. They got far more lenient sentences for their crimes of acquisition or violence than either the so-called “former people” (aristocrats and the middle classes), i.e. “class enemies“, usually sentenced for what they were, rather than what they had done, or the political prisoners, the most harshly-treated of all, who were regarded as terrorists, saboteurs, or simple traitors, even if they had done nothing but write a socio-political critique, or even a poem.
Counter-offensive against Russia" – Zelensky's most risky decision, which has been secretly planned for months, Kiev is taking risks with the army and technology, according to The Times of London, citing sources
“Counter-offensive against Russia” – Zelensky’s most risky decision, which has been secretly planned for months, Kiev is taking risks with the army and technology, according to The Times of London, citing sources
Main points from the article citing high sources in Kyiv:
Zelensky pressured the military leadership to start an offensive for months in complete secrecy.
In Kiev, they want to change the narrative that Ukraine is losing the war.
Ukraine would attack Russia even without Western permission.
This is the most risky decision since the beginning of the war, because Moscow will do everything to regain the territories.
The forces allocated for this operation range from 6,000 to 10,000 soldiers (probably more in reality).
The military leadership is ready to risk soldiers and expensive equipment in order to achieve something in this direction.“
As blogged previously, this operation is a propaganda/public relations exercise.
The Kiev regime has no military objective in sight, unless it is to reach Kursk, 77 miles from Sudzha where the front-line seems to be at present.
In the unlikely event that the Kiev-regime forces reach and take Sudzha, and then move up the good-quality 2-lane highway to Kursk, all that will happen will be that those forces will be encircled and destroyed by air as well as armour.
The Kiev regime is running out of soldiers, even recently recruited (pressed into service) ones. It also has no logistics capability to sustain a deep thrust into Russian territory. Russian air power must be all but unchallenged in the Kursk region.
Still there you are. If you allow a sleazy, corrupt, Jewish former TV comedian to pose as President of Ukraine, expect disasters…
In this 2013 video, Nick Griffin asserts that Zionist neocons tried to bribe him in 2007 to drop anti-Semitism and focuse on Muslims. He refused and the Zionists decided to establish their own Zio-friendly far-right in the shape of EDL and Britain First.pic.twitter.com/4ucIZgW59l
— Ragged Trousered Philanderer (@RaggedTP) August 5, 2024
I interviewed Nick Griffin, former chairman of the British Nationalist Party, on anti-immigration unrest in Britain.
We discuss Zionist co-opting of the British nationalist groups to drum support for war & how his account @NickGriffinBU was censored for pro-Palestine activism. pic.twitter.com/coaFAGJTTE
Ian Robert Millard 