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Talking point
I might have a problem accepting the exact parallel, but it is worth thinking about.
Saturday quiz
Well, this week another victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 3/10. My score was 7/10. I did not know the answers to questions 2, 3, and 6 (and I admit that my correct answer to question 8 was a semi-guess or educated guess).
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Israel is doomed.
I have met relatively few, not so many, Ukrainians. I have met many Russians, of all sorts. I have to say that I much prefer the Russians I have met to the Ukrainians I have met.
Subjective, yes of course. Anecdotal too, were details to be considered. However, consider the cultural riches of Russia: composers, writers, painters, philosophers and other thinkers. Now consider the Ukrainian equivalent. Frankly, there is no comparison.
This is the sort of thing that happens when free speech is attacked via not only misguided or deliberately-totalitarian anti-free speech laws but also via policy determinations that have no basis in law whatever, as with “non-crime hate incidents”. “Hate crime” itself has no real basis in law; even less so has “non-crime hate” etc.
This is akin to, parallel to, what happened during the 2020-2022 “Covid” hysteria— government wishes, or preferences, labelled as “official guidance”, and all of that farrago confused with actual law, and then “enforced” arbitrarily by police woodentops who often had, and have, no idea either as to what is and what is not law, and who also often have an inflated idea of their own powers under law.
Talking about “Covid” and thinking back to the facemask loonies seen everywhere 2-3 years ago (though not so often now the msm propaganda hysteria has died down), I saw a typical one today in a supermarket: a middle-aged woman, very fat, hauling herself along slowly, while wearing her filthy, probably 3-years-old, cloth facemask, and pushing a large shopping trolley full of high-carb, high-fat foodstuffs.
Incidentally…
Much of what Goodwin says is correct. What weakens Goodwin, weakens Farage, weakens Reform UK, is that they are totally in the pocket of the Jew-Zionist-Israel lobby. Same goes for Toby Young, Allison Pearson, the “Free Speech Union” etc.
Moscow travelogue
Very different from when I was not far from there several times in 1993 (in Leninsky Prospekt, at the Academy of Sciences). On my second and shorter trip to Moscow, in 2007, I was in another area of the city.
Whatever may be said about Putin, he has made Moscow a very much better city than it was either in 2007 or (a fortiori) 1993, when it was, palpably, on the edge of chaos.
Sovietism had to fall, after the years of gradual decline and the uselessness of Gorbachev. It fell into near-chaos, it was ravaged and pillaged by finance-capitalist carpetbaggers (mostly Jews) from the West, and also by (mostly Jewish) homegrown predators, the so-called “oligarchs”. Gangsterism too.
Putin put an end to much of that, certainly to the outright gangsterism (in 1993, in the Yeltsin era, I was staying in the same hotel, the Ukraina, as the top-level Chechen gangsters), but there are still huge social inequalities (and, worse yet, inequities) in Russia.
I feel that Russia is still in one of its states of transition. The situation will become clearer later.
I am not a “hanger and flogger”, usually, far from it, but the sentences handed down for quite bad crimes of violence are often risibly lenient. The public are rightly concerned.
Well, Corbyn proves, once again, that he is a bit of a political joke.
At present, Reform UK is between 28% and 34% in the opinion polls, which might result in anything between 200 and 400 MPs at a general election. Corbyn’s (I think as yet unnamed) “real Labour” party has not been much tested in opinion polls but seems to be somewhere between 5% and 10%.
That might result in anything from a couple of MPs (inc. Corbyn himself) and (at peak) half a dozen or so MPs. The likelihood is that Corbyn’s new party will take a small amount of support from Reform, far more from official Labour, and so give Reform maybe (?) a dozen more MPs.
The new and totalitarian Online Harms Act is already resulting in footage of protests being censored. LibLabCon MPs supported its passage.
American version, but applicable more to the UK.
Ha ha. “What goes around comes around”…
Jew-Zionist troublemakers have been trying to censor British people for decades. They have been pressuring commercial venues to cancel shows by “antisemitic” and/or anti-Israel speakers, comedians, singers etc for at least half a century in the UK. People such as David Icke, such as the Jewish anti-Zionist jazz musician Gilad Atzmon, and hundreds if not thousands of others.
“Slitherman” and his “Campaign Against Antisemitism” co-conspirators are prominent in that sort of activity, and have been for at least 11 years.
As a matter of fact, the “CAA” was behind the “cancelling” of satirical singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz at the Edinburgh Fringe several years ago, and dishonest/negligent Jew-Zionist solicitor Mark Lewis, and his loudmouthed wife/carer, Mandy Blumenthal (aided and abetted by lying Daily Mail scribbler Sabrina Miller), were behind the attempted shutdown of black comedian Reginald D. Hunter last year (2024), also at the Edinburgh Fringe:
Now, the “CAA” pro-Israel propaganda outfit (engaged in “lawfare”— abuse of English law for pro-Jew-Zionist/Israel purposes) has taken the matter further, actually having the sheer gall to privately prosecute that black comedian on a criminal charge.
They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha!
One of the most popular blog posts, published just over 6 years ago.
The links between many Jewish/Zionist individuals, pro-Israel-ism, “antifa” cretins, and mental instability, are very clear.
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Very true. I also note that there is a strong Jewish involvement in most of the significant regional flashpoints: USA/NATO/EU-Russia, Ukraine (Kiev regime)-Russia, Israel-Gaza, Israel-Syria, Israel-Yemen.
[“Genocidal Zionists are incandescent with fury at the continued solidarity with Palestine shown by international lawyer and UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. The latest tactic is to have the Donald Trump administration announce sanctions against her. “Albanese’s campaign of political and economic warfare against the United States and Israel will no longer be tolerated,” the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, posted on X. “We will always stand by our partners in their right to self-defense.” Rubio is one of the most pro-Zionist people ever to be appointed to the post of US Secretary of State and has received over a million dollars from Zionist lobby groups, “making him one of the top recipients of pro-Israeli donations”. The sanctions announcement coincided with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington, DC. Rubio and Netanyahu met on the same day that the sanctions were announced, which must suggest very close coordination. My latest: UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese faces US sanctions and smear campaigns by Zionist groups after exposing tech billionaires’ complicity in Israeli genocide in Gaza. https://presstv.ir/Detail/2025/07/26/751884/francesca-albanese-smeared-exposing-tech-billionaires-complicit-gaza-genocide“]
Marco Rubio— just another corrupt Cuban.
I am sure that the USA would not like the Russians doing similar but in, say, Northern Mexico. A provocation.
Yes, get all of our armed services doing something actually beneficial for this country, instead of backing up American policy idiocy and/or supporting the Israeli Jews.
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