It seems to be an even-money chance as to whether Havana will fall down by reason of lack of maintenance first (or be bombed by Trump, then invaded).
In Mexico, this monkey sneaks into the same hotel every day, grabs his breakfast and strolls out.. no fees, or tip paid… just a grab and go π pic.twitter.com/Ask6WhYAVP
— Wholesome Side of π (@itsme_urstruly) April 5, 2026
Russian air defense did what they could. This attack was one of the largest attacks on Novorossiysk, Russia so far this war. The attack has now lasted for over 3 hours with probing attacks throughout the day and more drones being claimed by Russian Telegram/MAX channels.β¦ https://t.co/mRwDjEPpwEpic.twitter.com/WkyWTGZUAk
Russian air defenses shot down two Neptune long-range missiles and 693 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones in the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement:https://t.co/kgPU3PRjrDpic.twitter.com/odQEIk9VFy
The Ukrainian military has lost approximately 1,210 troops over the past day as a result of actions by Russian military units in the special military operation zone, the Russian Defense Ministry said:https://t.co/KlbLlLJCOmpic.twitter.com/sSLD05d5cb
The Russian Defense Ministry reported on Monday repelling an attack by uncrewed speed boats in the northeastern Black Sea as four Ukrainian uncrewed surface vehicles and a Neptune-MD missile have been destroyed:https://t.co/IY5EhpPxEQpic.twitter.com/EAqjq5mEar
Russian Federal Security Service officers have prevented a terrorist attack targeting a high-ranking official in the Kursk Region, and the suspect has been apprehended, the FSB press service reported:https://t.co/4rtyNaA29Ypic.twitter.com/ISAvx0itzY
Hungary is firmly advocating for the lifting of sanctions on Russian oil and gas supplies to Europe, emphasizing the urgency of this move amid the looming threat of a global energy crisis linked to the ongoing situation in Iran, Orban said:https://t.co/iBOWBTWGLcpic.twitter.com/Td8xjNlGBC
Demographic replacement of Brits by non-whites, and the Brits even have to pay for it. Or do they? In a few years, we shall see.
Late tweets
Perfectly obvious that Trump is going for massive escalation and the top of the military is overly pumped about that rescue. Youβve got the lunatic Hegseth baying for it. It is going to be catastrophic for America. Hubris will end in a huge shock. I feel very sorry for anyoneβ¦
It's important to understand that the "Israel lobby" though important is a comparatively minor element of the power projection of the Zionist movement – a Jewish supremacist global social movement.
As we see here (below) the Zionists "success in developing a range of⦠https://t.co/zN5Gtwb14C
[“It’s important to understand that the “Israel lobby” though important is a comparatively minor element of the power projection of the Zionist movement – a Jewish supremacist global social movement.
As we see here (below) the Zionists “success in developing a range of artificial-intelligence-enabled military technologies is underpinned by tie-ups with commercial entities, from Israeli start-ups to Palantir and big-tech corporations including Amazon, Google and Microsoft.”
But that in itself – the ability to genocide the Levant – is only one element of the power projection afforded. The AI/Tech nexus is referred to by Netanyahu as Pax Silica, meaning an emergent global power. The role that the weaponisation of AI/Tech plays in surveillance in scores of countries is also a key element of this.
That power is leveraged also by
*the international work of the Mossad, *Unit 8200, *the Jewish (supremacist) billionaire class (and their Shabbos Goy enablers – Elon Musk, Warren Buffet, Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel and many more), *the radicalisation into genocidal Jewish supremacy produced by the Zionist movement; and *the widespread infiltration of key posts in the economic, political, legal, media and national security architecture of Western countries by Jewish supremacists.
The other day (in his famous six-fingered speech) Netanyahu referred to the Zionist entity as becoming a “superpower”. He was not joking.“]
Now the “blue sky” Hungarian-origined “thinker” —resident in California at last hearing, having left the UK and taken on U.S. citizenship— opines about the 2024 UK General Election.
He writes that “…somehow I donβt think Sunak does accept the inevitability of defeat.
You donβt get to be in his position, with all the success he has achieved in his career and his life, without exceptional drive and determination. I simply cannot believe that someone that impressive β Oxford, Stanford, Goldman Sachs, Prime Minister within seven years of becoming an MP β is content to just drift out of office without a fight.“
[Daily Mail]
Those words alone show how out of touch “Hilton” is, and how easily dazzled. Yes, Sunak got a degree from Oxford University (after having been at Winchester College, where he became Head Boy, it would be almost surprising had Sunak not gone on to Oxford). So what?
Sunak then went on to Stanford University, and graduated with an MBA. OK, but so what, really?
Indeed, and in all fairness, Hilton’s own academic achievement, coming from his level of poverty or near-poverty in childhood, was more creditable than that of Sunak: Christ’s Hospital (school) on a bursary, followed by Oxford University.
“Hilton” then praises Sunak for having worked (for about 2 years or so) at the Goldman Sachs financial outfit. Not everyone thinks that that is a recommendation, but “Hilton” is no doubt dazzled by the money Goldman Sachs pay some of their staff.
“Hilton” himself was brought up in a fair degree of poverty, by a mother abandoned by her husband; she and her son survived only by reason of the State benefits that “Hilton”, as well-overpaid and useless adviser to Cameron-Levita’s “Conservative” government (2010-2015), later did his best to take away from other poor, sick, and disabled people.
As the Germans say, “put a beggar on a horse and he rides it to death“…
As to Sunak’s money, much of it has come, directly or indirectly, from his marriage to a super-wealthy Indian, daughter of an Indian billionaire. Anyway, as far as I am concerned, I do not, without more, respect money-jugglers. Maybe “Hilton” does.
It must have been galling for “Hilton” to forever be around the wealthy and politically-powerful, including his own wife, Rachel Whetstone [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Whetstone], yet have only the hanger-on’s level of influence, and nowhere near as much wealth, though at Downing Street, “Hilton” was paid or overpaid some Β£200,000 p.a., (worth maybe Β£240,000 p.a, in 2024 money). Good pay, yes, but a high salary is not the same as having serious capital.
“Hilton” also forgets to note that Sunak is “in his position” purely because two other idiots, “Boris” Johnson and Liz Truss, had to resign. Sunak (like Truss) has never led his party into an election; the Premiership was simply gifted to him.
“Hilton” goes on to write that ” Now, after years of chaos, Britain seems to be on the right track. But, make no mistake, a Labour government would set things back. Whatβs needed now from Sunak is energy, aggression and inspiration β and then he could pull off an even greater upset than John Major achieved in 1992.”
Absolutely asinine.
“Hilton”, the not very successful spin-meister, seems to imagine that, if only Sunak and the “Conservatives” were to really attack Starmer and his crew, the electorate will rally round the Cons. A brainless “analysis”, though I agree with Hilton that Starmer really offers nothing but a change of personnel.
As for “Britain seems to be on the right track“, from where does “Hilton” get that idea? It flies in the face of facts flagrantly obvious to anyone with eyes and any perceptiveness at all; Britain is quite obviously not“on the right track“.
A million unwanted non-Europeans, mostly (at best) parasites, entering the UK every year; a health service on its knees; a police service unable or unwilling to do its proper job, but at the same time all too eager to “cosplay” as a poundland Stasi or KGB, snooping on tweets and blogs; poor pay for most, and a continuing squeeze on the State benefits which sustained the young “Hilton” and his mother; a housing crisis caused or made far worse by the all but uncontrolled mass migration invasion; potholed and unrepaired roads and highways; a government throwing money and military support at “Ukraine” (the corrupt, brutal, and shambolic Kiev regime of the Jew Zelensky) and Israel; filthy rivers…it just goes on.
I suppose that the Daily Mail paid “Hilton” well for his little piece of “analysis”, if you can even call it that. Money wasted.
To my mind, whatever Sunak now says will either accomplish nothing to mitigate what must surely be a catastrophic election result for the Con Party, or may well make it all worse for them.
So far, a disastrous General Election announcement, with Sunak all but washed away by heavy rain; a visit to the Titanic museum in Belfast (you couldn’t make it up!); and now the announcement that, if re-elected, the “Conservatives” will reintroduce mandatory 1950s-style conscription (with a few semi-“woke” tweaks) for all (?) 18-y-o young men (and women?).
As I noted on the blog yesterday, the “National Service” idea seems designed to appeal to some kind of “false memory” delusion in some 70-100 year old Con Party voters, rather than being serious policy.
As I noted yesterday, after a date in 1957 no young men born after August 1939 were called-up (drafted), and call-up ceased in 1960 (though a relative few served until 1963).
So someone today would have to be at least 85 to have actually experienced the former “National Service”, which varied much.
For example, one of my uncles served, on an easy and almost 9-5 basis, as a lecturer in the Army Education Corps; his son, my slightly-older cousin, not seen by me since 1970, became a lecturer at Oxford University and then senior lecturer (mainly American Literature, I think) at Edinburgh University; he has apparently also written a number of books on literature, published by Oxford University Press.
Meanwhile, another uncle, circa 1950, was some kind of accountant in the Pay Corps, based in places such as North Wales, as far as I know. Hardly thrilling. Other and less fortunate conscripts, though, found themselves fighting in swamps and mountains against people out to kill them. Korea, Malaya, Cyprus etc.
At any rate, that “National Service” idea alone has probably cost the Con Party a million General Election votes overall.
With everything so wrong in the country, Sunak goes with conscription as his Big Idea?! He really should have stayed in the world of corporate finance, juggling money.
I think that “Hilton” should go home to California, if that is where he now mainly lives, and stop trying to comment on a British society and political landscape which he no longer understands, if he ever did.
Al-Qassam launched about 10-12 long-range rockets, from Rafah, travelling 100-110km to hit Tel Aviv, after a hiatus of 4 months. The Iron dome failed to intercept the rockets, more than 8 direct impacts were made, causing material damage and the ignition of fire. pic.twitter.com/S8plXtmr1B
The importance of that is less in the limited material damage done, and more the fact that, despite the devastation of Gaza, despite the huge number of casualties (mostly civilian), despite the Israeli ground invasion, despite everything, the Hamas organization in Gaza remains able to fire rockets capable of penetrating the defences of Tel Aviv and causing at least some damage.
An Occupation Soldier in Palestinian Familyβs Kitchen in Rafah, Joking About Sniffing Cocaine After Destroying their Home.
"The millions who backed Brexit & then Boris wanted a radical break from the status-quo. But what did they get? Two parties that are largely indistinguishable, that are both committed to the same big state, big debt, big tax, and mass immigration dreary consensus" https://t.co/fk0eRYATE2
The Labour Party cannot get through this campaign while remaining so vague and abstract on their plan for public spending cuts. Talking about teeny tiny gains from non-doms and private school fees won't cut it. Everybody knows this.#BBCLauraK
Au contraire, that is exactly what Starmer-Labour can do. Yes, they have no publicly-palatable plan, and secretly are planning to do a Cameron/Osborne Mark 2, but up to the 4th of July they will just rely on the hatred and contempt felt by the voters for Sunak’s hapless bunch of clowns.
Most people want rid of the “Conservatives”; the fact that Labour will also be terrible in government, maybe worse, scarcely impinges. Only 5 and a half weeks left before the General Election. Postal voting will be happening from about 3 weeks from now. Time is not on the side of Sunak and his party.
Goodwin makes the mistake of imagining that the general public is as interested in the minutiae of policy as he himself is.
Russia produces artillery shells about three times faster than Ukraine's western allies and 75% cheaper.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 26, 2024
Not quite Die Fahne Hoch!, but an interesting straw in the wind, all the same…
Donald Trump:
I am determined to restore peace and stability and stop Joe Biden's march towards World War III. pic.twitter.com/T3ZayGnSgH
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 26, 2024
" Britain is in its worst financial position in 70 years"
Bloomberg quotes the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) Johnson, who said that the next British government will face problems not seen since the 1950s and that politicians have three ways out of the⦠pic.twitter.com/5qZKpMAU7x
— Sprinter infofactory (@Sprinter00000) May 26, 2024
“Britain is in its worst financial position in 70 years” Bloomberg quotes the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) Johnson, who said that the next British government will face problems not seen since the 1950s and that politicians have three ways out of the crisis: painful spending cuts, tax hikes to 80 maximum or significant increase in debt.”
“Labour”-label will probably continue to degrade public services, social security etc. The spending cuts of 2010-2015 began, or began to be planned, under Labour’s, Gordon Brown’s, government in the years prior to 2010.
Look at Rachel Reeves. Is she someone anyone at all would trust to be decent or “caring”? I think not.
Sky's @TrevorPTweets asks @Nigel_Farage if "the Reform platform for this election is every problem you face is down to immigrants and, in particular, to Muslims".
If the pensioner bloc believes Labour, that further weakens the Conservative Party ahead of the election.
A Termite line (top) and an Ant line (bottom), each protected by its column of soldiers who face each other without attacking.. pic.twitter.com/F8vfyAxNvB
Tory MP Andrew Rosindell on preventing MPs having a second job: βHow can we possibly survive on Β£81,932 a year? What about our lifestyleβ Poor little thing voted to remove the Β£20 UC uplift and to drop the pensioners triple lock.
— Simon Gosden. Esq. #fbpe 3.5% πͺπΊππ¬π§π΄ββ οΈπ¦ π (@g_gosden) November 17, 2021
Kick away his (financial) stick. (actually, that clip is from 3 years ago).
“At the beginning of the MPs’ expenses scandal, in June 2009, The Daily Telegraph reported that Rosindell “claimed more than Β£125,000 in second home expenses for a flat in London, while designating his childhood home 17 miles away β where his mother lived β as his main address”, and between “2006 and 2008 claimed the maximum Β£400 a month for food”.[13] [Wikipedia].
Rosindell also blocked the Parliamentary bill that would have stopped animals being used in circuses. What a horrible person.
Sadly, Rosindell’s seat is Romford, Essex, a safe Con Party constituency.
Iβm no card carrying member of the tin foil brigade but he has a point. Tories are blatantly trying to hand over power. Even reform uk seems convenient https://t.co/WmnnqGz35S
“This guy is blatantly trying to lose the election – it all fits: Prime Minister reveals radical plan to force 18-year-olds to serve in the military for 12 months – or give up weekends to carry out civil duties. The authoritarian arrogance of this is breathtaking enough and it’s what the Cult wants to impose eventually in an expanded form. But to announce it now is another ruse designed to open the way for his one-party-state fellow operative Starmer into Downing Street.”
Exactly. The NWO/ZOG wants Starmer-Labour to be “elected” (under a rigged system) and to become, thereby, an “elected” dictatorship: fake communitarian, pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, pro-NWO/ZOG, pro the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan], pro-mass migration-invasion of the UK and the rest of Europe, pro-repression of free speech.
It's obvious. Even Bridgen said he wants out and doesn't want to be a "war time" PM. pic.twitter.com/lFhPcURZNy
— Decentralise Party (@DecentraliseP) May 26, 2024
Trevor Phillips, "You kicked of the campaign with Rishi Sunak in the rain.. Then you went to a brewery with a prime minister who doesn't drink.. Then a trip to the Titanic, the jokes write themselves.. Then a huddle with reporters when he's standing under an Exit sign"
“Thinking about why the Tories have called the election early despite clearly being in for a drubbing, I agree with @AMercouris of the Duran: the entire establishment is most worried not about Tory v Labour but about the possibility of alternative parties making gains, however small.
The more time that goes by, the more the voters realise how much they hate both the Tories and Labour. If these are the only choices, vast swathes of the people will simply stay away from the polls (as they stayed away from the recent local elections). But if there are alternative candidates from Reform and the Workers party, and those parties have the time to organise their campaigns while the war criminals continue to become ever more unpopular, there’s every chance they could win a few seats.
Even without winning seats, they could prevent Labour from getting its landslide by gaining vote shares in many constituencies that Labour hopes to take from the Tories.
Getting a stable Labour government installed on a low turnout seems to be the main aim of the ruling class right now. It’s been clear they’ve been grooming Starmer as the next PM for a long time. He’s 100% their man β a servile lackey who will commit any crime required and an ultra-zionist. And he has the huge advantage of trade union backing at a time when more and more anti-worker measures are going to be implemented and more aggressive wars launched.
A hung parliament would be a nightmare for this agenda, as would a parliament with anti-EU and/or antiwar troublemakers putting pressure on the ‘uniparty’ loyalists and exacerbating the crisis of legitimacy by making embarrassing demands from the back benches.
Anyone considering whether / how to vote should remember that this election has no ability to solve any of our problems, which stem from the capitalist system itself β from the global capitalist crisis of overproduction (and consequent poverty, unemployment and inflation) and from the desperate imperialist war drive.
The only useful thing you can do with your vote is use it to back Workers Party or independent candidates if they STAND AGAINST NATO, OPPOSE THE LABOUR PARTY, AND OPPOSE THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA.
If we can get a few anti-Nato, anti-genocide MPs in Parliament, it will be a major irritation to the establishment, and a permanent reminder to the British people that their will is ignored by the vast majority of their ‘elected representatives’. If we can help deny Labour the huge majority that the corporate media are confidently predicting, so much the better.”
I agree with the basic premise, but not with the conclusion there. If the Con Party can be all but wiped out this year, left with only a risible rump of deadhead MPs, that may unbalance the whole “2 main parties” System scam, leaving a vacuum that social nationalism may then fill, though not immediately (because no real social-national party exists).
These "people" are depraved. There are 0 redeeming qualities, no hope for reform. https://t.co/pmMBVHrAZw
— Kriste Klineπ·π³ (@KristeKline) May 26, 2024
— Bouffeur D. Herbe π΅πΈ (@idirology) May 26, 2024
Palestinian Media: More than 50 people, all women and children, were burned to death in Israel's attack on the Rafah region. pic.twitter.com/5060dYLz1g
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 26, 2024
π΄Israel targeted the tent city in the Rafah region with 8 missiles. The area hit is the area where Palestinians were settled, which was previously declared a safe zone by the Israeli army pic.twitter.com/yMm0lsf780
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) May 26, 2024
“…If such authentic souls, such honest anthroposophists can be found … then an upward movement and dynamic will arise. If such souls do not appear, then decadence will take its inexorable downward course… Today humanity stands before a great crisis: either it will see all civilization collapsing into the abyss, or else spirituality will raise civilization up by the power of the Michael impetus, through which the Christ impetus works, thus continuing, enriching and sustaining it.‘” [Rudolf Steiner 1861-1925].
Five years or so ago, when I wrote the above blog post, I highlighted a number of possible events that might end, or almost end, our present civilization. A possible and possibly contrived pandemic was one, and one of the others was nuclear war.
Since 2019, the push, mainly in the West, for war, especially war with the Russian Federation, has become almost a clamour.
We look at, perhaps particularly, the First World War, and ask “why on Earth did they do it?“, it seems so senseless on looking back. Yet look now: a ridiculous contrived Russian ogre has been conjured into existence, supposedly threatening Central and Western Europe.
The fact that Russian forces have failed even to crush the corrupt and shambolic regime in Kiev seems not to have dented the “Russia threatens us” narrative. The Russians may have been unable to take or destroy Kiev, but they, we are told, now certainly threaten Warsaw, Berlin, Paris, and London.
There again, Russia today is merely and ordinarily nationalist; there is no inherently-expansionist Marxist-Leninist ideology, as there was during the currency of the Soviet Union.
The whole idea is senseless.
More and more powerful missiles and other arms are being given to the “Ukrainians” (the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev). Only today, a Russian nuclear early-warning station was destroyed.
Be under no illusions: nuclear war on the strategic level might be triggered by only one incident, leading to an intercontinental nuclear exchange within days. Such an event or series of events has been foretold in major staff college war games over the past 60 years.
Were such a catastrophe to happen, the way back for our whole civilization would be long and hard, if it could even take place. Almost everything we know and live among would cease to exist. 99% of the world’s population, certainly Europe’s, would not survive.
The NHS is becoming unfit for use. It has the excellent aspect of being free at the point of use, but increasingly that has to be weighed against what are said to be worsening outcomes.
More from Nadine Dorries about the sinister No.10 clique involving Dominic Cummings, as well as expenses fraudster, drunk, cocaine-abuser and puppet of the Jewish lobby Michael Gove, and others.
“The advisers to William Hague at the time, Michael Gove, Danny Finkelstein and the like β that’s who they were.”
[Daily Mail]
Wouldn’t you know it? The Jew scribbler, Finkelstein, was allegedly involved in the secretive cabal(s) even two decades ago. Typical. That Zionist bastard used to tweet to people asking them not to retweet me (a Jewish pack had me expelled from Twitter in 2018). He is now in the totally discredited House of Lords. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Finkelstein.
There is something rotten in the state of Denmark the UK.
I also find it incredible that there is someone who has been at the heart of affairs (read that how you will) at No.10 for many years, one Smith, who was apparently the head of a company engaged in organizing discreet and expensive “swinger” parties; and that creature’s much younger wife, a Pakistani called Munira Mirza, was at one time the closest adviser to “Boris” Johnson.
Could the “Conservative” Party be any more rotten?
Had I the power and position, I should institute a massive purge across Westminster. Stalin and Hitler would both have done the same. I might even outdo them both. The whole system is corrupt, rotten, and deserving of a chistka.
It can be seen that the Jew-Zionist element runs through the whole story like Brighton rock. Look at Gove. That little bastard has been a key mouthpiece for Israel since he was at the Times (with Finkelstein). Regular readers will be aware that one of the 5 tweets that got me disbarred in 2016 (it now turns out, unlawfully, as well as wrongfully) was one critical of Gove, whom I described (entirely accurately) as a “pro-Israel, pro-Jew expenses cheat“; I had no idea then that he was a regular cocaine-abuser and drunk as well.
On the facts, one wonders how deeply Israeli Intelligence is embedded in Downing Street. Pretty deeply, I imagine, looking at the Israeli flag being projected onto No.10 after dark recently. (((Occupation))).
Israel's Minister of Internal Security, Ben Gower, announced by publishing this picture that he is still arming the settlers pic.twitter.com/s1naFSw6iM
The state which terrorism founded now arms a new generation of terroristic Jewish land-thieves.
Ukraine did not receive the promised weapons
Kiev did not receive all the weapons promised to it by the Western countries, while Ukraine needs many times more to continue combat operations, said the adviser to the chief of staff of the President of Ukraine Serhiy Leshchenko.
Since October 7, Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed more civilians than in the 620-day Russian-Ukrainian conflict pic.twitter.com/Ild69wXcg1
Chris Bryant is a wealthy Blairite careerist parachuted into a poor Welsh constituency – which will remain poor until it's required for the next London orientated Labourite. He'll be compliant in all that's required of him.
“WeWork, once pegged as a pioneering solution to modern office constraints and valued at an astounding $47bn, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday.
It is a devastating fall from grace for the desk-rental company founded in 2010, which on New Year’s Eve 2022 operated 43.9mn square feet of space globally.
The company was one of the great startup success stories of the early 2010s and had built an empire spanning 100 countries at the time of its peak valuation in 2019.
‘We are here in order to change the world,’ its eccentric cofounder Adam Neumann once explained triumphantly. ‘Nothing less than that interests me.’
As it filed for bankruptcy this week, the company once worth $47bn was reportedly valued at just $45mn.
Adam Neumann, now 44, founded WeWork in 2010, promising an alternative to traditional office rental for modern businesses looking to attract top candidates with a comfortable work environment on a budget.
His dream was to reinvent the work of work, and his passion shone through to investors as he spoke of replicating the feeling of togetherness he had experienced growing up in Israel, that he felt was lacking in the West….Neumann once joked he could one day become Israel’s Prime Minister, or ‘President of the world’ – and reportedly said he hoped to live forever.
Neumann continued attending meetings barefoot and insisted poorly-paid staff should use a ‘sense of purpose’ and free beer to pay their bills, according to Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Fall of WeWork.
Neumann has continued to seek opportunities in business despite the setback.
Even as the company he founded files for bankruptcy, the entrepreneur is still worth $2.2bn in 2023 according to Forbes.“
[Daily Mail].
Yet another Jew fraud. He has left the investors with a loss of USD $9.99 out of every $10 invested, yet he and his wife have managed to keep their claws on over two billion dollars. Or about nine billion Israeli shekels.
Chip shop con Simon Levyβs still on the run – two years on from court case.
Under the name David Michaels he brought out a cabaret album in 2016, covering songs with titles including: Donβt Get Around Much Anymore, Cry Me A River and As Time Goes Byhttps://t.co/vCYmRvI6KX
There are rumors that due to a shortage of armored vehicles, the Israeli army has decided to form an armored brigade from Merkava-3 tanks, which are in storage.
It is noteworthy that Merkava Mk 3 tanks are most often seen in battles in the Gaza Strip, while most Mk 4 tanks areβ¦
“There are rumors that due to a shortage of armored vehicles, the Israeli army has decided to form an armored brigade from Merkava-3 tanks, which are in storage. It is noteworthy that Merkava Mk 3 tanks are most often seen in battles in the Gaza Strip, while most Mk 4 tanks are ready to escalate the conflict on the border with Lebanon.”
Former soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine swear an oath to Russia and will henceforth serve in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. pic.twitter.com/wGJQoWNRKJ
βͺοΈThe USA and Ukraine are behind the scenes accusing each other of the failure of the Ukrainian armed forces on the battlefield, writes "Washington Post" columnist Max Booth. "Why hasn't Ukraine made progress? Behind the scenes, there is a lot of recrimination between Ukrainianβ¦
“The USA and Ukraine are behind the scenes accusing each other of the failure of the Ukrainian armed forces on the battlefield, writes “Washington Post” columnist Max Booth.
“Why hasn’t Ukraine made progress? Behind the scenes, there is a lot of recrimination between Ukrainian and American officials. The Americans privately complain that the Ukrainians have failed to launch a NATO-style combined arms offensive and have returned to the war of attrition characteristic of Soviet military strategy, while diverting desperately needed personnel in secondary operations around Bahmut,” Booth assesses.”
Read it. Remarkable even by the standards of Britain’s increasingly useless police forces.
“A woman who took a picture of a teenager who groped her at a bus station was staggered to be told by police that the case would be shelved β due to a lack of evidence.
The force reopened the investigation only after the 25-year-old victim passed on her photographs of the tagged groper to her local newspaper.
When a journalist contacted Derbyshire Police, officers issued a public appeal and within days, Daniel Oakes had been arrested.”
[Daily Mail]
Note that the force involved was that of Derbyshire, whose extremely poor police spent inordinate amounts of time persecuting and eventually prosecuting the satirist and singer-songwriter Alison Chabloz at the behest of the malicious Jew-Zionist cabal, “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”].
The same force was one of the worst during the “Covid” “panicdemic” as well, pointlessly bullying members of the public in various ways.
Derbyshire Police also has a very poor record in relation to detecting real crime. Not so surprising when you read the Daily Mail report above.
The readers’ comments are interesting. Here’s one;
This is my local police farce. It seems the police are little more than window dressing these days. Not particularly interested in preventing or solving crime. Like with hospitals, surgery’s, schools, councils ect, standards have declined to a level that is totally unacceptable.”
Police are useless as are the authorities. We are now in unprecedented times where everything in our society is breaking down and nothing works.”
[Daily Mail]
As those readers comment, it is not just the police— standards have been declining across the board: police, NHS, councils, central government, exams, schools, universities, you name it. Parliament too. I mean, look at the stupid woman posing as Prime Minister (Liz Truss), and her so-called “Deputy Prime Minister”, and Health Secretary (Therese Coffey). Look at the near-brawl in the House of Commons yesterday. And so on.
[Therese Coffey, Deputy Prime Minister and Health Secretary]
Guess who appointed the BBC's most revolutionary director general – why, the Useless Tories, of course. PETER HITCHENS: Why I refuse to celebrate 100 years of the BBC https://t.co/pC5C5ZCADO via @MailOnline
Amazing how few know that the BBC's 1960s director-general, Graham Greene's brother Hugh,, deliberately set out to launch a cultural revolution, https://t.co/pC5C5ZTDFO via @MailOnline
Too many BBC critics think the private sector can do its job. It cannot. What we need is a new public service broadcaster committed to the BBC's original principles. https://t.co/pC5C5ZTDFO via @MailOnline
What we now have is a multikulti agenda masquerading as “inform” (TV/radio news etc), a multikulti and Jew-Zionist agenda posing as “educate” (including huge amounts of “holocaust” farrago), and a vast amount of money spent on the “entertain” bit, most of which output is not entertaining in the slightest (and also serves that multikulti agenda, e.g. with blacks seen everywhere, even in period drama).
The Jew Shapps. Effectively an agent of Jew-Zionism and Israel. A former youth leader of the Zionist “B’nai B’rith” organization. A “dodgy” inhabitant of the Hertfordshire “Borshch Belt”, who sold get-rich-quick schemes in Parliament, using at least 3 aliases. Now posing as Home Secretary.
3) That, in the short term, resulted in a mounting energy crisis across the continent and urged governments to fill up underground natural gas storage reserves to prepare for colder months ahead.
5) The absence of Russian flows leaves Europe with few options to restock its reserves before next winter, mainly with more easily transportable liquified natural gas from the U.S. and the Middle East.
The UK could, under a real British government, call a halt to the demonization of Russia, restore both trading and cultural links with Russia, and distance the UK from NATO, or at least be more independent (as France is, with its force de frappe).
Britain would then be able to access Russian gas (via a new pipeline direct to the UK) at cheap or very cheap prices. Britain would see a whole new future open up for it.
More tweets
Masks were pointless
Lockdowns did more harm than good
Vaccine mandates were unjustified
Everything they called "misinformation" turned out to be true. Everything they told us turned out to be misinformation. Yet they're still in charge. Fire these frauds!
True, though Steve Hilton is himself a “three pound note”— useless. I blogged about him, about Dominic Cummings, and about Brendan Bracken, a few years ago:
The System relies on complete or near-complete “control”, which was one reason there was such a massive campaign against Corbyn, spearheaded by the Jew-Zionist element.
Liz Truss, by reason of her sheer lack of ability, threatens System “stability”. She will, therefore, be removed, to put in place a (superficially) better Prime Minister-figure.
The fact that Jeremy Hunt is Chancellor of the Exchequer and Grant Shapps is Home Secretary is confirmation that the government is now scraping so far down the bottom of the barrel that itβs likely to discover molten magma.
I seem to recall seeing a piece in one of the newspaper magazines (in the days, long ago, when both they and their parent newspapers were designed for intelligent, reasonably-cultured British adults) about Hampstead Garden Suburb [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampstead_Garden_Suburb], and about how the entire population of the UK (as it then was) could in theory be housed in a radius of 30 miles or so around London, at that density. Maybe 35 miles, now.
Not that I particularly favour the layout of Hampstead Garden Suburb (I knew a lady who lived there, about 30 years ago), but there are worse places to live in the world, or in the UK for that matter.
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I canβt for the life of me remember how our politicians have gone from being concerned about the mood of the bingo hall, the local pub and the factory floor to being more concerned about the mood around a lavish dinner party at Davos. They are failing us to serve themselves.
The ignorant, talentless “ho”, devoid of any real education or culture, devoid of any understanding of the British people, has quit (after saying just yesterday that she was “not a quitter“). Well, no more a lie than anything else she, “Boris”-idiot, Theresa May, David Cameron-Levita-Schlumberger and others in the Westminster monkeyhouse have said over the past 12 years.
Ha ha. She will not even get the Β£115,000 a year all other recent Prime Minister retirees have received (though I have seen tweets to the contrary).
I thought that two months was the shortest time allowing an outgoing prime minister to get the cash. Is that 2 calendar months, or 8 weeks? I do not know.
So far she has “served” 6 weeks and 2 days, so I suppose she might still make at least 8 weeks, and so (?) breast the tape. She has “resigned” as of today, or so the news reports say. Does that mean her term ends as of now? How can she then get the cash?
Reading the reports, it looks as though the official dates will be massaged to allow her to get the cash.
β The Prime Minister's Official Spokesman was just asked the following: Does the Prime Minister still think she will lead the Tories into the next general election?
Naturally, in our rigged more or less binary electoral system, the people look to Labour now, but “Labour” is just another face of the System. Look at the System drones in the Shadow Cabinet— Yvette Cooper, Lisa Nandy, Rachel Reeves. All Labour Friends of Israel, none willing to commit to the Triple Lock on State Pensions, none willing to commit to raising State benefits in line with inflation.
We could be looking at a Labour government every bit as bad as the “Conservative” ones of recent years.
I should imagine that the Conservative Party will try to install someone who will sit as Prime Minister for the next year or two, in the hope that, over time, the opinion polls will swing at least somewhat back to a position whereby maybe half the Conservative seats will be saved. An election now means a near-wipeout for the Conservative Party.
Still, who knows what is really going on behind the scenes, in the hidden ruling circles?
BREAKING: Liz Truss resigns after 44 days, making her the shortest PM in history, amid the collapse of her government due to gross economic mismanagement pic.twitter.com/tItlw59fag
That valete shows a stunning lack of understanding of her defaults, and also a lack of understanding of international affairs. Putin may “menace” the Jew Zelensky and his Kiev regime; he certainly does not “threaten the security of our whole continent”.
Indeed, Russia is struggling to keep a tenth of Ukraine under occupation. How then (even if he wanted to) could Putin threaten the security of Europe as a whole, or even the “near-abroad” of the Baltic States?
Just Stop Oil
Just Stop Oil activists cover Harrods with orange paintπ’
Those idiots talk about “people freezing in their homes” but their solution to that is —wait for it— to restrict new sources of oil and gas! The educational system in the UK needs a radical overhaul, needs to teach young people how to reason…
π£At 9am earlier today, 20 Just Stop Oil supporters sat on the road with banners – some supporters glued onto the tarmac and others locked themselves together
π¨Two supporters have also sprayed the outside of Harrods department store with orange paint
Start kicking them. They cannot even stop you, because they have glued themselves to the road. Alternatively, reroute the traffic, and at the same time spray those bastards (male, female, old as well as young) with freezing water, continuing for hours, for days, until they either unglue themselves or beg to be arrested.
If they get away with these actions, they will escalate their sub-terrorism.
Liz Truss
When Liz Truss became Prime Minister, I predicted the following, in such terms: that I would be “surprised” if her term lasted as long as the end of 2022, and “astonished” if she lasted as long as Spring 2023. One gold tick for this blog…
No wonder that journalists, MPs, ministers of foreign governments etc read this blog.
Economy in tatters, poverty increasing, food shortages, energy crisis, precedents set for tyranny, thousands killed or injured by coerced medical treatments.
βIβve got a good idea, letβs bring back the man who did ALL of that.β
At least Mr. Bale’s Twitter profile has elements of honesty (“Travelling the world (again) and talking bollocks. Fortunate to have been at Reuters, FT, News, Microsoft, CNN and CPI.”)
This is not the “USA” (or “UK”, on a smaller scale). It is not even the Jew-Zionist element, not entirely. It is the NWO, the New World Order conspiracy, at work. The NWO wants to not only trammel and control Russia, but to destroy its proper future by enfolding it as another part of the Western jigsaw.
Ha ha. Still, good news that the Swedes are finally starting to wake up.
They are finally having to realize that multiculturalism does not work; it certainly cannot result in any sort of decent society.
We have a vaudevillian parlour game played out by shoddy politicians while millions of people suffer a cost of living crisis. A circus filled with clowns, totally detached from the real world. As I discussed with @MarkSteynOnline@LeilaniDowding | @GBNEWSpic.twitter.com/8rcIDamujV
Daily Mail joins in the growing MSM campaign to sell the lie of a winnable nuclear war. Headline & graphics make it seem like a threat to just a few city centres. Coupled with blatant lies of threats that Putin has NEVER made, this warmongering is insane! https://t.co/sZcgh6DpFa
Good grief! If this [see below] really is a snapshot of the mind of Dominic Cummings, then the government really is in the hands not only of idiots (eg Boris-idiot, Priti Patel etc) but of lunatics.
It also reminds us that lunacy is not really so hard to distinguish from genius, in most cases.
Say what you like about Dominic Cummings but this part of the blog is *spot-on* about the sort of people the civil service needs to start attracting. pic.twitter.com/0cfCatmSLr
[Update, 23 January 2020: the full lunacy of Cummings’ blog post, some of which was in the deleted tweet above, seems to have been expunged from the Internet, though maybe one of his “weirdos and misfits” would be able to find it]
[Update, 12 May 2024: the tweet appears to have been reinstated on Twitter/X and so is now visible here too]
The above (apparently from a blog penned by Cummings) is an inward-gazing stream of consciousness (though purporting to be to the point) worthy of someone whose residential address ends with the word “Hospital”, or similar.
What makes it alarming is that Cummings is not just a stray “Conservative” (and the word seems ever-less useful as a descriptor) who is on the periphery of power (in the way that the Monday Club or the Bow Group used to be), but someone right at the centre of what could be (perhaps inaccurately) called the Johnson Project. Indeed, “Cummings Project” might be more accurate. Boris Johnson himself has few ideas beyond schoolboy fantasies such as building bridges from Scotland to Ireland, creating artificial islands with Metropolis airports on them etc.
There was talk before the recent General Election that in Cabinet (effectively in Cabinet; I suppose technically, Cabinet committee), Cummings actually overruled the Prime Minister several times. Not just spoke over him, but overruled him on decisions! Now, OK, the person posing as Prime Minister is Boris-idiot, a bad joke PM who is a proven serial —indeed constant— liar, incompetent and fantasist, but there is still such a thing as respect for the office itself…
Dominic Cummings seems to me (admittedly only from what I have read…I have never met him or anyone who has met him) to be like a person who is somewhere between a guest and a gatecrasher at a dinner party, someone who has no idea how to behave and who has no respect for the hosts, the guests, the staff or the event.
Is there anythingΒ correct about his views re. government and civil service? Yes, the gene pool is shallow or narrow; in politics now even more so than in the administration proper (Civil Service), but the answer to that is to carefully reform recruitment and training, as well as overall structure, not to let off hand grenades all over Westminster.
I think that we have to remind ourselves that governing the UK is not some kind of pathetic country house weekend game in the drawing room or Hall. This impacts on real people, in their millions, all over this country. It is not a matter of scribbling some clever little half-baked idea that can be run up the flagpole at the Oxford Union or (taking on board the Cummings dislike of Oxbridge) a Spectator drinks party.
It may seem lazy to say “it is easier to destroy than create”, but the thing about truisms is that they contain truth. The machinery of administration and government in the UK was created over centuries, and particularly in the century or so since the mid-Victorian era. Once you tear it to pieces, you may find that groups of supposedly terribly clever little people, weirdos and misfits, sitting in groups around Whitehall, cannot in fact replace what presently exists.
Britain today has already suffered a number of shocks to its postwar (post-1945) stability: Thatcherism, mass immigration (accelerated since 1997), Blair-Brown “reforms”, the financial crisis of 2008, the fake “austerity” of the evil 2010-2019 “Conservative” governments (particularly the half-baked idiocies of Dunce Duncan Smith and his underlings). Now this.
Dominic Cummings is a History graduate, for what that is now worth. He will know, I presume, what happens to societies when everything that underpins their stability is knocked away. I presume that he also knows that revolutions usually consume their own children…
Update, 6 January 2020
Can't believe we got outmaneuvered twice by a man who's barely mastered keeping his anus on the inside of his trousershttps://t.co/E9hciVrV8j
It seems that the intellectual power behind the Boris Johnson throne is one Dominic Cummings, someone who only came to my attention recently. His new eminence put me in mind of a few similar people in the recent and not so recent past.
Brendan Bracken
Churchill had the egregious Brendan Bracken as his adviser and amanuensis. Bracken was, as such people often are, very strange indeed. He was born into modest but not poor circumstances in Ireland, drifted around Australia, attended Sedbergh School at age 19 (though claiming to be just 15), paying the fees himself, then left after one term, having acquired what the later KGB would have called a “legend” as an Anglo-Irishman who had attended a well-known English school (he let people believe that he had been there for years).
Armed with the Sedbergh “old school tie”, Bracken became a schoolmaster at Bishop’s Stortford College in 1921, but by 1922 was a magazine publisher and editor in London. He became wealthy quite rapidly. Puzzling. Here was a young man who had presumably saved some money while in Australia, and may have had a part-share in whatever his father left, but all the same Bracken’s swift rise to wealth is a puzzle. Still, there it is.
Having attached himself to Churchill, Bracken was instrumental at the vital moment when Chamberlain resigned in 1940:
” When Bracken became aware of Churchill’s agreement to nominate Lord Halifax, he convinced Churchill that the Labour Party would indeed support him as Chamberlain’s successor, and that Lord Halifax’s appointment would hand certain victory to Hitler. Bracken advised Churchill tactically to say nothing when the three met to arrange the succession. After a deafening silence during which Churchill was expected to nominate Halifax, the latter obligingly ruled himself out and Churchill was put forward as Britain’s wartime Prime Minister, having avoided any appearance of disloyalty to Chamberlain.” [Wikipedia, and see Notes, below].
Thus this odd man “from nowhere” was not only present at the pivotal moment, but can be said to have altered the course of the Second World War on the strategic level. Had Churchill not become Prime Minister, Britain would have agreed peace with the German Reich in 1940. The whole history of Europe and indeed the world was thus altered in its course by this now-forgotten man (forgotten by the public, at least).
Bracken was MP for Paddington North (1929-1945) and for Bournemouth (1945-1951). He was Churchill’s PPS from 1940, later promoted to Minister of Information (1941-1945) and was briefly First Lord of the Admiralty in 1945. He was one of the chiefs of the Political Warfare Executive. He was elevated as a viscount in 1952. He was the publisher of, inter alia, the Financial Times, The Economist and History Today.
Bracken was rumoured to have been Churchill’s illegitimate progeny, though this seems to have been a myth not discouraged by Bracken himself. The viscounty granted was hereditary, but Bracken was unmarried and without issue. He died in 1958.
Was this the story only of a remarkably talented self-made businessman and politician or was there more to it? There are hints of the then-concealed New World Order about it all. We shall probably never know.
Steve Hilton
[As with Cummings –see below— Hilton felt the need to display his “I’m an off the wall maverick genius” persona by wearing beachwear or surf dude getup to Downing Street…]
Wikipedia says of Steve Hilton the following:
“Hilton is the son of Hungarian immigrants whose original surname was HircsΓ‘k[7] (which some sources spell “Hircksac”),[8] who fled their home during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. They came to Britain, initially claiming asylum, and anglicised their name to Hilton. Steve Hilton’s father, IstvΓ‘n, had been goaltender for the Hungarian national ice hockey team and was considered one of the top ice hockey players in Europe in the 1930s.[7][9] After arriving in Britain, his parents initially worked in catering at Heathrow Airport. They divorced when Steve was five years old[7] leading to what he has described as a struggle and great financial hardship; his mother worked in a shoe store to earn the little money they had, and the two lived in a cold, damp basement apartment. He won a scholarship to Christ’s Hospital School in Horsham before studying Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at New College, Oxford.”
“After graduating, Hilton worked at Conservative Central Office, where he came to know David Cameron and Rachel Whetstone, his future wife and Senior Vice-President of Policy and Communications for Uber.[11] He liaised with the party’s advertising firm, Saatchi and Saatchi, and was praised by Maurice Saatchi, who remarked, “No one reminds me as much of me when young as Steve.”[8] During this time Hilton bought the “New Labour, New Danger” demon eyes poster campaign[12] for the Conservative’s pre-general election campaign in 1996, which won an award from the advertising industry’s Campaign magazine at the beginning of 1997.[13] The Conservatives went on to experience their worst election defeat for more than half a century, with some journalists speculating that the poster contrasted unfavourably with Labour’s more positive campaign.[14] In 2005, Hilton lost out to future Secretary of State for EducationMichael Gove in the selection process for the Surrey Heath constituency.”
“Hilton talked of the need to “replace” the traditionally minded grassroots membership of the Conservative Party, which he saw as preventing the party from embracing a more metropolitan attitude on social issues.”
So he was at first, in the 1990s, little better than a gopher, but then he met his wife, Rachel Whetstone. Who is she? She is described in Wikipedia as having been head of communications for Uber taxis. For a number of years until 2015, she was in a similar position at Google. She has more recently joined Netflix.
“In February 2013, Whetstone was assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4.[4] Whetstone has been featured on PRWeek’s Power List several times, most recently in 2016 at number 14.” [Wikipedia]
“Whetstone is married to Steve Hilton, whom she met after an affair with Lord Astor (stepfather to Samantha Cameron, wife of former Prime Minister David Cameron) in the lead-up to the 2005 election. Cameron is no longer on speaking terms with Whetstone or Hilton.” [Wikipedia]
More interestingly, Rachel Whetstone’s grandfather was one Antony Fisher, not much known to the public, though extremely influential behind the scenes:
“Sir Antony George Anson FisherAFC (28 June 1915 β 8 July 1988), nicknamed AGAF, was a British businessman and think tank founder. He participated in the formation of various libertarian organisations during the second half of the twentieth century, including the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Atlas Network. Through Atlas, he helped establish up to 150 other institutions worldwide.”
Antony Fisher may have been at least part-Jew, and was certainly a Zionist, pro-Israel to the hilt.
Hilton was thought by many to be half-mad. He was lucky to escape with a caution and a small fine after having assaulted someone on a railway platform in England. He had been arrested after the assault and after shouting “wanker!” at staff and police. At the time, this useless creature was being paid Β£200,000 a year from public funds. There were other incidents of aggressive behaviour during his time at No.10.
“Andy Coulson, the former communications chief who was later jailed over phone hacking, recalled recently in the Telegraph: βI would ask, βSo how does that work then?β If I got an answer at all, it was along the lines of, βItβll be fine β just you see.β That was mildly irritating, as it was my team who would have to get out and sell the latest product from Steveβs dream factory.β” [The Guardian]
“Hiltonβs rightwing, free-market ideas certainly infuriated Lib Dems who worked with him, as chronicled in David Lawsβs book about the coalition. One Lib Dem former adviser said: βI was unfortunate enough to spend some time in Steveβs thought wigwam and it was not a pretty place. I remember him suggesting we should scrap maternity laws and invest in cloud-busting technology to improve the British weather. I certainly do not remember at any time him raising any points about the immigration policy he is now criticising.β” [The Guardian]
Hilton accomplished nothing, certainly nothing concrete, at Downing Street, and eventually decamped to the USA, where he was, laughably, taken on as some kind of visiting “professor” at Stanford:
“In March 2012, Downing Street announced that Hilton would be a “visiting scholar” at Stanford University‘s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies for a year.[21] His last memo concerned the advocacy of severe cuts in the number of civil servants in the United Kingdom[22] and further welfare cuts.” [Wikipedia]
At time of writing, Steve Hilton is on the American TV network, Fox News, as a talking head, and is apparently a Trump partisan.
“Had Bernie Sanders been the Democratic nominee, Hilton βprobably would have supported himβ. Hilton says he is not really a conservative or a liberal: βItβs hard to pin me down because Iβm a bit of Bernie Sanders, a bit of Rand Paul, bit of John Kasich.β Heβs pro-Trump simply because he was the candidate most likely to βshake things upβ” [The Guardian]
Someone who actively likes and promotes chaos, in fact, just like Dominic Cummings [see below]
Steve Hilton, in other words, like the others examined here, is connected with cosmopolitan finance-capital and its intellectual superstructure of “think tanks” (which have proliferated over the years) and with supposed “institutes”, mostly carrying the same sort of message: internationalism, multikulti “get rich quick”-ism, destruction of tradition, race and culture, combined with State repression of those without money.
Dominic Cummings
[above, Dominic Cummings: note the “I’m Too Important To Wear A Tie Or A Jacket” affectation, as with Steve “Hilton”]
As stated at the start of this blog post, I know of Cummings only what I have read. The links are either posted here below or are available easily via Google.
One thing that did interest me was the Wikipedia statement, taken from a biography of Michael Gove, that “Cummings speaks Russian and ‘is a Russophile'”. It seems that he tried to start an airline with the single route line of Samara (a large city on the Volga) to Vienna, an interesting choice of route. We are told on Wikipedia that: “After university, Cummings moved to Russia from 1994 to 1997, working on various projects. In one Russian venture, he worked for a group attempting to set up an airline connecting Samara in southern Russia to Vienna; however, the venture fell foul of the KGB, and was abandoned after only one flight.“
Well, the “KGB” bit is wrong in exact terms, because the KGB was disbanded (reorganized) in 1991. The bulk of the “internal” work of the old KGB was given to the “FSK” which later became the FSB. As to why the revamped FSK/FSB would want to interfere in the activities of a foreign or foreign-connected airline, I wonder. There are, and have been for 2-3 decades now, numerous foreign airlines operating in the former Soviet Union, flying between Russia and other states.
In the 1990s, new “babyflots” (bits of the old Aeroflot) were emerging all the time, as were ad hoc operations such as the German airline “Luftbrucke” (Air Bridge), which transported tens of thousands of “Volksdeutsche” from Kazakhstan and Siberia to new lives in the reunified Germany (those people were mostly the descendants of Germans invited to Russia by Russian tsars, notably Catherine the Great, then deported East by Stalin). Luftbrucke, if I recall aright, also flew from Samara, as also from a host of cities in Western Siberia and Kazakhstan, such as Semipalatinsk.
I find the history of Cummings interesting. He graduated from Oxford in 1994 aged 22-23, his degree being in Ancient and Modern History. The very same year he moved to Russia “where he worked on various projects” including the idea “to set up a new airline”.
I admit that I myself have never set up an airline, but I know that you cannot do it without rather a lot of money, even in the conditions of post-collapse Sovietism (I myself was briefly in Moscow in 1993 and also dealt with legal and business matters in Russia and Kazakhstan for several years).
Cummings is said to be the son of an oil rig project manager and a special needs teacher. There is no suggestion of any heavy family wealth. Cummings only left university in 1994, yet by —at latest— 1997, so 0-3 years later, was setting up an airline? In fact, how did he get into Russian-oriented business anyway, with no obvious connections or personal monies. He is able to speak Russian, though. That too raises questions.
I lived in Almaty, Kazakhstan for a year (1996-1997), meeting dozens if not hundreds (and over the years, certainly hundreds) of businessmen, lawyers etc doing work in the various ex-Soviet republics. While most of the diplomats I met spoke at least some Russian, the vast majority of businessmen and lawyers encountered knew no Russian at all really (that was true of both British and Americans). Certainly unable to undertake even simple discussions. I even met some unable to order simple food and drink.
So Cummings leaves university in the UK, where he studied ancient and modern history, somehow speaks Russian (or learns it on the ground), and is at once involved with business activities which seem to go beyond being a mere gopher for others. I have to say that I wonder whether Cummings was up to something other than just being a British graduate drifting about and getting into Russian business speculations almost by chance. Maybe the Russian security people were right to be suspicious of him, as is suggested in his Wikipedia entry.
Anyway, he is now considered to be Boris Idiot’s eminence grise, and looks it (meaning “grey”, if not particularly eminent). In fact, despite being only 47, he looks 10+ years older than me, and I am now 62. His political career is summarized here:
I have to say that I agree with his view of many of the leading political and official figures (he described Iain Dunce Duncan Smith as “incompetent”, for example).
It seems that Cummings married a lady of the North Country gentry who is or was Deputy Editor of the Spectator. They live in Islington, in what the Daily Mail is pleased to call a “Β£1.6 million house” (though in London, what does that mean? I lived for years in a house in Little Venice now (over)valued at Β£4 million! Madness). Other details about Cummings are few.
“What is clear is that this character is right now in the maelstrom of chaos and action that he loves so much. A defender quipped that heβll be thrilled with upheaval β itβs the only way he sees people being forced into action. His friend once heard him quote Lenin: βThe worse the better.β [Reaction magazine]
The Prophets of Dystopia
These “advisers” (of whom I have selected a mere few from a larger pool) and their connected “think tanks” etc are, even when some of their critique of society is justified, basically destructive. The same applies to the people themselves. Admittedly, Brendan Bracken left a less obviously destructive legacy, but then, after the huge and unnecessary war which he, from the shadows, did so much to bring about, what more need he do to be adjudged a negative force?
Look at Steve Hilton, Dominic Cummings etc. Where are their real achievements? Leaves blown away by the wind. These people may themselves have acquired riches, but only or mainly because they married wealthy wives, then used their own political attachment and profile to become highly-prized TV, radio, press and online “gurus” . They themselves have not established anything solid, whether in commerce, industry, academia, the arts, the sciences, charitable work or anywhere else. They are creatures created from the chaos and decadence in society. They prosper from the decadence and weakness of the political system in the UK and attach themselves to stupid, weak, posturing politicians vainly trying to reach to statesmanship, people such as David Cameron-Levita and Boris-Idiot. They are a symptom of dark days ahead. Social nationalism must rise up to exterminate evil and to found a better and better-organized society.
Is it fanciful to compare the sliding society we now have (look at the past few days…) and the prominence of these odd characters such as Hilton and Cummings, whose academic and patchy work histories are at best underwhelming, with the sliding Russia of the last few years before the Revolution(s) of 1917? Perhaps, but in late-Tsarist Russia too the government, civil service, certainly the politicians, were paralyzed, helpless to do anything positive, and so the influence grew of odd characters: tarot practitioners, mystics and occultists, fortune-tellers of all kinds, persons believed to have arcane knowledge and unorthodox ways to make politics work via persuasion and peculiar ideas and methods. The starets (he was never a monk or priest) Rasputin was only the most important of a whole host.
In fact, I agree with some of what Cummings has said:
“We should stop selecting leaders from a subset of Oxbridge egomaniacs with a humanities degree...” That is true, though I have nothing against degrees in the humanities, but the whole idea of the “generalist” (almost always armed with a degree from Oxford or Cambridge) has blighted UK political, cultural and even industrial life for 70 years, perhaps 100 years. The Soviet Union tended toward the same behaviour (the politically-OK “Man From Moscow” who could “direct” anything from a tyre factory to a Young Pioneer camp or the building of the Moscow Metro), and look what happened there (the Metro in Moscow admittedly being a —rare— success of the Soviet system).
Of course, the worst single example of the generalist might be Cummings’ present employer, Boris-idiot, who has proven that he is incapable of doing anything properly, but who can do it while quoting a bit of rote-learned Ancient Greek, or using an English word no-one else has ever heard of (he must trawl the OED for those silly words, I expect…what a complete waste of space he is!). As the journalist writes,
“All evidence goes out the window. The grandest ever Oxbridge egomaniac of them all (with not even a very good humanities degree, as it happens) is seeing only the flickering shadows on the news on the wall. It is not even day 14 and already we have beaten a hyper-accelerated march to the world of crap policy for political gain.“
The journalist continues, citing a recent Times article by Cummings:
“Elsewhere, in that same Times article, we read: βWe must train aspirant leaders very differently so they have the skills and experience of managing complex projects.β”
“And here he is, bringing in policies that would make Norman Tebbit look enlightened, working for a leader whose skill at βmanaging complex projectsβ so far extends to some rolling windowless sauna buses, a cable car to nowhere, and a ghost garden bridge that may or may not take you to a demented airport that has never and will never be built.“
Seems that my blog was (again) prescient, if I say so myself: not a day or even part of a day goes by now without someone publishing something in the newspapers about Dominic Cummings (though Steve “Hilton” is old news and Brendan Bracken ancient history).
'Sources close to the prime minister tell me that he cried when he heard the news' – fascinating @jennirsl insight into the moment Boris Johnson heard his brother was resigning in the national interest https://t.co/LUNDmcPJeR
“Through his system, as yet unexplained β βI will go into what I think this vision could be and how to do it another dayβ β he will turn a nation of average people into one of the most successful countries in the world. He will sweep away the suffocating postwar mainframes of politics, and build something capable of withstanding the unknown crises ahead. Or so he would wish. In truth, he may be little more than a survivalist in the woods, soldering wires together in the belief he is saving us all.
Is Dominic Cummings a visionary or a fool? The remarkable fact is that the Conservative Party has risked its future, and the countryβs, on which one Cummings turns out to be.” [Harry Lambert, writing in The New Statesman]
Dominic Cummings dresses down (even more) in Downing Street on the day of the Saturday sitting of the Commons (today). Not sure whether the bimbo is Boris Johnson’s girlfriend or a lookalike.
All he lacks is a few copies of The Big Issue and a plastic cup for tips. Oh, no, wait, he’s holding the cup…
[Update, 28 March 2026: Well, I have now identified the young woman seen with Cummings in that photo. Not Carrie Johnson (as she now is), but Cleo Watson, a government Special Adviser (SpAd) at the time of the photo; she is from an affluent background in Herefordshire, has written 2 novels of the romans-a-clef type, and is now around 35 years of age: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_Watson.]
Update, 3 November 2019
I very much doubt that Dominic Cummings works or worked for Russian Intelligence…au contraire.
Ian Robert Millard 