Peter Murrell is in prison tonight. But questions remain about how he was able to embezzle such a large sum of money, for so long, without SNP officials noticing. And without arousing the suspicions of the party leader, his wife, Nicola Sturgeon. @itvnewshttps://t.co/zyoTH0QkIzpic.twitter.com/fS9tFASqIL
As with less-publicized cases of embezzlement —the (typically?) fat unattractive primary school headmistress who embezzles from her school, the accountant of a small or large charity who embezzles from his or her employer— what strikes one, usually, and certainly in the Murrell/Sturgeon case, are the banalities of the crime.
The purchases made with the embezzled monies in the SNP case included salt and pepper mills made by Lalique (bought for £2,600); coffee machines (costing thousands); Montblanc pens; watches.
Then there is the £125,000 motorhome…
There is something about the sheer tasteless cheesiness of it all that is a perfect fit with the Sturgeon/Murrell lifestyle, and with the SNP in general. Look at the Sturgeon/Murrell house, for example: a tasteless modern tract-house with no real gardens (just the ubiquitous tiny lawn in the “front garden” etc), and in a soulless neighbourhood that seems, seen on TV news, to be without many trees or bushes.
Regular readers of the blog will know that I usually avoid writing much about Scotland and Scottish politics. I do not follow Scottish matters in detail, and in fact have never been north of Hadrian’s Wall. However, one cannot fail to note how fake the whole SNP thing is— a “nationalist” party, supposedly, that regards blacks or Pakistanis born in, or even just living in, Scotland as more “Scottish” than any Englishman from England (even if living in Scotland), and even if part-Scots by ancestry. It’s mad.
Both the SNP and Scottish Labour have in recent years been led by Pakistanis.
Those parties cannot be taken seriously.
Not that I necessarily oppose Scotland going its own way, though it never will. If it were to do so, it would be a very poor little country, and quite likely ruled by a corrupt and cultureless cabal such as that which coalesced around Nicola Sturgeon and her (equally or even more-) corrupt and dishonest husband.
I have had little contact with SNP supporters over the years. The couple I have encountered (online) were both censorious and ignorant.
Incidentally, I think that Nicola Sturgeon is probably a lesbianka, but I suppose I may be wrong.
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Toru Miyazaki gave 11 cats with advanced kidney disease an experimental injection. 15 others didn’t get it. A year later, 9 of the 11 treated cats were alive. Only 3 of the 15 untreated cats survived. He just filed for approval, and the drug fixes a defect only cats have.
[“Toru Miyazaki gave 11 cats with advanced kidney disease an experimental injection. 15 others didn’t get it. A year later, 9 of the 11 treated cats were alive. Only 3 of the 15 untreated cats survived. He just filed for approval, and the drug fixes a defect only cats have.
Most cats die from one thing: their kidneys fail. By age 10, 4 in 10 cats already have chronic kidney disease, and by age 15, the rate doubles to 8 in 10. Once diagnosed, a cat has about 2 years left.
The reason kidney disease hits cats so hard is a broken protein in their blood. All mammals carry a protein that helps the kidneys clean out waste. In humans and dogs, the protein floats freely and goes to work when the kidneys are in trouble. In cats, it stays stuck to another protein and can’t get loose. So the waste piles up, and the kidneys eventually give out.
Miyazaki originally found the protein in 1999, back when he was at the University of Tokyo. He figured out the cat-specific glitch in 2015. The paper he published in the Veterinary Journal in February laid out the trial. The injection is a working version of the missing protein. His company, the Institute for AIM Medicine, filed the approval paperwork with Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture on April 24, 2026. If the review clears, the drug goes on sale in spring 2027.
The 30-year lifespan figure in the tweet is Miyazaki’s own projection of what cats could reach without kidney disease. The trial only ran a year, and the average cat today lives 15. Most die from the same disease this injection treats.
The research almost died in 2020. After running out of funding during COVID, Miyazaki went public. Cat owners across Japan responded by sending in 300 million yen, around 2 million dollars total. He resigned from the University of Tokyo and worked on the drug full time. The treatment in front of regulators today exists because cat lovers refused to let the research die.“]
In Yunnan, China, a sturgeon tried to swallow Russian performer Masha during a mermaid show. The aquarium offered just $96 compensation, demanding an NDA.
The armed forces of Ukraine attacked the Crimean city of Sevastopol with drones and, presumably, Storm Shadow missiles, Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said:https://t.co/8ERwaKw7zppic.twitter.com/aBKMOKVQpN
— Russian Embassy, UK (@RussianEmbassy) May 26, 2026
❌ Notably, the UK authorities accuse others of using “shadow financial systems” while turning a blind eye to generous cryptocurrency donations flowing into British politicians’ pockets.
— Russian Embassy, UK (@RussianEmbassy) May 27, 2026
Britain and Russia should be standing together.
Someone just pointed out to me, Blair's article is actually a classic example of "Client Laundering". He has a number of major AI clients, and if you read the "essay", it's peppered with AI references. So he writes an article ostensibly about Labour, gets a huge response, then…
New Labour was literally built on the belief the party needed a charismatic, youthful leader who could specifically position himself in a place on the political spectrum that would enable him to take votes from the Tories. https://t.co/fDhmbjcljK
Genuinely amazed that some people are praising Tony Blair’s intervention. Labour’s problems – and the problems facing the country – are a direct result of his failure to understand how his messianic New Labourism was simply not delivering for vast swathes of working Britain.
Tony Blair: “Unleash the private sector across Britain to innovate and take risks”.
If you see the consequences of 45 years of neoliberalism in this country and think “We need more of this”, it seems possible that you are a dangerously unhinged sociopath. https://t.co/2dCiKfbAbH
[“The % of births in the UK where one or both parents were themselves born outside of the UK has officially increased to a new record high of 40.2%.
Of the Top 10 most common countries of origin for foreign-born mothers in the UK, 7 are outside Europe.
They include India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Ghana, & Iraq.
Today, more than 1 in every 3 births in the UK are to mothers who were themselves not born in the UK.
At the same time, the fertility rate in England & Wales has crashed to 1.39 – well below the replacement rate.
This new data, today, from the official Office for National Statistics, is all consistent with my argument in my book Suicide of a Nation (link below), in which I explain how why the historic majority of British people will be demographically replaced in just one lifetime.
These trends will now accelerate unless we change course.“]
69% of Britons say it is unclear what Labour stand for, the highest since we began asking the question in 2019, as Tony Blair accuses the government of lacking a "coherent plan"
Unclear what they stand for: 69% Have a clear sense of purpose: 12% Neither: 8% pic.twitter.com/8FT2lP5HA7
Tony Blair basically admitted to Nick Robinson he doesn’t really care if it’s Labour or the Tories who are in government any more. https://t.co/abyrNoPDGB
You may not agree with all his views but it’s his more “radical” views that’s making it far easier for you all to talk about your milder views regarding the immigration problems we’re facing here in Britain. https://t.co/EP8IB622wf
I think at this point, no one gives a shit. We all want something done, and I think that Farage is compromised. Even if he isn't, he has had so many U-turns, I am not even sure what he believes anymore.
That first tweeter is a former “Conservative” now gone over to Reform. Sounds like she is pro-Jewish lobby, probably pro-Israel, and not really even anti-immigration.
No wonder Reform’s rise has flattened, when many of its people are like that.
Neither Reform nor Restore is “the answer”; it is merely a question as to which can trash the Con/Lab System scam best or quickest.
Real social nationalism must rise up.
Elections are only one way forward, and not the most important.
I've met 2 of the 3 and there's nothing extreme about them. My biggest criticism is they're not extreme enough. https://t.co/Uxqzt6HZYM
Just to add to the chaos I'm now being told by multiple sources from different parties that canvass returns for Makerfield show Restore significantly outperforming the 7% revealed in the Times poll. I suspect that's what's underpinning the current Reform meltdown.
“It is not, for me, a question of “hating” non-whites, but of providing a platform for the evolution of consciousness, for the eventual development of what might be called a “super-race”, in the sense of a people whose capacities would be seen by us, today, as “superhuman”.
Only the European people, speaking ethnically, can provide that platform and foundation for the later development. That is why we must oppose importation of non-whites into Europe, not because we “hate” them as such but because, primarily, their presence in Europe makes more likely a mixed-race population, which would make further evolution impossible.”
[from a blog post of early 2024, citing one published years earlier yet]
[the sacred Swastika, symbol of evolution, including the evolution of consciousness]
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“#BREAKING Extremely distressing scenes and immense grief following the bombing by occupation aircraft of a group of citizens, resulting in the martyrdom of five in Al-Maghazi in the central Gaza Strip.”
💢 Six-year-old girl and a woman killed in Israeli attack on tent in Khan Younis
The United States continues to facilitate Israel’s daily killing of Palestinian civilians, through full military and political support as Israel ignores the Trump-brokered ceasefire.
At present, we have a very unpleasant heatwave. We suffer, but not forever. It will end, and probably within a few days; after that, it will be just a fading memory. The same is true on the larger scale; in history, in society. There may in the future be terrible events, even mass slaughter, but in the end there may be a better society, and a feeling of peace. Those who survive, and/or their descendants, will live on, and in a way perhaps better and happier than previously.
“You carry in your blood the holy inheritance of your fathers and forefathers. You do not know those who have vanished in endless ranks into the darkness of the past. But they all live in you and walk in your blood upon the earth that consumed them in battle and toil and in which their bodies have long decayed.
Your blood is therefore something holy. In it your parents gave you not only a body, but your nature. To deny your blood is to deny yourself. No one can change it. But each decides to grow the good that one has inherited and suppress the bad. Each is also given will and courage.
You do not have only the right, but also the duty to pass your blood on to your children, for you are a member of the chain of generations that reaches from the past into eternity, and this link of the chain that you represent must do its part so that the chain is never broken.
But if your blood has traits that will make your children unhappy and burdens to the state, then you have the heroic duty to be the last. The blood is the carrier of life. You carry in it the secret of creation itself. Your blood is holy, for in it God’s will lives.”
[SS-Verlag: material for instruction of the Hitlerjugend]
[the river Cam at Clare Bridge, Cambridge]
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Like every other SNP parliamentarian, I gave the party £250 per month from my personal income after tax. Adding my party membership fees (paid at an enhanced rate) , I think it came to £35,000 over ten years. The £250 sub was an obligation for all MPs and MSPs, but I was happy to… https://t.co/w7x2Dvw0vu
[“Like every other SNP parliamentarian, I gave the party £250 per month from my personal income after tax. Adding my party membership fees (paid at an enhanced rate) , I think it came to £35,000 over ten years. The £250 sub was an obligation for all MPs and MSPs, but I was happy to pay, as I believed it was going to the cause – not to keep Sturgeon in Smythson handbags and Mountblanc pens (stolen goods she was pictured with in this @TheSun report). I had a good salary. But what of all the decent working people – as @joannaccherry pointed out today – who could ill afford the £10 or £20 donations they made to @theSNP ? It’s disgusting, and requires an internal investigation. Or rather an independent investigation. Who was monitoring the spend within the SNP? How come the former volunteer treasurer and former volunteer officials who questioned the finances were slapped down by @NicolaSturgeon and her acolytes? There remain good people at the top of the party ( of which I remain a member BTW) and I hope they will now abandon their misplaced loyalty to the former leader whose position meant she signed off the accounts, as I understand it. Finally…..well done to @WingsScotland for triggering the investigation – pilloried from all sides but vindicated today.“]
I am loving the humiliation of that one-time would-be dictator, Nicola Sturgeon, and her entirely fake SNP Scottish “nationalism” (which, for example, looks upon English people as more alien than Pakistanis, so long as the latter were born in, or even just live in, some Scottish urban wasteland).
Phillips said this in the Begin centre in Jerusalem. It is dedicated to Menachim Begin – the former Israeli PM who led the Irgun terrorist group which bombed we British in the King David Hotel in 1946.
One can see why Restore Britain is being attacked by the Jewish lobby. That lobby (aka Israel lobby) largely scuttled from the sinking ships of Con and Lab, and onto the new fake-national Reform UK, which now has a “Reform Friends of Israel” section, no less, and which looks like forming a government sometime between now and 2030. At least, that was the situation until a week or two ago.
Now, Reform UK is suddenly being exposed, and is faltering, by reason of its pro-Jewish lobby, pro-Israel lobby position. The “investment” that the Lobby has made looks like it might become worthless, hence the (((outrage))).
The UK just “smashed” its May temperature record… but here’s the part the Met Office conveniently leaves out: The PREVIOUS record was set in 1922. That’s 104 years ago. Long before SUVs, private jets, or modern CO₂ emissions. Heathrow Airport didn’t even exist yet.
— Dries Van Langenhove (@DVanLangenhove) May 26, 2026
[“A very sad announcement.
I have just been convicted a second time for ‘hate speech’ and it is only due to a technicality that I could not immediately be sent to jail —to the judge’s frustration.
In an ironic turn of events it’s actually thanks to my previous prison sentence (for memes in a private group chat) that I am now still free —in a physical sense, at least.
Call me naive but I didn’t think they would take it this far, given that this precedent criminalises many of the arguments used by even the most moderate politicians critical of mass migration.
In February 2024 I gave a lecture at Catholic University Leuven wherein I linked mass migration to crime and a deterioration of our quality of life. Every single point I made was 100% the truth and based on scientific evidence.
Cynically, even the judge that convicted me admits as much by writing in his verdict: “Even if all of the statements made by Van Langenhove are based on scientific evidence and statistics, it makes no difference to the criminal intent. Van Langenhove is not charged with spreading false information. He is charged with presenting facts in a way that incites hatred against persons on the grounds of one or more of the protected criteria in the Anti-Racism Law.”
That’s a lot of words just to say he wants to send me to prison for speaking the truth.
Even the regime media write: “It did not matter to the court that Van Langenhove was quoting scientific sources. The judge argued that Van Langenhove’s main message was that a big part of the societal problems like insecurity, housing shortages and lowering educational standards are due to mass migration.”
You may think the regime media are being sympathetic to me in the first sentence, but in reality they are warning people: even if you speak the truth, if you go against our narrative, we will crush you in every way possible.
Both the public prosecutor and the judge did not present a single real argument as to how or against whom I would have incited hatred. So even if I would accept their crazy, dystopic law, I still did not break it.
The only argument they present is that I created a “hostile atmosphere of us versus them” in regards to migrants. But even this silly argument (which is not even a punishable offence) is not true. To me, the deadly disease is self-hatred and one of its worst symptoms is replacement migration. My enemy is thus NOT the migrants themselves but those orchestrating the mass migration.
Sadly, in Belgium, evidence is not needed and ‘vibes’ are enough to put someone in jail.
Given the fact that I have another court case coming up in September and that I have a dozen active criminal investigations for hate speech, time is running out for me. I have already paid more than €420,000 in legal fees and there is no ending in sight. I have been in an intense battle of attrition for eight years and must now regroup to make sure I can still win.
If you want to help me, you can do so via the links below. If you can help in other ways, please contact me via DM.
If you live in a country that still has free speech, never let them touch it, however noble they make the motives sound, because this is where it leads to.”]
A different jurisdiction but essentially the same kind of legalized injustice that sent Sam Melia of Patriotic Alternative to prison in the UK a couple of years ago.
The System and its drones (MPs, judges, prosecutors, msm scribblers and talking heads etc) have, so far, been able to bully and persecute people in that way without any serious pushback. So far.
During a meeting at the German Foreign Ministry, Sergey Nechaev made it clear that Moscow’s patience regarding crimes committed by the Ukrainian army has been exhausted after the tragedy in Starobelsk, the Russian diplomatic mission told reporters:https://t.co/uNc7ZK5VpVpic.twitter.com/e0QVItegDF
Russian troops liberated two communities in the Sumy Region over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported:https://t.co/em39z0DcJ0pic.twitter.com/ujcugo4Ynj
Owen Jones' young interlocutor could have cited the social science, which shows that multiculturalism does indeed have its downsides. pic.twitter.com/uc0D2nrpdm
That was Owen Jones joining in the Jew-Zionist-led msm attack on me 7 years ago, immediately after my wrongful and (as it now transpires) unlawful disbarment. He also colluded with depressive sex pest John Woodcock MP (now, and risibly, “Lord Walney”) to get me blocked by people on Twitter.
Woodcock/”Walney” was at one time the Chair of Labour Friends of Israel; Jones is part-Jew (either quarter or half: see my assessment of him above).
If conservatives and libertarians desire liberty, their priority should be opposing diversity.
Multicultural societies are the least free: with diversity comes more violent crime, terrorism and gang activity, requiring greater surveillance and restrictions on liberty.… pic.twitter.com/pmbHC96LpE
I double dare you to watch this video and then repost it👊. You know how YOU KNOW THIS DOCTOR IS ON TO SOMETHING🤔? They yanked his medical license for finding this out😳. Now YOU know👍 pic.twitter.com/D6wVkmkCKE
This is what happens if you try to give political representation to opposition to mass immigration in a white country: smeared, debanked, excommunicated, establishment media campaign to ban your party, and if none of that is successful, someone might just try and assassinate you. https://t.co/nf5yqChxnR
The SNP crashed from 44.2% in 2019 to 27.5%. To what extent that reflects hostility to the former MP, to the “nationalist” SNP having a Pakistani leader, to the Sturgeon scandal, and/or to the SNP’s failing record in government, is hard to say. Whether the result also reflects disenchantment with the idea of breaking away from the UK is also hard to say. Maybe a mixture of all of the foregoing.
For me, the fall in Conservative Party support from 15% to 3.9% is significant. The previous lowest point had been in 2005 (8.4%). A straw in the wind re. the 2024 General Election. At present, it looks as if only the safest Conservative seats (in England) will be held next year.
Turnout was only 37.2%, scarcely more than half of that in 2019. People are aware that the electoral system is just a rigged con-trick most of the time.
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🇩🇪 This week @elonmusk brought attention to the fact that the German government is supporting NGO's transporting thousands of migrants from the Mediterranean to Germany.
The head of one of these NGO's openly says his activism is motivated by a desire to wipe out white people. pic.twitter.com/vKSVI8uirt
🇬🇧 According to a poll from King's College London, one in three British people believe the great replacement is happening.
By the standards of liberal discourse, this means one third of the British public are far-right extremists, holding a view that is never represented in… pic.twitter.com/RKFkuLs6Pf
“According to a poll from King’s College London, one in three British people believe the great replacement is happening. By the standards of liberal discourse, this means one third of the British public are far-right extremists, holding a view that is never represented in mainstream media and censored off most social media. Despite the heavy censorship and vilification of people who hold this view, people see the reality of rapidly changing demographics in their homelands.“
Almost half the people polled disagreed. Are they blind, or just stupid?!
🇸🇪 This week, the Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson addressed the nation on the "unprecedented" rise in gang-related violence, calling on the military to assist the police in a situation that is increasingly out of control.
“This week, the Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson addressed the nation on the “unprecedented” rise in gang-related violence, calling on the military to assist the police in a situation that is increasingly out of control. Kristersson blamed “irresponsible immigration policy” and “failed integration” for this worsening crisis, stating: “Political naivety and cluelessness have brought us to this point. Irresponsible immigration policy and failed integration have brought us to this point.
Exclusion and parallel societies feed the criminal gangs, providing space for them to ruthlessly recruit children and train future killers.”
11 people were shot dead last month alone in Sweden, the second highest ever recorded in a single month.
Sweden’s upsurge in violent crime coincided with a large rise in inward migration in the 2010s. Sexual assault also rose under the previous self-labelled “feminist government”. A report in 2018 found that 8 in 10 ‘stranger’ rapes were carried out by migrants.”
“@LozzaFox is restricted on what he can and cannot say on twitter by his bail conditions. The police are using their powers to control what is said on social media. When they release a rapist on bail, are they restricting them from going near anyone else? This is deep state control of free speech, it’s dangerous, it’s unacceptable, and the police need to be reigned in on this before it goes any further.“
Alison Chabloz was likewise gagged. I myself am on unconditional bail, and so am restricted only by the need to avoid any perceived contempt of court prior to my expected trial in about 6 weeks’ time.
I think that we can be 99% sure what (((interests))) are pulling the strings of “controlled opposition” GB News, while hiding behind a maze of corporate mechanisms.
🇺🇦 A video with Ukrainian military commissars discussing prices for draft dodgers was leaked to the Internet pic.twitter.com/caAON4UTgu
Understandably, few Ukrainians now want to join, or be compelled to join, the failing Kiev-regime military effort.
Switzerland will pay Ukrainian refugees to leave – SwissInfo.
The government concluded that it would be cheaper for the state to encourage refugees to leave the country voluntarily than to continue paying them benefits and delaying departure after the expiration of temporary… pic.twitter.com/zrRSWW9Q4A
The German government has forecast an economic decline for the country of 0.4 percent. The Russian economy is expected to grow by 2.8% by the end of the year. Keep it up, Scholz, Burbok and company!" Medvedev pic.twitter.com/t8diI5tdZH
All decisions on the admission of new countries to the EU will be made only on the basis of merit, there will be no concessions — said the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. pic.twitter.com/2iRw0Th0kO
The Kremlin is establishing “deep and strong” cooperation with countries that are hostile to the West, including China, North Korea, Iran – Foreign Affairs
Western analysts believe that portraying Russia as a “rogue state” is a failed strategy, since this makes the Russian… pic.twitter.com/agb5OLur96
“The Kremlin is establishing “deep and strong” cooperation with countries that are hostile to the West, including China, North Korea, Iran – Foreign Affairs [magazine].
Western analysts believe that portraying Russia as a “rogue state” is a failed strategy, since this makes the Russian Federation a valuable partner for countries that were previously “undecided” on which side to take, and also strengthened relations with former allies.“
Ukraine's $24 billion aid package no longer safe – The Washington Post
Due to the chaos caused by the removal of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the Biden administration is now deciding whether to seek a large sum for Kiev or to implement a smaller, short-term package of… pic.twitter.com/NvGoHcMLY0
“Ukraine’s $24 billion aid package no longer safe – The Washington Post Due to the chaos caused by the removal of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the Biden administration is now deciding whether to seek a large sum for Kiev or to implement a smaller, short-term package of measures, according to the Washington Post.
According to the high-ranking official, the new strategy of supporting Ukraine will largely depend on who will become the next speaker and what kind of agreement they will be able to make with him, the article states.
Earlier this week, while announcing a new $5.3 billion aid package to Kiev, EU foreign policy and security chief Josep Borrell said the bloc was unable to compensate Ukraine for the amount of aid the United States had suspended.”
The President of the Russian Federation announced yesterday that the Burevestnik rocket had been successfully tested. This is a nuclear-powered global-range cruise missile. A rocket like no other in the world. Russian scientists and constructors, who started working back in… pic.twitter.com/cCvPEq9NeR
“The President of the Russian Federation announced yesterday that the Burevestnik rocket had been successfully tested. This is a nuclear-powered global-range cruise missile. A rocket like no other in the world. Russian scientists and constructors, who started working back in Soviet times, made another step forward.”
The SNP has just elected Humza Yousaf, the most useless Scottish politician of his generation to succeed Scheming Sturgeon. The death spiral of separatism started in the final days of Queen Nic will now continue at pace. This is a great day for the UNITED KINGDOM! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/njKeQPHjBd
Humza Yousaf new SNP Leader: That means more gender ID/trans madness, free speech clampdowns, Net Zero zealotry, no chance of independence/EU membership. He's the perfect choice to sink the SNP! pic.twitter.com/gsyhteCpgV
All that and Paki-stani/Punjabi as well. I suspect that the Humza Yousaf election will wake up quite a few Scottish voters to the pointlessness of faux-“Independence” and fake “Scottish nationalism”.
After all, what does “Independence” mean when Scotland would effectively still belong to NATO (and still have submarine and air bases likely to be targeted in any war), when it would apply to rejoin the EU, when it would be still tied-in to the international banking system, and to the UN matrix (eg WHO)? Also, when Scotland would not only continue to be invaded (by migrant-invaders) but also when that would probably only be intensified under an avowedly anti-white, and non-Scot, First Minister (or, by then, “Prime Minister”?) of Scotland?
I see that the latest opinion polls, from a week or so ago, show that support for “Independence”, once not far short of 50%, dropped to 38% after Sturgeon’s resignation. I wonder what the figure will be soon, now that the SNP has a non-white leader, and one who is basically anti-white, and so anti-Scottish (in any real sense)?
As blogged in the past, the SNP, founded in 1934, only had its first MP elected to Westminster in 1967. The SNP contingent in the Commons then varied between 2 and 11 until 2015 (out of Scottish seats numbering between 59 and 72).
Only in 2015 did the First Past The Post tipping-point result in the SNP getting 56 (out of 59) seats, a figure that fell to 35 in 2017 but recovered to 48 in 2019. Next time (2023/2024)?
In the Scottish Parliament, the SNP cadre consists of 64 out of 129 seats, but in local councils in Scotland only 453 out of 1,226 seats.
I think that the SNP is going to take a pretty big hit from the Humza Yousaf election, though how much is hard to say.
The SNP has certainly had problems with its leaders: Alex Salmond, who was very “lucky in his jury” when acquitted of sexual assault and attempted rape; then Sturgeon and all the fraud and cronyism allegations; now this…
What may save the SNP from an even bigger hit than would otherwise be the case is the sheer uselessness of both the Conservative Party government and the Labour Party official opposition at Westminster.
Note also, in those tweets above, that neither of the two “controlled opposition” talking heads dared to mention that Humza Yousaf is not, in any real sense, “Scottish” to start with…
I do not have enough information to assess whether this is the beginning of the end for the Israeli state, but it may be. States usually end as a result of internal dissent and/or decadence. One of the “lessons of history”.
This was the scene in Israel last night after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired the defense minister, who had called for a stop to the government’s divisive planned judicial overhaul. On Monday, Netanyahu said he would delay the plan. https://t.co/DnUknoMPM0pic.twitter.com/YvFNQr6w1m
I am not so much interested in Israel as a state, more in its role as a hub for worldwide Jewish power-grabs, propaganda, fraud, and general leeching. As a state, Israel is no worse than any of the Arab or other Muslim states in the Middle East.
Daily Reminder: The United States has the biggest Jewish population outside of Israel. pic.twitter.com/6hmXXJCMhT
Barry Gardiner shames Therese Coffey for not knowing her job and not doing her job, repeatedly.
This is a long video but it's worth watching as a reminder of the utter incompetence of people appointed to positions they are't qualified for. pic.twitter.com/jaTWsd4751
“Jack Monroe”, aka “Bootstrap Cook”, is not so much a “liar” as someone to whom truth and falsehood do not really exist, i.e. someone to whom both lies and statements of truth are interchangeable, and their use dictated solely by their immediate utility to her and various aspects of her fake “poverty” narrative.
This is probably the most disgusting thing Jack Monroe has done
As blogged before, “Jack Monroe”, whose sole experience of fires (apart from starting them in her own kitchen while drunk or drugged) was as someone who, for a short while, answered the telephone at the fire brigade in Essex. “Grenfell Tower” was, for her, just another attempt to ride on whatever was currently in the news, for her own financial benefit.
“Jack Monroe” does that, or has done that, in various ways: “LGBTQXYZ”, “single mother”, “struggling mother”, “poor person made good”, “cancer patient”, “ME patient”, “fibromyalgia patient” (etc), “recovering but sober alcoholic”, “victim” generally (especially of “trolls”, meaning those who put forward evidence of her fraudulent claims and behaviours).
I wonder how many “mugs” actually believed the “Jack Monroe” Grenfell Tower fantasy? The real fire happened in West London, 60+ miles from where (non-driver) “Jack Monroe” lives (in the Southend, Essex area). How would a policeman guarding the fire scene even know (or care) who “Jack Monroe” is (I suppose that she thinks, or seems to want to believe, that she is a “celebrity” known to the nation)? Why would a policeman “wave her through” the security cordon? It’s ludicrous, as was or is her claim to have had the plans of the building (how? why?).
What, in any case, could a drunken or drugged young woman without real experience, and who had no reason or locus standi to even be there, be able to contribute? Nothing.
Not only lies, but very obvious lies.
That being so, why did actual “celebrities” of sorts, such as the Jewish TV cook, Nigella Lawson, and the Jewish restaurant critic, Jay Rayner, promote “Jack Monroe” for years after that? In fact until early this year. Also, why did various charities and msm outlets keep promoting “Jack Monroe” until very recently? There’s a kind of semi-conspiratorial “Jimmy Savile” feel about it all.
As blogged previously, I do not necessarily oppose “Independence” for Scotland, but it seems that many Scots are adamantly opposed, and that either there is no majority for it or only a very small majority.
I suspect that many Scots think “what Independence?” when Scotland would probably still be in NATO (i.e. under de facto American/NWO control), still in the EU (i.e.under EU control), still subject to the diktats of international finance-capitalism, and overall almost certainly poorer per capita.
Still, if a significant majority of the Scots were to clamour for “Independence”, I would say “so go…“, but it really would have to be 60% at a bare minimum; in reality, to make it work, 75% or more.
Speaking personally, for me the SNP is fake “nationalism”, having little to do with race and culture.
I do not think that the SNP will fall back to where it was before 2015. It has an electoral niche, which is a kind of social-democracy in policy terms, but underpinned by the faux-“nationalism” which sets it apart, superficially, from the other System parties “up there” (I am on the southern coast of England). The SNP of course is a System party. You only have to look at the lip-service it pays to the Jewish lobby/Israel lobby.
The SNP has also been even more repressive in terms of free speech than the Westminster regimes of recent years; Police Scotland has embraced its Poundland Stasi role with unseemly alacrity.
I imagine that many Scots, perhaps a majority, will prefer to stick with the UK rather than become poorer outside it. Whisky, tourism, and financial services cannot provide income enough to support an “independent” Scottish state, and North Sea oil/gas, even if partly under control of Edinburgh, is (arguably) a declining or depreciating asset, especially if supposedly “green” policies are pursued.
In terms of Westminster governments, though, the 59 Scottish seats are important. Without them, the UK Labour Party will find it difficult to form a government (even with SNP support), unless the presently-forecast huge landslide actually happens; such a landslide may happen this year or next but, if so, will not be repeated.
ВВС – #Ben_Wallace, the #UK defense secretary, said he does not think the UK will transfer fighter jets to #Ukraine within the next few months or even years. Together with the fighters, 200 British troops must be provided. #War_in_Ukrainepic.twitter.com/qVwEqJ90xW
— #War_in_Ukraine #Facts #Opinions #Trends #Kharkiv (@HarZizn) February 15, 2023
Why are healthy young #Ukrainians living and now working in the #UK as young #Brits travel to #Ukraine to help their country in the war with #Russia.
The trigger for the resignation may have been the SNP’s crazed promotion of the trans nonsense, but Sturgeon was “too big for her boots” in other ways as well, pretending that she was (sort-of) a world statesman and leader of a (sort-of) state.
Nicola Sturgeon has often been compared (approvingly or not) to the New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who resigned not long ago. A lazy comparison though, arguably; after all, New Zealand is over 103,000 square miles in area, has over 5,000,000 people, and is a recognized state.
Scotland, though also having over 5,000,000 people, is only 30,000 square miles in area and, though a distinct country historically and to some extent culturally, is not a state, and has not been since 1707.
There is, though, no reason why Scotland cannot be a state again, so long as its people are willing to pay the price in various ways. It is clear, surely, that about half are not.
She tried to gaslight women into accepting less rights – she forced kids to wear masks for months and months longer than the rest of Britain – she behaved like a dictator during covid
Good riddance sturgeon is gone – she sure won’t be missed
Good riddance to wee Jimmy Krankie aka Nicola Sturgeon. She is a pro immigration globalist and a EU sycophant remoaner and not a Scottish nationalist. #jeremyvinepic.twitter.com/jw9GZJb5ae
— lieutenant Colonel Kojak Slaphead The 3rd (@Scarfer13) February 15, 2023
Any politician who tells you that a man can magically become a woman is stupid, insane or a liar.
Goodbye @NicolaSturgeon and good riddance. And the same to every other politician who claims the same thing. You are a danger to women and girls. We will not tolerate it. #TerfPowerhttps://t.co/MvGXgX9P4n
Good riddance to Sturgeon. Her gender reforms may have done it for her in the end, but they also illuminated all that has long been rotten with her SNP: a faux-progressive authoritarian party that, despite the Braveheart routine, holds ordinary Scots and their values in contempt
One of the best ever Jack Monroe tall tales is her celebrity protection squad who check on her welfare and security, unprompted no less…@EssexPoliceUK confirmed that this too was a lie. pic.twitter.com/9WBu8qVq0s
The most egregious lie of “Jack Monroe” must be that, when Grenfell Tower was still burning, she went there (why? 60 miles from Southend where she lives), was “waved through the police cordon” (how? why?), and pretty much took charge (why? She did at one time, long before, have a job atthe Essex fire brigade, but only answering the telephone). She also claims to have had the building plans of Grenfell Tower (how? why?).
Incidentally, while (as of today) 502 utter mugs are still each sending “Jack Monroe” between £3.50 and £44 each month via Patreon, her recent book has bombed. According to Amazon, it is selling about 268 copies per month at present, and secondhand hardback copies are up for sale for as little as £7, only a month after publication.
“An Israeli firm sought to influence more than 30 elections around the world for clients by hacking, sabotage and spreading disinformation, according to an undercover media investigation published Wednesday.
Following the latest revelations, Israel might also face increased pressure to rein in its cutting-edge cyberware and technology sector which was spotlighted in another media investigation led by Forbidden Stories in 2021.
Tommorow my book “Casting The Runes The Letters of M R James” is published, you can get it on Amazon or any good bookshop also @unbounders or if like most of us right now the cost of living is biting you in the arse please ask your librarian to order it pic.twitter.com/4dw8kz5a2W
Get real. Putin isn't going to lose. Russia is a powerhouse militarily compared to Ukraine. Not to mention the quantity of ammunition and nukes Russia has. Anyone escalating this war is all in on starting WW3.
Throughout the years it was staged around the world, from NYC to Tokyo. Simple yet timeless plot about hope & shattered dreams remains as relevant as ever. Have you seen it? Or perhaps read? pic.twitter.com/WVBalSYRvt
🛍️ #OTD in 1901, the legendary #Eliseevsky grocery store opened doors in Moscow!
👉 Your regular Russian supermarket – in a palace & a palace! 👉 Best wines, delicacies & luxurious interior. 👉 No 1 shopping mall in Europe of its time. With a theatre no less. pic.twitter.com/5Ovcx6TXx3
“Jack Monroe”, the “Bootstrap Cook”: an assessment
I have blogged (briefly) previously a few times about the person known as “Jack Monroe” (originally Melissa Hadjicostas, half-Greek Cypriot), whose rather clever nom de plume is “Bootstrap Cook”.
The name Jack Monroe is now her official name, it having been adopted by deed poll.
In the past, I was content to be at least neutral towards “Bootstrap Cook”, in that I felt that anyone putting almost anything into the public domain that might help the millions of financially-struggling people in the UK deserved at least a chance.
Incidentally, this blog is written in the English language, and therefore does not refer to a woman (whatever her views or proclivities) as “they” or “them”.
“Ideological” criticism of “Bootstrap Cook” has come mainly from two directions. The first group would be those connected to or supportive of the “Conservative” regimes of 2010-present. They tend to say that there is no justification for the campaigning of “Bootstrap Cook” to raise State benefits etc, and that any food poverty that exists exists because the individuals subject to it cannot “budget” properly, or do not know how to cook cheap wholesome food.
An ignorant point of view (though not without a small kernel of truth, as with many basically lying narratives), which infuriates many, especially when expressed by the likes of Iain Dunce Duncan Smith, the MP who has also been a huge expenses blodger and fraudster, and who claimed vast amounts on his Parliamentary expenses (even a £39 hotel breakfast) while —as Secretary of State for the DWP— taking money away from people living in real poverty.
The second group who tend to criticize “Bootstrap Cook” are those who agree with much of her campaigning on benefits etc, but who say that she actually “enables” attacks on benefit recipients by reason of her claims that a family of 4 can be fed well on £20 a week or less.
Now, however, a third group has joined the fray, being those who claim that they and/or others have been taken for a ride by “Bootstrap Cook”, and that she is a “grifter”, or even an outright fraud, who has sold goods and services which were never delivered. These critics also claim that much of the “Bootstrap Cook” back-story is untrue, or embellished.
For example, it is said that “Bootstrap Cook” was either never in poverty herself, or was so for no more than 18 months. It is said that at least part of her financial difficulties were caused by her own (apparently past) alcohol and/or drug abuse. It is said that she makes up implausible stories about her past financial predicament, such as “having to” sell her little son’s beloved dinosaur toy to raise money (really? How much money would that raise? £1? £2? And how cruel is that, assuming the story to be true?).
It is also said that her parents are not badly-off financially, that they own buy-to-let property, and that her paternal grandfather was a millionaire. In other words, that “Bootstrap Cook” always had a financial lifeline. I have no idea whether, or to what extent, that may be, or may have been, the case.
Recently, following a storm of criticism on Twitter, “Bootstrap Cook” deleted her Twitter account, though others claim that she is merely taking a 40-hour “rest” from Twitter, and will return. Why 40 hours and not (as with Jesus Christ) 40 days, or whatever, I have no idea.
One aspect that interested me, as a former barrister, was the tendency of “Bootstrap Cook” to threaten some of her critics with legal action. A few years ago, “Bootstrap Cook” sued Katie Hopkins in libel.
Ms. Hopkins had libelled “Bootstrap Cook” entirely mistakenly as to the facts, had no defence whatever, and should have backed down and got out with minimal damage when she could have but, like many maximalisti, found sorry the hardest word, and so was hammered: £24,000 in damages, and very large legal costs. Ms. Hopkins had to sell her house in St. Leonard’s (the best residential district in Exeter) in order to pay those legal costs.
“Bootstrap Cook” retained as her solicitor Mark Lewis, the Zionist Jew who now lives in Israel, though he has also a professional foothold in London. His no-win no-fee cases have often been controversial.
I have to wonder how nice a person “Bootstrap Cook” is, if she is on friendly terms with someone such as Lewis.
As soon as people started suggesting, a month or two ago, that “Bootstrap Cook” was somewhere between “grifter” and fraudster, out came the Twitter threat that Mark Lewis and libel would be wheeled out (frankly, not so much of a threat— by no means have all of Lewis’s cases been brought to a successful conclusion, and when he was censured and fined by the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority about 4 years ago, his Counsel said that his fine should be reduced because his only possessions were his clothes, a mobility scooter. and a private pension worth £70 a week).
In fact, when “Bootstrap Cook” threatened libel action against Conservative Party MP Lee Anderson [Con, Ashfield] (in May of this year), nothing ever came of it, as far as I know:
“Food journalist and activist Jack Monroe hinted at legal action against Anderson after he commented in an interview that “She’s taking money off some of the most vulnerable people in society and making an absolute fortune on [sic] the back of people”.[36] [Wikipedia].
The Guardian says “sues“, but the Independent said “hints at suing“, and I have seen nothing on the Mark Lewis Twitter output to the effect that he ever was “instructed” (the Guardian, again) on the matter. He may have been, he may not have been. I might add that all the news reports are from 15-16 May 2022; nothing since then.
Was Anderson right, though? As I have said, I was willing to cut “Bootstrap Cook” some slack, because in recent years, the past ~15 years, the social security system has become inadequate, pay for work has also become generally inadequate, and millions are struggling both to eat and keep sheltered and warm. My view was that any useable advice was, well, useful.
I still think that (despite the fact that, to me, many of the recipes of “Bootstrap Cook” do look like a dog’s dinner, and despite the fact that many disagree with her costings etc).
More serious criticism is that she has actually been making a pretty good living out of Patreon donations, while never or rarely providing the extras offered in exchange.
When I last looked, “Bootstrap Cook” had at least 800 Patreon donors giving a minimum of £1 a month. £800 a month. In itself not bad. When you consider that the suggested minimum is £3 a head, the total increases to £2,400 a month (perhaps). I have seen a tweet where the tweeter claims, truthfully or otherwise, to have been donating £44 a month. Well, you see the point. “Bootstrap Cook” must have an income from Patreon alone of between £800 and (?) perhaps as much as £8,000 a month. Or more. That’s before one takes into account book sales, other donations, paid (?) TV appearances, other appearances etc. We do not know.
Not that “Bootstrap Cook” claims poverty, these days. No, she claims, as I understand it (and perhaps truthfully) a degree of “precariousness” in her life and finances, and she is certainly not alone in that. It is almost the norm in the Britain of 2022.
“Bootstrap Cook” has a number of defence mechanisms. One is to threaten defamation actions, but the more usual tactic is to claim the shield of disability, and she has about two dozen options there.
A further defence tactic is, I read, to set her fanatical fans (she apparently calls them “flying monkeys“) onto any critics, and I have certainly seen tweets where mentally-disturbed fans have come close to suggesting violence against anyone daring to utter critical words.
The problem here is that “Bootstrap Cook” has become a totem for a certain tribe of virtue-signallers. Not really “the poor” but more the sort of people who like to think that they are socially-progressive etc. Facts do not matter to those people, belonging to the “right” tribe does. cf. “Covid”, Ukraine, “Black Lives Matter” and, of course, “FBPE/Remain/Rejoin” etc.
When you consider that someone who claims to be able to feed a family of 4 for £20 a week might be said to be, arguably or in effect, saying that UK benefits are perfectly OK and need not be increased, is that really something positive or not?
I simply don’t understand how you can read this article, made from HER OWN TWEETS, and think Jack Monroe is anything other than a grifter https://t.co/WTCmHTdHD5
— Kelly Jackson | It’s More Fun In Your 30s (@Kelly_Jackson88) September 19, 2022
Why on earth would any Tory politico want to silence Jack Monroe? She plays straight into their message that ‘the poor’ can eat on £20/wk and are just too thick to budget & cook. Plus, she has made little to no impact on public policy. (Rhetorical tweet, obvs!)
Claiming you can't afford to put the hot water on, have unscrewed the lightbulbs and are using solar lights, and haven't bought shampoo for two years in order to gain internet points and cash donations, is also wrong.
Giving people "money-saving" advice that is going to cost them *more* money is wrong.
Not making an effort to make sure people understand that you've mistakenly given the wrong advice and pointing people to more accurate advice, is really, really wrong.
I have very good intentions. I *intend* to write book reviews and advice for people querying, to be supportive of other writers, especially those newly agented.
I don't actually do that, though. And because I don't, I don't expect to be held up or praised for it.
Jack Monroe wasn't hounded off of Twitter because of some anaemic roast potatoes. She's left because too many people were raising questions about her lucrative Patreon, murky charitable donations and questionable finances. Jesus, people are gullible.
As many have noted, this whole Bootstrap Cook thing is more like a creepy cult than anything. It’s as if a lot of fairly affluent or at least not poor people have decided that supporting “Bootstrap Cook” —right or wrong— validates their evenings of going out, their Netflix subscription, their holidays in Cuba or Costa Rica, their new cars, and in fact their whole comfortable existence.
In fact, it reminds me of the “indulgences” sold by the Roman Catholic Church before the Reformation.
Not that that is necessarily the fault of the “Bootstrap Cook” herself.
I've not much to say on the Jack Monroe issue except that if a government minister tries to tell someone how to survive on a box of cornflakes and a tin of sardines, they tend to get pilloried for it.
(Past caring if Jack Monroe's fans abuse me as did for 48 hours few week back).
Authentic, knowledgeable women in poverty now could offer useful, genuine insights into experience but overlooked and devalued while Monroe's more acceptable celebrity face of poverty is prioritised.
Well, if you can believe that the “royal” Mulatta is a sadly-abused “princess”, then believing that a poverty campaigner, who seems to be making “a nice little earner” out of it and naive followers, is a modern Joan of Arc, must be easy enough.
It was absolutely nothing to do with “the far right” and everything to do with the revelations that she’s lied about a lot of things and taken money off a lot of people in very shady ways.
Let's say you agree to pay the Times £x per month and in exchange they promise to send you a code to access their online issue – but they never send the codes. Would you see a problem there? Read the Patreon page and see if you agree the comparison.https://t.co/LUPccSWorV
No John, it appears that you don’t understand what it is. Each payment tier system means a certain amount of rewards/content in return. Jack has received money every month & has not honoured the obligations that Jack pledged. No rewards/content for TWO years.
How had she helped others? I’m seeing a lot of upset people who have given her money over the years. They’re feeling ripped off. pic.twitter.com/H6Y00rtGVs
There's a whole community of Jack watchers on a website called Tattle. Any updates are there. Have to say, they don't seem a right-wing crowd. Better characterised as working-class mums who seem pissed off about what they see as grifting.
Her recipes are shit and she only keeps within budget because the portions are toddler sized. Totally dishonest and unsustainable. No one uses her recipes though, because as mentioned, they're shit.
Because you need to be a parent in order to… count calories. Some of Jack Monroe's meals are less than 200 calories per portion. Her best meals are in the region of 400-500 per portion. It's not enough. You too can eat cheaply, if you starve.
Well, that’s enough. There are hundreds of other tweets in similar vein.
As blogged previously, my view is that Bootstrap Cook’s stuff may well be of interest to many, though —as already said— much of it looks to me like carbohydrate-heavy food often presented like a dog’s dinner.
I do not think that “Bootstrap Cook”set out to defraud anyone, and it may be that she has no such intention now, but it does seem that legitimate questions about her fundraising have been asked by a number of donors, but not answered by her.
If people think that they are somehow accomplishing something by subsidizing the not-uncomfortable lifestyle of that person, then that is their business, in a sense, but it is legitimate for others, arguably more clear-minded, to ask “where is the money going?“, “is any of this true?“, and “are people being tapped for money under false pretences?“.
I can also see that her fans seem to be, almost entirely, not the truly poor but more those who are not “poor” but who support her “non-binary” profile, the “gender bender” aspects, and the general “government must do more for the poor” activism aspect.
I think that it is legitimate to question, not only “where the money went” (or goes), but also, whether in reality Bootstrap Cook has actually influenced government, or large enterprises such as ASDA (it seems that one or two supermarket chains were actually paying her for advice or consultancy or something).
Poverty is a huge problem in the UK now. Anyone claiming to be expert in it must expect searching inquiry.
Is this all really just a morning TV virtue-signal writ large? After all, at the end of the day, the decisive question is what government does or fails to do.
I personally have no animus against “Bootstrap Cook”, but my view of her has certainly become far less positive over the years since I first heard of her.
I do think, also, that if you claim that a person can feed healthily on £5 a week, you are really playing into the hands of swine such as Dunce Duncan Smith, Esther McVey, Therese Coffey etc.
I think that anyone wanting to help “the poor” could probably do so more effectively via GoFundMe or local foodbanks than by subsidizing the lifestyle of “Bootstrap Cook”. Perhaps I am mistaken, but that is my firm view and opinion.
On a wider point, we have in the UK this msm thing whereby TV channels or shows like to have a “go-to” list. Brexit discussion? Call Farage. Free speech discussion? Call Toby Young. Poverty discussion? Call Jack Monroe. And so on.
Thus you get “activists” who are really just “famous for being famous activists”. The Caroline Criado-Perez phenomenon. A hundred thousand or a million Twitter followers but, outside Twitter etc, really unknown and without real influence.
Of course, the msm now like to feature (supposed) “experts” who are, if possible, young, female, and black. “Bootstrap Cook” is not black, but as “Meatloaf” once opined, “two out of three ain’t bad“…
Well, there it is. I prefer to concentrate on other and larger issues really, but felt that I should examine the above first, after the recent Twitter storm in a teacup.
For clarification purposes this is a live poll so results don't necessarily represent public opinion. However, the latest results are: * still 81% re bankers bonus cap * still 82% re 45% tax cut for the rich * 88% re recall of parliament * 87% re govt loss of control of economy
All that the doomed “Conservative” Party had to do, to consign Labour to the bin, was select a leader to succeed “Boris”-idiot who was even slightly competent. It failed to do so. Endex.
Here's what the UK's new electoral map would look like if tonight's YouGov poll were repeated at a general election. pic.twitter.com/HbGJQywCB2
The implications are clear: either the Con MPs get rid of Liz Truss as soon as they can, and put in someone who at least looks semi-competent, or the Con Party will be near-finished by next year. Same goes, of course, for Kwarteng, Cleverly, and Coffey.
Jack Monroe pulls apart tweets that suggest people can live off a cheap bag of pasta or oats (rightly so) but SHE reinforces this ideology with her £20 weekly Asda shops. They do not contain enough nutrional/calorific value for one person, never mind 2 to 3 people!
Look at ANY of the weekly shops she has posted. There is a good reason she doesn't follow it through with a FULL meal plan for the week. She states a few times that she'll post a meal plan or recipes for the week later on but they never appear. The idea that you can continually
COVID held a mirror up to society. As most of us were forced to slow down, we noticed it was not the mega rich or obscenely paid super stars that we relied on, but the dismissively termed ‘unskilled’ front line workers. We can’t now allow them to be forced into ‘working poverty.’
Ha ha. Yes, that ghastly little bastard Schofield is one of the worst people on TV in the UK; and, yes, it is peak contemporary Britain, just like…well, there are just too many examples around…
An eloquent warning from the former British ambassador to Moscow, in 1997 'Does Nato really have a future at all? Is enlargement really no more than a substitute for policy, the thrashing about of an organisation which has lost its raison d’etre? 'https://t.co/p1MZFFPTCG
: 'Over the centuries one great power after another has threatened the stability of Europe….in 1815 and…1945.. the victors were intelligent and self-interested enough to bring the defeated as equals into the comity of European nations.' https://t.co/p1MZFFPTCG
A good example was seen the other night. A new detective drama called Karen Pirie.
Set partly a few decades ago, partly in the contemporary era, even the older setting, in St. Andrews, Scotland, decades ago, had a black character appear. In a small town in what seems to be a bleak part of Scotland (I have never been there). Then we are introduced to the two detectives now investigating the cold case. One a small Scottish woman, the other a black or half-caste…
I do not have a great deal of patience with films or TV shows. If they do not catch the interest after 15 mins, switch— OFF. I gave this one 20 mins. A bloody bore, poorly conceived and worse-acted.
This evening, I saw an old episode of Wycliffe [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wycliffe_(TV_series)]. All characters more or less credible, and what I like best about Wycliffe is that it manages to catch the atmosphere of Cornwall well, from what I recall from when I lived there. It does not rely on cliche (most of the time, at least).
Late tweets
The UK's economic woes appear to be a story of fiscal recklessness that's forced the Bank of England to stabilize crashing financial markets by buying up government bonds.
The real story is actually more complicated, and it all comes down to pensions https://t.co/H0wFKJe8IQ
But you’ve now borrowed short-term money to buy volatile financial assets.
The thing that was so good about pension funds — their structural long-termism, the fact that you can’t have a run on a pension fund: You’ve ruined that! https://t.co/Q6dEeBI8Ztpic.twitter.com/qTFzhEjNYT
➡️A margin call earlier this year when rates rose, which depleted the pensions’ collateral buffer ➡️Liz Truss's catastrophic mini-budget led to long-term interest rates spiking 100 basis points https://t.co/8vucDdxTDQpic.twitter.com/PeAj4jmPt1
But the questions about what happened in recent days run deep, are far from relevant only to the UK and are most certainly not over https://t.co/25jsfBV8mH
The BOE may have left itself hostage to misfortune with its actions.
The risk is that it finds itself in a standoff with markets, with pressure increasing to hike borrowing costs before its next meeting, which might tip the economy over the edge https://t.co/FLzsjzcWzr
In the month since I wrote about “Jack Monroe”, the “Bootstrap Cook”, the storm around her murky financial arrangements has become fiercer yet. A few tweets:
Oh look, yet mire Jack Monroe bootstrapcook lies exposed. She's gifted donations to fund legal action and not even followed any pre-action protocol & got in touch. That money's been spent…. ❄️❄️❄️❄️⛄️ https://t.co/LrXqDsDB1b
In light of Jack Monroe @BootstrapCook's latest "working class" lies, it's worth retweeting her dad's comments regarding his professional landlording, which also reveal he has no bank debt, ie mortgages. Not surprising given he inherited 3 of his millionaire dad's 12 properties. https://t.co/7BrPnLiVtA
He is sometimes described, inaccurately, as having become a “pro bono” lawyer who works for free, out of quasi-charitable motives, whereas he in fact seems to work on a “no win no fee” basis, which is not at all the same thing.
“Jack Monroe” has tweeted that she still has several/many months in which to sue the MP Lee Anderson and the politico Martin Daubney. In theory, up to a year after the alleged libel, but the relevant Practice Directions do say that the courts will still expect any claim to be made expeditiously, so not, e.g., 10 or 11 months after the alleged libel.
The courts may (probably will) penalize even a successful defamation claimant (“plaintiff”, as was) in both award and costs if the action is not brought expeditiously.
Why are you tagging bootstrapcrook? ,she is literally doing the tories work by claiming you can feed a family on 20 quid a week, she has ripped of 1000s of working class people who have been paying into her patreon and received NOTHING, people are complaining and getting refunds
Russian media is suddenly explicit about what Russia is really doing in Ukraine. Citing Vasily Zenkovsky's writings from 1931, propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov laid it out: "Russia will never cede Ukraine to anyone… it has to be part of Russia, even against Ukraine's own will." pic.twitter.com/peSoFKIynz
Russia and Ukraine have always been, if not one entity, then at least bound together. The very word “Ukraine” comes from a root meaning something like “outskirts”, in other words an outer part of Russia. Little Russia, as it was once called. In the 19thC, Tchaikovsky called his Second Symphony, the “Little Russian“.
If the over 60 vote is removed from the equation, Labour would have comfortably won a majority in GE2019
It seems somewhat fitting, therefore, that the pension is being reduced by 3% to 5%
A typically-meaningless example of Twitter logic: if you removed the “black and brown” vote from UK elections (since about 1990), you would never have had the Labour governments of the 1997-2010 period, and you would in fact never have any Labour-label government again.
Another mainstream outlet confirms that us 'covid deniers' were right all along. Now we know for sure who the real #covidiots were.https://t.co/sSIXqxzHBp
Behind their would-be dictating, though, the guilty politician-puppets are afraid, which is why they are always whining about their supposedly inadequate security.
More tweets
"Fixing the antenna on the World Trade Center, New York City, 1979. Photo by Peter B. Kaplan" pic.twitter.com/AJT4JNXJA6
Parent Company Name: Pfizer Headquartered in: New York Major Industry: pharmaceuticals Specific Industry: pharmaceuticals Penalty total since 2000: $10,193,896,333https://t.co/mho7AZ1tq6
Or are they just ramping up the 'testing' because the Scottish state is loathe to surrender the powers and authority that this putative ailment has gifted them? https://t.co/bZnXoylxZ8
The SNP has proven to be a good example of the old maxim of Lord Acton about how “power corrupts“. First that old fraud Salmond, who turned out to be a sex pest and/or rapist (though, “lucky in his jury”, he was acquitted, formally); then came would-be dictator and would-be “world leader” Nicola Sturgeon, that silly little woman. Not to mention that Paki-stani, whose name escapes me, and who wants to introduce Stasi-style interference with free speech, even in private homes.
The SNP, which in any case is not really “national” at all, should be kicked into the bin.
Serbians celebrating the death of Madeleine Albright, who died 23 years to the day she authorised the NATO bombing of Belgrade. pic.twitter.com/TpiTbuF7vI
In the future they're creating, having access to energy will be a privilege, granted on the basis of your abject compliance with the state machine's strictures. https://t.co/tffTjcHQge
Electric vehicles aren't supposed to 'work'. They are to transition us into a world in which almost no-one will be permitted to own and run a private vehicle. https://t.co/CBJuouy603
As a group, they cannot create a civilization, and find it hard even to live in one created by others. Their more natural role is to destroy anything decent that those others have created and maintained. In our society, and as a group, useless and quite negative.
Sign the petition to Boris Johnson to stop abortion up to birth being introduced: https://t.co/yZaZ3sirbM
— Laurence England 🏴 (@TheCrushedBones) March 28, 2022
All of these state operatives know exactly what they're doing. They're creating a world in which the Godless materialist state machine defines and dictates your very reality. You will own NOTHING, including your thoughts, beliefs and values. https://t.co/xNNIOglCIo
So black multimillionaire star Will Smith made a tearful speech at the Oscars hosted by a black multimillionaire star about his role in playing a multimillionaire black father of two black multimillionaire tennis stars and referring to the struggle in life for black people.
Stories about white people have now effectively been banned. Hollywood and the parasites who profit from it just need to disappear. pic.twitter.com/EHt0BpBvvh
My view of Enoch Powell has not at all changed since the 1970s. A highly-intelligent, highly-educated, very courageous man, who was also a political idiot.
In this long BBC assessment of the Jew “oligarch” and billionaire, Roman Abramovich [see below], penned by one Justin Parkinson, the words “Jew” and “Jewish” appear not once. Not one single time: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60708450.
According to the BBC, the oligarch-thieves are all “Russian“…and many poor saps that know no better probably believe the lies that are broadcast by BBC, Sky, ITV News etc.
I suppose that the ordinary UK person actually believes that the so-called “Russian” oligarchs really are Russian. In fact, few are.
"You should never slap someone just because you disagree with them but you should be able to try and hit them with your car" pic.twitter.com/o6w6ryQVa5
So it appears that the Science and Technology reporter for the Independent cannot distinguish between a personal disagreement and a situation where silly, “entitled” pseudo-“green” crazies, making a ridiculous propaganda point, block people from getting where they need to go on public roads.
The only quibble I have about that tweet is the use of the word “animals” in the full post. Don’t tar animals with the brush of the guilt of degenerate sub-humans.
Incidentally, while I generally dislike the death penalty (as such), in rare and particularly-egregious cases of the above sort, I just think…”let them burn“…
Sir Maurice Oldfield [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Oldfield] knew better. He actively encouraged young foreigners to study in the UK, on the basis that, at the very least, they would be influenced by British attitudes and culture. Whether that would now be a good thing, the UK having been trashed by lower cultures etc, is an open question. Still, the point yet stands.
Also, without even getting into matters of direct “espionage”, young persons who study at British schools and colleges are quite likely to harbour friendly feelings towards British people —and so the UK— years later, when they might have developed into high-ranking members of their native societies (though I suppose that, in some cases, the reverse might be so!).
Here are more of that individual’s words of “wisdom”:
The Americans are right. Russian wealth has perniciously wormed its way into British society. It has had a corrupting influence on politics, finance, law, property, sport, and education, and it needs to be removed. That needs to start now.
The above could be said, with far more justice, of both the Arab and the Jewish/Israeli infiltration, particularly the latter. “…It has had a corrupting influence on politics, finance, law, property…and education, and it needs to be removed. That needs to start now.”
Just like Israeli money then. What's the difference?
…and the Russian influence is far less influential and, indeed, corrupting, because there are few Russians long-embedded in British society (usually poor emigres from the time of the 1917 Revolution, or from the 1940s), whereas there are maybe as many as 300,000 Jews in the UK, mostly in London.
All out of covid lockdown road (& in dire need of a distraction from their crimes) the global elite move on to the next stage of their toxic #RESET. The perfect way to stop 'overconsumption' slash our #energy consumption, speed the culling of the human herd – and blame #Putin. pic.twitter.com/HGpjZdCFKV
It seems that the UK minister calling for Putin’s overthrow is James Cleverly, the “mixed race” “Conservative” who has climbed higher than expected for someone whose only paper qualification is a “degree” in “Hospitality Management” from a “McUniversity”.
Incidentally, I was slightly acquainted with that journalist’s mother, Ludmilla Matthews, nearly 40 years ago, around 1983. In fact, she was one of those who taught me on a part-time Russian course (about 3 or 4 classes per week, of which she taught one class), at a language school in Central London. A nice though quite reserved lady, who walked with a limp.
I was unaware of her background in detail until I happened to read, around 2012, Owen Matthews’ interesting book, Stalin’s Children, which was partly about Ludmilla Matthews and her harsh life as a child in the Soviet Union under Stalin and in time of war (early 1940s).
How time flies! Owen Matthews must have been about 12 when I was taught by his mother. Now he is over 50.
I recall Ludmilla Matthews once saying that a Russian phrase I used (I think that the class she taught was Russian Conversation) was “stylish“. Praise is always remembered…
I also remember Ludmilla Matthews because I was in her little class (about 10 people) one afternoon when I was “abducted” by a striking girl with very long hair, who strode into her class before it had finished, looked at me and said “ah, you’re the one. Come with me“!
I may blog about that incident later in detail, but suffice it to say for now that the girl later claimed that I looked exactly like St. Herman of Alaska, of whom I had never heard (apparently, there was such a body: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_of_Alaska). Not quite sure how to take that, though I did have a beard at the time!
That girl also said that she had an icon of St. Herman above her bed (in Kensington), and would I like to see it? Well, ever one to jump in where the angels fear to tread, I did go with her. I thought at the time that she must have some position in the language school (near Warren Street/Euston Square) because, inter alia, she (with me hesitating at the door) walked straight into another room where a Russian called Vitya was holding a class consisting of only three young members of the West German Foreign Ministry, with whom I was in fact slightly acquainted. She spoke quite peremptorily to the said Vitya before sweeping out again.
Suffice to say that I never did see the girl’s bedroom, or her icon…This needs a longer telling of the story, though. Anyway, a week or two later, Ludmilla Matthews told me that that girl had mental health problems, was actually dangerous, and had once turned up at the Matthews’ home with a young Australian naval officer whom she had encountered on the London Underground and had “abducted”, like me, but by use of a different story.
Still, that is, in detail, a tale for another blog post, and some other time.
It may be that the Jew clown currently posing as President of the Ukraine has fled. Situation as I write— still unclear.
If Zelensky has fled, he will probably have gone either to Lvov (300+ miles west of Kiev) or overseas, perhaps to Poland. Lvov seems most likely.
At present, reports indicate that both main airports near Kiev are being contested by Russian and Kiev regime troops. If at least one airport is secured by Russian forces, then reinforcements will pour in from deeper in Russian territory. Fresh troops. That alone would probably tip the balance of the battle for Kiev.
As I write, there are reports that there are Russian tanks already in the streets of Kiev. Again, situation not quite clear.
So far, there seems little appetite among the civilian population for a battle with Russian forces. That may be because, after all, the two countries and peoples are closely-linked ethnically, linguistically and historically. It is not the same as Middle Eastern cities resisting the ISIS barbarians, or 1945 Berlin resisting the Red Army. The Russians are not going to deliberately brutalize the civilian population, and the Ukrainian civilians are aware of that.
Interesting to see that the obsessions of the UK msm over the past few years are now chased off the news agenda: “Covid”, facemask nonsense, “vaccines”, “boosters” etc, “Black Lives Matter”, climate change, Greta Nut (the unpleasant Swedish autistic) etc.
It would be good were the UK msm at least to attempt unbiased analysis, rather than behaving in as “controlled” a fashion as, well, Russian TV…
Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, was hit by missile strikes on Friday, the second day of Russia’s military offensive. Ukraine’s leaders told residents to “prepare Molotov cocktails” to defend the city.
Very irresponsible for the Jew-Zionist Kiev regime to incite the population to resist the Russian Army with Molotov cocktails etc. That could only end one way. I doubt that many will heed the call.
UK MoD Wallace: "They've lost about 450 personnel, the Russian armed forces. They've failed with their elite Spetsnaz to take the airport just north of Kyiv." https://t.co/V7iLO6gOZS
That may be so, but this is only a matter of time. The Ukrainian forces cannot prevail. The country is now under blockade by sea and air and only has open borders to the west. That means that food will start to run short, as will fuel for cars and other motorized transport.
I still think that the Kiev regime will fall within a day or so. It will probably try to set up an alternative “capital city” at Lvov. Were I myself in Putin’s boots, I should probably allow that to happen, then concentrate on, firstly, installing a puppet regime/government in Kiev, and then, secondly, securing Ukraine east of the Dnieper, as well as the Black Sea coast. Such a strategy would leave Russia in rulership over all of the 7 major Ukrainian cities except Lvov, and also in control of almost all significant power plants, as well as all sea and river ports, including Odessa, the only really large port.
[BBC map showing current military situation around Kiev]
Ukraine, operational technique. I am arguing that Russia is up against a near-peer adversary. Smaller forces, fewer weapons, but their best are as good as Russia's. Evidence: NATO arguments that Russia behind on her military timetable, no objectives achieved on Day 1.
— Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine (@militaryhistori) February 25, 2022
True up to a point, but Russia’s forces have been greatly upgraded in the past 10-20 years, whereas Ukraine’s have been trashed by 30 years of shambolic, corrupt, and near-meaningless “independence”. Also, it can only be a matter of time before fuel for the remaining Ukrainian tanks runs out. Tanks use a lot of fuel. Russia has command of the skies, too, and it seems that the Kiev regime has lost 10%, maybe 20% or more of its small air force.
Reporting of Russian invasion has neglected to examine strategy. What is it? War is politics by other means, but I see no politics here. Impossible to see a long term political/strategic upside for Putin. Killing his country economically, so a coordinated strategy seems absent?
— Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine (@militaryhistori) February 25, 2022
What Russia (and Putin) lacks is ideology. There is no ideology, which underpins strategy. There is only a very vague Russian nationalism and (even more vague) pan-Slavism. That should mean that Russia poses little aggressive threat to Central and Western Europe, but the ruling circles and secret cabals of the West will make sure that their populations fail to understand that.
Hostomel was never recaptured. Now it´s main airfield for cargo planes to land, delivering more vdv troops and armor. Fake news will not change that fact, as many published that airfield was recaptured.
Zelinsky has had the lick it seems. Question is whether Putin is still interested in that outcome, or if he prefers a puppet government in Kiev. https://t.co/75N4urPBrn
Hard to see why Putin would bother with the Jewish/Zionist Kiev regime now, with his forces encircling all or most main cities, including Kiev itself. Maybe as a tactic.
While any such talks are in progress, the roads will be increasingly full of Russian tanks, and the skies full of the canopies of Russian parachute forces.
Strategically, the Kiev regime has already lost. Its forces cannot be resupplied, not even by land from Poland (because the Russians have near-supremacy of the air), and with food starting to run out in Kiev, the ability or even wish of the civilian population, and military forces, to resist, will be sapped.
What matters now, or will matter soon, is what is going to happen, both politically and militarily, after the inevitable Russian victory; focussing on the three areas of significance (Kiev, the territory east of the Dnieper, and the Black Sea littoral).
This is a provocation that is entirely unnecessary from the British point of view. Estonians have a right to their own society and government, but are being used as a platform for NATO (i.e. NWO, the New World Order plan).
Anyway, one has to ask why no-one in the msm (except Peter Hitchens) is questioning what British interest there is in supporting the shambolic and corrupt Jewish regime in Kiev, a regime which will probably not last beyond the weekend.
ESTONIA SENDING JAVELIN ANTI-ARMOUR MISSILES AND ANTI-AIRCRAFT MUNITIONS TO UKRAINE -PUBLIC BROADCASTER QUOTING DEFENCE MINISTRY OFFICIAL
Talk about “poking the Bear”…but soon the Kiev regime will have no armed forces anyway.
Breaking News: Russian forces have lost momentum in the invasion of Ukraine, a senior Defense Department official said. But Pentagon officials warned that as of Friday morning Russia had sent into Ukraine only 30% of its troops amassed at the border. https://t.co/cEIC2JspAL
Ihor Kolomoisky is the puppet master behind the Zelensky and his 73% election victory
Kolomoisky laundered billions from the IMF, purchased 100's millions in US property, Trump was seizing these properties shortly before losing the election. pic.twitter.com/3VaerHb8hV
If British troops were to fire on Russian troops, whether from Poland, Romania, or the North Pole, the response would be immediate and massive. That Alicia Kearns woman must be as thick as two short planks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Kearns. As for Tom Harwood, he has proven time and again that he is an idiot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Harwood.
Henry Bolton is that ridiculous waste of space who tried to be UKIP leader briefly, together with his vacuous and much younger girlfriend. This Ukraine situation really is bringing out every woodentopped deadhead in England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bolton_(British_politician).
If there is an urban guerrilla “war” (brief war) in Kiev, it will be unpleasant but will not last long at all.
Russian forces are in or by Kiev already. They are probably waiting for reinforcements. If reports are correct, the Russians have still not brought up more than 25-30% of their immediately-available strength. Behind that, they have hundreds of thousands more, should that be necessary.
Time is actually on the Russian side now overall. They can be resupplied, the Kiev regime forces cannot. Fuel, food, ammunition.
To attack Russia directly from the UK, as some foolish people advocate, or even to send troops to assist the Kiev regime, would be a death sentence for a very high proportion of the British people. Russia has 6,200 nuclear warheads and bombs (the UK has about 120).
This is not Britain’s fight. The Kiev regime is a disguised dictatorship anyway. Also, Russia has overall about 20x the conventional military power available to the UK, if not more.
Russia now has no choice but to wade through blood to a victory of sorts. Magna mater…
I have been watching, recently, a TV mini-series (three episodes) called Zen, which though a British production and using some British actors and actressses, is filmed entirely in and around Rome. It is a about a detective called, oddly, Zen, who works in the Questura (the Italian police detective branch).
As with many other well-known fictional detectives (Inspector Morse, Inspector Alleyn, Wallander, Sherlock Holmes), Zen himself is rather an outsider, in his case because he is both incorrupt and from Venice.
Zen is a quality production in every respect, and maintains the seriousness while not omitting a small amount of passing humour here and there.
Having never been to Rome, I cannot say how well the series captures the grandeur-meets-squalor of that great and ancient city, but it seems a plausible representation, to me at least.
Until last week, I had never heard of Zen, which is from 2011. Apparently, the then controller of BBC1, a Jew called Cohen (why? Always…every single time…) decided to cancel the series because “there were too many male crimefighters on TV“…Why do “they” always ruin everything decent that they touch? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_(TV_series).
Strange Twitter
I had a Twitter “account” from 2010, and started to tweet regularly and quite prolifically from 2011. I used my own name (“@ianrmillard“). The loud Jew-Zionist cabal on Twitter (really just a small number of unpleasant individuals) had me expelled from Twitter in 2018.
Since then, I have not posted on Twitter; I have no other, and never have had other, Twitter accounts. Recently, I have noticed that, if I look on Twitter, I sometimes notice accounts of people and organizations which carry the notice “Follows you“.
How and why, when I have no Twitter account? I am not very technical, so it is a complete mystery to me.
Tweets seen
So now we know: the 'covid' death toll is in fact largely the result of frightening & forcing even more people to live on junk food takeaways. And having imported huge numbers of people with sickle cell anaemia & vitamin D issues.https://t.co/yJ05pegOdo
Quite so @when_cats_away . But far too few. I well recall the first full evening of 'clap for carers' and being dispirited by the strength of the din all around me and by how long it lasted. I knew then that dissent was going to be tougher than I'd hoped.. https://t.co/Ce7Z5RUYs4
Part of the Big Brother “weekly clap”, I mean the reason why many did clap, was that there was and is a feeling that Britain was ceasing to be a community. People therefore, many people anyway, bought into the fake communitarianism of the “weekly clap” etc.
I wonder, though, how many, overall, did stand outside their houses clapping. Where I live, a tiny minority.
No @trophy4too Depression is irrational grief, not explained by actual circumstances but lying within the affected person. There's nothing irrational about being grieved by the current state of this country. https://t.co/VsMI7xYSoj
In general @ianvincnetscott, people did not believe there was a danger. I was able to see it because I have spent so much time in unfree countries. Most had never been to one. Soon they will live in one. https://t.co/pOVV1642tI
Alas, @rosearosey, it has formal *objective* legitimacy But it could have faced moral challenge a year ago, before the strangulation policy hardened into normality. The large-scale failure to challenge this (& the crushing of the Great Barrington Declaration) were key moments. https://t.co/UBlj7J6uN9
2/2 @Ianvincentscott. I'm reminded of the once-famous 1906 incident of 'The Captain of Kopenick', in which a man in a uniform successfully fooled everyone into doing what he told them. We in Britain used to laugh at this event as an instance of Prussian submissiveness. https://t.co/7kOvffkS4K
1/2 @ianvincentscott. *Timing* is hugely important. The state and the police seized huge new powers a year ago in a colossal bluff, which could easily have been called by Parliament, the media and the courts. Now this bluff has solidified into accepted normality. https://t.co/7kOvffkS4K
Unherd has a fascinating interview with J.Sumption. https://t.co/mrGvz5Geiu He's mistaken to refer to individuals ignoring bits of the law as 'civil disobedience', as it has no moral/political content. Also, once obedience to law ceases to be a moral duty, we face chaos.
“Jonathan Sumption was once the epitome of the Establishment — a brilliant barrister who represented the Government in the Hutton enquiry, Supreme Court Justice, supporter of the Remain campaign and esteemed historian of the Hundred Years’ War. But then Covid happened.
Over the past year, his unabashed criticism of lockdown policies has turned him into something of a renegade. It is a development that mystifies him; as he sees it, his views have always been mainstream liberal, and it is the world around that has changed.
In the course of our conversation, the retired judge doesn’t hold back. He asserts that it is becoming morally acceptable to ignore Covid regulations, and even warns that a campaign of “civil disobedience” has already begun.” [UnHerd magazine].
Lord Sumption, a former Lord of Appeal and Justice of the Supreme Court, who has been treated recently as a crank and half-mad dissident by the msm. The problem that Lord Sumption faces is that he is talking on the ground of reason, whereas the “lockdown” fanatics, facemask zealots and others of that type (who, with a mob of scared rabbits, may well even be a majority of the population) are dealing in fear and unreason, which is inherently more powerful as a tool of persuasion.
“John Stuart Mill regarded public sentiment and public fear as the principal threat to a liberal democracy. The tendency would be for it to influence policies in a way that whittles away the island within which we are entitled to control our lives to next to nothing. That’s what he regarded as the big danger. It didn’t happen in his own lifetime; it has happened in many countries in the 20th century, and it’s happening in Britain now.” [Lord Sumption, on UnHerd/Lockdown TV]
That “Lockdown TV” interview is the sort of intelligent, reasoned, quite lengthy interview that is now never seen on any msm television station in the UK; reminiscent of the interviews done by the late and great Brian Walden on Weekend World about 40 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend_World; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Walden.
Interesting to see and hear Lord Sumption has come to the same conclusion that I came to nearly a year ago about the various tyrannical “laws”, “rules”, “guidance” around “Coronavirus”. That is, that there will be little mass public anger, but more of a hidden or half-hidden defiance. In other words, “Yes, repeat No“…
This is the power we gave to the state by not standing up for our liberty a year ago: Mother strolled to get coffee – but fell foul of long arm of the law https://t.co/sP4HjrJ14a via @MailOnline
'The contemporary ‘Left’ is no longer worthy of the name.'. I agree with a great deal of this Marxist analysis of the 'The Virus, Lockdown and the Left'. https://t.co/2mho1qhuGB via @LSceptics
'Of all political entities, it is the Left that should have been attuned to the damaging politics of fear and how it swiftly generates mass hysteria and political obedience to the fear-peddlers.' So, why weren't they? https://t.co/2mho1qhuGB via @LSceptics
1/2 'During the lockdown lunacy, it has largely fallen to a sensible segment of the conservative Right (whether libertarian ‘Ultras’ or pragmatists concerned for the well-being of lockdown-threatened capitalism) to, almost inadvertently…' https://t.co/2mho1qhuGB via @LSceptics
2/2 '…stand up for traditionally leftwing causes – working class jobs & living standards, education, democratic accountability,critical thought, intellectual openness, freedom of speech, freedom of association, integrity of science, plain old civility.' https://t.co/2mho1qhuGB
As I have written often before, I never use the terms “Right”/”Left”, but the self-describing “left” now has nothing to offer people, no vision of a better society etc. It concentrates on “deplatforming” anyone described as “Right”, which apparently covers anywhere from Brexit Party, UKIP and the “alt-Right” wastes of space right through to National Socialists and those who, like me, postulate ideas and concepts which might form the basis for a society far in advance of where we are.
You can see it on Twitter, that element which is mostly pro-Corbyn-Labour, anti-Israel (mostly) while at the same time (mostly) supporting the Jewish Zionists! Also, connectedly, paying lip-service to the “holocaust” narrative etc.
Basically, the post-1989, post death-of-socialism self-describing “Left”, or pseudo-socialist position, has nothing at all to offer the people. It is an ideological and political dead end.
Some reflections on Olivia Manning's superb and often-neglected Balkan and Levant Trilogies, a more clear-eyed view of Britain's wartime experience than Evelyn Waugh's. https://t.co/zJAzAT4H6E
Hitchens writing of Olivia Manning’s Balkan Trilogy put me in mind of another literary work, in fact a “dilogy”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaka_(fiction) (extended and adapted for British TV about 30 years ago).
It occurs to me that Scotland might become a kind of “Slaka” if (when) it achieves faux-“Independence” under faux-“nationalist” political party, the SNP.
The present kefuffle around Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon etc is a straw in the wind. Salmond (obviously guilty of sexual shenanigans despite his plainly politically-motivated acquittal a while ago) and Sturgeon (a petty tyrant) are the Romulus and Remus of Scottish (fake) Independence.
I have no objection, as such, to Scotland breaking away from the UK. I wonder, though, how many in Scotland understand in what sort of country, poor and politically-repressed, they may end up living?
As a matter of fact, I can see upheaval coming to Scotland, in that only about 50% (it may be 55% or even soon 60%) of the Scottish voters support the SNP and/or Independence (as presented). If, then, the anti-SNP or anti-“Independence” 40%-50% are forced to live under a corrupt and incompetent SNP regime (even now putting forward extreme anti-free-speech laws), expect fireworks.
— Dame Minxy Mann-Yeager #IStandWithUkraine. . (@SadieWhy) March 3, 2021
Actually, that condensation and adaptation of part of the New Testament is rather kinder on the Jews than the original:
“When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.” [Matthew 27, King James Version]
“And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate. And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answering said unto him, Thou sayest it. And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing. And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee. But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marvelled.” [Mark 15, King James Version]
“Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would. And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas. Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ? For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him. But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus. The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas. Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified. And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.” [Matthew 27, King James Version]
“When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children. Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.” [Matthew 27, King James Version]
Re. the Royal Mulatta, it is so funny watching the self-describing “Left” defend “Meghan”, simply because she is “black” (actually, of course, a half-caste, like Obama). No matter that she has, apparently, bullied her staff etc, she’s “black”. That’s her anytime Get Out Of Jail Free card.
As for the Royal Cuck, what can one say? Why are the “socialists” of Twitter not asking the question “why should we respect the Royal Cuck anyway?“
Were Prince Harry mere Harry Who?, he would be, at best, a junior Army officer or something like a car salesman.
The concept of royalty, in the real world, is mainly dependent on blood descent. Even leaving aside the Royal Cuck, the Royal Mulatta has no right, really, yet she is given the title of “duchess”. They have both forfeited any right to position and respect, and they have done what they have done for money and to be “celebrities” on American TV.
Actually, these contaminated British titles (duke, duchess, earl, baroness etc) are now so devalued that they really should be done away with.
I suppose that the ludicrous “Royal Married with Children” soap will continue. It’s a good alternative, for American TV, to other wealthy “celebrity” riff-raff such as the Kardashians.
A good “conspiracy theory” might be that the Royal Cuck and the Royal Mulatta are being built up as a way of engaging the interest of Britain’s new raceless, cultureless masses, who have little time for the traditional royals. I don’t suppose that such is the case (it’s too subtle for the royals, I expect) but an interesting idea an sich…
Musing….it seems to me that the Harry and Meghan marriage might be described as “White royal privilege meets black affirmative action privilege”. Just an idle thought…
The best way of describing Meghan Markle would be as in the old German saying, “Put a beggar on a horse and (s)he rides it to death“…
Late afternoon music
Interesting film
New York in the 1930s…
Amazing how different many of the places shown are today (and were even when I was last in New York, 28 years ago).
Late tweets
The Gulf Stream is among the mightiest rivers you will never see, carrying far more water than all the world’s freshwater rivers combined. Some scientists fear global warming is causing Atlantic currents to weaken. https://t.co/jaD7EiphpJpic.twitter.com/g0IMoi1Mma
If the Gulf Stream really were to falter, and to fail to reach the UK, Britain might be plunged into something akin to an ice age, albeit (?) limited.
“We’re all wishing it’s not true,” Peter de Menocal, a paleoceanographer and president and director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, said of the changing ocean currents. “Because if that happens, it’s just a monstrous change.”https://t.co/P6SM3h6xmt
@belfastbuoy. Easy to say. Perhaps you have not experienced actual chaos. I have (principally in Mogadishu) and I do not recommend it. https://t.co/UEvD2poWkb
“The Sun’s Dr Carol Cooper said a shortage of staff meant the Nightingales had no chance of ever hitting capacity.“
“NHS England said while three were on standby, Manchester was open for “non-Covid care”, Exeter and Harrogate as “specialist diagnostics centres”, and Bristol for “local NHS services”.” [The Sun]
In other words, there is no “virus” “crisis”. Yes, huge numbers of people in the UK are infected, but for the vast majority that means nothing, because they either have no symptoms or mild symptoms.
White people under 70 years of age are under little threat.
The real agenda, behind the public health aspects, is becoming pretty obvious to at least the thinking minority.
Yet again, it's one rule for us, while in private the ones imposing it on us do as they please – because they KNOW the covid plague story is a cattle prod to drive the human herd into their #GreatReset corral. Resign#NicolaSturgeonhttps://t.co/k8Jj6fc0U4
Despite the rising number of deaths caused by lockdown, 2020 has seen no rise in total deaths at all. This alone demolishes the covid plague hoax. pic.twitter.com/5yRTSLjMPv
Why? Because there is, effectively, no Opposition, just a shadow official Opposition under Jewish-lobby puppet Keir Starmer (who has just nominated a Jewess from the “Board of Deputies of British Jews” as a Life Peer). However, the real, or underlying, reason that the UK now has an incompetent dystopian “elected” dictatorship is because the British people are asleep.
Well, I see her point, but the amounts she mentions, totalled and then divided among 300+ million Americans, come to only about USD $6 each! Not very much.
Tripe served in Bilge Sauce, drizzled with drivel and seasoned with piffle, @uniquejames. The thing you quote (from the pitiful shadow of a once-great newspaper) is an assertion, quite without hard causal evidence, by ….wait for it … Imperial College. Oh, yeah. Twit. https://t.co/MHlQz0VN02
…and look at the lack of self-awareness in that tweeter, “James Houghton”! Favours dictatorial “lockdowns” etc, yet has a Twitter profile “Freedom Fighter, Libertarian, Deep Thinker, Aspergers Spectrum“… What can one say?
New Zealand is an object study in how a people unwilling to apply their minds to socio-political issues, and who think that the important things are whether or not their sports teams can win rugby or cricket (or whatever) games on the other side of the world, and virtue-signalling, imprison themselves by not bothering their heads with “politics”.
As a result, a near-lunatic is voted into office and continues to pursue a globalist multikulti agenda which will eventually create a dystopian hellhole out of what was a quite positive society with an optimistic future.
We ought to be repealing current legislation against “hate speech”.
Yet the Law Commission is now proposing even more draconian measures, including the policing of conversations in the home & the reintroduction of blasphemy laws.
Yet Alison Chabloz so far remains on trial (set down for 30 and 31 March 2021) merely for mild remarks made when a guest on an Internet “radio” podcast panel discussion…
The problem that the “Free Speech Union” has is that it is just unwilling to identify the main enemy of free speech in the UK as the Jew-Zionist element and, being unwilling to speak the truth as to that, the FSU is weakened, very much.
The FSU’s Nelsonian eye turned toward Alison Chabloz and others (including me) makes its “defend free speech” stance not terribly credible.
Employed to keep the public 2 meters apart, yet they don't know what 2 meters are. From top to bottom, the people imposing this deceitful lunacy on us don't even believe it themselves.#lockdownrebellionpic.twitter.com/a412rYPhkf
I am pleased to hear it, but Beeching destroyed so much of this wonderful somnolent world, where railways connected the deep countryside to the modern city without destroying rural peace. Roads can’t do this. https://t.co/9mw41sfDsc
Yes, I am now recently 64, and can just remember both the last few steam trains of the early 1960s and the fuss around the Beeching cuts (though the only trains I ever travelled on in those days were the expresses between Reading and London (only used by me about twice per year, eg at Christmas to visit Hamley’s etc with my mother), so I never saw the branch lines, as far as I can recall.
No-one under my age, from their own recollection, knows about the rail network Britain once had, which started to be cut back between the two world wars, was cut back further in the 1950s, and then all but finished off by the 1960s Beeching “reforms”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts.
After the First World War, Britain had over 23,000 miles of track; by 1960, there still existed about 18,000 miles. In 2020, there remain about 10,000 miles of track.
The above is not a full picture, because many branch lines had a relatively few miles of track.
Some people may remember the Berlin Airlift. This is just Germany returning the favour. In return, the Johnson government is neglecting their truck drivers trapped here – no food, no sanitation, heating – no care at all. What kind of country have we become? https://t.co/p9qcpBu6iw
What has amazed me is that Government and its civil service must have known that (not necessarily because of “the virus”; maybe because of Brexit problems etc) there might well be a log-jam of trucks in Kent, yet it seems that even at Manston airfield, no contingency plans were made for water, emergency food, sanitation…What a bunch of total clowns!
Ian Robert Millard 