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Diary Blog, 26 October 2025

Morning music

[El Greco, Adoration of the Name]

Cartoon of the day

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It seems clear that Labour Party members are, yet again, the foot-soldiers of a political army the heads of which ignore their views and preferences.

Once again, we see the influence of the Jewish and/or pro-Israel lobby, which is pervasive in our corrupt political system. In the Labour Party Deputy Leader contest, “they” made sure that they won. How? By backing both contenders. That is their usual method.

After what the Israeli Jews have done in Gaza (70,000+ mostly civilian dead, hundreds of thousands injured, tens of thousands of homes, shops, hospitals, schools, universities, and roads destroyed, embargo on food, water, and medical supplies, and military behaviour that can only be termed perversely sadistic), the priority is, apparently, recovering the remains of a small number of deceased Jewish hostages…

The hostages should never have been taken, or should have been released at an earlier stage, but when one looks at the behaviour of the [Israeli] Jews in Gaza etc, one can see why the hostages were kept as a bargaining counter and collective human shield (that idea did not much work, though, because the Netanyahu government and its armed forces carried on bombing Gaza anyway, heedless of the safety of the hostages).

[“Colombian mercenaries of the Armed Forces of Ukraine complain about long delays in payments and even their complete absence after receiving an advance, and ask the Colombian authorities to take them out of Ukraine Among other things, in the report, the mercenaries talk about the lack of rotation when debt accumulates — meaning there will be no debt after the mercenary’s death.“]

Interesting, but my own fairly youthful taekwando training (I was 28) ended with a cracked rib and waking up in pain for about 2 months. The pain mostly disappeared after a short time each day, but the old joke is true— it does hurt when you laugh…

Martial arts were never my thing, but the real exponents are fascinating. I did a short self-defence course about 30 years ago (1995 I think, when I was about 38) and with a small group of others, was taught by a renowned Japanese master called (as far as I can remember) Dr. Honda, who held black belts in various Oriental martial arts disciplines, including a rare honorary Dan rating which I believe was held by few if any others, or so we were told; told also that Honda was in the Guinness Book of Records, but I do not know whether that was so.

Dr. Honda was 84-y-o, but looked more like 50-something. He was only in the UK for a brief teaching tour. A dryly humorous person in an appropriately inscrutable way, he was like something out of a film. He could move, especially his arms and hands, quicker than the eye could follow.

Dr. Honda could put large and —at the time— fairly fit people like me (I swam half a mile to a mile nonstop, several times per week, then) on the floor in a split second, keep that person down using only a thumb or a couple of fingers, and if you struggled, could cause immense pain just by very slight pressure of a digit; I presume that he was expert in locating pressure points of the nervous system. Amazing person.

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Starmer-stein making much of the “fact” (if it is a fact) that ONE untermensch is (supposedly) now going to be deported. How many more came in today, or yesterday? A hundred? A thousand? More yet?

I once had a chat with a scientist who was working on nuclear fusion at Harwell (I think it was). I asked him how long it would be before electricity from fusion reaction was a practical reality. He said that he could not hazard a guess. That chat was in 1978…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Chronicle_of_Ancient_Sunlight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarka_the_Otter

[sculpture of Tarka the Otter, Bideford, Devon]

Henry Williamson, by any other name an English National Socialist:

Henry William Williamson (1 December 1895 – 13 August 1977) was an English writer who wrote novels concerned with wildlife, English social historyruralism and the First World War. He was awarded the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 for his book Tarka the Otter.

He was born in London, and brought up in a semi-rural area where he developed his love of nature, and nature writing. He fought in the First World War and, having witnessed the Christmas truce and the devastation of trench warfare, he developed first a pacifist ideology, then fascist sympathies. He moved to Devon after the Second World War and took up farming and writing; he wrote many other novels. He married twice. He died in a hospice in Ealing in 1977, and was buried in North Devon.”

[Wikipedia— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Williamson]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Williamson#Politics

All the System parties now have small memberships. The fake “Conservatives” have officially somewhere between 100,000 and 120,000, but probably well below 100,000. Active members are very few now.

To a large extent, the whole “democratic” political system in the UK is a kind of mirage, a view completely unreal. The supposed “credibility” of the “main parties” is founded on a mere projection of “credibility” and “importance”, which is totally fake. Look at the last half dozen Prime Ministers of the UK.

Monied elites“? Largely (((you-know-who))), of course.

https://www.fightingfund.org/stopthecaa

A good point by Jayda Fransen, and one about which I have wondered in the past.

We can point the finger, and with some justice, at Sweden and the Swedes (for behaving as total “cucks”), but we have to say that other countries and societies, not least the UK and the British, are or have been little better.

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A metaphor for white European, or European-derived, societies trashed and ruined by the untermenschen

Salus populi suprema lex esto. “The welfare of the people is the highest law” [Cicero].

Looking at her background, Katie Lam will inevitably be conflicted, as Shakespeare alluded to in The Merchant of Venice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Lam#Early_life.

Inevitably, she will partly be in favour of European values, but also partly inclined to trash them.

[“People who are not-British, who are not from these islands, do not have a moral right to stay here. If they break our laws, if they do not contribute to our economy, if they impose enormous financial costs on British taxpayers, they should go. And by “go”, I mean back to their countries of origin. This means we should leave any international convention or court that prevents us from doing that. This is either a functioning nation-state or it is not. This will be a major fault line at the next general election. Whether you believe in the principle of national preference (putting our own people first), or whether, like much of the Establishment, you believe anybody and everybody has a moral right to move here, live here, and remain here forever, while imposing billions in costs on the British people and our children. This debate, one way or other, will settle the future of our country. Do not sit it out. Do not support fringe parties or figures that will go nowhere and merely help those in power. Focus your energy in a place that matters, in a place that will make a real difference. The future of your country now depends on it. This debate is coming one way or other. And the Common Sense majority have to win it or our country will simply be ruined.“]

Raise the banners!

Late thought

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” [Yeats]

Late music

[Arnold Bocklin, Triton and Nereid]

Diary Blog, 17 October 2024

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Diary Blog, 17 October 2024

Morning music

[Pieter Claesz, Still Life with Skull]

News from the migration-invasion

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13968409/Asylum-seekers-cases-held-Tory-permission-Labour.html

Almost 63,000 asylum seekers whose cases were placed on hold by the Tories could be granted permission to stay in Britain under Labour.

A report by the Refugee Council predicts a significant increase in granted claims thanks to changes brought in by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.

Of 118,882 asylum seekers who were waiting for a Home Office decision at the general election, 62,801 are likely to secure refugee status here based on current rates, the report said.”

[Daily Mail]

Exactly as I have been predicting for the past couple of years.

Stand by for the next “shock”— Starmer and Yvette Cooper “processing” asylum claims in France or even in Africa and Asia, and “allowing” (rubberstamping) 90%+ to come to the UK, then to claim housing, cash benefits, NHS and other services.

Somewhere down the line there will be a complete collapse of our society, possibly in, or followed by, a social/racial/civil war.

Incidentally, over 14,000 migrant-invaders have used the “small boats” method to arrive here this year, so far. That, though, is only about 5%, if that, of the total of migration to the UK so far this year. Over the whole of 2024, the total will be at least half a million, quite likely more.

I live very close to a small southern Hampshire coastal town, reputedly one of the most affluent in the UK. Over the past decade or so, I first noticed quite a few Chinese appearing in the streets, but at first not many blacks or browns, only the odd one. The proportion of all non-Europeans, compared to (real) British people, has risen inexorably. It is patent, quite visible on the streets, even here. In larger towns and cities, such as Southampton and Bournemouth, let alone London, it is much much worse, and still getting worse.

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A very good cause.

Another very good cause: https://vauxhallcityfarm.org/.

https://vauxhallcityfarm.org/support-us/.

Sky News is probably, almost certainly, infested by “the usual suspects”…

A slight exaggeration…I would say “only” about 60% even if, by “Israel“, one includes all of “them” worldwide . One must be objective.

There it is. The main Jewish religious text (the Torah, being the first 5 books of the Hebrew Bible, the same as the first 5 books of the Old Testament) is about twice as violent, even on a superficial view, as the main texts of both Islam and Christianity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah.

That is even before any consideration is given to the Jewish Talmud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud#Criticism.

There’s “cuck”, and then there’s Scandinavian fake “liberalism” and self-hatred. A whole new level of national and personal suicide. Pathetic…

Sadder yet, there were signs that the UK was going the same way, but I have sensed, in the past few months, that the tide may be turning.

Talking point

[abandoned steam locomotive in Mozambique; looks as though the grass is cut, though]

Much of Africa had functioning railways when Europeans ruled. Few of those lines are left (mostly in South Africa, but some elsewhere too). Some new lines are planned.

I myself have only travelled once on African rail but that was, again, under white European rule, in 1977, travelling from Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now “Zimbabwe”) to Gaborone in Botswana, an overnight journey that started just after midday, around 1300 hrs, at Bulawayo, and finished at seven-thirty the following morning at Gaborone. About 18 hours. The train then continued on into South Africa, finishing either at Ladysmith or Mafeking (I forget). That would have been inconvenient to me, so I hopped off in Botswana.

Fortunately, the train was not hit en route (as it had been several times previously) by rocket or small arms fire from African terrorists/guerrillas/”freedom fighters” in the Rhodesia-Botswana border area (take your pick as to designation), the Rhodesian Bush War being at or near its height at the time.

Actually, thinking about it, I did later travel three or four times more by rail in Africa: a couple of times by incredibly slow suburban rail in Alexandria, Egypt, but that was over 20 years later, in 1998: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/03/07/when-i-was-not-arrested-in-egypt/.

Also, a couple of times by very nice airconditioned train in Tunisia, in the mid-1980s.

I do not really think of North Africa as “Africa”, though of course it is, purely geographically.

Incidentally, Mozambique does still have a few rail services running: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique_Ports_and_Railways

[main railway station, Maputo (former Lourenco Marques), Mozambique, photographed in 2016; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maputo_Central_Railway_Station]
[Maputo Central (formerly Lourenco Marques) railway station, built by Europeans in 1913-1916]
[Maputo Central Railway Station, 1st-floor (Am. 2nd-floor) verandah]

What would Africa have been like had it remained under European rule? The present situation is very sad from many points of view.

[the dinner menu on the Kenya and Uganda railways in 1938, the railway then run by the imperial British. There is now no real rail service at all in Uganda, and not much of one in Kenya: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda_Railway; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda_Railway#Current_status; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya_Railways_Corporation]

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In Sao Paulo, Brazil.

“The power of one” is hugely underestimated and underrated.

Labour has no real intention of stopping the migrant (invader) flow. Au contraire.

No details about the polling, so I am entitled to presume that those figures are simply invented, the “poll” having been released by the globalist and finance-capitalist Policy Exchange “think tank” (lobby group). I should hate to have to conclude that 49% of the people in this country are ignorant morons.

The Commonwealth has been a complete waste of time and money for decades now, in any case.

Even now, the Kiev-regime front is crumbling, with Russian forces advancing on all sectors of the active front, and the Kiev regime struggling to find enough soldiers (many with as little as 6 weeks’ training) to plug the gaps. Untold thousands are evading or avoiding the draft, and brutal press-gangs are scouring the cities and towns.

This latest move could be a game-changer. The Koreans are tough, the North Koreans maybe even more so than those in the South.

I recall that, in 1984, when I was a taekwando beginner, I watched a film about South Korea’s advanced taekwando training academy, a modern white-painted concrete-and-glass building out in the Korean countryside. That film started with a contingent of trainees, all neat, none looking hot or sweaty, and all in white costume with black belts, jogging in perfect formation. The voiceover explained that the students had just finished a 10-mile run, and that all students at that academy were already of at least basic black belt standard when they started at the academy.

I wonder where Putin and the Stavka (Russian high command) will deploy those Korean troops. Clausewitz would seem to indicate that they be kept together rather than dispersed, thus forming a spearhead force that, concentrated on one area of the front, might be able to create a Schwerpunkt breakthrough.

Europe is now infested by migrant-invaders, among others.

The reasons for this latest injustice are, of course, obvious.

Firstly, Huw Edwards is a member of the System msm/political/talking head/scribbler club. Pro-migration invasion, pro-multikulti, pro-System, pro-Israel (probably), pro-Jew-lobby (almost certainly), pro-LGBTXYZ, pro-“trans” nonsense, and so on.

The lady sentenced to an incredibly harsh 31 months for an understandable (if unwise) tweet or whatever is not a member of that “club”. She is “just” a wife and (to use the very good American word) homemaker. A normal citizen, in short.

The System protects its own, such as Huw Edwards; ordinary citizens are treated like trash.

Secondly, Huw Edwards was guilty of a non-political offence. In the new sub-Stalinist Britain, socio-political “crimes” such as posting the “wrong sort of” tweet, or criticizing the Jewish lobby, or the migration invasion, are treated far more harshly than “real” crimes, non-political crimes.

Lucy Connolly has been treated harshly because of, and, in my opinion only because of, those two factors.

There was no evidence that any of the actual protesters or “rioters” were influenced by, or even saw, her tweet and/or her WhatsApp message (though that need not be proven to make out the offence). Still, those facts should surely mitigate sentence.

I have two or three further thoughts about the matter: firstly, that her husband or someone else should set up a GoFundMe or other crowdfunder for her; secondly, that she should have pleaded Not Guilty. She may well have been lucky in her jury.

It might also be worth her while to consider an appeal on sentence (alone).

As it is, 40% of 31 months translates to about 12 months and 1 week actually in prison. I believe that I read at the time of her arraignment that she was remanded in custody prior to sentence. That was sometime in August of this year, so she has already been in prison for —I think— over 2 months. That should mean that she can expect release within about 10 months. Still very harsh, in my view.

The sentencing judge (a Recorder, i.e. p/t judge, and barrister) apparently made the ridiculous remark today that “It is [a/the] strength of our society that it is both diverse and inclusive.” Does he really and honestly believe that?!

Incidentally, reading now the Evening Standard report published today [https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/tory-councillors-wife-lucy-connolly-jailed-for-31-months-for-inciting-race-hatred-b1188513.html], I see that “In a separate prosecution, father-of-three Tyler Kay was jailed for 38 months for re-posting part of Connolly’s offending message. The 26-year-old, of Ellfield Court, Northampton, admitted a charge of publishing material intended to stir up racial hatred.”

[Evening Standard]

So another person has received a harsher yet sentence for merely having reposted part of one of Mrs. Connolly’s messages.

I have to say that Mrs. Connolly’s husband does not strike me as being or having been particularly outspoken in her defence, but I suppose that I could be mistaken about him. I should not like to think that his reserved response has anything to do with his pathetic local Conservative Party activity.