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Diary Blog, 10 September 2026

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Morning music

On the blog 3 years ago

Diary Blog, 10 September 2023, including some discussion of Keir Starmer, Tony Blair, the World Economic Forum (WEF), and Rory Stewart (etc)

Stands up quite well after three years, I think.

On the blog 2 years ago

Diary Blog, 10 September 2024

On the blog 1 year ago

Diary Blog, 10 September 2025, including more thoughts about clueless Starmer, and about the Jew Mandelson and his links with Epstein, the Maxwells, and Israeli Intelligence

London’s 2026 “diversity”

https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/hackney-man-avoids-jail-after-34590194

[“Hackney man” (in reality a North African migrant-invader)]

“A Hackney man who sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl outside Liverpool Street station has avoided jail. Sofiane Belasri, 41, attacked the 16-year-old while she was sitting on some steps outside the station in July 2024.

Detective Inspector Matthew Alexander, of the Public Protection Unit at the City of London Police, said that police are “reviewing the sentence handed down by the court.”

[My London]

The newspaper and TV milieux are infested by politically-correct/”woke” twenty-somethings now, whose reports lie, or lie by omission.

Tweets seen

https://tass.com/society/2185277

Quite a contrast to the Kiev regime of the Jew Zelensky.

In Kiev-regime Ukraine, men are abducted by press-gangs of military thugs, and are dragged off the streets into vehicles, then driven away to almost-certain death on the crumbling front lines. The Kiev regime is losing 500-2,000 men daily.

Hard to believe that that weird individual, who basically has nothing of interest to say anyway, is always on TV, in the Press etc.

In the end, the msm is a system set up to reinforce the overall ZOG/NWO set-up, so it suits their purposes to have pointless “commentators” such as Tim Montgomerie around, or on call.

Just listen to the content-free shite that that Montgomerie weirdo pumps out, e.g. in the clip above. Not just actually wrong, as in inaccurate, but totally ridiculous.

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

Ha ha! The Express has not been a real newspaper for several decades, but this latest nonsense really takes the cake. I can only assume that it refers to former soldiers willing to do rear-echelon duties here and there as some kind of civilian or Reserves auxiliary force.

The “prepare for war with Russia” stuff being retailed by the Mail and Express (etc) would be funny, were it not pathetic.

[“Tariq Ali
Today, I sent a bank payment to a French painter whose work I admire. It was for a stunning abstract. He got a call:

‘Just now I received a phone call from my bank saying that they can not accept your money transfer… I asked why ? And they say because of your « opinions »… So I asked them to write down this on an Email… And they accepted the transfer.’

My opinions can only mean those on one subject: Palestine. Why is Europe going down this road to such an extent? Perhaps the caller from the bank was acting individually and read a text of mine he/she hated. In that case why make the phone call?
Another friend , but in London, hearing the story remarked: ‘Lloyd Bank denied the mother of a Palestine Action prisoner a mortgage on account of her daughter’s arrest’
Is every bank behaving like this? Why no boycott of Lloyds. Bigotry before profits? Amazing.”]

“De-banking” has become a System weapon of choice. George Galloway suffered similarly, as have, in recent years, Nigel Farage, and Sam Melia, Laura Towler-Melia, and Mark Collett (all of Patriotic Alternative). I think that Nick Griffin of the BNP also had problems at one time. The individuals in banks that make such (often arbitrary and, of course, “woke”) decisions should be both identified and punished.

Not that I have any time for Tariq Ali, the pseudo-revolutionary plastic Marxist from a wealthy and exploitative Pakistani landowning family who was a well-known “activist” in the late 1960s and early/mid 1970s. I thought he must have died years ago, but apparently not (now 82): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariq_Ali.

Seems that Tariq Ali still has enough money invested to collect art that he likes. He’s just a complete fake, as far as I am concerned.

Zelensky mocks those who have given him untold millions. Not only the Americans, but the taxpayers of the UK and EU.

Take away his ricebowl before he can trigger a really major war (in which the unfortunate citizens of Kiev might be the first to perish, along with Zelensky himself, if he has not by then fled to Florida or Israel).

I might not much like Arabs, in general, let alone Islamists, but what the Jews (of Israel, but supported by others, in other countries, including the UK) have done in Gaza is just evil, and it still continues.

The West is doomed if it continues on its present path: pushing for conflict —and even nuclear war— with Russia, importing the racially and culturally backward into Europe (etc), not far from suffering demographic collapse, not far from suffering actual famine a decade or two down the line, and its higher culture being poisoned.

NWO/ZOG puppets such as Wes Streeting (Labour Friends of Israel) are just going through the motions of “1939-ism”— flashlights/torches on the bookcase, a stock of tinned food in case the “ration” is insufficient, etc etc. It’s all what people now call “gaslighting”. The enemy is not Russia (except that the Bear is being poked and poked to make it take on the role of enemy).

The real enemy is in Westminster, in the London TV studios, in the newspaper offices, in some of the universities, in the more influential Masonic lodges etc. Also, of course, in the [REDACTED]…

Voting will have little effect. Even voting for Reform or Restore, though obviously that is better than voting LibLabCon.

We are slowly, perhaps not so slowly, approaching a civil and social war situation in this country.

Has he only just noticed? That has been so for at least 25 years. Arron Banks should visit some of the Westminster-area departments of the Home Office.

Ironic.

Greedy, stupid, petty. Just the sort of individuals who become, all too often, MPs or officials for one of the System parties.

Talking point

“As we are told, the new disease appeared in China toward the end of 2019, hence the name COVID‑19, short for Corona Virus Disease 2019, but data pulled from the World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS) database reveals something absolutely astonishing: back in 2017 and 2018, two full years before the virus was ever said to exist, hundreds of millions of test kits labelled specifically for COVID‑19 were already being shipped and distributed worldwide.“

[Jordan Nuttall]

Late tweets

Late music

free speech, historical, historical revisionism, Reminiscences and Musings, Uncategorized

Castro and Cuba

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I had no intention of writing about Cuba or Castro following the recent death of “Fidel”. However, the public and mass media reaction, much of it an outpouring of adulation and “me-too” faux-liberal compromise, has impelled me to write.

There is no doubt that Cuba before Castro was corrupt and, for many, poor. Before Castro there was Batista and before Batista, Prio (Carlos Prio Socarras), of whom the British historian Hugh Thomas wrote, memorably, in his mammoth history of the country, that he “fell like a rotten fruit, full of its own corruption.” Prío himself later said of his presidency: “They say that I was a terrible president of Cuba. That may be true. But I was the best president Cuba ever had.”[see Arthur M. Schlesinger, A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. New York: Houghton Mifflin (2002) p 216].

Prio was in fact someone who tried to keep to constitutional proprieties and it was his decision not to act extra-judicially which allowed the harsher figure of Batista to seize power in 1952, Prio himself having been elected (by free and contested election) in 1948.

Cuba in the 1950s was sometimes described as somewhere between a Latin American country and a detached, poorer, part of the United States, the latter for long its effective suzerain.

It would be easier to make a quick judgment of Castro’s rule had the United States not (and typically) engaged in ham-fisted great-power and quasi-colonialist geopolitics over the island. Those American interventions continue to muddy the waters: attempts to assassinate Castro, the Bay of Pigs “invasion” of 1961; above all, the partial embargo (which Cuba called a “blockade”) imposed initially in 1960.

No-one can say for sure whether Cuba would be much different had it had the chance to trade freely with the USA, its neighbour and natural main trading partner. Probably not much. Venezuela is another and more recent example of the inability of a Latin American socialist economy to perform adequately for long.

The  bien-pensant “usual suspects” in the UK (the absurd Tariq Ali, Ken Livingstone, Jeremy Corbyn etc) are now saying that the Castro dictatorship was sort-of acceptable because Cuba had good education and good medical services. On that basis, they should be very kind indeed to German National Socialism, which provided the same and in fact far more (and with far less repression, in reality).

In fact, long before the Soviet subsidy disappeared, Havana was falling to pieces, as were the Cuban roads and railways. I myself had fleeting and peripheral contact with Cuba, otherwise seen by me only from the sea (between Cuba and the Bahamas) and the air (flying over Cuba between Tampa, Florida and Grand Cayman).

I was asked, when a practising barrister in London circa 1995, to help a scientific start-up based at Porton Down, Wiltshire, the high-security  biological warfare facility, then recently partly-privatized. A small company of scientists had a bacterium which turned biomass into fuel (unscientific me calling it the turning of straw into gold). I thought of Cuba with its sugar-cane detritus, lack of fuel and high technical-education levels. Unfortunately, the Cuban Embassy in London did not respond, unlike the Ukrainian: I visited Porton Down with the then Ukrainian Ambassador, Mr. Komisarenko [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhiy_Komisarenko]. Nothing came of that in the end, but it seems that, in more recent years, a company called Havana Energy, headed by ex-Labour Party MP Brian Wilson, has been producing energy that way in Cuba. The Cuban Embassy’s unresponsiveness told me all I needed to know about the Cuban bureaucracy: unalert, lethargic, useless, bearing in mind the country’s crying need for fuel.

Since the early 1990s, Cuba has gradually been moving towards a capitalist economy. No doubt that process will continue. Eventually, some kind of greater rapprochement with the USA will happen.

In this blog post, I am more interested in the puerile reaction of the kind of people in the UK who are letting off Castro on human rights and economic efficiency because Cubans have a health service and a school system. Jeremy Corbyn has excelled himself in ignorant misunderstanding. He just digs himself deeper with every statement.

The mass media and in particular the BBC is, as one might expect, doing its bit to eulogize about Castro, saying that he “turned a small island into a major force in world affairs.” Where does one start in unpacking such nonsense?

The reaction to Castro’s death tells me something else: those in the UK who think themselves “socialist” are willing to turn a blind eye to historical, political and economic realities so long as the label is right.

Update, 5 January 2019

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6558991/Rich-kids-COMMUNISM-Fidel-Castros-model-grandson-flashes-wealth-European-vacations.html

Update, 14 February 2026

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/13/no-water-or-electricity-and-children-begging-in-streets-filled-with-rubbish-but-this-is-why-i-wont-leave-cuba