Tag Archives: the Power of One

Diary Blog, 6 February 2026

Afternoon music

[river Cam at Clare Bridge, Cambridge]

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[“I have a Mandelson anecdote from the time when we both attended the University of Oxford.

The college captain of rugby (Welsh) returned from training to find Mandelson and his crowd of self-declared Marxist-Leninist friends having a tea party (ironic or what?) on the second quad lawn of our college.

He asked Mandelson if they needed more water. He replied that they did.

Our rugby captain went and unreeled a high-powered fire hose and doused them.

Mandelson and his chums threatened unconvincingly from a safe distance to ‘do him’.“]

Incredible. “From tiny acorns, mighty oaks do grow“…

[“In 1962, a 37-year-old man from England named Brendon Grimshaw suddenly quit his job and bought a small island in the Seychelles for about $10,000. The island was called Moyenne and, at the time of purchase, had been abandoned for 50 years. Everyone thought the man was crazy. Brendon eventually moved to the island permanently as its sole inhabitant. While most people tend to buy islands for luxury, Brendon had a broader vision. He wanted to restore the island to its raw beauty, creating a natural paradise completely uncontaminated by man and tourism. For the next 40 years, Brendon lived alone on the island; he managed to plant 16,000 trees by hand, built 5 km of nature trails and attracted around 2,000 new birds to the island. Brendon had transformed a desert land into an island of incredible beauty, Moyenne was so beautiful that Brendon was offered 50 million dollars by a Saudi prince, but he turned it down. Since Brendon died in 2012, the island has been owned by the Moyenne Island Foundation and is now a national park available to all thanks to his efforts. Photos that will restore your faith in humanity: https://bit.ly/3ILWYi4.“]

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

“The power of one”…

Deborah Meaden, like most of those smug Dragon’s Den speculators and merchants, thinks she is so very clever…

White slavery?

A great deal of transnational crime, from massive fraud to sex crime, to organ harvesting and blood harvesting, is based in Israel.

Exactly. I have been blogging for years that, were the UK to leave NATO and form a loose but close relationship with the Russian Federation, British people would be sold Russian gas at or below cost.

The Kiev regime is, however, losing steadily on the ground, and across the entire front.

The Zelensky regime continues to poke the Bear.,..

Odessa should either become a “free city”, or should be ruled by a condominium arrangement.

[stormy skies over the Black Sea at Odessa]

[“US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the situation in Iran:

“We created a dollar shortage in the country. This led to a quick result.

I would say the culmination came in December, when one of Iran’s largest banks collapsed after a mass withdrawal of deposits. The central bank was forced to print money.

The Iranian currency plummeted, inflation soared, and as a result, we witnessed massive protests by the Iranian people on the streets.“]

“War without war”, as Sun Tzu either said or might have said.

The [Israeli] Jews think that (using American money and arms etc) they control, or at least restrain, Egypt. I wonder. I got the impression, in 1998, when I was “not arrested” in Egypt, that the Egyptians would rather like to defeat Israel, if that were possible.

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Maybe Mandelson should book another 4 tickets for his widely-expected fugitive flight to Israel— tickets for Starmer-stein, his Jewish wife, and their 2 children.

Gorton and Denton by-election

My own views about the likely result of the Gorton and Denton by-election have not changed from a day or two ago. Reform seem to be in pole position, and Labour very much on the back foot (every day more scandal), but the Green Party may also be getting not only their own former (2024) voters’ votes (about 13% in 2024) but also votes from both disenchanted English/British former Labour voters and from equally disenchanted Pakistani (etc) Muslim former Labour voters.

That triad of support for the Greens may add up to something formidable, though my money is, I think, still on Reform to win this. For Labour to win would take a minor miracle, the way things are, despite Labour’s 50.8% vote at GE 2024, and despite the history of the area.

Mark Hehir

I am still following the progress of the GoFundMe crowdfunder set up for the “hero bus driver”, Mark Hehir, who was so badly treated by his former employer, Metroline. At time of writing, the crowdfunder stands at not far below £42,000: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-mark-hehir-the-hero-bus-driver.

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Many well-meaning but fatally-naive people still have a sadly-ingrained respect or deference to anyone in a position such as MP, Cabinet minister, certainly Prime Minister (or “royal prince”…). Unfortunately, the past 16+ years have shown that many, perhaps most, are clowns and/or freeloaders and moneygrubbers. Many, also, are little better, if at all, than Israeli agents and/or puppets of the Jewish lobby in the UK.

A victory for Reform (or even for the Greens) would knock Starmer-stein totally off his perch. I doubt that he would resign, though; he is the kind of box-ticking careerist who will cling on to his job even as people are stamping on his fingers. I think he would have to be dismissed by his own MPs.

[“Labour MPs, ministers and party insiders tell me they’ve never seen Keir Starmer so angry, as over Peter Mandelson’s lies about extent of his Epstein links.

But those who know him well say that anger has now turned inwards. That Starmer is, above all else, a man of public service, and will be grappling with his conscious this weekend. Where that ends up, who knows.“]

So tweets Guardian scribbler Pippa Crerar. Starmer “a man of public service“? Ha ha. A careerist box-ticker. Also, how is it that the Political Editor of the Guardian cannot spell the word “conscience”? Or was that a Freudian slip?

Israel-puppet Luke Akehurst, desperate for Israel-puppet Starmer-stein and Zionist agent Morgan McSweeney to stay en poste. Hardly surprising.

Treacherous enemies of the British people.

Not so much a “cult” as a conspiracy. Either organized by MOSSAD or by some other political intelligence agency; an operation run out of Israel.

More news: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/06/labour-minister-intelligence-files-gathered-on-journalists-josh-simons

A Labour minister commissioned and reviewed an intelligence report on journalists investigating the thinktank that helped propel Keir Starmer to power, the Guardian has learned.

The research was ordered and subsequently reviewed by Josh Simons, now a minister in the Cabinet Office, when he was chair of Labour Together, according to sources and documents seen by the Guardian.

Simons is close to the prime minister’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, who had previously run Labour Together and whose own role in the operation to gather material on journalists is under scrutiny.

In an agreement addressed to Simons, drawn up by the PR firm APCO Worldwide, the firm agreed to “investigate the sourcing, funding and origins” of a November 2023 Sunday Times report about the thinktank, in addition to other journalistic investigations into the group.

[Guardian]

Josh Simons“: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Simons. Half-Jew, and whose wife is American, probably Jewish, maybe even a US/UK/Israel triple passport-holder.

“Simons has cited “persistent failure” to tackle antisemitism for his resignation from Corbyn’s office.[4][5] He later contributed to the Equality and Human Rights Commission‘s investigation into Labour antisemitism.”

[Wikipedia]

There is every chance that Simons will lose his Makerfield seat at the next general election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makerfield_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.

Might fly with the electorate. Senior officer (Colonel, but was due for promotion to Brigadier prior to being MP) but still youngish (44; will be 45 in March 2026); MC and DSO; saw action repeatedly in Afghanistan; untainted (so far) by any scandal.

Enlisted, but was commissioned only 3 years later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Carns.

Whether that ex-officer’s election as Labour leader would be an electoral gamechanger, hard to say, but it would be far more popular than having Angela Rayner or Wes Streeting, let alone expenses cheat Yvette Cooper, taking over.

Usually, ex-officers are not much good, politically, but who knows, this one might be an exception. It might not save Labour, but might mitigate the damage.

That MP , a traditional Labour MP-type, has little to lose, his GE 2024 majority having been a mere 18 votes, and his win at Poole having been a fluke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poole_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.

Duncan-Jordan really has no chance of re-election, and is about 60 or so, so is free to be honest…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Duncan-Jordan

Morgan McSweeney is, at very least, an agent of influence controlled by Israel. He may even be a MOSSAD agent, simpliciter. £30,000 just to investigate a few journalists? Where did the money come from? Probably Israel itself, either directly or via cut-outs, rich Jews resident in the UK, a “fifth column” in our society.

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NWO/ZOG drone, William Hague, now, apparently, thinks that British people should not be allowed to express views, or discuss anything on social media. Presumably, the little bastard thinks that people should stay (locked-down?) in their houses, watching and listening compliantly to the sort of System propaganda (complete with rigged “discussion”) churned out by rubbish shows such as BBC Radio 4 Today, Sky News, or BBC Question Time.

Also, what is a “healthy democratic system“?

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Migration invasion news

The Home Office is claiming that 60,000 individuals have either been deported, or have left voluntarily, since Labour came to office in 2024. Perhaps, but in that same time period about 1.5 million immigrants have entered the country, mostly “legally”. Even the small boat invaders have numbered about 100,000, maybe more.

Late tweets seen

Shalom, Starmer and McSweeney— your time is up…

Late music

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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.