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Diary Blog, 4 May 2026, including material about the Green Party, social-national environmentalism, the present Attorney-General, and demographics

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[Volegov, Tea and Plum]

Talking point

“One wonders why, in this age of superficial iconoclasm, these antiquated figures (bishops) and organizations (churches) still command at least pro forma respect in the msm. I suppose because they always endorse every mad or evil trend the conspiracy wants, from “Black Lives Matter” and climate change via CO2 emissions, to “anti-racism” and all the other nonsense around, including the “holocaust” farrago and the “Covid” panicdemic propaganda and, of course, the “right” of women to become “priestesses” and crazed woman bishops.“

[quotation from this blog, 10 August 2022]

Still valid…

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“Boris”-idiot? Hunter Biden? Who else?

Starmer-stein strikes again (against the British people).

What will be the next idea? To shut all the migrant-invaders, at least the “small boat” ones, in London, and create a massive ghetto, as in the film Escape from New York?

There are better ideas…

Goodwin’s political star rose fast, but may now be fading. He (and Farage, and Tice) are also very much in the pocket of Israel and the UK (etc) Jewish lobby. That alone eliminates them as worthy in my book, though I am still hoping that Reform will do well over the next 2-3 years, because I need to have the main System parties crushed, and Reform is the only likely instrument available. That will have a massive mass political-psychological effect in this country.

Yes. Exactly. As I have blogged for some time. Reform UK, Restore Britain (or Restore-allied), Greens, Islamist and other Independents. Not Lab or Con.

…and in 2017 Corbyn-Labour won no less than 40% of the popular vote, only 2.3 points behind the “victorious” Conservatives…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election#Full_results

People are getting seriously angry at the way this country is being run. The System parties are just not cutting it; they have failed for too long, and have been too dishonest and incompetent. People are clutching at whatever straws are available.

Of course, the “Greens” are no longer very “green”. One could scarcely imagine a policy less “green” than the near open-borders Green Party immigration policy, which is also a policy quite certain to destroy what is left of the Welfare State.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints]

See also:

Social Nationalism and Green Politics

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[photo-still from British film The Wicker Man (1973)]

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Google the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan (while being aware that Jew-Zionists vandalize certain parts of Wikipedia; they have admitted as much).

Aryans.

See also:

The Tide is Coming In: Reflections on the Possible End of Our Present Civilization and What Might Follow

Social-nationalism must rise up to exterminate all the problems the country now has.

That Jew-Zionist bastard is not only plainly malicious and violent, but unable to exercise his present office (Attorney-General) properly. He also, frankly, sounds remarkably dim, perhaps surprisingly.

Incidentally, if white English people were training for civil war like the Jews (potential terrorists) shown in that TV clip, they would get raided by the police, possibly arrested and maybe charged (with conspiracy etc), but there seems to be a different and less strict legal and policing framework for Jews in the UK. They even have their own police force, complete with police cars that look almost exactly like real police cars. Anyone else trying that would be arrested.

“Hermer is a friend of Keir Starmer, having met him on his first night at Doughty Street Chambers in 1996;[4][102][260] The Guardian describes them as having a “close relationship”…

[Wikipedia]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hermer,_Baron_Hermer

“All political careers end in failure” [Enoch Powell].

I can hardly wait for Thursday and the 7 May local elections.

The Greens have a few good ideas (i.e. ideas with which I might agree), but are mainly loonie now. At present they are between 12% and 20% in the opinion polls. It is an open question as to whether they can get to 32% (Labour’s polling at GE 2019) or 40% (Labour’s polling at GE 2017), but I should imagine not, in both cases. In fact, I should be surprised were they even to score 25% at any general election up to 2029.

As it stands presently, the Greens are looking at somewhere around 50-60 Commons seats, potentially, so not enough to be anywhere near forming a government but possibly (on a good or bad day) enough to be a very weak official Opposition.

I suppose that, a few years down the line, the LGBTQXYZ etc faction might be sidelined, and then the Greens might become a coalition of Muslims, hardcore socialists, urban pseudo-socialists, hardcore environmentalist/social justice types, and a few others, defined mainly by opposition to anything white national, English, British in any real sense, or traditional.

That “neo-Green” party might, bearing in mind the black/browning of the UK, be able to get into government, post-2029, but the UK would be on the brink of civil/social/racial/cultural war by then, and votes might not be the trump card they now are…

Reform has no real plan even to end most, i.e. “legal”, immigration, and plans to deport only those who arrive on the beaches or otherwise “illegally”. That does not cut it at all.

As for putting detention centres in Green-leaning areas, a very silly idea.

Also, with the numbers coming in now, even on the “small boats”, there would need to be places available for hundreds of thousands, i.e. 2x, 3x, 4x or more the number of prisoners in UK prisons.

Having said that, Dan Hodges and the System parties think that the way to deal with the migration invasion is to deny it is happening, deny its consequences, and cover everything up. Is that really better?

Well, I myself dropped out of school at 16 (admittedly, a fee-paying one, and my home was certainly not as hers has been described) and drifted about a bit for quite a few years before self-study led to “A” Levels, then university and a law degree, followed by the Bar, so that TV story is scarcely unique. Still, I suppose she has done well in all the circumstances, though her spoken English is slightly painful.

Anyway (not thinking specifically of that young woman), the Bar is a dustbin now, if truth be known.

[me as young-ish London barrister, and aged 35 in, I think, 1992]

NWO/ZOG puppet/mouthpiece.

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Untermenschen.

The old ladies are right but ex-Westminster Bubbler Fiona-Natasha Syms cannot see it…

Our animal friends.

There must be some way of knocking Zelensky off the board.

The Little Drummer Girl

Saw the first few episodes of the 2018 BBC adaptation of John le Carre’s book. Pretty good, and plainly shot largely on location. I recognized the Greece-Turkey border crossing area which I myself have driven through a couple of times (many years ago).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Drummer_Girl_(TV_series)

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[painting by Joyce Norwood]

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Diary Blog, 30 April 2026

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[Adolf Hitler— 20 April 1889-30 April 1945]

European folklore

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

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

Milk quality

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Ursula von der Leyen is an evil little sprite, one of the worst people in the public realm.

Quite. Every day, persons of various types are stabbed, often fatally, in the UK (something that was very rare until a few decades ago, i.e. when mass immigration really got going).

Now, because the most recent (and non-fatal) victims are Jews in a heavily-Jewish area, the sky has fallen in. Suddenly, the “British” (Labour Friends of Israel) Government and the fake “Conservative” (Conservative Friends of Israel) “Opposition” are totally hysterical, calling this unpleasant but relatively minor incident in one street of a London suburb a “national security emergency“.

Starmer-stein, Kemi Badenoch etc are the sort of idiots who pose as national politicians —and even try to pose as statesmen (and women)—when a country is sliding fast to utter degradation.

Incidentally…

Notice the utter kow-towing going on by the pseudo-“democratic” political puppets…

Note also how the BBC, Sky etc are all pointing out the alleged attacker at Golders Green as being “a British national” (in fact, a Somali with a bit of paper called a “passport” describing him as “British”, but only idiots take that seriously); some newspapers even call him “a Brit“!

I blogged years ago about those “Prevent” idiots:

One Man’s “Extremism” is Another Man’s Struggle for Liberty and Justice

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[The Wicker Man (1973 British film); still photo]

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I heard a somewhat similar tale long ago, sometime around 1990, about an event which is said to have happened in the late 1980s.

Apparently, the well-known (and at the time I think estranged rather than divorced from Camilla Parker Bowles) Brigadier Parker Bowles was in command of a TEWT (Tactical Exercise Without Troops), the sort of war game people do at Staff College and similar.

Some Nigerian officers of fairly high rank were on that course. They had to gain a pass for diplomatic or political reasons. They could not be failed.

At one point, they were near a bridge. The scenario described was that uninvolved civilians were fleeing across the bridge from an advancing enemy force which had almost caught up with them and could not be engaged by home forces without immense death and injury to those civilians. The question was posed— what should be done?

The Brigadier expected the Africans to give the obvious and correct answer: civilians to be allowed through the lines and passed back to safe areas in the rear, and only after that would home forces open fire on the enemy forces. However, the senior African officer gave an unexpected reply to that question, namely “Kill dem all“… (both civilians and enemy).

Brigadier Parker Bowles apparently, turned to his British officers, simply said, “Well, gentlemen, there you have it…” and, without a word more, strode off to his waiting car.

The Africans all passed the course despite getting most things wrong.

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

Wall. Squad. End.

There is a serious possibility that, if Starmer-stein were to step down, Britain might unexpectedly acquire its first “chavscum” prime minister, Angela Rayner, who would then be able to pose as PM for up to 3 years, until 2029.

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Our animal friends.

A tattooed, “vaping” “pisshead” woman (and corrupt expenses blodger) as Prime Minister? Nein danke!

Yes, but if you imagine that voting, especially for a pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby party such as Reform UK, will “do de business”, you are sadly mistaken. By all means vote Reform, but do so to trash Lab and Con, not to go along with Reform’s quasi-System agenda; do it to lay the ground for a real social-national upsurge later.

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Incidentally, one of the two cameramen credited there, Henty Henty-Creer, an Australian later commissioned into the R.N.V.R. (in 1942), was killed in 1943, at age 23, when commanding, as Lieutenant Henty-Creer R.N.V.R., one of the midget submarines called “X-craft” in a hazardous operation to sink the battleship Tirpitz in a Norwegian fjord: https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2022/03/25/henty-creer/;

Henty-Creer, despite his youth, had already worked on two now-classic films, The Four Feathers (1939), and The Thief of Baghdad (1940): see https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0378298/.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Source.

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Diary Blog, 27 April 2026

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One of the great classic adventure films, based on a book by the Mexico-resident Bruno Traven, an exile from Germany, where he had been an anarchist revolutionary operating under the nom de guerre of der Ziegelbrenner or “the Brick-Burner“, and publisher of a magazine of that name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treasure_of_the_Sierra_Madre_(film); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._Traven.

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[“Do you know what this is?

It is a Bentley. Average price is about Euro 300k.

According to Richard Leopold, Bentley’s regional director, the top three cities where the most Bentleys were sold in 2025 are:

  1. Padua (Italy)
  2. Rotterdam (Netherlands)
  3. Kyiv (Ukraine)

Wait. What? Ukraine? You mean the Ukraine that just got another Euro 90 billion from the EU?

Two fun facts:

The average price of a Bentley sold in Kyiv is Euro 400k because they are buying the top end models.

Demand for Bentleys in Kyiv has more than doubled in the three years since the war started.

So if you are in the UK or EU, you can go back to struggling to pay for your supermarket shop this week, and take comfort that your taxes are being well used to prop up the luxury car market in Kyiv.”]

Kiev, not “Kyiv”, and certainly not (as the BBC has it) “Keeev”.

Fake cosplay “Geordie socialist” scribbler and talking-head Kevin Maguire and, next to him, former MP and Chancellor-for-five-minutes, Kwasi Kwarteng (aka Woollyhead Trussbanger).

British mass media at its, er, finest.

There is no such thing as “secret”; there are only levels of secrecy.

I knew two people, both now deceased, who knew Mosley in the 1950s. They thought that his problem was that, while he genuinely was a “man of action” (WW1 British Army and then Royal Flying Corps officer, competitive fencer etc), he was at root more of an intellectual, but downplayed that deliberately, and boosted the “man of action” image, thinking that British people tend to mistrust intellectuals.

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

Home

I have blogged in the past about prepping, though the UK naturally has a different profile than the USA or Canada, or New Zealand.

https://ianrobertmillard.org/?s=prepping

Worth watching/reading.

Almost all Labour MPs now in place will lose their seats between now and 2030, so where is the threat? Starmer-stein has lost all authority. If a Labour MP defies the whip and is suspended by Labour, so what? He/she can either continue to sit as Independent, or defect to Greens or elsewhere.

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[still photo from The Wicker Man (1973)]

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The problem is that, over many decades, fake history (eg “gas chambers” in WW2, “holocaust” hoaxes and fakery etc) has itself become “mainstream” by reason of the (((usual))) ownership of, and influence over, newspapers, TV and radio stations, publishing houses, and academia (not to mention politics, law, and business).

An increasingly-powerful stream of falsehood has forced its way into society. We saw it in the fake “Covid” pseudo-“crisis” and everything around that.

We saw it in the “global warming”/”climate change” scam.

We saw it in the (UK msm/political) narrative that the 2008 banking crash and consequent UK financial slide was because the Welfare State was being drained by the sick, disabled, unemployed etc, and so “necessitated” (equally-fake) “moneysaving” “austerity” (for the poor and modestly-paid).

We see it in so many other areas of society now, not only in the USA but also in the UK and across the Western world.

We need to stand up for truth.

I myself have already been disbarred (2016) and also put on trial (2023/2024) for standing up for truth and for the future of European race, culture, and civilization.

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As I blogged earlier, most Labour MPs, maybe three-quarters of them, maybe even four-fifths, will not be in Parliament after 2029. That near-certainty gives them a certain freedom. If they get suspended (or even expelled) by Labour, they can sit out their time as Independents, or defect to the Greens, LibDems or whatever. For their own careers, it makes no odds. Only those in the very safest seats are likely to survive 2029. They, therefore, are the only ones vulnerable to pressure.

Our animal friends.

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Our animal friends.

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Diary Blog, 25 April 2026

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Morning music

[Staple Inn, London; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staple_Inn]

Talking point

I notice that one of my very early blog posts, from 2017, has had a few hits. I just re-read it; perhaps worth republishing it today:

The Right Attitude to Race and Culture

Saturday quiz

Well, an unusual week, in which political journalist John Rentoul did better than me. Rentoul scored 4/10, but my very disappointing result was a mere 2/10. I knew the answers to questions 4 and 6.

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Disagree. Yes, Reform is underwhelming, and the Greens are indeed loonie, but the existing System parties deserve to be smashed and destroyed. Until they are, nothing better can emerge.

Local elections in the UK are yet another System stitch-up, deliberately staggered in different years so that each System party is likely to get a piece of the pie, continuously.

All elections, national and local, should be held on the same day and in the same month and year.

Incidentally, that would mean that all elected authorities, and central government, would be on the same page.

The Jewish-lobby influence on and in Reform weakens it hugely, and will (as probably is the plan anyway), eventually kill it whether it gets into government or not.

1945 was a year of disaster, and was followed by the also-disastrous year 1948, when the Jewish state of Israel was established, and the land of Palestine partly “ethnically-cleansed” and then repopulated by the sweepings of the ghettos, prisons, and labour camps of old Europe.

[Hitler with leading architect Professor Troost, 1930s]
[Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, late 1930s]
[Dietrich-Eckart-Buhne (now Waldbuhne), Berlin]
[remodelled Reichskanzlei, Berlin]

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Tim Stanley is one example of a type of person that has come to prominence over recent decades: usually a so-so minor academic, with System party (usually Con Party) connections, always scribbling rubbish in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph or Spectator etc, and/or being an msm TV/radio talking-head. Also, almost invariably pro-Jewish lobby and pro-Israel.

Douglas Murray is another one.

Slightly further back in time there was Andrew Roberts (now elevated to the House of Lords, thanks to “Boris”-idiot). His father owned Job’s Dairy and the UK part of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Roberts,_Baron_Roberts_of_Belgravia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Murray_(author)

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

Our animal friends.

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[still photo from The Wicker Man (1973)]

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I am unsure as to whether I agree with her first point, but Seldon is certainly erudite, and surely correct in his highlighted contention(s).

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

The General’s first assertion is right, the second not quite right. The UK must leave NATO, cultivate friendly though independent relations with Russia (which really wants that from us), and stand with Russia and all true Europeans against Islamism, Zionism, and non-European migration-invasion.

Russia will give us cost-price fuel, maybe even free fuel, and will provide a massive market for British goods, services, and expertise.

Those people should be on our side, and really want to be on our side.

[Russian VDV— Air Descent Contingent— march in Red Square, Moscow]

Nick Griffin blog— latest

https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/netanyahus-guru-involved-in-three

Well worth reading.

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The panicdemic/scamdemic and the associated supposed “vaccines” are, combined, so big a lie, so great a scandal, that even now many people cannot accept the truth; the same applies to the associated stupidities—facemask-muzzling, “social distancing”, “the Rule of Six” (that absurdity only seen in England, and invented by “Boris”-idiot and little Matt Hancock) etc. The same goes for the ongoing economic consequences of the overall scam.

Even now, you still see the occasional loonie or idiot, usually middle-aged or elderly, wearing a facemask. I saw one today in a supermarket. I am sure that her health is hugely improved by wearing some ancient, filthy bit of cloth over her mouth and nose for years…

That loonie looked a bit like the one in the first cartoon below:

Er, no. NO. NO!

The “first small boat since [etc]” has NOT arrived in the UK. Use your eyes, “Politics UK”.

The migrant-invaders have just been ferried in by the Border Force (Border Farce). This is a deliberate and planned conspiracy to flood the UK and other countries with non-Europeans. Google “Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan” (though Jews and others have vandalized the Wikipedia article).

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There comes a time when fair liberty becomes ugly licence, when “diversity” becomes the swamping of a culture, when reasonable tolerance becomes weak acceptance of wickedness and evil, and when “decency” no longer has meaning.

“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.“

[Matthew 7:6]

Starmer cannot see what is staring more and more people in the face about the state of this country and its direction of travel (straight down); he is also entirely without self-consciousness, even by System-drone political standards. He’s going down, and Labour will go down with him (or without him).

I have always tried to be fair to the former Prince Charles, now King, but he recently agreed to become a patron of the “Community Security Trust” [“CST”], the Jew-Zionist snoop-and-strongarm organization.

As far as I am concerned, Charles has cancelled himself.

See also:

The Jew Epstein and Prince Andrew: The British Royal Family Has Another Scandal — Maybe It’s Time To Just Get Rid Of Them… [frequently updated]

Incidentally, I should not be surprised to see Trump pardon Ghislaine Maxwell at the end of his term of office. The Israelis may “request” it, covertly of course.

Translates to a Commons with about 360 Reform MPs (very solid majority), 63 LibDems (extremely weak official Opposition), 62 Greens, 48 Lab, 45 Cons, 44 SNP [etc].

You can see why the Jew/Zionist/Israel lobby has been scrabbling to influence or take over Reform UK— they think, with reason, that Reform will probably form the next government, maybe self-standing, maybe with Con support; of course, on the figures shown above, Reform would need no support.

Incidentally, once again (as shown in all recent polls, for several months) Starmer-stein would lose his own seat.

Very nice idea (but you do occasionally see that in the UK as well).

That tweeter “@ShaneDollards” has it right: yes, most voters despise and distrust Starmer-stein, but they also despise and indeed hate Labour itself (and, not much less, the fake “Conservatives”). Labour MPs should read the room…and the polls.

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[painting by Victor Ostrovsky]

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Diary Blog, 7 April 2026

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Morning music

[Cambridge: unusually-snowy view across the Backs to Kings College Chapel]

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Reminded me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_(1950_film).

[still photo from The Wicker Man (1973) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man]

Interesting. My own “political compass” was assessed as being very similar; on the same graphic, slightly lower and slightly to the left of tweeter Sophie Meaden.

As to the chalked message, it is said that the old Soviet Spetsnaz had an unofficial saying: “when the real revolution comes, we shall not kill those with big houses and cars, and we shall not kill those who talk about social justice, but we shall kill those with big houses and cars who talk about social justice.”

Were they wrong, looking at the UK, USA etc today?

Usually, it is the supposed “anti-racists” who are loonie: see

They’re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Ha!

Incidentally, guess what (((ethno-cultural tribe))) comprises many, perhaps most, psychiatrists in the USA? That’s right— “them”.

Translates to a Commons with about 323 Reform UK MPs (3 short of overall majority), 71 Cons (very weak official Opposition), 63 Greens, 62 LibDems, 59 Lab, 44 SNP [etc].

So there it is. Reform still the only game in town but, crucially, needing support to govern.

Also, as with the last (?) 15-20 opinion polls, this one shows Starmer as very likely to lose his own seat. I think that Starmer will quite likely decide not to lead Labour into the next general election. He must see the writing on the wall, surely.

The —in Hitler’s phrase— “dirty democratic politicians” always place personal interest, and then party interest, above national or world interest. We saw that in the UK in, to take just one example, the extended —and totally unnecessary— “lockdowns” etc during the 2020-2022 “Covid” nonsense (panicdemic/scamdemic).

For once, the Starmer-Labour government does something worthwhile.

One change not made, but which should be made, is to abolish rental deposits. Inconvenient, irritating (when repaid or not repaid at end of tenancy), and unnecessary anyway (the landlord-parasites need not be potentially out of pocket, because they can just tack a small amount onto each weekly, monthly, or other durational rent payment).

A horrible tribe.

One officer with access and a sidearm could end this madness.

[“Until 1976, you could walk into a shop in London, England called Harrods and buy a lion, a camel, or an elephant. In 1969, two young Australians named John Rendall and Ace Bourke walked in and bought a three-month-old lion cub.

They named him Christian. He lived with them above a furniture shop, played in local gardens, and rode around the city in the back of a convertible. When he outgrew London, they flew him to Kenya, where a conservationist named George Adamson released him into the wild in the Kora National Reserve.

A year later, the two men flew back to find him. Adamson warned them Christian was now fully wild and might not remember them. Despite being the head of a wild pride, Christian recognised them immediately and ran to greet them. The reunion was filmed, and the footage has since been viewed over 100 million times.

Christian was last seen in early 1973, heading north. He was never seen again.“]

A beautiful documentary film; I saw it many years ago.

Our animal friends.

A different film about Africa:

[“From the 1920s to the 1960s, around 10,000 shoe shops across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada had X-ray machines built into the floor. You put your feet inside a wooden cabinet and looked through a viewing hole at the top to see the bones of your feet glowing inside the shoes.

Children loved it. Parents thought it meant a better fit. Nobody told them they were standing directly on top of an unshielded X-ray tube, absorbing radiation that scattered straight up through their legs and body every time.

In 1999, Time magazine named it one of the 100 worst ideas of the 20th century.“]

I remember doing that occasionally, maybe once per year, at one of the two now-long-gone smallish department stores in Reading (Berkshire, UK), either Wellstead’s or Heelas, maybe the former, having been taken there by my mother. Early to mid-1960s.

In the 1967 film Billion Dollar Brain, Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) uses one of those fluoroscopes (aka “pedoscopes”) to look inside a Thermos flask:

Britain should leave NATO, and cultivate far better relations with Russia. We could get oil and gas for our people at cost price, or even below cost price. This is a realistic possibility.

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