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Diary Blog, 29 June 2026, including some thoughts around Nature, managed Nature, homesteading, permaculture, rewilding, and potential symbiosis of rurality and advanced technology etc

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Nature, managed Nature, homesteading, permaculture, rewilding, and the potential symbiosis of rurality and advanced technology

Some of the background to the Nastya and Village Life videos.

Incidentally, that person makes a very good income via YouTube: see

She gets some direct donations, even if only a few hundred U.S. dollars per month. She seems to have an overall income from online activity somewhere in the region of USD $7,000 per month at present, which is decent, to say the least, especially in Russia, and even if (as I expect) it is taxed at about a third.

I had noticed in some of her videos that she (or her now-ex husband or boyfriend) owned a foreign vehicle; her German kitchen appliances etc were also noticed.

Not that I am criticizing. It is very clever to mix a rural life with an income largely derived from the most up-to-date technical advances, such as online vlogging.

Another example of similar or not entirely dissimilar (though more “eco”-oriented) activity would be Bealtaine Cottage, in Ireland: https://bealtainecottage.com.

https://www.youtube.com/user/BealtaineCottage

As a matter of fact, when I had a Twitter account (a pack of Jews had me expelled in 2018), the lady from Bealtaine Cottage used to retweet my material sometimes; then the same Jewish cabal harassed her, and tweeted to her about how I was supposedly “mad, bad, and dangerous to know“, as Lady Caroline Lamb said of Byron. The Bealtaine Cottage lady then blocked me. Still, I am bigger than that. #MoralHighGround…

Tree cover in Europe varies from a mere 1% on Malta to 74% in Finland. Ireland has only about 11%, so the example of Bealtaine Cottage is well worth both noting and emulating.

The UK is also deficient in tree cover (about 13.5%, though possibly increasing slightly). I believe that, immediately after WW1, the situation in the UK was even worse, about 5%, which is why the Forestry Commission was established in 1919, though at first only to grow conifers for timber production.

If you see old photos and film of England from the First World War era, or even 1930s, the denudation of the landscape in many rural areas is clear.

Ireland, after WW1, had a miserable tree cover of only 1%, incredibly, so even the 11%-12% presently seen is a huge improvement, even more so than in the UK.

Both countries are moving over to Nature-friendly broadleaf planting now.

Bealtaine Cottage has only 3 acres, in fact (though the dense vegetation makes the plot seem larger), and the lady owner has planted 1,000+ trees herself, mostly from seed or from cuttings. The so-called “power of one”:

The “power of one” indeed, but that just emphasises how much more a group, even a small group, can do (in any area of activity). When scaled-up to a whole society doing things, the available power of transformation can be huge (again, in any field of activity, not just ecological and environmental).

The main point made, though, is that you do not, in the end, need a group or organization. One person can do it, alone.

The cartoons below show what can happen when biodiversity is reduced, but not everywhere is going in the wrong direction.

As far as Bealtaine Cottage is concerned, this is what Google AI has to say:

“The lady behind Bealtaine Cottage is Colette O’Neill, a native of Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Born into a large family of eleven children, her journey to creating her famous woodland sanctuary involves a fascinating mid-life reinvention. [1, 2, 3]

Early Life & Teaching Career

  • Education: Colette won a scholarship to attend the Loreto Convent Grammar School in Omagh.
  • Life in London: She spent a major portion of her adulthood living in London, raising her three children. As a mature student, she attended Middlesex University, graduating with honours in education in 1992.
  • Profession: Prior to her ecological work, she spent over a decade working as a full-time schoolteacher in London. [1, 2]

The Escape to the “Good Life”

By 2004, tired of the relentless pace of London life and single in her late 40s, Colette plotted her return to Ireland to pursue a simpler, self-sustaining lifestyle. She spent holiday weekends hunting for property, eventually buying a derelict, roofless stone cottage sitting on three acres of severely waterlogged, north-facing bogland in County Roscommon. [1, 2, 3]

Despite having no plumbing, electricity, or local family support, she moved in alone to prove that one person could restore the poorest land into a thriving ecosystem. [1, 2, 3]

Current Identity & Work

Now in her late 60s, Colette has lived at the cottage for over 21 years and identifies deeply as a writer, folklorist, vegan, and Pagan “Tree Mother”. Her daily philosophy has evolved from standard permaculture into what she calls “Goddess Permaculture”—a deeply spiritual, mindful connection to the Earth. [1, 2, 3, 4]

She is a officially recognized artist by the Irish government and funds her lifestyle entirely through her ad-free YouTube channel, Patreon, and Bealtaine Cottage Publishing, through which she has written and self-published several books, including A Cottage and Three Acres and Walking Between Worlds.”

So there you see the practical aspects. Her 3-acre plot does produce quite a lot of food, probably all or most of what she needs. She even sells any surplus locally. Heating is mainly from wood she has planted, cut, and dried.

Apart from that, the Bealtaine Cottage lady has no direct income via her YouTube channel, (ad-free, by her own choice, which is very principled, in view of the fact that she has 90,000 YouTube subscribers). She could otherwise get maybe £1,000-£1,500 per month from that source alone.

Actually, I am seeing ads on her vlogs, but whether she herself profits from them, I have no idea.

She does get donations (at least £300-£400 per month) via Patraeon (~127 subscribers), and a little more via other online donation sites. Her own books, self-published, must bring in some income, and that is all tax-free in Ireland, because recognized artists, writers etc are untaxed.

I do not know whether she gets any direct income via Twitter/X; maybe not.

At age 65-70, that lady must also get UK and/or Irish state pension payments, and probably also has a small private pension from her decade teaching in London.

My point is that the lady has diverse income streams (and few expenses). The Russian lady, Nastya, is more limited in where her income originates.

Ideally, one does not put all eggs in one basket.

I always recall seeing a TV show, circa 2001, about a black American financial specialist adviser. One person advised was a young man from somewhere like Luton or Bedford who had arranged to hire a jet airliner simulator. He then sold blocks of time for 30 minutes at a go, as a novelty. He was making something like £100K a year in the money of 2000 (you could double or triple that in the money of 2026).

He was offered £650,000 in cash (so over £1.5M in 2026 money) for his business —and was advised to accept— but refused. A few months later, the 2001 attack on New York happened, and BA (who owned the simulator) and all other airlines were told by government not to allow any stray people to use flight simulators. The young man’s business collapsed overnight. He vanished into obscurity, having thought of himself as an “entrepreneur”, when really he had just had one lucky and time-limited success.

Eggs. Basket(s).

Another case. I knew via a friend, a middle-aged Scottish lady who thought she knew everything about finance and business, but in reality knew nothing. Her father had owned a very large business in Scotland; it produced hydraulic pit props (for coal mines), I believe. By the time her father died, in the late 1960s or early 1970s, the National Coal Board was not ordering many such props. The business was insolvent. It employed thousands of people.

The lady of my fairly slight acquaintance was a civil servant in London. She took over despite knowing nothing of business. Her motivation, well-meaning but silly, was to try to keep the business going for the sake of its employees. All that happened was that the collapse, which might have been mitigated, was total, and delayed by only months, not years. All the employees were left with neither employment nor even corporate redundancy payments.

After that, the Scottish lady had some money, and a large mansion flat in St. John’s Wood High Street, very close to Regent’s Park. Such apartments, especially of that size, are now valued in the millions. Even then, the value was very high. She sold it and, with a proportion of the proceeds, bought the one-time private residence of Ribbentrop, from when he was Ambassador of the German Reich in London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_von_Ribbentrop#Ambassador_to_the_United_Kingdom. That detached house, in Barnes, just south of Hammersmith Bridge, and down a quiet side road, had a pleasant garden with mature trees, at least by the early 1980s when I saw it a couple of times, and a large number of bedrooms.

The Scottish lady rented out at least a dozen rooms to foreign girl students, cash in hand. I suppose that that would have brought in the equivalent (in 2026 money) of a couple of thousand pounds, perhaps more, each week. In cash. Almost certainly not declared to the tax authorities. Was she satisfied with that? No, of course not…

The Scottish lady conceived the idea of a clothes shop with nice fashions for fat women (to put it bluntly). She herself was enormous. Clothes for very fat women were, at the time, apparently hard to find in the UK, so she went to the USA to source stock.

She actually mortgaged her house in order to launch this doomed venture. A shop was leased, in Marylebone High Street, and its name emblazoned above the doors— Largesse. Maybe not a very diplomatic name…

I myself, then in my mid-twenties and not yet embarked on my law degree, actually slept on the shop’s floor overnight once or twice, because the burglar alarms had not been installed.

Anyway, suffice to say that that shop failed, spectacularly, and the lady eventually died, about a decade later, effectively and maybe actually bankrupt.

Lesson? Self-knowledge prevents too-ambitious an undertaking. Also, that sometimes one can get by quite well on what one has. That Scottish lady had few essential expenses and, in the money of 2026, a cash income, untaxed (in effect) of at least £10,000 per month; significant capital as well.

Compare that to Ms. O’Neill of Beltaine Cottage, who has a small fraction of that income, yet lives, it appears, rather well on it. As a friend of mine at the Bar once remarked to me, “it’s not what you make, it’s what you spend.” Trite, of course, but true.

The way forward for many may be to disconnect as far as possible or convenient from the general society, to link up with others fairly loosely, and to prepare for the quite likely collapse of that general society.

Naturally, everyone will have a pathway that suits the individual circumstances; the knowledge-level of Ms. O’Neill in Ireland is very greatly higher than that of the Russian girl. Both cases, however, are worth studying for what they can impart,

See also:

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

A recent vlog from the lady at Bealtaine Cottage:

I have only just seen that vlog post, and it answers some of the questions or speculations that I wrote about only today. Synchronicity, perhaps.

Tweets seen

Housing for migrant-invaders, while British people struggle.

As previously noted on the blog, Labour Friends of Israel, Bilderberger, NWO/ZOG, and part of the Mandelson cabal at one time.

System MPs such as Lucy Powell are just clowns, really.

Good grief, just listen to that silly bitch spouting her soundbites about “decent, well-paid jobs“, good housing etc. Meanwhile, in the real England and Wales, migrant invaders are still flooding in, there is a near-collapse of law, order, and previous social norms and, in soundbite language, the rich are getting hugely richer, and almost everyone else is sinking, as shown in the cartoon below from 15 years ago (and still valid):

Anyone supporting the migration invasion should also be placed in a detention centre, if you want to call it that. Or work on projects creating canals, or in forests.

“Man… “, meaning African migrant-invader.

As for “what is happening“, what is happening is relatively slow-burn social and political collapse, for which System politicians and (((the usual suspects))) are largely responsible.

“Loan“? Ha ha…

Incidentally, I wonder what odds the bookmakers would offer against Ghislaine “Maxwell” getting a Presidential pardon from Trump in his last few days in office in 2029? Might well be worth a good substantial punt, in my opinion. I wonder whether they would offer 10/1. My own assessment of the real chance is nearer 50-50…

Translates to a Commons with about 226 Labour MPs (100 short of an overall majority); 221 Reform UK (strong official Opposition); 57 Cons (about half of the present number); 52 LibDems; 43 SNP; 14 Greens; 12 Plaid Cymru [etc].

A hopelessly hung Parliament. Burnham would only be able to pass legislation with the assistance of all the LibDems, all the Greens, all Plaid, and all SNP (adding up to 121, so even then several short of an overall majority, but about half a dozen more than a bare working majority. Hopeless.

As a matter of fact, I think that a Burnham government is going to become pretty unpopular pretty quickly.

I cannot see Burnham holding a general election at present, i.e. later this year, because I am assuming that Labour’s large present majority would disappear (as it loses 200+ MPs). On the other hand, if Burnham just takes over, as Sunak did from Liz Truss/”Boris”-idiot, and refuses to call an election for years, then we are back to square one, and Labour is toast.

Good for social-nationalism, probably.

Ambiguous (the actual interview).

Another village. Where are the gamechanging moves?

Late tweets

Quite. All the same, I remain sceptical of the primary assertion. Finland the happiest country? Seems unlikely to me, frankly…

I never use the “right”/”left” terminology, but it is good to see many, especially many young, awakening to reality.

[“SHE NAMED 270 ABUSERS. THE COUNCIL GAVE HER A DIVERSITY COURSE INSTEAD In 2001 a Home Office researcher called Adele Weir mapped a child abuse network in Rotherham. She found at least 270 victims and named the men running it. The Hussain family was on that list. Rotherham Council and South Yorkshire Police had the names, the cars, the addresses. Their response was to tell Weir to never mention Asian men again and book her onto a two day ethnicity and diversity course. A few months later her files vanished from a locked office. Computer records were altered too. Nobody was ever charged for that either. It took until 2016 for Arshid Hussain to get 35 years and Qurban Ali to get 10. Fifteen years after Weir handed the council the names on a plate. The Jay Report in 2014 confirmed 1400 children were abused in Rotherham. The Casey Report in 2015 called the council not fit for purpose and pointed straight at a culture that put political correctness above child protection. This keeps happening because the playbook never changes. Raise the alarm and you get managed. Stay quiet and you get promoted. Weir did her job. The people whose actual job was protecting children sent her to a workshop. Sources: @thetimes @BBCNews @yorkshirepost.”]

Neither Muslim nor Jewish individuals should be in the police, civil service, or government, whether at local or national level.

The multikulti society can never function properly.

I saw on TV news a clip from the speech. As I have already predicted on the blog, the Andy Burnham Labourite circus, like some wine, does not travel far from its native terroir, in this case Manchester.

As predicted, Burnham is already a disaster, and he is not yet even elected by the Labour MP drones as their chosen leader (and so, Prime Minister by default).

Our present electoral and political system is a (contrived, rigged) joke, as is Burnham.

Of course, behind Burnham stand Labour Friends of Israel. In short, the “you-know-who” (((them))).

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Diary Blog, 24 June 2026

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Such barbarians have no place in Europe. Untermenschen. Put him and others up against a wall.

[“A century ago, one in every four big trees in the eastern forests of America was a chestnut, and every autumn the country under them ate for free.

The American chestnut was a giant, a hundred feet tall, and there were close to four billion of them from Maine to the Deep South. Each autumn they dropped a carpet of sweet nuts so thick you raked it up by the sackful. Families roasted them all winter. Hogs and cattle were turned loose in the woods to fatten on them for nothing. Turkey, deer and bear lived off the same mast. The timber, straight and rot-proof, built the barns, the fence posts and the furniture. One tree fed the people, fattened the livestock, carried the wildlife through winter, then built the house.

Then in 1904 a blight arrived on imported Asian chestnut stock, spotted first on the trees at the Bronx Zoo. It moved through the forest at fifty miles a year, and by the 1940s it had killed close to four billion trees, nearly every mature chestnut on the continent. One of the worst ecological catastrophes in the country’s history.

Here is the part that should stop you. The tree is not quite dead. The old roots still send up shoots, year after year, that the blight cuts down before they grow tall enough to fruit. A century on, the stumps are still trying, and still failing.

A free harvest that fed a continent every autumn for thousands of years, gone in forty, and still reaching for a sky it will never reach again.”]

Sounds as though there is hope, at least.

Refers to senior Labour Friends of Israel drone, James Purnell, being appointed as Burnham’s Chief of Staff.

Purnell is a horrible careerist, entirely in the Jewish/Israeli pocket. Pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, anti-Welfare State, anti any privileges for pensioners, pro- finance capitalism, and pro-globalism. An outright enemy of the people.

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

Well, the clearest signal yet that the Burnham regime will be along the same basic lines as the Starmer regime.

Pretty obvious what his proclivities are (likely to be)…

[“Here are three seemingly separate stories you might have missed in the last week in the UK that, taken together, reveal something far more profound.

First, it’s emerged that pro-immigration campaigners helped place and prepare illegal migrants in the audience on the BBC flagship debate programme, Question Time, to “test” pro-migration messages in front of the British people.

Second, it’s been revealed that a writer who helped craft storylines on the popular BBC primetime soap Eastenders is a “migration and racial justice” activist who works on “changing people’s views” through popular culture.

And third, it’s been revealed that the family of Rhiannon Whyte — a young mother who was stabbed to death by an illegal migrant from Sudan — was guided by state officials to “tone down” their statement after Rhiannon’s murder, because of fears it might cause unrest among the wider population.

Three seemingly different stories that involve three different institutions – the BBC, the creative industry, and the British state. What do they all have in common?

They all reflect the Narrative State — a state that no longer sees its main role as being to describe reality but present a warped version of reality that reflects and reinforces its dominant ideology.“]

We are going to need a lot of walls and squads…

[“Burnham’s allies have told the “i” newspaper he plans to water down Labour’s plans to reform ‘indefinite leave to remain’.

Reminder: many of those who are being given the right to remain are part of the disastrous Boriswave which nobody voted for.

It was an enormous betrayal of the British people.

Burnham’s allies talk about “fairness”.

But how is it “fair” to undercut British workers by importing 5 million mainly low-wage, low-skill, non-European workers into the country and then forcing the British people to cover the cost?

And how is it fair to demand the British people stump up an estimated £600 BILLION for a policy they never asked for?

It’s not.

As usual with Labour:

It’s immigrants first.

British workers second.”]

So it begins.

If mass deportations are not “realistic” (but who decides what is “realistic”?), then the problem will have to be dealt with in other ways. Sterilization, for a start. Other solutions beyond that.

Rupert Lowe has his points but has not the consistent sound ideology, nor the wide and deep education, to be a real national leader.

For a long time, the French have indulged in a favourite socio-cultural fantasy, i.e. that if a non-European is born in France, or even just arrives, he or she either is, or can become, “French”, especially if processed through the French school system. Sadly misguided.

Wall. Squad. End.

In the absence of elimination, or mass deportation, sterilization is the only way to go.

A different lifestyle

Dutch couple buy an abandoned farm in Russia.

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Diary Blog, 19 June 2026

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Victorian_Kitchen_Garden; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Reade]
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_Roof_Gardens]

Talking point

Makerfield by-election

Well, Burnham won. Not unexpected. The msm is going mad with this supposed great turning-point etc. Rather overblown, as is their contention that all Labour (or both of the main System parties) needed to do was to change horses, and both Reform and Restore would be left behind.

Not quite. At the 2024 General Election, Labour scored 45.2% at Makerfield, and Reform UK scored 31.8%. At the 2026 by-election, the Labour vote was 54.8%, so higher but not stunningly so, and the Reform vote was 34.5%, also higher than in 2024, despite the challenge from Restore Britain (6.8%) which did not exist in 2024.

While Reform and Restore together scored well below Labour’s vote, that combined vote still added up to 41.3%; quite respectable. Over 41% of the total of eligible voters did not vote at all, a sign that many are either apathetic or more radical than Reform and Restore.

Prior to the vote, enemy of the people Lisa Nandy made some foolish comment that “about 6% or 7%” of the Makerfield electorate were “racists” who would vote for any anti-immigration party. 6% or 7%. Now see the combined Reform/Restore vote— over 41%.

I think that several factors contributed to Burnham’s win. The split Reform/Restore was one. True, the two parties still scored a total below that of Burnham-Labour, but that might not have been the case had only one party stood.

Then there is the hullabaloo and msm reportage about how Burnham would unseat the hated Starmer-stein, and about Burnham’s supposed more radical and/or active ideas to improve life in the North of England. Unconvincing to me, but apparently not to many Northern English voters.

The other interesting parts of the by-election result were the poor showings of the Conservatives and LibDems.

The Conservatives scored only 2.2% at the by-election, and lost their deposit. In 2024, their vote had been 10.9%, and in 2019, 34.4%.

The LibDems scored only 0.4% at the by-election (a mere 163 votes) as against 6.8% in 2024.

An indication of how far the credibility of both parties, Con and LibDem, has fallen in parts of the country.

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The so-called “vaccines” have done huge and hugely underreported damage to millions.

The growing anger and frustration of the British people may be expressed, by 2029, in Parliamentary form, or in some other form(s).

I remain far from convinced that the “our Andy” show (complete with “our communities” and “our NHS“) will travel well anywhere very far south (or north, or east) of Manchester.

I saw a minute of so, on BBC TV News, of Burnham speaking today. He wants to “re-industrialise the North (of England)” (how? has he never heard of China?) and spread much money here and there. For me, not at all convincing or even interesting.

The Irish “tinker” or “traveller” element is also, of course, notorious for such activity. Others too.

I can recall, from when I was staying in some hotel on the Corniche in Alexandria (Egypt) in 1998, looking from my balcony and noticing an obviously wealthy Egyptian family in a large Mercedes stop, and a little girl, obviously instructed to do so, exit from the vehicle with all their fast food boxes and paper bags, and simply dump them over the parapet into the beautiful blue sea of the Eastern Harbour, which sea once would have been seen by Cleopatra, Mark Antony, Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus, not to mention Churchill and others.

If anyone is interested in a little more of my reminiscence of my 1998 visit to Egypt, please see:

When I Was Not Arrested in Egypt

[“If anyone doubts the power of community action over the @EnvAgency’s spineless inertia, you can walk to the outskirts of Ilford & walk along an ancient lost river to see for yourself.

With 10 days of intense effort by dedicated volunteers, the river River Roding Trust managed to clean up & restore 250 metres of the Aldersbrook (about 1/3 of the brook). This allows a direct comparison between the parts of the brook we restored & those we haven’t got round to yet.

These photos & videos are all from May 2026. The first is on a part of the Aldersbrook still to be restored & shows the old flood defences which are no longer needed & are killing the river but which the EA won’t remove unless we volunteers pay them £50,000 just for surveys.

These defences have caused 2-3ft of stinking sludge & silt to build up over 70 years, such that the water in the brook is just a few centimetres deep. Combine with huge amounts of rubbish & and out of control knotweed infestation & the river ecosystem is essentially dead.

A river that is older than England destroyed by official indifference.

A hundred metres away, and it’s a different story. The rubbish & the invasive species (I sprayed the knotweed myself last autumn) are gone. The silt that used to clog the river is now spread on the banks & rapidly providing fertile ground for native plants. Instead of sludge, there’s 2-3ft of water, so fish have returned to the brook for the first time in decades, along with dragon flies, herons & a nesting moorhen.

We river guardians knew our intervention would make a difference, but have been shocked at quite how quickly nature has come back. The restored Aldersbrook is now a rare jewel: pretty much the last fully natural tidal brook in London. The EA now has a choice. It can salvage some good from this situation & work with us to restore the remaining sections of the brook, or it can continue to do nothing. If the latter, river guardians *will* be back this winter to finish the job & the EA can see how well prosecuting volunteers for restoring a river without permission goes for them.“]

Bravo.

[“Around the country, a huge tree planting programme of our most important native tree is underway. But no bureaucrat decreed it in a policy paper, & it relies on no government funding. This mass planting is being carried out by nature herself.

2025 was a ‘mast year’ for acorns. In order to have the best chance of reproducing, some trees like oaks all produce a huge amount of acorns in the same year. This sheer abundance overwhelms creatures like squirrels that snack on the nuts, as they simply can’t eat them all.

Now, in woodlands & fields across the country, we see the results of this self-directed tree planting. Huge carpets of baby oaks that in some places are so thick they look like a grassy green lawn. I’ve honestly never seen so many oak saplings in my lifetime & this scene is all the more incredible given the oaks somehow knew to coordinate their reproduction like this.

Although this planting effort is natural, there are some things that humans can do to help. As self-sown oaks are usually significantly more vigorous & healthy than nursery grown saplings, encouraging these oaks will likely lead to much better trees than through planting.

What you can do depends on the local circumstances. Sometimes they can just be left to their own devices. If they have sown themselves in a area of high footfall, consider putting rocks or logs round them to stop trampling. If they are in an area with lots of deer, consider putting tree protectors round them, or fencing off areas of them. If we have a dry spell, watering your chosen oaks might help them through the dry patch. In choosing which of the many oaks out there you want to support, concentrate on those outside of the canopy of existing trees, where they will get light (the saplings under the shade of existing oaks are unlikely to make it long-term). You could also consider giving them light by removing invasive species (like rhododendron) or cutting back less ecologically useful trees (like sycamore), or potentially scrub (if there are no deer about) that are covering the baby oaks.

With a little bit of care, you could be helping to nurture a tree that will last for 500 years or more!“]

[Shishkin, Mordvinovo Oaks; https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-shishkin/the-mordvinovo-oaks-1891]

[“For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn!

With all due respect to the Americans, Israel must make it clear to the entire world that the blood of our sons and the security of our citizens are not forfeit. All of Lebanon must burn. Our supreme duty is to protect the citizens of Israel and the soldiers of the IDF, and this commitment takes precedence over every other consideration.

I told the Prime Minister, even in our private meetings: For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep.

Enough with the ping-pong. In the Middle East, you don’t win with measured responses and restraint—you need to go berserk. To obliterate. To crush the terror.“]

[Ben Gvir]

That crazy Jew is disowned even by many other Jews.

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[Victor Ostrovsky, Showing Heart]
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Diary Blog, 18 June 2026

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[Roman Bozhkov, Morning Music]

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The patience of the Russian leadership with this increasingly-serious shadow-boxing with the Kiev regime must be wearing thin.

(ps. the “Ian” there is not me but another Ian).

I may not “support” “Tommy Robinson”, as such (because he is controlled or too-influenced by the Israel-lobby), but he has a point here, of course.

I hope so, and that that is not a smoke-and-mirrors job designed to keep massive non-European hordes in Europe.

In the present age, trains should be run by the State as a strategic part of the economy, and fares kept reasonably low. At present, in the UK, we are getting the worst of both worlds: high prices combined with poor services (often) and the taxpayers funding private profits.

Those ticket prices London-Wigan are just insane.

Labour ministers and “comms” drones imagine that winning the Makerfield by-election (assuming that they do) will effectively crush both Reform UK and Restore Britain. I doubt it, but even were that so, it will not crush the justified and growing anger of the British people (including, in coming years, those in Makerfield) at migration invasion, environmental collapse, falls in living standards (and all other standards) etc.

Incidentally, “GOTV” = “Get Out The Vote”. Labour is throwing everything at this by-election. Desperate.

As said…desperate…

A few drone strikes, however destructive, on Moscow or other cities, will not change the arithmetic in the overall battlefield space.

I see Russian tweets etc claiming capture of villages, small settlements etc; from the Ukrainian side, not even that. The claimed Ukrainian advances must be either over depopulated areas of farmland and woodland or, at least as likely, non-existent.

The elephant in the room, surely, is the fact that Putin and the Russian leadership are not using more than a few percent, maybe less than one percent, of their potential destructive power. Russia has 7,000 nuclear weapons.

Would seem to indicate, if typical, that Russia is losing only 1 soldier killed for every 15 Ukrainian soldiers.

[“Labour has no right to win Makerfield, by @bnhwalker.

If Labour wins in Makerfield it will have been down to one man: Andy Burnham. In the most recent local elections every one of the individual council wards in Makerfield went Reform’s way. Nigel Farage’s party secured 50 per cent of the vote compared to Labour’s 25 per cent. Labour has never done so badly in Wigan. Whatever the capacities of one candidate, Reform should be winning it. The Makerfield constituency polls put Andy Burnham ahead by between 5-12 points.”]

There are 650 constituencies in the UK and Northern Ireland. I do not believe that any Burnham Bounce will swing (even in 2026) more than 50 of them. In any case, once (if it happens) Burnham is “crowned” PM, he will be faced with the same issues as Starmer-stein. Will he have better answers, or outcomes? I very much doubt that.

By 2029, this country will be even angrier and/or more desperate.

[“People vote in extraordinary ways in by-elections. They’ll even vote tactically for a party they can’t stand if it achieves the goal of a bloody nose to the party they backed last time. Honestly the way Labour has flooded Makerfield and the shocking machinations of Simons & Burnham would have me moving from abstention to considering in the privacy of the ballot booth a way of holding my nose to deliver a bloody nose. And as an ex-Tory I’m prepared to give LDs or Labour a hearing, I’m much closer to them on a few things than any of the (very) right-wing parties, that speaks to my natural and growing Burnham antipathy. The Our Andy stuff has been insufferable even from a distance.”]

UK Government aggression towards Russia is veering into the territory of outright war. Supplying the Kiev regime with 150,000 drones (presumably funded by the British taxpayer, at that) is tantamount to the UK taking a very active and direct part in the war. Mad.

As said before, Britain has never had any substantial connection with Ukraine, not in the thousand years of Ukraine’s history as effectively part of Russia, and not in its mere 35 years as a corrupt and shambolic notionally independent state. None.

Now the anti-British “British” government is launching what amounts to a military campaign against Russia in order to support the corrupt and brutal Jew-Zionist/Ukrainian-thug regime in Kiev. People should be asking why…

Were I a resident of Kiev, I should be packing my bags. Frankly, if this continues, the same might be said of London.

Exactly.

Exactly.

As said, the absurd thing is that, if Labour wins the by-election, nothing in fact changes and, outside the Manchester area, I doubt that Burnham is much of a gamechanger electorally.

I just read the brief Iran-US agreement. It is 90% in Iran’s favour, if not 100%. After 60 days, fees chargeable by Iran to all other states’ shipping to ship through the Strait of Hormuz; Iran oil exports to start again; Iranian assets to be unfrozen worldwide; a USD $300 BILLION fund (payable presumably by the USA) for the reconstruction of Iran (after the American and Israeli bombing and missile attacks); an Iranian pledge not to develop nuclear weapons (a promise already in place before the war anyway).

The USA has learned a lesson. Do not let the Jews (whether in Israel or the USA itself) dictate your foreign policy. Do not let the tail wag the dog.

A strategic disaster for both the USA and Israel, and the fault for it lies with Netanyahu and Israel, and with Trump. A TV personality and speculative businessman does not a statesman nor a strategist make, in most cases.

F.O.! Hegseth, you idiot— and take your Jews and (now-demented) Trump with you.

Something that, as I have noticed this week, people across the political spectrum agree upon. A horrible crime even in a country of (now) often horrible crimes.

That case also makes it clear that children of any age should never be condemned to be adopted by gay men in performative “marriage” “cosplays” (same goes for crazed lesbian couples).

Our animal friends. It is good to see something natural and pure after so much human degeneracy.

All roads lead to Rome, but…yes.

…or Russian, for that matter.

(in fact, there was never a serious possibility of German forces invading the UK in or around 1940, and there is no possibility of Russia taking over the UK in 2026).

Apparently an AI fake.

[Update, later same day: some msm outlets are now saying it is genuine. If so, mad…].

Incidentally, that “Crewkerne Man” is none other than Joshua Bonehill, or Bonehill-Paine, who used to put himself forward, about a decade or so ago, as a coming sort-of “national socialist”-style “Fuhrer” of the UK.

Bonehill-Paine tried to organize anti-Jew marches and would-be semi-pogroms in Golders Green and Central London (I think that 6 or 7 idiots actually turned up).

Bonehill-Paine was then, after a number of both political and non-political criminal convictions, imprisoned for many months, over a year in fact. In prison, he turned, or was turned, or brainwashed (?), from “antisemitism” to Judaeo-philia.

“Bonehill-Paine first questioned his antisemitic views during his second year in prison, after reading the Bible, and enrolled on a deradicalisation course via his probation officer.[4]” [Wikipedia]

Q.E.D.

Now, recently filmed looking 30+ years older than he did only a decade ago, he is apparently a supporter of the washed-up “Conservative” Party, is ludicrously pro-Jew and pro-Israel, and is even promoted by Israeli media outlets (as seen on his Twitter/X banner).

Very very strange.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Bonehill-Paine

Crewkerne Man meets Manchurian Candidate?

Late tweets seen

Unbelievable.

Mirabile dictu! I actually agree with Ed Davey on something…

Incredible that a supposed “top businesswoman” (Deborah Meaden) can be so dim; there again, it is a common fallacy that the very wealthy (even those who inherited riches) must somehow be highly intelligent, and very knowledgeable. Often, not so.

As for multikulti “Conservative” drone Fraser Nelson, I have written about him on the blog in the past. Nothing he writes is worth reading.

The very terminology is outdated. “Working class” is almost as passé as what Ernest Bevin once called “the jolly old proletariat“.

As noted on the blog for several years, drones have changed the face of warfare, especially infantry warfare. This is only the start.

In the end, Burnham will be same-old, even if he runs Starmer out of town.

At the 2024 General Election, and in very rough figures, for every 20 eligible voters 8 did not vote at all; 4 out of the 20 voted Labour, 3 voted Conservative, 2 voted Reform, 2 voted LibDem, and 1 voted Green.

Starmer-Labour, as I blogged 2 years ago, only had the active electoral support of a third of those that actually voted in 2024, and a mere fifth of all of those eligible to vote.

Now? About half of the 2024 figures.

Opinion polling suggests that Labour, even under Burnham, would be the choice of only around 26% of voters were there a GE any time soon.

By 2029, Burnham-Labour, if Burnham does take over, will probably be running in the polls at around 20% at best. Will Labour try to change the rules, as they are presently doing in Manchester re. the mayoral by-election?

There is no “Parliamentary road” for us, but elections may yet be a peripheral part of the way forward.

Our animal friends.

Yes, foxes kill chickens, such is their nature, so just ensure your chickens etc are protected, that’s all. Good fences make good neighbours.

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Makarova]
[Pushkin Boulevard, Donetsk]

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Diary Blog, 13 June 2026

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Afternoon music

Saturday quiz

Well, this week 7/10 (two of which being “educated” guesses), thus trumping the 3/10 scored by political journalist John Rentoul. I did not know the answers to questions 4, 5, and 7.

Tweets seen

Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan. A global conspiracy.

[Kreisleitertagung auf der Ordensburg Vogelsang vom 22.-29.04.1937]
[girls of the BDM (Bund Deutscher Madel) riding in a German forest, 1930s]
[Hitler signs autographs for some young supporters near Berchtesgaden, 1930s]
[“The Fuhrer as friend of animals“]

Should read “...Muslims and Jews and the government“, of course…

https://twitter.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/2065531446542897163

Sophie Meaden. A young Valkyrie.

The bad-joke “Talk TV” online-only “television” channel, which not only crowed along with the malicious lying and perjuring Jews of the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” after my 2023 free speech trial and subsequent 2024 sentencing, but tweeted (completely wrongly and, indeed, libellously) that I had been “imprisoned“. In fact the penalty imposed on me was both a financial one (amounting to over £700), and also a fairly brief (in the event) and not too onerous “community order”: see

Diary Blog, 16 March 2024, including an account of my recent free speech trial and sentencing
Diary Blog, 17 March 2024, including the aftermath of my sentencing hearing

“Talk TV” is an Israel-lobby front, and often invites the liar and perjurer Stephen Silverman, of the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” fake “charity”, a volunteer arm (some of them are paid, in fact) of the Israeli Embassy in London.

Reverting to the Reform/Restore situation, my attitude to Restore is not very different to how I see Reform, i.e. a useful tool in moving the overall Overton Window, meaning moving the general weight or bias of public opinion. Even if Reform or Restore were to win a general election, the (((usual fix))) is already in, certainly in Reform, and possibly soon in Restore.

What matters is not the next GE, or which party “wins”, but what happens when the party that wins that GE is unable to improve the degenerating situation in this country, and so loses both credibility and control. Then…

Good point(s).

More good points. See also:

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

More tweets

For over 30 years, living standards in the corrupt and shambolic Ukrainian fake state have been declining. Only now, and only in the regions under Russian rule, are they starting to improve.

[“NEW: Bloomberg Saturday read

— Andy Burnham is planning to move quickly after Makerfield to secure a coronation. His supporters think John Healey’s resignation kills off Keir Starmer’s chances of survival. They think Wes Streeting and Al Carns don’t have the numbers, and that Burnham can quickly get 250+ Labour MPs and most of the cabinet to back him.

— Starmer insists he’ll fight, but the question is what the cabinet does. Burnham’s supporters want them to tell the PM to agree a handover. Before Healey resigned, Starmer’s allies hoped he could battle on because most of the cabinet would back him to stay. Aides suggest the calculus is changing and Healey’s brutal exit makes it more likely they tell Starmer it’s over.

— Even Starmer loyalists are very critical of the PM. They wish he’d been bolder, found the defence money from welfare, net zero or elsewhere, and sacked Ed Miliband. Several allies say they can’t believe Miliband and Shabana Mahmood (who they say privately plotted with Burnham and Miliband to oust Starmer) are still in the cabinet, but Healey isn’t. One says that’s the final evidence of his lack of authority, political judgment and decision-making ability.

— Starmer’s relationship with Rachel Reeves has been tested to the limit. Her resistance led Starmer to renege on his Munich speech and overrule Healey and Jonathan Powell. She effectively buried his survival strategy of focusing on security. Reeves allies argue it’s her job to make the numbers add up and if Starmer wanted more money for defence he could have imposed more departmental cuts but was unwilling.

— Burnham will not keep Reeves on as his chancellor, despite her allies pitching her to stay. Reappointing her would not be the change he’s promising, one Burnham supporter says. They say they spoke to Reeves around the locals and came away believing she would help them persuade Starmer to go, but she didn’t follow through.

— The turmoil is rattling UK allies. European diplomats contacted British counterparts in recent days complaining about the uncertainty over the UK’s defence spending plans, the slow pace of the uplift and Healey’s departure. They’ve also asked for information about Burnham’s plans for foreign policy and defence but got no answer.

— If Burnham does become PM he’ll face the same problems. His critics say he’s never uttered a word of substance on defence or foreign policy, shows no interest in it and has no plan. It is not impossible that in the next few months the British PM has to join negotiations with Putin over Ukraine. “Can you imagine Burnham doing that?” asks one official, especially with Powell likely to leave with Starmer.

— Starmer’s chaos also distracted from what might otherwise have been a bad week for Burnham. He got away with his WASPI gaffe thanks to Healey. Labour MPs are also critical of his plans on immigration. One aide said his proposal to end asylum hotel contracts and move responsibility for housing migrants to local authorities is amateurish and toxic.

— It all leaves Labour MPs in a state of total despair. Starmer looks finished but Burnham has no obvious plan and keeps making basic mistakes that foreshadow another troubled premiership, one said. If Burnham loses Makerfield, Labour appears to have no other options.“]

Interesting, but fails to make the point that any money spent on “defence” at this point is simply money thrown away.

The “threats” to our country and society do not come from Russia, not at all (that’s just msm propaganda nonsense) but from demographic change, the change from being a relatively civilized white European society to a multikulti dystopian mess, an approaching near-anarchy made worse by falling living standards and migration invasion.

Our animal friends.

Ed Miliband. That crazy Jew.

Incidentally, I have never found an answer as to where the family money came from. I have tried to analyze it on the blog previously. We are told that the Miliband father arrived in the UK during the early stages of WW2, young and as a “penniless” “refugee” who had lost his family wealth by reason of the “Nazis”. However, not long after WW2, in the 1950s, certainly by the early 1960s, the family (mother was also supposedly a “refugee”) was in a house in expensive Primrose Hill, and then in —really?— The Boltons, Kensington, one of the most expensive addresses in the country.

Did the Milibands, like so many Jews, have money secreted overseas/offshore? We do not know. What about today, in 2026?

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

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

I remember that, sometime around 2010 or 2012, Jeremy Paxman interviewed Ed Miliband, and made an oblique reference to the Miliband family wealth, but Miliband deflected and tried to laugh it off.

Many of Britain’s ultra-wealthy have considerable funds offshore.

Actually, on a personal and not directly-related point, I remember being told, prior to a flying visit to Liechtenstein in 2002, that the person I was flying out to see (you have to fly to Zurich and then drive to Vaduz, which takes another ~2-hours), a quintessentially-English-named Mr. Jeeves, who was in the offshore industry and was also the Honorary Consul (British Consul) in Liechtenstein, was also an agent of, or at least source for, SIS.

Mr. Jeeves apparently dealt with large amounts of offshore (i.e. tax-avoiding) monies on behalf of some very or ultra-wealthy British people, including the then Queen (Elizabeth II) and Mick Jagger. So I was told, anyway.

Looking up today, online, the global Jeeves Group, though, I notice that the person I went to see in 2002 is not now directly involved in operating the organization; he and his brother were at least in their sixties, I should imagine, and may well be deceased, 24 years after I met one of them.

Wouldn’t those “antifa” cretins get a massive shock if [REDACTED BY REASON OF UK POLICE-STATE CENSORSHIP]…

https://twitter.com/benwehrman/status/2065454074783518886

[“The British People are fully on board with deporting all illegal migrants. Good.

Now it’s time to turn to the reality that legal migration is the far bigger problem.

There are approx 14 million third-world descent migrants in Great Britain.

If we do not urgently reverse legal migration, we will soon become a minority in our homeland. We are already a minority in a quarter of schools.

Some might say that remigration is extreme, but I would argue that being willing to give up our only homeland is far, far more extreme.

Without the Native British People, there is no Britain.“]

“Losing“? That boat sailed long ago, Goodwin. A major factor has been the promotion of mass immigration for 80+ years (mostly, though not entirely, by the Jewish element in politics, law, and the mainstream media).

Only wading through very unpleasant swamps will now save the British people, and I doubt that Reform UK is up to what may need to be done.

[“What’s living in the UK like? I’ll tell you. In the last week alone we have had to process:

-an attempted beheading by an illegal migrant from Sudan in Belfast
-while still trying to make sense of a boy, Henry Nowak, being stabbed to death while police were more anxious about allegations of “racism” than trying to save his life
-then we learn children in Scotland were assaulted by Bulgarians while the police didn’t believe them either
-while reading that a vulnerable 18-year-old was rped by an asylum-seeker from Pakistan -while an asylum-seeker from Iraq got only 6 years for rpe
-while an Iraqi national, was found guilty of eight counts of r*pe and grooming children as young as 12
-and his friend from Iran who arrived illegally skipped bail and is on the run
-and now we learn that a teenage girl has been stabbed in the neck by no doubt “a local man” in Burnley.

That’s one week in the UK. Oh, and the Left say talking about all this is “divisive”, they blame social media and Elon Musk, and local councils have told us not to fly our national flag because it might “intimidate” migrants. One week. The UK.”]

A couple of point: first, the “Bulgarians” mentioned were almost certainly Gypsies from Bulgaria, not ethnic Bulgarians. Bulgarians, like Romanians, are often tarred, very wrongly, with the brush that should be reserved for the Gypsy element from both countries.

Second, why does Goodwin never mention the fact that Jews such as now-dismissed p/t judge, barrister Simon Myerson of Leeds, have actually set up “charities” to import more Afghans etc?

In fact, Goodwin always avoids criticism of Israel and of any Jews (with the exception of the Green Party leader, Zack Polanski, but Polanski is one of those Jews other Jews love to hate).

In my view, one element that really does need to be addressed, urgently, by Government in the UK is not black or brown (etc)— the nasty Irish-origined tinker/”traveller” element. In fact, properly “addressing” that problem might encourage some of the blacks and browns (etc) to depart “voluntarily”.

Apocalypse Now

Saw a long recording of the final director’s cut of the famous film, Apocalypse Now. More than impressive, and makes much more sense than the usual much-cut-down version that I have seen in the past.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now#Apocalypse_Now_Final_Cut

Quite many films have been butchered; to what extent, you only understand once you see fuller versions: The Wicker Man (1973) is far far better in the rather longer versions. I once had a copy of the Director’s Cut version.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man#Director’s_cut

Same goes for Taxi Driver:

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

One film that I thought only just made sense when I first saw it in France is Les Rivieres pourpres. I read later that the director had cut out a high proportion of the film as originally made; as far as I know, no longer cut exists in the public domain.

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

A great pity.

Late tweets

Look at them. As I suspected, not “Bulgarians” but Gypsies from Bulgaria.

Now, those little Scottish girls have been vindicated, the Gypsies convicted, and Police Scotland (and Humza Yusaf) shamed (yet again).

All the msm etc are talking about the Makerfield by-election as if the whole future of the UK rests on it. No, because even if Burnham wins, which is now probable though not certain, he has, and Labour has, nothing much in the tank. Same-old, really.

Good point.

People are getting desperate for a real Britain and a real British political vehicle. Unconsciously, they want social nationalism but are, by reason of a century of mostly Jewish anti-“Nazi” propaganda, mostly completely unaware of that.

I believe the graph. When I was in the Caribbean, I was told that, if a local (i.e. black) man marries a woman with existing teenage or even pre-teen daughters, it is almost expected that the girls come with their mother as a kind of sexual package deal for the man.

Incidentally, why do so many “woke” cretins not understand “per capita“? Must be an educational failure.

Not hard to believe at all. It is simply that Starmer-stein has outlived his usefulness by reason of not only his own incompetence but also that of his entire Labour Friends of Israel Cabinet.

By reason of Starmer’s failing credibility, the organ-grinders need a new monkey to draw in the punters…Arise, Andy Burnham…

Oh, I see that System mouthpiece and “asset” Paul Mason is there too. What a surprise…(use the search box on the blog to see my assessments of Mason).

Always. The “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, for example, has repeated “form” for claiming thousands on the streets at their events, when the true number has, at times, been no more than 100 or even 50.

I repost that tweet despite the individual in question having repeatedly tweeted against me a decade ago. #MoralHighGround.

Late music

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Diary Blog, 11 April 2026

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Afternoon music

[Levitan, Birch Forest]

Saturday quiz

Well, this week a convincing victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored a modest 21/. My score was 6/10. I did not know that answers to questions 2, 4, 6, and 7.

Talking point

I happened to see again the following, a blog post I published nearly 2 years ago in 2024:

“Basic Income

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton,_California#Experiment_in_Guaranteed_Basic_Income

“As part of a privately funded experiment in Universal Basic Income in 2019, the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (S.E.E.D.) conducted a pilot project that gave a $500 stipend to 125 randomly selected residents for an 24-month period with “no strings attached.“[51] “

[Wikipedia]

“SEED was a Randomized Control Trial that distributed $500 a month for 24 months to 125 recipients. The cash was unconditional, with no strings attached and no work requirements, and recipients were selected randomly from neighborhoods at or below Stockton’s median household income.

Results gathered from the first year, which spanned February of 2019 to February of 2020, found recipients obtained full-time employment at more than twice the rate of non-recipients. Recipients were less anxious and depressed, both over time and compared to the control  group. They also saw statistically significant improvements in emotional health, fatigue levels and overall well being. Recipients had a greater ability to pay for unexpected expenses.

People spent the SEED money on basic needs, including food (nearly 37%), sales/merchandise (22%, on home goods, clothes/shoes and discount/dollar stores), utilities (11%) and auto costs (10%). Less than 1% was spent on alcohol and/or tobacco.”

https://www.stocktondemonstration.org/press-landing/guaranteed-income-increases-employment-improves-financial-and-physical-health

In my view, Basic Income must be the way to go, with AI and robotics impacting employment and set to do so more. The alternative to Basic Income is to have a tiny sliver of the population ultra-wealthy, a wider layer wealthy, and about 80% of the population near-destitute.“

I think that that is even more obvious in 2026.

Another talking point

“A country that has forgotten its culture, history, traditions and national heroes is doomed to extinction” [Tolstoy]

That is where the UK now is; or very close to it.

Another talking point

“Give white men a pile of bricks and they will leave you with a civilization. Give blacks a civilization and they will leave you with a pile of bricks” [Anon.].

Simplistic, of course, but true none the less. The white inhabitants of London, and many other European and North American cities, can vouch for the veracity of that.

Tweets seen

Field Marshal Starmer-stein…

Perhaps, after Reform UK gets into government but then fails to satisfy the needs of the British people, real social-national politics will come to the fore. We do not need universal support, nor even a majority, just a large enough minority (disciplined and equipped etc) to take over regardless of rigged System elections.

[“The IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) officially made Argentina the head country member of the alliance last month. This is why they want Argentina to become a safe haven for Israelis.

If you look at every other country who is a member of the IHRA, or observing the IHRA, you’ll see most have been seriously impacted with mass immigration from the third world in recent years.“]

The “fifth column” in most advanced and/or wealthy states…

Incidentally, depending on definition(s), there are between 193 and 330 states, countries, territories etc in the world. The so-called “international definition of antisemitism” has only been adopted by between 38 and 47 (again, dependent on the details) of those states, territories etc.

[“Around 700 years ago, there was a bottleneck phenomenon with Ashkenazi jews.

About 40% of Ashkenazi jews’ maternal DNA traces back to only four women from this time period.

Genetics are destiny with behaviour.

Ashkenazi jews are far more prone to schizophrenia, and just general paranoia, than White populations because of this.

Also, with such a small gene pool to work from, if their ancestors had strong dark triad traits, it’s certain that most living descendants today also have them which explains this awful behaviour below.“]

See also:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/scientists-reveal-jewish-history-s-forgotten-turkish-roots-a6992076.html

Our animal friends. (yes, they attack chickens etc, so protect your chickens more effectively; “good fences make good neighbours”…).

I remember it well. I called that area home for many years.

[Little Venice, London W9; the Lagoon]

Israeli Jews did that, and much more besides, and even the Jewish-lobby organizations in the UK and other parts of the world admit (indeed, claim) that most Jews living in the UK and other countries support what the Israeli Jews are (once again) doing. Mass slaughter of civilians.

Need one comment?

Late tweets seen

Britain would have been better off had Johnson been put up against a wall 25 years ago.

Peter Hitchens debates with Zoe Strimpel, American Jewish Zionist. She comes to the UK, and is allowed not only to live here but also to scribble, remuneratively, in the Press, and to talk on TV etc, purporting to tell us, the British, what we should think and do. A propagandist for Israel and Jews generally.

I doubt that I should be allowed to go to Israel, or even some Jewish enclave in Connecticut, and make a good living in the local msm, while criticizing and lecturing the inhabitants of either of those regions. Why do we allow it to happen here?

The same goes for all the foreign bodies in our Parliament, not only Jews but also various other types of non-Europeans.

[“Tim Dillon: “Israel is just blowing up apartment complexes in Lebanon.”

“Massacring women and children.”

“The blowback that Israel will get from this—and the US will get for funding it—will be insane.”

“You are creating terrorists all over the world.”

“It’s going to radicalize them.”

“Israel bombing Beirut 100 times in … 10 minutes.”

“In a densely populated urban area.”

“I’m starting to get this nagging feeling that Israel doesn’t really want this ceasefire.”

“Israel claims in all of these buildings, there are terrorists doing terrorist things.”

“Their argument is like, if we kill everyone, inevitably some of the people will be terrorists.”

“I’ve never seen the brutality of this type of warfare.”

“You can’t just indiscriminately kill civilians and not expect that people are going to be radicalized.”]

I sincerely hope that someone shoots that bastard, and that it takes him several hours to die, just as he slowly killed that wolf.

The same goes for all those who stood by in that bar two years ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/10/wyoming-wolf-bar-animal-abuse

Are the abusers still around? Is that bar still standing? Apparently, the bar owner shown above is the aunt of the primary criminal.

Late music

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Diary Blog, 17 March 2026

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Afternoon music

[swimming pool “Moskva”, photographed in 1970s; I swam there (later) a few times]

Tweets seen

Suddenly, they are the “victims” (again)…

They drew first blood.

Britain must leave NATO and cultivate better relations with Russia. We can then have Russian gas at, or near, cost price.

The Jews [Israeli Jews and also their “fifth columns” in countries such as the UK] fomented this war (and, of course, previous wars), treacherously attacked Iran during the currency of supposed peace negotiations, and then (Epstein files?) blackmailed or coerced half-crazed Trump into “tail wags dog” offensive action against Iran.

Britain must stay out of the war, though Britain’s waning military and naval power would not make much difference to the outcome either way.

“What goes around comes around” (eventually)…

A more ruthless UK government in the 1970s might have covertly poisoned or otherwise disposed of both Adams and McGuinness.

Throw the “artists” a few fried chicken legs and a “Tracey Emin Award”.

Ah. Peter Sutherland. A very evil individual, who tweeted a few times against me about 10 or 12 years ago. A couple of years later, he “went up the chimney”.

Sutherland was, according to Wikipedia, Irish, and a Roman Catholic, but his photo (see Wikipedia) seems to show some “other” element also present:

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

A Bilderberger, and very tied-in to the transnational conspiracy. Goldman Sachs, Allied Irish Banks etc. A board member of the sinister “Swedish” Wallenberg bank operation too. Pro-mass migration of non-Europeans into Europe, and (of course) pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby etc. Arch-globalist and proponent of finance-capitalism.

Enemy of true Europe, enemy of England and true Britain.

[“A lot of people have mentioned Gove so let’s take a look.

MICHAEL GOVE. A thread. 1/ The government repeatedly told the public: “Ministers had no involvement in procurement decisions.” The Covid Inquiry proved that was a lie. And nowhere is that clearer than with Michael Gove. 2/ September 2019. Gove was Cabinet Office minister overseeing Brexit readiness. He held a meeting with Palantir. The company told his department it could provide “capabilities to manage the fast-evolving and unpredictable environment” of Brexit. One year later: £27m Cabinet Office contract. No tender. Source: openDemocracy FOI investigation. 3/ Then the pandemic hit. And Gove got busy. Meller Designs. A fashion company run by David Meller — who had donated nearly £60,000 to the Conservative Party and personally supported Gove’s 2016 leadership bid. Gove’s office referred Meller Designs to the VIP lane. 4/ Meller Designs won six PPE contracts worth £164m. Three of those six contracts were priced at between 1.2 and 2.2 times the average unit price paid to other suppliers. Source: Good Law Project analysis of government spending data. 5/ Unispace Global. The single biggest winner from the entire VIP lane operation. On 24 March 2020 Unispace emailed Gove thanking him for “your time spent with us on the phone earlier.” Twenty days later: a £239m contract. Total Unispace PPE deals: £679m. 6/ When this emerged the Cabinet Office denied Gove was involved. Then the Covid Inquiry published the evidence. A senior civil servant’s witness statement confirmed the Unispace offer had “come through” Gove — directly contradicting the government’s public position. Source: Byline Times/Covid Inquiry documents, March 2025. 7/ James Dyson. Leading Brexiteer. Keen Gove ally. The Covid Inquiry heard Gove was “INSISTENT that an order be placed” with Dyson’s company for 10,000 ventilators. At a meeting on 25 March 2020, Gove “acknowledged he was under political pressure to ensure we have followed up with Dyson.” 8/ An independent procurement expert appointed by the Covid Inquiry called the Dyson deal an “affront to procurement rules.” The contract was eventually cancelled. Of £277m spent on ventilators by the Cabinet Office, £143m was written off. Source: Professor Dr Albert Sanchez-Graells, Covid Inquiry expert report, March 2025. 9/ There’s more. Gove awarded a contract to Public First — a research company whose directors had personal connections to Dominic Cummings. The High Court ruled it unlawful. The judge: “The existence of personal connections between the Defendant, Mr Cummings and the directors of Public First was a relevant circumstance that might be perceived to compromise their impartiality.” Source: High Court judgment, June 2021. 10/ Gove also referred six firms to the Test and Trace VIP lane alongside Cabinet Office Minister Lord Agnew. Source: Good Law Project exclusive, confirmed November 2023. 11/ After all of this, David Meller — the Tory donor whose fashion company won £164m in Gove-referred contracts — was elevated to the UK Board of Trade by Kemi Badenoch. No competitive process. No public announcement. Source: Byline Times investigation. 12/ The Cabinet Office said repeatedly: “No evidence ministers were involved in procurement decisions.” The High Court disagreed. The Covid Inquiry disagreed. The documents disagreed. Gove is now Baron Gove. A life peer. Editor of The Spectator. Nobody has been charged. 13/ Hancock WhatsApped donors. Gove referred his leadership campaign backer. Johnson texted Dyson personally. Same pattern. Same party. Same public money. The Covid Corruption Commissioner is still investigating. The National Crime Agency is probing possible criminal offences. We are still waiting for accountability. #GoveMustAnswer#CovidContracts“]

When I was wrongfully and (as it later transpired) illegally disbarred in 2016, one of the merely 5 tweets (out of around 150,000 tweets and retweets since 2010) that supposedly grounded that disbarment (it was really a multi-years-long conspiracy by a pack of Jews) was a tweet describing Gove in some such terms as being a fraudulent pro-Jew, pro-Israel expenses cheat.

All true, but the truth is no defence these days, not when the Jew lobby decides to attack you.

I might add that, neither in 2014 (when the “UK Lawyers of Israel” Jews made their contrived complaint against me to the Bar Standards Board), nor in 2016 (when the case was heard by the Bar Disciplinary Tribunal) was I aware that Gove was also an alcoholic drunk, and a serial cocaine abuser! The perverse little bastard is now the Editor of the “Conservative” magazine The Spectator. Oh, and also a member of the totally debased House of Lords. Unbelievable, or maybe not.

That Nigerian “Femi Sorry” idiot is a prime example of how the idea of “only allowing in professional-level migrants” (Reform, Restore, Advance, and other pseudo-national parties) just does not work.

“Femi” has parents who are affluent NHS medics. He himself, though, has never had a job, let alone a profession or business (except a year or so as EU-funded propagandist against Brexit); he has in the past had unpaid or grant-aided “internships” and “academic/student placements” (really only possible because he is subsidized by his parents) and now, at age 36, just “grifts” along doing tiny TV and radio appearances (if he still does any of those; maybe not), and (I believe) living via donations from mugs. Useless. A waste of space.

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

You may only let in “professional-work” migrants, but their offspring will probably be, like “Femi”, completely useless millstones round the neck of the British people.

Much as I should like to think that Netanyahu has gone up the chimney, it is hard to imagine the Israelis being so careless. Well, I suppose the truth will have to emerge before long.

Always the “victims”, even when they fomented this war, they started it by attacking Iran, they blackmailed “Epstein/Lolita” Trump into doing much of the dirty work or “wet work” for them, and when they (the Jew “fifth column” members in the UK and elsewhere) are in the Press and on TV and screeching for war constantly [etc].

As to the evident mental instability, see also:

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

Some replies say that there are a few inaccuracies there. Maybe. A few…

I noticed a day or two ago that even the Crufts dog show on TV (in the UK) had some weird-looking Jewish woman presenting it or commenting on it, or some of it (I only saw a few minutes of the show).

Ah. The 92nd Street Y in Upper East Side Manhattan. I have been there a couple of times. Around 1990-1992. I went to a concert there.

[“This is Emma Barnett. Emma is a Jewish BBC host. Emma’s father, Ian Barnett, was convicted and imprisoned for running prostitution brothels in Manchester, England. Emma’s mother, Michele Barnett, was convicted of laundering the money from the family’s brothel operation.

Emma, while never convicted for direct involvement, was fully aware of the family business, openly discussing the “whores” with her father, while photos of the “whores” were kept in the family’s lounge and piano room.

In the aftermath of her parents convictions, however, she publicly feigned ignorance and played victim to the circumstances, calling it “the most painful chapter of my life.” Shocking, I know, that she’d be so transparently two-faced.

Oh, wait. Here we see her two faces again, as she so readily ascribes “White privilege” to a guest while excoriating their “cavalier” word choice, then, in response to seeing “Jewish privilege” on X, she reengages victim mode and appeals to her audience’s sympathies by whiningly asking, “Do you know that feels? Do you know how frightening that is? How angering that is?”

Ah yes, Emma “The Eternal Victim” Barnett – millionaire BBC star living in London’s posh Herne Hill neighborhood. Bludgeoning Whites for our “privilege;” recoiling in horror when the same is said of her people.

This is your “media,” Western Man.

In fact, I’ve never seen a better distillation of the essence of what our media class truly is than these two soundbites.“]

Not sure about Herne Hill being “posh“. I was there occasionally in the 1980s. Maybe it has become more expensive in the years since.

As to the rest, very true. The UK mass media really needs to be cleaned out.

Afternoon thought

We see so many posts on Twitter/X by Jews in the UK, claiming that whatever Israel may do in Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq etc has nothing to do with the “British” Jewish community, nothing at all. All the same, those same Jews tweeting on Twitter/X are always, always supportive of Israel and its activities in every way imaginable, from its arms industry to whatever its armed forces do, including the mass slaughter in Gaza, and even the murderous activities of MOSSAD and other allied agencies of Israeli Intelligence.

Of course, the Jews on Twitter/X are far more fanatical, I imagine, than many of those not making a public statement. Still, the Jew-Zionist pressure groups themselves say that up to 95% of Jews in the UK “support Israel” (whatever that may mean).

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I remember well the Poland of the late 1980s, to which I made several visits, a total time spent of, perhaps, 2 months. I have not returned since late 1989, when I was best man at a large wedding at the Basilica in the main square at Krakov. It was like the wedding scene in the film El Cid.

From what I have seen on Google Earth, Twitter etc, I should not recognize the Warsaw, or even Krakov and Bielsko-Biala etc, that I saw back then. Remarkable and interesting.

Both journalists Jewish, yet both openly criticizing Trump’s madness.

Israel’s madness too, of course, because the [Israeli] Jews both fomented and started this war, and also drew first blood.

I think that Israel was of the mentality, “well, we control —more or less— the American government, State Department, mass media, so the Americans are basically under our control via the American Jewish lobby, and the American public will, as always since the 1960s, fall for our propaganda if only because almost all the TV, radio, Press are under Jewish control or ownership and will slant the news the way we want. Also, we can press the “holocaust” and “Hitler” buttons so that we seem to be the victims as usual.”

Also, they may think that “we have nuclear weapons, but Iran has none.”

What that says to me is that it is now not unthinkable that, if Trump pulls his forces out of the war, the [Israeli] Jews will use those nuclear weapons on Iran. That might destroy Iran completely, or for hundreds of years, but it will also start the countdown to doom for Israel itself.

Late tweets seen

Looney Tunes…

It may be time for thinking Americans, especially those in positions of power, to start looking at what are the protocols in place for the use of the American nuclear arsenal, and in particular re. how to stop the crazed misuse of that arsenal.

[“Wave 59 of Operation “Truthful Promise-4” with the launch of the Haj Qassem missile.

IRGC Public Relations Office:

The fifty-ninth wave of Operation “Truthful Promise-4”, code-named “I am Heydar Karar”, dedicated to the martyrs of the Air Force, was carried out against targets in Beit Shemesh, Tel Aviv and occupied Jerusalem, as well as at the bases of the US terrorist army in Al-Udeid, Ali Salem, Fujairah, Sheikh Isa and Erbil, using precision systems such as Qadr, Emad, Fateh, Haj Qassem and strike drones as part of an operation focused on efficiency, with complete success with the help of the Almighty.

A new phase of powerful and destructive strikes against the American-Israeli throughout the region has begun, and the bone of arrogance will be broken in the streets and squares.“]

Good. So get out of Britain, take your planes and personnel, and bombs and missiles, with you.

If it does happen, I might even emulate the Muslims and shout out “God is great!“…

…thus proving, yet again, that the EU is a conspiratorial cabal, and not an association of free nations at all.

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Diary Blog, 3 March 2026

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[Volegov, Quiet Evening]

Tweets seen

The USA, like the UK, has in its midst a Jewish, Zionist, pro-Israel “fifth column” that has infiltrated not only business, finance, the legal world, publishing, and the mainstream media, but the highest councils of national policy. That lobby is the problem.

In the USA, prominent non-Jew puppets of that lobby include the likes of Senator Lindsey Graham; in the UK, horrible little blots such as Michael Gove.

Of course, in the USA Jews comprise about 2% of the population, whereas in the UK the proportion is less than 1%, perhaps half of 1%.

MOSSAD (and Israeli services generally) have always engaged in false flag attacks, even in the 1950s, e.g. in Egypt.

There is a Jewish lobby and Israel lobby (effectively the same thing) cabal in each of the main UK political parties. Labour Friends of Israel. Conservative Friends of Israel. Now also Reform UK Friends of Israel. Why Reform? Because Reform might just win the next general election, so the (((fix))) has to be in, in advance, just in case.

Camilla Tominey, one of the worst pro-Jewish lobby, pro-Israel msm scribblers and talking heads in this country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilla_Tominey.

Multiply that one by a million or more, and you get an idea of the scale of the problem.

My solution? Wall. Squad. End.

As an interim measure, the UK will have to introduce “Pass Laws” eventually, as were necessary in pre-ANC South Africa, to restrict the movements of non-Europeans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Degrelle. Hero.

Start with Shabana Mahmood, Sajid Javid, and Sadiq Khan. Oh, no, wait…they are “British” citizens (we are told)…

Wake up, Goodwin. There is no “special relationship”. You are showing your ingrained parochialism.

We have no war with Iran, the likelihood of one is very small, and so we have no need for any defence against Iran at this point. We may not like the backward aspects of the Iranian regime, but it is not our business to topple it, especially in concert with the Jews of Israel, which does interfere, constantly, in the UK: in our politics, laws, and culture, in our society generally.

Israel and the Jews have attacked the British people far more than any Iranians.

No, no, no. Only real English/British people should be allowed to stand for election. Only real English/British people should be allowed to vote. The alternative is eventual white genocide somewhere down the line and, in the interim, our becoming, at best, just one group among many, one bloc among many. Our destiny must be to rule, or it is nothing.

Incidentally, I am not just referring to Muslims.

Translates to a Commons with about 285 Reform UK MPs (41 short of an overall majority), 132 Greens (official Opposition), 78 LibDems, 57 Cons, 46 SNP, 28 Lab [etc].

On those figures, Starmer-stein himself would lose his seat, along with about 383 of his Labour Party colleagues.

A result like that might be the mess that could bring to birth real social nationalism. Let us hope so.

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[River Cam at Clare Bridge, Cambridge]

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Should I hit the Euromillions this evening, I shall plant millions of trees.

As usual, “they” are very “brave” when in a pack, and especially when facing a defenceless woman. What a repulsive tribe.

Translates to a Commons with about 394 Reform UK MPs (large majority), 60 LibDems (official but extremely weak Opposition), 52 Greens, 45 SNP, 44 Cons, and 29 Lab [etc].

As with the other poll today, on those figures, Starmer would lose his own seat (probably to the Greens).

Not only that. The people of 60+ years of age, and particularly those 80+, who are almost the only Con Party voters now, are either going to go Reform next time, or are not going to be around. I should not be surprised if the Con Party national vote at the next GE declines to 15% or even 10%.

Talking point

Late tweets seen

Yes, that Linehan person is a horrible little man, who parroted the Jewish lobby line about me on Twitter when I was wrongfully and unlawfully disbarred in 2016. Nonetheless, when he got “cancelled” and temporarily lost his Twitter account and more, I supported his right to freedom of expression, thus gaining the moral high ground (as always). He is a horrible little bastard, though. A complete puppet of the Israel/Jew lobby.

Late thoughts

Whatever happens in the current ME conflict, one state already comes out as a winner— Russia. The world price of oil and gas has rocketed; Russia is a major producer of both. As the USA allows its dependent “ally”, Israel, to control US actions, American credibility slides worldwide, so that is a diplomatic win by default for Russia. Finally, the missiles and other weapons going to the attacks on Iran, and defence of Israel, will not be going to the Kiev regime. Overall, then, a tripartite win for Russia and Putin.

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[Spetsnaz operative deplanes over St. Petersburg]

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Diary Blog, 21 January 2026

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

From 6 years ago

I happened to notice that a blog post written over 6 years ago, on New Year’s Eve 2019, had a few hits. On reading it myself for the first time since then I found that it has held up quite well:

Diary Blog, 31 December 2019; and also my thoughts, on the final day of 2019

Talking point

“Hitler did not share the ideas of his Austrian compatriot. He argued in his 1928 Secret Book that they are unfit for the future defence of Europe against America. As America fills its North American lebensraum, “the natural activist urge that is peculiar to young nations will turn outward.” But then “a pacifist-democratic pan-European hodgepodge state” would not be able to oppose the United States, as it is “according to the conception of that commonplace bastard, Coudenhove-Kalergi…”“

[Wikipedia]

I quoted that in a blog post of 6 July 2019:

The Conservatives, Boris Johnson, Upcoming Political Events and the Currents in Society

Destruction of Nature in England

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/21/judi-dench-backs-campaign-protect-london-green-spaces-from-developers

“New research by CPRE London has found that at least nine parks, eight playing fields and eight nature reserves in London are at risk, including Whitewebbs Park in Enfield, Wimbledon Park, and Green Dale Fields in Southwark. After campaigning by CPRE London and local groups, six green spaces were saved last year, including the pitches at Finsbury leisure centre in Islington, but seven were lost, including Crossness nature reserve in Bexley.

Countryside campaigners have criticised the government for allowing development on the green belt in new plans and setting a “grey belt” policy that categorises some protected land as ripe for housing and infrastructure.

In Enfield, the local council has agreed to lease part of Whitewebbs Park to Tottenham Hotspur football club. It is also the site of an ancient oak that was felled by contractors last year, to public dismay.

Dench said: “Staggeringly, 10% of public land in Britain has been lost since 1979. Whitewebbs Park in Enfield is one of the public parks currently under threat. There, a 450-year-old oak tree was brutally butchered and Spurs’ plans to develop the park involve cutting down 207 trees, including veteran and mature trees, and taking over most of the park for their elite private use.

“It is clear to me that it is more important than ever to protect our parks and green spaces before it’s too late.“

[Guardian]

Disgraceful. One of the many bad things that have been happened in this regard in the UK, especially in England, over the past 30+ years, arguably 40+ years, is the proliferation of private housing development without planning authorities insisting upon green space left for Nature and local people. Parks, nature reserves, roadside trees and bushes.

Tweets seen

Worth watching in full. A discussion involving the much-decorated and now-retired former commander of U.S. forces in Europe.

I remain sorry for all those people, and their companion animals, suffering as the war continues, but this is a war which Russia cannot and will not lose.

Neither side should be directly targeting civilians.

The Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev should either surrender, and leave Ukraine, or come to an agreement with Russia that leaves Russia with all territory presently held, as well as all the rest of Eastern Ukraine (Ukraine east of the Dnieper).

Incidentally, the soup mentioned in that tweet is better known as borshch…

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

I like borshch (without meat, and with smetana or sour cream); has been years since I had any, though.

Import Asians and you import Asia…

Similar but more dramatic than the other of today’s opinion polls. Would translate to a Commons with about 378 Reform MPs, 88 Labour, 58 LibDems, 42 SNP, 38 Cons, 11 Greens [etc].

That last tweeter, though, fails to see that Reform UK is now itself morphing into a System party…

I am of course completely against what F.D. Roosevelt did in the international arena, but compare his literate and weighty speeches and statements with those of Trump. Is further comment even necessary?

Stop all new mass immigration. Stop the boat invasion (whatever it takes). Start a steady programme to repatriate or otherwise remove non-Europeans from the UK and the rest of Europe. Eliminate foreign interference (especially from Israel and its agents) from the UK socio-political matrix. Start to help Nature to recover. Stop all cruelty and brutality to animals. Stop corruption of politicians and others. Start (in many many ways and via many many policies) to create a more just society and one where services and institutions work properly.

Nick Griffin’s blog

https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/greenland-grab-whats-really-behind

Worth reading.

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Well, there it is (for today, at least)…

Seems that the Devil really does wear Prada.

Late tweets seen

That photo of “Mark Lewis Lawyer” is at least 14 years out of date. These days, he can hardly walk, or think straight.

Dishonest and conspiratorial Jewish lawyers? Surely not…

No mention of the the Jew-Zionist/Israeli agent/fifth column element in that video, though…

Once again backs off. His controllers must have “had a word”…

Interesting. What are the sources? Are they reliable (if they exist)?

Somewhere between mad ignorance and self-parody.

We should not be helping either Israel or the fake states of the Gulf, and the USA has vast fleets, should it want to defend those people. We have our own problems anyway.

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Diary Blog, 23 August 2025

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Afternoon music

Saturday quiz

Well, this week brings another victory over political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 4/10. I scored 7/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 6, and 9.

Tweets seen

[“The reason Substacks and new media are thriving is because millions of people are utterly sick of the same liberal centrist dross being served up and shoved down our throats —from the BBC to much of the MSM—and then presented as some kind of “insight” when, in reality, it reflects the worldview of a 5-10% elite minority who still think we are living in 1997 and have failed to see that, actually, people don’t want liberalism on steroids. This elite minority is filled with people who went to the same schools, the same universities, who all basically think the same, live in the same postcodes, and are so obsessed with conforming to the Groupthink or their own social status that they never come close to representing or understanding the wider country. The only thing they want to do is maintain a dismal status-quo that was largely built by this elite class to serve the interests of this elite class. You can criticise me, that’s fine, but this is also why we are now one of the largest independent politics newsletters in the West (http://mattgoodwin.org), and why many others are also emerging, because people see through the Blob and they’ve had enough of it. Because they are the ones having to live with the reality of what this elite class has done to the country —an elite class that now also has the gall to say “yes we get your concerns but don’t be too annoyed/we don’t like your tone”. Do you see how utterly deluded large parts to legacy media now look to everybody else? Look for example at the stuff your own paper has been pushing on immigration. It is so obviously biased and disconnected from the mounting pile of evidence that it is embarrassing to read and, even worse, the reason you won’t change your tune is because you view the truth as “low status” and everybody can see it. Do you have one columnist, a single columnist, who genuinely reflects the mood of the average voter right now? Nope. Hence why the Tories are collapsing. Hence why legacy media is haemorrhaging viewers and listeners. Hence why liberal centrists (sorry, “conservatives”) are sitting around, scratching their heads, wondering why nobody is interested in them anymore. Still, the failures of MSM are what is driving the success of new media and the realignment of politics so keep doing what you’re doing …“]

Finkelstein, a Jew-Zionist who has “done rather well” for himself while the UK has gradually been sliding into the mire over the past decades.

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

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

We are the “Noticers”…

Good, but not enough.

The “rubber boat” invaders are only 5% of the overall problem; indeed, if births to non-Europeans are taken into account, even less.

I think that the British people have largely made up their collective mind: Farage and Reform are slightly underwhelming, but are the only game in town to vote for in order to hit out at the System parties that have done so much damage. Everyone now knows that, at every by-election, and every local election, from now until the next general election, and then at that general election, the way to stamp on both Lab and Con is to vote Reform.

The Reform vote at the next general election will probably be between 30% and 45%, and even the 30% level will be enough to sink Starmer-stein and his Labour Friends of Israel regime.

“Labour” ceased to be “the party of the working man” a long long time ago, and certainly no later than 1997.

Travelogue by train

Animal magic

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An utter cretin.

I shall be interested and amused to see the progress, if any, of the new party being set up by Corbyn and the comedic-named Zara Sultana. I am told that about a quarter of Labour members will join, defecting from Starmer-Labour. A quarter of members, maybe, but I apprehend that only about a tenth of Labour voters, if that, will defect at the next general election. At present, official Labour is registering about 20%-28% in the opinion polls. That seems to put Corbyn-Labour on maybe 2% or 3%. I doubt that Corbyn’s new party will attract more than 10% of the entire election vote; maybe 5%. Even 10% may not result in more than one or two MPs. Corbyn himself, and maybe Ms. Sultana, in both of whose constituencies the vote may be more concentrated.

[“If you are not from the UK then you should know there are currently dozens of protests happening right now across the country against illegal migration, broken borders, the sexual assault of our children, and the fact our own government is using our own money to outbid our own people in our own housing market by bankrolling private firms to put illegal migrants into the heart of our communities with more favourable rental contracts, all while giving us a bill of £7 BILLION a year and calling us “far right” if we say anything about it.”]

Impressive, but no more so than the one that stood in the garden of my parents’ house at Reigate Hill, Surrey, circa 1980. The house itself was called Sequoiah (the Native American name for giant redwood). I think that tree was about 100 years old at the time.

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[Victor Ostrovsky, Distraction]