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Diary Blog, 14 August 2026

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[“Britain is the only Western country where the police will turn up at your door for a tweet, but somehow never seem to find the time when actual criminals are running the streets. Say something mildly offensive online? Instant investigation. Actual violence, knife crime, shoplifting epidemics? “Community impact assessments” and soft justice. They’ll lecture you about “hate speech” while the establishment destroys the country’s energy security with Net Zero virtue-signalling that makes your bills higher and industry uncompetitive. The message is clear: your opinions are the real threat. Everything else is just background noise. Two-tier justice isn’t a theory. It’s the operating system. #UK #Britain #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfSpeech #FreeExpression #UKPolitics #BritishPolitics #TwoTierJustice #FreeSpeechMatters #Police #UKPolice #JusticeSystem #LawAndOrder #KnifeCrime #Crime #NetZero #EnergySecurity #CostOfLiving #PoliticalAccountability #BritishPublic #SpeakFreely #PoliticalDebate #WesternCivilisation #UKNews“]

Public water supply, on the large scale, has to be in public ownership.

Yet many people, brainwashed by the System msm, will still vote System (Con, Lab, or the joke LibDems), in the belief that the longstanding System parties are more credible than others, even though that flies in the face of decades of their own lived experience.

If only the initial 2022 invasion by Russian forces had been planned and executed properly, in the Soviet fashion. A blitzkrieg for the sake of mercy.

Dan Hodges is not really a journalist in the traditional sense, more a tendentious and obsessed talking-head and scribbler.

Not very polite, but more or less what Hodges deserves…

I have little time for Farage, ideologically. His pro-Jew, pro-Israel stances, if nothing else, ensure that. His globalist and mindless “libertarianism” too.

Having said that, the “stunt” at Clacton was surely the stupid and meaningless “Count Binface” stunt, which was expressly backed by so many of the tired “woke” types on Twitter/X and in the msm (including Hodges).

The fact is that the old System parties, the LibLabCon-men (and women) are still running scared of Reform UK and, potentially, even more so of what can be seen coming down the tracks after Reform: maybe Restore Britain and, then, after that, real social nationalism.

The traditional System parties ran scared of Farage and Reform at Clacton. Had any of them thought they had a chance, they would have stood candidates. None did. They knew that Farage would beat them easily.

The “Binface” stunt showed, actually, how meaningless the Parliamentary circus is. More than 9,000 cretins (or disenchanted) voted for the “Binface” stunt nitwit. I suppose that, had the System parties stood, Lab and LibDem would have lost their deposits or nearly so (as happened in 2024), and that the Con candidate would have received a few thousand votes and probably come second.

Unable to say more about the actual result (i.e. Farage and Reform getting 63.34% of the vote, as against 46.2% in 2024), the msm scribblers have decided that the big story is that Farage did not turn up for the official declaration…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clacton_(constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s

All the traditional churches (and their offshoot organizations) have fallen into decadence and evil.

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[The Wicker Man (1973 British film)]

Latest vlog from Bealtaine Cottage

Some of her comments show an (inchoate) understanding of the encroaching evil in the world, evil using bureaucracy —and endless laws and regulations— as a cloak. She also realizes that that has increased and encroached more since the “Covid” scamdemic of 2020-2022.

Another recent Bealtaine Cottage vlog

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As blogged yesterday, Burnham is out of his depth. Not as obviously evil as his predecessor, Starmer-stein, but so far pretty obviously without real ideas, and anyway without the means or references to radically improve things in the UK.

Anyone caught deliberately setting fires at the present time (as allegedly happened in the Stourbridge case) should be executed in the field, no matter whether they are 50 years old, 20, or (as implied) about 15.

Another commentator addicted to the “we did this” idea. No, “we” did not do this; a few malicious little bastards did it (it seems), and they should be caught and executed in the field. No need for a trial. Executive action.

In fact, that tweeter really knows that “we” are not doing it: see

I have already stated my view. A couple of field executions, and the deliberate fire-raising would stop.

[“NEW: Labour MP Rachael Maskell, who once said that it doesn’t matter if mass migration causes longer NHS waiting times in working class areas, has attacked plans to house more migrants near her 90% white constituency of York Central.

She has described the plans as “unsuitable”, claiming it will cause a strain on local resources.

Funny how that works.”]

So it begins…

Rachael Maskell is an idiot (and clearly a hypocrite), but no worse than most MPs now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachael_Maskell.

Those who want more migration (invasion) into the UK, or think it not a big issue, are either traitors to the future of the British people, or totally deluded. Mass immigration impacts almost everything: housing, road and rail capacity, education, pay, State benefits (including pensions), social services, NHS services, policing, even water supply.

Don’t forget the “Conservative” (((Conservative))) Party, which presided over massive migration-invasion from 2010-2024.

[“PRIME MINISTER ANDY BURNHAM — COME TO PIDDINGTON. @andyburnham See what Whitehall sees only on a map. A village of 350 people. 46 children. No shop. No pub. No substantial infrastructure. Drive the fast rural roads — stretches with no pavement and no safe pedestrian route to the nearest town, six miles away. Now consider the proposal: accommodation for up to 1,250 male asylum seekers on the edge of our village. More than three times our entire population. Explain to our 46 children and their families how a development of this scale will work safely. Tell us where the infrastructure is. Tell us what the policing plan is — because when we asked, none was provided. Cherwell District Council has stated there was no prior engagement or consultation before the announcement. Explain why. You have spoken about giving places outside Westminster a voice. Ours is clear. 96% of those voting supported a referendum on our future. We are not asking you to read another letter. We are asking you to come here. Walk the village. Meet the residents. See the roads. Answer the questions. Do not make decisions about Piddington from Whitehall. 350 people. 46 children. One village that refuses to be ignored. We are Piddington. THE VILLAGE THAT ROARED“]

System MPs, ministers, and prime ministers take no notice of letters, petitions, tweets, or blog posts for that matter. Only one thing really scares them, and I cannot specify what that is, because the UK is nowhere near a “free country” these days. Just read between the lines, as people living under unfree governments have always done.

Now, listen— those migrant-invader bastards are not welcome in these islands. They must be, to put it plainly, concentrated in guarded camps in remote parts of the UK until they can be either deported or eliminated.

Millions are on their way. Stop them, using whatever it takes. Whatever it takes.

Oh, and if the Navy or others refuse to do their duty, dismiss them all, and recruit new personnel.

The cartoonists have picked up on it:

Refers, of course, not only to the migration invasion but also to the ludicrous propaganda being pumped out on msm about how Putin and Russia want to invade Western or Central Europe and even the UK (which they could never do anyway, and would never want to do).

Taking the propaganda at its face, I should far rather be invaded by a million or more Russians (who are, overall, as a people, basically cultured, quite often of high IQ, and of European-origin for the most part) than —as now— invaded by millions of black/brown, low-IQ, low —or no— culture (sometimes subhuman) migrant invaders, many of whom have a predisposition to sex crime (in fact, do not even regard rape etc as crimes, as can be seen in criminal court reports daily now).

As far as 99% of the migrant-invaders are concerned (not just the small-boat invaders), the best that we can expect is that they will be merely an army of parasites, living off the British people. In reality, many are also involved in one or another type of crime. A few (or maybe more than a few) are also motivated by support for out-and-out terrorism. In fact, many of the invaders hate us, despite the fact that our misguided or malicious governments have been giving them shelter, food, and spending money.

We have to stop this whole invasion, get rid of the invaders already here, and make the UK, overall, an ethnostate.

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I have driven past there once or twice, in more abundant days circa 2004, when the reservoir was full.

It cannot be defended. Evacuate the European population, and leave both enclaves (Ceuta and Melilla) to the invaders, but then shoot to kill any who arrive on Spanish shores, on the shores of sacred Europe.

Israel must be regarded as a pariah-state, not to be traded with, or even spoken to, by civilized Europe (Christendom, if you like).

Its “fifth columns” within Europe must be dealt with.

Bolton, a pro-“intervention” (pro-war) policy hawk (who himself however managed to avoid having to see action in Vietnam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bolton#Vietnam_War) is associated with all the usual pro-war causes (pro-Israel, pro-“Ukraine” etc): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bolton#Israel.

In short, a horrible old bastard.

The Kiev regime continues to hit purely civilian targets.

I think that the Russian side will soon get very tired of trying to very slowly advance in Eastern Ukraine, and may be wondering whether it really needs to keep Kiev and other major centres in existence.

I hope that the great city of Kiev will not be devastated or destroyed (again) but the way things are going look stormy. Russia cannot lose this war and will not lose this war.

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[panorama of Kiev, Pecherskaya Lavra, Motherland statue, and river Dnieper]

Diary Blog, 10 August 2026

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[“Sweet Thames” at Newbridge, Oxfordshire; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Bridge,_River_Thames]

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Heard some idiotic woman from a quango on BBC Radio 3 news while driving. Blaming “climate change” for Britain running short of water. No mention of the fact that “we” (the System authorities) are importing about a million unwanted blacks and browns every year, some of which are breeding. Might that not have something to do with the water shortage? (he asked, rhetorically…).

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Our animal friends.

Our animal friends.

[“The Fuhrer as friend of animals“]

Our animal friends.

The use of the outdated “right”/”left” labels is just not useful these days.

There is at least an arguable position that what might be called “World Jewry” has a long-term plan to use Argentina as a kind of bolthole or secure base while war (nuclear war), and famine ravage much of the rest of the world, war and famine which the Zionists themselves are doing much to bring about (Ukraine, Iran, Middle East/Mediterranean).

Conspiracy theory? Possibly, but then look how many of those “conspiracy theories” have proven to be accurate analyses in recent decades.

In many ways, Galloway is a clever man, but in some ways he is stupid and hopelessly —indeed wilfully— ignorant. Hitler and National Socialism (and the crimes of Stalin and the CPSU) are blind spots for him.

A grade-A “grifter” too, of course.

Galloway tweeted against me a couple of times many years ago.

[“The ‘vetting process’ of populist parties exists to screen out people who are simultaneously intelligent AND honest. Honest idiots can be tolerated because they are easy to manipulate. And intelligent psychopaths can too, because they will agree with the corruption.

But honest and intelligent people are poison for them.”]

Once again, well-said by Yerbury. I myself have made the same points often, on the blog, on Twitter (before a pack of Jews had me expelled in 2018), and elsewhere, over the years.

I recall an old friend, now-deceased, saying to me and a couple of others in the 1980s about how “any one of us could be an MP for any of the [then] three main parties, were we willing to sell our principles for a career, and to tolerate the bullshit”. Very true.

Basically, just a horrible tribe.

Still, what goes around comes around…

Just a horrible tribe, as said previously.

Typical. There have been, over the years, thousands of such faked “antisemitic” attacks, including quite a few in the UK. A Jew lawyer in Scotland —Glasgow, I believe— was convicted some years ago of faking “antisemitic” attacks; unfortunately, his sentence was far too lenient. I think that he was even allowed to continue working as a solicitor.

Par for the course. Look at “Mark Lewis Lawyer” and his cronies, a whole pack of dishonest Jew lawyers. Lewis has more than once cheated his own clients, and has contrived a number of fake “antisemitic” incidents over the years, both for Zionist propaganda purposes and to make money for himself, his present wife, and others. He’s a criminal.

[“Pastor Mitri Raheb has warned that, if current conditions continue, the Palestinian Christian presence in the West Bank could disappear by 2050, amid worsening economic conditions, escalating settler violence, and growing restrictions and military checkpoints. According to Raheb, more than 200 Christian families have left the West Bank since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, while church leaders report that thoughts of emigration are becoming increasingly common, particularly among young people.

These concerns are especially evident in Taybeh, east of Ramallah, the last entirely Christian town in the West Bank. Churches have documented the departure of more than 15 families since October 2023, alongside attacks targeting the town’s lands and residents’ property, as well as its holy sites.

While the Christian population in the West Bank is currently estimated at between 40,000 and 45,000, their share has fallen from 6% in 1967 to just over 1% today. Warnings are growing that continued emigration threatens the presence of the “living stones” in a land to which they have been connected for two thousand years.”]

Devils.

Blast from past

I wrote the following words in July 2024:

“Regular readers will know that I have blogged recently about the fact that Starmer-Labour has no real mandate. The electoral system of the UK has been broken beyond easy repair.

At GE 2024, out of every 20 people eligible to vote, and in very rough terms, 8 did not vote at all, 4 voted Labour, 3 voted Conservative, 2 voted Reform UK, 2 voted LibDem, and 1 voted Green.

That is Starmer’s and Labour’s mandate— 4 out of 20. For pedants, arguably, 4 out of 12. Not much of a mandate either way.

[IanRobertMillard.org blog: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2024/07/28/diary-blog-28-july-2024/]

In retrospect, plainly correct, if I myself say so; the point, though, is that, if that was Starmer-stein’s very inadequate mandate, how much less of a mandate does Andy Burnham have?

Andy Burnham has no real legitimacy at all.

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Burnham and his clown Cabinet are planning to send even more arms and cash to the Kiev regime.

After only three weeks, Burnham already looks well out of his depth, though his quasi-electioneering has resulted in a limited “Burnham bounce” in the opinion polls.

An interview with Nick Griffin

https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/a-volcano-ready-to-explode-war-civilisation

Well worth seeing/reading.

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I should think that a hung Parliament is quite likely, on present polling. Labour will fall back, the Con Party stay back, while Reform looks to have shot its bolt by being too pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, by failing to be truly hardline on migration invasion, and by being far too sleazy as well. Still, Reform will get votes by not being LibLabCon; a default choice, if you like. Restore? Slightly better, ideologically, than Reform —but not much— and even more of a one-man-band than Reform. Greens? Hard to say. Will its odd alliance of “antifascist” oddities and pro-Islamist Muslims last? Maybe, maybe not.

[“If you enjoyed the Autochrome of artist Claude Monet, which I shared with you in June, you may be interested to learn that I’ve found this new one of the great man, taken in 1917 by Étienne Clémentel in Monet’s garden at Giverny.
I’ve given it a good clean-up for you! I have to say: for an artist renowned for his use of colour, he is dressed surprisingly drably! Nevertheless, this is a very rare colour shot of the great man. It was taken using an early colour glass-plate process and isn’t colourised.
“]

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Diary Blog, 20 August 2022

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[painting by Aldo Balding]

On this day a year ago

Saturday quiz

Well, I again beat political journalist John Rentoul, who scored a very poor 1/10 this week. My score was 5/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 5, 6, 7 and 9.

Apartheid —American Jim Crow version— returns, but run by the blacks this time

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11127383/UC-Berkelys-campus-op-called-Person-Color-Theme-House-bans-white-guests-common-areas.html

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That joke is a little too close to the truth…that is more or less the kind of “history” millions of British children are being taught (indoctrinated with).

As for pathetic Sinn Fein, de Valera must be turning in his grave; Michael Collins as well— Ireland invaded by blacks and browns in the tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, while its present Prime Minister is a half-Indian gay.

If those being deported just disappeared permanently, those planning to infiltrate into the UK might think twice. As people now say, “just saying“…

Send them all back, including all offspring.

One more enemy of human civilization.

Addled art

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/aug/20/banana-taped-to-wall-artists-joe-morford-maurizio-cattelan-court-battle.

Needless to say, taping bits of fruit to walls would not be regarded by anyone sane as “art” even in the context of a kindergarten, but the sheer lunacy of at least part of the arty world is shown by the fact that some grifting pseudo-artist has not only been accepted by some as an “artist” after doing that, but has actually sold several versions of a banana taped to a wall for USD $100,000 apiece.

This is mad, just mad, and makes “artists” such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin look half-genuine…

Where are the art-lovers to tear down this sort of fakery and stamp on it?

Incidentally, while you would imagine that no-one would take someone such as that seriously, not only has the (?) idiot sold several of those bananas for huge amounts, but also a stuffed dead horse suspended from a ceiling; that “art” sold, in 2004, for USD $2M at Sotheby’s in London, no less! See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurizio_Cattelan; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurizio_Cattelan#Art_market.

Symptomatic of the deep cultural sickness of the Western world.

Cats are remarkable creatures

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“We” are not “treating people like this“; a System online forum under (((control))) is treating people like that.

…and there it is: the Jewish manipulator and one of the black “useful idiots”…

The land of freedom“…oh, no, wait…

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[Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk district, Western Siberia]

Diary Blog, 12 August 2022

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[Hampshire]

On this day a year ago

The “Glorious 12th”

12 August, and the start of the open season for grouse in England.

About 4% of England consists of grouse moor, some 1.3M acres, and almost all (as much as 99%) of that is in private hands.

Even leaving aside the ethics of shooting living birds “for fun”, this is not good. The red grouse is increased in number by reason of being bred for the shoot, and a few other species (curlew, lapwing etc) may also be helped, but many others (both birds and ground animals) are persecuted and their numbers reduced by direct action of gamekeepers and/or by habitat loss.

A clip from a year ago:

The grouse moors should mostly be rewilded. That would aid nature conservation, also conserve water, and improve aesthetics as well.

See also: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/05/britains-national-parks-dominated-by-driven-grouse-moors-says-study (bear in mind that national parks in the UK, unlike most other countries, consist mostly of privately-held land, albeit subject to a special regime of law and regulation).

The BBC has lost both its authority and its reason to exist

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11104023/Former-BBC-presenter-Sue-Cook-blasts-corporation-woke-Nigel-Farages-TV-show.html.

Former  Crimewatch presenter Sue Cook has criticised the BBC’s ‘shameful’ reporting, claiming the broadcaster is concerned with ticking ‘woke boxes’….

…she accused the corporation of not wanting to ‘question anything’, particularly during the pandemic, as she claimed the BBC is no longer the ‘absolute national institution’ that it used to be.

Sadly it’s not looking very good,’ she told Nigel Farage on his GB News show Talking Pints. ‘It was an absolute national institution and a huge treasure, and I think they still do some good dramas although not quite as good as they used to be.

‘You see all the woke boxes being ticked, as the cast comes on.’

Miss Cook added: ‘The foreign correspondents are still second to none – people like Frank Gardner and Jeremy Bowen and Orla Guerin are wonderful. But the news-gathering is really quite shameful. And they don’t seem to want to question anything.’

She lambasted the BBC for its Covid coverage.

‘It is shameful,’ she said. ‘Throughout lockdown did anybody ever ask, “Why?” How are children going to be affected if you’re closing schools? How are university students affected if you’re shutting universities? Knife crime went up. Was there any journalism about that?’

‘In my day we’d have found out the truth.”

[Daily Mail]

Suella Braverman

The above tweets are not completely accurate. For one thing, a lawyer qualified and/or licensed to practise in one or more states of the USA is not, thereby, a “US Attorney“. This is an irritating error that one sees quite often, not only in tweets by ignorant persons on Twitter, but even in UK newspapers.

A U.S. Attorney is, quite specifically, an attorney who is a Federal prosecutor. I have met a number of them.

Someone qualified to practise law in one or more states of the USA is merely an attorney, not a “US Attorney”, and that is so whether or not a US citizen. The correct term would be “American attorney”, or simply “attorney”.

As for Suella Braverman’s default(s), the tweets below explain the situation quite well. It seems that (like me), Suella Braverman qualified for the New York Bar [Bar of the State of New York] and then, also like me, either never practised there, or ceased to live and practise in New York or other part of the USA.

I myself paid my New York Bar dues for years (I think USD $300 every couple of years) until, circa 2010, I realized that it was money thrown away, and that I would never return to work as a lawyer in the USA. I was therefore and thenceforth “delinquent” in terms of non-payment, though (as far as I know) was never actually suspended from practice.

Water under the bridge now in any event for me and, presumably, also for Suella Braverman.

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London. Zoo…

You just know that, even if the amount of money given to the police doubled overnight, they would still be trying to act like a poundland KGB rather than doing their proper job. They would double down on “anti-racism”, “anti-Semitism”, anti-“trans” nonsense etc, “Covid” (etc) nonsense. Why? Because the groups and (((cabals))) behind all that have wormed their way into various police forces, government, and of course the (((occupied))) msm. My own most recent experience: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2022/01/15/diary-blog-15-january-2022-including-an-outline-of-the-failure-of-the-latest-jew-zionist-attempt-to-prosecute-me/.

As my above post and others indicate, this is far from being a London problem alone. Other police forces have shown themselves also stupid and incompetent, including those of Derbyshire, Devon and Cornwall, and Essex. I might add Hampshire to that list, looking at what happened to me on several occasions from 2014 to January this year.

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So much for “unprecedented” drought conditions in Europe.

Europe’s population is now far larger than it was in 1616, leading to greater demand for water but, on the other side of the scales, we have resources that the people of 17thC Europe did not have— large reservoirs, desalination, piping, pumping, cloud-seeding, and artesian wells etc (artesian water was first accessed by drilling in the 12thC, but in a very primitive and limited way compared to what is possible today: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artesian_aquifer).

So mediocre is Sunak, that the implication of the question does not seem to hit him immediately.

It is so easy for people from wealthy or at least affluent backgrounds to create a good-looking CV, and so pose as hugely educated and/or intelligent. Look at the “Boris”-idiot buffoon.

… and why do so many of our befuddled population think that all of the above, and more (mass immigration, low pay, low pensions and other benefits, the police not doing their proper job but acting as a poundland KGB etc) can be put to one side just because some supposedly “national” football, cricket, or rugby team wins some meaningless televized pleb-fest somewhere?

I prefer my own kind of coffee…

The Jew-Zionist Zelensky regime in Kiev may not be winning the attritional war in Eastern Ukraine, but has certainly won the propaganda war, so far. Not so unexpected. Almost all Jews in the West support the Kiev regime, and have done from the start of the conflict. Jews permeate the Western mainstream media.

Those factors have meant uncritical acceptance of everything put out by Zelensky and his cabal, and a completely biased, one-sided, view of the war.

What is so absurd about both Sunak and Truss (and Starmer, for that matter) is that none of those System drones actually have any vision, not even to the extent, limited as it was, of Blair and Brown (and others).

Pitiful.

The migration invasion continues, with UK government UK “Opposition”, UK “authorities”, Royal Navy, Border Farce, and RNLI, inter alia, complicit.

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[El Generalife, Granada, Spain; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalife]

Diary Blog, 7 August 2022, with thoughts about drought and water supply

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On this day a year ago

Drought, and water supply

Where is the strategic direction from government? It is hard to think of a more basic function of government in the modern era than the supply of plentiful and clean water. Of all necessities, water supply is the most basic.

Measures that should be taken in the UK (southern England, really) include water-retention projects in upland areas, new dams and reservoirs, and construction of desalination plants for emergency use (Israel has some of the best technology for that; worth looking at).

Other measures would include those to minimize leaks. London may be losing a quarter of the water available and piped by reason of leaks.

Also, the UK population has increased by many millions in the past half-century. Stop importing unwanted people.

Cape Town nearly ran out of water 2015-2018, partly by reason of low rainfall, but also because (quelle surprise) African government has proven incapable of planning ahead: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Town_water_crisis.

Cape Town was saved partly by severe restrictions on use, but mainly because the rains started to arrive again from 2018. Los Angeles was in difficulties too over the past decade, but again was saved mainly by renewed rainfall.

In principle, I think that water, at least for domestic users, should be free or very inexpensive, but the reality is that there is a cost attached to the storage and supply of water (and also to the disposal of waste water). There is a debate to be had as to how to manage those costs.

In Ireland, until fairly recently, water was supplied free of charge to domestic users, and the cost covered out of taxation, mainly rates (taxation) on domestic and commercial property: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland#Tariffs.

Factors: abundant surface water, and a relatively small population, which until recent decades was mostly poor. Incidentally, it was not so long ago that most of the Irish population did not pay income tax.

I oppose meters for water, and I oppose the profiteering by the present privatized water companies in the UK. There should be a national water authority and, if water is to be charged for at all, a set amount —the same amount— paid for water (either per person or per household) over a determined period.

Water pressure can be reduced to save water in times of drought, though that is easier in some countries than in others. I recall a friend in New Jersey telling me in about 1991 that he had seen a special episode of This Old House [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Old_House] from London, which included the information that water pressure was 18 pounds per square inch.

My friend said that “to us, that’s a trickle!“. I think that water pressure in the NY/NJ region is nearer to 80 pounds per square inch, so 4x higher than in London, thinking back to that conversation.

Incidentally, water pressure in the UK is now expressed in “bars”, a metric measurement: see https://www.plumbnation.co.uk/blog/the-complete-guide-to-water-pressure/.

Large-scale users of water are commercial enterprises, including farms. These may have to be squeezed further on cost.

Notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Israel; https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/06/britain-drought-measures-hosepipe-bans-beavers-warer-butts.

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Mostly right, though not mentioning the huge —and possibly irreparable— damage done to the UK economy by the ridiculous “panicdemic” measures of 2020-2022, particularly the “lockdown” shutdown(s).

How low has the UK sunk, that it could even contemplate having a Indian as its Prime Minister?

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This is the sort of thing, or one type of thing, that happens when you mix up capitalist enterprise (economic zone or sphere) with the zone or sphere of social rights, politics etc. In the Threefold Social Order proposed by Rudolf Steiner, those zones or spheres (and the spiritual/cultural/etc zone or sphere) should not be confused. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_threefolding.

Bulb Energy was originally a mixture of economic enterprise and social do-gooding to do with “reducing emissions” and similar nonsense.

Other examples of “social entrepreneurship” have abounded in the Britain of the past 20 years. A swamp of fraud, chicanery and chaotic mismanagement. One of the worst types of the phenomenon has been the “social entrepreneur” company that presents itself as quasi-charitable but makes millions for its major shareholders out of public funds.

The maladministration and incompetence of Iain Dunce Duncan Smith at the DWP from 2010-2015 allowed dozens if not hundreds of such organizations to flourish. There were and maybe still are many examples, funded by not only the DWP but also other parts of government. I am not even sure that “Kids’ Company” was the worst: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_Company.

 [Camila Batmanghelidjh, founder and Chief Executive of Kids’ Company]

Another one, the name of which escapes me for the moment, made millions for its controllers out of DWP funds; one of those ridiculous outsourcing companies finding “make-work” non-jobs for the unemployed and disabled.

The fat young woman who owned it with her husband (fortunately for them, their names also escape me right now) was on BBC Daily Politics and other TV shows between 2010-2015, talking about how good it all was. Only Andrew Neil was sharp enough to (obliquely) question the amount said woman was making (out of the taxpayers). She and her husband bought a large country house in Derbyshire before that particular house of cards collapsed. They made millions upon millions, were never prosecuted for what I consider an outright fraud, not to mention exploitation of desperate people, and still live in luxury today, I believe.

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