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Diary Blog, 25 September 2026

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[Akademgorodok, Western Siberia]

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Untermenschen.

Facilitators of invasion. Deal with them. Eliminate them.

[“American journalist Tucker Carlson has renewed his criticism of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, arguing that the continuation of the conflict reflects the decisions of Ukraine’s leadership rather than the wishes of the Ukrainian population.

Carlson claimed that Ukrainians are being ā€œheld captiveā€ by an unelected president, while accusing the government of restricting civil liberties, targeting religious institutions and imprisoning critics.

He also argued that continued U.S. intelligence support to Kyiv is one of the factors allowing the conflict to continue.

These are Carlson’s claims and include disputed assertions that require independent verification.

Carlson’s argument is straightforward: the battlefield may be in Ukraine, but he believes Washington still has a hand on the map.”]

The Western msm portray “Ukraine” (the Kiev regime) as some kind of embattled democracy fighting an evil empire, but the reality is that Ukraine, as it now is, is a brutal, corrupt, shambolic dictatorship running a fake state, in fact a non-state, which would collapse within weeks were Western money, arms, and ammunition etc to be withheld.

Damn…my own car is a diesel. Fortunately, I rarely go outside my own local area these days. A full tank lasts me anything up to 2 months.

Nigerian heritage? Forget “heritage”— SHE IS NIGERIAN. She was born in 1981 in London to two Nigerian parents, left with them at once (within days) for Nigeria, then lived there, and in the USA, for 16-17 years before relocating to the UK.

A mere passport has no relevance at all. In fact, the passport law was changed only months after Kemi Badenoch was born. Were she only 6-12 months younger, she would not even be entitled in law to a British passport.

Germany is still controlled or strongly influenced by the Jewish/Israel lobby, and by Israeli/MOSSAD/American-Jewish interference in its affairs. That comes out very strongly in its persecution of aged members of the SS and other organizations from before 1945.

Someone 105 now would have been born in or about 1921, so in 1941 would have been about 19-20, and only about 23-24 when that war ended.

Recent very old defendants of that type have been rear-echelon sentries, typists, office bods etc during the latter part of WW2.

The vindictiveness of the Jewish/Israeli element (which is behind this) seems ludicrous to an Aryan or European eye, of course. “They” have a mindset which is totally different to our own.

[“A father-of-two has become the first man jailed following an anti-migrant protest in Portsmouth after admitting throwing a plastic bottle and swearing at police.

Del Somerville, 42, was given a two-year sentence after previously pleading guilty to violent disorder at the city’s crown court following the overnight protest near Eastney Marina on 6 September.

Hundreds of protesters gathered after a boat carrying about 120 migrants was brought ashore near Eastney Beach.

He pleaded not guilty to a separate charge of assaulting a police officer, relating to an incident on 11 September, and will face trial at Portsmouth Magistrates Court at a later date.“]

[RUPERT LOWE:”A father of two children has been jailed after throwing a plastic bottle at the police and swearing at officers during the illegal migrant protest in Portsmouth.

Sentenced to a two year prison sentence.

The judge said it would act ‘as a deterrent’

Now, let me be abundantly clear.

I do not believe that any violence against the police is acceptable.

I also do not believe that a two year prison sentence is appropriate, particularly when we are allowing paedophiles and rapists to roam our streets because of a supposed lack of prison capacity.

The BBC reports the man ‘said he had found the bottle on the ground and was going to throw it into a nearby bush, but was angry and so threw it up into the air.’

Reportedly, he told the officers to ‘f*** off’ and ‘pointed aggressively’ at them (ITV).

I can understand the anger, to be honest. This was happening as illegal migrants were being ferried into his town.

This sentence is unfair, unjust and morally wrong.

Let’s be honest about what has happened here.

The establishment is making an example of this man to deter others from protesting.

A two year sentence is absolutely outrageous – there are far better ways for him to make right the wrong.

The third world invaders are greeted to luxury accommodation as heroes, yet this man will rot in prison.

It’s not right.”]

I agree with Lowe, except insofar as he is too moderate in his views.

What is happening in this country is an invasion, an invasion of a formerly (and to some extent still) reasonably-civilized land by a horde of backward black/brown untermenschen from some of the most savage and uncivilized parts of the world.

Protests, and direct action, by British people are a natural consequence of what is happening, and against a conspiratorial system of —or within— government which is facilitating the invasion, and has been for decades. Google Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan.

If the police act as the goons of an emergent police state, then they cannot expect the British people to treat them with the politesse, still less respect, that our forbears may have.

Assuming Lowe’s facts to be correct, the defendant was rude to the police, pointed at them, and may have thrown a plastic bottle at their (probably armoured and helmeted) ranks.

For that, the defendant was sentenced to 2 years, so will probably be in prison for the next year. Absurdly and unfairly harsh. The maximum that could be passed in the magistrates’ court.

It is arguable that he should not have been charged at all. If he was to be charged, it should been a charge of insulting behaviour, something which might result in a fine or a suspended sentence.

The sentence passed is akin to one from Ukraine or Belarus rather than one passed by any decent English court.

In my view, both as observer (from afar) of these events and former practising barrister, the defendant, like so many others (eg Lucy Connolly and previously-tried protesters over the past 2 years) made a mistake in pleading guilty (probably on legal advice from some tick-box legal-aid solicitor and/or counsel) to the violent disorder charge.

The fact is that the System is determined to act with utmost ruthlessness and harshness to anyone protesting on the street against the continuing invasion of this country. Look at what has been happening since Starmer-stein demanded such harshness in 2024.

In my view, any credit given for a guilty plea in such circumstances is purely notional. The defendant should have pleaded Not Guilty and taken his chances with a jury (if the matter is one that a jury can hear). In that part of England, he might even have been lucky enough to get an all-white jury (violent disorder can be tried either in “the mags” or at Crown Court; if the latter, a jury trial)…

There is also the point that, to plead guilty is to make things easier for the System. Don’t do it. Don’t play their game. Judges of the sort we have seen over the past 2 years are unlikely to show mercy, or even common sense.

Incidentally, I am not just spouting from an ivory tower. I myself faced trial (in the magistrates’ court) 3 years ago, and for a political offence. I pleaded Not Guilty, but was convicted, being sentenced over two-and-a-half years ago, in March 2024: see

Further thought: almost every day, migrant-invaders are being sentenced (usually to non-custodial sentences) for a wide variety of crimes, including crimes of violence and sex crimes.

I hope that the defendant in this case appeals on sentence and that, in respect of his upcoming second trial (on the other matter, the assault charge), is acquitted by the magistrate.

The judge (I presume a district judge) in this case should be ashamed of himself. A suspended sentence would have been more than adequate.

Look at the case below for comparison:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmwyzrrnn015o.

Incidentally, I note that Danny Tommo has elected Crown Court trial, trial by (if he is lucky) a British jury: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq0lr5r46z5jo.

Nick Griffin interview

https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/britains-most-vindicated-politician.

Well worth watching/hearing.

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Translates into something like 318 Labour MPs, Reform 120 MPs, Cons 103 MPs, 58 LibDems, SNP 24 [etc]. So not enough for a Labour majority in the Commons, but easily enough for a Lab-Lib coalition or arrangement.

Hard to believe, and slightly dispiriting, to see that over a quarter of the “British” (meaning UK-resident) population is still willing to vote Labour, but of course the UK is now at least 20% black/brown/other ethnic minority. I think that explains most of that. Were only white, i.e. real, Brits to vote, the Labour support would be nearer to 8% or 12%.

As far as the Cons are concerned, most of their voters are long-term Con voters aged 70, 80, 90, stick-in-the-muds whose intellectual landscape is that of the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, and even Daily Express. 20% of the electorate today, but might be 15% or even 10% by 2029.

As far as I am concerned, UK elections at this point are not legitimate, so governments “elected” via those elections are likewise not legitimate.

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Diary Blog, 3 September 2026

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[Akademgorodok, Western Siberia; footpath in a residential zone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akademgorodok]

On the blog 3 years ago

On the blog 2 years ago

Overall, stands up pretty well 2 years on, if I myself say so.

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People laugh, now, but will humanity be laughing at robot creatures with AI capability in 2076 or 2126?

[“Iran is a hard nut for the US because it does not need to win a conventional war. It only needs to make victory too expensive.


It is a large, mountainous country with a population of ~90 million — far harder to invade or occupy than Iraq. Its strategy is attrition: cheap ballistic missiles and one-way drones force the US to spend million-dollar interceptors. The IRGC’s ā€œmosaicā€ defense is decentralized, so killing leaders does not stop the fight.


The real leverage is the Strait of Hormuz, through which about a fifth of the world’s oil normally flows. Iran can disrupt global energy markets with mines, small boats and coastal missiles without matching US air or naval power.


The 2026 war showed the pattern: US and Israeli strikes damaged facilities and killed the supreme leader, but the government survived, reconstituted enough missiles and drones, and used the strait as a bargaining chip.

Sanctions have lasted decades; Iran adapted. Government change or lasting control of the waterway would require costs — troops, munitions, oil shock, regional war — that Washington has so far been unwilling to pay, especially with China as the larger priority.


That is why Iran remains a hard target: not because it is stronger, but because it can outlast the political and economic price of being broken
.”]

More or less what I have been blogging for the past few years.

Berners-Lee instead of Beckham, so to speak. I like that.

…especially if those Western states arm, equip, and fund the dictatorship of the Jew Zelensky, and encourage it in its activities.

Strange photo. Who is Zelensky calling a “cuck”?…

I wonder what might be the provenance of those lawyers…judging by legal activity of that sort in recent years, at least in the UK, probably mostly Jewish.

Individuals of non-European origin should not be allowed to become ministers or MPs, or even to vote.

Candidate A— Jewish. Candidate B— Somalian.

Where are the English?

This country needs revolutionary social nationalism. We have to take back control from a coalition of enemies.

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[aerial view of Akademgorodok, Western Siberia, in winter]

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That Jew is the son of the Israeli Prime Minister of the same name. Remarkable ignorance. The Falklands, whatever one’s views about them, are scarcely “a bunch of rocks“, having an area of 4,700 square miles, about the same size as Devon and Cornwall combined (Israel/Palestine has 8,019 sq. miles).

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

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

Incidentally, Israel is no ally of the UK. It sold Exocet missiles to Argentina during the Falklands War, now supports (for its own reasons) Milei, the mentally-unstable clown who presently occupies the office of President of Argentina, and was built partly on Jew-Zionist anti-British terrorism, as evidenced below:

Enemies of the British people.

We’re back.

Farage is a waste of space, but I hope that he and Reform weaken, perhaps terminally, the old System parties, and the System body politic itself, thus allowing real social nationalism to finally emerge in full strength.

[“IN UKRAINE šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡¦ a shootout occurred between 2 law enforcement agencies. Officers from the Security Bureau of Ukraine (SBU) opened fire against officers from Ukraine’s military intelligence agency (GUR). At least 10 officers are receiving treatment for bullet wounds. The conflict is related to SBU arresting Stepan Kaplunov, deputy commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) – a paramilitary special forces unit in GUR consisting of russians fighting for #Ukraine šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡¦ The commander of GUR SOF unit ā€œTimurā€ and the commander of SBU ā€œAlphaā€ Unit allegedly met and ā€œsolved the misunderstanding in relation to the arrest of Kaplunov and agreed on future cooperation. The next morning, SBU officers started arresting unarmed members of GUR. When the GUR officers started resisting, #SBU opened fire – also against unarmed members of #GUR who had ā€œtheir hands upā€.”]

A shambolic and brutal dictatorship which must be crushed as soon as possible.

[“Jason Arday reviewed and approved this student’s PhD thesis, which portrays black women taking trips to London and attending potlucks as forms of “marronage”—the historical practice of Africans fleeing enslavement. The 70K-word thesis is based on conversations with just 3 black women, which were converted into poems and then, after being infused with the author’s own subjective experiences, analyzed via “Critical Poetic Inquiry.”

The thesis can only be described as a tribute to black women such as herself, channeled through an amalgam of slam poetry and activism. She describes her research project in bizarre terms such as: “a lament, a war cry, a chant and a belly laugh” and “a joyful, painful rupture, a disruption, a deliberate transgression, a riff, and a drum beat… a prayer for all we have lost and for all that we can be.”

She is also openly hostile to academic rigor, quoting other scholars when admitting that her project “does not align with notions of ‘neutral’ research or ‘objective’ researchers.”

Academic standards, such as “marking criteria, rubrics and journal requirements that favour written knowledge over that which is communicated creatively (i.e. through painting or performance)” and also “notions that knowledge must be scientifically tested and proven to meet coloniality’s contorted standards of fact” are deemed by her to be forms of colonial oppression.

This raises the question: Why is Cambridge awarding its highest academic credential to a project whose author openly presents accepted academic standards as oppressive constraints to be undermined and resisted? It’s clear the problem of academic standards at Cambridge wasn’t isolated to the case of Jason Arday, but appears to be a form of systemic rot.

Because the thesis was suddenly embargoed for the next 5 years immediately when the Arday scandal broke, we are legally unable to share it in its entirety. So we have performed a very long and thorough exegesis of it, which you can read at the link below. šŸ”—https://benryan.substack.com/p/cambridge-says-jason-arday-was-an“]

https://benryan.substack.com/p/cambridge-says-jason-arday-was-an

It is all very well to talk about academic freedom etc, and in general I approve of it, but it is clear that the universities, Cambridge in particular, have become a swamp which must be drained and cleared of trash.

[“This highlights a very serious problem in higher education brought about via DEI, which is that the damage done by hiring totally unqualified people does not remain isolated.

These people serve on hiring committees, and third-rate academics hire fourth-rate academics.

They also serve on dissertation committees, where they rubber stamp complete ideological nonsense like a PhD theses that converted conversations with 3 black women into poems and anaylzed it via “Critical Poetic Inquiry.”

The rot is so systemic that it can likely only be fixed by tearing up the foundation and starting over. There just aren’t any serious adults in these departments to bring about internal reform. The inmates are running the asylum, as they say.”]

[“The Jewish dancer in Kiev has literally brought Ukraine to the brink of the abyss. Incredible footage.“]

[“Will the people finally say to Russia, “Help, save us”? We’ll see.”]

The Jew-Zionist/Ukrainian-thug regime in Kiev has pretty much run out of soldiers (front-line cannon-fodder), so kidnaps men off the street. To be “recruited” and then sent to those crumbling front lines is a near death-sentence, of course. The regime is losing 1,000-2,000 men daily (dead, badly wounded, or captured). More desert, despite the penalties if caught.

The poor bastard “recruited” in the clip shown will probably not survive until this time next year, or even to the end of this year.

Nick Griffin’s latest blog post

https://nickgriffin544956.substack.com/p/demographic-winter-just-how-cold

Important issues. See also:

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“Never say never“, they say, and they are right; “all comes to him who waits“, they say, and they are right. After all these years, I finally hear Diane Abbott say something with which I am in full agreement.

A number of loosely-connected and supposedly “true” events, many of which however never happened at all, and others which did happen but which were hugely exaggerated. Invented and put out as propaganda during or, mostly, after the Second World War; packaged-up and given the capital letter “Holocaust”; given out to as if holy writ to schoolchildren who are specifically told not to question the supposed “historical facts” taught to them.

Many of the said “facts” are not really facts at all, and many of the supposedly “true events” experienced by so-called “survivors” were hoaxes, made up by the supposed “survivors” in an attempt (in many cases, successful initially) to get money or attention, or both. Another motive has often been to encourage support for the post-1948 Israeli state.

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[Arnold Bocklin, Villa by the Sea]

Diary Blog, 17 August 2024, with thoughts about David Starkey, dissidence, free speech

Morning music

[Knightsbridge, 1930s]

Saturday quiz

A poor week. I scored only the same as political journalist John Rentoul— 3/10. I knew only the answers to questions 1, 2, and 5; had I thought a bit more, I should also have recalled no. 9 and no. 10.

Talking point

As David Starkey says, Starmer is (along with others and, particularly but not exclusively, in “the party formerly known as Labour”) attempting to institute a kind of “woke” and multikulti police state.

Where I differ from Starkey is in having no faith in the idea that a different ethos of national identity can suddenly emerge or be fostered, not without a homogenous population. The UK population is going the other way, becoming ever-more heterogenous, and spinning out of control.

I also differ from Starkey in that he thinks, or hopes, that, if he or someone else puts forward a reasoned and reasonable argument, eventually people will accept the propositions put forward. The credo of the traditional or classical academic.

All very well, as far as it goes, but Mao put forward the credo of Realpolitik, that is “political power comes out of the barrel of a gun“.

Not that that I agree wholeheartedly with that Maoist quotation either. The —by any other name— “revolution” in the DDR/East Germany in 1989 was not violent. There were vast, though peaceful, demonstrations in several major DDR cities (Dresden, Leipzig etc). The Lutheran Church was part of all that.

The East German state was still arresting some dissidents even in 1989, but the heart had gone. I recall the strange feeling I had when spending a couple of days in the DDR in 1988. Like a stage set of a state rather than a real one, an impression made stronger by the seemingly almost-depopulated southern parts of East Germany through which I travelled by car. I have blogged once or twice previously about my impressions of the place(s).

As a matter of fact, the slightly contrived “revolutions” of the late 1980s in Romania, Czechoslovakia etc were mainly non-violent, as they were in the pribaltika (Baltic states). I myself saw Czechoslovakia briefly in 1988, just before it all happened, and was in Poland several times in 1988 and 1989.

In Poland, even in 1988, one got the impression that the state there was going through the motions of being a “socialist” state but that, just under the surface, the whole population, pretty much, was “dissident” in one way or another; a kind of vast, non-violent anti-socialist conspiracy of a whole people.

Even in the Soviet Union, a huge “revolution” happened over several years in the late 1980s and early 1990s, mostly though not entirely peaceful, and including (as in Romania and elsewhere) many elements of the socialist-state structure.

Starkey is or was a Conservative, politically. He seems at least slightly taken with Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick. Why? The first is a Nigerian (though born in London) and so, in my opinion, unfitted by that fact alone to be a British political leader, let alone Prime Minister. I have, also, never heard anything worthwhile from her.

As to Jenrick, I have several problems with him too. He appears to be at least partly English, but his full provenance is not in the public domain; at least, I myself have never seen it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jenrick#Early_life_and_non-political_career.

Born 1982, qualified late as solicitor, aged 26, but was in legal practice for only about 4 years (with two of the leading American law firms, sequentially; presumably quite junior), and was then (somehow; how?) a director of Christie’s auctioneers (though only until he became an MP a few months later).

Jenrick’s provenance interests me. It also disquiets.

Jenrick, yet another member of Conservative Friends of Israel, is tied up with Jewish businessmen and property-developer sharks, and pushed for the ruination of the small park by the Palace of Westminster by the proposed construction of a hugely-ugly “holocaust” “memorial” and propaganda centre.

In addition, Jenrick ordered, as minister for immigration, murals for children of migrant-invaders to be painted over because the colourful murals might give them pleasure and comfort.

No-one, I think, could accuse me of being either pro-immigration or in favour of granting privileges to migrant-invaders, but that mean-spirited targeting of any small children of such invaders by Jenrick felt morally wrong to me.

Like Starmer, Jenrick is married to a Jewish woman and has had children with her.

Jenrick just feels wrong to me. He’s a bad apple.

As to the Starkey interview, while I can agree with much of what he says there, he is too much in the ivory tower in the end.

Ironically, for someone “cancelled” by the System for making “racist” remarks, he seems to me insufficiently so. How does he imagine this country will recover in the way that he hopes when 20% of the population is already non-European, and with another ~million coming in every year at present? Make that, conservatively, about a 2% increase annually.

It seems to me that Starkey knows in his heart that I am right (even if, as is quite likely, he has never heard of me), but fears to say so; don’t forget that he “apologized” and tried to retract after he was “cancelled”. Never pretend to apologize to either the mob or to “them” (((them))).

The video is worth watching, though.

Further talking points

Good grief.

Listen to that “muppet” (on the second video clip), one Benjamin Butterworth. Complete idiot. Complete traitor to this country’s people and their future, too. Former (?) Chairman of Young Labour (in London). Scribbled a few times for the Guardian some years ago, apparently. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/benjamin-butterworth.

Poor thinking skills. Very poor, in fact. A fanatic, but one with nothing of interest to say. Claims that “legal immigrants” (the vast majority of all immigrants) all “come into the country with a job“. A straight lie. Huge numbers enter as supposed “fiances”, “fiancees”, “spouses”, “students”, “family members”, “asylum seekers” etc; and even those supposedly entering “with a job” (on work visas) are often not bona fide at all.

I fear that much of Starmer’s strongest support comes from semi-educated and anti-British fanatics of that sort.

I rather think that GB News had that Butterworth on because they knew that he would create a kind of petty storm among the discussion panel.

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Labour’s master-strategy for industrial peace: throw money at the (unionized) groups in society that shout the most (train drivers, junior doctors etc).

Tell me all about it…

Ostalgie

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[Red Army tank, Crimea, 1943]

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Interesting to note that the msm always applauds “resistance” (including violent “resistance”) in, for example, historically, the Third Reich, the Soviet Union, Italy, Spain, and in various other parts of the world; in South America, even in contemporary North America and Europe, so long as Jews, non-whites, or sometimes Communist partisans, are doing the various forms of “protest”, but as soon as contemporary white people do the same, they must, apparently, be shut down, “cancelled”, even prosecuted and, indeed, even imprisoned. Not even because they have been violent, in fact. Look at Jez Turner, imprisoned for making a speech, Alison Chabloz, for singing satirical songs and posting cartoons; more recently, Sam Melia, for having published stickers the subject-matter of which was not even unlawful.

Remember “two-tier Keir” and thick-as-two-short-planks Angela Rayner being photographed literally “taking the knee” (bowing down before) the fraudulent “Black Lives Matter” nonsense?

Carol Vorderman thinks that Nigel Farage is a snake-oil salesman. Well, not much argument from me on that, but wait until La Vorderman discovers the truth about Starmer, Yvette Cooper, Rachel Reeves etc…

Of course, the main reason that Farage recently distanced himself from the English protests, and especially their riotous offshoots, was because he does not want OFCOM to pressure GB News to cut off his work (and money).

Well, I certainly hear what tweeter Paul Embery is saying there, but look at the alternative— Kamala Harris, a hugely-ignorant non-white who will be but a figurehead while the “Deep State” around her, and really running the show, foments war with Russia, a war they think they can “win” but which —if it happens— will leave Europe, as well as North America and European Russia, in irradiated ruins.

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[airship Hindenburg over Manhattan, 1937]
[airship Hindenburg at Lakehurst, New Jersey, 1930s]

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Dead men walking looting.

The only question is whether Putin will simply utilize conventional military methods to push the Kiev-regime forces out of that part of the Kursk region which they have recently invaded, or whether he will do something entirely unexpected by the Western msm, such as use very powerful bombs and missiles (even tactical nuclear ones) to blast clear the whole of the occupied area. There is an outside chance that he might even launch a massive air bombardment on Kharkov or even Kiev.

Whatever the Russian response is, the Kiev-regime forces will be unable to hold the recently-invaded territory. Zelensky himself has admitted as much, though saying that Kiev “is not interested” in doing so. If that is so, why invade that territory in the first place? Clearly, as a public relations exercise to keep Western arms and money flowing in.

Meanwhile, in the Donbass region to the south, Russian forces are steadily advancing at present. About a mile per day. Not spectacular, but the Kiev-regime forces, short of —most of all— soldiers, will have no chance of regaining those areas, or of stopping the Russian advance, all the more so now that some of the better Ukrainian detachments have been re-deployed to assist with the Kursk incursion.

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Life in remote Western Siberia

A simple and, in many respects, hard life. Not completely isolated, though. I see that they seem to have electricity (“Socialism means Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country“— Lenin) , and that their milk comes from a carton rather than from their one cow.

The old lady is cooking (I think) manti [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manti_(food)] or pelmeni [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelmeni], foods quite similar inter se, and not dissimilar to ravioli. Cuisine is not really my forte, so I had better say no more. As for what she is frying, maybe cubes of bacon, maybe pork fat.

The old man is seen mending his fishing traps (there is a nearby small river).

Retired people in Russia now get a pension of about £200 a month. Not much (under Yeltsin, it was only about £25, and not always paid), but it must go quite far in a Siberian village. Milk, tea, bread, flour etc.

It occurs to me that, were the world to be hit by nuclear war, and depending on how severe that would be, people of that type might survive better than those who live, as most of us do, in Western (or Russian) cities, towns, suburbs, or partly-suburbanized countryside.

As someone once said of the Louisiana Cajuns living in and around the Mississippi Delta, “when the rest of the world is starving, these people will still be eating.”

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Starmer-Labour is clueless. The time for a National Wealth Fund would have been in the 1970s and onward, using North Sea Oil revenues, but the System parties gave most of the benefit to oil companies and foreign speculators.

Again, clueless. Mad. Crazed. Would-be dictator Yvette Cooper, who is closer to her evil dream than ever before, is even more of a police-statist than Starmer. She must be stopped. Starmer must be stopped.

Where is real journalism in this country?

[“British” journalism]

I mean by that, journalism that points out loudly and often that the Starmer-Labour regime was “elected” on the votes of only 33.7% of those who voted, i.e. a third of the actual voters, and only 20% (if that) of all eligible voters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election#Full_results.

This government has no real popular mandate.

Already, people who have nothing to do with “terrorism” (even taking the term at face value) are being snooped upon and sometimes raided by the police, under (some of them) their new-ish Stasi-lite grand title of “the Anti-Terror Command”. I think that even the satirical singer and entertainer Alison Chabloz was arrested by them one day, several years ago.

See also: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/05/30/one-mans-extremism-is-another-mans-struggle-for-liberty-and-justice/.

“Wow. The tide is turning.

Is immigration good for UK economy? Good 31% Bad 40%

Is it positive/negative for public services? Positive 40% Negative 49%

Is it enriching/undermining UK’s cultural life? Enriching 30% Undermining 44%

Is it too high, too low, about right? Too high 66% Too low 4% About right 18%

Source: Opinium, tonight.

Starmer Labour’s extreme immigration policy is going to be REALLY unpopular. among the British people.”

https://mattgoodwin.org/p/why-labours-extreme-immigration-plan

The fake “Conservatives” had to be binned, and were not binned enough. Fake “Labour’s” turn now. Get rid of the System as a whole.

Terrible. I drove through, or very close to, that area in 2001 (having driven from the UK).

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[Arnold Bƶcklin, Ruins by the Sea; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_B%C3%B6cklin]