Yes but Iain was quite happy voting Conservative under Margaret Thatcher when she destroyed the north of England. He was voting Conservative during austerity. Now all of a sudden he's throwing his toys out the pram because the Tories are criticising islam? How much did they pay?
All “three main parties” (System parties) and their msm offshoots have, in the American phrase, “bet the farm” on the happy shiny “multikulti society”, the outward face of the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan. The only thing is— it does not work (not in the way presented, and the European public are not supposed to see the real plan, i.e. a mixed-race population ruled undemocratically —and largely by Jews and part-Jews— i.e. a new pseudo-European “elite” but also tied up with the old elites via money).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan [but be aware that Jew-Zionist groups such as the malicious “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] have for some time been asking for volunteers to work with them, using their individual Wikipedia accounts to “edit” (vandalize) Wikipedia articles on a number of historical, political, and philosophical topics].
Dale used to “block” me when I had a Twitter account (until 2018, when a pack of Jews cobbled together faked complaints about me); he also tweeted against me a few times. A very unpleasant individual, completely in the pocket of the Israel lobby.
CIA builds 12 'secret spy bases' in Ukraine along Russian border becoming 'best source of information about Kremlin'https://t.co/Crht9ysVso
They may have to run (as they once did in Northern Iraq/Kurdistan) before very long. If they do, their protegees will have to run with them, or get caught (as the unfortunate Kurds were on that previous occasion; the CIA and USA generally left the Kurds to be slaughtered by Saddam Hussein).
“Did you know that Bill Gates’ primary residence in Seattle boasts 7 bedrooms, 24 bathrooms, a 60-foot pool with an underwater music system, a 2,500-square-foot gym, a 1,000-square-foot dining room, six kitchens, and a trampoline room with a 20-foot ceiling?
And let’s not forget the 2,100-square-foot library, a home theater that seats up to 20 guests, and a massive 300-square-foot reception hall with room for 200 guests. And there’s also a spacious guesthouse, a garage that fits 23 cars, and an artificial stream stocked with fish. Depending on the source, its value is estimated at $127 to $170 million. But wait, there’s more!
Gates also owns homes in Del Mar, California at sea level ($43 million), Indian Wells, California ($12.5 million), Wellington, Florida ($8.7 million), and a ranch in Wyoming ($8.9 million). A fun little tidbit about his Florida property: In 2016, he paid $13.5 million for the neighboring house. Rumor has it he’s also bought four other properties on the same street, making him the sole resident of the entire block.
While Bill doesn’t own a mega-yacht, he regularly charters them for his vacations. He also has a penchant for spending big on luxury cars, and let’s not forget his four private jets. In interviews, he’s mentioned that purchasing private jets is his “guilty pleasure.”
Now, isn’t it ironic that one of the main proponents of reducing our carbon footprint lives like this? With such an expansive estate and luxurious lifestyle, we can’t help but wonder how much his own carbon footprint is ballooning. If the people who are urging us to reduce our carbon footprints are living lives of excess, how can we trust their motivations and the validity of their claims about man-made climate change?“
Possibly a one-sided view, but valid on its own merits.
The truth of covid jab harms is finally leaking into mainstream media.
Imagine how bad the problem must be that the dam is breaking now?
The censoring and attacks on those pointing out the glaring safety signals has been next level. I know this from personal experience.… https://t.co/hQKuS63s7U
Defend Transnistria! Transnistria Officially Asks Russia for Immediate HELP 🇷🇺
In the face of increasing attempts at escalation and intimidation from Moldova, Transnistria has officially asked Russia to take measures to protect the region.
🚨Update: The breakaway province of Transnistria has officially requested to join the Russian Federation and wants Russian troops for protection from Moldova!! pic.twitter.com/RJQ7AflJID
Not news, but still…. Joe Biden spoke about his Zionist affiliation in an address in honor of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. The video was published on the White House YouTube channel .https://t.co/lOYCSTwTLe
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 28, 2024
“Jewish leaders reacted with fury last night after a pro-Palestine slogan was projected on to Big Ben.
Activists pulled off the stunt in full view of dozens of police monitoring a protest outside Parliament on Wednesday night. Scotland Yard said the officers could not act because it was ‘not a criminal offence’.“
[Daily Mail]
A few months ago, the Jews arranged for the Israeli flag to be projected for a day or more onto 10 Downing Street. Blatant supremacism. That was far more offensive to many, including me.
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The ‘old elite’ projected status with sports cars and holiday homes.
The ‘new elite’ project status with woke ideology.@GoodwinMJ explains how we got here.
A Palestinian young man carries the body of his young brother inside a bag after he was killed by Israeli snipers while trying to flee the Israeli war of starvation on northern Gaza to the south through Al-Rashid Street in Gaza City.
“A Palestinian young man carries the body of his young brother inside a bag after he was killed by Israeli snipers while trying to flee the Israeli war of starvation on northern Gaza to the south through Al-Rashid Street in Gaza City. Ironically, the coastal road is designated as a ‘safe corridor’ by the Israeli army.”
The present military power and political influence of “World Jewry”, centred on Israel, is a catastrophe for the world. Another negative long-term consequence of the disastrous —and disastrously finishing—Second World War.
[“We are fighting for the future of our children!”— Germany 1945]
Ukraine will prepare a new counter-offensive, (counter-retreat) , in 2024, Zelensky said in an interview with Fox News. . pic.twitter.com/baeKfV6zrN
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 23, 2024
The Jew Zelensky trying to fool the same people all over again.
Ukraine (Kiev regime) has fewer and fewer soldiers, especially on the frontlines, even fewer experienced soldiers, and a shortage of arms and ammunition. Its economy is in ruins, and up to a third of the entire population has relocated out of the country.
Russia has millions of reserve troops being trained and ready for deployment; has hugely expanded its production of arms and ammunition; the Russian hydrocarbon sector is bringing in hundreds of billions of dollars (or equivalent) in oil and gas sales; the domestic Russian economy is normal; new trade links worldwide are opening up. Russia’s nuclear backstop is being upgraded, and links with Iran etc are bringing up thousands of drones ready for deployment. Russia also has 6,000+ tactical and strategic nuclear weapons and a variety of delivery systems.
“Ukraine” will not launch a new counter-offensive, certainly not a successful one, in 2024. Russia, though, may launch one, and with every chance of success.
The U.S. Presidential election will quite likely bring a new American president to office. If that individual cuts off the supply of money and arms to the Kiev regime, the war will be over in weeks not months.
Israel will continue with plans to build more than 3,000 homes for Israeli settlers in the West Bank pic.twitter.com/6wfEioK2wF
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 23, 2024
My legal victory against @BristolUni has set a vital precedent that will help to protect pro-Palestine 🇵🇸 campaigners across Britain.
I still have around £30,000 outstanding of my legal fees. If you would like to share in this victory, please contribute at:… pic.twitter.com/EmVnI3Upmn
My legal victory against @BristolUni has set a vital precedent that will help to protect pro-Palestine campaigners across Britain. I still have around £30,000 outstanding of my legal fees. If you would like to share in this victory, please contribute at: https://fightingfund.org/supportmiller.
In fact, he now has about £6,000 outstanding, having raised, as of today, a remarkable £99,000.
De-Zionisation means, first of all, dismantling Zionist organisations. This can be done by disbanding key organizations such that they cease to exist. Most obviously, this would include the World Zionist Organisation and all of its affiliates all over the world. But there are…
Enoch Powell: ‘In this country, in 15 or 20 years' time, the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.’ Britain 2024: pic.twitter.com/PJpdvFTvtt
The UK is not the only country that has been and is increasingly swamped. Belgium (as above), Netherlands, Germany, Austria, France, the Scandinavian lands, even Ireland.
All the while, the “useful idiots” in subsidized “community” campaigns, churches etc will be singing about how wonderful mass immigration from backward countries is…
The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan] is no mere “conspiracy theory” but something which is being played out in real time, and right in front of our own eyes. The conspirators are not (only) little groups of wild-eyed fanatics in basements, and/or with names ending in “un-English” suffixes, but those in Westminster, in the “mainstream” political parties, in the newspapers, on (especially) TV and radio, and in the general world of supposed “celebrity”.
Incidentally, groups such as the malicious Jew-Zionist “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”] get Jewish volunteers to “edit” (vandalize) Wikipedia on certain topics, so be cautious about what you read there.
GE 2024
Saw an opinion piece in the Yorkshire Post about the upcoming 2024 General Election. It seems to me to be mainly right:
“Speaking to friends and colleagues, and listening in to conversations in the pub or on the train, I am becoming increasingly convinced that the public has made up its mind about the current government, and there is little Rishi Sunak and his team can do to change that.
They can keep talking, but voters are not listening anymore. The problem for the Conservatives isn’t a wave of enthusiasm for Sir Keir Starmer and Labour. Far from it. This isn’t the ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ vibe that swept Tony Blair to power in 1997, nor even the Corbyn mini surge that cost Theresa May her majority in 2017.
No, the problem for the Conservatives is not that their supporters are running to Labour, but that, as demonstrated in recent by-elections, Tory voters are simply staying at home on polling day.
Is that any surprise? I doubt that many people who gave Boris Johnson a thumping victory in 2019 thought they were voting for open borders, rampant inflation, an economic recession, and the highest tax burden since World War II. The Tories have only themselves to blame.
Sure, the pandemic followed by the war in Ukraine were unprecedented events that helped blow the government off course, but the Conservatives have lost sight of who they are supposed to be fighting for.
Imagine that over the next few months everything goes right for the Prime Minister – the establishment blob is finally defeated over asylum seekers and flights take off for Rwanda, and the boats are stopped crossing the Channel; the economy comes out of recession and begins to grow, inflation is tamed, and the Chancellor cuts taxes in the spring Budget.
Would it be enough to swing things Rishi’s way? I am starting to doubt it.
Any politician who wants to reconnect with the voters who could propel them to power should accompany me on my early morning commute. Catch any early train or bus into Leeds, Sheffield or Wakefield and take a look around the carriage. I guarantee you will see the nation’s grafters who work hard in often poorly paid jobs, pay their taxes, obey the law, and do their best to raise their families.
Women and ethnic minorities are overrepresented on these journeys, and I sometimes play a game with myself trying to guess their jobs – health staff, cleaners, construction workers, shop staff and call centre operatives.
If a party wants to gain power it should ensure that every single policy in the manifesto passes one simple test – will it make the lives of these people better?
The reason politicians, both left and right, have become so disconnected from their voters is that you don’t often see them shivering in the pouring rain at a bus stop at 5am, or catching the 6.18 crowded train into Leeds.
As the general election gets closer we are starting to get some idea of what a Labour government will look like, and it is not an encouraging sight.
…the radical ideas, like the green growth plan, have to be ditched. Anyone expecting sweeping progressive changes under Labour is likely to be sorely disappointed.
Instead Labour seems increasingly likely to concentrate on toxic culture war issues that mean little to most people beyond the ideologues and fanatics.
Take for example two recent policy pledges. One is to impose VAT on private school fees, and the other is to close so-called loopholes in the fox hunting ban by outlawing drag hunting.
Sure the vindictive class warriors will love this, but I look around the carriage on my early morning train and ask myself, would such policies make the lives of my fellow passengers any better? No, of course not. It would not make the blindest bit of difference.
Come the general election voters will be faced with an uninspiring choice between a Conservative party that has run out of steam, and a Labour party that never had any puff in the first place.
I am convinced that if any party produced a manifesto that passed my early morning train test it would win by a landslide.“
[Bill Carmichael, in the Yorkshire Post].
Not 100% right, but 90%+.
The problem is that only social-nationalism can really satisfy Britain’s requirements, but the “Zionist”/pro-Israel element jumps upon even tiny social-national parties, movements, fora etc, and makes constant complaint to police, regulators etc, in order to prevent any tiny social-national party etc becoming a large one.
Our form of Parliamentary democracy has failed because (((a certain element))) has choked it.
Until the ground is cleared, it will be hard for Britain to start to live again.
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Hugely enjoying Liz Truss explaining to an American audience that the Right have been denied power in the UK for far too long. Just wait till they discover what her last job was .. pic.twitter.com/4LuoctOdYD
If anyone —such as the absurd political “ho”, Liz Truss— thinks that bureaucracy in the UK is worse than that of the USA, he or —in this case, she— has evidently never lived in the United States.
Liz Truss is a dangerous woman, though, despite her idiocy. Instead of accepting her political demise and defenestration, she is “doubling the bet” by saying that the Deep State etc got rid of her, and that she was right about the economy and society all along.
Truss’s strategy is obvious. The Conservative Party is going straight down with the electorate. Nothing can save it. The only chance, and a slight one, is that Starmer/Labour makes such a poor impression in the next few months that people will vote Con to stop Labour getting a huge majority. Very unlikely.
On that premise, Sunak, the little Indian money-juggler presently posing as Prime Minister, is toast. Maybe even before, but more likely after, GE 2024. The question then becomes who replaces Sunak. There are no candidates popular with either the public or the Conservative MPs and/or rank-and-file. On that basis, Truss seems to feel that she has as much chance as any of the other present possibilities (Mordaunt, Cleverly, Tugendhat, Suella Braverman etc).
Imagine Cleverly as Prime Minister! Or “chocolate soldier” Tugendhat. Still, Liz Truss was quite as absurd, really, as was “Boris”-idiot, as was Theresa May.
If, as predicted, Conservative MPs reduce in number to 100, or even 50, the pool will be small. Almost anyone in that small pool might have a chance. A chance, that is, of becoming Leader of the Conservative Party, not of becoming Prime Minister.
There it is, in a nutshell. Feral blacks (mostly), and sometimes others, uncontrolled by either society or any personal subjective value-system.
A woman @SkyNews ?? Are you sure? I think you'll find this vile murderer was a MAN. A man. A man. A manly man. There is no law that states you have to report this as a woman. Report the truth. That is what journalism is about, isn't it? 🤷♀️🙄#NotOurCrimeshttps://t.co/IVYnF7RIP3
Interesting. I was unaware that this involved more “trans” nonsense.
I am usually against the death penalty, but there may be exceptions, cases where society needs to “excommunicate” a particularly unpleasant or evil individual or group.
It may seem fanciful to say that the endless lies of the msm, from the cat-killing murdering Chinese supposedly being a “woman”, to the “Covid” narrative, and the dangerous fake “vaccines” etc (oh, and the idea that most immigrants are somehow useful to our society) derive from the whole “holocaust” farrago of the past half-century or so, but this disregard for actual truth and actual fact started somewhere; it did not suddenly appear from nowhere, and it is getting ever more pronounced in our society.
The era when Western nations are tolerant of people who do not tolerate our values and ways of life has to end. And it has to end now. https://t.co/bQbimHfd3T
Certainly when the individuals concerned are not even European.
'We've imported people into western countries who hate who we are, and our way of life. They don't want to live by our rule of law or respect the things we care about. It is about time we draw a line in the sand.'@GoodwinMJpic.twitter.com/7vfUCHCX0D
I disagree with Goodwin on a few points, especially his pro-Israel and pro-Jewish lobby stances, but overall I agree with that.
There is no military solution to the conflict in Ukraine and it must be resolved through negotiations," said Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
"A simple mathematical calculation shows that Russia is militarily superior, and that Ukraine will not be, if the West does not…
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 23, 2024
“There is no military solution to the conflict in Ukraine and it must be resolved through negotiations,” said Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
A simple mathematical calculation shows that Russia is militarily superior, and that Ukraine will not be, if the West does not intervene. However, NATO does not want war and will not go to war. It is necessary to ask for a ceasefire, because it is impossible to bring Russia to its knees in the military plan” , said the Hungarian Prime Minister.“
In fact, though Orban is correct in assuming that the Kiev regime simply cannot “win”, he is not entirely correct in assuming that there is “no military solution“, because Russia could“win”, at least to the extent of seizing all of Eastern Ukraine, and all of the Black Sea littoral.
According to an American intelligence official to the New York Times: Most of the Hamas tunnel network is still intact. Thousands of Hamas fighters are still alive and fighting.
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 23, 2024
I had assumed as much, because the Israelis have only claimed to have cleared a relatively few miles of tunnels, whereas it was said initially that Hamas has 200-300 miles of tunnels, which may or may not be interconnected. Probably some are not connected to the others.
I have to say that I find tunnels fascinating, but am very glad that I am not one of the soldiers (on either side) fighting either to defend them or to clear them.
A video from Turkish channel TRTWORLD showing viewers "how Israel is bombing population centers". pic.twitter.com/PYKW5vwjv8
— S p r i n t e r M e d i a s e t (@SprinterMedia1) February 23, 2024
I think that, sooner or later, maybe within 10 years, things will come full circle, and the cities of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem etc will find themselves on the receiving end of even greater destruction.
Interesting, if true. I have been unable to completely verify that last, but if (as seems possible) Ursula von der Leyen is part-Jew, then that would fit right in with the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan. A part-Jew “ruler” in Europe encouraging and facilitating the entry into Europe of huge hordes of non-Europeans, with the aim of creating a mixed-race population in Europe. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan. Bear in mind that “the usual suspects” persistently”edit” (vandalize) Wikipedia in respect of articles dealing with WW2, Jews and related topics.
In New Zealand, 11,000 politicians and elites got exemptions from the covid vaccine – Ask yourself, why would they want to do that? https://t.co/HDlOaIuPMt
I was informed today by an NHS nurse that the entire staff was told if they take the Covid jab this year they'll be given 2 extra days holiday.
But it will only apply if at least 75% comply. The coercion and manipulation is murderous.
— Parallel Systems Broadcast w/ Parallel Mike (@parallel_mike) December 4, 2023
🇮🇱 Israel bombed homes. 🇮🇱 Israel bombed schools. 🇮🇱 Israel bombed hospitals. 🇮🇱 Israel bombed churches. 🇮🇱 Israel bombed evacuees. 🇮🇱 Israel bombed journalists. 🇮🇱 Israel bombed UN workers.
🇮🇱 But they want you to believe Israel is “good” and Palestinians are “evil.”
I switched off that mixture of propaganda and pure ignorance (personified by Justin Webb, but not solely) about 10 years ago, and now only hear brief snatches in the car, usually if the music on Radio 3 is not to my liking.
Talking of BBC Radio 3, I notice that there has been a gradual slide in its level. Now, it quite often plays music more suited to Radio 2.
Eddie Izzard is a mess, isn't he?
Pretends he's a woman when it suits him, but also keeps his male name when campaigning.
All his acting roles (bar one) are male characters. He wears fake breasts and mini skirts when campaigning for election.
I no longer have a Twitter/X account, having been expelled at the behest of a pack of Jews in 2018. There are other Ian Millards still on Twitter/X, though, and I have to admit that it is now slightly irritating that one such (@IanMillard100) posts on political topics. I even agree with a few of his tweets! However, I should not like my readers, or others, to think that “IanMillard100” is me, not least because he seems to be fervently pro-Israel, and even has an Israeli flag on his masthead.
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This is from the BBC.
Israel supporters, who reflexively denied what happened to this boy, are being exposed every day as apologists for atrocities.
For decades (between 1967 and 1999), NGOs and western media reported that the Occupied Territories were basically torture… https://t.co/dy3ucLQJBj
Israel’s brutality loses the Jewish state public support in the West. When the Hamas attack on southern Israel happened in early October, even some people not inclined to support Israel (or Jews generally) may have been slightly sympathetic to the civilian victims (in fact, many were not really civilian, but we can leave that aside).
Israel’s response, to launch a sustained bombing campaign on the civilians (half of them children or teenagers) in Gaza, killing many thousands, grievously injuring and mutilating thousands more, destroying hospitals etc, has wiped out any slight inclination on the part of the majority of non-Jews to feel any sympathy at all for Israelis and the Jewish “diaspora” across the West.
Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism. That has affected its development right up to the present day.
At least one major Jewish terrorist of the 1940s (Menachem Begin) actually became Prime Minister of the Israeli state in the 1980s.
The energy and enthusiasm is all on the anti war side. Being pro Israel today in a western country today is like being pro Vietnam war in 1968: maybe good for your career, but ultimately uncool. https://t.co/xnuGjS4zzP
“The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.”
Interesting Twitter/X thread
Is pointing out the fact that Jews are overrepresented in the power structures of Britain and the world "antisemitic"?
— Diversity Makes Free (@WillemD19118035) August 8, 2023
There is such a thing as objective truth. That must form the foundation of any healthy, rational discourse.
Power is, in some respects at least, discernible and measurable. It is clear that Jews are significantly overrepresented in positions of power: Parliament, Cabinet, etc.
— Diversity Makes Free (@WillemD19118035) August 8, 2023
Well, without even researching the others, Dowden, Shapps and Frazer are Jewish. So that's at least 3 of 23 cabinet ministers, about 1 in 7. If Jews are around 0.5% of the population, that's about 30x overrepresentation right there.
— Diversity Makes Free (@WillemD19118035) August 8, 2023
Dowden is a former officer of the Conservative Friends of Israel, and has twice chaired the APPG for British Jews. Dowden has said he feels a "cultural affinity" with the Jewish community – his constituency of Hertsmere has the largest Jewish population outside of London.
I have a similar "catch up" story. Many, many, months after I documented Ukraine's mass-firing of rockets containing "Petal" mines onto Donetsk and surrounding cities, onto civilians, HRW later finally reported on Ukraine's firing the mines elsewhere (but ignored Donetsk) https://t.co/RL62aTS8DZ
Those conspiracy theorists and their crystal balls were right again. https://t.co/rqZVTjkPP0
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) December 5, 2023
When I was on trial in our “free” country for a political “offence”, just over 2 weeks ago, Crown Counsel claimed that the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan was a mere “conspiracy theory“. I had to put him and the Court straight on that point.
After 13 years of doing absolutely fuck-all to stop illegal immigration, the Tories have now implemented measures that will mostly hurt… *skilled, legal immigrants* who may actually bring something of value to this country.
STOP THE FUCKING BOATS AND SEND THE ILLEGALS BACK.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) December 5, 2023
Of course, I want all mass immigration stopped, and a start made on re-Europeanizing the UK, but of course that tweeter is right insofar as it is clear that 99.99% of those coming on small boats (and also, probably, 90%+ of the “legal” immigrants) will bring little or no benefit to the people of the UK. Many will be seriously detrimental to us; the least that can be hoped for is that many will just be useless parasites. Many will be and are criminal, or even terroristic.
As for the bunches of clowns that pretend to be Government and Opposition in this country, there is nothing (lawful) that I can say…
This is the ASPEN card.
It’s a pre-paid debit card loaded up with cash every week, given to illegal immigrants, on top of the free housing and free meals they are already given, paid for by taxpayers.
— David Morgan 🏴 #StayFree (@david_r_morgan) December 4, 2023
These are the scenes at DOVER TODAY as migrants are being brought in after illegally crossing the Channel from France
Sources on the ground say up to 500 are crossing today and with the weather deteriorating we could have beach landings as BORDER FORCE have lost control of the… pic.twitter.com/QvmABd42pQ
Team Braverman rightly point out they were ahead of the curve on net migration. Sunak should have seen this coming & moved sooner. Less than a year ago cabinet ministers were telling me legal migration "didn't really matter to voters". Bonkers. Now too late to show change.
I don't want a broken economy which imports cheap low skill migrant workers to keep costs low, profit high & satisfy morally righteous elites. We need high skill but limited migration while investing seriously in British workers, getting ppl off benefits & building economy for… https://t.co/q2BqvnefZj
Reading that 2022 blog post, I am reminded that LBC radio is owned lock, stock and barrel by a Jew. See the post itself for details. It explains much about the attitudes taken by LBC presenters and editors.
In fact, I should say that that blog post from a year ago has held up well, with the exception of my prediction of Russian incursion into Ukraine (correct in itself but wrong in its overestimation of the capabilities of the Russian forces).
Well, this week brings another victory for me over political journalist John Rentoul. He scored 5/10, but I trumped that with 7/10. I did not know the answers to questions 1, 3, and 8.
Ukraine
As I blogged yesterday, it looks as though no breakthrough will be made on either side until after the thaw of the spring gives way to summer. I still have in my mind my dream (blogged about a few days ago) about 1 July being the start of a war, perhaps one involving the whole of Europe.
In the meantime, I am assuming that the Russian forces will continue to degrade the infrastructure of Ukraine in the major centres, particularly Kiev area.
Peace talks have effectively been ruled out by the Jew Zelensky. The pre-condition for even a limited ceasefire seems to be that Russia gives up all territory within the pre-2014 Ukraine borders, including Crimea. For Russia, that is unthinkable. After all, even if the forces of the Kiev regime were to achieve total victory, they would be in no better position than if Russian forces were to withdraw now. That being so, there is no incentive for Russia to withdraw now, even were it willing to do so.
The NWO/ZOG centres are now funnelling arms to the Kiev regime on a scale thought impossible 11 months ago. Russia will probably thus be pushed into a massive offensive when summer comes.
Lee has always been open what he is, and you either vote for him or not. Jack has manipulated people into funding her drugs and designer goods whilst pretending to be a poverty campaigner.
I have little time for either of them, but “Jack Monroe” is pretty close to being an outright fraud.
I don't believe it either.
She's done nothing but increase the amount of comfortable middle class people going to Aldi for a lark 1 week a month.
"Hmm this Aldi food is fine, dont know what the poors moan about, we spent £120 instead of £200 this week.."
— ThruppenyBit (Eric B. Johns) (@BoredTillSleep) January 28, 2023
Yes its theatre. They pick up a few bargains at Aldi then carry on up the road to Waitrose for the real shop. I've checked and in Jack's Southend they are literally the two neighbouring shops along the same road.
Twitter says Jack Monroe's radio silence on twitter will end in time for Patreon renewal – as her flounces always do. Doubtless with a sob story to get the middle class pov nans putting their hand in their Burberry purses again. https://t.co/d7Vy0SKPpg
Frequent users of Wikipedia who are even less technically-competent than me may like to know that it is possible to switch from the new format back to the far better one that was in use for the past 12-13 years by going to “Preferences” on Wikipedia (once logged-in) and choosing “Appearance“, and then (under “Skin“), “Vector Legacy (2010)“.
A year or two ago, the pack of malicious Jews calling itself “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, or “CAA”, was advertizing on its website for Jews already signed-up to Wikipedia to volunteer to “edit” (vandalize) Wikipedia’s articles on history, politics etc, using their private computers and sign-in details. Typically underhand Jew-Zionist methods.
Tiny proportion engage now, it's falling like a stone. Even a self harm flounce struggles to get a few dozen 'where are you / take a time out, Jacks'. She's fucked it.
People will sub of there's subs already there I suppose..
Email accounts cost nothing to set up, link it to PayPal, send that PayPal £10 a month, sign that email up to patreon to donate £10 a month. (I've no idea if that would be possible)
— ThruppenyBit (Eric B. Johns) (@BoredTillSleep) January 28, 2023
I blogged to that effect weeks ago.
Late music
[Marshal Zhukov inspects the ruins of the Reichstag, Berlin, 1945]
North Korea is like a laboratory experiment showing the deficiencies of old-style socialism (or any system of society where the political element completely rules over both the economic sphere and the spiritual/cultural sphere): see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_threefolding.
At the same time, it is incredible to see what the human spirit (even when largely crushed, as in North Korea) can accomplish under collective will (whether voluntarily or otherwise). North Korea’s people may be half-starved, and more or less beaten into submission, yet they have developed rockets, and have huge and apparently efficient armed forces, at the same time as the domestic railways scarcely work, the roads are mostly potholed and ill-repaired, and many of the rank and file North Koreans hungry and poorly clothed.
North Korea prioritizes military spending, and making its capital as much of a showcase as it can, before anything else (except the privileges of the ruling circles). A socio-political choice by the few who rule.
There are examples elsewhere in the world. Stalin said, on learning of the atom bomb, “we must have it, even if we have to eat grass“. Well, Stalin and his clique never had to eat grass, but many of the Soviet people were on almost starvation rations for years, and later on very modest living standards, even as the Soviet Union industrialized (1930s), defeated the German Reich (1940s), built the atom bomb (1940s) and a hydrogen bomb (1950s), and launched into space (1950s and 1960s).
In other words, these things are questions of political will and prioritization, at least up to a point. Stalin told his intelligence agencies to discover how to build an atom bomb at a time when nothing was known of it beyond its actual existence. It had never been deployed, nor even tested. Armed only with that one fact, that it existed, the foreign intelligence directorates of the NKVD and GRU managed to get enough information to enable the Soviet Union to build a usable bomb.
Another case: Adolf Hitler found a Germany in the depths of poverty and despair (yes, a simplification, but largely true) and raised it to glory, even if that lasted only 12 years. His will alone, transmitted to others and thence to others yet, created the achievements of the German Reich in the 6 years of peace, and then in the 6 years of war, the latter including not only initial and stunning military victories, but technical achievements which, inter alia, led humanity to the Moon and outer space (the V2 rockets developed by von Braun and his team).
[autobahn, Germany, 1930s; the first British ones were part of what is now the M6, and also the M1, both started in the late 1950s]
[Nuremberg building, built 1930s]
[Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, reconstructed in the 1930s]
[Tempelhof Airport main terminal hall, Berlin, from 1934; compare that to what existed in the UK or even USA at the time]
There is a “creative tension”, if you like, between the necessity to have political will to do something, and the equally-pressing necessity to have the economic resources to accomplish that objective. Some countries have the political direction (North Korea the obvious example, perhaps) but (in that case by reason of a ramshackle socialist economy) lack the resources to do what the political leadership would perhaps like to do; at least to the extent that its government would like.
There again, there are thriving economies in countries that have very little political direction: contemporary Germany, and indeed most of the Western and Central Europe of the present-day. The economic benefits of those economies go, one way or another, to satisfying consumer demand. The opposite of Goering’s famous remark “guns before butter“.
Once you get people to accept the facemask nonsense and the other contrived “rules” (hoops to jump through), once you get them to accept the most absurd and contradictory “laws” (eg facemasks on in the supermarket, but off next door in the pub), once you get people used to being injected regularly, then you will be able to get most of, and eventually all, the “sheeple” to accept having a subcutaneous microchip. Social conditioning.
The rationale will be something like “accept the microchip under your skin. It will only take a minute, and thereafter no need for papers, Covid passports etc; you will be free to do everything...” except that you will then be able to be tracked, controlled, found (if you try to hide) and, at the push of a button, if you are deemed to be “racist”, “anti-Semitic”, a dissident, whatever, the System will be able to deny you access to…anything, everything…
Naturally, I am opposed to the ludicrous Covid “restrictions” anyway, but the incredibly “entitled” attitude of the Conservative Party hierarchy has shot the Government’s credibility, such as it was, to pieces. Parties in Downing Street, and at CCHQ, with none of the useless but previously “mandated” measures in place: no facemasks, no “social distancing”, and no arbitrary “rule of 6”.
All legislators & public figures in the UK including journalists, pundits & ‘media influencers’ need to publicly declare any links they have, or have had, (financial or otherwise) with the Pfizer Corporation and/or Moderna. Please retweet if you agree: https://t.co/ghc2W2LBbG
(2) my article from the @Daily_Express countering the claims Biggles was racisthttps://t.co/XHwOVEWRhz Cross says the Express is not a ‘reliable source’ for @wikipedia but it is not barred as a source by the site. In any case I wrote another piece on Biggles for the Telegraph
(4) tempted to go to wikipedia to find out. And there, because of Cross’s editing, they would read he was a racist with no countering sources shown. He wants to show that a fictional character I approvingly cited was a racist. Now you could argue it’s all quite trivial when we
Wikipedia is a valuable resource, perhaps the best single source of information on the Internet, but when it comes to matters involving Jew-Zionism, the so-called “far right” (social-nationalism) etc, the (((influence))) is readily apparent.
There is only one way to counter the evil, or maybe two, but so far there is little sign of any resistance at all to either the Great Reset or the Great Replacement in the UK. A few protest marches in London parks do not cut it; those people would be better off saving their time and money.
I always thought that Andy Burnham was one of the better people on the Labour side…but then I heard him, a few years ago, weaselling about “holocaust” nonsense, and I thought again…another System drone.
So in the UK there are 10 or 11 people hospitalized with “Omicron” (with, not exclusively however— they have other “co-morbidities”), none of those 10-11 require to be on ventilators, and it may be that 1 other person has in recent weeks died with Omicron. For this, Boris-idiot and the sinister clowns of SAGE have half-closed down the country, and re-mandated the facemask nonsense…
North Shropshire by-election
For what it is worth, the bookmakers now have the Conservative Party candidate just ahead of the LibDem. Seems to be an open contest between those two, and with —in my view— every chance that the LibDem might bring off the biggest surprise in the history of the constituency (which history, though with a break of a century, goes back to 1832).
It is a little strange that Labour supporters would vote Labour just to (?) make a point (what point? That “democracy” is really rather a sham in our system?), when they could dislodge the Conservatives (and make electoral history) by voting tactically for the LibDem, but I suppose that many recall the way in which Clegg and the LibDems propped-up the regime of the part-Jews David Cameron-Levita and George Osborne from 2010-2015, thus enabling all those cruel and callous “welfare” (social security) cuts and other measures (the ATOS scandal etc). Many will never trust the LibDems again.
[Update, 7 January 2025: In the end, the LibDem candidate won the North Shropshire by-election handsomely, with 47.2% of the vote (Con 31.6%, Lab 9.7%), and retained it even more convincingly at the 2024 General Election, with 52.9% of the vote (Con 22%, Reform UK 15.5%, with Lab in 4th place on 6.9%). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Shropshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.]
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Late tweets
They admit the vax doesn't stop people catching or passing on covid, but stillexpect parents to fall for this gruesome fear & guilt propaganda. That should tell you just how stupid the elite think you are. Protect your children from #NHS bureaucrats & politicians! #BigPharmapic.twitter.com/EJiSqvO1pM
I would not put it quite like that, but at root, that is right, inasmuch as the Western cabals were behind Bolshevism, and are now fairly openly pushing for the post 2022 “agenda” which might be summarized as “The Great Reset + The Great Replacement = NWO/ZOG world power”.
Why does @ChtyCommission allow Zionist groups to ‘police’ UK citizens using tactics synonymous with The Cheka police. How long before ‘volunteers’ claim leather coats on expenses? Make no mistake #Chekism is alive and well just watch Joe Glasman’s video. https://t.co/zZvuGe5HWg
.@_EdwardIsaacs claimed to be a student who was being bullied by anti-Zionist professor David Miller — but in fact he was a well-trained propagandist for Israel https://t.co/TgLPlMAdJ0
How many times does one have to repeat it? Where “they” exist, except in miniscule numbers, others never have any freedom.
How long before people sceptical about #Omricon are called anti-Semites, centrist MSM are frantically smearing any independent thinking, they’re running out of insults? @MasalaFry69
That has already started to happen. Look on Twitter. I am not quite sure why most Jews (on Twitter, at least) seem to be fanatically pro-Covid “restrictions” and “vaccination”, unless they just distrust the British people having any liberty at all.
Rishi Sunak has apparently been warning that the costs of vaccine schemes into the future will need to be funded by cuts elsewhere to public services.
Well here's an alternative: a 10% tax on wealth over £100m would raise £69 BILLION. It's time to tax the super-rich!
A rare week, in which John Rentoul beat my score. This week he scored 7/10, but I scored only 5/10, a far worse effort than usual. I did not know the answers to questions 3, 6, 7, 9, and 10 (I should have known no. 7, but the mind was blank, so there it is…).
Sadly, very true, though “Left wing” (eg “socialist”) is not fully accurate, certainly not the full story. The Jew-Zionist element has a near-stranglehold, as it does over the msm. In fact, not so long ago, the fake UK “charity” known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA” was advertising for “volunteers” with their own Wikipedia accounts to “edit” (vandalize) Wikipedia pages.
Wikipedia is one of the best resources on the Internet, perhaps the best, which makes it all the more irritating that Jew-Zionists and others are using it to spread propaganda.
It is absurd, also, that the mainstream UK newspaper, the Daily Mail, cannot be cited as a source for anything, yet rubbish publications such as the Sun, Mirror, even Morning Star, can be! Incidentally, I have no reason to be kind to the Daily Mail, as you will see if you google “Ian Millard barrister Daily Mail”!
Perhaps @franssmith11.More likely failure to compy will prevent travel, debar you from higher education, cause problems for your children. They don't want to have to feed or house you, & they know human rights campaigners don't pay much attention to marshmallow totalitarianism. https://t.co/LK0YuNPxsM
Also, we see that the trend for the State to “outsource” things has now led to the “Boris” etc weaselling that the facemask nonsense will largely end (in law) on 19 July 2021, while at the very same time telling the public that they “should” carry on being scared facemask-wearing rabbits, and also telling —or nod-and-winking— to large supermarkets etc, and airlines, that they should effectively demand that their customers continue to be muzzled.
Screw that, and screw all companies demanding facemask use! Rebel any way you can, especially by boycotting those companies. Vote with your feet, and with your wallet or purse!
My latest interview – on *why* the free countries of the west , especially in the Anglosphere, are willingly handing over their former freedoms and taking the yoke of submission. https://t.co/TBznvEdHKd
Excellent by Freddy Gray. People and institutions which used to guard freedom now combine to attack dissent. America’s Maoist mutation https://t.co/bManYD8RVs
Not exactly, @policy_uk. Rather ore that, having spent my childhood in an indebted rather grey and resource-poor country which had to count every penny, public and private, I must either now accept that this was not necessary, or fear we are in for a repeat of it. https://t.co/iHaFIkLZp3
After 2008, “austerity” (which was the policy not only of the part-Jews David Cameron-Levita and George Osborne but also of Gordon Brown and Alastair Darling), was completely wrongheaded. Now, though, we see almost the opposite —but skewed— policy of vast sums spent, not on useful infrastructure, nor on real education and upskilling, but on schemes over the past 19 months to keep the population at home, eating delivered junk food, drinking heavily, and watching TV.
Totally agree Peter. Or just basic things like paving. Even in Oxford, one of our wealthiest cities, it is appalling.
— UK public policy failure (@policy_uk) July 16, 2021
I too live in one of the wealthier parts of England, yet the roads are falling to pieces, and public services have been cut to the bone.
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These people should be on our side! When I lived in Kazakhstan (1996-97), I knew several former Russian VDV (Air Descent Contingent…special forces) people. Very solid people.
(and in most of the USA, minimum-wage workers cannot afford even a one-bed apartment!).
The same or similar problem exists in the UK. Topping-up pay via Universal Credit is quite wrong; it subsidizes poor-paying-employers vis a vis employers who pay decently. Pay must be sufficient to live on. A measure of State-paid Basic Income will also have to come into existence, because the nexus between pay and work is very loose now, and many do not have paid work at all.
Stonehouse was a sensation when exposed as a fraud who had not died, as everyone thought, in 1974, in the sea off Miami Beach (a rather unlikely place to drown anyway). His espionage for socialist Czechoslovakia was not exposed —to the public— until well after his death.
That was an age when politicians, though hardly honoured, were still regarded as basically straight people. The later tidal wave of mediocre and hopeless idiots had not yet filled the Commons. That was another reason why people were fascinated by Stonehouse’s attempted (and very nearly successful) scam.
Other reasons why l’affaire Stonehouse became a sensation, briefly, were because it coincided with that Reginald Perrin TV comedy series, and also because a few other cases of international (British) fugitives had been news for years, notably that of Ronnie Biggs [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Biggs].
I recall that, when I had to visit the British High Commission in Gaborone, Botswana, in 1977, at age 20, I noticed a small golden plaque by the entrance stating that it had been officially opened by John Stonehouse in 1966, when he had been a minister in the Colonial Office and its successor, the short-lived Commonwealth Office (from 1968, joined with the Foreign Office in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office).
Strange to see that inscription, nearly three years after Stonehouse’s disgrace (but history is history, something both the “BLM” idiots and Zionist Jews might note).
The Daily Mail piece also contained the assertion that one Ernest Fernyhough, PPS to Prime Minister Harold Wilson, had also been (one of a number of Labour MPs) spying for the Czech StB (external intelligence organization). His treachery is new to me, and I see that Wikipedia does not mention it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Fernyhough.
I imagine that Stonehouse, who was a bit of a Casanova, and a gambler generally, might have been a fairly useful agent for Czech Intelligence, willing to take calculated risks.
As to the book, to be released on 22 July 2021, I might buy the hardback edition via Amazon when it is put on secondhand sale in a few months. RRP is £25.99, but the book can be bought at £18.99. Maybe when there are good, or as-new, used copies for £2 or so. Or, if you like, “when you get down to 90 kopecks, wake me up again”.
Despite that Daily Mail piece having been interestingly written, it contained one schoolboy error by the author (of both the book and the article): speaking in the strict legal sense, Stonehouse did not commit, as the writer claims, “treason”; his alleged espionage crimes would have been charged, had he been charged, under the Official Secrets Act(s) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Secrets_Act#United_Kingdom].
What a co-incidence! The new Secretary of State for Health, and also the person posing as PM, are apparently both now “self-isolating”. Of course, that has nothing to do with 19 July 2021, the day after tomorrow, and the (latest, so-called) “Freedom Day”…
The most enthusiastic supporters and promoters of the TORY lockdowns! https://t.co/cnyQ5nAZZG
— TheEndOfEverything (@EternalEnglish) July 17, 2021
The organized trade unions, what’s left of them, are basically just System-run, politically-correct, advice organizations, of very little use to British people whether employed or not.
I myself am not a member, nor even supporter (as such) of Patriotic Alternative, but the negative attention that PA is getting from “the usual suspects” makes me think that they are at least on the right track.
I don't think we need to worry about this, comrades. They can carry on protesting. Before the next election we'll have Macron close a couple of mosques and the masses will vote for him again. https://t.co/jPnFmciGw2
— Climate Warrior🐬 #ClimateJustice🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 (@ClimateWarrior7) July 17, 2021
I missed Bastille Day, so here’s to Macron meeting with Madame Guillotine!
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Last word tonight
Listening to BBC World Service and, once again, appalled by the poor standards now, as compared to the 1970s and 1980s, when I was a regular listener. Then, mostly interesting and erudite programming, and including some entertainment, of which some even entertained me. Now, endless black “music” or other ghastly trash, and “BLM”-style nonsense propaganda. 90% of the output now is rubbish.
Many complain about the Jewish lobby bias on some topics covered in Wikipedia. This is why— Jews recruited to censor articles and distort both current events and history:
Can you edit @Wikipedia pages? We need your help to keep information about #antisemitism accurate and up to date!
Expect Wikipedia to be even more pro-Zionist from now on, its pages on many socio-political topics contaminated and distorted.
Incidentally, do not be misled: the bias goes far beyond “information about #antisemitism“, as claimed. Pages on modern and ancient history, religion, geography, biography, political organizations etc.
Wikipedia should be aware also of the fact that, in the notice above, Jews are specifically asked whether they are able to edit Wikipedia; in other words via their own private Wikipedia accounts. Wikipedia will have no idea whether an edit is honest or whether it is part of this co-ordinated campaign by a very malicious group of Zionist Jews.
Burley on Sky saying poll results show more than half want a stronger lockdown. (The poll results were released about 2hrs after new restrictions were announced.) Probably a Sky poll of a few hundred targeted customers..
Little Matt Hancock tries to joke his way out of one of the many absurdities of what now passes for “policy” under this toytown tyranny of an “elected” dictatorship.
Sunak accused of 'disrespect' after Kate Forbes learns budget scrapped on Twitter. @alisonthewliss adds Sunak's announcement does nothing for 3million people: "freelancers, PAYE, women on maternity have had not one penny piece from this govt for 6 months" https://t.co/6JdB9ufATE
I hope that the poor saps who criticize me occasionally on Twitter are noting how often I have been proven right since I started writing this blog nearly 4 years ago. I was blogging over a year ago, maybe longer, about how almost everyone, misled by the msm, was thinking of Boris Johnson as a strong leader-type, when his whole history shows the reverse, a weak man without ideas, principles or resilience, untrustworthy, incompetent and without leadership qualities.
Yes, now trhat the National Trust has moved into Trotskyism, I am thinking of setting up a body called the Workers' Revolutionary Front whose aim will be to buy up and preserve stately homes, and to offer tea and walnut cake in chintzy cafes to visitors. https://t.co/vLBwIZAufb
Thank you @parkessiddique . Please encourage others. This is time-sensitive, as the major vote on the Coronavirus Act takes place on Wednesday 30th. https://t.co/8MK6sbp5C1
@micolajane50. Why was 'lockdown' a mistake? Because it destroyed the economy, led to many needless deaths, gravely damaged liberty and achieved precisely nothing. More detail available on application. https://t.co/u81ZO5NW1S
Incredible that there are people who apparently need to ask “why was ‘lockdown’ a mistake?“, but there again, if you are fairly comfortably off, do not need (for whatever reason) to work for money, perhaps live in the country or outer suburbs and have little social life, you may not have been affected much if at all by the stupid “lockdown” imposition.
Indeed, you may have enjoyed the sense of peace and quiet as society all but shut down, as Nature reasserted itself. If you are or were in that position, your life was not much strained, assuming that you have at least some income. Deliveries of food and drink, ordered online; other shopping ordered online; books, DVDs etc. For those with higher incomes and better properties, there was always the swimming pool and tennis court in which to while away the days…and so on.
Such people can selfishly (not necessarily consciously selfishly) turn blind eyes to the shutdown of industry and commerce, to the terrible shortages affecting charities such as animal charities, among others, and to the socio-economic disaster created but which has not yet arrived (that will be in 2021-2022). They can also, perhaps, ignore the cost in pain and death of the semi-closure of the NHS, which has affected those with non-Coronavirus conditions.
1/2 Great that Tory MPs are awaking from their six-month slumbers. https://t.co/v0Dg7VvaA6 . But not good enough. Write nwo to your MP briefly, politely, acidly: 'You are not representing me. You are not scrutinising government. You are not earning your large salary'
Well, writing a letter or email may have some limited effect. I can only think of one fairly recent event that got the MPs off their chairs pretty excitedly, but having no wish to be bored by police nuisances at my door (again, it having happened a few times in 2017-2018), I do not think that I shall cite that event here.
Interesting video seen
Memory Lane
I hope that the readers of my blog do not object to the inclusion of some personal reminiscences. Having Saturn in Scorpio, I do tend to think back rather a lot. As the Germans say, “Ruckshau“.
I was just recalling former times, triggered by an email from someone.
Many many years ago, I had a —now-deceased— friend, a lecturer at the language centre of the University of Westminster, who lived in the London Borough of Barnet (I think he was within that borough— North Finchley). A good fellow, a noted translator of Dostoyevsky, called Ig Avsey: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/dec/09/ignat-avsey-obituary
In the late 1980s, I occasionally stayed overnight there (on a very uncomfortable and ancient leather sofa in the drawing room, a cold room decorated with Ig’s collection of massive railway clocks). When Ig remarried in 2000 (a very unsuitable match, to a youngish Russian woman resident in Latvia), the couple came and stayed overnight at the large country house of which my wife and I had a lease, in Cornwall. That was in 2002, I think. Once was enough, to be frank! Sadly, “there’s no fool like an old fool” when it comes to women…
Ig lived in a small close called Wolstonbury, which backed onto a golf course or land near a golf course. A strange menage. For a while, a fellow we both called “Uncle John” lived there too, a former student of Ig’s and an Oxford grad, but middle-aged and, like Ig, divorced. They always reminded me of “The Odd Couple“:
“Uncle John” was a very English person, who was still under the thumb of his ex-wife, Alla Figoff, a Leningrader by origin, and who was in fact another of my occasional teachers (Russian Conversation, I think). Alla lived in their former marital home, an apartment in Devonshire Place (in the West End), while Uncle John was living in one room at Ig’s place…and their two children were both at expensive schools paid for by Uncle John (Marlborough, I think; maybe also Bedales or Benenden, I cannot now remember).
Alla was killed, years later, in a fall from her balcony when she was full of whisky. Uncle John then met and married a very wealthy woman and resumed his place among the palatially-housed.
Ig was a good fellow, whose translations of Dostoyevsky were much-praised (one or two had, amazingly, never been translated previously, such as In the Village of Stepanchikovo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_of_Stepanchikovo).
Ig had been born in Latvia, his family having fled Russia during the Revolution and Civil War of 1917-1922. Fleeing Soviet forces again during the Second World War, he spent time in Germany before ending up in Britain when aged about 14, sometime around 1952.
Ig Avsey was the kind of Russian (or part-Russian: he was always rather secretive about his family) who is able to work at a project devotedly for years, without pay or plaudit; one thinks of Mitrokhin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Mitrokhin.
Ig took a year’s sabbatical in order to translate The Brothers Karamazov for Penguin Classics. A decision which brought honour but was financially pretty disastrous. The year, taken on full pay with the blessing of the University, became a second year in which the University reduced his salary to half-pay, then a third on no pay at all. The money paid by the publishers did not begin to make up the shortfall. Ig was a perfectionist who wanted to get it right. For him, Dostoyevsky was the greatest of the Russian writers, I think. He would not compromise.
At the same time as Ig was translating Karamazov, at least two other translations came out, but they were little more than potboilers, produced carelessly because the market seemed to be hopeful. One even used Americanisms such as “district attorney” and “chief of police”! In pre-revolutionary Russia! In fact, Ig did consult me about a couple of odd things (to do with such designations).
The University eventually had enough of the endless absence and Ig was more or less forced into retirement. I do not think that his Penguin contract was very generous either. He was only getting pennies for each volume sold; how many pennies, I cannot recall.
Society needs people like that.
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A stupid argument, @p___m___b I know as much as Matt Hancock and 'Boris' Johnson do about viruses. Why does *their* lack of specialist nowledge not trouble you, when they have destroyed the economy, whereas mine does, when I seek only to prevent further damage? https://t.co/Kkxo6pvtBT
So the BBC is now trying to make heroes out of the Jew thugs, gangsters and terrorists known as the “62 Group”…
The BBC is infested, contaminated.
#Labour doing what is does best: putting foreign interests before the British people.#KeirStarmer repays the lobby that shoved him to the top of the greasy pole. pic.twitter.com/CllGMs4QE3
Saw Doctor Zhivago for the first time in a few years; on BBC Four, the only good BBC TV station. Still a magnificent film, despite the relatively few flaws which could easily have been remedied by better pre-filming research, e.g. Communists calling non-Communists “Comrade“, which is erroneous (it would have been just by name or via the title “Citizen“).
Ian Robert Millard 