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Diary Blog, 23 August 2025

Afternoon music

Saturday quiz

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

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

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

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

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

We are the “Noticers”…

Good, but not enough.

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

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

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

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

Travelogue by train

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An utter cretin.

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

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

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

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[Victor Ostrovsky, Distraction]

Diary Blog, 4 August 2025

Morning music

[Sally Hewlett Taylor, Walking Across London Bridge in the Rain]

Ukrainians are starting to revolt against Zelensky’s brutal, corrupt, and shambolic Jew-Zionist regime

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14966973/Are-Ukrainians-turning-Zelensky-Multiple-casualties-reported-civilians-attack-draft-officer-bats-metal-pipes-Mykolaiv-Oblast.html

“Multiple casualties have been reported after Ukrainian officials alleged that a group of bat and pipe-wielding civilians attacked a draft officer. 

Officials said the incident took place at 2pm local time in the small village of Buzke in Mykolaiv Oblast. 

They said that the civilians, who have not yet been identified, were ‘armed with bats and metal pipes’ and ‘damaged a vehicle and inflicted bodily injuries on a soldier.

Cops are now investigating the incident, and warned dissidents that insulting the ‘honour and dignity’ of soldiers, as well as threatening violence against them, was punishable by up to five years in prison. 

It added that bringing harm to soldiers could result in up to 12 years imprisonment. 

From the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Zelensky faced an uphill battle with his countrymen, who resisted the enforced conscription into the country’s military.

Just two days ago protesters in the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia broke into a stadium where roughly 100 men were being held by military enlistment officers. 

Cops arrested several demonstrators.

[Daily Mail]

“Recruitment” (by press-gang) into the Kiev-regime army is a death sentence. They are losing a thousand or more per day on the front-line. Naturally, people try to avoid or evade.

Incidentally, “Mikolaiv” is the Ukrainian version of the original Russian name, Nikolayev. The name is from St. Nicholas.

“As of 2017, 63% of the population spoke Russian at home, 7% Ukrainian, and 28% spoke both Ukrainian and Russian equally.[50]

According to a survey conducted by the International Republican Institute in April-May 2023, 30% of the city’s population spoke Ukrainian at home, and 61% spoke Russian.[52]

[Wikipedia]

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

[aerial view of Nikolayev/”Mikolaiv” before hostilities broke out]

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Jess Phillips may be the most disgusting MP in the current Commons.

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There is a problem which is not confined to the Middle East. A worldwide problem. It has to be dealt with. Let’s just leave it there for now.

Angela Rayner once more makes a fool of herself

[“You know Ange, I’ll be a bit concerned how life will be for you and all Labour MP’s once you’re out of office. I would envisage a rather bumpy road considering you’re a major player in the destruction of this once beautiful land.“]

I like almost all the responses on Twitter/X to thick-as-two-short-planks Angela Rayner and her ostensible espousal of some of the worst untermenschen in this country. I especially like that last tweeter’s response.

I wonder whether any lone hero… well, let’s leave it there.

Destruction of Britain’s allotments is more than just a retrograde step, it is state-instigated vandalism and violence against something beautiful and worthwhile, and against a cherished part of our history.

We often see, mostly online, statements such as “the System parties, especially Labour, are traitors” etc. Hyperbole, maybe, but when you look at what this government is doing, treason really is the only word that fits, alongside evil, treacherous, enemies, criminals and the like.

The Angela Rayner type think that they can do anything to trash our country, and that they will get away with it, and then make personal money or career opportunities out of it etc.

The same goes for “unused” land owned by railways etc. A haven for wildlife, for land animals, birds, and insects.

First, Farage, Reform UK etc. Then, after that, real social nationalism.

[“Brazil has become the first country in the world to abandon the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Blaming financial and legal constraints, Brazil’s Government is reportedly withdrawing from the organisation in a move that is really more about sending a signal about where the current Government stands on Jews and the Jewish state. The move will undoubtedly be welcomed by antisemites the world over.“]

For once, that pack of malicious, perjuring Jew-Zionists, the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, a volunteer arm of the Israeli Embassy in London (though several are paid) is in agreement with me. I do indeed welcome the Brazilian announcement.

In fact, the so-called “international definition” is not legally binding, and has only been adopted by about a fifth, if that, of the states in the world.

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

Well done, Brazil. May many others follow in your footsteps.

Bravo!

[“Old or new Israeli’s won’t change the fact they all are citizens of a state that was build on Palestinian blood. The world is waking up, in 10 or 20 years or less my family will be able to go back in claim their in land in West Jerusalem. It’s not just the government its the society, it’s not just the people in that region that see’s the truth, the world now is starting to wake up. Everything in the west that was thought to the people for over a 100 years was a lie and now people are finding out the truth about history.”]

The video is remarkable. On the one hand, and on the video, the chiefs or former chiefs of major Israeli security and intelligence organizations. On the other hand, Netanyahu, his Cabinet of lunatics and/or zealots, a minority (probably) of the Israeli civilians, and those outside Israel who are pushing for even more bloodshed, destruction, starvation, sadistic treatment of Palestinian Arabs, and genocide.

Who are those outside Israel who are pushing for the war to continue? Major Jew-Zionist orgs in the USA, UK etc (such as the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” in the UK), and connected small groups of individuals here and there. Ugly, dead-eyed Jew-Zionists in places such as Brighton, North London, and New York, as well as wealthy and fanatical Jewish business types with American, British, French and other politicians in their pocket.

As noted in the video, the power not represented clearly is the Israeli Army or IDF. This is the foremost power in Israel, not least because it permeates the society: most Israelis are compelled to serve in it for a while and are also liable for reserve service later. So far, the Israeli Army has not refused to continue the war.

Exactly as I have been predicting for 2+ years on the blog. Labour will secretly approve most asylum claims, secretly move the migrant-invaders from hotels to social or other housing (pushing aside British people) , and approve from outside the UK in France etc most new claims, then be able to claim that Labour has “solved” the problem, or the main problem, while in fact making it even worse. Millions more yet of non-whites flooding in. Oh, and of course a tiny number of migrant-runners will be arrested, imprisoned etc, thus allowing Starmer-stein, Angela Rayner, and Yvette Cooper to claim that they have “smashed the gangs”, surely one of the least honest “policies” (slogans) ever pushed by any UK government.

How horrible. I have to admit, I have never had much time for Danish society or Danes (though I also concede that I have never actually been there).

If this is happening now, in 2025, imagine the huge wave of discontent that will be around in 2029. Reform UK will probably benefit, but my feeling is that many by then will want to take direct action against “the overall situation”, including against MPs of the main System parties. We shall see.

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Diary Blog, 13 July 2025

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[Lazienki Park, Warsaw, last seen by me in 1989]

Blast from the past

I notice that a blog post from 2016, one of the earliest on this blog, has had a hit, the first for years:

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Perhaps if the black “yoots” (aka petty black gangsters) were to stop shooting and stabbing each other? Maybe that would help? Just a thought…

The police are sometimes called “woodentops”, sometimes for good reason.

The main good thing about that officer, as far as I know, is that the malicious Jewish lobby dislike him (because of the much-reported incident involving liar/perjurer Gideon Falter of the fanatical Israel-lobby group “Campaign Against Antisemitism”, or “CAA”): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rowley_(police_officer)#Commissioner_of_the_Metropolitan_Police

Overall, though, yet another careerist and idiotic quasi-traitor, it seems.

More Israeli war crimes. Every day, more atrocities. Speak out about what the Israeli Jews are doing and also about the link between Israel and the Jewish communities in the USA, UK, France etc. The latter act in concert with the former.

All very interesting.

[“Italian PM Giorgia Meloni hosted Volodymyr Zelensky at the Rome conference dinner – to remind Ukraine of its crushing debt to Europe, L’AntiDiplomatico reports. The dinner, hosted by “the duplicitous Meloni,” was formally meant to reaffirm economic support. In reality, it was a partial reckoning: The debt must be paid – they just need the right mechanism. According to the publication, the conference served as an opportunity to determine who would take charge of reconstruction – effectively seizing Ukraine’s wealth.”]

Irrelevant, because Ukraine east of the Dnieper, which is where almost all of the war damage is located, will be Russian territory before very long.

…and that actually happened, unlike the “German SS officer sniper” in the “faction” film, Schindler’s List

Incidentally, I think that many naive people think that Schindler’s List, adapted from the novel, Schindler’s Ark, is “history”, a factual account of events, whereas it is actually “faction”, i.e. mixed fact and fiction. You might compare it to the book and film, Day of the Jackal. In the latter, most of the main characters existed, as did most of the surrounding factual basis— the Algerian conflict, the OAS, General de Gaulle, the rebel leaders etc. The story, however, was a skilful blend of real events and made-up events and people.

As a matter of fact, the author of Schindler’s Ark (at time of writing of this blog still alive at the age of 89), was only a small boy in the early 1940s, and is Australian. His book is a novel, not “history” as such.

Rachael Maskell. Think I have not heard of her previously. Looks and sounds actually insane, as Dan Hodges says (and rarely do I agree with him!). She must be mentally-ill. Alternatively, she looks as if she might be affected by some drug or other. Her demeanour is very odd.

This is what Wikipedia says about Rachael Maskell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachael_Maskell.

On the face of it, not Jewish, and identifies as “evangelical Christian” (like many pro-Israel non-Jews), though I note that her family seems to have been tied-up with some Jewish individuals.

53 years old, apparently unmarried, and has lived entirely, it seems, in areas not much or at all blighted by mass immigration— Highcliffe in Dorset, Winchester, Norwich, and the London Borough of Barnet (a heavily-Jewish area).

Very pro-Jew and (?) pro-Israel: https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2019-06-13/debates/EAE3C409-8761-4044-90CC-B1A26085D755/JewishCommunityContributionToTheUK

MP for York Central since 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_Central_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s.

56.6% of the vote in 2024, so pretty firmly ensconced, it seems. Let’s see if Reform can get rid of her in 2028 or 2029.

Rachael Maskell MP— plainly treacherous. An enemy of all British people.

Incidentally, in that same 2019 House of Commons debate, part-Jew Ruth Smeeth (now in the House of Lords as “Baroness Anderson”), a proven agent of both Israel and the U.S. Embassy in London, and involved heavily with the malicious and mainly Jewish “Hope not Hate” group, said the following:

“As my hon. Friend is touching on the battle of Cable Street, I feel that I should put on the record my pride that my grandmother spent the 48 hours in the run-up to the battle of Cable Street—she lived in the east end of London—putting razor blades into tomatoes to throw at Nazis. I take a great deal of pleasure in being able to contribute to such an important debate, because the Jewish contribution to British life has had many different forms.” [https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2019-06-13/debates/EAE3C409-8761-4044-90CC-B1A26085D755/JewishCommunityContributionToTheUK].

Leaving aside the fact that members of Mosley’s British Union of Fascists [BUF] were not National Socialists (I wish they had been, and wish they had fought for European race and culture instead of, as many did, fighting 1939-45 in British uniform against German forces, often in North Africa and then Italy).

Ruth Smeeth is pro-Israel, pro-ZOG, pro Jewish political street violence (members of her own family were also hard-core criminals and gangsters), and here we see her true nature exposed from her own mouth.

Ruth Smeeth has admitted in that extract that she thinks that street terror by criminal Jews is a “contribution to British life”.

With a grandmother of that sort, well…what can one say?…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Smeeth. Treacherous, an apologist for criminal activity and political street violence, and an agent for at least two foreign states. Now sits in the degraded “House of Lords”, and rules over the people she spied upon.

Ecce the “anti-fascist” type…

Westminster is an evil swamp now. Drain the swamp, or wash it away.

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[Central Warsaw, mid 1940s. Now all rebuilt. That square is the Old Town Market Square or Rynek Starego Miasta. I myself was there a number of times in 1988 and 1989; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Town_Market_Square]
[Rynek Starego Miasta in a recent photograph; More or less as I recall it from the 1980s. Life goes on, even after terrible destruction…]

Another “blast from the past”

Another old blog post (from 2017) had a hit or two today. I think that the ideas in it still stand up pretty well:

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Good grief! What’s happening?! I agree with Dan Hodges again. Twice in a single day. Unglaublich...

I would, had I the political power, “stop the boats”.

How? By shooting down all cross-Channel invaders, and by rooting-out those facilitating the invasion (both on the European mainland and in the UK itself).

I should also “stop the boats” by degrading and punishing the Navy and Border Force (“Farce”) if they were to prove unable or unwilling to do their duty, then by replacing those orgs with another marine force, and/or by “privateers”, i.e. licensed “stop the boats” motor vessels crewed by bounty-hunters.

Further, I would task special forces (or, again, private and specially-licensed bounty-hunters, if necessary, i.e. if the SAS, SBS etc refuse to do their duty), those “privateers” or “bounty-hunters” to be charged with eliminating the gangsters in the EU (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany etc) who are facilitating much of the invasion. Also, the fake “charity” “grifters” and other pro-invasion traitors.

Whatever it takes. Whatever it takes.

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Rachel Reeves is very quiet. Must be having a quiet weekend cry at her grace-and-favour bolthole, Dorneywood, despite her not even having been attacked at Manchester Airport.

About time the UK had people, whether on the police front-line or at the Treasury, capable of doing a proper job. At 10 Downing Street, too.

[“Jo White – Labour MP for Bassetlaw (Nottinghamshire). Jo’s husband John Mann (Baron Mann) held the Bassetlaw seat from 2003 to 2019. During that time, Jo was her husband’s office manager. Jo’s journey to becoming an MP herself in 2024 was assisted by donations from the following: £5,000 from Labour mega donor Stuart Rodin. Mr. Rodin has given approximately £570,000 to Starmer’s Labour Party. He is chairman of the Israeli venture capital firm Hetz Ventures. Hetz employs prominent ex-members of The Mossad and IDF. £8,350 from pro-Israel lobbyist Trevor Chinn. £18,000 from Palace Yard Communications. Jo has received freebies and hospitality from the Football Association and funded international trips. With her husband comfortably ensconced in the Lords, her £93,904 salary, expenses and her generous donations, Jo is doing very well for herself financially as an MP. On 9th July, Jo voted for the Universal Credit and PIP Bill that will result in further hardship for sick and disabled people. Jo also voted to stop the #WinterFuelPayment for pensioners. @UKLabour @jowhite__#WelfareReformBill“]

Jo White MP…yet another Jewish lobby/Israel lobby puppet flying a fake “Labour” flag:

White was born in 1964 in StamfordLincolnshire.[1] She has an identical twin, Deb Davies, who was elected as a Labour councillor in Newport, Wales in 2012.[2] In 2022, she stated she had recently discovered their partly Jewish ancestry.[3]” [Wikipedia] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_White.

Every. Single. Time. (almost).

Jo White and her husband John Mann (another Israel puppet) have been freeloading off the British taxpayer for at least 24 years, one way or another, and still are.

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I noticed, when I spent about 3 months in Turkey in 2001 (my third visit) how kind most Turks are to cats.

More Israeli/Jewish harassment

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OK, but where is your condemnation of Jew-Zionist anti-free speech intimidation campaign and “lawfare” (abuse of the legal system) in this country, Goodwin? That is the main repression of free speech in the UK (as you know but refuse to say).

Who or what group encouraged the invasion of Sweden?

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

From the horse’s mouth.

Every. Single. Time.

Ironic, though, that Sweden, which now allows in every piece of trash from the backward parts of the world, is the only country to which I have ever been refused admission; at the port of Malmo, in 1982. The Swedes said that I was not carrying enough money to go around the Gulf of Bothnia to Finland. I was put back on the ferry to Travemunde, a small port on the then border between East and West Germany, the same day I arrived.

I would say “so another traitor speaks“, but of course Sajid Javid is not exactly a traitor, because he is not in any real sense British anyway; an apostate Pakistani Muslim who worships Israel and the Jews, and follows the crazed evil “teachings” of “Ayn Rand” (Alysa Rosenbaum), a mentally-disturbed Jewish woman sometimes called “the philosopher of selfishness”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand.

Bin both “Ayn Rand” and Sajid Javid.

Incidentally, I see that Penny Mordaunt, chucked out by the voters, and who did not get a consolation peerage, is now trying to stay in the career loop via the old “antisemitism” racket, like mentally-unwell sex pest John Woodcock (now “Lord Walney”) and others.

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Woodcock/Walney was sacked from his government “role” (job) recently, either because he is useless or because he is a pathetic sex pest and/or loonie: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2pddvwgg8o.

…says the fanatical and very unpleasant Jew-Zionist who conspired with the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” and “UK Lawyers for Israel” (“CAA” and “UKLFI”) for years to get me both disbarred and prosecuted. Typical Jew-Zionist hypocrite.

For those unaware of the existence of this blot on the Bar of England and Wales, Myerson was briefly a Recorder (part-time judge) who was sacked about a year ago (though allowed to call it “resignation”) after he repeatedly abused people on social media. Also, his sworn testimony in the fairly recent libel case of Wilson v. Mendelsohn, Newbon (deceased), and Cantor was not believed by the trial judge (who said so impliedly, if not expressly), which must say something about Myerson.

Good news but, by 2029, Yvette Cooper will be 60 anyway. Losing her Commons seat will, in my view, not be anything like the punishment that should be visited upon this would-be dictator, traitor, and expenses fraudster. Still, there it is, I suppose.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontefract,Castleford_and_Knottingley(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2020s

Exactly. Bin the (existing) System parties first.

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On the face of it, very impressive.

It seems clear that the USA was induced by the American Jewish lobby and Israel directly to attack Iran because Israel was in serious danger of losing the recent contest, its international airport closed, its ports mostly closed or avoided by foreign ships.

Those underground facilities in Iran indicate a long-term goal— regional hegemony. If Israel disappears, that leaves Iran as sole regional “superpower”, which may be why the craven Gulf Arabs are now effectively satraps of Israel and the USA. They are afraid of Iranian/Persian power.

War with Russia would be mad, but that does not mean it cannot or will not happen.

The real invasion (not the fantasy “Russian invasion”) continues, and will continue— unless the order is given to open fire, and neither Starmer-stein, nor Carpetbagger Kemi, nor Farage and his crew, will ever give such an order. They are all System fakes.

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[Shishkin, The Mordovino Oak]

Diary Blog, 20 June 2025: Israel, Iran, possible world war etc

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Israel, the leech-state…

Mostly Jews, many of them with dual nationality. They support Israel fanatically, in many/most cases. They made the bed, so let them lie on it…

Whatever happens in the next months, in the long term Israel is doomed.

This is a modern-day version of Old Testament ethnic cleansing. Look at the religion of the Jews; several of their religious festivals refer to military victories, execution of “antisemitic” rulers or advisers etc.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism#Jewish_holidays

The Gaza quasi-genocide has exposed the Israeli Jews not only for what they have done but for what they are, at least as a collective.

I prefer peace to war, but just as there are, in ordinary life, some individual people, lunatics, psychopaths etc, who will not stop, and cannot be stopped, not by ordinary peaceful means, so there are some states which just go too far…

Most mainstream politicians in the USA, UK, France etc are in the pocket of Jewish-Zionist or directly Israeli orgs. Look at Starmer-stein’s horrible yet pathetic UK government— almost entirely composed of Labour Friends of Israel members. Starmer. Rachel Reeves. Yvette Cooper. Liz Kendall. Dozens of others.

The same is true of most of the mainstream media.

Cleverly’s suit is not as striking (neither is it as good or as well-made) as the off-white/cream suit I had made at Sam’s Tailor in Hong Kong in 2006. Perhaps not a good choice, though, for the UK. I have only worn it a couple of times, once on a very hot and sunny day in 2023 when I had to attend Southampton “Mags” on a preliminary appearance to do with my free speech trial: see

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The (all black) security staff loved my white suit as I walked in, which must say something! In fact, a rather nice black girl (security guard) was particularly complimentary.

[“Did you know that after the Macron “Rothschild” Olympics’ blasphemous re-enactment of the Last Supper, the first country to defend Christianity and condemn it was Iran? It was not the USA, Britain, Italy, or Israel. In Tehran a billboard went up, with these words: “Indeed, the Messiah, Jesus Christ, Son of Mary, is a messenger of God.”]

The Muslims, at least the educated ones, revere Jesus Christ as a prophet (though not, of course, as divine).

As to Macron, his links to Jew-Zionism were explored several years ago on the blog:

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In the midst of life, we are in death“…

Media vita in morte sumus.

Whether death comes to us via natural causes, by an accident or other violent event limited in scale, or via a gigantic human conflict, we are all on the same journey.

And rival storms abroad are surging
From sea to land, from land to sea.
A chain of deepest action forging
Round all, in wrathful energy.
There flames a desolation, blazing
Before the Thunder’s crashing way:
Yet, Lord, Thy messengers are praising
The gentle movement of Thy Day.

[Goethe, Faust; Archangel Michael, from the Prologue in Heaven]

[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14591/pg14591.txt]

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Russia or, rather, the Russian people, will eventually, in about 1,500 years, become the leading edge of the world, just as the Germanic/Anglo-American element now is. That may be why Russia cannot be successfully invaded from west or east (as in the cases of Napoleon and Hitler). The double-headed eagle looks both east and west at the same time.

Russia is not really either European or Asian, but sui generis.

There you are. That is the face of the UK armed forces in 2025. “Equality”, “diversity”, “best practice” in admin etc. Useless, in short.

Also, someone cannot spell (it’s “practices” in this case, not “practises“, unless, as a kind of American colony, we should all be writing in American English).

Still, when many “journalists” cannot spell, or write decently, why should some M.O.D. bod be any better?

I cannot know, but do suspect, that similar situations exist in the Army and Navy, and also in SIS/MI6 and MI5 (and, of course, in the police and CPS).

I cannot get too worked up about the Brize Norton attack, because for me the invasion of the UK is happening in small boats across the Channel, via “legal” immigration, and via births. I do not take “Britain’s defensive capability” against the (non-existent) “Russian threat” seriously, not in the slightest. Russia is only bristling because the UK is taking pointless and self-harming measures against Russia in the first place. We should be in loose alliance with Russia.

Having said that, it is clear that serious attackers, such as Spetsnaz commandos, would have no difficulty causing absolute havoc on such bases, should they ever be tasked with doing so.

The RAF Regiment usually defends RAF bases. What went wrong?

Britain’s dying rivers, and the need for new reservoirs

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/20/england-rivers-water-extraction-record-levels

Our rivers are under threat,” said Nick Measham, the chief executive of the conservation charity WildFish. “We are putting extra demands on water resources when the rivers are running dry. When it does rain after persistent dry periods, we often return our water polluted, which means that river habitats for animals and plants are in serious trouble.”

[Guardian]

Of course, the increase in population by reason of mass immigration is largely the cause. 56M when I was born (1956), and perhaps (no-one really knows) 70M today.

Moscow in 2025

As I said the other day on the blog, on my own visits to Moscow (1993 and 2007) I really did miss out!

More seriously, I can see that Moscow has changed radically in the past 18 years, let alone the past 32…

As for Petersburg, I have never been there, and it is one of a handful of cities which I have both never visited and which I might like to visit.

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Outsourced to SERCO“? Well, that might explain a lot…

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Powerful.

[“Russian President Putin: – We do not want to mediate between Iran and “Israel”, but we propose ideas for resolving the conflict. – I am concerned that the world is heading towards World War III. – We support Iran in the fight for its legitimate interests, including peaceful nuclear energy. – Trump promised us that he would support our demands regarding the safety of Russian personnel at the Iranian facility “Bushehr”.”]

My own preference would be to deprive both Jews and Muslims of having nuclear weapons, but the Jews already have them, and with no international oversight at all.

God. Look at that thug…

During the hot dry months of summer, Russian forces will continue to advance, and may well make major breakthroughs.

If so, Tel Aviv will before very long be a hole in the sand, just like Gaza.

Jew interferes with German TV crew in Israel.

A dustbin, like much of the UK now.

“Manifestos”— just part of the System conjuring show.

[“What you are currently witnessing in the UK is the end destination of “radical progressivism” —a political ideology that wants to tear down all guardrails in society It wants to breakdown our national borders through state subsidised illegal immigration It wants to breakdown our right to life and family by decriminalising abortion until birth and launching state-backed euthanasia It wants to breakdown our sense of community and belonging through a deliberate state policy of mass immigration and multiculturalism It wants to breakdown our national identity by convincing you that Britishness and Englishness are merely “celebrating diversity” so you have no identity of your own It wants to breakdown our sense of history and collective memory by launching a war on the past, reframing our history as a source of racism, colonialism, and shame And it wants to enforce this agenda by expanding hate laws, speech codes, and taboos like “far right”, “Islamophobia”, “racism”, and “hate” so that any viable political opposition is shut down and stigmatised as beyond the pale This is what is happening in the UK right now —a radical “progressive” project that is being imposed on you from above by a distant managerial class which likes to think of itself as “liberal”, “open”, and “enlightened” but is dogmatic, authoritarian and deeply intolerant of alternative perspectives. All this project has to offer you is hyper-individualism, endless choice, and sexual narcissism, as symbolised by the rise of Only Fans, while all the guardrails that once gave us structure, meaning, security and a genuine sense of belonging collapse all around us. This is what is happening in the UK right now. It’s why you can sense that unavoidable vacuum, that hole, that sense of emptiness when you look at what has become of our once great nation and community.“]

Goodwin, however, and very typically, refuses to “notice” which “element” (((element))) is behind most of that, if you dig deep enough.

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Diary Blog, 4 January 2023

Afternoon music

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Satie]
[Tangier in the rain]

On this day a year ago

Tweets seen

This savage and unforgiving conflict will probably see huge escalation in 2023, especially in view of the refusal of the Kiev side to negotiate even a ceasefire unless Russian forces withdraw from all areas of mainland Ukraine and Crimea.

The Kiev side probably hopes that Putin will be deposed, and the war thus (?) ended. It may not work out that way, even if Putin does leave the scene.

The “Jack Monroe” Twitterstorm (etc) continues

A not atypical “Jack Monroe” supporter tweets. “Screenwriter and novelist” (unpublished?), and of a certain age. I have yet to see a Twitter pro-“Jack Monroe” defender who is either “young” (under 30) or in any way “poor”.

I have covered the Monty Python-esque “Jack Monroe” “advice” previously, in several blog posts, so do not want to repeat it all today, but the sheer nonsense of it is incredible (e.g. make a dinner for 11p per head; e.g. open cans using a knife and a mallet or hammer; e.g. make a curry by mixing a tin of peaches and one of chickpeas with some curry powder, and heat in a microwave, etc).

The many tweets below are worth considering:

Very modest— I doubt that “Jack Monroe” is pulling in less than £6,000 a month from Patreon alone.

Incidentally, if anyone wants to support, with a one-off £5 or so, a genuinely-poor and struggling couple, that lady (“@frugally-minded”) has a crowdfunder: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/heather-booth-3?utm_term=Gde7678Nq.

Having been “down there” in the pit of actual poverty a few times in my life (thankfully never for longer than a few months at a time), I am well-qualified to advise people how to really survive and even somewhat thrive in such circumstances, but I prefer not to publish openly my very valuable and learned/experienced advice. ‘Nuff said!

I notice that the number of “mugs” sending “Jack Monroe” between £3.50 and £44 each month via Patreon has now fallen to 623, as of time of writing; that’s about 25 fewer than yesterday. 25 mugs woke up (at last).

Stray idea

If you take as a notional starting-point the idea that there are about 40 million people of or over the age of 21 in the UK, and if you consider that the UK has an area of about 92,000 sq. miles, which is about 60 million acres, then that works out at, very roughly, 1.5 acres per person.

Now let us assume that the State took ownership over about 4%-5% of that land, in other words less than a tenth of an acre per person, allotted to any applicant such a plot, and let such people use the land allotted to them in a manner akin to an “allotment” (or, if they want, to do nothing with “their” land, which would help wildlife at least). It might have a huge effect, as well as helping poor people to feed themselves.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotment_(gardening); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_garden.

The details might need refining, and the concept would need organization, but I think that the basic idea would work.

Incidentally, if any object that the idea involves “expropriation”, I reply that that is so, but it would merely redress a small part of the balance from the time of the “Enclosures” of common land, and/or the “Highland Clearances”. The aim is, however, not backward-looking “revenge” but forward-looking policy.

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11597803/Santander-major-bank-UK-hire-graduates-class-degree.html

Santander is changing its degree requirements in an attempt to increase socioeconomic diversity in the workplace.

The bank will no longer require a 2:1 degree for graduates as recruiters try to find the ‘best candidates from a wide range of backgrounds’ – meaning those with third class degrees will now be able to apply.

[Daily Mail].

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11598345/Terrifying-moment-hundreds-men-swarm-girl-17-dressing-immodestly-Iraq.html

These are the type of backward bastards flooding into the UK with the acquiescence and/or connivance of the (((occupied))) “British” Government.

Maybe Santander will offer some of them a job.

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Ha. Not the only time the egregious and self-publicizing Jewish lawyer, Mark Lewis (now an Israeli resident and citizen), gave what at least some of his clients (as reported on Twitter and in the Press, and seen by me) regarded as duff advice.

I blogged about Mark Lewis, several times, years ago: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/01/11/update-re-mark-lewis-lawyer-questions-are-raised/

The Anti-national Covid Service. How sick, that untermenschen of his sort taint the work of very many good people in what is left of the NHS.

Twitter, home of the nut

Today’s total nut on Twitter is…”Ninawildflower”

Incredibly, seems that that Twitter account is not a parody-account.

…and any parent who (as that one claims) forces his child to be the only one in his school to wear a facemask is not only stupid but cruel and/or crazy, and should face some kind of intervention by the school or others.

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That has been my impression. Apart from which, this whole idea that “poor people” —or others— need books of recipes is rather odd in the age of the Internet, when thousands of recipes of all types can be accessed in seconds and without payment.

I see from Twitter that, in face of the continuing and indeed increasing Twitterstorm, “Jack Monroe” has, once more, tried two of her favourite tactics— feigning illness, and withdrawing from Twitter interaction until the hue and cry dies down. She has done that (combination) frequently before, the last time only a few weeks ago. She always returns quite swiftly, ready to ignore the many cries of “will you refund the money you took?“.

Cookery books are bestsellers, quite often, but I wonder how many people (I presume mainly women) buy them but then never actually use them to make things? Not a rhetorical question. I actually do not know.

I do recall seeing, as a child of 10 (in 1967), several massive coffee-table-size books in the kitchen of my aunt-by-marriage, in Mosman, Sydney. I still recall the title of one: Larousse Gastronomique [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larousse_Gastronomique]. A huge and thick hardback book.

I have no idea whether my uncle’s wife ever actually cooked anything. I certainly never saw her make anything there, and that kitchen was as pristine as the rest of her large house on the side of a bay (Middle Harbour). There again, she had a cleaning lady and no less than three Norwegian au pairs (there to “assist” with her two adopted children— a baby and a small child), so perhaps the lack of mess or detritus was not surprising.

There was in fact one time I when I saw the said relative make something; in a holiday beach house at Palm Beach (in the area now called the Northern Beaches, the very northmost part of the Sydney area, but it was not called that then). The food in question was lobster with home-made (I think) mayonnaise, the first time I had eaten either; consumed outside. I do not recall having either lobster or proper mayonnaise again until I was in my twenties.

See also: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Larousse-Gastronomique-Hamlyn/dp/0600620425.

Late tweets

Sunak is actually proud of having participated in the lockdown/shutdown of the “panicdemic”, and proud of having sprayed money around like a drunken sailor!

Meanwhile, sick people are not being adequately helped, migrant-invaders continue to be ferried across the Channel, many are suffering financially very much, and the UK’s environment is being degraded.

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Diary Blog, 1 May 2022

Afternoon music

On this day a year ago

Tweets seen

Sweden is very sick.

Imagine what would happen if, suitably publicized, a Royal Navy vessel opened fire on a boatload of migrant-invaders. It would probably stop the cross-Channel invasion dead, so to speak. It will not happen, because the System wants the migration-invasion to continue. Israeli agent, the East African Asian Priti Patel, posing as Home Secretary, is just a monkey, not one of the organ-grinders. She puts up pathetic and unworkable “policies” from time to time, purely to bamboozle the simpler members of the public.

The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan is that Europe should become a continent inhabited mainly by mixed-race semi-Europeans, and ruled over by Jews and part-Jews.

The past three UK prime ministers have been part-Jew: Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron-Levita.

Read further: http://adam.curry.com/art/1543753587_mkXBrvrY.html; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan etc.

Fiction as prophecy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints

Nigel Farage is “controlled opposition”, and I think consciously so. The bastard revels in pulling the wool over the eyes of the plebs, none more so than those who used to idolize him, the UKIP, Brexit Party, and Reform Party cannon-fodder.

Farage can be put in the same bin as Toby Young, James Delingpole, Breitbart, GB News, all the rubbish that pretends to be pro free speech, national identity etc, but never says a word about Jew-Zionist conspiracy, and never supports those truly standing up for race and culture. Bin them all.

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Very true…

The international “sovereign debt” matrix is the biggest scam in the world, bigger even than the “early 1940s gas chambers” narrative and associated farrago.

What happened to the American (supposed) “right to bear arms”? Seems that the said small arms are just like nuclear weapons— they have them but are supposed never to use them…

He had days to think up something to say about his behaviour, and yet that was the best he could do.

Tractors“? Worthy of a TV comedy sketch.

These are the twits who purport to rule over us as “legislators”; a bunch of freeloading, corrupt, half-educated, not very intelligent placemen and placewomen, all or almost all under the control of the Jew-Zionist/Israel lobby.

Ukraine: the road to war

I do not mean the Russia-Ukraine war, but that being fomented by the Western (NWO/ZOG) powers. Look, for example, at this Guardian piece from one Simon Tisdall: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/01/what-is-to-be-done-lenin-west-wont-win-in-ukraine-without-taking-risks.

The language is remarkable, and rather crude, in places:

Like a street corner spiv practising crude blackmail, Lavrov claimed there was a “considerable risk” such a war might go nuclear. Presumably he knows this because Putin is actually considering it.

Liz Truss, Lavrov’s British counterpart, dodged the nuclear question in her Mansion House speech – but went for the jugular. Her bold declaration that total victory, plus the liberation of all occupied Ukrainian territory including Crimea, was a “strategic imperative” for the west may have surprised less gung-ho Nato allies who foolishly didn’t realise she speaks for them.

Biden has repeatedly insisted the conflict will be contained. “Direct confrontation between Nato and Russia is world war three, something we must strive to prevent,” he said after the invasion began.

But war has its own deathly momentum. Daily acts of escalation point in one direction. Nato is like a patient in denial. The reality, by many measures, is that it’s already at war with Russia.

Perhaps future historians of the Ukraine conflict will map the path to wider conflagration in the same way academic predecessors traced the origins of the first world war.

It’s clear the west cannot abandon Ukraine simply out of fear over how far manic Putin might go. Such a collapse would wreck the global order, the UN, and Europe’s security. Yet the longer the war rages, the bigger the risk of a different kind of cataclysmic, world-changing event.

So here’s the choice, as the northern English say: piss or get off the pot. Either the western allies act decisively, right now, to halt this war by demanding an immediate ceasefire and threatening and, if necessary, launching direct military intervention to secure it – as previously urged in this space.

Or, alternatively, Truss, Austin and other hawks stop stoking the fire and setting unrealistic goals, and instead advise Kyiv to accept a negotiated settlement that, regrettably, will inevitably reward Putin’s aggression.

Overall, urging war with Russia. Over Ukraine. A country with which no Western state is allied in any way. A country which has only been an independent country for 30 years.

This is madness. It needs to stop now, before escalation which might lead to massive destruction in Russia, in the USA, across Europe. Oh…and the almost total destruction of the UK, with its small geographic size, plenitude of targets, and inability to defend itself against nuclear missile attack. Cold comfort for the British people to know that British submarine-launched missiles might have also hit a few Russian targets.

The recently-imprisoned former Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Murray], has described the Guardian as being, these days, “the house journal of MI6” (SIS). If so, even more disturbing.

Late tweets seen

The mega-wealthy have been buying up UK farmland and country estates as well. Look on Rightmove or estate agents’ websites. Try to find large or medium-sized estates and farms in the UK for sale. Not many, and those that do appear are bought quite swiftly. James Dyson alone has been buying large tracts of land from Gloucestershire, through Oxfordshire and north-east as far as Lincolnshire. As for Scotland, few estates are for sale now.

Land is being bought as a long-term hedge. There is diminishing trust or confidence in currency, and in quoted or other shares.

I wonder how much else of what we are told about Ukrainian military capability is a mirage?

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borys_Lyatoshynsky]
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostiantyn_Dankevych]
[panorama of Kiev at night]

Diary Blog, 24 November 2020

Alison Chabloz

The latest word is that Alison Chabloz, persecuted satiriste, singer-songwriter, entertainer and truth-seeker is, after all, expected to face her latest trial on 17 December 2020, at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, 181 Marylebone Road, London NW1: https://courttribunalfinder.service.gov.uk/courts/westminster-magistrates-court

picture of the court or tribunal building

Doors open at 0900 hrs, with the trial expected to commence at 1000 hrs. All supporters will be welcome.

[Alison Chabloz]

Tweets seen today

Exactly the sort of idiot that is driving the whole “panicdemic” SAGE nonsense: the “lockdown” nonsense, the facemask nonsense, the testing (of the asymptomatic) nonsense, and all the other “virus” nonsense of the past 8 months.

Answer to the above— yes, but those who would benefit from European rule in and over Africa would not, primarily, be European people but African, together with the animals, birds and other life of the continent.

“Coronavirus”

Just listening to the Radio 4 PM programme. Ludicrous and convoluted new “rules” around who is “allowed” (by our gracious ZOG tyranny) to meet with whom during the Christmas period. Households, “bubbles” etc. Just junk it all, and those who presume to lay down “rules” and fake laws.

The fact is that, if people want to “flout” the “rules” in their own homes, there is no way for the State to prevent that, short of instituting a real Stasi/Maoist style surveillance regime.

The interesting aspect is that these “rules” are effectively (99.9%) unenforceable in the usual way (police, prosecutions etc). They are only enforceable via making the population afraid. The population, to some extent, is now afraid. As a result, the UK has almost closed down.

Early evening music

[Carlsbad/Karlovy Vary]

The toytown police state slowly turns into a real one

Tory MP Sir Charles Walker has raged at ‘disgraceful and un-British’ police officers as they bundled an elderly woman into a van for protesting outside Parliament.” [Daily Mail]; https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8983215/Tory-MP-rages-police-bundle-old-woman-van-protesting-outside-Parliament.html

Police officers drag the 72-year-old woman across the pavement as she is arrested outside Parliament on Tuesday

“Disgraceful and un-British”? He must mean “just like our ZOG/NWO elected dictatorship, aka the government of Boris-idiot”.

This sort of police heavy-handedness (to white people legitimately protesting) will get worse until a few people, or at least until a few thousand people, just put (according to preference) one or two fingers up to the Government of Clowns and say something colloquial, whether it be “on yer bike!” or “**** off!”…

When enough people ignore the so-called “rules”, those “rules” are no longer the rules. Simple as that.

Late tweets

Resist the tyranny and start connecting.

[I crave no indulgence for repeating that] Trump should be pardoning or preparing to pardon the thousands of social-national people currently doing hard time in Federal prisons. No-one can stop him from extending the Presidential prerogative of mercy to anyone in Federal incarceration. Just do it, Trump!

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Diary Blog, 30 July 2020

When I first had a Twitter account, a decade ago, I began to tweet, inter alia, about the need for a wildlife grid in the UK. I meant a grid of strips or parcels of land, even if very narrow in places, that would link larger areas full of wildlife, such as woods, forests, national parks etc.

That idea is even more important today. I am heartened that, since I started to tweet and, later, blog about it, others have taken up the idea; some are well-connected, wealthy, famous. I think that, eventually, something can be done.

My concept was not nationalization of those strips of land, but a voluntary co-operation, co-ordinated for the sake of convenience and efficiency, but the ownership remaining, in most cases, in private hands, at least initially.

The area where I spent much of my childhood, the border of South Oxfordshire and Berkshire, near Reading, as now seen on Google Earth, exhibits the kind of changes that are all too common: high hedges replaced, usually by sterile fencing, some gardens in front of houses turned into gravelled or even concrete car parking. Sad. Why do people spend what is now the best part of a million pounds on a house in a leafy area, where suburb meets country, only to aesthetically trash their own house and gardens? Just to save a little inconvenience trimming the hedges? To save the cost of hiring a man to trim the hedges? It’s so tawdry…

A few blog posts around the subject:

https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2016/12/16/a-wildlife-grid-for-the-uk/

https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/10/07/rewilding-and-reafforestation-of-parts-of-the-uk/

https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2017/08/28/the-british-countryside-under-the-future-ethnostate/

https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2016/11/17/social-nationalism-and-green-politics/

A wildlife grid is probably the most important single measure that can and should be taken to help the survival of wildlife in the UK.

Tweets on other matters seen so far today

In 1976, as an occasional (19 years old) reader of the anarchist newspaper Black Flag, I saw an article by someone saying that the State wanted to track and trace everyone, “because the human insect must be controlled at all times“. It seemed far-fetched to me at the time, but it stuck in the mind. Now look! A technologically-updated version is today’s news on the BBC!

I suppose that that sort of thing happens more often than we suppose. Around the same time, I read in an American journal, the name of which escapes me, that before too long the U.S. Marines would be deployed to help Israel in the Eastern Mediterranean. They even had a parody version of the U.S. Marines Hymn, replacing “From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli” with “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tel Aviv.”

I thought that unlikely, but a few short years later both versions turned out to be correct, the first almost literally, though the “Tripoli” in the Hymn is the one in North Africa, not the one in Lebanon; the second, about Tel Aviv, only in effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Derna_(1805) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marines%27_Hymn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripoli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripoli,_Lebanon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_Force_in_Lebanon

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Argos

I see that Argos is stopping publication of its catalogue after nearly 50 years. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jul/30/argos-to-stop-printing-catalogue-after-almost-50-years

That news led me to muse on human nature. Argos was started in 1972 by Richard Tompkins, the man who brought Green Shield stamps to Britain in 1958 (he copied the idea from stamps already in use in the USA) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tompkins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Shield_Stamps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argos_(retailer).

Green Shield stamps are of course unknown to anyone under about 35, having been withdrawn in 1991 and having been in the doldrums for years (their heyday was really the late 1960s and early 1970s). What I find interesting is something peripheral to them and Argos.

When Tompkins, then a fairly famous fellow in the UK, founded Argos in 1972, the conventional wisdom of the “experts”(newspaper business pundits etc) was that Tompkins was a bit of a maverick or even loony, not a serious businessman, and who had bitten off more than he could chew. Argos would probably fail fairly quickly. I recall those judgments from when I myself was at school.

Well, that was over 48 years ago. Argos was sold by its founder in 1979 to BAT; the last time it changed hands, a few years ago, the price tag was £1.4 billion…

There are always those who are ready to criticize those others who are willing to break new ground. Another similar time was in the 1980s, when Rupert Murdoch moved into satellite TV broadcasting. I recall someone then looking at the Daily Telegraph business pages and saying that “everyone” says that this would break Murdoch. Well, it nearly did, but he persevered, and now look! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Television_(1984%E2%80%931990) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_UK

Beware the “experts”, who often know a lot but, equally, are often wrong in the end. Like fire, a good servant but a bad master.

Tweets seen

The tweet below made me laugh.

The latest nonsense from the “Government” of the toytown police state

“Lockdown” (shutdown) does not work. It —and the facemask nonsense— are attempts at social control, not disease control.

Trump

Seems that Trump wants to “delay” the Presidential election. Is that simply a wild tweet, or is this the beginning of the end for the American republic and its accustomed form of democracy? Too early to say.

Tweets seen

The tweeter above forgot to add “baroness” Deech…

“GnasherJew”

Seems that the notorious “GnasherJew” account on Twitter has fallen victim to the occupational disease of self-described “anti-fascists” (especially the Jewish ones)— mental instability.

I have blogged about the phenomenon previously:

https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/07/18/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away-ha-ha/

That account is or was run by a small cabal of Jews who take or took turns to post: https://www.thejc.com/news/features/twitter-warriors-labour-antisemitism-jeremy-corbyn-1.470568 https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/twitter-account-battling-labour-anti-semitism-defiant-after-twice-being-suspended/

Whatever the reasons, if they are going, good riddance.