Sir Keir Starmer was quick to jump on claims Nigel Farage used anti-Semitic and racist language when he was at school.
After the Guardian reported a dossier of lurid complaints from more than 40 years ago, the Prime Minister insisted the Reform leader needed to urgently ‘explain the comments, or alleged comments’.
The claims made by more than a dozen former classmates of Mr Farage at Dulwich College in South London – which he strongly denies – are deeply unpleasant. […]
we found that a young Starmer was a driving force behind an ultra-Left publication that backed a campaign to free a convicted Marxist terror chief – and may have become a tool, unwitting or otherwise, of the KGB propaganda machine. […]
Declassified Cold War security service files in Prague about other camps show the aim was to undermine Nato by identifying young high-fliers for potential future ‘exploration’ and use.
Security experts have suggested that Starmer’s only mistake on this occasion was youthful naivete in signing up to a venture run by a totalitarian Communist regime.
But the MoS can reveal this was by no means the only time the future Labour leader brushed up against troubling influences during a period when, according to one contemporary, his politics were nakedly ‘hard-Left’.
It centres around a magazine called Socialist Alternatives, which was launched by Starmer and a small group of friends in 1986, just a few weeks before he crossed into Czechoslovakia to join his work camp.
The publication was the brainchild of Benjamin Schoendorff, a charismatic Frenchman whom Sir Keir had met at the Oxford University Labour Club. Schoendorff was well connected in Marxist circles and arranged for the magazine to be fully funded by the Paris-based International Revolutionary Marxist Tendency. […]
But Richard Barbrook, an unpaid contributor, has said that while Schoendorff was the leader, it was Starmer ‘who got the magazine done’.
He got all the articles in, laid the pages out, delivered it to the printers then collected and distributed it at bookshops, he said. ‘The magazine wouldn’t have existed without him.’
Socialist Alternatives criticised the Labour Party under Neil Kinnock – which voters eventually rejected at the 1992 Election – for being nowhere near Left-wing enough.
Its editorials called for a ‘radical extension of common ownership over wealth and power’ and argued that ‘prisoners should have much greater control over the conditions of their own imprisonment’.
Starmer’s bylined articles variously attacked ‘the authoritarian onslaught of Thatcherism’ and called for a ‘nationwide campaign of struggles’ to reduce the European working week to 35 hours.
OK So the Daily Mail, which I can tell you does indeed not publish without making sure they have their facts straight, has exposed the hard core communist nature of the British Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Prime Minister of the UK. BUT WHY NOW.
Is this the move from covert to overt communism?
2. Today’s short 1984 excerpt. We can each work out to what extent this short quote from the book reflects what has happened or does not in schools across the West today.
The family could not actually be
abolished, and, indeed, people were encouraged to be fond of their
children, in almost the old-fashioned way. The children, on the other hand,
were systematically turned against their parents and taught to spy on them
and report their deviations. The family had become in effect an extension
of the Thought Police. It was a device by means of which everyone could be
surrounded night and day by informers who knew him intimately.
3. Elon Musk earns the coveted VladTepesBlog, Ambassador to the Obvious award for this video
Of course, the people from whom Musk bought Twitter, did not agree.
4. Some Somalian doctors and engineers have found a way to try and convince the US president that they are in fact, good citizens and capable of valuable contributions to Western society. Naw just kidding. The are video taping themselves urinating on the side walk in a trivially symbolic way.
From Jihad Watch linked above:
Ramadan begins February 26, 2026. “Ray Edwards, then the department’s chief equity and inclusion officer” made the decision to call upon staffers to cancel their coffee breaks during Ramadan to “show respect” for Muslim colleagues was precipitated by the usual complaints from a Muslim group, the Muslim Federal Employees Network, about “systemic racism,” “Palestinian identity,” and “Islamophobia” — just the right buzzwords to cause leftists to freeze in their tracks and comply.
This is an important one. There is one VERY concerning aspect of what she said.
Dictionary
A demanding person expects a lot from others, has high standards, isn’t easily satisfied, and often requires significant time, effort, or attention, leading them to seem pushy, controlling, or difficult to please, and potentially straining relationships. They may need things done a CERTAIN WAY, struggling with others’ autonomy, and expect immediate fulfillment of their needs, sometimes using MANIPULATION or pressure to get their way.
Appeasement
Appeasement is a diplomatic strategy of making concessions to an aggressor to avoid conflict, often by giving them what they want, as famously seen with Briton and France giving into Hitler before WW11, which ultimately failed and led to war. It is seen as a sigh of weakness, suggesting that placating an aggressive power with demands (like territorial gains or dropping sanctions) might satisfy them and maintain peace, though history shows it can embolden them instead.
One must remember the words of revered Islamic scholar, Sayyid Qutb:
“Islam cannot accept any mixing with Jahiliyyah.”
“ The foremost duty of Islam is to depose Jahiliyyah from the leadership of man, and to TAKE leadership into its own hands and ENFORCE the particular way of life which is a permanent feature.”
“Jahiliyyah is evil and corrupt, whether it to be of ancient or modern variety.”
“We need not rationalize Islam to them, need not appease their desires and distorted concepts. We will be EXTREMELY outspoken with them”.
“Our first task is to replace this Jahiliyyah with Islamic ideas and traditions. This cannot be brought about by agreeing with Jahiliyyah and going along a few steps with it from the very beginning as some of us think we ought to do, for this will simply mean that from the very beginning we accepted defeat.”
“ Those who believed, and migrated, and strove with their wealth and their persons in the cause of God, and those who gave them refuge and helped them, are the protectors of each other.”
“Islam cannot accept any mixing with Jahiliyyah, either in its concept or in the modes of living which are derived from this concept.”
Bacon with coffee.
HonestReporting.com has been all over Starmer for a long time. Far gone.
I’m not personally crazy about Nigel Farage.
UK: Kaput.
– – Senior military professionals have been studying the current war in Gaza more closely than anywhere else. Ever.
– – Urban warfare challenges, tunnels like metro system, the peculiar tardish psywar aspects.
– – Seems like an initiative they’ve taken on their own, not via commands from the tippy-top. They’re framing it as a scholarly pursuit, perhaps leading to military think-tank case studies.
Maybe I’m selling short UK military top brass. Seems they’re not all completely in the bag.
Source Intel @Osint613
London’s Metropolitan Police have acquired 18 Israeli-built Sandcat armored vehicles for crowd-control and high-risk response, at a reported cost of £3.2 million. The vehicles are currently in training use following last year’s unrest, according to The Sun.
https://x.com/Osint613/status/1997637682353090761
Likely, it’s to use against Tommy supporters and others who disapprove of Islamization.
Sorry to burst the bubble of hope.
~sigh~Many Soviet joooz – and probably others, but I don’t know firsthand – left their kids in orphanages after the war. What kept them alive in concentration camp was believing their babies were safe. Somewhere…
It’s something they don’t like to talk about, a trauma that marked an unbelievable percentage of people I know well.
Other parents limited what they said in front of their own kids to the bare minimum. Even talking in code was dangerous. The psychological distancing has made for difficult personal relationships for three generations.
My parents’ closest friends listened to their little boy chatter about Papa Stalin, fixed his little red scarf with a fake smile, kept up the facade. Till they were on the train escaping to Paris, they revealed nothing.
On that train at age 11 he learned he would not be seeing his friends again, could not retrieve his little treasures from what would never again be home.
on a child’s little treasures left behind
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Book 1: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (1971)
I was interviewed by a BU student whose mother was born in Russia. After we were done and she stopped recording, I asked her about herself.
Just like that, another one!
Her grandparents left her mother in a train station where they knew other babies had been rescued. The authorities delivered these kids to overcrowded orphanages. Years later an uncle searched for her after his own daughter died and adopted her.
Her mother gave birth to her in the USA – at age 52! b”h
Are we supposed to care about that somehow?
I hope that they got beyond Paris…
A long-dead Polish Jew of my acquaintance, who escaped the Nazis by going into the far reaches of Central Asia in the Soviet Union at the invitation of the departing Soviet Army, used to swear by Stalin! I guess when you avoided Hitler because of the Soviets, even Stalin can look good.
(The man ended up having some understanding of Turkic languages as a result, which led to some unexpected moments!)
Stalin, well…
These family friends were liberated from concentration camp by the Soviet Army, then resettled decently.
Only to be sent to gulag a few years later.
But sitting next to her husband on the train to Siberia were soldiers watchiing her shiver. They draped their jackets over the couple and took turns warming her bare feet with their hands.
#4 Sargon of Akkad did 2 videos on this that were pretty good imho:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9bdIJKrZSQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnP7SQFwDvw
As for the urination, can’t Trump have that star hooked up to a high voltage-transformer? That would make for some funny tiktok vids.
Since when was fasting meant to be easy? The whole point is self sacrifice. I never heard of any other group or individual observing a fast, to ask others to join in to help them! As for solidarity, what about solidarity with us as we celebrate Xmas, instead of sending angry mobs howling through the markets?