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Another View of the Conflict in Ukraine, from Lt General Jonathon Riley

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2025-12-20

One of the very few things that we can actually assert with reasonable confidence is that very few people have a well-informed grasp of what is actually going on in the Ukraine.

We do our best to seek them out, but ... we are not there either.

So here is another view by a former commander of British forces in various theatres of conflict.

It's a bit different in the detail from the views of our other preferred sources, but he strikes me as probably as close as any to the actual reality, whatever that may be.

 

Another Penetrating Glimpse of The Obvious - and What we Forget

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Category: Free Citizen
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2025-12-20

This time from our favoured financial commentator Nick Hubble (this is not financial advice!).

And after 50 years of the same old same old it really should be obvious to all but the young, who haven't lived through enough of it yet to understand where this is all going.

Politicians understand  well enough - hence the continuing efforts to lower the voting age seemingly until toddlers in nappies will qualify. After that they may have to ban abortions in order to get enough voters who will believe their blandishments, so perhaps some good may come of it eventually ...

Which brings me to my next point. If we want to continue to live in a democracy, then we oldies have the moral responsibility to live every bit as long as possible so that the voting public can benefit from our wisdom at the ballot box.

But it won't be enough if we just stop there.

We will also have to stand for and win public office, so that some body of politicians will actually exist to offer the voters practical policies that promote prosperity wisdom and humility for all, rather than BS "hate speech" the NHS and taxes for the many, and self-aggrandisement for the few.

Alternatively we could simply pursue all means necessary to collapse our top-down "democratic" system in favour of a bottom-up political structure where responsibility really is devolved and held to the lowest feasible level, and transparency is the real order of the day so that everyone really is properly informed. 

And that could mean the end to privacy, or at least to the misuse of privacy and confidentiality to hide those habits that defend the few against the many. 

"For now, we see through a glass darkly, but then we shall know even as we are known"

OK all you Christian British that are gearing up to celebrate Christmas ... did you not realise the sheer scale of what we as a Christian country profess to believe in? 

In a family, everybody inevitably knows all about everyone else (even if we sometimes pretend that we don't to keep the peace) and the black sheep are known. 

So (according to the Bible) will it be in the reborn family of Christ.

Choose well ...

Do We English Owe Our Culture to the Predations of the Elite?

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2025-12-19

English history is replete with tales of the Ruling Elite turning with ferocity on their lower classes:

The Scots Irish and Welsh have their own tales to tell, but without any disrespect to our neighbours, it seems that the English ruling elite were not particular about whom they turned on.

So the character of the English people has been forged in adversity over the years, but ... who exactly are the English? We are certainly not a homogeneous bunch, as anyone who has tried unsuccessfully to converse with a Geordie can confirm. In more recent times, whilst still in my now distant youth, we had a tea lady at work who was big and black with a big trolley sporting a huge urn of very indifferent canteen tea, and whose conversation I could never figure out ... until one day the realisation hit me - she was speaking in a broad Scottish accent!

My own parents hailed from the North West, but moved down to London before I arrived. I was treated as a lad to multiple trips "up North" to visit aunts uncles and cousins whilst Mum and Aunties had copious natters about matters in their home locality.

Although I now reside even further South than then, whenever I travel back to the North I have a strong if inexplicable feeling of being happily back amongst my own tribe ...

So yes, I do think that there are important bonds that bind us, perhaps more than we know.

If in the coming months we cannot celebrate improving good fortunes, we can certainly still celebrate our Englishness.

 

World Health Stands at the Crossroads

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2025-12-18

Many of us now realise that Big Corporate of all kinds pharmaceutical agricultural petrochemical etc interests work via their "non-profits" and "charitable foundations" to advance the cause of their respective industries, often in collaboration with government "regulators" and "think tanks" and any other interested "independent" NGOs including the United Nations and its diaspora of largely unaccountable "doers of good" like the WEF.

The question that Interest of Justice is now asking is the pertinent one:-

Can this false cornucopia of self-serving corporate-governmental (BTW: is that not the original definition of fascism according to Benito Mussolini?) bodies ever be made to work for the interests of the people, and if so, how?

To make things more complicated, the above unaccountable plethora of those who would rule the world of organised health is in effect split in two - one arm under the UN and all its works, and the other under RFK Jr and his MAHA project, which is struggling to overcome the regulatory inertia so beloved of vested corporate interests in America and elsewhere. 

This is a mammoth problem, and the answer to making this particular mammoth extinct is not going to be simple - even to define it is a considerable exercise that I of J should be commended for nailing so precisely.

"The reality is that neither option exists. What’s emerging is a multi-polar competition over who controls global health policy—and every player is compromised"

"The BRICS+ alternative ... could provide middle-income nations alternatives to WHO or U.S. frameworks ... but democratic accountability isn’t the priority"

Quite so. 

There is much about "sovereignty" here, but little about the sovereignty of the individual person which is still protected by law almost everywhere. Nobody is entitled to force a medical intervention on anybody else without their informed consent (and certainly no experimental intervention) whilst the Nuremberg Codes hold.

So until this mess gets sorted out, we need to get ourselves informed as best we can, and be prepared to say "no", gently but very firmly.

Maybe we should just remember: "We are what we eat", and diet was 90% of good health for thousands of years before any of these mostly 20th/21st century supra-personal bodies were invented.

 

The Law to be Applied to the BBC

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2025-12-17

Did the BBC always suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome?

Well, it probably does now. The Donald is suing them in Florida for defamation, and potentially for trying to influence the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. For $Billions. Nobody can say how much just yet as it may include punitive damages if sufficient intent is proven. Which doesn't seem unlikely to me.

Of course whatever damages are awarded, getting that much money out of the BBC might be an international issue, and affect whether the BBC can survive in its current format. If uptake of the licence fee is any indication, the Great British Public is already voting by closing their wallets, so finance is likely an issue.

"For perhaps the first time, the BBC will face a legal process in which discovery is compulsory. Panorama producers and editors will have to surrender emails, messages, ... "

Of course, it's open to the UK press and media to not bother to cover the case of the century - after all, who is this jumped-up president who doesn't even seem to be in charge of his own political party half the time?

Still, in this age of too easy / too much communication, I suspect that the details will out ...

 

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