Tag: UK

Guilty On (almost) All Charges

Yes, Virginia, Manchester City did break the financial regulations:

Manchester City have been found guilty of all but one of their 115 rule-break charges concerning the Premier League’s financial regulations. The competition accused the club of widespread financial cheating over an era of sustained success – with an independent panel hearing concluding in 2024.

There has since been a frustrating wait for a verdict but sources have disclosed that clubs have been informed that the panel has now reached a decision – and there is a belief it’s a win for the top flight. It is understood that the Premier League have triumphed on the vast majority of charges.

The verdict could lead to a variety of punishments including huge points deductions, financial penalties, and even relegation. Points deductions could even be applied onto previous seasons, raising the chance that City will be stripped of their Premier League titles.

I’m genuinely surprised. I was expecting the usual whitewashing. Of course, there is still the likelihood that the punishment will be a slap-on-the-hand involving ten points and a monetary fine. I’d suggest one level of relegation per season the rules were broken. Juventus and AC Milan had no trouble working their way back to Serie A, and it would make for a great multi-season saga to see the once-mighty City playing away games on tiny fields that usually average 200 spectators.

It would be a fittingly humiliating punishment and good for the sport.

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Translating the Palacesprache

Lady C explains the real reason why Harold and Meghan Markle are so upset about the recent issuance from Buckingham Palace:

So, The King has spoken through the Lord Chamberlain. And what he has to say makes chilling hearing for Harry and Meghan. At least to those of us who understand palacespeak.

Not only does he affirm that Harry and Meghan no longer possess royal status, but he confirms that fact, for the first time, by pointing out that their HRH styles are in abeyance. Those last words ‘in abeyance’ are a legal term with legal significance – something which was fudged when the original Sandringham Agreement was announced. At that time, it was merely stated that they would not be using their Royal Highness styles; now, by stating that they are in abeyance, he is asserting that they no longer hâve the right to use them at ail.

Doubling down on their loss of royal status, the Lord Chamberlain emphasises this fact by stating, “(i)n short, their position is akin to private citizens with commercial and charitable interests.”

In other words, no one needs to bow or curtsy to Harry and Meghan. This is ratified with sutblety and elegance in the recommendation that those who hâve questions about the courtesies to which they think Harry and Meghan might be entitled, should refer to Buckingham Palace, whose guidance, off the record, will be as it was with regards to the Duchess of Windsor. No HRH, no bowing or curtsying. Make it plain that you know she’s (they’re) not royal by treating them the way you would any other non-royal – with good manners, respect, but none of the affirmations that are a part of royal conduct.

Interesting. One had always assumed that King Charles would be weaker than his mother, but at least in this one regard, he has proven to possess a firmer hand. Of course, it’s hardly uncommon for a grandmother to be excessively indulgent.

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A Portrait of Decline

The end of the landmark 7 UP documentary series chronicling a British generation from beginning to end.

They never sought to be stars. Indeed, many would regret ever agreeing to have their entire lives chronicled by what has often been described as the ‘greatest documentary’ ever made, one which has more than stood the test of time.

Back in 1964, television cameras revealed the lives and inner thoughts of a cross section of 14 British seven-year-olds for a series called 7 Up.

The cameras would come back every seven years, creating a genuine piece of broadcasting and social history, one which will come to an end this month.

We will finally bid farewell as those cheeky children in grainy black and white now sign off in colour as pensioners in the final series 70 Up.

Along the way, they have also charted the trajectory of post-war Britain. For it is not the original cast who have changed so much as the world around them.

The result is a powerful elegy to a generation who, at times, seem entirely removed from the entitled, ill-tempered, serially complaining 21st century society we have become…

The area was all-white when the girls first appeared aged seven. By the time Bruce is teaching there in 1984, many if not most of his pupils are Asian. Today, the borough is just 24 per cent white.

At least the people who replace the British will have some record of the culture they replaced, much like the 19th century British digging up the ruins of Roman villas.

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Playing the War Card

Hal Turner does tend to be more than a bit of a catastrophist, but it goes without saying that there is a lot of troublesome activity going on around the world that bears paying attention. Here is his read on the current situation; to it I would add that the financial markets are looking like they are going to have a horrific October and the oil problem from the US defeat in the Gulf War III has not been fixed by the resort to Venezuelan oil.

So it’s not unthinkable that the financial and political elites are looking for a combined distraction and reset.

I’m watching NATO push Russia toward a response that terrifies me. I think the United Kingdom is going to be hit.

Let me walk through what’s actually happening.

The Kursk incursion wasn’t a Ukrainian operation. It was NATO. Real-time satellite data. AI intelligence collecting digital and mobile network information showing exactly where Russian troops were positioned. Special NATO operatives and Ukrainian forces got guided deep into Russian territory by technology and planning they don’t have on their own.

That’s a red line people who lived through the 60s and 70s would never have considered crossing. Direct NATO operations inside Russia. Not weapons. Not training. Active intelligence coordination for a ground invasion.

Then Ukrainian forces following that incursion killed civilians. Another line crossed.

Then drones deployed from makeshift trucks attacked Russian nuclear bomber bases. Targeting the strategic deterrence force. The weapons designed to prevent exactly this kind of escalation.

Every step calculated. Every line deliberately crossed.

Here’s what makes this dangerous: the West knows Russia doesn’t want nuclear war. Russia never planned for global conflict. They responded to Ukraine’s NATO membership trajectory because their security demanded it. Not because they wanted World War III.

But NATO is facing irrelevance. The alliance needs a purpose. It needs an enemy. It needs escalation to justify its existence and its budgets.

So watch the contradiction in Western media: “Russia is too weak to advance on the battlefield. ” and the very NEXT words we’re told “Russia is also an existential threat that could invade Europe any day.”

Both statements can’t be true. But both serve the same goal.

They want to make Russia look weak enough that pushing them further seems safe. While simultaneously making Russia look threatening enough that massive military spending stays justified.

The strategy is clear: push Russia into retaliating. Cross enough red lines that Moscow has to respond with something NATO can call escalation. Then use that response to flip Western economies onto war footing.

Because those economies are beyond saving through normal means. The debt is too high. The infrastructure is too broken. The political systems are too captured.

The problem with playing the war card is that it’s more akin to rolling the dice. Wars seldom stay as neatly contained as the Smart Boy strategists declare they will, their consequences are often unpredictable, and the side that overestimates its own abilities while underestimating its enemies usually loses worse than it imagines it can.

Now, it’s also very important to keep in mind that evil will oft evil mar, and there are very good strategists on the other side. Russia developed the Oreshnik for precisely this reason; to be able to deliver a conventional blow with tac-nuke power that does not cross the nuclear line. And the US population is almost militantly anti-war while the European nations don’t have the military forces to fight anyone now. So even if the war between Russia and NATO goes hot and direct, that doesn’t mean the two major nuclear powers are going to start launching ICBMs at each other.

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Never Bluff a Bluffer

There is never any point in warning Clown World. Clown World lives by the bluff, which is why it dismisses every warning from Russia, Iran, or anyone else and assumes that its enemies are also posturing and manifesting.

British military facilities and equipment in Ukraine and beyond could become legitimate targets for Russian strikes if Kiev continues to use UK-supplied weapons for attacks on Russian territory, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has warned.

The comments come amid rapidly deteriorating relations between Moscow and London, and a day after Ukrainian forces reportedly used British-French Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles in a strike on Donetsk that wounded at least eight civilians, including two children.

“We have repeatedly warned that the response to Ukrainian strikes using British weapons against Russian territory could be directed against any British military facilities and equipment in Ukraine and beyond,” Zakharova said during a press briefing on Thursday.

Notice that China doesn’t bluff. China is much more effective and respected than Russia, mostly because it simply acts when and how it deems necessary, without any threats, without any posturing, and without any warning. The Russians always seem to be a little incoherent, as one minute they’re correctly describing the USA as agreement-incapable, and the next they’re trying to reach an agreement with the same party they described as being incapable of one.

Russia has repeatedly warned that it might, perhaps, possibly respond if British weapons kept being used against it. And its warnings have been repeatedly ignored. But Russia never seems to draw the correct lesson from that process.

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Give Them What They Voted For

The new Labour Prime Minister is going to provide refugees for those who welcomed them most enthusiastically:

There are 17 local authorities with no taxpayer-supported asylum seekers, an analysis by the Daily Mail reveals – as Andy Burnham vows to send more to middle-class areas. The Prime Minister yesterday promised to ensure arrivals are not only placed in the ‘poorest communities’ when he was pressed about proposals for a migrant camp near the tiny Oxfordshire village of Piddington.

‘All parts of the country need to play their part,’ he said – prompting the Tories to accuse him of wanting to ‘dish out another vindictive punishment beating to the UK’s middle classes’.

Asylum seekers who are waiting for a decision on their asylum claim are often eligible for accommodation and money to cover their living expenses. This is provided by the Home Office, and the migrants themselves are dispersed across the country.

Home Office figures showing the number of supported asylum seekers per local authority at the end of March reveal the areas that currently house no migrants are overwhelmingly rural beauty spots. These include the Cotswolds, Derbyshire Dales, Malvern Hills, the New Forest and the Scottish Highlands.

Others include Mid Devon, East Hertfordshire, Ceredigion (a scenic county in west Wales) and Hart, a 118-square-mile local authority taking in major towns, rural parishes and villages in Hampshire.

I think refugees and immigrants should only be permitted in states and cities where the population specifically voted to support asylum and immigration. Democracy, even in its limited form, has comprehensively failed due to its natural tendency to separate those who support the policies from the consequences of those policies. And in doing so, it becomes a potentially even more unjust system than monarchy.

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The Postmortem

Reading the English media and social media vs the rest of world media and social media is absolutely surreal today. If you have an Instagram account, I HIGHLY recommend a scroll-through.

England:

  • IT’S THOMAS TUCHEL’S FAULT! We did NOT bring him in to do what Southgate would have done with a 1-0 lead!
  • We were totally in control of the game until we scored. Why did the manager leash our Brave Lions?
  • The first Argentine goal-scorer should have gotten a red card in the first three minutes of the game.
  • Pickford should have saved that first goal.

Everyone else

  • MESSI IS FOOTBALL!
  • It’s Jude Bellingham’s fault. Why did he pick a fight with Lionel Messi? What did he think would happen?
  • How did Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham, and Eliot Anderson not get yellow cards for their violent fouls on Messi?
  • Pickford was amazing in saving two certain goals.

I just find the contrast intriguing. Especially since it tends to show how it should not be surprising that the English players would have a tendency to go conservative and play negative. Here’s one observation that I’ve only seen once, but I think may be particularly perspicacious: Tuchel was tell his players to keep pushing forward, but they wouldn’t do it after they had the lead. So his defensive substitution wasn’t his tactical plan, it was an attempt to structurally defend what he observed was the shift in the players’ collective mentality.

Also, while Bellingham is a great player, he’s a hothead and more than a bit of a stupid prick. So the fact that he was dumb enough to follow in the footsteps of those who angered Michael Jordan and Steve Smith and inspired them to new heights in big games shouldn’t be a massive surprise.

Jude Bellingham was caught slapping rival Argentinian player Valentin Barco in feisty full-time scenes following England’s World Cup capitulation in Atlanta. Bellingham aimed a slap at the back of the head of Strasbourg star Barco, who did not even play in the match, in the aftermath of the Three Lions’ late collapse and 2-1 defeat.

UPDATE: Everyone blaming Tuchel for parking the bus is ignoring the timeline.

England were on the precipice of their first World Cup final in 60 years after taking the lead in the 55th minute through Anthony Gordon, but Tuchel opted to park the bus rather than try for a second goal. The German moved to play five at the back, with Gordon coming off for Ezri Konsa in the 72nd minute. Declan Rice and Reece James then made way for Dan Burn and Nico O’Reilly 10 minutes later.

The change they’re all blaming was 17 minutes later. Which is why I suspect that the fault for switching to a defensive mindset lay more with the England players than with the manager. If you’re urging your players to keep attacking, but they’re falling back despite your instructions, then reinforcing your defense is the correct decision whether it works out in the end or not.

After the match, Tuchel insisted he had ‘no regrets’ about his tactical decisions, arguing that the problems began before any of his changes were made.

What he probably needed to do to give England its very best chance to win was take off Harry Kane and whichever midfielder had shifted to a defensive mindset, but imagine how his critics would be howling for his head if he’d done that with a 1-0 lead and it didn’t work out! Tuchel hasn’t criticized any of the players, but he has said that he has no regrets about his changes, so I’m reasonably confident that this is the correct explanation for what so many people have found puzzling.

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A Clown World Assassination

It appears Ann Widdecombe was murdered as part of a planned assassination campaign against Reform UK leaders:

Police investigating the alleged murder of Ann Widdecombe are looking at whether the suspect was targeting ‘other Reform politicians’.

The Head of Counter Terrorism Policing, Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor, said the political veteran was the victim of a ‘targeted attack’ and confirmed officers are still looking into any ‘motivation’ behind the 78-year-old’s death.

Police believe the former Tory minister – latterly Reform’s justice and immigration spokesman – was killed in her remote Dartmoor home on Wednesday lunchtime.

A 28-year-old remains in custody on suspicion of murder and terror offences.

Mr Taylor said this afternoon: ‘It is clear that this was a targeted attack.

‘We are still working to understand the extent of any planning or preparation, and the motivation that sits behind that attack.

We’ve already seen an attempt at creating a financial scandal around Farage, which suggests that the decline of the Labour and Conservative Parties may be more precipitous than anyone had imagined.

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Convergence in the UK

It’s been a little disappointing to me how the concept of convergence I highlighted in SJWs Always Lie never found any traction, because it’s an extremely useful predictive model for institutional failure. And so people continue being surprised when converged institutions do what they always do, and refrain from taking any precautions whatsoever against convergence.

The UK Treasury quietly scrapped its numeracy test because basic math was a “hurdle” for minority candidates.

The people in charge of the nation’s money, debt, taxes, and economic policy decided that competence in numbers was problematic.

This isn’t diversity.

This is institutional self-sabotage.

It is institutional self-sabotage, which is absolutely inevitable in every converged institution. Not likely, not probable, inevitable.

Every converged institution becomes incapable of performing its primary function due to the fact that its priorities no longer include performing those functions.

I think it may be time to start thinking about putting a crowdfund together for SJWs Always Project to see if there is still a significant demand for that.

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Paper Beats Blood

In the UK, a British national was the first to have his British citizenship stripped from him in October 2025. Mark Bullen, 45, was born in Britain, with British ancestry, native to the European continent.

A former Hertfordshire Constabulary officer has become the first person born in Britain to lose their citizenship due to alleged connections to the Kremlin. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood issued the deprivation order in October 2025, just one month into her tenure, stating that revoking his nationality was “conducive to the public good”.

Bullen’s nationality was taken from him by Shabana Mahmood: a Pakistani ethnic Brit who controls the country’s borders. A non-ethnic European who stripped a native European of his ancestral birthright.

Mahmood is also a Muslim and hasn’t stripped more than 100 serious Muslim criminals of their citizenship in similar situations.

Now, Bullen did become a Russian citizen. And by rights, he should lose his British citizenship and cease to become a subject of His Britannic Majesty, although we all know that so-called “dual citizens” are a plague upon the planet with no reliable loyalty to any of the governments that provide them with their paperwork, and Ms Mahmood clearly has no intent to take the British passports away from the millions of foreign dual-citizens living in Britain, quite possibly including herself.

But this action by Ms Mahmood demonstrates very clearly the difference between genuine nationality and government paperwork, as well as the fact that the native British are being literally replaced and displaced by the Pakistanis and other foreign invaders of their ancestral homeland.

“National Replacement” is not a theory, a hypothesis, or an idea. It is an easily confirmable observation of what has been happening since the global satanists began to make progress in their long-term goal of doing to the nations of the world what was done to the American Indian tribes. And it’s not going to be stopped by protests, complaints, virtue-signaling, politics, or voting, it’s going to be stopped, and in some places reversed, the way the Migration of Peoples has always historically stopped, through war.

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