2025-08-22

Just what is the Tony Blair Institute up to?

I suppose the short answer is: whatever Tony Blair wants it to get up to.

Given that our government hasn't been working for true representatives of the people probably beyond living memory, somebody must be guiding it from behind the scenes, and secretive organisations copiously funded by dubious oligarchs might today seem prime candidates.

OK, so the TBI has been operational (at least in current form) for only nine years (according to #together).  

"The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change... was set up in 2016, absorbing the Tony Blair Faith Foundation... which was supposed 'to educate, inform and develop understanding' about different religions"

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2025-08-21

China takes another step away from Xi JinPing.

Madam Lei explains...

"General Zhang Youxia sent the PLA into the capital, seizing control like no one has dared in decades"

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2025-08-21

Promethean Action, aided by the House of Lords, dish the dirt from Alaska.

"The pygmies of Europe still haven't realised how irrelevant they have become over Ukraine" - Daily Telegraph

(I'm not sure if they realise how disrespectful they are being to pygmies here, but I must clarify that this site does not agree that pygmies are of as low a status as politicians in any respect other than physical height. The idea is clearly a manifest absurdity)

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2025-08-20

Perhaps up to 4 years too late, the UK Covid Inquiry stumbles on... but better late than never, and indeed much of this is undeniably best viewed from a distance, as the feelings were running very high at the time.

This is brought to us by Together Declaration.

Make of it what you will.

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2025-08-20

Plus some references to the Summit in Alaska between the Donald and Vladimir Putin.

OK, it's a celebrity-eye view of the mood and public opinion in Russia, but it is what it is.

Worth listening, despite its inevitably limited perspective. 

But will the West listen?

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2025-08-20

Yup, it's time to demolish another much repeated canard, this time concerning that deadly menace: cholesterol!

I was accosted at our local petrol station last week by a man who wanted me to contribute cash for the search for the "cure for Alzheimer's".

Well, such welI-intentioned folk have been exhorting me for years to contribute to the "cure for cancer" cause, but I am of the view that if they had looked for this mythological cure elsewhere rather than always in my wallet, then they might have had more success.

Anyway I didn't handle it as well as perhaps I should have, contenting myself (well, my vehicle was still blocking a petrol pump) with a quick exclamation of "Coconut Oil!" before continuing on my way. I expect he thought I was mad, but I'm used to that.

In point of fact I know a little about Alzheimer's, as my mother and grandmother were victims (see - it's inherited!) but I am not, even though I am

2025-08-20

Dr Steven Koonin speaks to Dr John Robson on all matters Climate and Weather.

Make of this what you will...

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2025-08-20

This title "The Ascent of Man" is that of a 13 part 1973 BBC documentary series by a Polish immigrant to Britain, Dr Bronowski. He came to this sceptred isle at the age of 12 in 1920, was educated in England, and was thus (almost!) as English as the rest of us.

Perhaps he was a forerunner of today's deep thinkers who are also feeling their way (through experience and adversity rather than formal education) to develop a better understanding of the universe in which we live.

Possibly the prime example of such a deep thinker today would be Clif High, who in many ways is documenting his evolving understanding of the ascent of man in his own inimitable style (just not on the BBC).

Set him alongside others such a

2025-08-20

"If you quarantine the British Foreign Policy establishment,and their extremely extensive network of Non Government Organisations and private contractors and diplomatic staff that are everywhere around the world and embedded in government in these key flash-points, then you would actually solve, probably overnight, greater than 90% of the whole world's problems - they are the arsonists of peace in the world"

Alex Krainer spells it out for UK, Trump, and the EU.

"This will prove the moment when the EU ship struck the iceberg - to use the Titanic analogy"

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2025-08-19

Fall of the Cabal asks some pertinent questions of our dystopian world.

If the future of the Ukraine still looks dodgy, what of the prospects for humanity as a whole?

With Larry Fink of Black Rock in the (joint) driving seat at the UN-WEF partnership, what could possibly go wrong?

"Qifeng claims that the artificial uterus has already shown great success in animal testing"

"People don’t care, as they enjoy being kept busy in their imaginary world"

2025-08-19

After all the posturing in Alaska and Washington of recent days, where does all that leave the Ukraine's prospects?

As so often, a most logical and clear-sighted analysis comes from Sebastian... 
... but if you were expecting a permanent end to the war, you may not be too impressed.

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2025-08-19

Martin Geddes has been busy trying to establish by what authority justice is delivered in the lower Courts of the Kingdom.

So far, it hasn't been looking good.

Now he is broadening his enquiry to determine if any Courts of the Land or Sea remain that are still legally constituted?

(Will he all too soon be asking if we are still a Kingdom at all, or simply a fiefdom of corporate racketeers ..? Are the omens propitious?)

"For balance, let’s acknowledge there are two sides to this story... "

But perhaps I'm getting ahead of the state of play ...

2025-08-20

Late News

2025-08-19

None of this is verifiable for obvious reasons, but there is a convincing logic to its assertions... especially now that the need is for unity (compliance?) for the Commission's Ukraine support policies.

Watch this space.

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2025-08-18

We don't know.

But Promethean Action has some suggestions...

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2025-08-18

Make of this what you will.

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2025-08-18

Ben reviews the Alaska Summit Meeting and finds it wanting.

To be honest that's no different from most of the rest of the geopolitical news reports these days, so why would we expect any difference here?

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2025-08-18

Godfrey Bloom draws attention to our traitorous Europhile Blob who some believe are busy signing us up, "despite Brexit". To what?

To everything EU Defence Union... just for a change.

Ready Just in time to take on Russia.

They will probably deny it, on the grounds that they did that already, and this is merely a formalisation of the existing situation, so there is nothing to worry about.

Honestly, would that surprise us?

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