Me neither, but nineteen months on we’re still protesting
Today I awoke on a London street that doesn’t have resident-only parking, having passed the night in the van. I’m about to have breakfast and coffee before taking a bus to Embankment Station, where I’ll join the throngs gathering to march on Downing Street in protest at a UK Government up to its neck in genocide.
Today is also Norway’s Constitution Day. A year ago to the day I stood on Pulpit Rock; its table-top summit twenty-five metres square, its west face plunging six hundred metres sheer into Lysefjord. Also present were Norwegians less casually decked out …
… they take the day seriously.
I say this not entirely in passing. Norway has twice caught my attention of late. First thanks to a YouTube short featuring Afghan-Norwegian journalist, Yama Wolasmal, interviewing Israeli Government spokesman David Mencer. Who do you suppose came over as calm, well informed and unwaveringly on-topic, who as a peddler in lies easily shown as such and underpinned by the preposterous fiction that, from 2005 to October 2023, Gaza was an independent entity with free agency to choose its destiny?
I couldn’t possibly say. Judge for yourself.
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The second was by way of English vlogger Kerno Damo, on how Norway’s umbrella trade union organisation just voted by a landslide for a total boycott of Israel. For why that really, really matters, here’s the man himself.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve a demo to attend. Must dash.
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Not really connected to the above, but related to your article ‘All mouth and no Baltic trousers’ posted on February 15, 2025, – your powers of prophesy are vindicated.
“Russian Su-35 Fighter Repels NATO Effort to Seize Tanker at Sea.
The Russian crew reported threats to land Estonian personnel on the ship if they did not change course, as part of an effort to seize the vessel. These efforts reportedly quickly subsided after [an] Su-35 arrived in the area.
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/russian-su35-repel-tanker-sea
Estonia’s rabidly Russophobe former PM, Kaja Kallas, made Annalena Baerbock seem a moderate. Now she’s, wait for it, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Couldn’t hope for a safer pair of hands now could we?
Meanwhile, all power to the protest. Sock it to them.
It was the best one yet Jams. I’ll post pictures later today.