•  world war three now in full swing for a week allready.

 An its only just the first week of march 2026. He mudered the Shia cleric who was the spritual leader of over 300million Shia muslims world wide. an it seems he thought it would not be a rallying point for them and most of the worlds muslims. An that it would bring down the Iranian goverment an instigate a revolution ! 

The idiot! 

The only people who are happy and celebrating this are those iranians that lefrt when the Shar was deposed in the last revolution and now live life as USA ,UK , European  and citizens of other nations . most of whom live very much middelo and upper middel class lives as they managed to move some of theior wealth with them before the usa sanctions kicked in and made life difficult for normal Iranians at home. now they want Trump and the zionists to trash the country and let them come back and make them selvwes a fortune no doubt . 

not that if he succeds Trump will let that happen unless he gets a big cut of the spoils .

•  Trump jumped the zionists in oder to get started first just to prove the USA is still the world leader . 

Though that is clearly debatable ! As the usa ecconomy is tanking and the nation is in termoil with people protesting abot ICE  MUDERING , Cost of  food, No health care and being sent to war for Israel.

alongside all this we ahve the moves to impeach Trump and get the epstine files realsed so the pubglic can find out if he mudered and eat children alongside raping under age girls ? life is as the chines cures goes "may you live in interesting times "

 

 Anti-Semitism and Zionism.

As Israel intensifies its displacement and mass murder of Palestinian people, the nature of Zionism becomes apparent. There is no level of barbarity to which the Israeli Defence Forces will not stoop, to clear the land for expanding settlement, unfortunately, the IDF are supported by 80% of the population. Zionism and its offspring Israel function as a bulwark of western imperialism holding the Arab nations and their oil in check. This ghastly combination of religion and nationalism has financial resources at its disposable large enough to buy, lobby and threaten, universities, media, politicians, governments, worldwide. However, as the horror of Israeli actions unfold, decent people now question the very existence of Israeli, its occupation of Palestine and its foundational philosophy, Zionism, throughout the world decent people empathy now protest in their millions crying “Palestine will be Free” and act with empathy in defence of the suffering of Palestinians. States bought by the Zionists, obliterate free speech and brutally repress such expression, under the catch all phase of “Anit-Semitism.”

This cry of “anti Semitism” comes from much of the Jewish community in Ireland and worldwide. The Jews greatly suffered in Nazi Germany where vitriolic speeches claimed the superiority of the Aryan master race. A few generations after Auschwitz, the Zionists claiming to be “God’s Chosen People” similarly cast themselves as a master race to all others, and the abused have become the abuser. Zionist Israel has burnt the latent international sympathy people had for the for the Jews. The cry of antisemitism has lost resonance and the cultural damage to Judaism as a religion is immense.

The only path back to normality for Jews and to regain their status, is to lead the struggle against Zionism and the sectarian, apartheid state of Israel. To end the occupation, facilitate the return of lands to the Palestinian people and renounce the claim of “God’s Chosen People.” The best hope is to advocate for a single shared social order where Jews, Muslims, Christian, and Humanist live together in a secular socialist state structured for the happiness of its entire people. The struggle for these demands will ensure the fading of worldwide anti-Semitism.

                                              This collage and water colur is called preyer for Palistine 

                           I paint it last year for a fund raising benifit for the palistine childrens fund 

All eyes on Gazza 

Why does the census say there are more trans people in Newham than Brighton?

 recent article in the spectator.  

I live in Newham and find it very strange that we have  NO GAY CLUBS OR BARS . there certainly are no venues for trans or non binary evenings out or entertainment . We are a predominantly Muslim Borough as the article states in the spectator.  It is however true to say that generally Muslim culture allows for People to be more accepted as trans gender rather than as gay or lesbian. An may well account for the census numbers. Not as the article likes to say that the population of the borough has not got the intelligence to know what the question on the census form was about. I actually find that quite wrong knowing most of my Muslim neighbours as I do they certainly know what the difference  between what gender you where assigned at births . and how you wish to identify now. Though on a personal level my self and my partner still encounter some degree of distain from some of the neighbours . who prefer to refer to my partner as my son. Though when my previous partner died in 1999 he was so popular among the neighbours that the local imam at the time said prayers for him at Friday prayers. and many of the neighbours stood in respect as his coffin was born away from our home to his cremation .     

The local council in Newham has all ways been open to and sportive of LGBTQ issues I my self use to serve on the gay advisory committee back in the early 1980s and the borough has a long history of gay pubs and night clubs from the 1960s when the docks where still operating ,even in the 90s we still had a around 7 gay venues across the borough and a the oldest gay one nightery in London  Tricky Dicks at the Pigeons pub . the place is now a Tesco's. Now we have no gay venues and the only LGBTQ culture in the borough is once a year when the council run events fo0r LGBTQ History month. Not forgetting that the Kings Cross Steelers are of course based at West ham rugby club so Saturdays if your gay and like rugby as I do. An  my Arthritis is not playing up to much a trip to the club is quite on the cards . As long as I can manage the walk along the green way .  

All in all though I suspect that that the article may well be right that Newham cannot really have as big a population of LGBTQ people as Brighton and I cannot truly speak on the situation in BRENT as I do not live there. 

for the record  I am putting here the results as published for the 2021 censuses from the office of national statistics..

 An it leaves me wondering why the spectator singled out Newham and Brent . particularly for comment?

Given that Newham and Brent have the highest number of women who identify as trans men. I would suggest that they may be women who are living independently from more conservative Muslim house holds  and Family's,. Especially among the younger ones as that is a way they can leave home with dignity and refuse arranged marriages. Where they can not declare them selves as lesbians . It is also true that being trans which ever way it  is very likely to mean you have to move away from family friends an support networks that go with that. .An it is true to say that the boroughs in question while still in London, there by offering potential support and community to relate to, also offer some of the cheapest rents in the city .  I would also suggest that the census figures need to be looked at in income brackets to. As I do think this would show why the LGB group are higher in boroughs with higher rents as many of the people who identify in this way are also possible in the higher earning bracket  and may even be more likely to be home owners .  

  

Gender identity

Eight of the 10 local authorities with the largest proportion of the population aged 16 years and over whose gender identity was different from their sex at birth were in London, with Newham (1.51%) and Brent (1.31%) having the highest proportions. The two non-London local authorities with the highest proportions were Oxford (1.25%) and Norwich (1.07%). In Wales, the local authorities with the highest percentages were Cardiff (0.71%) and Ceredigion (0.70%).

In terms of specific gender identities, Brent and Newham also had the highest percentages who identified as a trans man (0.28% and 0.25%, respectively), while Barking and Dagenham had the highest percentage who identified as a trans woman (0.25%).

In Wales, Cardiff had the highest percentage who identified as a trans man (0.12%), and had the highest percentage who identified as a trans woman (0.13%).

The five local authorities with the highest proportion of the population aged 16 years and over who identified as non-binary were all outside London. Brighton and Hove had the highest percentage (0.35%), followed by Norwich (0.33%) and Cambridge (0.26%). Ceredigion (0.23%) had the highest percentage of people who identified as non-binary of any local authority in Wales.

Sexual orientation

The local authority with the largest LGB+ population among those aged 16 years and over was Brighton and Hove (10.7%). Seven of the other local authorities in the top 10 were in London, with the largest LGB+ populations residing in the City of London (10.3%), Lambeth (8.3%), and Southwark (8.1%). In Wales, the local authorities with the largest LGB+ populations were Cardiff (5.3%), Ceredigion (4.9%), and Swansea (3.4%).

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RVK Newscast #150: Iceland’s Plastic Shame

Although this winter has seen many of my plants in my London garden killed by the early snow and freezing weather the lemon took a battering as i have no where inside or really sheltered i could move it to and the young avocado trees got burned back. . The poor banana palm after 7 years finally succumbed to the cold it seems. Though it has once before completely disappeared only to suddenly send up a green shoot when the weather warmed up so I live in hope ..

 Spring has started in the garden.  The crocuses are the first bulbs to bloom this year .

The sweet box was the first thing to bloom its been in flower for about a week now .

have a happy spring .

 The current wave of strikes is the only way the people of the UK have of influencing the current elitist election of a new prime minster by the 160k members of the Conservative party.

IN A TRUE DEMOCRACY THE SHAMBELS CREATED BY THE LIES AND CORUPT ACTIVITIES OF THE CURRENT ENCUMBENT OF THE POST AND HIS SUPPORTERS WOULD HAVE RESULTED IN A GENERAL ELECTION BUT AS ALWAYS IN LITTLE ENGLAND THE MANY ARE RULED BY THE FEW