I’ve commented before that he seems like one of the characters from the diabolical NICE in CS Lewis - “That Hideous Strength” - a shell that was once human hollowed out into a vector for inhuman intelligences to use as their carnal vessel in their demonic plots.
Apparently, the intelligence services are putting people who read Tolkien and C. S. Lewis on watchlists. I would also recommend their fellow Inkling, Charles Williams, especially his All Hallows Eve, and Descent Into Hell, even though he is much harder to read. The first depicts a false messiah descending into hubris, while the second concerns the willing path to destruction of a hollow man.
It doesn't surprise me we're listed for surveillance! Thanks for the recommendation. I'd not heard much about Charles Williams., but the circle seems to be a fountain of radical thought so I'm hopeful he'll be good too. BTW, the famous Eagle and Child pub where the Inklings hung out has been shut since the lockdown and it's only now being renovated for an eventual reopening.
If you don't mind me remarking, I remember your material from years ago! Pleased to 'e-meet' you. I think I found you via Miles Johnston's Bases Project stuff.
Great article. Starmer doesn't need a personality, because he is pure intentionality. He is the secret (and often not so secret) desires of the British globalist establishment, made clammy flesh.
In any other era this is the EXACT architype of the sadistic Camp Administrator, the cruel Local Party Comrade or the vicious Boarding School Headmaster. It is almost a spiritual/demonic state of being in possession of a complete NPC..you can see from those dead eyes and sociopathic missed social cues...he is a tyrant and dictator only held back currently by what he can get away with
Makes me think of the grey bespectacled leaders of the communist block (I’m thinking Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and the DDR). Very much following orders from above but quite happy to be exercising power in that way. The kind that switched away without breaking sweat when the tide turned and iron curtain fell. How otherwise could he go from not even an MP to being on Corbyn’s front bench to ousting Corbyn and being elected PM without any discernible passion or conviction?
When the Communists took over from the Nazis in Eastern Europe, they kept on the Nazi bureaucrats and persecuted those who had resisted. They had already demonstrated the key characteristics required for the job - mindless conformity, moral emptiness, and mechanical sadism.
There are architypes of historical characters all over the place at the moment. Like we are living in the 'Greatest Hits of the 20th Century'. Seeing Hulk Hogan at the latest Trump Rally that was right out the Reagan era...was plain weird!
By some very high-level support indeed along with a web of compromising material which forces people who acquire high office to do what they're told? Read eg Whitney Webb's book 'One Nation Under Blackmail'. It includes many UK as well as US figures.
Bear in mind that the only channel to show a documentary on the coup againt Corbyn was Al Jazeera. It's owned by Qatar. The Morning Star also published the story.
See too Ken Livingstone's 2011 book 'You Can't Say That'. Like Corbyn he had his career destroyed. But 'New Labour' didn't sue him for libel. His basic allegations were that New Labour had committed electoral fraud in internal party elections. It seems unusual in this country for a serious false allegation, namely fraud, not to be followed by a libel claim.
Don’t misunderstand me - I dislike Corbyn & Livingston intensely but there is an honesty there all the same. They were true believers in some of the worst things, with very juvenile understanding of things like markets etc. But better to be bright red on the outside as well as inside than grey on the outside and hollow on the inside.
Truly an excellent article, thanks. I do not believe Starmer could even comprehend the idea that he may have created a martyr for the white working class in Peter Lynch.
Starmer is the regime with “mask off”, simply because he lacks the intuitive human ability to wear a mask convincingly in the first place.
Thank you for the article. As I read yours and others Substackers' article on the dystopian state of Britain, it hurts me. Because I can see it from the outside. For us here in the Czech Republic, the British are the cool people who always go their own way and don't let other countries dictate terms. It is scary and said what has become of Britain lately
We got captured by Usury a very long time ago unfortunately and are getting hollowed out.
Britain is the ultimate example of if the nation state doesn't control international finance capitalism, international finance capitalism will control the nation state.
There have been numerous articles and commentaries on the summer riots, and I have yet to see one which does not effectively reinforce what the British state wants us to understand: “Step out of line, and you’ll go to prison”. This is the wrong message. You do not go to prison for tweets or for being rude to policemen. You go to prison because you’ve been convicted of a criminal offence, and the surest way of being convicted is to plead guilty, as Lynch and so many others did. One can only speculate as to why they did this, if they truly believed they’d done nothing wrong. But it was certainly a mistake. The message to any dissident who might be in danger of facing a politically motivated criminal charge should be: “Do not plead guilty. Make it go to full trial. You will be far less likely to end up in prison.” Had Peter Lynch understood this, he would almost certainly be alive (awaiting trial, maybe, but with a well-coordinated campaign supporting him, one would hope). I realise that this article does state that Lynch pleaded guilty. But otherwise it shares the despairing tone of other articles.
It’s likely that would have pleaded guilty because they would have known that a not guilty plea would result in them being denied bail and sent to prison on remand while awaiting trial. The time spent on remand for a crown court case is often the equivalent of a significant prison sentence. The media had already reported that the instruction had come down from on high that bail was to be denied in riot cases. This is in itself unlawful political interference in the process. They, and their legal advisors, would have reasoned that with a remand in custody almost certain, that a guilty plea which by law attracts a discount on sentence, would have been enough - given the minor nature of their actual involvement in the incidents - to reduce the sentence to one of suspended imprisonment or a community order. That would have been the only avenue possible to avoid prison on such circumstances which would likely have been their main concern. The mistake was expecting fair treatment and not accounting for just how outrageously draconian and vengeful the politically motivated sentence would be.
Enjoyed this one Woes. An accurate description of the soulless (I don't think I am far off with that description) puppet known as Keir Starmer. His mechanical personality traits really are indicative of his alien-like demeanor and really do give him an unsettling presence in many ways.
I think some of his cabinet are more ideological than him, such as evidenced by Rachal Reeves hanging a portrait of Ellen Wilkinson (Communist Party of Great Britain) in her office.
Starmer strikes me, genuinely, as somewhat psychopathic, in the sense that he seems to be devoid of empathy and remorse, but lacks the requisite boldness. An inadequate psychopath, just as he is an inadequate man. A creature with a surfeit of inadequacies, but who enjoys being on the leash of those higher up than him, and gnawing on the rotten and corrupt bones they toss him.
His evil ( and I don't think you incorrectly use that term) is coldly perfunctory, but even more concerning is the equally perfunctory malice of other members of his party. His fellow Labour comrade, Lindsay Hoyle, has forbade politicians from asking Starmer how much he knew about Southport, now that there seems to have been a deliberate concealing of information about the killer, Axel Rudakubana.
It is the old cliché , evil doesn't have to have horns and a pitchfork, it is much more effective with a human face, and, occasionally, a smile.
Very. He gives off the sort of aura of that person we have all met in life, the person who poses no physical danger, but at the same time makes you feel ill at ease for some indefinable reason.
Starmer is like a bare shop dummy obscured by shadow, just visible from the corner of the eye. Did it just move? Do I want really to turn around and look?
It has many names, this thing we are fighting - the Regime, the Matrix, the System, the Black Iron Prison, the Combine, the Machine. Perhaps the Power is the most apt of them all. (As a child of the Eighties I sometimes think of it as the Nothing, in homage to The Neverending Story: the relentless wind of destruction that tears up tradition, joy, enchantment, everything good and true).
I'm reminded that Gmork is the wolflike "servant of the power behind the nothing." He wishes to kill Atreyu because people without hope are easier to control. (The scene in which Artax allows himself to sink into the Swamps of Sadness haunts me to this day.)
I felt a chill in my soul when I read this. The eyes say it all, followed by the robotic drone. There is a fervour in his demeanour which I find unsettling. Britain has become a very unsafe place, and I say that as someone who left South Africa decades ago for safer pastures. Things have come full circle and we are considering returning. If I'm going to feel unsafe I might as well be in sunshine.
Your excellent analysis describes the personality of a sociopath, which is not uncommon nor unusual among professional politicians. But Starmer, based on what I read, seems to be an extreme sociopath, someone with tendencies of a psychopath.
The British are at a crossroads- the only answer they now have left is to actively fight the government and its minions. Don't protest in the streets- protest at the homes and neighborhoods of the MPs, the police superintendents, the judges- make their lives as miserable as possible.
Evidently my second oldest nephew, aged 13, who is part Welsh and is being raised in Wales, thinks Starmer is a robot, and told me all his friends think so too. When I asked what he thinks should be done about this he said, we all want someone to dismantle him. Good idea, I think.
My suspicion is Corbyn would have been a massive disappointment over Southport - he is the classic telescopic philanthropist (as identified by Dickens 150 years ago) - happily condemning the white working class of his own country whilst being on the right side over the Gaza issue.
I’ve commented before that he seems like one of the characters from the diabolical NICE in CS Lewis - “That Hideous Strength” - a shell that was once human hollowed out into a vector for inhuman intelligences to use as their carnal vessel in their demonic plots.
That's an excellent book. Just read it myself. I wouldn't be surprised if it's getting more popular in this days and age.
Apparently, the intelligence services are putting people who read Tolkien and C. S. Lewis on watchlists. I would also recommend their fellow Inkling, Charles Williams, especially his All Hallows Eve, and Descent Into Hell, even though he is much harder to read. The first depicts a false messiah descending into hubris, while the second concerns the willing path to destruction of a hollow man.
It doesn't surprise me we're listed for surveillance! Thanks for the recommendation. I'd not heard much about Charles Williams., but the circle seems to be a fountain of radical thought so I'm hopeful he'll be good too. BTW, the famous Eagle and Child pub where the Inklings hung out has been shut since the lockdown and it's only now being renovated for an eventual reopening.
Thanks for the recommendations.
If you don't mind me remarking, I remember your material from years ago! Pleased to 'e-meet' you. I think I found you via Miles Johnston's Bases Project stuff.
Hi Tom. Thanks very much. Good to reunite. Miles has another conf on the 14th of next month.
Great article. Starmer doesn't need a personality, because he is pure intentionality. He is the secret (and often not so secret) desires of the British globalist establishment, made clammy flesh.
Soon the opressed will conclude that if they are going to prison anyway, then it is better to be arrested for a real crime.
And when the opressed realized this throughout history, it was precisely the moment the castles were looted and burned, and the heads started to roll.
In any other era this is the EXACT architype of the sadistic Camp Administrator, the cruel Local Party Comrade or the vicious Boarding School Headmaster. It is almost a spiritual/demonic state of being in possession of a complete NPC..you can see from those dead eyes and sociopathic missed social cues...he is a tyrant and dictator only held back currently by what he can get away with
Makes me think of the grey bespectacled leaders of the communist block (I’m thinking Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and the DDR). Very much following orders from above but quite happy to be exercising power in that way. The kind that switched away without breaking sweat when the tide turned and iron curtain fell. How otherwise could he go from not even an MP to being on Corbyn’s front bench to ousting Corbyn and being elected PM without any discernible passion or conviction?
When the Communists took over from the Nazis in Eastern Europe, they kept on the Nazi bureaucrats and persecuted those who had resisted. They had already demonstrated the key characteristics required for the job - mindless conformity, moral emptiness, and mechanical sadism.
There are architypes of historical characters all over the place at the moment. Like we are living in the 'Greatest Hits of the 20th Century'. Seeing Hulk Hogan at the latest Trump Rally that was right out the Reagan era...was plain weird!
By some very high-level support indeed along with a web of compromising material which forces people who acquire high office to do what they're told? Read eg Whitney Webb's book 'One Nation Under Blackmail'. It includes many UK as well as US figures.
Bear in mind that the only channel to show a documentary on the coup againt Corbyn was Al Jazeera. It's owned by Qatar. The Morning Star also published the story.
See too Ken Livingstone's 2011 book 'You Can't Say That'. Like Corbyn he had his career destroyed. But 'New Labour' didn't sue him for libel. His basic allegations were that New Labour had committed electoral fraud in internal party elections. It seems unusual in this country for a serious false allegation, namely fraud, not to be followed by a libel claim.
Don’t misunderstand me - I dislike Corbyn & Livingston intensely but there is an honesty there all the same. They were true believers in some of the worst things, with very juvenile understanding of things like markets etc. But better to be bright red on the outside as well as inside than grey on the outside and hollow on the inside.
Truly an excellent article, thanks. I do not believe Starmer could even comprehend the idea that he may have created a martyr for the white working class in Peter Lynch.
Starmer is the regime with “mask off”, simply because he lacks the intuitive human ability to wear a mask convincingly in the first place.
Thank you for the article. As I read yours and others Substackers' article on the dystopian state of Britain, it hurts me. Because I can see it from the outside. For us here in the Czech Republic, the British are the cool people who always go their own way and don't let other countries dictate terms. It is scary and said what has become of Britain lately
We got captured by Usury a very long time ago unfortunately and are getting hollowed out.
Britain is the ultimate example of if the nation state doesn't control international finance capitalism, international finance capitalism will control the nation state.
There have been numerous articles and commentaries on the summer riots, and I have yet to see one which does not effectively reinforce what the British state wants us to understand: “Step out of line, and you’ll go to prison”. This is the wrong message. You do not go to prison for tweets or for being rude to policemen. You go to prison because you’ve been convicted of a criminal offence, and the surest way of being convicted is to plead guilty, as Lynch and so many others did. One can only speculate as to why they did this, if they truly believed they’d done nothing wrong. But it was certainly a mistake. The message to any dissident who might be in danger of facing a politically motivated criminal charge should be: “Do not plead guilty. Make it go to full trial. You will be far less likely to end up in prison.” Had Peter Lynch understood this, he would almost certainly be alive (awaiting trial, maybe, but with a well-coordinated campaign supporting him, one would hope). I realise that this article does state that Lynch pleaded guilty. But otherwise it shares the despairing tone of other articles.
Someone who refused to plead guilty has just been acquitted: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqd9ljgqd9o
They pleaded guilty because the solicitors and the barristers are part of the government power structure.
It’s likely that would have pleaded guilty because they would have known that a not guilty plea would result in them being denied bail and sent to prison on remand while awaiting trial. The time spent on remand for a crown court case is often the equivalent of a significant prison sentence. The media had already reported that the instruction had come down from on high that bail was to be denied in riot cases. This is in itself unlawful political interference in the process. They, and their legal advisors, would have reasoned that with a remand in custody almost certain, that a guilty plea which by law attracts a discount on sentence, would have been enough - given the minor nature of their actual involvement in the incidents - to reduce the sentence to one of suspended imprisonment or a community order. That would have been the only avenue possible to avoid prison on such circumstances which would likely have been their main concern. The mistake was expecting fair treatment and not accounting for just how outrageously draconian and vengeful the politically motivated sentence would be.
Enjoyed this one Woes. An accurate description of the soulless (I don't think I am far off with that description) puppet known as Keir Starmer. His mechanical personality traits really are indicative of his alien-like demeanor and really do give him an unsettling presence in many ways.
I think some of his cabinet are more ideological than him, such as evidenced by Rachal Reeves hanging a portrait of Ellen Wilkinson (Communist Party of Great Britain) in her office.
Starmer strikes me, genuinely, as somewhat psychopathic, in the sense that he seems to be devoid of empathy and remorse, but lacks the requisite boldness. An inadequate psychopath, just as he is an inadequate man. A creature with a surfeit of inadequacies, but who enjoys being on the leash of those higher up than him, and gnawing on the rotten and corrupt bones they toss him.
His evil ( and I don't think you incorrectly use that term) is coldly perfunctory, but even more concerning is the equally perfunctory malice of other members of his party. His fellow Labour comrade, Lindsay Hoyle, has forbade politicians from asking Starmer how much he knew about Southport, now that there seems to have been a deliberate concealing of information about the killer, Axel Rudakubana.
It is the old cliché , evil doesn't have to have horns and a pitchfork, it is much more effective with a human face, and, occasionally, a smile.
He’s definitely in the uncanny valley isn’t he? There’s something unsettling about him.
Very. He gives off the sort of aura of that person we have all met in life, the person who poses no physical danger, but at the same time makes you feel ill at ease for some indefinable reason.
Starmer is like a bare shop dummy obscured by shadow, just visible from the corner of the eye. Did it just move? Do I want really to turn around and look?
It has many names, this thing we are fighting - the Regime, the Matrix, the System, the Black Iron Prison, the Combine, the Machine. Perhaps the Power is the most apt of them all. (As a child of the Eighties I sometimes think of it as the Nothing, in homage to The Neverending Story: the relentless wind of destruction that tears up tradition, joy, enchantment, everything good and true).
I'm reminded that Gmork is the wolflike "servant of the power behind the nothing." He wishes to kill Atreyu because people without hope are easier to control. (The scene in which Artax allows himself to sink into the Swamps of Sadness haunts me to this day.)
I felt a chill in my soul when I read this. The eyes say it all, followed by the robotic drone. There is a fervour in his demeanour which I find unsettling. Britain has become a very unsafe place, and I say that as someone who left South Africa decades ago for safer pastures. Things have come full circle and we are considering returning. If I'm going to feel unsafe I might as well be in sunshine.
Your excellent analysis describes the personality of a sociopath, which is not uncommon nor unusual among professional politicians. But Starmer, based on what I read, seems to be an extreme sociopath, someone with tendencies of a psychopath.
Good breakdown of his character - or lack thereof. And I might be at risk of sounding banal, but:
The object of power is power.
The object of torture is torture.
Now do you begin to understand?
The British are at a crossroads- the only answer they now have left is to actively fight the government and its minions. Don't protest in the streets- protest at the homes and neighborhoods of the MPs, the police superintendents, the judges- make their lives as miserable as possible.
It is always the weakest men who are the most dangerous
Evidently my second oldest nephew, aged 13, who is part Welsh and is being raised in Wales, thinks Starmer is a robot, and told me all his friends think so too. When I asked what he thinks should be done about this he said, we all want someone to dismantle him. Good idea, I think.
My suspicion is Corbyn would have been a massive disappointment over Southport - he is the classic telescopic philanthropist (as identified by Dickens 150 years ago) - happily condemning the white working class of his own country whilst being on the right side over the Gaza issue.