DiaryKenneth WebbJuly 22, 2025When Visitors Become UnwelcomeComment

When Visitors Become Unwelcome

DiaryKenneth WebbJuly 22, 2025When Visitors Become UnwelcomeComment

DIARY

When Visitors Become Unwelcome

22 July 2025

The trouble with today is that nothing goes unnoticed.

China used to visit once a month, as regular as clockwork, on the 1st at about 09:00 local time, so one imagines a bleary-eyed well groomed bod grabbing a coffee then logging in, quick overview, nothing to report and then moving on to work down their daily checklist.

About a year ago it became weekly. Roughly in tune with its bedmate Russia. China is stealthy. Russia is just plain vagabondish as it crashes around the website.

I do not like people who eye up another person’s property and then say…

What you’ve got I want.

What you’ve got now, I’m going to take.

What you have means I am going to invade you.

Then, your language will be destroyed,

your books will be burned,

and you will be sifted out.|

It is the new world order.

At this point one might expect me to rabbit on about Adolf. But that misses the point. In every century we find this human trait. A trait not so common in Nature, though where it is so, it’s highly developed. Take the Cuckoo, for example.

The last month, the site’s Analytics have upsurged. The old phrase was ‘soared’. Picture a graph and a gentle rising line suddenly going near vertical.

Usually, the Analytics report that the subject of interest is Overview. Occasionally, it is Blog. But a month or so ago, China-bod discovered ‘search’. China-bod seems to work in Beijing. That figures. Russia bod seems to live either in Moscow or St. Petersburg. Great cities.

I live in a society where true freedom and true democracy exist. I greatly admire China and Russia from the angle of the Arts, Literature, and Science. In any other area I find duplicity.

Beware the duplicitous individual.

Don’t look at their overall countenance.

Look direct into the back of the eyes.

That is what tells me to immediately put my guard up, or in the formal language of the last century now worryingly in vogue again in central government both here and in the European Union…

move our economies onto a war footing

Ah! There you are, again. Top right hand corner of the screen.

Russia has, according to Analytics ceased any interest in this website. Great! There’s nothing to trouble them anyway. They’ve just discovered ‘stealth’ ~ very low grade.

A little window slides across, pauses for a second, than slides quietly back. Log in by Russia. Log in by Moscow. Log in by China. Log in by Iran.

Oh, so THAT’s what you’re up to!

Well, read on, you’ve nothing to worry about here.

It is always a real boost when I look at the Analytics and find visits from all over Australia and Canada and New Zealand and India and very much so from our European Union. Yes, the United Kingdom is very much part and parcel of the 56 Nations of the Commonwealth of Nations and of the European Union. Funny! America seems to have dropped off for some reason since the 47th took office. I don’t things are going exactly according to plan in Americana-land! But I do say this. Every time I see his lordship step from Air Force One I instinctively wince.

Please, go careful, Sir.
Age is not on your side
And taking a fall on those damned steps…

And I really do mean that as an expression of concern. I don’t like seeing nasty things. On the other hand, I do find myself wishing that Roly-Poly in the Kremlin would trip over his shoelace. He has MUCH to answer for in the Court of World Opinion.