My latest guest on
@maiden_podcast
is
@robkhenderson
on whether sexual liberation counts as a luxury belief and why elites tend to talk the talk on 1960s ideology, but actually live like the 1950s ideal.
Once again, anyone listening to Radio 4 this morning who relied on the BBC for news would have no idea what was going on in Dublin. "Far-right hooligans" spontaneously rioting, apparently. No reason given.
Greater Manchester Police
@gmpolice
as well. It seems advice from the top is that posters of abducted Jewish children could ‘provoke community tensions.’ That is - it could inflame Hamas supporters who should not be in Britain.
Feminists need to stop talking about microaggressions and start talking about border control. The government granting asylum to convicted sex offenders is a betrayal of women and girls.
"Every day women will face misogyny and microaggressions... We have to do better,"
Caroline Nokes, Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee, tells
@KirstyWark
more needs to be done to change the culture on abusive behaviour towards women.
#Newsnight
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy."
The Telegraph has discovered that half of the groups organising the march - who are still defying calls from the Metropolitan Police to call it off - have links to Hamas.
Former Hamas chief ‘behind pro-Palestine Armistice Day protests’
the feeling that something big is coming – politically – is like a roaring in my ears getting louder and louder. The gov has lost the plot. Labour will be worse. We have pre-revolutionary material conditions, in particular the fact that incoming young elite are downwardly mobile.
'How is it possible, that someone turned down twice for asylum, who then commits more than one sexual offence, is granted refugee status?'
'This is not really about asylum' says Education Secretary
@GillianKeegan
.
#TrevorPhillips
so because a sex offender might face mob justice in his native Afghanistan, the women and girls of Britain have to be "compassionate" and allow him to live among them?
It's very easy to be generous with other people's money.
It's very easy to be brave when it's other people's…
A convicted sex offender was awarded refugee status after a judge ruled he would be at risk of 'violence' in Afghanistan.
Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin says it's "not good enough" that the govt wants to send sex offenders to a 'third party country'
The Muslims tearing down the posters are doing so for ethnonarcissistic reasons, obviously.
Wokeness actually consists of two quite different things: white elite psychological pathology, and non-white ethnonarcissism. Sometimes they overlap.
This isn't some shrewd, super powerful force we're dealing with. Terrorists like this Hamas fugitive are parasites on the British state, and they know it. They depend on our inexplicable goodwill.
"Younger and well-educated Muslims were the most likely to think Hamas did not commit atrocities on Oct 7, with the proportions rising to 47 per cent among 18 to 24-year-olds and 40 per cent among the university-educated."
Disturbing, but not surprising - the dominant ideology…
I don't want today's march banned.
The problem isn't the march *happening* on Remembrance weekend, it's the fact that so many people *want to go on it.*
There's an ethnoreligious conflict brewing within the UK and voters need to see that, not have it hidden away.
Ending this situation is entirely within the state's power. Islamism has been allowed to flourish in the UK only because we offer social housing, welfare payments, and the endless benefit of the doubt to people who explicitly hate the country that is so generous to them.
The fact that this convicted sex offender was wandering around in the UK and attacking little children was a policy decision. None of this is inevitable. We could be governed differently.
"If you squint and look sideways, you might be able to see a more conventional political game at play within the transgender phenomenon – the state trying to gain more control over the human body, Big Pharma trying to make a buck. But I think it’s actually simpler than that:…
"Teacher caught with 11,500 indecent images sentenced"
Safeguarding lead at his school, images including 520 in Category A, the most serious.
Two years suspended and 200 hours of community work.
I honestly don't think these white hipster teens/20-somethings in NYC know or care much about the war. They're mid wits who've decided that Israel codes as oppressor and have slotted that into the moral code that governs their local status games.
I’ve been writing a retrospective on The Children of Men (the 1996 novel, not the film) and one of the things P.D. James got wrong is that she assumed a civilisation in decline would clamour to preserve it’s heritage
Masked Palestinian activist completly DESTROYS historic British painting by slashing it with a knife and spray painting it.
The activist from the Palestine Action group ruined the Lord Balfour painting in Trinity College, University of Cambridge using a box cutter Stanley knife…
Turns out British democratic norms don't just passively sustain themselves. Just like wealth and peace. Poverty, violence, corruption, and mob rule are the default, everything else requires effort and vigilance.
🚨 I'm no fan of Angela Rayner but I find this intimidation and harassment of MPs by Palestinian mobs utterly shameful. MPs deserve safety just like the rest of us. This behaviour undermines our entire democracy.
Sadiq Khan's London is utterly broken
You’ll be shocked by what’s happening in London. Or maybe you actually won’t. 🧵
The Israeli Hostages Families’ Forum in the UK managed to raise a substantial sum of money for a billboard campaign showing pictures of hostage held in Gaza on video screen throughout London👇>
Anarcho-tyranny: a system of government that fails to enforce or adjudicate protection to its citizens while simultaneously persecuting innocent conduct.
British police come to a man’s home to arrest him for posting a video to Facebook of him criticizing migrants in his area for putting Palestine flags up everywhere in the neighborhood.
The video he was arrested for will be posted in the comments ⬇️
Young women are more groupish and anxious about status than any other age/sex group. So they're the most enthusiastic about fashion, the first to manifest socially contagious mental illnesses (like ROGD and dancing plagues), and the most passionate enforcers of social norms.
Galloway understands contemporary British politics far better than any of the Sensibles. He's preparing for the Britain of 2054, they still think it's 1994. I hate him, but it's true.
I argued for the
@Telegraph
that young British progressives are suffering from false consciousness, since they don't seem to realise that the immigration and social housing policies they support are immiserating them
I'd love to see some research on this phenomenon. My anecdotal impression is that it's an affluent Anglo thing. The final endpoint of 800 years of individualism is a generation that prefers cruises to grandchildren?
My wife: So your boomer parents will drive to Texas to watch an eclipse for 2 minutes and 30 seconds… but not visit for their first and only grandson’s birthday? And the only kid’s books we get in the mail are from Dolly Parton?
A particularly awful element of what happened to this girl is that she wasn't attacked by a single gang. Rather, she was wandering around drunk and set upon by several different groups of opportunists over the course of 2.5 hours - there were just a *lot* of rapists in the park
It isn't centrist or moderate to break every record on net migration, year after year, and then refuse to monitor the results of your policy decision. It's extremism, driven by ideology.
Following DWP's decision to stop publishing data on welfare claims by nationality, HMRC told me today they have stopped publishing data on tax contributions by nationality.
> The data we need to have a more sensible conversation about migration is being deleted, not improved.
Something I learnt today:
American Catholics in general have a total fertility rate of 2.3.
But American Catholics who attend Latin Mass have a TFR of 3.6! More than TWICE the national average!
Labour will:
🌹 Legislate for a trans-inclusive conversion therapy ban
🌹 Make anti-LGBT+ hate crime an aggravated offence
🌹Modernise Gender Recognition processes
🌹 Appoint an international LGBT+ envoy
So Miriam Cates has apparently caused "significant damage to the reputation of the House" but the public are not allowed to know how....? One would think that reputational damage would be.... public
"What’s striking about cancel culture is not the existence of taboos and censorship. Those are almost certainly human universals. No, the weird thing about our culture of silencing dissidents is how extremely girly it is. The gallows and the gulag are the usual masculine tools of…
I stand by this piece.
"Immigration maximalists don’t seem to release this. The possibility of ethnic conflict as a consequence of mass immigration seems fanciful to them, even after decades of Islamist terrorism."
Very jarring to see videos on twitter and then switch on Radio 4 to hear the news lead solely with the "right wing" violence yesterday (what happened to "far right"?) Only after a few mins did we hear about police getting fireworks in the face from the pro-Palestinian protestors.
If you feel comfortable publicly sharing your 2023 reading list then you're not reading sufficiently based/insane/low status books, try harder in 2024!
People in modern welfare states saying "I can't afford to have kids" have got it exactly backwards - the welfare state won't be there when you're old and any investments you've secured will be worth nothing. Just for purely self-interested economic reasons, you need to have kids.
If your country's population pyramid is like this then it doesn't matter if you can't afford or are sharing a studio... you need to have kids now. You can't afford not to
House, pension, stocks, bonds: going to zero. having kids is the only way you'll feed yourself at 70
🔴 Jeremy Hunt said the “NHS is, rightly, the biggest reason most of us are proud to be British”.
The Chancellor said he will fund an NHS productivity plan “in full”
Follow all the latest updates on our
#Budget2024
liveblog here👇
Policy proposal:
Triple the prison population.
Restore the liberty of innocent citizens who are being robbed of their freedoms by criminals. We shouldn't be restricted in where we can live, where we can travel, or what time of day we can be outside. Crime does this to us.
There were so many opportunities for the state to stop this from happening. But chances are no one will lose their job, or have to answer to a panel of Parliamentarians. Crime will continue to be treated like a natural disaster, not a policy choice.
Unpopular opinion, but Demeny voting (that is, giving parents a proxy vote for each of their children) would be a good way of challenging gerontocracy by giving more political power to the parents of young children - a demographic that the state both depends on and mistreats
“People should get votes from birth.”
@PollyMackenzie
makes a radical suggestion for extending the franchise.
🗳️ How To Win An Election
🎧
Peter Mandelson |
@Dannythefink
|
@MattChorley
“increasingly the evidence shows that reading on paper gives deeper comprehension and learning than screen-based learning. Coupled with the fact that pupils are increasingly able to outwit the devices to enable them to spend their lesson time surfing the internet, there needs to…
And most MPs won't even *say* that it's Islamists they're afraid of, let alone that the increasing number of Islamists in this country is a direct consequence of government decisions on border control
Parliament being bullied into submission by Islamist and Islamist adjacent thugs. Yeah, no problem here, nothing to see. We are a totally normal country and in no way governed by spineless cretins
There were so many opportunities for the state to stop this from happening. But chances are no one will lose their job, or have to answer to a panel of Parliamentarians. Crime will continue to be treated like a natural disaster, not a policy choice.
Grace O'Malley-Kumar showed 'incredible bravery' as she tried to protect Barnaby Webber whilst he was being stabbed multiple times by Valdo Calocane, 32, in Nottingham, a court has heard
Agree with this. Unilateral trad life is really hard, i.e. going back to trad practices (loads of kids, single income, no screens, even full on homesteading) without extended family support. You're pursuing a lifestyle designed for community but you don't have the community.
There is a strain of “traditionalism”that is just liberal individualism on steroids, and they all follow a similar pattern: “patriarchalists” want to baptize the sexual habits of people who use birth control as the divinely ordained arrangement—except, women can’t use birth…
I have two friends working for the same bank, both first-years, both front-office. One in London. One in New York.
London: £55,000 base + £10,000 bonus
New York: $115,000 base + $65,000 bonus
We are so behind it's not even funny...
the perfect Christmas essay:
'After that, there was no escape. Like C. S. Lewis, I could not ignore “the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet.”'
After years of defiant atheism, Paul Kingsnorth went searching for “a truth I would surrender to.”
The once proud nonbeliever tells The Free Press how he found Buddhism, witchcraft, and—eventually, much to his surprise—settled on Orthodox Christianity.
I assumed this was pretty much true until I looked up the figures recently - turns out ethnicity data on the NHS workforce is very similar to the national average
this week I published an essay on female aggression that made some women angry because I wasn't resoundingly pro-women, plus an essay on Andrea Dworkin that made some men angry because I wasn't resoundingly pro-men.
I'm a sex wars centrist – everyone is bad!
boomers have the highest divorce rate in recorded U.S. history...boomers are the only generation to increase their divorce rate as they age...what if millennial failure to launch is a matter of shielding oneself from a familiar heartache?
my latest:
One of the things I find sinister about statue iconoclasm is that destroying humanoid figures seems to be such an obvious emotional proxy for public executions
Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue has met its end, in a 2,250-degree furnace.
The divisive Confederate monument, the focus of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in 2017, was secretly melted down and will become a new piece of public art.
More on the process:…
New piece by
@GoodwinMJ
on the relationship between mass migration and the housing crisis:
"In London, almost half (48 per cent) of all social housing is now occupied by households that are headed by somebody who was not born in Britain."
And nothing about the scenes that have gone viral on here: an attempted stabbing, "death to all the jews", "Hitler knew what to do with them", intimidation outside the synagogue in St John's Wood. People who rely solely on the BBC for news just wouldn't know about these things.
> and it is *this* class, always, that drives extreme politics. They have many reasons to be furious, not least that the gov looks to be (unwittingly) pursuing accelerationist strategy on immigration, generational inequality, and insane oikophobic policies on e.g. social housing
Lots of criticism of this from traditionalists, I might once have agreed. But I tried this style of worship and found I loved it. And a large, youthful congregation seems to love it too. HTB plant churches are flourishing.
By which I mean *basic* feminist ideas like "women should be allowed to go to university" - one of the reasons I care about the birth rates problem is that cultures that believe this are rapidly dying out
"I look around at the birthrates in cultures that are more feminist and less feminist and I see that the more feminist cultures are dying...I want cultures that value women's intellect to flourish"
-
@Louise_m_perry
I keep a note on my desk that says "remember that you might be wrong."
I take the opposite view on natalism from Ehrlich, of course. But generally a good rule in life is to behave normally and instinctively, rather than following any given ideology.
What's happening in the region is tragic and complex, but what's happening in the UK is really quite simple.
The pro-Israel march featured a rendition of the UK national anthem.
The pro-Palestine marches, in contrast, featured violence, thuggery, and explicit antisemitism.
I’m sorry if some women missed out because they didn’t realise they had to retire at the same time as men, but the idea we should give £10,000 to pensioners who already get nearly £300k in state handouts then they ever ‘paid in’ is abdurd
In the UK we have a self-defeating hybrid immigration model:
Treat the country as a home when it comes to welfare and healthcare (= look after our family members)
But treat it like a shop when it comes to border control (="Britain is open for business")
Pick one!
Nice argument — pity it’s not true. In fact non EU migrants are MORE likely to be unemployed, on disability and live in social housing. We’re importing huge numbers of economically inactive people.
Me for the
@Telegraph
:
"The result is a disorientating combination... a fear of rising violent crime, combined with a fear of arbitrary criminalisation, incl. the criminalisation of citizens who complain about what is being done to them."
@ladies4pd
men deliver the violence necessary to authoritarianism, but women are always involved in publicly denouncing, snitching, creating propaganda etc. And my argument in this essay is that the definition of dissent in our own culture has been shaped by feminine preferences
"Reading The Children of Men in the Britain of 2024 is painful because James’ characters... want to have children, they want to preserve their culture. Their government is committed to preserving their safety and comfort. Is ours?"
We present to you The Free Press’s list of the best books of 2023—our twelve books (and 1 bonus!) of Christmas!
Plus some titles we’re looking forward to in 2024.