I remember as a young child watching the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was too young to understand that if it was just a wall, why had it been so hard to knock it down?
Complex political structures being beyond my unformed mind, I was a touch too focused on the physics.
But watching Nicola Sturgeon’s sudden fall from grace, and potential collapse, reminds me of how flimsy the wall of woke really is. It is built on ideas that are anything but robust. In fact, it is full of holes. It is also ugly and everyone hates it.
For example, we know from polling data that Sturgeon’s trans policies are unpopular even in Scotland, the one place where presumably some people actually like her.
And so, as with the wokies in general, if their absurd, dangerous, anti-human ideas are supported by so few, why are we letting them stand at all?
The alleged transition of Adam Graham, the face tattooed male rapist, into the convenient female persona ‘Isla Bryson’, thus allowing him to enter a women’s prison, was the obscene flashpoint that pushed the reasonable people of Scotland, Britain, and – in an age of social media – the world over the edge.
Graham was only moved out of a female prison after an explosion of public outrage (for once that word can be used with justification) and the fiasco is said to have left Sturgeon “on the verge of quitting”.
Great news. But even if we do finally see the back of Sturgeon, will the trans madness cease?
Rhona Hotchkiss, former governor of the prison in which Adam Graham was incarcerated, is not confident. She writes in the Spectator:
Will Isla Bryson’s case lead to a shift in thinking? Perhaps for some. Will it lead to a change in attitude from gender ideologists to those who express concern? I doubt it. To those who see no issue with holding trans-identified men in women’s prisons, I am still a ‘transphobe’ and a ‘bigot’ for sharing my fears.
Though she also allows that:
If any good can come from this incident it is surely this: that at least a significant number of those who naively chanted the ‘be kind’ mantra have started to see that this is about much more than kindness to trans-identified people. It’s about reality versus fantasy and, above all, about recognising that sex is immutable.
Perhaps I have been spending too much time with incurable optimist and national security threat Toby Young, but on this issue I am feeling pretty positive.
Yes, we still have disastrous levels of immigration, cripplingly high taxes, virtually everyone is on strike, and economists are saying we’ll be poorer than Poland by 2030.
But when it comes to woke, we are dealing with an entirely pernicious cult that almost everyone hates, which is propped up solely by fear and intimidation.
Once that has been mentally dismantled in the minds of enough people, and once the crowd sees more and more of their number chiselling away at it, we might all realise that the wall of woke can be easily toppled.
All it takes is one big push.
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BBC Middle East history – Jeremy Bowen.
” It is not clear yet whether Syria is destined for a democratic future or will fall prey to jihadists previously affiliated with the Islamic State and al-Qaeda.”
Eh? A blind man on a galloping horse can see where Syria is heading and it’s not a “democratic” (if that has any meaning anymore) future.
Correct. And it is a foregone conclusion that Syria’s military capability will be commandeered by the insane jihadists and turned to their malicious intentions toward Israel.. you can write it down! Much the same as Hamas would continue on its mission to obliterate Israel from the other direction if no direct action was taken.
Which is why the IDF have destroyed the Syrian Airforce on the ground, and its navy in port.
“And it is a foregone conclusion that Syria’s military capability will be commandeered by the insane jihadists”
Nope. Israel got their first…
Between democracy (won’t happen if only because Muslims are told it is wrong) and a jiihadi state there is a wide range of possibilities. I suspect it will be jihadi.
Is that “democratic” in our British understanding of democratic?
Oh, just what any country would need. I wonder if Kneel can cobble together a working party to go to Syria and show them how it’s done?
We watch the parade of BBC middle-east experts on the 10pm news. But, don’t worry, we don’t believe anything they say.
Wise.
“This is one of the most diverse countries in the Middle East with multiple Christian and Muslim sects. And you can see it here in the Old City, all the different Quarters – Jewish, Muslim, Christian. They’re all here.”
Yes… and have they have been fighting each other for about 1500 years – the joys and wonders of multi-culturalism.
Until the mass invasion by the Zs into the Levant I doubt if the people of the Levant have warred with each other any more than the European people have with each other.
Islamic countries, as far as I can see, are certainly vibrant but not very multicultural.
No serious reporting or journalism on geopolitical affairs should take place without a deep understanding of the historical context of the region in question, otherwise bias inevitably results.
Only 3 Jews left in Syria? The Syrians should be so lucky!
Israel was quick to occupy the Golan Heights. Since Assad’s fall, Israel has been bombing the daylights out of every military installation in the country, completely destroying Syria’s navy:
The Israeli military on Tuesday said it had carried out about 480 strikes across the country over the past two days, hitting most of Syria’s strategic weapon stockpiles, while Defense Minister Israel Katz said the Israeli navy had destroyed the Syrian fleet overnight, hailing the operation as “a great success.” (https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/10/middleeast/israel-syria-assad-strikes-intl/index.html)
There is a video showing Israeli Merkava Mark 4 tanks in the city of Umm Batna in the rural area of Quneitra in southern Syria.
These actions are, of course, in parallel to the continued starvation and murder of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as the continued bombing of Lebanon.
As far as media reports go, I love the comparison made by Simplicius comparing last week’s Washington Post headline “Israeli troops move swiftly into Syrian territory” to the 2022 PBS headline “Russia invades Ukraine on multiple fronts in brutal act of war”.
Exactly what right does Israel have to invade a sovereign foreign country and completely destroy that country’s military, especially when the country is already down on its knees? The answer is, of course, ’Self-defence’, as though Israel was not primarily responsible for the country’s downfall in the first place.
Until you started writing about alleged wring by Israel in Gaza I thought you were complementing Israel on taking pre-emptive action to protect themselves and others from jihadists getting control of Russian munitions and chamical weapons.
Once Greater Israel is achieved then there will be peace. From the Sinai to the Euphrates Israel will rule. So suck it up Jew haters.
How could anyone possibly hate Jews? Such caring, peace loving people. So in addition to Lebanon and Syria, Israel now only has to take on Egypt, Jordan and Iraq, you are saying? All in self-defence, of course. I am sure that will all happen very peacefully.
Sadly the Zionist lovers on here are too dim to realise this.
All hail Greater Israel.
They will be the death of us all.
Fingers crossed
B-b-but..the evil Jews control the world, because George Soros!😲🙄😁
I do not think they are aware of their ignorance. If university educated, which they will be, they will have been taught presentism and by left wing teachers who have hated Israel for decades.
Ah, what is it about the BBC reporters?
That smooth, knowledgeable, reassuringly professional, confident, slightly condescending and patronizing voice, that fake objectivity…
That aura of “listen, kids, let me tell you how things are”…
All of them are like that. Jeremy Bowen, Fergus Walsh, Fiona Bruce…
The thing is – it’s actually really convincing. I have to admit that. They are good at it. Their entire biased, agenda-based reporting is done really well, apart from the fact that it presents an extremely distorted view of the world. Unless you check the “facts”, you are duped. Like convincing conmen who swindle old ladies out of their savings, they are really good at it.
I have been looking at number of photos/videos of prisoners just liberated from their cells after months/years captivity, solitary confinement, beatings, etc.
Observation: beards and hair neatly trimmed, appear well-fed, clothes in decent condition.
Anyone else noticed this incongruity with months/years of privation and brutal treatment?
The BBC is funded by the UK public, but seeks to please the public of Middle Eastern countries, other than Israel. They make no secret of this.
Bowen hates Israel.
My friends, who run Camera-uk.org, have demonstrated that literally every day for the last 10 years (that I’ve been reading their analysis) the BBC has promoted mis-truths about Israel.
I’ve been following this for over 25 years. It is endemic.
Arabs occupy vast regions of land, including many well beyond their historic homeland.
I do find it amazing how widespread Arab culture is in so many countries without even a whiff of imperialism.
What a difference a day makes. Christmas cancelled in Syria