- “The response to the riots reflects terribly on our political class” – The appalling scenes of violence across the country cannot be allowed to happen again, writes Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
- “Starmer is in huge trouble – the double standards of ‘Two-Tier Keir’ are plain for all to see” – This Prime Minister can’t prevent the division of British society on sectarian lines because he is at the heart of an establishment whose beliefs are causing it, says Patrick O’Flynn on his State O’ The Nation Substack.
- “Starmer is failing his first major test” – The grotesque violence on our streets is unacceptable. But politicians are doing too little to ensure it won’t erupt again in future, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “No. This is not just ‘far-Right thuggery’” – On Substack, Matt Goodwin explains what the reaction to Britain’s immigration protests tells us about the elite ruling class.
- “We need a liberal answer to Britain’s divisions” – Opposition to multiculturalism challenges the tradition of British liberty, says Graeme Orchard in CapX.
- “New era of ethnic conflict exposes liberal Britain’s double standards” – This week’s riots won’t be the last, warns Aris Roussinos in UnHerd.
- “The grotesque rise of white identity politics” – In Spiked, Tom Slater explores how multicultural sectarianism helped to kindle the racist carnage on our streets.
- “England burning” – Disorganised uprisings have few prospects of realising their political goals and are often a gift to the regime, says Eugyppius on his Substack.
- “Is Britain heading for civil war?” The potential for civil war is written into the DNA of all ethnic conflicts – and, like a sleeping demon, once its fires are lit there’s no knowing where it will spread, writes Brad Evans in UnHerd.
- “Operation Scatter: Labour to disperse asylum seekers around country” – In a remarkably tone deaf move, Yvette Cooper is planning a mass procurement of HMOs, family properties, former care homes and student accommodation to house illegal immigrants, reports the Times.
- “Race riots are the logical endpoint of identity politics” – Ralph Leonard in UnHerd says the race riots engulfing Britain’s cities are the inevitable consequence of identity politics.
- “Don’t let free speech be a victim of these riots” – The despicable behaviour of the few must not become a pretext for silencing the many, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Banning Islamophobia: blasphemy law by the backdoor” – Any attempt to define ‘Islamophobia’ and punish those responsible for it would have a chilling effect on free speech, warns Tim Dieppe for the FSU.
- “Balaclavas to be banned in Ireland amid anti-immigration demonstrations” – Ireland will ban “intimidating” rioters from wearing balaclavas after clashes with police at anti-immigration demonstrations, reports the Irish Times.
- “Stopping lab-made pandemics – NYT had an op-ed on this subject on July 23rd, with three curious omissions” – On Substack, Dr. Meryl Nass raises concerns about the effectiveness and motives behind current U.S. gain-of-function research regulations.
- “Thinktank urging Labour to turn hamlet into megacity is branded ‘joke’” – Furious locals are facing new-build hell amid Labour plans to turn their sleepy village into a megacity, reports the Mail.
- “Labour is about to put the final nail in our economic coffin” – Rachel Reeves’s fiscal plans are looking positively foolhardy as global stock markets plummet, writes Matthew Lesh in the Telegraph.
- “Labour’s ‘Ofsted for employers’ threatens a storm of red tape” – Labour’s new workers’ rights watchdog must steer clear of arbitrary inspections and micromanagement, says Lucy Burton in the Telegraph. Some hope!
- “England’s curriculum review: what education experts want to see” – Education experts, as selected by the Guardian, unveil their wish list for the new National Curriculum. It’s a horror show.
- “A free speech counter-revolution is stirring in Britain’s universities” – The spirit of free enquiry appears to have died at our most distinguished universities, but there are now signs of a resistance movement emerging in academia, writes Neil Record in CapX.
- “Council’s ‘nightmare’ rewilding scheme brings ticks to our parks, residents claim” – Residents in Derbyshire have slammed their local council for a ‘rewilding’ scheme which they say has only brought rats, ticks and dog poo, says the Mail.
- “Electric car sales forecast slashed as drivers turn to secondhand market” – Car makers have slashed their forecast for electric car sales this year amid an ongoing slowdown in demand, reports the Telegraph.
- “Met Office admit storms were much worse in past” – Despite the plethora of silly names the Met Office has given every passing low-pressure system, their new report admits that storms were much worse in the past, says Paul Homewood in WUWT?
- “J.K. Rowling bankrolls legal fight against workplace gender police” – J.K. Rowling has helped to bankroll a gender critical woman’s employment tribunal fight in Belfast, according to the Mail.
- “The U.S. is at real risk of recession – and it’s a disaster for Kamala Harris” – The declining health of America’s economy threatens to upend the Presidential election, says Eir Nolsøe in the Telegraph.
- “We are proud to present this dazzling version of Firestarter by a prodigy named Keir Starmer” – On X, Harvey Wallbanger posts a deep fake of the Prime Minister singing ‘Firestarter’ by Prodigy.
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I think they’re just worried about catching Covid.
Besides, they can’t ban them; aren’t they traditional dress?
Which country? I believe Wales and Scotland are particularly welcoming. In Northern Ireland they’ll have surface travel paperless access to the EU too. .
“Electric car sales forecast slashed as drivers turn to secondhand market”
Taken at face value, the Governments EV policy makes the technically naive assumption that we can replace all our petrol/diesel (ICE) vehicles with Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs). I have read a number of articles on BEVs which suggest that, given all the issues with lithium-ion batteries, the best we could possibly hope to achieve would be to replace 30% of our ICE vehicles with BEVs. This could of course all change if some new technology comes along but with lithium-ion batteries there seems to be a distinct limit to how many we can have, use and re-cycle.
For private buyers, car purchase is to some extent a discretionary spend and can in most cases be postponed for a year or two. which is of course what people are doing given the current lack of clarity over future car policy and all the difficulties of BEV ownership and operation.
Whilst I would happily drive a BEV, I would not want to own one, or to be more precise I would not want to own and be responsible for a large lithium-ion battery. Scrapped BEVs are already piling up in scrapyards because the re-cycling process cannot keep up with the supply of scrapped vehicles. For various reasons, including the insurance industry’s readiness to ‘write-off’ BEVs rather than repair them, BEVs look like have a significantly shorter average life span than ICE vehicles.
Running a BEV requires a lifestyle change compared to running an ICE car. On you tube you can find countless videos showing the challenges, costs and technicalities of living with a BEV. These issues are such that many people will find that if they use a BEV at all it will just be for local utility travel, possibly a BEV borrowed from the local community car club rather than a vehicle they themselves own. Which brings me back to my opening point, does the Government really believe that we can replace most of our ICE vehicles with BEVs? Or are they just stringing us all along knowing that the intended end result is that for the hoi-polloi this will be the end of private motoring and the freedom of the open road.?
The “shorter average life span than ICE vehicles” must undermine the claim that they are better for the environment. The manufacturing end of it, on account of the large Li ion ones, is heavily loaded with various emissions compared with the other. Some say that one would have to cover at least 70,000 miles to break even. They don’t say ‘no emissions at time of use – we’ve done it all up front’.
I’ve been running petrol hybrids for several years, and they do a good job, but the obsession with cutting down on CO2 emissions has been around for a long time now. About 11 years ago, there was variable road tax, which was down to zero for a car that produced less than 100 g/km. At that time, the diesel engine Honda Civic achieved that under the formal tests (with specific tyres on), so the road tax was zero. I had to declare to the DVLA that I had paid nothing every year to keep it taxed. The official figure for my current Toyota hybrid is almost exactly the same – 98 g/km, but the variable road tax regime was abolished a few years ago for new cars.
Older cars will be kept on the road for longer than previously. A near neighbour’s son runs a 2008 Ford Fiesta. Large dents and scrapes all over and the front grill and valance and wings are visibly held together with cable ties – I helped him do it so he could get the car home after yet another bump. It seems to smoke quite badly when it drives off. Somehow it has passed its MOT recently. I don’t know for sure but it wouldn’t surprise me if favours were exchanged.
The article mentions the second hand market holding back sales of new EVs but it’s referring to sales of second hand EVs. Keeping really shonky old ICE cars on the road keeps the second hand market cheap enough to undermine EV sales.
I don’t suppose our neighbour will be in the market for an EV any time soon.
Personally I run a 2004 petrol car which I maintain in good condition. I hope to keep it until I give up driving and that it will then be worth having for someone else.
You cannot force people to believe a narrative when their very own eyes and experiences tell them a contradictory story and they’re essentially being told they must deny reality. A reality that the political class, for the most part, don’t have to deal with because ‘elites’ do not move in the same circles as ordinary citizens do. For the majority there’s no trust in the government ( regardless of party ) or the MSM ( the scamdemic saw to that ) and what’s happening now is the natural conclusion of a slow-motion train wreck that’s been happening for a lot of years. Cracking down further, in true authoritarian style, on free speech and increasing censorship is only going to cause more resistance, distrust and rioting.
Matt Goodwin wrote a great piece about what’s happening to society now;
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command”, so wrote George Orwell in his classic book 1984. This is the quote that came to mind as I watched Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Labour government struggle to respond to protests that erupted after three girls were brutally murdered by the son of Rwandan migrants.
But why this quote?
Because that’s exactly what Keir Starmer and much of the elite class are now asking us to do —reject the evidence of our eyes and ears.
When Keir Starmer first responded to the protests, he could have made it crystal clear that while there is absolutely no place for violence, his government does understand why so many people are so utterly frustrated and fed-up with the state of Britain.
He could have made the point that while everybody in Britain opposes violence it is clear that many people also hold legitimate concerns about the failure of successive governments to control the borders, lower migration, and maintain law and order.
Had he spoken to protestors, it would have become immediately obvious to Starmer and his team that this was not just about mindless violence or even the tragic events in Southport; it is chiefly about people’s concerns over legal and illegal immigration.
And after clips of marauding Muslim gangs attacking white people went viral, both Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper could also have made it clear that the rule of law will be applied equally, to all groups, irrespective of race and religion.
But they chose not to do that.
Which is why so many people are now even more disillusioned with what they feel is not just a Labour government but an elite class that is deeply biased and out-of-touch with the rest of the country; a class that is more interested in criticising and attacking the British majority than addressing the reasons they feel so utterly disillusioned.
Unlike Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper, and much of the ruling class, most normal people in this country know full well that these protests do not begin and end with “far-right thuggery”. Only an elite class that has become dangerously disconnected from the rest of the country would see the protests through this incredibly narrow and warped lens.
These narratives are a coping mechanism for an elite that is visibly struggling to make sense of what is unfolding around it, explanations that help it make sense of these troubling and shocking events but which make little sense to everybody else.”
https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/no-this-is-not-just-far-right-thuggery
Short clip of Matt talking on GB News;
”What you are seeing -in the attacks on people like me- is a concerted effort by the elite class that created this mess to “manage” the debate and shut down dissent. Don’t fall for it. We need to radically change the way this country is governed.”
https://x.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1820581019822522682
He’s getting attacked online by people like Tim Montgomerie;
”There really is something sulphurous about Matt Goodwin.
Incendiary views.
Suspect opinion polls.
Massive self-obsession.
British public life would be so much better without him.”
https://x.com/montie/status/1820201530256990453
Mass immigration, which began under Blair, is the problem.
Cessation of mass immigration and assimilation through education is the solution. Michaela free school, Ms Birbalsingh, show the way forward.
Starmer, voted in by about 12% of the population, is in favour of mass immigration and against free schools.
Britain now requires a referendum on ECHR membership, net zero and proportional representation.
86% of those who voted chose to vote for parties that support, explicitly or implicitly, mass immigration – Tory, Labour, Greens, Lib Dems, SNP, the Welsh lot, Sinn Fein. Decades of the “anti-racism” message being pushed have done their job. There will no referenda and mass immigration will continue in the UK and most other rich world countries until their cultures and our civilisations have been destroyed.
“These narratives are a coping mechanism for an elite that is visibly struggling to make sense of what is unfolding around it, explanations that help it make sense of these troubling and shocking events but which make little sense to everybody else.”
This might be part of the explanation. But we should also suspect that Starmer and Cooper might simply be following orders from above to stoke the fire, in order to give them some notional justification for introducing authoritarian measures, like on-line censorship, ID cards and the ability to label protesters and rioters as “terrorists”.
Michael,
Exactly. I have just posted the same without reading your commendable comment.
Thanks HP – just read your version, which is much more eloquent and on point than mine.
Matt Goodwin always comes up short because he still views the world through a pre C1984 lens. He refuses to acknowledge that the reset started in March 2020 and believes the myth of current Government mishandling. There is NO mishandling. Kneel and his bunch of pirates are acting under WEF orders. The chaos on the streets is deliberate, two tier policing is deliberate, the lack of policing when it suits is deliberate.
Government policy is intended to increase tensions and violence. Yvette Cooper is going to disperse migrants across the country. The reality is that she intends to place incendiary bombs throughout the nation in the expectation – with a little help – that these will explode. Kneel and Co are aiming for martial law, lockdowns and “papers please.”
Wake up Matt.
All this two-tier Keir stuff just feeds the establishment propaganda BS that politics is alive and kicking. Remember – and some people have incredibly short memories – two-tier policing, and two-tier government narratives, went on under the nose of the Con Servatives who actively promoted it. Even Farage has called for the Army to be brought in to crush a populist revolt. What we are experiencing will not be fixed by our current system, because what we have is a single, unified elite class who masquerade as different political classes but who are, in reality, all within a gnats cock of each others beliefs – those beliefs centre around a two tier society which is based upon a bastardised form of Marxism (I’m no fan of Marx btw), which will put the elite capitalist’s in complete control of the people; what we must do, how we must do it, what we must say, what we must think. The romantic notion that an establishment-approved Farage-type will sweep in and save the day is absolutely cuckoo.
Agreed. Whereas, in the US, I do think the system does allow a non-establishment non-globalist to become President and, potentially, make massive changes. Similarly, the US constitution, including the separation of federal and state authorities, provides significant protection for the man on the street.
True, but the US system is pretty good at hamstringing, prosecuting and, potentially, killing such a president. They make up for their incomplete success by jailing his followers on trumped(!) up charges, using solitary confinement and long delays in due process to discourage any such election in the future.
Agreed. My heart goes out to the J6ers who were treated as domestic terrorists simply for being in attendance at the Capitol on J6. Truly appalling and evil behaviour by all those who enabled this to happen – including Biden, Obama, Clinton … the list goes on and on. Part of the reason the 2024 Presidential Election is so high-stakes is that many of these people could legitimately (and deservedly) end off in jail if Trump wins. Which is why they will do everything in their power to stop him being elected, including assassination and suspending the election, if necessary.
Also true, but the US system also provides the right of citizens to bear arms. That right allows them to overthrow a corrupt system. The issue in the US, as it is in the UK, is the divide of the people – split pretty much straight down the middle. That’s their real stroke of genius – dividing the people before enacting totalitarianism.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/08/05/the-grotesque-rise-of-white-identity-politics/
Tom Slater on the money again.
FFS what planet is this muppet on? Myopic, ignorant and deliberately disingenuous. This article is up there with Brendan O’Neill’s piece calling for mandatory “vaccines” of health care workers.
Appalling.
Erm. Very poetic.
I didn’t know Demons slept at all or that they actually have their own fires which are not always on or that once they are lit that they are pretty much guaranteed to spread beyond the immediate environment of the demon.
It sounds decidedly mediaeval.
And this is what ethnic conflict is like? Right. Got it.
“The appalling scenes of violence across the country cannot be allowed to happen again”
Again?
Do you seriously think it’s over Nick Timothy?
“The grotesque rise of white identity politics” – In Spiked, Tom Slater explores how multicultural sectarianism helped to kindle the racist carnage on our streets”
It’s not racism!
The British people are not racist! Their just fed up with being ignored!
“Disorganised uprisings have few prospects of realising their political goals and are often a gift to the regime, says Eugyppius on his Substack.”
Wrong! What do you suggest then Eugppius? a vote maybe?
Exactly. Here’s a great quote on this from the DM comments:
“To be fair, the people of this country have been very tolerant. We’ve seen murders, bombings, grooming gangs, teachers still in hiding. We’ve prayed for the victims, candles lit, songs and speeches. Communities flooded with illegal immigrants and the ramifications of such we have to tolerate. Anyone who does not have to deal with this really should not condemn when people have had enough, and the politicians should be forced to live amongst it.”
“The grotesque rise of white identity politics” by Tom Slater, editor of Spiked
Talk about “grotesque”! What a nauseating Anti-White article, that could easily have been written by Yvette Cooper or Kneeling Starmer.
“Race riots are the logical endpoint of identity politics”
Paul Joseph Watson said,
“How would one characterise a sustained government policy over the course of decades, which no one wanted, no one ever voted for, namely the accelerated importation, at great cost to the public, both financially and in terms of their safety, of millions of people who despise us?
A government policy that has turned large areas of towns and cities into unrecognisable, crime-ridden hellholes.
Is that not extremist in nature, too?”