- “Kemi Badenoch, symbol of a changing Conservative party and country” – A sometimes tough upbringing in Nigeria helped give the new Tory leader the outsider status and combative personality that has helped her reach the top of politics, say Will Lloyd and Richard Assheton in the Sunday Times.
- “PM urged to take whip from Labour MP who shared ‘white supremacy’ post about Badenoch” – Keir Starmer has refused to remove the whip from a “race-baiting” Labour MP who shared a social media post accusing Kemi Badenoch of representing “white supremacy in blackface”, reports the Express.
- “Jeremy Clarkson says Labour is trying to ‘nationalise the countryside’” – Jeremy Clarkson says the Government’s new inheritance tax policy could be “the last straw for farmers who are already struggling to cope”, according to the Mail. (You can read Jeremy’s column in the Sunday Times here.)
- “‘We can’t afford to let farmers die tax-free’” – Rachel Reeves insists the nation cannot afford to let all farmers continue passing on their estates without paying inheritance tax, reports the Telegraph.
- “Farmer feared to have taken own life in his barn after Labour budget” – A farmer is said to have killed himself in a barn after his children were faced with a 20% inheritance tax bill, says the Mail.
- “James Dyson blasts Rachel Reeves’s ‘spiteful’ budget” – In the Times, Sir James Dyson warns Rachel Reeves that raising inheritance tax on farms and family businesses will be the “death of entrepreneurship”.
- “Rachel Reeves admits she was ‘wrong’ to say taxes did not have to rise” – Chancellor Rachel Reeves admits she was wrong to say during the election campaign that taxes would not have to rise, according to the Mail.
- “Michael Caine says Labour tax raids punish success” – Michael Caine has warned that higher taxes are going to “clobber ordinary people” who are trying to “have a better life”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Reeves under fire from Labour backbenchers over ‘impossible sell’ Budget” – Rachel Reeves is under fire from Labour backbenchers who say her Budget is “impossible to sell” on the doorstop to “horrified” constituents, according to the Telegraph.
- “The single mother suing over ‘discrimination’ of private schools VAT” – A single mother with three children at private school is bringing a legal challenge against the imposition of VAT on school fees, arguing it discriminates against women, reports the Sunday Times.
- “Government delayed Southport suspect terrorism charge over Chris Kaba riot fears, reports claim” – The Government delayed announcing new charges against the Southport stabbings suspect by up to two weeks amid fears of fresh riots, says the Telegraph.
- “‘Migrant hotel king’ rakes in £4.8 million a day” – The ‘king’ of Britain’s migrant hotels Graham King is raking in £4.8 million per day and may become a billionaire from the money earned through housing immigrants in the U.K., reports the Mail.
- “Met launches probe into protester with sign glorifying dead Hamas leader” – The Metropolitan Police have performed a dramatic U-turn and are now investigating a protestor carrying a sign glorifying former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar as a potential terrorism offence, says the Mail.
- “BBC newsroom is ‘out of control’, former director claims” – The BBC’s former Director of Television claims the newsroom is “out of control” and “biased” in its coverage of the Israel-Gaza war, reports the Mail.
- “The boycott of Israeli culture shows how dangerous the morally bankrupt West has become” – Mainstream and respectable groups are mobilising to explicitly target, isolate and ghettoise people associated with Jewish organisations, says Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
- “Authors are now having their own proxy war” – Sally Rooney and co’s cultural boycott of Israel reveals only their ignorance, writes Hadley Freeman in the Sunday Times.
- “Iran student strips in protest over strict hijab dress code” – Amnesty International has called on authorities in Iran to “immediately and unconditionally” release a female student who was arrested after stripping to her underwear as a public protest against harassment relating to the country’s strict dress code, reports the Guardian.
- “Great-grandfather left gasping for breath on hospital floor for hours” – A great-grandfather was left gasping for breath and crying out in pain as he was forced to spend 12 hours sleeping on a hospital floor, says the Mail.
- “CCC demands uneconomic deep cuts to emissions” – The Climate Change Committee is calling for an 81% cut in emissions by 2035, just as new data shows insulation payback times stretching into centuries, writes David Turver on his Eigen Values Substack.
- “Donald Trump will remove fluoride from tap water, says RFK Jr.” – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says Donald Trump will advise U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from public water if he wins the White House, according to Newsweek.
- “Kamala Harris takes unexpected lead over Donald Trump in Iowa” – Kamala Harris now leads Trump in Iowa – a startling reversal for Democrats who had all but written off the state’s presidential contest as a certain Trump victory, reports the Des Moines Register.
- “Kamala Harris and the rise of Progressive Nothing politics” – On Substack, Eugyppius explores Progressive Nothing politics and explains why he think Left-leaning candidates like Harris are facing a dismal future.
- “Women’s swim team who ousted trans athlete endorses Trump” – A Virginia college swim team joined Donald Trump on stage Saturday night as he rallied his supporters and called for barring transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports, reports the NY Post.
- “M&S trans row after advertising girls’ first bras for ‘young things’” – Marks and Spencer has apologised after advertising bras for teenage girls as being for “young things”, says the Express.
- “Why are churches burning across Canada? Weak response to religious arson has been alarming” – When churches burn across Canada, do they make a sound? The answer, sadly, seems to be no, says Terry Newman in the NY Post.
- “The crisis industry: how activists profit from panic” – On YouTube, John Stossel explores how activists profit by stoking fears about pollution, homophobia, racism and hate.
- “‘She’s one of our own… bring Emily home’” – On X, Sabrina Miller shares a video of Tottenham football fans chanting, “She’s one of our own, she’s one of our own, Emily Damari, bring Emily home” outside the stadium. British-Israeli hostage and devoted Spurs fan Emily Damari has been held captive by Hamas for almost one year and one month.
Tottenham football fans chant
— Sabrina Miller (@SabriSun_Miller) November 3, 2024‘She’s one of our own, she’s one of our own, Emily Damari, bring Emily home’
British-Israeli hostage and mega Spurs fan Emily Damari has been held by Hamas in captivity for almost 1 year and 1 month. pic.twitter.com/JtB4kEsdpc
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The resume suggests that the book is an important work and deserves to be widely read. Regrettably, our society is now so polarised – reason and the culture of discussion are now so corrupted – that the book will chiefly be preaching to the converted: only those already sympathetic to the argument will be likely to buy the book. Those who need to read it will steer clear. Still, the book will provide ample material for individuals wishing to alert the silent majority to the fact that society is going through a revolution as radical and as destructive as the Communist revolution which took over Russia and China. It’s frightening, and it’s frightening that people don’t perceive that this urge to ‘deconstruct’ western (i.e. Christian) civilisation is essentially the destruction of civilisation tout court.
They don’t perceive it so far for the simple reason that their sources of information have been slanted and the institutions they trust have been suborned. Beyond that, the shadow of illegality hangs over serious dissent with a host of lesser, informal penalties – ie, “debanking” – in the wings.
With everyone afraid, moreover, dissent is an excuse for ostracism; and because nobody likes admitting to living like a cowardly louse, those still comfortably inside the tent pretend that it is just as big as it was and pitched in much the same place, whereas in fact it has become a narrow and marginal indoctrination space.
Snobbery is very helpful here, for the isolated dissenter – jobless, impoverished, lonely – is easily made out as a failure or a “low-life”.
Worst of all, the process is multi-generational; all the coordinates of who is “in” or “out” have been subtly tuned towards Marxist insanity over decades. Look at the progress made in selling perverted, deviant and sterile forms of sexuality. From toleration of abnormalities we have been pushed in fifty years – as Lionel Shriver notes in the Spectator – towards the promotion of those abnormalities and beyond – into the emasculation of little boys and the equivalent mutilation of little girls.
Nothing can better reflect the left’s basic premise that reality and nature are illusions fostered by “ideology” from which it will “liberate” us – with the surgeon’s pitiless scalpel if necessary.
And at a deeper level, this is what happens when the life of the mind is so privileged over reality, nature, culture, feeling, the mass, the nation, tradition and family that it seeks to live not only independently of those structures, but actively against them. To answer the question so often posed among right wing thinkers – what has fathered “woke”, Liberalism or Marxism? – the answer is BOTH, for Marxism is what happens when Liberalism runs to seed.
I shall certainly be buying a copy of this book. Well done for writing it.
But if I may offer my own in-a-nutshell refutation of “woke”, it depends on a trick, which confuses identity with “supremacy” where whites are concerned; and allows pretensions to supremacy to masquerade as mere “identity” where non-whites are concerned.
And the supremacy / identity confusion is just one of woke’s lies; by “whiteness” the wokestapo in fact mean whites, a people whom they aim to destroy; by “fragility” they mean any white person’s attempt to resist defamation; by “positive” discrimination they mean discrimination and so on.
Their poisonous perversion of language and morals has seeped so deeply into the minds of the idiot “bourgeoisie” and our corrupt establishment that vicious brutality – such as that taking place in northern town against white girls, or that taking place in South Africa against white farmers – is ignored or even excused.
The left, intellectually bankrupt and infiltrated by fourth phase Marxism, is now no more than a gnostic and narcissistic exercise in self-mutilation. In its vile decadence, it has taken control and unless it is swiftly removed from power we are finished. In short, we need a new 1989 to remove a corrupt, Marxist uniparty from office and start the rescue of our civilisation.
They (until it happens to them personally) would typically hand wave and excuse away what is happening now in South Africa as “karma” for the past injustices of apartheid and imperialism, of course. But two wrongs do NOT make a right. Evil + Evil = Twice the Evil.
“But those big bad white folks started it!” is basically their argument. One that would have miserable failed the kindergarten (Reception) test. It’s NOT about who “started” it, but rather it is who is mature enough to stop it. The onus is on everyone to STOP THE MADNESS!
Also, “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”, according to the ultimate authority on very literal decolonization himself, Mahatma Gandhi. If you fight fire with fire, everyone ultimately gets burned.
“Decolonisation” has nothing to do with slavery or colonialism. It’s simply a war on white European people and culture, because white European people and culture have achieved so much more than everybody else, and continue to do so. I’m not saying this because I’m a white European, it’s just an observation based on people across the globe voting with their feet and coming to countries based on white European people and civilisation. “Decolonisation” and those who advocate it pose an existential threat to white European people and civilisation. The end of this will be ugly. I will be long dead, but it will be brutal and bloody.
I hate to agree with such a bleak and depressing outlook, but I’m afraid you may be right.
“Even King Charles argued that the history of transatlantic slavery should be given the same national importance as the Holocaust.”
Why? 6 million Jews and many others were murdered in the most callous and brutal way in less than 10 years. What is the similarity with the Atlantic Slave Trade? The Jewish populations of a few European countries was almost wiped out, while the black population on both sides of the Atlantic has only grown.
Maybe the 25 million Whites enslaved and murdered by the Musulmans can also be given the same importance as the Holocaust.
Can we decolonise the UK of Indians, Muslims, Asians and Africans? Or is that racist? Even if it is I don’t care. Why are Whites colonising parts of the world ‘racist’ and not the reverse? We can also conclude that decolonising curricula of whiteness is also racist given it attacks a skin colour and related culture. This is called a logical deduction.
Racism is the new anti-racism. Destroying your health is the new protecting your health. Abusing children is the new caring for children.
Self destruction is the new normal.
Who would want the west to self-destruct? That’s what we should be asking.
Follow the money.
As with Covid, Climate hysteria and transhumanist ideology, I don’t believe that any of this is organic. It’s an ingenious systematic disassembly of an entire culture by people who don’t think there’s any longer a place for western ideas.
This is what asymmetric warfare looks like.
We always believed that WW3 would be nuclear; in fact it’s biological and, as with critical race theory, psychological. Why bomb a country when you can get it to tear itself apart.
The figures and percentages quoted in this article come from the same provenance as all such – they chart the march of Puritanism. It’s a seesaw equation – for every extra percentage point of righteous indignation there’s an equal and opposite point lost to ‘having a laugh’. It’s a reminder of the famous definition of Puritanism: ‘the continuing suspicion that someone, somewhere, may be happy’.
Indeed, it is basically thinly-veiled, warmed-over Puritanism at best. With perhaps some neo-Victorianism thrown in for good measure as well. UGH.
White people are an invention of the American chattering classes, same as black people, by the way. Obsessed with their custom navel-gazing, they simply haven’t yet managed to understand that a world outside of the USA which is materially different from it exists and they wouldn’t want to know about, anyway. For an American university professor who genuinely believes US forces liberated Auschwitz where they found heaps of dead bodies, that is, who remembers that US forces liberated the starving inhabitants of some concentration camp after the people who had fed them were forced to flee because of said American forces, and who remembers that a concentration camp was called Auschwitz, hence, they must both be the same — Only small-minded people would worry about getting the names correct when the big picture is all that matters! — I may be a (privileged) white person. To someone from England, I’m an Are you Polish? guy, something the professor is quite unable to understand.
Decolonize the world! is a slogan of American and America-centered academics unwilling to accept the fact that the systematic American abuse of black Americans is their very own contribution to the history of human atrocities. The sons and daughters of God’s own country cannot be guilty themselves. They also certainly haven’t reintroduced aimless torture into the judical process and never burnt any witches!
BTW, has Puerto Rico meanwhile been decolonized? And how independent are the Philipines really? Asking for a friend …
There is only ONE race: the HUMAN race.
An inverted pyramid hierarchy of dominance is still a hierarchy of dominance, the same old “power over” dominator model of social interaction. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.