- “Half of Tory voters want to quit European Convention on Human Rights” – An opinion poll for the Telegraph reveals that half of Conservative voters believe the U.K. should leave the European Convention on Human Rights.
- “The Tories deserve our contempt” – A party can leap over disappointment and rage; contempt is a much higher hurdle to clear, writes Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
- “Angela Rayner is getting a taste of her own medicine” – Politicians’ tax arrangements are now treated as a window into their souls, says Lauren Smith in Spiked.
- “Demographics are destiny. Britain must reform public services – or face catastrophe” – An ageing population demands honesty. From benefits reform to foreign aid, it’s time to abandon the old consensus, writes Neil O’Brien in the Telegraph.
- “Homeowners face unsellable properties threat from rise of ‘desktop surveyors’” – The rise in banks using property surveyors who are working from home risks leaving homeowners trapped in homes they cannot sell, reports the Telegraph.
- “Town hall fat cats are bursting at the seams” – Given how much council tax we pay, we have a right to know how that cash is being spent, says Joanna Marchong in CapX.
“Sale of mobile phones to under-16s may be banned” – Ministers are considering banning the sale of mobile phones for all under 16 year-olds, reports the Express. - “Bring back the culture of debate!” – The Guernica debacle shows how far removed we are from robust disagreement, writes Ross Barkan in Persuasion.
- “U.K. pharma companies told to make fewer drugs in draft Net Zero guidelines” – In recent draft guidelines for businesses, pharmaceuticals companies were told to make fewer drugs for the sake of the environment, reports the Telegraph.
- “Millions paid out for mandated Covid vax injuries just the tip of the iceberg?” – On Substack, Rebekah Barnett comments on a rise in compensation claims for vaccine injuries in Australia.
- “RFK Jr. leaves Chris Cuomo speechless for two minutes straight” – Independent presidential hopeful Robert Kennedy Jr. appeared on NewsNation and dropped a shocking truth bomb live on air that everyone needed to hear, says the Vigilant Fox on Substack.
- “How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could doom Joe Biden” – RFK Jr.’s popularity appears to be a function of name recognition and a general lack of enthusiasm for President Joe Biden, writes Adrian Carrasquillo in Politico.
- “Poland pushes ahead with hardline hate speech law” – Only a year ago, it would have been unthinkable for Poland to propose a law that would imprison people for hate speech against LGBT people. Yet that’s exactly what happened, says Michal Kranz in UnHerd.
- “Why Justin Trudeau is turning against immigration” – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is getting desperate, writes Michael Taube in the Spectator.
- “The truth about the Rwandan genocide” – It has now been 30 years since the Rwandan genocide, and an opportunity to assess the tenure of one of Africa’s most controversial leaders, says Michela Wrong in the Spectator.
- “Why humanity is good for the natural world” – Greens are suppressing the good news about the effect of humans on the environment, writes Matt Ridley in Spiked.
- “Children must not be rushed to change gender, report warns” – A new report says that children who say they’re transgender may actually have mental health issues, according to the European Conservative.
- “‘Tickle v. Giggle’: the case forcing Australian courts to decide ‘what is a woman?’” – A landmark case underway in Australia could set a legal precedent for the resolution of conflicts between gender identity claims and sex-based rights, reports Jason Osborne in Gript.
- “Four-day week could be racist, report suggests” – A Welsh Government report suggests that four-day weeks could be racist because they discriminate against ‘frontline’ public sector workers, according to the Telegraph.
- “No, ethnic minorities are not put off by the Union flag” – Labourites are woefully out of touch with ethnic-minority Brits, says Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
- “Wolf Hall is back – but casting a mixed-race British-Egyptian as my ancestor Thomas Wyatt is absurd” – Diverse casting must have a logical grounding; in an adaptation of a novel like Wolf Hall, which prides itself on historical authenticity, it makes no sense, argues Petronella Wyatt in the Telegraph.
- “Psychiatrist warning as physically healthy woman seeks assisted suicide in Dutch case” – A leading Irish psychiatrist warns against legalising assisted suicide in Ireland, in light of a high-profile case from the Netherlands involving a physically healthy 28 year-old woman, according to Gript.
- “Women could be sued if they divulge ‘red flags’ about men on Facebook” – Female members of a Facebook group, where women expose red flags about men they’ve dated, face potential lawsuits for posts containing false and damaging allegations, reports the Mail.
- “Hollywood producers wanted a female James Bond before Sean Connery was cast” – A new Ian Fleming biography reveals that producers wanted a woman to play 007 before Sean Connery was cast, in order to make the character less “unbelievable” and “stupid”, according to GB News.
- “‘I’ve been at NPR for 25 years. Here’s how we lost America’s trust’” – In the Free Press, Uri Berliner, a veteran staffer at NPR, says the network lost its way when it started telling listeners what to think.
- “‘Pulling down statues is national, moral suicide’” – On Triggernometry, historian Andrew Roberts gives his frank opinion on the pulling down of statues of America’s Founding Fathers.
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What’s really going on?
‘Pipeline explosions, Krokus, Orsk, bridge collapse – these events are caused by entropy, the physical impossibility of a regime rotten by decades of corruption and now completely occupied with a senseless war to control the situation over such a large territory. These events will occur more frequently, they will be just as unpredictable, and incompetent authorities will not be able to prevent them. In reality, we can already make a bingo card of such potential disasters. Forest fires, further destruction of infrastructure, plane crashes…………
Those who think that this state will be able to “win the war” and keep the captured territory under strict control are mistaken.’
That is how this war (never) ends….yet another region in perpetual chaos….refugees….immigration…….crime….drugs….arms smuggling……intercontinental terrorism…….unless and until…….
That choice, due to the incompetence, pusillanimity, shallow, self interested, anti military, anti defence, (Clintonesque) permanent electioneering, short termism of our own politicians now lies outside the continent (Europe) where all those problems actually manifest themselves. Europe, Britain, cannot save itself. How utterly pathetic.
If you wish for peace, then prepare for war…..precisely what we have not done…….
Once again, only the U.S.A. can save Europe but, this time, they are not inclined so to do and who can blame them?
I don’t agree with you on a few accounts, Monro. Firstly, the phrase “If you wish for peace, prepare for war” – sorry but that’s ludicrous. If you want peace – and we could have had it by now, you prepare for peace. You initiate talks, you promote discussion. You look for common ground. What you don’t do is carry on sending arms and money (the money just ends up in the bank accounts of the arms manufacturers anyway who are mainly owned by companies like Blackrock) to the area of conflict. It just carries on the tragedy for both sides and, as always in wars, it’s the poor saps who get sent to the front to die needless, painful deaths that suffer. We all know what this is although you keep telling us what is going on. Maybe you do know something, I don’t pretend to but I think I have a good grasp on how you stop wars: you engage in a peace process. The Ukraine War could be a massive smokescreen for installing a one world government while impoverishing the west and getting them ready for massive food shortages, energy hikes, plagues (!!) etc. Other wars are waiting in the wings – Serbia, Iran, Armenia. The Gaza conflict just numbs us to more death and destruction and it’s always somewhere else. The USA are just playing their part in the destruction of the west – they’re currently dismantling their own stability although having semi-autonomous states, having a shared sovereignty, it might prove difficult. Being so called democracies, we are the ones who could stand against the cabal pushing the one world government. If we fall, it all falls.
Great comment Aethelred. As we know, Russia has, from the start and consistently since, been open to peace talks, but because it doesn’t fit the West’s neocon agenda of destroying Russia at all costs so they can nick their resources, it’s been resisted and resisted. All while normal Ukranians are sacrificed, economies crash and MIC investors get even richer. Vomit-inducing megalomaniac insanity.
Two examples as to why it is not a great comment
1961 ‘The British ambassador to Iraq, Sir Humpfrey Trevelyan, informed the Foreign Office about rumors circulating in Baghdad that Qasim was concentrating troops in the Basra area only 40 miles away from the Kuwaiti border. On 27 June 1961 Trevelyan warned that Qasim might plan to attack Kuwait on 14 July, on the third anniversary of the Iraqi Revolution. The British reaction to Trevelyan’s warnings was quick and decisive: in a series of meetings of the Cabinet Defense Committee chaired by Macmillan on 29 and 30 June it was decided that only a British military intervention could prevent the annexation of Kuwait and that British troops (an armoured brigade) should therefore be sent to Kuwait immediately.’
‘1971…..Great Britain completed its withdrawal from the Persian Gulf……and the British commitment to defend Kuwait were formally terminated.’
1990 Kuwait invaded by Iraq
May 1981 ‘The [defence cuts programme] has been devised ad hoc in two months,” he wrote. “It has neither been validated nor studied in depth. No alternative options have been considered. It has all been done in a rush. Such unbalanced devastation of our overall defence capability is unprecedented; it must cause serious doubts concerning US reactions in the context of your own conventional assurance and successful negotiation of the Trident project so important to our country.’
“We are on the brink of a historic decision. War seldom takes the expected form and a strong maritime capability provides flexibility for the unforeseen. If you erode it to the extent envisaged I believe you will undesirably foreclose your future options and prejudice our national security.”
Admiral Sir Henry Leach
His note was copied to the defence secretary, John Nott, who also received warnings from (Foreign Secretary, Lord) Carrington about the risks of withdrawing the icebreaker HMS Endurance.
Carrington said the vessel “plays a vital role in both political and defence terms in the Falkland Islands, [its] dependencies and Antarctica … Any reductions would be interpreted by both the islanders and the Argentines as a reduction in our commitment to the islands and in our willingness to defend them.”
April 1982 Argentinian forces invaded the Falkland islands.
If you wish for peace, then prepare for war.
Thank you, WW!
Thoughtful, inciteful, measured. One of your best Aethelred
Thanks, HP!
Everyone is done talking since the 2022 invasion.
Putin had Crimea and peace after his 2014 invasion.
Discussions, for Ukraine, are over. No-one has, can have, any confidence in Putin’s word. He is a relic from the Soviet past where the only principle of foreign policy is expediency.
‘“I don’t think he’s a madman at all and everyone always says that about leaders whose motivations and culture they don’t understand,” Montefiore said.
“He’s not crazy at all, he’s projecting a vision of Russia that he was brought up with that many people in Russia still adhere to – a vision of the Russian state as an empire that has to expand, and expansion is how you judge leaders,”
93% of voters in Ukraine voted for independence in 1991.
They will never give up so, if they lose the land war, they will resort to international terrorism. As I say, another region lawless, in chaos, because Putin simply does not have the resources to control a country the size of Ukraine. Whack a mole is a game not a counter insurgency strategy
If we do not support Ukraine, Moldova will be next, then the Suwalki corridor, Polish territory, cutting off the Baltic States and creating a new iron curtain from Kaliningrad to Odessa.
You may think that is a great idea, peace in our time, but those closer to the action do not. That is why Poland is buying 1250 tanks. That means a war between Russia and NATO, a war that will go nuclear…….
Yes, Serbia is also waiting for its chance to move into Kosovo, if emboldened by Russian success in Ukraine. Potentially, China will also invade Taiwan under the same set of circumstances.
There is only one state interested in one world government, one world state….and that state is called Russkiy Mir:
‘Putin’s Russia grants itself with the messianic title of the vanquisher of absolute evil – and with the opportunity to fight against what it considers fascism again.
Systemic cultural appropriation also adds to the picture. It enables the portrayal of formerly colonized (by the USSR) states as having a poor culture, which is partially appropriated and partially discredited, while “Russkiy Mir” is pictured as a culturally rich opposite.
The Kremlin consistently discredits pro-democratic policies in target societies, employing disinformation and promotion of destructive narratives, then attempting to offer “Russkiy Mir” as an appealing alternative to such policies.’
Coming to a town near you in due course……..
War can only end in tears. Tears of all the families affected. Of course the arms manufacturers’ families and the bankers’ families and the politicians’ families will probably be unaffected so they can go on making bold and dangerous (and meaningless) pronouncements. It’s ‘our duty’ and we must ‘defend democracy’ etc but it’s business really. A very lucrative business.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not talking about appeasement which you infer with your ”You may think that is a great idea, peace in our time, but those closer to the action do not.” comment. Peace and appeasement are two different things. Peace is a negotiated process, appeasement is lying down and having your tummy scratched and hoping you won’t get beaten. I don’t doubt you read a lot about this conflict but I don’t think that arming yourself to the teeth and preparing for more war is the way to end the war. One day it might be but what would Ukraine look like then? An empty radiated desert?
Trite truisms butter no parsnips! Too late for that; much too late.
This stuff about arms manufacturers is dated nonsense. The big money, as we have seen, is in the pharma and green scams. Do you even know what happened to defence stocks just yesterday (Goldman Sachs defence index down 7.5% in one day)?
I know that arming ourselves, reinstating the conventional deterrent in Europe that we had until 1991, will deter war. Many of us spent a great deal of time and energy doing exactly that, and it worked. I eyeballed East German ‘goons’ in their watchtowers with their guard dogs, land mines, barbed wire and machine guns. Any adventurist expansionism then and we would have had them for breakfast, and they knew it.
You are deluding yourself if you think Putin has any intention of accepting a negotiated peace unless temporarily, out of expediency.
Putin invaded Ukraine in 2014.
He was allowed to get away with it, despite the security assurances given to Ukraine in return for that country surrendering its nuclear warheads in 1994.
He has already had his chance for peace.
He made his intentions crystal clear by invading Ukraine again in 2022.
We know exactly what he is up to from documentary evidence, strategic planning documents from inside the Kremlin.
Why not read up on the subject?
Montefiore, who has a great depth of knowledge regarding Russia (his biography of Stalin, and much else, is well worth a read) is absolutely correct.
‘And I do think he just felt now is his time to take his place in history, to join Peter the Great and Stalin and based on poor intelligence he gambled for it and I think he didn’t think it was as big a gamble.”
‘The war could last a long time; despite Ukrainian courage and Zelensky’s charisma, Russian force will advance.’
‘Russian rulers are normally destroyed by palace coups…..’
I think it was both Putin AND Zelensky who wanted to talk peace until we (Johnson) scuppered it. Peace is better than no peace at all.
Zelensky’s charisma? The man is a puppet of NATO and America. It’s a pantomime.
Whether Russia is just playing its part in a huge drama, I don’t know. They are certainly interested in things like CBDCs. They still attend G7/G20 meetings. They still have embassies in the US and UK. Who knows what is going on, really going on. I doubt it’s us.
A reality check
Neither Putin, nor Zelensky want peace, other than for reasons of expediency.
Peace without reclaiming 1991 Ukrainian borders is, for Zelensky, almost certain death, one way or another.
Peace, for Putin, would give rise to feelings of inadequacy:
“At the age of 69, Stalin had conquered the whole of eastern Europe, conquered Berlin, made Russia a nuclear superpower and industrialised Russia and Putin had just taken the Donbas – a few Godforsaken rust-belt towns in eastern Ukraine.’
Montefiore
Look: we know, from documentary evidence, what Putin is up to.
What documentary evidence do you have?
G7/G20 meetings are pantomime.
Zelensky’s charisma? Let us not give ourselves airs. You haven’t met him. I certainly have not met him. Charisma relies on personality, not electricity; you have to see it first hand to know it.
Probably Montefiore has not met him, but he will know many that have…..and Montefiore’s research is excellent………
Meanwhile others are not so reticent:
IRGC
‘CENTCOM reported that the US government transferred over 5,000 AK-47s, machine guns, sniper rifles, RPG-7s and over 500,000 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition to the Ukrainian military. CENTCOM stated that it obtained these munitions on December 1, 2023 through a Department of Justice (DoJ) civil forfeiture claim opened against the IRGC in July 2023. CNN reported that CENTCOM had already transferred over one million rounds of seized IRGC ammunition to Ukraine as of October 2023′
CCP
‘China and Russia have increased space cooperation and that China has given Russia microelectronics, optics, machine tools for tanks, and propellants for missiles. Bloomberg reported that White House National Security Council Spokesperson Adrienne Watson said that China has also provided Russia with nitrocellulose — an intermediary good used in producing gunpowder and explosives — and turbojet engines. Bloomberg reported that China is also providing Russia with geospatial intelligence, including satellite imagery which the Russian military likely uses to support military operations in Ukraine.’
Belarus
The Lukashenka regime has initiated the suspension of Belarus’s participation in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE). On one hand, this will prevent the transfer of information to Western countries about the numerical strength and assets of the Belarusian army. On the other hand, it will hide from Western inspectors and verifiers the activities related to the armed forces’ preparation for entering a war.
Russia uses chemical weapons
‘Russian forces have used chlorine, chloropicrin, and possibly even hydrogen cyanide substances against Ukrainian forces. The Ukrainian Support Forces Command stated on April 5 that Ukrainian forces had recorded 371 cases of Russian forces using munitions containing chemical substances during March 2024 alone and 1,412 cases of Russian forces using chemical weapons between February 2023 and March 2024. The Russian 810th Naval Infantry Brigade acknowledged in a now-deleted post that elements of the brigade deliberately used K-51 grenades with CS gas on Ukrainian positions near Krynky in the east (left) bank of Kherson Oblast in December’
2023.Gagauzia–PSB
‘Kremlin may hope to use pro-Russian political parties in Moldova and the PSB payments to Gagauzia in similar tactics to influence Moldova’s upcoming elections, particularly the presidential election in late 2024 and parliamentary elections in the summer of 2025.’
What’s really happening?
It’s all happening, while Europe continues to stick its head where the sun don’t shine………
Chemical weapons, that old canard – its Syria all over again. Where is independently corroborated evidence of the victims, why is it being raised now and not when evidence allegedly first appeared, and why has Ukraine not lodged a formal complaint with the ICC or ICJ for war crimes if it’s true?
It was reported that chemical weapons were being used daily to target Ukrainian positions near Lyman and Chasiv Yar in Donetsk Oblast. The source of this information was purportedly an “American combat medic” serving in the ranks of the Ukrainian armed forces. That detail alone raises suspicion of planted disinformation. …
The Western media claims that Russia is resorting to chemical weapons are also absurdly illogical. Why would Russia need to use such a weapon when it is already gaining the strategic upper hand in the war? …
Russia has no need – even if it had chemical weapons – to use them when it is decimating NATO’s proxy army of the NeoNazi Ukrainian regime.
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/04/09/desperados-nato-cranks-up-false-flag-mode/
‘Chemical weapons, that old canard’
Canard means, in this sense: ‘an idea or a piece of information that is false.’
But, in the French language, of course, it means ‘a duck’
‘The 810th Naval Infantry Brigade stated on its Telegram channel on December 22 that the brigade is using a “radical change in tactics” against Ukrainian forces in Krynky (on the eastern bank of Kherson Oblast) by dropping K-51 grenades from drones onto Ukrainian positions. K-51 aerosol grenades are filled with irritant CS gas (2-Chlorobenzalmalononitrile), a type of tear gas used for riot control (also known as a Riot Control Agent [RCA]), which the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) prohibits as a method of warfare.’
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and the Russians themselves tell you that they are using a duck…….
Oh! And the Syrians told us as well….
‘July 23, 2012: Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi confirmed for the first time that Syria has chemical weapons……..
Save the Whale Kill Wind Turbines – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, including your local Reform Party candidate, your local vicar, media and friends online.
Or maybe – and, warning, this is such radical thinking that’ll it’ll put some people into a state of frozen, trembling, shock – it’s because they’re children; children having to have their pliable minds twisted and confused by the new normal, endlessly fed to them, that gender is mutable. Maybe that’s worth considering too?
Yes the London mayor elections will be interesting won’t they? Shall we bother placing our bets or is it a foregone conclusion? Despite us knowing the facts ( which are backed up by the latest Met crime stats ) that since he became mayor ‘Khanage’ has ensued in London in the form of stabbings and muggings, I fully expect him to remain at the helm, purely because he’ll have the votes of the Muslims and the Woketards. Anyone who speaks out against these ideologies hasn’t got a cat in hell’s chance, not with the demographics of London nowadays;
”A murder investigation has been launched after a woman was found in her home with stab wounds in Westminster.
Officers were contacted on Sunday by friends of the woman who were worried about her safety.
Police forced entry to her address in Stanhope Place, near Hyde Park, in Bayswater, at around 8.30am on Monday and found her dead.
No arrests have been made at this time.”
https://news.sky.com/story/murder-investigation-launched-after-woman-found-stabbed-in-her-home-13111245
P.S They caught that Bradford murderer. He’d arrived in the country two years ago from Bangladesh and was known to the police because he’d previously attacked and threatened the victim, who had an injunction out on him. He won’t get deported, of course, because ”human rights”.
”When people show you who they are, believe them”.
I’m having second thoughts about these so-called ‘moderates’. They’re like an army just lying in wait. Strength in numbers, which are ever growing. Well they’re not exactly making a secret of their objectives are they? It’s all about jihad, conquest and subjugation, by whatever means necessary. A snippet of Khan voters here, and this is just some of the women.
https://twitter.com/AvonandsomerRob/status/1777027693587972455
Sadiq Khan on track for re-election as London Mayor, according to poll | ITV News London
“Sadiq Khan is on course for a landslide re-election and unprecedented third term as Mayor, according to a new poll for ITV News, London.
The poll of 1,019 Londoners by Survation revealed the incumbent Labour mayor on 44% of the vote, with his Conservative rival, Susan Hall, on 26% – eighteen points behind.
The Liberal Democrats’ Rob Blackie, and Zoe Garbett, the Green Party candidate, are level on 7%, with Reform UK’s Howard Cox on 5%.
If those results are replicated in the Mayoral Election on 2nd May, Mr Khan will become the first mayor in history to be elected for a third time in office at City Hall.”
Most of my work colleagues and former friends and acquaintances are middle class London lefties who will vote Khan, and I guess he’s popular with non-white people as Labour tend to be, for reasons that are not always clear to me. Why anyone would vote for him is beyond me. I think a lot of people just vote Labour by default because they think Tories represent toffs wearing top hats or something.
Yes I can’t say I’m surprised. Depressing isn’t it?
What with the ever-worsening crime rate, the LTN nonsense, pro-immigration stance and the capitulation to the Muslim community as well as the Trantifa nutjobs….All I will say is that things would undoubtedly have been way better had women not been able to vote or enter politics. I mean, the state the UK is in now, that May and Truss have a LOT to answer for!



Having said that, when was the last female mayor of London?
It is depressing. Too many people addicted to the nanny state thinking that the state should solve all their problems and who think political leaders will be able to make everything great.
Chemical weapons, that old canard – its Syria all over again. Where is independently corroborated evidence of the victims?
It was reported that chemical weapons were being used daily to target Ukrainian positions near Lyman and Chasiv Yar in Donetsk Oblast. The source of this information was purportedly an “American combat medic” serving in the ranks of the Ukrainian armed forces. That detail alone raises suspicion of planted disinformation. …
The Western media claims that Russia is resorting to chemical weapons are also absurdly illogical. Why would Russia need to use such a weapon when it is already gaining the strategic upper hand in the war? …
Russia has no need – even if it had chemical weapons – to use them when it is decimating NATO’s proxy army of the NeoNazi Ukrainian regime.
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/04/09/desperados-nato-cranks-up-false-flag-mode/
I tend to agree, if a side starts accusing the other of using banned or sinister weapons, that side is usually losing!
Unless the side that is being accused admits that it is guilty?
‘The 810th Naval Infantry Brigade stated on its Telegram channel on December 22 that the brigade is using a “radical change in tactics” against Ukrainian forces in Krynky (on the eastern bank of Kherson Oblast) by dropping K-51 grenades from drones onto Ukrainian positions.
K-51 aerosol grenades are filled with irritant CS gas
(2-Chlorobenzalmalononitrile), a type of tear gas used for riot control (also known as a Riot Control Agent [RCA]), which the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) prohibits as a method of warfare.
Between the time of ISW’s data collection on December 23 and this December 24 update the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade’s Telegram edited the post to delete the specific reference to the K-51 grenade.
The original phrasing of the post, however, can be still observed on Russian social media accounts that posted screenshots of it, directly reposted the original acknowledgement (since edits to Telegram posts do not affect reposts of an unedited post), or archived the original post — all confirming that the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade did publish the use of K-51 grenades and then edited its post.
A Russian milblogger indirectly criticized the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade on December 22 for exposing a new tactic, which suggests that Russian forces may intend to deliberately use K-51s or other RCAs elsewhere along the front.
The Russian milblogger’s complaints or wider reporting about the acknowledgement may have prompted the 810th Naval infantry Brigade, or some Russian official to tell the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade, to edit the post.’
https://t.me/FilatovCorr/2495
Posted twice in error.
“The truth about the Rwandan genocide”
Well done to The Spectator and to the Daily Sceptic for featuring this astonishing article by Michela Wrong, telling the actual truth about the Rwandan genocide, which we in the West have been tricked into supporting the wrong side, just as in the Balkans.
It’s also a tale of “racism”— Just like the Fulani, the part-Arabic Tutsi elites with their lighter skin colour despising the Hutu African majority and trampling them underfoot for centuries. The Rwandan genocide was, in fact, a slave revolt by the Hutu Majority against their Tutsi slave-masters.
Please see:
Rwandan Revolution – Wikipedia
Rwandan President Kagame ‘sparked 1994 genocide’ – BBC News
RNC Leader Theogene Rudasingwa Testifies Against Rwandan Paul Kagame in Spanish High Court (afroamerica.net)
‘the actual truth’ – and then even quoting Wikipedia as a source!!
As a person with many Rwandan friends, of both ‘tribes’, I think it’s fair to say it’s considerably more nuanced than Michaela ‘Wrong’ says. Whatever the politics, one million Tutsi and moderate and educated Hutu were brutally murdered by their neighbours while the rest of the world stood back and did nothing – or worse, gave support to the killers. Never again?
Hypocrite! Your “one million Tutsi and others” comes from the Rwandan Constitution, written by the Arabic Tutsi Elite.
I don’t believe for a minute that you have “many Rwandan friends of both tribes”. You’re just a Tutsi Troll, and next you and your hero Kagame will be demanding “reparations” from as many western governments as you can, for “not doing enough” to protect the Arabic Minority Tutsi Elites so they could continue trampling upon the African Hutu Majority. The Tutsi seem to think they are pharoahs.
Wow such vitriol! Where’s the ‘laugh’ response button? How can you possibly not believe me for a minute? Do you know me???
I know a troll when I see one, hasbara.
I recall a conversation with a Rwandan Hutu in 1994/5 who painstakingly reviewed with me the population and casualties of every province of Rwanda from his knowledge and experience. There was persuasive reason for believing that the then stated figure for those killed – 800,000 – was significantly too low.
Your vitriol is not helpful.
“Vitriol”? If you call that vitriol, you might want to look at some of Mogwai’s foulmouthed posts after I dared to challenge her screaming rant calling all of us “anti-semitic” for not supporting Israel, and even accusing us of wanting to poison her (hence kosher paranoia). She went on & on for days afterward to her little clique, calling me a “b*tch” and foaming at the mouth. She’s calmed down now, posting informative comments again, though like some others here, nothing to do with the relevant articles.
That’s a relativistic response that addresses neither the non constructiveness of you tone and arguments, nor the main point I posted.
It’s a perfectly just response. I didn’t complain to DS or respond to all the nasty comments hurled at me and about me by Hasbara Mogwai, so do not presume to lecture me about my “tone”.
Shame on you! This is the Free Speech Union website.
Out of order.
In fact well out of order.
Get lost.
Your lack of civility and descent to ad hominem is a poor move which reflects badly on the Daily Sceptic and its venerable members. To outsiders looking in this is not a positive reflection of the genuine intelligence, compassion and decency which the subscribers have melded these last four years and would not be conducive to attracting potential members.
Robust opinions are fine, grotesque rudeness for the sake of is is not.
I read Michela Wrong’s articles on Rwanda from time to time. It’s difficult to judge about some of things she states. But her perspective of the genocide is definitly revisionist, taking the events of 30 years ago out of their context. The West, and the UN especially, stood by when they could have stopped the genocide. And then for years afterwards there were those bien pensants who criticised the Rwandan government for taking military action against those actually responsible for the genocide who were regrouping in the the refugee camps. The threat was real and the action seemed necessary to prevent further genocide. Wrong doesn’t grasp the realities on the ground at the time. And I note that she seems to think Churchill should have been tried for war crimes. Ahem
You sound like another supporter of Kagame’s latest bid to demand “reparations” from any western government stupid enough to listen to him. He’s as evil as they come.
“Revisionist”??? That’s what Marxists do. Michela Wrong is just telling the truth, defending the downtrodden African Hutus from the strutting Tutsi, just like their Fulani cousins busy slaughtering Christians, and she’s not taking anything “out of context”.
It wasn’t Churchill that should have been tried for war crimes, but Stalin’s secret mate, the Communist Traitor Clement Attlee, who colluded with Stalin to approve the Firebombing of Dresden behind Churchill’s back while he was on the way to Yalta, and later managed to shift all blame onto Churchill, who only found out about it in Yalta, when Stalin started gloating to his face.
“Why Justin Trudeau is turning against immigration”
Good article by Michael Taube in the Spectator, clearly showing Trudeau’s outrageous hypocrisy.
Suggested authors/books for non-woke 11+ aged boys. As our kids are getting older we have just about exhausted all the safe (non-woke) authors including Enid Blyton, Biggles, Ronald Welch, Michael Morpurgo, Roald Dahl, JK Rowling and Rick Riordan and wondered if anyone has some suggestions. Also by chance does anyone know of some new works/authors that are not woke or indoctrinating suitable for 11+ aged boys?
“The Call of the Wild.” And of course “White Fang.” Jack London.
Not new but classics.
“All Quiet on the Western Front.”
Charles Dickens.
Any John Wyndham.
“Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.” Alan Sillitoe.
‘Kes ‘ Barry Hines.
I read all these and hundreds more post 11.
Definitely ‘White Fang’.
This was the book lauded by Uncle Matthew in Nancy Mitford’s novel ‘The Pursuit of Love’
‘Uncle Matthew’ was a thinly disguised portrait of her father, Lord Redesdale.
‘I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It’s so frightfully good I’ve never bothered to read another.’