- “Emmanuel Macron calls shock snap national election after being hit by disaster in European Parliament vote” – Emmanuel Macron has called a snap national vote and dissolved parliament after his party was projected to come a distant second to Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in the European elections, according to GB News.
- “The European elections and the ascent of the Right” – The Right is winning. In France, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally will win twice as many votes as President Macron’s Renaissance, says Freddy Gray in the Spectator.
- “Scholz’s party faces defeat at EU elections in Germany” – The Mail reports that Germany’s leading party has suffered losses, while French hardliner Marine Le Pen is set for a massive win in the European elections.
- “German Right triumphs on bloodbath night for ruling coalition” – Members of Germany’s traditional parties in Germany will not sleep well following the results of elections to the EU Parliament, says Ralph Schoellhammer in UnHerd.
- “The European election revolt is real, but is it sustainable?” – The emerging picture from the 2024 EU Parliament elections seems to confirm earlier predictions of significant but not decisive “hard Right” gains, writes Gabriel Elefteriu in Brussels Signal.
- “Private school VAT may swell state school class sizes, admits Thornberry” – Emily Thornberry admits that Labour’s plan to charge VAT on private school fees risks increasing class sizes in the state sector, reports the Telegraph.
- “Suella Braverman urges Tories to embrace Nigel Farage” – The former Home Secretary Suella Braverman says there is “not much difference” between Reform’s policies and those of the Conservatives, according to the Times.
- “Starmer’s history of Left-wing views revealed” – Questions remain over the extent to which Keir Starmer has abandoned his Trotskyist beliefs, writes Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
- “Rishi Sunak losing will be a blessed relief” – The Conservatives should be put out of their misery, says Tim Dawson in the Critic.
- “Nigel Farage is wrong: if the Tories move Right, they will be out for 20 years” – The Conservatives cannot afford to turn ‘Faragiste’. As Labour learnt to its cost, elections are won from the centre, writes Kamal Ahmed in the Telegraph.
- “‘Why I’ll be voting Reform (reluctantly)’” – “I won’t be voting for Reform with any of the sense of joy that I did when I switched parties in 2019 to back Boris Johnson,” says Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
- “Meta to focus on censoring ‘misinformation’ and ‘hate speech’ ahead of U.K. election” – As the U.K. prepares for its General Election, Meta has announced a series of measures aimed at combating “misinformation” and “hate speech” on its platforms, writes Cindy Harper in Reclaim The Net.
- “The Observer view on Baillie Gifford sponsorship row: writing is on the wall for book lovers” – Now the investment fund Baillie Gifford is pulling out of literary festivals, what other sponsors will dare expose themselves to the scrutiny of Fossil Free Books? asks the Observer.
- “Spain is now Europe’s most despicable nation” – Madrid’s anti-Israel stance is shameful, rewarding Hamas and tying the hands of the Jewish state. Britain under Labour would follow suit, warns Richard Kemp in the Telegraph.
- “In the very best of hands” – On SteynOnline, Mark Steyn comments on the D-Day debacle and Europe’s looming demographic crisis.
- “How Sweden became a ‘haven’ for mafia gangs” – Over the course of one night last year, three people were killed in separate attacks in Sweden. The violence made global headlines, but to many in the country, it was no surprise, writes Chris Jewers in the Mail.
- “Narendra Modi is sworn in for a third time as India’s Prime Minister” – Narendra Modi has been sworn in for a third term as India’s PM after worse-than-expected election results left him reliant on coalition partners to govern, reports the Mail.
- “Starmer risks losing support for fighting climate change” – Labour’s plan for ‘cheap renewables’ means more pain for squeezed households, says Liam Halligan in the Telegraph.
- “New Zealand to lift oil drilling ban amid blackout fears in blow to Starmer” – New Zealand is expected to revoke a ban on drilling for oil and gas amid fears of blackouts, as Labour plans to impose a similar crackdown on the North Sea, reports Reuters.
- “Did the Aussie opposition leader just call for cancelling the Paris Agreement?” – Does “there’s no sense in signing up to targets you don’t have any prospect of achieving” translate to a commitment to dump Australia’s Paris obligations? wonders Eric Worrall in WUWT?
- “Reclaim the rainbow!” – Christians and social conservatives have been too slow in defending the ideas, traditions and culture which created the society we know and value, says Dr. Campbell Campbell-Jack in TCW.
- “The average age of my staff is 61 – they are dependable and trusting” – In the Mail, a businessman reveals that all the staff at his firm are above the age of 50, as he believes older workers have more “sense” and know how to get things done.
- “The radical Left website sabotaging research” – Aporia takes aim at the radical Left-wing website RationalWiki, which exploits its suspiciously high Google ranking to demean anybody who researches controversial topics and gets the “wrong” answers.
- “The EU is over-regulating AI” – In the Critic, Pieter Cleppe warns against prioritising caution and control over the economic and technological opportunities presented by AI.
- “David Boaz (1953-2024) – Champion of liberty” – The Cato Institute pays tribute to David Boaz, who turned Cato from a small organisation with a handful of employees, to a leading think tank in Washington with a global presence.
- “Green leader’s nuclear disaster” – On LBC, co-leader of the Green Party Carla Denyer gets mauled by host Lewis Goodall defending her party’s position on nukes.
Carla Denyer co leader of the Green Party is way out of her depth… trying so hard to defend their nuke policy.
— WeGotitBack
It’s embarrassing ! She is trying to compare it to carrying a knife pic.twitter.com/34GYxb7Qkt(@NotFarLeftAtAll) June 9, 2024
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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.