A new report has highlighted the U.K.’s deepening divide between the political Left and Right, marked by increasing polarisation and growing distrust of institutions. The Telegraph has more.
The research by Dame Sara Khan, the Government’s former counter-extremism tsar, found the U.K. had the highest levels of polarisation between the two groups outside the U.S.
She warned there was decreasing societal cohesion and resilience which was contributing to a permissive environment that extremists could exploit.
The percentage of people who viewed Muslims as having “completely different” values had increased from 38% to 44% following the summer riots after the Southport murder of three girls at a Taylor Swift dance class.
Around eight in 10 (80%) of Jews felt less safe in Britain than before the October 7th Hamas terror attack on Israel which claimed the lives of more than 1,200 people.
Forty-five per cent of those questioned said they almost never trusted the government to put the nation’s interests first, regardless of the party in power. This was up from 23% in 2020. Only 41% of people trusted their neighbours.
Out of 28 countries, the U.K. was the least trusting at 39%, down from 43% last year. The study published by Crest Insights, an independent think tank that specialises in the criminal justice system, found the UK had the least trust in the media.
Around 43% of people described Britain as “declining” and a further 25% said it was “weak”. …
One in 10 shared the views of people who engaged in violent disorder and rioting during the summer and had sympathy for the use of violence against refugees. Around 8% believed violent protest outside refugee accommodation was justified.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: If we are to start with an honest analysis of the real and damaging divisions within our society, we cannot simply point the finger, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
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Very thought provoking.
What will be interesting to see is how this all plays out, now that wokeness is bleeding over from academia to the general population through its adoption by corporations.
It’s not completely obvious to me whether the high-low coalition will be as effective in the general population where you might expect the views of “ordinary people” to have more weight. I’m assuming the proportions of high and low in the general population are less than in universities.
Perhaps that will be the key. If the general population rejects wokeness, then you’d expect that to be the end of it. If there is one thing I assume that the high and lows in universities is any sort of courage, the sort of courage that would require them to take on an opposing majority.
I remember seeing her in Juno and Flatliners, amongst other things. Beautiful young woman, she’s turned from Ellen into Elliot.
Well, as long as ‘he’s’ happy I guess…
https://twitter.com/egoofsigma/status/1662944515802447872
Cannot get over her transformation. But when I’ve seen ‘Elliot’ on a talk show he looks and sounds like a 12 year old boy because Ellen was very petite.
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a40011366/elliot-page-umbrella-academy-euphoria/
If you look at the face of this chirugical concoction, you’ll notice that it’s a badly damaged woman. Even the rent boys this creation of a mad doctor resembles most closely are decidedly male compared to this. That’s a bit of a sad story: You used to be a beautiful woman. Now, you’re an ugly hag in body which has been chirugically mutilated beyond any hope of recovery. That you now – at 36 – look like a woman of 55 with a history of depression and loneliness hasn’t turned you into a man.
Why do you never just say the English, “surgery”?
I find it interesting that you write an entire post in English but never this word. The German is the same as the Dutch “chirurgie” I see.
I just didn’t know that, at least not as word in my active vocabulary. Thanks for telling me.
https://www.technocracy.news/john-kerry-farm-confiscations-not-off-the-table/
Sadly The Netherlands features prominently in this article. I don’t suppose Billy’s hundreds of thousands of acres are at risk though.
https://reclaimthenet.org/who-restrict-individual-civil-liberties
A disturbing read which states there is another “pandemic” on the way – no shit Sherlock – and liberties will be expropriated with a vengeance.
Cheers hux. Read it. Saw the clip of that guy talking the other day on Twitter. They’re all so confident there’ll be another scamdemic. It’s almost as if they know something we don’t….
This is all very nicely said but it has one important deficiency: It’s historically completely wrong. Or rather, it may be true somewhere, but it’s certainly not true for the one historical phenomenon I know a little about, namely, Prussia/ Germany from about the 30 years war until today. Originally, the markgrave of Brandenburg was one of the seven electors of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. After the territory had been all but ruined because of its defenselessness during the 30 years war, the electors started to maintain standing armies so that they wouldn’t become other people’s punching balls again but could defend their territory and fight for their own causes as partner in coalition wars. For this, the electors needed money beyond the revenue from their property and hence, they subdued both the landed gentry and the citizens of the towns with a mixture of intrigue, force and by aligning themselves with the right foreign (ie, not from Brandenburg) potentates in order to introduce taxation to pay for the military. There was no high – low alliance to get of of an (aristocratic) middle layer.
As this progressed, the landed gentry became agents of the state while retaining most of their power over their dependent subjects (serfdom wasn’t abolished until the early 19th century) because only members of the gentry could become officers in the army and they were considered duty bound to serve as such whenever the king called for them.
After the shock of the French revolution, absolutism was reinstated and continued until the German revolution of 1848. While that ultimatively failed, it caused Prussia (and the other German states) to transition from absolutist to constitutional monarchies/ principalities. This culminated in the German empire, a federal super-state composed of the dynastic states of Germany minus the part of it ruled by the Habsburgs (Austria). There was no new political rhetoric and a new ideology of freedom, rights, and the popular will, just the socialists party (SPD) seeking to abolish the monarchy in order to erect communism which was one of the parties in the parliament supposed to represent the people of the empire and interacting with its government on their behalf.
My assumption is that eventually “wokeness” and associated ills will lead to the decline and fall of Western civilisation.
In 1925, a guy named Hendrik Willem Van Loon published a book titled Tolerance. One of the ideas in there was that the abject barbarianism of the first world war and especially, of the way it was ended, had caused civilisation to break down and that it would probably take about 300 years for it to catch up with the world again. That makes another 202 years. Meanwhile, there are some hopeful signs which weren’t there 30 years ago and the rapidly increasing madness of the counterculture project is one of them. But we still have a long way to go and won’t see the end of it.
Yes I think it could go either way and we’ll be long gone before it is played out
Any chance of eliminating any discussion of “woke”. Because it really isn’t awake, it is draconian.
Sorry not clear if you think the topic should not be discussed (if so, why?) or whether you think we should find another term because “woke” is misleading (agree).
Finally a post on Daily Sceptic about wokism that exhibits some understanding of the problem, even if the emphasis on “high-low alliances” requires at least a more robust definition of “high” and “low”.
The suggestion that “low” refers to “…the lower classes in modern society, driven by mass immigration and rapid economic change…” doesn’t seem to be borne out by a lot of anecdotal evidence that suggests that middle class youth are often the foot soldiers of the revolution.
And there is more than just ‘utility’ in “…understanding the arguments and the intellectual heritage of the Woke…“. Without some understanding of neo-Marxism, the philosophy of Rousseau & Hegel, more recently Mao, Marcuse and so on, we have no real idea of what we’re dealing with.
Ultimately this is a vicious religious power struggle, nothing to do with ‘social justice’.
Generally people don’t pay attention to things like this until it affects them.