News Round-Up
26 April 2025
by Toby Young
A former Royal Marine was put on trial for ‘stirring up racial hatred’ after a Facebook post in which he urged people to protest peacefully about illegal immigration. It took a jury 17 minutes to find him not guilty.
Diversity kitsch is all around us. But as the grim fact forcefully confronts us that some immigrants hate their hosts so much they want to murder and rape them, David McGrogan senses that it is at last falling from favour.
Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana had declared the need for "white genocide". Is this why the authorities are so adamant that it wasn't a terrorist offence?
How come Elon Musk is automatically a Nazi, but a man who possesses a terror training manual, creates stores of ricin, kills several people and pleads guilty to terror charges, is not a terrorist at all?
What we have seen in Starmer since July is a petty, inhumane, almost spiteful man who considers himself morally superior to the mass of humanity. This, says Dr David McGrogan, was confirmed in spades yesterday.
"You’ll never be wasting our time," reads the Prevent poster. So why did the anti-extremism programme fail to stop the Southport killer, who had been referred to it three times? He's not the only one, says Charlotte Gill.
Given that the Southport attacker downloaded an Al-Qaeda training manual, should those who screamed 'disinformation' when people linked the massacre with Islamism apologise? Laurie Wastell in the Daily Sceptic says yes.
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