Frederick Alexander @GadflyNotes

David Aaronovitch said Joe Biden should shoot Donald Trump. Jo Brand wanted acid thrown at Nigel Farage. Zach Polanksi fantasised about the decapitation of Nigel Farage. Lucy Connolly fantasised about burning migrant hotels. Either these are all offences or none of them are.

BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking

2 days ago

Metropolitan Police says it won't take further action after Green Party leader Zack Polanski shared image of guillotine T-shirt bbc.in/4fDUZZQ

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This is very worth reading because it beautifully lays out the faulty thinking that has given us suicidal economic policy that has also made no impact on climate change whatsoever. Characteristically, it pretends that those who oppose Net Zero do so because they deny that the climate is changing (no one sensible does), that outsourcing our emissions to poor countries, an accounting trick, is somehow green (it's not) and, most importantly, challenges the argument that the overwhelming majority of carbon emissions produced in the world today are emitted by countries that care about economic growth way more than they care about "saving the planet" (China, India etc) by citing Kenya whose entire annual emissions are roughly equivalent to what China emits in about 8 hours. The hoax is not climate change. The hoax is that we can stop it by making ourselves poorer.

Tim Stanley @timothy_stanley

5 days ago

Column: "climate change is real and the Right needs to get serious about it," It's killing everything we claim to love - landscape, tradition, millions of poor chickens - so why do some conservatives still call it a hoax?! telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07/2…

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#NotAllCars

@clairlemon It's not about the realism or the race or the trans stuff per se. It's the pretence that these are artistic choices rather than political ones. People are tired of the gaslighting and messaging and the derisive tone that goes with it, which you exemplify here.

@KonstantinKisin Sort of. Holding on to what you have is a conservative disposition: eg, the desire to preserve our cultural inheritance rather than smash it all down – which is the price we're paying for progressivism. It's more a question of confidence, or rather, the lack of it.

@ikeijeh @DPJHodges Outstanding 👏

Magnificent work. A must-watch!

Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK

4 weeks ago

🇬🇧 THEY TOLD YOU A STORY. 🇬🇧 Colonisers. Slavers. Oppressors. And you were supposed to feel ashamed. Not for what you done... But for WHO YOU ARE. 🇬🇧 So we tested it. Britain wrote everything down, so we opened the books. 📖 Turns out fewer than 1 man in 10 could vote in the

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@ThePosieParker It was nice of him to include Christianity to be fair. Not all Muslims would.

@ikeijeh He won't hold that record for long.

In July 1985, over a billion people watched Live Aid. Months earlier, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie had written "We Are the World." All of it was a response to a famine in Ethiopia. Almost nobody remembers who actually caused the famine. 🧵

It's as if Britain's ruling class is deliberately creating the conditions for right-wing extremism to emerge, so as to vindicate its belief that the public are fascists in waiting who can't be trusted with their own country.

@George_Osborne It'll be a mosque one day.

@Quillette @CathyYoung63 Be honest. As M. Yglesias recently wrote, "there's a clear agenda at work — an agenda to claim canonical works as the common patrimony of the entire West, and that's good!" i.e., the inheritance as written is defective and needs altering before certain heirs can accept it.

@ikeijeh I've posted a screenshot of this to Substack cos it's so good (like all your posts) and lamented that you're not there.

@MaxE2review @Fox_Claire Yes, that’s it. Well observed.

Top British attorney Natasha Hausdorff stunned the audience by completely destroying the Palestinian narrative about the conflict. The truth the world refuses to accept: Palestine never existed as a sovereign Arab state. The British Mandate of Palestine was a British territory taken from the defeated Ottoman Empire after 1917. Jews lived continuously in the Holy Land for centuries — long before modern Zionism. They were the majority in Jerusalem under Ottoman rule. Jews legally bought desert land (including the area that became Tel Aviv) and turned it into thriving cities and kibbutzim. Not a single Arab was displaced by these purchases. The Arabs rejected the 1947 UN partition plan and launched war to destroy the newborn Jewish state. They lost. During that war, Arab armies ordered local Arabs to flee so they could “push the Jews into the sea.” Many did exactly that. Israel has never committed genocide. It has fought for survival against repeated attempts to commit genocide against the Jewish people. Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran’s regime are the real obstacles to peace in the Middle East. The historical facts are clear. The propaganda is not. Share this. The truth needs to be heard.

@Glinner “It’s amazing how much leftist discourse consists of pretending not to understand what’s plainly being said — thus making discourse impossible.” Millennial Woes"

The most vomit-inducing subspecies of professional victimhood crusaders is the privileged PoC woke brigade. You've seen some familiar archetypes. The Brahmin Indian transplant, born at the literal top of the caste pyramid where they’ve been stepping on untouchables for generations, who parachutes into the West and immediately starts cosplaying as some brown skinned underdog railing against “systemic oppression." Meanwhile, their family still runs half the tech visas and corner store empires back home. Or the Gucci-clad son of a Turkish multi-millionaire, living off generational wealth from blood money LARPing as a revolutionary firebrand against capitalism. And now, lo and behold, that New Yorker writer who pens glowing essays about “micro-looting” Whole Foods. Of course she grew up in a goddamn mansion. Of course her parents were running a full-scale human trafficking operation that turned Filipino teachers into indentured servants - predatory loans at 60% interest, deportation threats, the works. $2.8 million in stolen visa fees, luxury resort bribes for school admins, the whole predatory grift. DHS literally ruled it was “a severe form of trafficking in persons.” Her family got caught and had to forfeit the mansion and the Mercedes fleet, pled to conspiracy, and got off with 3 months’ probation and a slap on the wrist. Remember also Lydia Mugambe, that UN judge with an Oxford law doctorate, the “human rights” warrior who spent her days pontificating about protecting the vulnerable… who was caught literally enslaving her own housekeeper in a modern slavery racket? LOL These people are the worst kind of frauds. Loudly protesting their “oppression” while perched on piles of unearned privilege and family exploitation. It’s the exact same energy as the rapey male feminist. The lady doth protest too much, methinks - Shakespeare nailed it centuries ago. That over-the-top virtue signaling is always a cover for the skeletons in their own closets. Never trust them, not for a second. The louder they cosplay the oppressed, the harder you should look at the mansion, the trust fund, the parents, the FRAUD, and the housekeeper they’re probably underpaying in cash.

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou

3 months ago

This is the mansion that New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino grew up in before her parents were indicted for a massive human trafficking scheme that basically involved forcing Filipino migrants into slavery. Her parents trafficked hundreds of immigrants into the US, then threatened

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@robkhenderson This is silly. It's just a quick and vivid way to illustrate the age gap, not a reference to incest.

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Postmodernism could only happen in a civilisation like ours, making a fatal weakness of its greatest strengths. These are ideas that consumed the intellectual foundations that gave birth to them. Article link in replies.