Professor of International Relations. Modul, Vienna. Hon. Prof., Exeter University. Think tanker. Confront the infinite.
Vienna / Devon
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The 'atonement complex' turns Britain's slavery history into inherited guilt, with taxpayer reparations offered as absolution. Is it historically selective and economically dubious?
At @iealondon with @NigelBiggar, @RobertJenrick & @DanielJHannan.
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This is Labour's definition of patriotism.
A nation dedicated to self-abasement, restitution, reparations, apology, self-annihilation.
The British Museum, testimony to our commitment to science, knowledge, exploration and humanity at large, is turned into something sordid.
"The British Museum is the largest depository of stolen goods known to man."
Lord Paul Boateng (@UKHouseofLords) on the British Museum and the return of the Ethiopian Tabots, Benin Bronzes and Ashanti gold.
Watch the event in full: bit.ly/4hZmDSe
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These people perfectly mix medieval style, Muslim-supremacist hatred of the infidel 'zionists' (read: Jews) and the West, with the very most pearl-clutching woke snowflakery. They've got the jihadist garb on. They storm the stage aggressively. But they also shriek 'don't touch her!' while doing it, i.e., in typical Maoist fashion, they're implying it would be an act of patriarchal aggression for the man *they're* mobbing to try and stop them mobbing him.
In other words, they're being aggressors, while reframing themselves as oppressed. In many respects, it's a microcosm of the Islamist trojan horse of Palestinianism they represent (attack and slaughter the infidels, vow to do it again, then immediately shriek 'don't attack us' before the people you just murdered and raped respond and try to retrieve the loved ones you're holding in tunnels).
Watching the West 100% fall for this stuff is mental.
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This reminds me of a chat I had with a Lib Dem friend shortly after the grooming gangs scandal had risen in salience due to X – lovely guy, but his main concern was Musk, 'disinformation', division. As if people knowing about the horror was worse than the fact that it happened
“You, society, are polarised; you are making it very easy for our adversaries.”
Jonathan Hall KC, the government’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, says the MI5 Chief’s speech today was directed at a society “besotted by social media”
#Newsnight
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The UK taxpayer has footed the bill due to government mismanagement.
Over 10 years here are some of the worst cases: 🧵
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Rahmeh Aladwan is a doctor in Britain.
She wants people who blaspheme against Islam to be killed.
People with beliefs like this do not belong in our country.
I’ve written to the General Medical Council calling for her to be struck off.
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His crime? Stealing celery.
This solemn little boy is 11-year-old James Leadbetter, photographed at Wandsworth Prison in 1873.
He was sentenced to four days in prison with hard labour and a whipping for stealing celery. It wasn't his first conviction, he had previously received seven days' hard labour for stealing pears.
A stark glimpse of how differently Victorian Britain treated children who fell foul of the law.
#Victorian #SocialHistory #London #History
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OJ and @AaronBastani have - typically - now blundered into a trap of their own making here.
Having vested so much political capital in Israel and the Joos as being an evil settler-colonialist regime, what is the Left going to say to the working classes of European countries that now have c. 15-20% of their population born abroad?
The Left have granted blood-and-soil nationalism for the Palestinians but no one else.
How long did they think people would allow them to set the terms of what constitutes legitimate blood-and-soil nationalism and bad blood-and-soil nationalism?
The Equality Act: some more equal than others | Don't Divide Us event - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=fQoeC6P0… Interesting discussion with @DontDivideUsNow
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In 1964, a young University of Michigan anthropologist went to live with a tribe untouched by modernity.
What he found destroyed the noble savage myth.
Then his own discipline spent the next four decades trying to destroy him for publishing it. 🧵
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Photographed in colour 104 years ago, this is Dana Desboro Glover, the second wife of the famed photographer Edward Steichen. It was Steichen himself who took this portrait in 1922 - the year before their marriage - depicting his fiancé like Eve proffering tempation's apple... It was taken using an early two-color separation process and isn't colourised.
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For the Labour Party, and for globalists generally, the marker of their virtue is their indifference to the interests of the British people.
The more a policy threatens to undermine the unity and coherence of Britain and its people, the more virtuous they feel in pursuing it.
🚨 NEW: Shabana Mahmood will open a new refugee route that prioritises Afghan women and Palestinians
[@guardian]
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Burnham is the true voice of a colonial ruler.
When the imported footsoldiers of globalism use paramilitary techniques, he and his government have nothing to say. When native patriots respond in kind, it is “unacceptable…intimidation”.
Britain is the Empire’s last colony.
Stokes already sees Iran as the clear winner of the war started by US President Donald Trump. "I see no possibility that Iran will not emerge from this crisis as a very strong regional hegemonic power." krone.at/4306074
Latest interview with Der Standard. "What's emerging is a post-American security order in the Middle East". By attacking Iran, Trump has "opened Pandora's box." derstandard.at/story/3000000…
The UK is a striking example. Its comparatively low rates of tax and social insurance contributions for low-paid workers plus a relatively flat state pension mean that people (immigrant or otherwise) who do small amounts of paid work or remain on low incomes contribute little to the exchequer but still benefit from robust state support. ft.com/content/124c1cf0-4885…
UK productivity grew twice as fast as thought after 2008 financial crisis ft.com/content/560fc2ad-5c7e… How could the OFS get this so wrong?
