Links - 14th June 2026 (2 - General Wokeness)

Melissa Lantsman on X - "🚨Last year, Canadian Heritage handed $20,000 of your money to the Muslim Association of Canada, through the Anti-Racism Program (the same department that promised accountability after the Laith Marouf scandal), to the same MAC that platforms Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas-tied speakers, and that just last week promoted a “Jew-free world” to young people at a conference in Toronto. They promised to vet this. They lied. Again. Once? Scandal. Twice? Policy. Enough."

Meme - Diandra Krueger: "What's your hottest take about horror movie fans?"
James Horror @jamesxhorror: "You simply cannot be a horror fan and then still hold racist, misogynistic, transphobic, religiously conservatist or anti socialist views. The two aren't compatible."
Crimson_01 @01_Crimson_01: *H.P. Lovecraft*
James Horror @jamesxhorror: "Is this man a horror fan?"

Matt Van Swol on X - "Everything about the Left is fake. Once you understand it, everything make sense.
>Eat the rich... from your mansion
>Save the planet... from your private jet
>Everyone is racist... while you fund the racism.
>Billionaires are evil... unless you fund our candidates.
>Words are violence... but my violence is actually speech
>Wrong pronouns are assault... but burning a courthouse in a protest is mostly peaceful
>We love immigrants... unless you send them to Martha's Vineyard then we call ICE too
>Democracy is sacred... unless we lose, then it was stolen by Russia, misinformation, or Elon
>Diversity is our strength... unless you're a Black conservative, then you're a race traitor who needs to be destroyed
>Tax the wealthy... while your foundation, your trust, and your three LLCs are structured specifically to avoid paying a dime of it
>Capitalism is oppression... posted from an iPhone, on a platform worth a trillion dollars, while wearing merch sold through the your merch store linked in your bio
It's all fake, it's all performative and should be endlessly mocked into oblivion. Give them zero comfort. The doctrine is always designed so the cost lands on someone else. The cashier pays for your protest. The suburban parents pays for your sanctuary city. The trade school kid pays for your student loan forgiveness. The taxpayer pays for your foundation's tax shelter. The working mom pays for your gas stove ban. The factory town pays for your Green New Deal. The girl on the swim team pays for your pronouns. The cop's widow pays for your bail reform. It's a massive, evil, cost-transfer operation that pretends the evil they are pushing, is moral. ...and it's just evil"

Meme - Michael A. Arouet: "Wait, what? I didn't have the German LGBTQ community voting for the AfD on my bingo card. What am I missing here?"
"Gays for AfD.A survey of 60,560 German users of Romero, a gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and non-binary dating app."
*Voting intention (in %): AfD 27.9% (highest party)*

Meme - BBC News (World) @BBCWorld: "Selling children to survive: Afghan fathers forced to make impossible choices"
Readers added context: "BBC frames Afghan fathers selling daughters as sympathetic. All profiled cases involve girls (e.g. 5-year-old). Selling daughters for marriage is a longstanding cultural practice in parts of Afghanistan. BBC focuses on fathers' distress over outcomes for the girls (rape)."

Meme - "Alan Dershowitz: "I've lived a long life. I'm 87 years old. I've dealt with many professionals, psychiatrists, doctors, you name it. The most unethical group of people I have EVER worked with in my life have been journalists."
Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen: "No one is being "forced" to sell their 5-year-old daughters to pedophiles. They are voluntarily doing this to make money, as they have in the Middle East for centuries. Any half-decent father would starve to death before selling his child to a rapist. These are evil men"
TAiR: "BBC: This Is Sick Beyond Measure"
BBC News (World) @BBCWorld: "Selling children to survive: Afghan fathers forced to make impossible choices"
Cruadin @cruadin: "Yeah, it's quite a feat to describe a young girl being sold into sex slavery and framing the narrative to portray the PERSON WHO SOLD HER as the sympathetic figure in the story. Who but the BBC?"

Lauren Chen on X - "The BBC has more sympathy for Afghan fathers who traffick their daughters to pedophiles than they do for British nationalists. Absolutely wild."

Douglas MechArthur ☭⃠ on X - "Anyone who had been to Afghanistan knows this is true. You will partrol multiple villages per day and see approximately 5% of the male population actually working. Most squat down by a wall and talk about nothing of significance, while those who do work are five guys standing around watching one man dig a hole. Likely a hole the US forces paid them $10k to dig. Their entire culture is full of lazy stupid PDFfiles. The only ones capable of hard work are the ANA troops, and they're still walking around in sandals and doing nothing."

6 eighth graders face criminal charges over 'hateful and racist' online chat: DA - "Six Massachusetts eighth graders face criminal charges in connection with "hateful and racist comments" in a group chat that allegedly included threats and a mock slave auction"
The same people who want adults to be free to call for killing Jews love this. Freedom of speech is only meant to push the left wing agenda

Quote by Thomas Sowell - "Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole"

All 11 teachers accused of creating toxic climate at Montreal school have their licences revoked : r/canadanews - "How fucking toxic was it to result in 11 teachers not just fired, but losing their licenses?"

All 11 teachers accused of creating toxic climate at Montreal school have their licences revoked : r/canadanews - "WHAT did they DO?"
"Isn't it disturbing how media just reports these things and leaves that out
The "Toxic" Climate: Investigations found a "dominant clan" of teachers used intimidation tactics, such as forcing students to stand by walls for not doing homework and calling them "lost causes," according to the Montreal Gazette.
Religious Influence: Reports indicated some teachers, largely of North African descent, were influenced by a local mosque and attempted to introduce strict religious concepts into the public school, the Town and Country Today reports."

All 11 teachers accused of creating toxic climate at Montreal school have their licences revoked : r/canadanews - "Hello, from Quebec and followed this for the last couple years Since the article dosent explain it Basically this was a non-official muslim school were children were obligated to follow strict muslim rules like segregation from sexes, religious prayers, Islamic teaching, refusing to follow the QC curriculum for children, refusing to explain other religious courses, things like that Also the teachers formed a very strict alliance between them and ruled over the school and over other teacher that tried to interve"

All 11 teachers accused of creating toxic climate at Montreal school have their licences revoked : r/canadanews - "If you are considering reading the article to learn what the toxic behaviour actually was, don’t bother, the ceeb just dances around it"
"Preaching to the choir here, but the CBC editors and journalists should be able to say these were Islamic practices and they were abhorrent."
"They'll follow the usual playbook and bury it asap."
"And not isolated but a concerted community effort, which is much more concerning."

Meme - sam @___TheGOOdWitch: "The way Christians explain how Christianity spread across the world *laughing church and Jesus running to hand Bible to laughing, loving earth*
How it actually happened
*war scene*"
Mark Howard @HowardMarkLouis: "The painting in the bottom frame is of the DEFENSE of Acre in 1291."
We all know that Christians and white people are not allowed to defend themselves, because that's literally genocide, war crimes and a violation of international law

Meme - "THE EVOLUTION OF LIBERAL MEN. FROM THE PARTY OF THE WORKING CLASS TO THE PARTY OF THE IVY CLASS
1996 UNION DEMOCRAT
Strong Unions
Good Pay
Secure Borders
Welfare Reform
Personal Responsibility
Proud of America
Built America
2004 ANTI-WAR ACTIVIST: "NO WAR FOR OIL"
End the Iraq War
Healthcare for All
Expand Rights
Help the Poor
Environmentalism
Question Authority
Questioned the System
2012 CORPORATE PROGRESSIVE: "Coexist"
Love is Love
Obama Pride
Diversity Matters
Tolerant & Inclusive
Believe in Science
Global Citizenship
Joined the Profession
2020 ONLINE ACTIVIST: "DEFUND EVERYTHING. BLACK LIVES MATTER. NO BORDERS. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS"
Defund Police
Abolish ICE
Cancel Culture
Pronouns Matter
Systemic Everything
Virtue Signal Daily
Lives Online
2026 IVY LEAGUE PROGRESSIVE: "Why won't these people just evolve?"
Trust the Experts
Open Borders
UBI Someday
Eat the Rich
Pronouns + Bio
You're All Problematic
Looks Down on Everyone Else"

Meme - Sophie Fullerton @florida_sophia: "It’s been obvious for years that the Western anti-imperialist left has been riddled with racists and white saviors who mask their disdain for people of color behind a progressive veneer. For figures like Johnstone, minorities are little more than a tool meant to advance her own ideological passion projects regardless of which oppressed group gets trampled in the process. She does not care about the people she speaks on, she cares about leveraging their suffering for her own personal gain. At least the far-right is open about their contempt for minorities. The alt-left, while also openly vile, has been savvy enough to hide their racism, Islamophobia, and dehumanization of oppressed groups under the guise of “anti-imperialism.”"
Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz: "Tell Iranian diaspora warmongers to shut the fuck up. Tell pro-sanctions Cuban diaspora to shut the fuck up. It's so obnoxious how these assholes will show up in my replies all "Excuse me you're not from that country so you don't get to oppose dropping bombs on it." Uh, how about you shut the fuck up? I'm going to oppose the most evil and depraved agendas of the western power structure I live under, thank you very much. If you don't like it you can go choke on a dick. If you support yet another disastrous US military intervention to topple yet another middle eastern government, then you're a piece of shit. You're a piece of shit regardless of what country your family happens to come from."
As usual, left wingers only value "minority" voices when they push the left wing agenda, so they're liars and hypocrites when they talk about listening to "minorities"

Meme - End Wokeness: "What's a video that defines peak woke?"
Raven @raven_brah: Anansi The Local Punk @Anans...: "You should be training to fight fascists. They're training to kill you. This isn't a joke or a meme. If you are non-white and/or queer, people are training daily for the sole purpose of killing you. You should be training just as hard."
Golden #GeneralStrikeR...: "Can barely feed myself or keep my house clean (it's not actually clean). I am working on exercise but my body actively tries to kill me during it (cholinergic allergy) so it's hard. We have to develop more than just strength. Helping each other is going to be crucial."
The Boys Spoilers @Mediocre_...: "I'd love to be doing bjj rn but I'm trying to survive Covid first and with this monkeypox shit going around. it's looking like gyms are the worst place to be for both rn"
Witchy Advocacy @CinnamonB...: "Too disabled. But I'm hoping the abled people Remeber I exist if shit goes down. Canada is already killing us here"
Average Henry Hill PFP @Swelli...: "Anarchists consider the fact that some people aren't allowed to buy weapons challenge, IMPOSSIBLE."
attenton: "Anarchists, those noted law-abiders."
scotty @transgemder: "I... I can't even pick up heavy items without being immobile for several days after. How could I survive a homicide attempt"
Mensa cutejewelrystore @cutejewelryst: "So how exactly do disabled and chronically ill do this? AND please please do not give me chair exercises some of us have more complex medical issues"

My White Privilege Didn't Save Me - "As with millions of girls, puberty was a time of fearfully watching my body turn into something that I knew was sexually attractive to men. Nicky went the other way and became promiscuous. Girls like Nicky search for power where they can find it. When you see a young woman wielding her sexual power, it’s not always a cause for either celebration or scorn. My brother and I spent many party nights pulling her away from the clutches of predators. In the new sexually charged landscape that children encounter in school, activists lay out myriad sexual and gender identities to minors, on the possibility the child may see one as a mirror. They sift through children like sand, claiming other people’s sons and daughters as a member of this or that “community.” Both Nicky and her brother Kevin later identified as gay (which of course, they might well have been). They were both troubled, and Kevin committed suicide. Maybe it was an identity crisis, or maybe it was that they were being fucked when they were children. I have no tolerance for activists obsessed with aggressive cultural interventions in a child’s sexuality or gender issues. Heterosexual girls are the people who are the most vulnerable to sexual and domestic violence, and who are most likely to be murdered by a sexual partner. In response, modern feminism wants to teach little boys like Kevin that they are toxic, and little girls like Nicky that promiscuity is liberation. Neither is helpful... You won’t find it surprising to learn that I related easily to Marxist ideology. I liked the idea that my oppression was systemic, that I was marked for suffering before I was born, and that I was a victim of it. If this was all true, then the path to justice was corporate and institutional, rather than the terrifying path of facing my own issues as a powerless individual... Under the belief (delusional, as it turned out) that the problem was rooted in my drug and alcohol use, I gave up both. Unfortunately, without that self-medication, I found myself face to face with the underlying pain and paralysing fear. One night, I collapsed on the floor, crying and in such physical pain that I could barely move. I picked up a Bible and read a passage from 2 Corinthians 5—Awaiting the New Body—that left me completely undone. Not long after, I walked into a suburban Baptist church, full of strange, unfashionably dressed, conservative Christians. I was a Marxist, a feminist, foul-mouthed, a chain-smoker, and desperate. The love I received in that place is the reason that I will defend the rights of fundamentalist Christians to my dying breath. They were the kindest people I’d ever known. They loved me, on principle, and in doing so saved my life. People who advocate for a world without religion have no idea what it is like to find the relief that I found at that time. My purpose here is not to describe my “Amazing Grace” moment, but to explain why I have no patience for militant atheists. In the face of my evangelical Christianity, progressives (mostly men) have called me every unholy thing imaginable—including, of all things, a paedophile apologist... Unlike most of my fellow left-leaning students, I was genuinely working class. As a Cockney, my father wasn’t working class because of what he did; it was simply who he was. My mother regularly reminded us of the struggle of working women for fair wages. She failed me in the most fundamental of ways. But right or wrong, she was my greatest political influence. At the base of her politics was the real-life outworking of collective, pluralist power. Yet neither of my parents were Marxists. Like much of the postwar working class, they were dyed-in-the-wool Labor voters. Their politics was practical. My drift from Marxism was not a drift from the Left. I still saw the Left as the side of compassion, of advocacy for the poor, women, and the oppressed. Poor and disadvantaged children, such as I was, were given real opportunities as a result of leftist policies. True, I did feel a little sorry about leaving the academic Left for French cultural theory, but this part of the Left abandoned me, not vice versa. Unfortunately, as we’ve all seen, the academic Left eventually prevailed over the grass-roots leftism that my parents had supported. When I first voted Conservative about seven years ago, I went back to my car and cried. The postmodern re-engineering of left-wing political theory has included the redefinition of “privilege” in a way that is separate from economics, a definition of “sex” that is separate from biology, and a definition of “violence” that does not involve actual violence. It’s a language and a narrative that completely abandons the working class, while erroneously taking for granted our loyalty... Australian Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe, who is Aboriginal, recently walked into parliament wielding the “black power” fist gesture, and carrying a stick with a notch for every aboriginal death in government custody. Ms. Thorpe declared she would be a voice for Australian Indigenous people. In Indigenous communities, sexual assault, domestic violence, and incest are epidemic. Yet thanks to the fashion for prison and police “abolition,” it now isn’t unusual to see left-wing activists effectively shield the men who rape and abuse women and children, instead of urging the protection of these victims... ultimately, the politics of the modern Left is dominated by its fixation on power. And children have no power. It may seem creepy to some people, but I cannot look past the risk of sexual violence anywhere it exists. And I see it in the criminal-justice power plays of modern race politics. When people call for the defunding of the police, I think of Nicky and me as children. Predators are cowardly creatures who prey on the weak and lonely. The removal of police is exactly what they want. The call to separate the definition of women from biology also has huge implications for female safety... In most cases, a girl or woman receiving such care will prefer that they be served by a woman, not a man. People like Nicky have so few choices in their life. It seems another level of cruelty to force them to be bathed in their homes by biological males who self-identify as women. She lived a life that was almost always unsafe, specifically because of men... I have no desire to garner sympathy, to “weaponize” my victimhood, or to make men feel ashamed. But I am also unable to ignore the obvious vulnerabilities that accompany biological womanhood, and the way those vulnerabilities interact with economic and social disadvantage, not to mention sickness, culture, and disability. If this is what “intersectionality” really meant, I would be its greatest adherent."

A Plea to Reform Academic Journals - "Social science journals have had a rough go of it over the past few months. A recent, extensive examination of social science papers found that only about half of previously published studies replicated—and when they did, the replicated effects were much smaller than those originally reported. Of papers where reproduction was possible, the study found just over half were precisely reproducible. Meanwhile, a report by the Progressive Policy Institute’s Richard Kahlenberg and Lief Lin details the ideological slant of the leading American studies journal, American Quarterly. Of 96 essays, 77 were fundamentally critical of America, 19 pieces were neutral, and zero manuscripts were coded America-positive. In recent years, the broader ideological imbalances that persist in higher education have garnered increased scrutiny, yet critics often overlook a primary motivator of ideological homogeneity among university faculty and thereby ignore a potential mechanism for remedying it: academic publishing. For university faculty, publication in scholarly journals is crucial to career advancement—oftentimes the main driver behind decisions that inform tenure and promotion in academic institutions. Thus, ideological gatekeeping not only prohibits heterodox ideas and interesting scholarship from mainstream publishing but hinders career advancement for heterodox scholars... The American Political Science Association’s flagship journal, American Political Science Review, for example, only subjected submissions from heteronormative white males to desk rejection by editors. Likewise, editors from the American Educational Research Association’s prestigious journal, the Review of Educational Research, pledged to only accept quantitative articles from scholars who apply critical theory in their work. Downstream from these ideological barriers to entry is the homogenous body of research they produce. Scholarly journals fundamentally lose their value as venues for high-quality research if they’re pushing a singular perspective by design. Moreover, political capture of academic publishing also adversely impacts the fields of study about which they publish, as academic journals are often regarded as authoritative voices and their arguments, as Maranto argues, “trickle down, shaping common opinions, policy, and practices across fields.” As a society, we cannot meaningfully discuss problems or determine possible solutions if scholarly publications only anoint one narrow set of views... enterprising academics have founded new journals, such as the Journal of Controversial Ideas and the Journal of Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Sciences. Moreover, a scholarly editor himself, Maranto has worked to revitalize the heterodox Journal of School Choice. First, he suggests doing away with positionality statements that reinforce identity over integrity. Stressing an author’s immutable characteristics over their empirical work compromises the purpose of scientific inquiry, which prizes rigorous methodology, not preemptive, identity-based gatekeeping. Maranto also stresses the importance of creating a heterodox editorial board. Having a diversity of viewpoints improves the editorial process by introducing scholarly disagreement. Ideological monocultures that refuse to challenge dominant narratives will eventually produce stagnant results, undermining a core purpose of scholarly work, which is to challenge and test new ideas. Lastly, Maranto recommends an emphasis on merit above all else. Once processes such as peer review and even academia more broadly lose legitimacy, it’s difficult to regain public trust. Instances where shoddy research prevails should worry those who care about preserving the integrity of this work, no matter if you agree with the political end that research purports to serve."

Anshul Saxena on X - "Qatar on Eid: Do not perform the namaz in open outdoor areas; pray inside Mosques. Limit women's attendance as much as possible, as Eid prayer is not obligatory. Al Jazeera (owned by Qatar): India is restricting public prayers and telling Muslims to pray in Mosques. When an Islamic country does it, it becomes a guideline. But when a non-Islamic country does the same thing, it is labeled Islamophobia."
Left wingers believe that Arab countries are the biggest Islamophobes out there, after all. Good luck if Christians pray in public

Free Speech Union of Canada on X - "“Bill C-9 risks eroding Canadians’ most fundamental freedom. Criminal law should target conduct, not expression; violence, not dissent; and incitement, not unpopular opinion.” Watch FSU Canada Executive Director @LDBildy ’s full remarks on #BillC9, the “Combatting Hate Act” ⬇️"
Lisa Bildy on X - "I testified at the Senate yesterday on the "Combatting Hate" Bill, which impacts expressive rights. I also listened to every other panel discussion on this Bill, which was very illuminating and quite disturbing. Canada is on a precipice. We are a country of atomized groups simultaneously jockeying to be seen as the most oppressed, while also wielding considerable power as sacralized identities to push for restrictions on the expression of others — not just "hate", but also offence, dissent, and even opposing facts. Having listened to many of the other speeches before I prepared mine, I took the opportunity to speak against criminalizing "denialism". That would be a terrible path for Canada to take — even worse than the one we're already on. Criminal law cannot manufacture harmony (generously assuming that is what the activists want); only open debate and dialogue can."

Genetic structure of human populations - "without using prior information about the origins of individuals, we identified six main genetic clusters, five of which correspond to major geographic regions, and subclusters that often correspond to individual populations. General agreement of genetic and predefined populations suggests that self-reported ancestry can facilitate assessments of epidemiological risks but does not obviate the need to use genetic information in genetic association studies."
Clear proof that there is no biological basis for race and that race is socially constructed

Genetic ancestry and population structure in the All of Us Research Program cohort - "All of Us participants genetic ancestry was inferred using genomic PCA data analyzed with the Rye (Rapid Ancestry Estimation) program. Participant PCA data were compared with PCA data from global reference populations, taken from the 1KGP and the HGDP, to infer individual ancestry proportions from seven continental-level ancestry groups: African, American, East Asian, South Asian, West Asian, European, and Oceanian"

Kamloops residential school 'graves' may actually be septic pipes

Kamloops residential school 'graves' may actually be septic pipes | National Post (aka "Tristin Hopper: Kamloops residential school 'graves' could have been septic pipes all along")

"Less than two months after Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc issued the explosive announcement on May 27, 2021 that they’d uncovered the “remains of 215 children” at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, they hosted a press conference admitting that they’d gotten the number wrong.

At the time, flags were half-masted across the country, and would remain so into November. News outlets around the world were reporting that Canada had uncovered a whole field of dead missing children. The figure “215” had been emblazoned across countless memorials and solidarity statements.

It had also been a feature of several vandalism attacks targeting Christian churches. Before a mob pulled down a Toronto statue of Egerton Ryerson, they first spray-painted it with the moniker “215.”

Just the week prior to the press conference, Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Chief Rosanne Casimir had introduced resolutions at the Assembly of First Nations calling the discovery a “mass grave” and citing it as evidence of a “genocide inflicted upon Indigenous Peoples by the State in partnership with the churches.”

But now, on July 15, 2021, news media were told that there were actually 15 fewer suspected graves than initially reported.

Sarah Beaulieu, the ground-penetrating radar technician whose report had yielded the initial 215 figure, said she had since received information that her survey had accidentally counted a series of prior archaeological digs.

Between 1991 and 2004, land surrounding the former Kamloops Indian Residential School had been excavated by a Simon Fraser University team. The work involved digging “shovel test pits” and then screening the soil for bone tools, fire pits and other evidence of pre-contact Indigenous use.

And apparently, some of those test pits had been incorrectly pinged as suspected graves.

“I had to rule out where those excavations had taken place in the late 90s, early 2000s,” said Beaulieu. “After this review it was determined that there remain 200 targets of interest.”

Unmentioned at the two-hour press conference was the arguably far more relevant information that the area of the Kamloops Indian Residential School grounds they had surveyed also lay atop a historic septic system.

In fact, the survey site may have been overtop the system’s “disposal beds,” a structure consisting of a latticework of clay pipes, installed in 1926 and laid out in an east-west orientation. The details of the system were easy to find. The plans, purchase order and correspondence related to the septic field are all held in the archives of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.

The 30-page report even details the precise depth at which the tiles were installed...

While Beaulieu did not mention the historic septic system, she did mention how strange it was that the suspected graves were all identified as lying at a depth of about 800 millimeters, roughly two-and-a-half feet.

She described this as being because the graves were likely dug by children, and dug in the winter, when the ground was frozen...

The survey that yielded the explosive 215 claim — and everything that followed — was conducted using a machine primarily intended to detect buried pipes.

Beaulieu had used an LMX200 ground penetrating radar system. The product’s promotional materials make no mention of forensic applications, marketing it primarily as a tool for utilities and municipal governments to detect pipes, cables and “septic system components.”

This isn’t to say that ground-penetrating radar isn’t used to uncover things like missing graves, but the LMX200 can only deliver the most basic underground images...

The vagaries of the technology are part of why, when the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report was published in 2015, it specifically cautioned against jumping to conclusions based on ground-penetrating radar surveys of former Indian Residential Schools.

Volume four of the report, entitled Missing Children and Unmarked Burials, listed ground-penetrating radar as one of several technologies that could be used to help map suspected cemeteries.

“However these methods seldom produce results that are immediately and intuitively interpretable, and often require supplemental evaluation,” it read, adding that any suspected anomalies would need to be subjected to “post-survey validity testing” via excavation.

In a 2009 case subsequently profiled in the Canadian Society of Forensic Science Journal, the Edmonton Police employed ground-penetrating radar in an attempt to find a missing child.

The survey, performed in the basement of a residential home, yielded results consistent with a buried body. But when the spot was excavated, it revealed only the aftermath of a water leak.

“We did not find any evidence that it ever contained a body,” Michael Billinger, the case’s consulting forensic anthropologist...

“Due to its relatively low resolution, GPR may produce similar signatures for different types of subsurface objects or disturbances located at comparable depths,” he added.

On the specific point of whether a septic pipe could resemble a human burial, Billinger said that it could “produce subsurface disturbances that appear similar to other anomalies detected by GPR.”

In the 2000s, the school board in New Westminster, B.C., commissioned a series of ground-penetrating radar surveys of the future New Westminster Secondary School for the specific purpose of finding suspected graves since the site was adjacent to several known pioneer cemeteries.

Initial GPR readings by Golder Associates found 38 “potential gravesites.”  But when the most compelling anomalies were “ground-truthed,” they yielded only cobbles, boulders or PVC pipes.

“No gravesites or burial-related features were located, and no other evidence of historic cemetery use was observed within the Project Area as a result of field investigations,” read a June 2017 final report.

Jamie Pringle, a reader in forensic geoscience at the U.K.’s Keele University, has published more than a dozen papers detailing searches for unmarked burials and even mass graves using ground-penetrating radar. Pringle told the National Post that just in the last year, he’s encountered multiple instances of a radar survey appearing to show a burial, only for the anomaly to be something benign...

One such case covered by Pringle was published last year in the journal Forensic Science International. Tipped off by a prison informant, police were attempting to locate the unmarked grave of a missing child. “The most obvious GPR anomaly we imaged turning out to be a field ceramic drainage pipe once being intrusively investigated,” said Pringle. 

“Anomalies can be caused by many near-surface buried objects, not always what you are looking for, and you can’t be definitive of the causative object until you physically investigate and dig it up,” he said. 

Jan Francke is the Canadian founder of Groundradar, a ground-penetrating radar contractor in business since 1994.

He told National Post that an open field, such as that surveyed in Kamloops, is going to be replete with possible false positives.

“In an open field, every single rock, every single buried piece of wood, they all give you a similar signature as a burial. So how do we discriminate between a burial and a false positive? We have to look for signs of soil disturbances, and those are difficult to see and not themselves definitive,” he said.

Francke added, “the hypothesis that this is somehow related to a septic field is plausible.”

The reason Beaulieu conducted her survey where she did was because of something she has subsequently referred to as “the knowing.”

“Cultural protocols, and oral tellings are as equally important as the science behind remote sensing,” she wrote in the slideshow now featured on the website of the Canadian Archaeological Association.

“This fact — the knowing — has been recognized by Indigenous communities for generations.”

It’s something that would be mentioned in the initial press statement announcing that the “remains of 215 children” had been confirmed in Kamloops. The statement called the discovery confirmation of an “unthinkable loss that was spoken about but never documented.”

“We had a knowing in our community that we were able to verify,” was the included quote by Casimir subsequently published in hundreds of press accounts around the world.

Even Canadian anthropologists would come out publicly to say that respecting this “knowing” was more important than material verification of the claims they represented. On the same day as the July 15 press conference, the University of Alberta’s Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology released a “solidarity statement” saying that Beaulieu’s findings were “strongly indicative of burial locations.” 

It added, “survivors and Indigenous communities have been speaking the truth of their experiences in so-called ‘residential schools’ and related institutions for decades; it should not have taken the use of scientific techniques for the necessary attention to be paid to the truth of what happened to the survivors and to the children who never came home.”

The “knowing” refers to accounts told by former students at Kamloops Indian Residential School that, throughout the 1950s and 1960s, holes were being dug in the school’s apple orchard and children thrown into them.

One of the mandates of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was to record the names of children known to have died at Indian Residential Schools, mostly due to infectious diseases such as tuberculosis. An official memorial page maintained by the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation lists 63 names for the Kamloops school, with dates of death ranging from 1899 to 1962.

But the apple orchard burials were supposed to be missing children not captured by official records. What Casimir would call “undocumented deaths.”...

One interviewee described overhearing a conversation in the boys’ dorm. “We’re going to go steal apples, and then one night, one of the guys says no, we shouldn’t. That’s where they’re burying people,” he said.

Another interviewee said his uncle had told him that boys at the school were forced to dig holes in the orchard during the 1950s, and that the holes corresponded with children going missing. “Dig a hole, somebody’s missing, dig a hole, somebody’s missing,” he said.

Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc no longer says in public statements that they have found confirmed burials. In a 2024 statement, they described the events of 2021 as being when “the confirmation of 215 anomalies were detected.”

The official Parks Canada description of Kamloops Indian Residential School also doesn’t contain any definitive claims of clandestine burials.

A description of the site’s apple orchard says it’s the spot where “Survivors’ testimony has indicated contains unmarked burials.” The write-up also said the school was an agent of what “Survivors understand as genocide.”

Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc’s most recent statement on the apple orchard anomalies, issued just last February, said they haven’t ground-truthed any of the suspected graves, and they may never do so. The Globe and Mail reported last week that the First Nation is aiming to excavate the site in 2027.

Since children from 38 First Nations had attended Kamloops Indian Residential School, the February statement said that any archaeological work would need to be preceded by consensus from all 38.

As “full consensus may never be achieved,” the fate of the orchard may ultimately be preservation as a “Sacred Site – a place of memory and healing.”"

 

Damn denialism! The author of this article and everyone he interviewed needs to be jailed and the National Post shut down!

So much for no one having claimed that they were mass graves. 

Hearsay becomes Incontrovertible Truth when Indigenous people repeat it, and if you disagree, that's hate speech and you are a denialist and must be jailed.

 

Links - 14th June 2026 (1 - UK Politics)

Europa.com on X - "🇬🇧 The Ministry of Justice has ordered the deletion of the UK's largest court reporting archive.  Courtsdesk, a platform launched to improve media access to magistrates' court data has been ordered to delete its archive of records by David Lammy's Ministry of Justice.  According to Courtsdesk, the platform has since been used by more than 1,500 journalists from 39 media organisations and the data provided has highlighted serious failures in the courts system.  It said journalists were given no advance notice of 1.6 million criminal hearings, the number of court cases listed was accurate on just 4.2 per cent of sitting days and half a million weekend cases were heard with no notification to the press.  In November, HM Courts and Tribunal Service issued the company a cessation notice, citing what it called "unauthorised sharing" of court data, on the basis of a test feature, claiming this was a "data protection issue."  Enda Leahy, the Courtsdesk chief executive said: "We built the only system that could tell journalists what was actually happening in the criminal courts.  We wrote 16 times asking for dialogue. Last week we got our answer: delete everything. If the government were interested in open justice, they would engage in a dialogue."  Follow: @europa"
Dei Civitas on X - "The Third Worlder who somehow managed to get appointed as the UK’s Minister of Justice already decided to wipe out centuries of legal precedent, canceling the ancient right for citizens to be tried by a jury of their peers.  Now he has ordered the destruction of all court records which include testimonies about the genocidal Muslim campaign of rape against Britain’s little children."

MoJ orders deletion of UK’s largest court reporting archive - "Courtsdesk, which supports the media in monitoring records, is an important tool for journalists and the move raises concerns over open justice... According to Courtsdesk, the platform has since been used by more than 1,500 journalists from 39 media organisations and the data provided has highlighted serious failures in the courts system. It said journalists were given no advance notice of 1.6 million criminal hearings, the number of court cases listed was accurate on just 4.2 per cent of sitting days and half a million weekend cases were heard with no notification to the press. Two-thirds of all courts routinely heard cases that the media was not told about in advance. Seventeen courts that sent outcome records had not once published an advance listing in the entire period, the company’s research found."

Marcus Walker on X - "So let me get this straight: the prosecution of members of the IRA-honouring band, Kneecap, fell apart because the former lawyer for Gerry Adams failed to approve the prosecution until one day (1) after the six month window to do so?"

Meme - Stan Wilson @StanWil14145920: "🚨🇬🇧How it started.       ///       How it ended🇵🇰🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️."
*Stoic Churchill with bulldog draped with Union Jack vs Distressed Keir Starmer in pink dress, heels and pearl necklace with poodle with pink bowtie and pride flag*

Lee Nallalingham on X - "🚨 EXPOSED: The Green Party say they’re not backed by the wealthy or big business. Here are some of their donors:
💰 Mark Constantine Co-founder of Lush (900+ stores globally) Est. net worth: £250m–£350m  💰 Antony Gormley Internationally renowned sculptor (Angel of the North) Est. net worth: £40m+  💰 Julian Dunkerton Founder of Superdry (global fashion brand) Est. net worth: £375m+  💰 Matthew Oakeshott Investment manager & property firm chairman Est. net worth: £25m+  💰 Sigrid Rausing Tetra Pak heiress Family wealth: £12.5bn  💰 Vivienne Westwood Late founder of global fashion brand Former donor (est. net worth ~£40m at time of death)
Corporate donors:
💰 Lush Retail Ltd Global cosmetics company  £800m+ turnover  💰 Ecotricity Ltd Major UK energy supplier  £500m+ revenue  💰 Adam Management Holdings Property investment firm  Multi-million pound assets
All political parties take money from wealthy donors and businesses.  So why do they try to pretend otherwise?"
Ben Pile on X - "The Green Party were never interesting or distinct enough, or capable of mobilising as a political force, to attract much support. Labour's self-immolation has changed that dynamic. The Green Party, however, is the purest product of billionaires' political interventions. Its entire outlook is one cooked up by fake civil society and fake academia that would not have existed at all without the generosity of tycoons. And its genius has been constructing a mythology that convinces its narrow following that they are anti-establishment radicals."

The SNP says Scotland has ‘too few’ migrants. Luckily, I’ve got the perfect solution - "Hannah Spencer – the newbie Green MP for Gorton and Denton – expressed her disgust at finding that, while waiting to take part in late-night votes, some MPs consume alcoholic drinks. She sniffed: “I’m really uneasy about – and I noticed this the other day – when you can smell the alcohol when people are in between votes.”  Such horrified puritanism is a touch puzzling – mainly because the leader of Ms Spencer’s party, Zack Polanski, has called for the legalisation of all hard drugs. So the Green position, presumably, is that while the smell of wine or whisky is unacceptable, the smell of skunk would be absolutely fine. Imagine what Parliament will be like during a Polanski premiership. MPs will no longer touch booze. Because they’ll be too busy shooting up at the despatch box, or mugging elderly peers to fund their crack habits."

Starmer avoids ethics enquiry as MPs vote to back him on Mandelson vetting - "Sir Keir Starmer will avoid an ethics inquiry over whether he misled Parliament over the Mandelson scandal.  MPs backed the Prime Minister and voted to prevent him being investigated by the privileges committee, which looked into Boris Johnson’s involvement in partygate, by 335 votes to 223.  Sir Keir won the vote after whipping his MPs to back him in the Commons on Tuesday, which prompted criticism from several of his Left-wing backbenchers.   Fifteen Labour MPs face being suspended from the parliamentary party for defying a three-line whip in the crunch vote.  A further 53 Labour MPs abstained, with several doing so in protest against the Government. Others will have done so for other unrelated reasons, such as being unavailable for the vote.  Sir Keir has repeatedly removed the whip his own backbenchers for defying the party line. Less than a month after entering No 10, seven Labour MPs were suspended from the parliamentary party for rebelling over the two child benefit cap... Kemi Badenoch, the Tory leader, said: “To save his own skin, Keir Starmer threatened his MPs with the loss of their jobs unless they helped cover up his misleading statements to Parliament.”   The Liberal Democrats claimed that whipping Labour MPs to support the Prime Minister meant Sir Keir “ducked the scrutiny he should have faced”."

We all know who’s to blame for the rise in anti-Semitism – and it is not Israel - "The Prime Minister’s presence was not wanted on the campaign trail by Labour councillors who have twigged that Sir Keir is to voters what hantavirus is to cruises. Both are poisonous.  Instead, the PM was in Armenia doing his favourite thing, pledging to give away money we don’t have to the EU. My, how he lights up in the presence of Ursula von der Leyen, squirmy as a contented cat on its back in the sun. And how generous of Ursula to say that Britain can make annual payments of £1bn into European budgets as part of the PM’s Brexit “reset”... It is a mark of how low Starmer and his party have sunk in the 22 months since their loveless landslide that making Peter Mandelson our ambassador to Washington scarcely scrapes into the top 10 of unforced errors. This may just be me, but increasingly it feels as if we are under enemy occupation. Our basic freedoms and values are under threat: sinister moves to restrict trial by jury, a blasphemy law by the back door, aborting babies up till birth.  Our borders are a joke, unworthy of a serious country. Our energy security is non-existent thanks to Ed Miliband’s deranged and indefensible pursuit of net zero. Thetford Grammar, a school dating back 1,400 years, says it will soon close due to socialist spite, which hasn’t done a thing to improve the chances of children in state schools but has blighted the happiness of thousands of youngsters whose parents can no longer afford private education. In Shirkers Not Workers Britain, over 600,000 people get more in benefits than hard-working men and women earning the national average wage – both obscene and demoralising. A Telegraph investigation found our veterans have been pursued by the Attorney General, Lord Hermer, for split-second actions taken 40 years ago, although Hermer conceded there had to be “wiggle room” if, by any misfortune, things didn’t go his way and the accused men turned out to be innocent after all. Human rights lawyers have done more good than soldiers, the bounder added. Off to the Tower with him, I say! What else? Oh yes, don’t forget the Government tried to stop 30 local elections going ahead because democracy is such a nuisance when voters think you’re useless. Only the threat of legal action by Reform UK saw them reinstated. Meanwhile, Angela Rayner, scheming to become the single most ignorant person ever to hold the office of prime minister, posts a video of herself with a group of schoolboys. When one lad dares to suggest that “Nigel Farage would be better than Keir Starmer”, Ange unleashes a volley of misinformation, saying that Reform wants a more insurance-based health system, one that is “not free at the point of use”. Furthermore, she berates the blushing boy, who can’t be much more than 15, saying her (premature) son “would probably not have survived” in such a health system. (She seems to have forgotten she sued the NHS for a large amount of money over mistakes made at his birth.) To all of the above, you can add Labour’s jaw-dropping hypocrisy over anti-Semitism. Sir Keir was booed when he visited Golders Green, the blameless heart of British Jewish life, after two men were stabbed by a Somali with the obligatory “mental health issues”... It has been perfectly clear to many of us that, since pro-Palestinian groups applied on October 7, 2023, the very day of the Hamas massacres in Israel, for permission to march through London, an epidemic of Jew-hatred was likely to be the result.  Labour, though, found itself in a tricky position. Dependent on votes from the Muslim community, some of whose members are steeped in anti-Semitism by hate-preaching imams in mosques no one is brave enough to shut down, it was reluctant to rock the multicultural boat. Instead, Starmer mouthed platitudes like “to be British is to be diverse”, while that same diversity was leading to Jewish people becoming increasingly scared and even making plans to leave their home, this country.  Starmer can no longer ignore the problem, as was his instinct, because the situation is raging out of control. The UK National Terrorism Threat Level has been raised to “Severe”. A putrid Green Party is contesting Thursday’s council elections not on bins and potholes but Gaza and “genocide”. One Green candidate suggested, outrageously, that Israel was behind the Hamas atrocities. Until a hasty U-turn, the party’s leader, Zack Polanski, a Jew himself, was wondering whether the threat Jewish people were feeling was real or just a “perception”.  A report released on Monday, May 4 by think tank Policy Exchange, Understanding Islamopopulism: Views of Concern, says British Muslims are on course to further distance themselves from the Labour Party in key election battlegrounds, as well as having “widely differing views from the general population on Gaza, blasphemy and cultural issues such as gender segregation and the presence of dogs in public spaces”. In other words, unlike our Jewish community, too many are poorly integrated and hold un-British values... let us see no more purity tests for British Jews, like the one posed by Sir Tony Brenton, former British ambassador to Russia. In The Times, Sir Tony suggested that if Jews here were more critical of Israel’s conduct in Gaza, they might improve their chances of not being stabbed. Shocking victim-shaming. What other ethnic group is held to that standard?"

Lord Hermer has questions to answer - "Among the more shameful activities of the British judicial system has been the hounding of members of the Armed Forces because of false allegations of committing crimes during combat operations, often dating back decades. Soldiers who served in Northern Ireland 50 years ago, as well as in more recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, have been subjected to lengthy and sometimes multiple investigations.  In a number of notorious instances, the accusations have been fabricated. The disgraced lawyer Phil Shiner was struck off and convicted of fraud after procuring false evidence against Iraq War veterans in an attempt to win compensation for the alleged victims.  As we have reported, Shiner was supported by Lord Hermer, now the Attorney-General, who dismissed warnings that the cases being drawn up were fallacious.  He was the lead counsel providing advice on how to pursue the civil claims against the Ministry of Defence. He continued to press for lucrative payouts despite mounting evidence that his eight Iraqi clients were lying about what happened during the so-called Battle of Danny Boy in 2004. The episode left decorated veterans facing false accusations of murder for a decade.  The investigations culminated in the Al-Sweady public inquiry, which cost tens of millions of pounds, only to conclude that the allegations were “deliberate lies” driven by “ingrained hostility” towards the British Army.  The British troops were fully exonerated and the scandal led to disciplinary investigations into a number of human rights lawyers, including Shiner... The Danny Boy case was part of a pattern of using human rights laws to pursue soldiers that continues to this day. It was revealed this week that members of the Special Air Service regiment are leaving in significant numbers because of concerns that actions taken on operations could later see them investigated or arrested under human rights law.  Retrospective legal scrutiny and the application of European human rights law to historic conflicts have created a climate where soldiers now question whether operational decisions made in good faith could later be used against them. This so-called “lawfare” is undermining our elite forces and poses a direct threat to national security, yet it was actively encouraged by the man who is now Attorney-General in a government led by another human rights lawyer.  Indeed, as a young barrister in 1997, Sir Keir Starmer called for European human rights laws to be used to investigate British troops in Iraq and was instrumental in extending the ECHR to cover the activities of the Armed Forces for the first time. His Government is also repealing an effective Tory ban on prosecutions of soldiers who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. When the Prime Minister talks of his support for the Armed Forces, we should not forget his role and that of other human rights lawyers such as Lord Hermer in this witch hunt."

Zack Polanski liked post claiming Zionists control Government - "Zack Polanski liked several social media posts which accused Sir Keir Starmer of being on the payroll of powerful Jewish people, The Telegraph can reveal.  The Green leader liked messages which said Sir Keir was receiving money from “Zionist philanthropists” and asked “how much does Israel pay him?”  All of the remarks were posted on Bluesky, a Left-wing social media network that was set up to rival Elon Musk’s X, within the past six months... one person standing for the party referred to Jewish people as “cockroaches”, while others spread conspiracy theories about the Oct 7 attacks and referred to Zionism as “the Nazism of our time”."

Labour to lose Muslim voters - "Muslim voters are deserting Labour with six in 10 prepared to vote for a pro-Gaza independent candidate or the Green Party in Thursday’s council elections, a poll has revealed.  If there were a general election tomorrow, only a third of Muslim voters would support Labour under Sir Keir Starmer, down from a high of 80 per cent, according to the poll of 1,006 Muslim adults by JL Partners for the Policy Exchange.  The think tank said this would probably cause a wave of new Muslim independent candidates being elected in areas such as Birmingham, Blackburn and Newham.  The poll also revealed higher levels of anti-Semitic sentiment among Muslim voters than in the general population, in a sign of growing sectarianism.  Data show Muslims are twice as likely as the general British adult population to hold “unfavourable” views about British Jews and believe they have too much power over the media and Parliament... Policy Exchange said this shift was driven by significant divides between the views of British Muslims and other Britons. The data show Muslims prioritise their religious identity over their identity as British citizens... The figures were reversed for the general population with 43 per cent prioritising national identity versus 12 per cent who ranked religious identity as most important... Muslims are five times more likely (25 per cent) than the average Briton (5 per cent) to say that the Israel-Gaza conflict will determine their vote.  A quarter of the British Muslims polled had a favourable view of Hamas, versus 28 per cent who held an unfavourable opinion of the terrorist group.  They were more likely to have a favourable view of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) than an unfavourable one (23 per cent versus 20 per cent).  Nearly a quarter of Muslim respondents (24 per cent) said they believed that violence could be a legitimate response to someone burning the Koran or showing or creating an image of the Prophet Mohammed, compared with 10 per cent of the public.  Hostility towards Jewish people was greater amongst Muslims, with 21 per cent admitting that they felt unfavourably towards Jewish people, compared with 11 per cent of the public. Some 45 per cent of Muslims believed Jewish people had too much power over the media and 39 per cent said they had too much power over Parliament, more than double the proportion of people in the country as a whole who share these beliefs.  The poll also found that Muslim voters were more often victims of improper election practices. Some 14 per cent of Muslim voters polled said they had had a postal vote collected by a political candidate, activist or campaigner – a practice which is now illegal and was long associated with election fraud. This is almost double the proportion for the general population."
When your attempt to court the Muslim vote fails. Of course, they will double down on the strategy, since they have a common enemy
We are still told that Muslims in the UK are well-integrated

What happened to the Green wave? | The Spectator - "No amount of Labour spin will disguise the party’s dreadful night, but the hefty losses of seats in English council areas are nothing more than was expected. The bigger story of the night is the failure of the Greens to make any meaningful breakthrough. With 40 councils so far declared – a minority, as most did not count votes overnight and will declare this afternoon – the Greens have made a net gain of just 25 seats, less than a tenth of the gains made by Reform UK. They are running at around 18 per cent of the popular vote, while Reform UK are pushing 30 per cent. This matters because for months Zack Polanski and the Greens have been promoted (and not just by themselves) as the mirror image of Nigel Farage and Reform UK: they are supposed to be the insurgent party of the Left to balance Reform as the insurgent party of the Right. There has been talk of them entering government as part of a left-wing coalition after the next election, possibly as the largest party.   Yet today’s results show what a forlorn hope that is for the Greens. A genuine insurgent party would have walked it in Tameside and Wigan, yet it was Reform UK which romped home there at Labour’s expense.  The Greens are only really doing well in student areas. This shouldn’t come as any great surprise, as they have been leading in the polls among 18 to 24 year olds. Their policies could not be better tuned to stirring student activists: climate change, Palestine, as well as declaring war on billionaires and small-time landlords. Yet their policies, similarly, could not be better calculated to offend Red Wall voters. They want to ban horse-racing and make driving a privilege rather than a right and force motorists to retake a test every five years. Just try selling that to white van man. For the past few decades the Labour party has succeeded in holding together an often unholy alliance of low paid working people and aggrieved minorities: the broke and the woke. They deftly found the language to win support, for example, from both gay rights activists and socially-conservative Muslims, even though those interests might seem to be diametrically opposed. Polanski’s Greens, by contrast, have no such political skills. They have made a loud noise by appealing only to the woke side of Labour’s fragile coalition. That is no basis to win a general election."

I know why Nigel Farage & Reform are so popular & why Labour & the Tories just don't get it, says Sir Trevor Phillips - "“FRANKLY, if you want people to vote for you, I don’t think the best way is to start by telling them that the guys they’ve just voted for are stupid and racist . . . and then we wonder why they hate us.”... The broadcaster, who was knighted for his services to equality and human rights, tells The Sun, “Something very profound has taken place in this country”, with Labour and the Conservatives “oddly enough the people who are the last to have grasped this”.  The self-confessed North London lefty, who once advised Tony Blair and ran the Equality and Human Rights Commission from 2007 until 2012, says the results must surely now be the long-overdue wake-up call for Britain’s political elite.  “We haven’t really grasped until recently how deeply traumatic de-industrialisation has been for this country,” Phillips warns.  “Most of those towns are working-class, they are white and their experience is completely different to the cosmopolitan cities of London, Manchester or Birmingham.  “The way they see the world is just very different to the way I would see the world, living in North London, and people like us in North London literally haven’t got it.  “We look down on those people and tell them, ‘If you vote for such and such, don’t you understand you’re voting for bigotry or racism or backwardness?’, which is almost the same as saying, ‘You’re a bigot and you’re backward’.”  On top of the decline of British industry, Phillips argues the infusion of mass migration has caused a rupture in our politics that the old order has spectacularly failed to grasp, with already devastating consequences.  Yet he is clear he does not believe Sir Keir Starmer has the first idea about what to do about it, slamming the smug arrogance of a government that “believed that because they thought of themselves as better people, that everybody would be grateful to them for replacing the Tories and that that would be enough”...   And he says the PM’s interviews, since last Thursday’s ballot-box thumping, show that he still does not get it — paraphrasing Starmer’s response as: “The biggest mistake we’ve made is not to say loudly and clearly enough that we have been right about everything.  “But what we’re going to do now is we’re going to tell people more clearly that we’re great and that everybody else is either a bigot or clueless.”   So what is his advice for a political class in the capital that is now obsessing over the latest twists and turns of the Westminster leadership parlour game, wondering whether Labour will finally listen to the public or retreat to the comfort zone of the Left?  “Never bet against Nigel Farage. This is a man with extraordinary patience and shrewdness, with a capacity — probably unequalled by anybody since Tony Blair — to just intuitively understand where the country’s centre of gravity is.  “He’s demonstrated in his success, and it’s undoubtedly a success, that he understood the mood and the sentiment of the country better than anybody else in politics.”... Phillips says it’s “striking” that only Farage is dominating geographically and “it is objectively the case that there is only one party which competes across England, Scotland and Wales — and that is Reform.”  Surveying the new reality, he says: “The Tories are nowhere in the North. Labour doesn’t figure in the South West. It’s almost been wiped out in Wales, the place of its birth. “It’s lost in the North West. The Greens only win in London, Brighton, Cambridge and places where there is a big university.  “The only party which appears to be able to compete in all those spheres is Reform. Now what does that tell you? It tells you that we are a country which is ‘Balkanised’ — where the experiences of people in different situations are very different.”...   Balkanisation doesn’t just mean diversity. It means communities living side by side, but not together...   Add to that decline the effects of mass migration and a lack of integration and Phillips argues, Britain is dangerously siloed.  He says: “What I had not myself grasped until maybe last year — and I should have been the first to see it — is that once migrant communities get to a certain size, there is no particular incentive for some of them to integrate with everybody else.  “There’s a number, 100,000 or thereabouts, the Office for National Statistics defines as a large town.  “We did some work on this and we discovered that there are about 30 groups of more than 100,000 people who come from the same background — Romanians, people from Poland, people from West Africa, Ghana and Nigeria, and they are big enough communities to be what we call semi-autonomous.  “They can have their own businesses, places of worship, their own social setting, their own media, and they cluster together. And they can live inside those communities.  “And that’s a problem, both for people inside the communities, and also for people outside the communities who think, ‘What is this? Are these people in the same country as we are? Are they adopting the same habits we are?’   “And in some cases the answer is yes, but in some cases the answer is not yet. And that is, I think, the relationship between mass migration and fragmentation.”  And Sir Trevor warns that political correctness has got in the way of integration, warning we have “got ourselves into a place where we have so misinterpreted what is meant by multiculturalism that our institutions are allowing behaviours which are not just alien but dangerous”.   He says we must all “be a bit less shy about telling people there are things that we tolerate and things that we don’t”...   And he warns that too often this dangerous adherence to political correctness and a timidity in calling out problems has already been fatal.  “Going back, you will remember Victoria Climbie, the little girl who was murdered by relatives, and there was a similar case recently, a little girl called Sara Sharif . . .  Axel Rudakubana, the Southport case — social services, it is said, did not want to intervene because of the culture of the family concerned.  “Now, there is no culture that should be immune to intervention when it involves cruelty to children or risk to life.”"

David Betz on X - "I couldn’t care less about the King’s Speech, Kier Starmer’s fate, or who takes over the helm in No 10 next. It’s low theatre at this point because none of them can, or show any sign of wishing, to steer the ship away from violent collision with reality.  Britain was decisively and obviously off course from anything functionally democratic or economically viable long before Gordon Brown snuck the Lisbon Treaty through Parliament in the dead of night.   By then the rot was already advanced, but that act of constitutional sleight-of-hand crystallised it: sovereignty quietly auctioned off to Brussels while the public was told to look the other way.   The 2008 crash slammed a lid on real wage growth for anyone not already in the asset-owning class; the military, hollowed out by endless expeditionary wars and procurement disasters, was in a shit state fifteen years ago and has only atrophied further.   By 2012 the writing was on the wall with mass migration—its demographic, cultural and economic effects plain to anyone not paid to ignore them.   Police quality has been systematically trashed by Theresa May’s reforms and the deliberate evisceration of Special Branch, turning what was once a recognisably British constabulary into something closer to a politically compliant and social-work bureaucracy, parts of which played a vile and still unpunished role in the rape gangs  The 2016 Brexit referendum was not some xenophobic spasm; it was a national demand for a government that would finally put the interests of the people of these islands first.   Instead the political establishment and the permanent bureaucracy launched a decade-long campaign of sabotage and rearguard action, determined that nothing fundamental would change.   Keir Starmer is not a good man and he is certainly not a good Prime Minister, but the brutal truth is that none of them will be better. The system cannot fix itself. It is too incompetent, too captured, and too corrupt.  The local election results last week confirmed precisely the political and social dynamics I have been diagnosing for years.   Voters in traditional Labour and Conservative heartlands delivered a stinging rebuke to the establishment parties that presided over high migration, cultural displacement and stagnant living standards.   Reform UK became the vehicle for native discontent, its gains in working-class northern and Midlands seats signalling exactly the cross-class, regional backlash I have described: a tripartite divide between those who still believe in the nation and those who do not.   Polarisation, fragmentation, the splintering of the old two-party cartel, all of it illustrates the breakdown of democratic consent and the rise of identity-driven politics that are the classic preconditions for deeper conflict.  One could pretend this is healthy democratic pressure relief. It is not. Electoral revolt is an early symptom, not a cure.   The structural drivers, including mass migration, elite refusal to acknowledge cultural incompatibility, economic decline, are too deeply embedded for conventional politics to address.   Reform may win seats, but the unelected bureaucracy, the courts, the media and the NGOs will obstruct, delay and dilute any real change.   The establishment’s preferred candidate is now the one-time “controlled opposition” because the system is that desperate. Meanwhile the problems metastasise faster than any promised reform can catch up.  Hard to get excited, then, about whatever announcements limp out of the King’s Speech. They will not survive contact with reality if we ever get an actually British government staffed by competent, responsible people accountable to the country and to duty rather than to supranational ideology or personal advancement. If we do not get that government, the country will not survive in any recognisable form."

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed
Left wingers love to control people. Of course, the Tory sugar tax is proof that they were a "conservative" government and not, as Badenoch admitted, talking right and governing left

Green MSP: I couldn’t wait for late Queen to kick the bucket - "A new Green MSP previously posted online that they could not wait for the late Queen Elizabeth II to “kick the bucket”, it has emerged.   Iris Duane, a biological male who uses she/her pronouns, referred to the late Queen as “big lizard Lizzie” in a social media post in January 2022... Duane, who was elected as a Glasgow MSP on Friday, wrote: “I cannot wait till big lizard Lizzie kicks the bucket, not because she’s dead but because of the absolute meltdown it will cause the British consciousness.”   The Scottish Greens said the tweet was “intended as a joke” and had since been deleted."