The hilarious collapse of the cult of the keffiyeh

The hilarious collapse of the cult of the keffiyeh
From Greta’s ship to the Global March to Gaza, the white saviours of the ‘pro-Palestine’ set have never looked so silly. 

Don’t you just hate it when brown people reject your white saviourism? So rude! Such mannerless ingratitude greeted the Global March to Gaza last week. These valiant few from the US, the UK, Ireland and elsewhere had planned to trek to Rafah in Gaza to save poor, hungry Palestinians from Evil Israel. But they came unstuck in Egypt, where instead of welcoming these fearless foreign liberators of the benighted Arabs, local folk ridiculed them, pelted them with plastic bottles and roundly told them to fuck off. Wait, you people don’t want to be saved by a plummy white lady from London in a keffyeh?

I know there’s a lot going on in the world right now, but can we please not overlook how unbelievably hilarious it is that the Global March to Gaza has been thwarted by angry Arabs. That this swarm of pompous gits who fantasised that they would shield the Arabs of Gaza from the ‘genocidal lunacy’ of the Jewish State were instead roughed up by the Arabs of Egypt who don’t want their nation used as a stage for moral masturbation by every puffed-up Palestine fetishist of the West. That instead of getting bottles of water to Gaza, these people had bottles of water lobbed at their own heads by pissed-off Egyptians. The mirth of it all might just get me through the rest of this year.

The Global March to Gaza consisted of 4,000 people from 54 countries. They had planned to walk to the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza where they would have ‘demand[ed] that Israel re-open the border [and] create a humanitarian corridor’. How the Jewish State would have trembled before this mighty delegation that included a gaggle of anoraks from Welsh CND, a British art curator called Tasmin and a bald politician from Ireland! Honestly, one doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry at the unworldly vanity of this dishevelled army of weak-chinned Westerners who really thought they could finger-wag a war out of existence.

Some of the marchers were from North Africa. Others were from the West. Like the self-styled ‘empathetic human’ from the UK who said ‘I endeavour to do what our governments have failed [to do]’ and ‘mobilise [my] passion and humanity’. Or the Brit who lamented her ‘privilege’ of being a ‘white, north European living in relative peace’ and promised to do something worthy for once, like ‘lend my presence to this cause’. Or the Canadian who said ‘I can’t ignore my conscience’. All I’m hearing is I, me, mine. Was it really Gaza they wanted to liberate or their own morbidly obese egos?

Sadly, by which I mean hilariously, their cloying pity for Arabs crashed against the reality of Arab self-respect. I am still not recovered from the sight of these self-loving midwits in their culturally appropriated keffiyehs being shouted down by Egyptians in real keffiyehs. On the road to Ismailia in northern Egypt, the marchers were stopped by security forces. So they gathered in a square by the mosque and chanted ‘Free, free Palestine!’. Locals weren’t best pleased. Well, would you be if a gang of pious pricks from afar rocked up in your town and started yelling political shit near your place of worship? The locals shouted at the ‘empathetic humans’. They threw plastic bottles at them. White Saviour card, declined!

The outsiders hollered ‘Shame on you’ at their Arab critics. Yes, in English. These are the kind of people who look down their noses at Brits who holiday in Spain and never utter a word of Spanish and yet here they were barking English-language insults at Egyptians in Egypt. There will never be a better representation of the phoney virtue and haughty self-regard of the ‘pro-Palestine’ set than this dystopic image of Westerners in Arab headgear screaming ‘shame’ at real Arabs who just want to go about their day without encountering some tit from Britain ‘manifesting passion and humanity’.

Some of the marchers were arrested. They were bundled on to buses and taken to the airport to be returned to the ‘privileged’ lives they hate. They were ‘shocked’ by their treatment. Why? Anyone with even a fleeting knowledge of Arab politics will know that Egyptian officialdom is iffy about the Palestine issue. They don’t want the Gaza tragedy leaking into their already troubled land – hence, Egypt’s border with Gaza is if anything more militarised than Israel’s. The childish moral fables that the West’s white-saviour classes tell themselves – where Israel is the source of every ill in the Middle East, if not the world – took one hell of a beating in Egypt.

The farcical state of ‘pro-Palestine’ activism is best summed up in that viral clip of a Welsh male nurse begging Egyptian cops to have a heart. He weeps as he pleads to be let through so that he might help the poor people of ‘Falasteen’. The children are starving, the women’s breasts are empty – prove to the world that Arabs have ‘white hearts’ and let me pass, he says. This is the ‘pro-Palestine’ movement’s Four Lions moment. Indeed, if I ever write a satire on these keffiyeh pricks, this is exactly what will happen: an emotionally incontinent white man in a keffiyeh will holler ‘Let me save Palestine!’ as bewildered Arabs raise a what-the-fuck eyebrow.

The hilarious collapse of the Global March to Gaza follows Israel’s thwarting of Greta Thunberg’s ship of fools. That watery clown show, where 12 moral preeners imagined they could land in Gaza and ‘save’ its people, was likewise motored by a toxic mix of political infantilism and moral self-importance. From grumpy Greta being flown home to that Welsh dude being memed and mocked across the internet, the cult of the keffiyeh is in trouble. Many can now see that the aim of this activism is not to feed people in Gaza but to feed the vanity of Westerners bored with their privileged lives. It’s an orgy of Orientalism in which the activist class cosplays as Arabs because they think it’s lame and shameful to be white.

That’s what ‘pro-Palestine’ activism is now, everywhere from the keffiyeh-fest on the lawns of Harvard to the ludicrous white-saviour theatrics in Egypt: a fairytale for self-hating, time-rich Westerners in which Arabs are always the victims and the Jewish State is evil incarnate. It has no basis in truth, of course, but then truth is not the aim: moral absolution is. Cry more, Israelophobes – your sanctimony is crashing against the shores of reality.

Links - 28th August 2025 (1 - UK Migrant Riots: Two Tier Policing - Lucy Connolly)

Basil the Great on X - "On the left is Lucy Connolly, a mother who wrote an offensive social media post she later deleted. For this crime she was given 2 years and 7 months in prison.  On the right is Mohammed Abbkr, he sprayed petrol on 2 people and set them on fire, his punishment? A hospital order for his mental health  These sentences were handed out BY THE SAME JUDGE.  We have an activist, insidious and corrupted judiciary in this country. Handing out suspended sentences to child abusers and multiple years behind bars for difficult opinions.  The liberal establishment loves the politicisation of our justice system but it's pure poison for our country.  And now it's yet another thing we must overhaul if we are to take our country back and restore order to our beloved home."

Winston Marshall on X - "Lucy Connolly was sentenced to 31 months for a tweet. Muhammad Faizan Khan was sentenced to 12 months for rape which caused a miscarriage whilst trespassing using fraudulent ID. What the hell has happened to our country"

Teacher sacked and branded 'Islamophobic' after he was reported over a Facebook post criticising Lucy Connolly's prison sentence says he has lost everything after the 'witch hunt' - "Simon Pearson has spoken out after being branded Islamophobic following his social media message about the imprisoned wife of a former Conservative councillor.  Mr Pearson, a former employee of Preston College, was subject to an internal investigation following his comment that Connolly 'should not have been jailed' - after two Facebook contacts reported him... An internal investigation was launched following a complaint submitted by a Muslim representative of the National Education Union (NEU) at the school who alleged that the post was 'Islamophobic' and 'racially discriminatory'.  Mr Pearson has said he apologised and also claimed to have provided evidence of his support for both Muslim students and asylum seekers...  'I was blindsided. Someone reported my private posts without a word to me.  'It felt like being snitched on in the dark - no conversation, no context, just condemnation.  'Twenty years of dedicated service, a spotless record, and deep care for every student - including many Muslim pupils I've supported and mentored - was wiped away.  'The accusation of "Islamophobia" became a label that no amount of truth could peel off.  'It was like living through a witch hunt. Once the accusation was made, the process felt less like an investigation and more like a verdict already written.'...  'I spoke out about real concerns, about the Manchester Airport attack, Southport, and the Lucy Connolly case.  'These are matters of public safety and justice. If we silence the freedom to express concern and ask questions, we're in serious trouble as a society.  'I've lost my livelihood, my reputation, and my peace of mind - not because I did something wrong, but because I dared to speak.  'If a teacher with a 20-year unblemished record can be sacked for expressing valid concerns shared by millions in their own time, then none of us are safe and something has to change so that no one else has to go through what I have.'  Mr Pearso has now launched legal action at an employment tribunal, claiming wrongful dismissal, unfair dismissal, harassment and discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. Lord Young of Acton, founder of the Free Speech Union, told the Daily Mail he was 'shocked' by the decision to sack Mr Pearson.  He accused the National Education Union of 'siding with the bosses rather than the workers when it comes to breaches of workplace speech codes'."
He apologised, yet was still sacked. There is a lesson here

Connie Shaw on X - "How many FRICKING times. Lucy Connolly pleaded guiltily precisely because she was told she’d be ‘home by Christmas’ as she’d have a reduced sentence. She was remanded in custody meaning she only had direct access to the poor legal advice of her duty solicitor. Not once would she, or her solicitor, expect to get 31 months for a tweet."
Connie Shaw on X - "Ricky Jones had the advise of an experienced criminal KC. Why? Because he was released on bail, pleaded not guilty and was aquitted as he should have been. 4 days before Lucy was arrested, Starmer said that people will face the ‘full force of the law’ and ‘will be held on remand’"

Starmer accused of hypocrisy over Lucy Connolly prosecution - "The Prime Minister supported the conviction of Connolly for inciting racial hatred over an expletive-ridden post on X after the Southport attacks, but it has emerged he had previously suggested that people who swiftly deleted offensive social media statements should not necessarily face criminal action... in 2013, when director of public prosecutions, he introduced guidance for prosecutors to consider a more lenient approach towards suspects who “swiftly” deleted social media posts and expressed “genuine remorse”... “Lord Hermer personally authorised this prosecution, in what looks like another example of two-tier justice bearing in mind the very long sentence given when compared to others who committed actual acts of violence.” Lord Toby Young, the director of the Free Speech Union, said: “Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, should have listened to the advice of Sir Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, and urged the CPS not to bring charges against Lucy Connolly. “Sentencing her to more than two and a half years for a single tweet which she quickly deleted and apologised for has undermined public confidence in the criminal justice system, particularly when Labour councillors, MPs and anti-racism campaigners who have said and done much worse have avoided jail altogether. “The public have concluded – rightly – that it’s one rule for people on the Right and another for people on the Left.""

Two-tier justice is a national disgrace - "When Attorney General Richard Hermer told the BBC in June that it was “disgusting” and “wrong” to claim that Britain had a two-tier justice system, “offensive” to the country’s “crown prosecutors” and “courts”, he was attempting to bat away a wave of criticism that sought to make the point that justice in this country is no longer blind.   It did not help his point that just a few weeks before, the Sentencing Council for England and Wales had sought to make this implicit bias explicit, suggesting that some offenders should receive more lenient sentences based on their ethnicity. Even this Labour Government felt compelled to pass emergency legislation to block the move.   Perhaps the most visible manifestation of two-tier justice is the treatment of Lucy Connolly, the wife of a Conservative councillor jailed after posting on social media that people could “set fire to all the… hotels full of [asylum seekers] for all I care”. This was a stupid and reprehensible remark, fired into the void of social media with little thought as to its potential consequences. Ms Connolly entered a guilty plea, and was sentenced to 31 months’ imprisonment.   Had she stood her ground, she might well have walked free. Ricky Jones, a Labour councillor who made a seemingly explicit call for violence – telling a large crowd that they needed to “cut” the “throats” of “disgusting Nazi fascists” and “get rid of them all” – was cleared by a jury yesterday.   There is a clear difference between a guilty plea and a jury decision. The clear disparity in outcomes, however, will further fuel criticism of a system that appears to function very differently for those from the correct part of the political spectrum. And for the cynical, there is the question of the pressure placed on Ms Connolly by the prospect of being held on remand for an extended period.   This does not help with the “community tensions” politicians are at pains to minimise. Nor does it help public acceptance of the justice system when visibly absurd outcomes mount up on a near daily basis... This is particularly so in comparison with what appears to be the preferred outcome of the Government: for critics to shut up and accept that the legal system produces the right outcomes. Not only does this fail to silence criticism, it serves to further undermine faith in the law. Criticism of Britain’s two-tier system will continue for as long as we get two-tier outcomes."

The Ricky Jones verdict proves free speech is a joke in two-tier Britain - "After Labour councillor Ricky Jones stood at a demonstration in Walthamstow decrying “disgusting Nazi fascists” and telling a crowd through a microphone that “we need to cut all their throats and get rid of them all”, a jury of Mr Jones’s peers cleared him of any offence... It is hard not to feel that the difference between the two cases is less a matter of law than politics. Lucy Connolly was denied bail as Sir Keir Starmer and the judiciary worked on their “shared understanding” that anyone expressing sentiments that could have encouraged last year’s riots needed to be made an example of. Sir Keir himself told the nation that individuals would be held on remand. The Home Office openly risked prejudicing trials by labelling those arrested, charged but not yet convicted as “criminals”.  If there’s a lesson here, it may well be that people can say stupid things without the world collapsing around them. And that the public – which did not visibly respond to either exhortation – can be trusted, for the most part, to recognise the distinction between genuinely threatening language and idiocy, both on the streets and in jury deliberations. Unlike our American cousins, British people have only a very qualified right to free speech. While the human rights system appears to go out of its way to undermine attempts to control borders or crack down on crime, protection of speech is heavily caveated. And the British state makes full use of these carve-outs in its attempt to maintain its fragile grip on the country it has built. Its most important aim is to prevent tensions between groups. Speech that might inflame them is subject to stringent oversight and exacting scrutiny by officials terrified of what might spiral out from a frank examination of the country as it is.  People on the Left, however, can speak with relative security. The result, in the words of Reform’s Zia Yusuf, appears to be “a country in which those who have the correct ‘regime’ political views can openly call for their political opponents to be brutally murdered, be filmed doing so, and face no criminal consequences”."

Lewis Brackpool on X - "Former Labour councillor Ricky Jones was filmed telling a crowd that Southport protesters should “have their throats cut.” He is out on bail. Meanwhile, Lucy Connolly has had her appeal denied — over a tweet she deleted within approximately three hours."

BBC News - Councillor cleared of encouraging violent behaviour : r/unitedkingdom - "From what I understand these people were basically coerced into pleading guilty. Told they would be held on remand until trial, which could be upwards of 18months. Advised they'd get a slap on the wrist, and then the judge throws the book at them.  Meanwhile, this councillor was allowed out on bail.  That's the issue, it's about why these people pled guilty, not necessarily the sentence they got"
Naturally, the left wingers were accusing people of making this up. Unfortunately OP was unable to find the source (below)

The punishment of Lucy Connolly | The Spectator - "‘Whatever I’d done, [the] police made it quite clear I was going down for this’, she says, ‘their intention was always to hammer me’. So it proves. She received only a perfunctory psychiatric evaluation, where she was not even asked about the loss of her child. After she expressed reasonable concerns about illegal immigration in a police interview, the CPS issued a misleading statement that Lucy ‘told officers she did not like immigrants’.  Several legal professionals consider her 31-month sentence inordinately harsh, and we have learned about the effect her imprisonment is having on her family. In the absence of her mother, her daughter has started having behavioural issues at school. Her husband, Ray, who is ill, does his best, but is no substitute for Lucy.  Crueller still, Connolly is being denied release on temporary licence, even while it’s granted to fellow inmates convicted of more serious crimes. A low risk to the community and a primary carer to her child, Lucy ought to be a prime candidate for this normal step in the rehabilitation process. But Lucy claims that a prison official told her probation officer she wouldn’t get let out with a tag ‘because of press and public perception’. ‘The whole system is corrupt’, she says. Still, blaming the system as a whole here strikes me as rather too charitable to those most responsible for what has happened to Connolly and others like her. Because the injustice that has followed the Southport unrest was no inevitability nor an accident: it stemmed from deliberate political choices.  In the most crucial part of the exposé, Connolly says she was influenced to plead guilty as a result of being held on remand. Behind bars, struggling to speak to a solicitor and with a trial date potentially months away, Lucy became panicked and demoralised. ‘A guilty plea looked like the fastest way to put this nightmare behind her’, explains Pearson. She pleaded guilty in the knowledge she would get a discount on her sentence, expecting to be out by Christmas. In fact, having spoken to barristers, Ray Connolly was convinced that no jury would convict Lucy for a single horrible tweet. Indeed, this contention has been borne out by other speech cases following Southport that have come to trial. In October, former prison officer Mark Heath successfully argued that in his series of anti-immigration social media posts he simply was expressing his ‘strong views’, and was found not guilty of stirring up racial hatred. As for former Royal Marine Jamie Michael, in February the jury took such a dim view of the prosecution of this mild-mannered veteran over a YouTube video that they returned a not guilty verdict in just 17 minutes. Behind bars, however, Connolly never got to hear that she stood a strong chance of being found not guilty should she face a jury of her peers.  So the question one has to ask is: why was she not granted bail? After all, this was anything but normal practice. Lucy was not a danger to the community. She was certainly not going to offend again, utterly shocked by the experience and having in any case deleted her Twitter account. And this was a first offence by a respected childminder of good character.  But judges were refusing almost all bail applications connected to Southport, following explicit political direction from the top. Early in the disorder, a flinty-faced Sir Keir Starmer had told the nation: ‘The police will be making arrests. Individuals will be held on remand. Charges will follow. And convictions will follow.’   Politics also came to influence the justice system through the widely repeated claim that the unrest had been caused principally by disinformation on social media – ‘whipped up online’, in Starmer’s words. This claim has always been dubious at best, there being plenty of offline  reasons for public anger. Indeed, arguably it was the authorities’ information vacuum about the Southport suspect that sparked so much mistrust, as the government’s terrorism adviser, Jonathan Hall KC, has recently said. This face-saving narrative about disinformation may well have pushed the justice system to come down harshly on online speech. The judge who sentenced 23-year-old care worker Cameron Bell – held on remand for a TikTok livestream in which she referred to migrants as ‘tramps’ – made this abundantly clear, saying: ‘The violence was fuelled by misinformation and misplaced far-right sentiment.’ In sentencing Connolly, Judge Melbourne Inman likewise drew a link between ‘social media’ and violence on the streets.   Further heightening the zeal of the state response was Starmer’s repeated claim that the unrest was the work of an organised ‘far-right’, a ‘tiny, mindless minority’ who had arrived from out of town to exploit the situation. In fact, the majority of those arrested were locals, as later analysis of the arrest data by both the Telegraph and the Guardian has found. Misleading as it was, this narrative served to aggressively politicise the unrest. In this telling, those involved were not fellow citizens distraught at a tragedy – who might therefore be treated even-handedly – they were enemies within, to be crushed. Judge Inman made the political nature of Lucy Connolly’s case clear when he admonished her from the bench that ‘It is [a] strength of our society that it is both diverse and inclusive’.  You don’t have to take my word for it that the Labour government is responsible for the state crackdown post-Southport – just take Starmer’s. ‘Crime has consequences’, he boasted in his rose garden speech near the end of August, adding, ‘I won’t tolerate a breakdown in law and order under any circumstances’. But if the prime minister can take personal credit for the Southport response, he must accept personal blame for the plight of its victims"

The rapists, paedophiles and terror offender given shorter sentences than Lucy Connolly - "A convicted child rapist avoided jail due to the prison overcrowding crisis in 2023. Rees Newman was jailed for just two years after being convicted of the historic rape of a child under the age of 14. A judge agreed to suspend his sentence for two years. When, months later, he breached the terms of his sentence by flying to Egypt without notifying officers and was hauled back in front of the court, he avoided jail a second time.  The judge said: “The only reason you have escaped immediate custody today is because of the prison overcrowding crisis.”...   A man who was convicted of seven charges of possessing terrorist information was sentenced to 18 months in prison, suspended for two years, in February 2024 – six months before the disorder that followed the Southport killings.  Charles Cannon, who was described as having “a dangerous mindset”, collected documents on how to make homemade explosives and weapons. He spoke “enthusiastically of the stabbing of asylum seekers”. A court heard how he “repeated on many occasions anti-Semitic tropes” and “said he would kill, when speaking about people of colour”. A guide to making explosives was found on his mobile phone."

Libs of TikTok on X - "Lucy Connolly is currently serving a 31-month sentence for a post in support of mass deportations after a migrant went on a stabbing spree in the U.K. She was just denied temporary leave to see her 12-year-old daughter and sick husband. JD Vance was right again."

Connor Tomlinson on X - "Lucy Connolly has been refused Right of Temporary Leave to visit her husband and daughter because the prison authorities decreed she expressed “extreme views”.  This has now been changed to  “strong opinions”.  This woman is being held in a cell not just for a deleted tweet, but for her refusal to submit to the worship of Diversity as our strength since.  Lucy Connolly is a scapegoat being used by the government and judiciary to make you too afraid to voice reasonable objections to immigration and multiculturalism.  She should be at home with her family."

Emily Wilding Davison🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 on X - "PRESTON: Sadnam Singh, 28, & Navjot Singh, 26, who sexually assaulted a 14 YO old girl in her home while they delivered a TV unit, have been sentenced to 30 months each. One month less than Lucy Connolly, sentenced for 31 months for a deleted X post. There's no justice in UK"

Rape threat passenger ‘should not have shorter sentence than Lucy Connolly’ - "A man who threatened an air hostess with gang rape should not have received a shorter sentence than Lucy Connolly, the Conservatives have said.  Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, urged Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, to review the jail term given to Salman Iftikhar earlier this month.  Iftikhar was convicted of racially motivated harassment and threats to kill after he threatened cabin crew on his first-class flight from London Heathrow to Lahore in February 2023.  The recruitment boss, 37, told Angie Walsh, an air stewardess: “You will be dragged by your hair from your room and gang raped and set on fire.” He threatened to blow up the cabin crew’s floor in their hotel.  He was given 15 months in prison for the offence.  Mr Philp contrasted the sentence to that of Connolly, who received 31 months for inciting racial hatred in a post on X in the wake of the Southport killings. Writing to Lord Hermer, the shadow home secretary pointed to Iftikhar’s six previous convictions, including for common assault in 2004 and drink driving in 2008."

Mike Jones on X - "A grim but revealing case - one that shatters the illusions surrounding “integration” and lays bare the deeper, intergenerational damage mass immigration can inflict.  Here we have a man who, by the usual liberal metrics, ticks every box of successful assimilation. He speaks fluent English. He dresses like everyone else. He’s adopted the booze-heavy, laddish culture of modern Britain. On paper, he’s integrated.  And yet, faced with a vulnerable flight attendant, he doesn’t hesitate to play the racism card - before racially abusing her, threatening to have her gang-raped, and boasting that he’ll have her killed.  Beneath the surface-level conformity is a worldview shaped not by British norms, but by something far older: an ethnocentric, clan-first psychology rooted in honour, revenge, and racial pride. That’s the quiet legacy of certain migration patterns.   This is the same psychology we see in case after case involving grooming gangs. Men who see outsiders, especially white girls, as ‘fair game’."
William Dickens on X - "He has quite the past: “Iftikhar has six previous convictions arising from 15 offences, including common assault in 2004 and drink driving in 2008 and failing to stop and possession of cannabis in 2021.” Many of these convictions should have been enough to have him removed. I bet each time it was:
“This doesn’t represent him”
“He’s remorseful “
“He’s working on his issues”"

Emily Wilding Davison🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 on X - "RIVINGTON: Michael Linfoot, 24, Callum Hesketh, 24, and Thomas Rae, 24, who lured a 15YO girl into a van, s3xually abused her & livestreamed it to their friends who turned up to join, have walked free. DC Booth of GMP said: "I hope today's result gives her a sense of justice""
Allison Pearson on X - "How were these disgusting abusers allowed to walk free? They sexually abused a 15-year-old girl and livestreamed it to their friends. Lucy Connolly got 31 months in jail for a tweet. This vile trio won’t serve a day behind bars. What’s going on @gmpolice ?"

Rob Boyd, Esq on X - "Lucy Connolly - 3 years for a tweet.
Peadophile Labour councillor - a free man.
Great Britain..."
Wes Streeting's former aide dodges jail after indecently exposing himself in front of girl, 13 - "Samuel Gould, 33, of Hornchurch, Essex, who was also a councillor in Redbridge, was seen by the 13-year-old girl masturbating in his parked car in Romford on March 8. Gould then followed the girl, who hid and knocked on nearby flats to try and get help"
Left wing logic: words speak louder than actions

Allison Pearson on X - "Lucy Connolly has been denied leave from prison on tag to see her child. Now, Shabhana Mahmood says 40,000 criminals to be tagged in sentencing law overhaul. How is this justice?"

Lucy Connolly has become a martyr to injustice - "What on earth is going on in the case of Lucy Connolly? The Northampton childminder and mother was convicted after posting an incendiary tweet in the wake of the Southport murders last year and jailed for 31 months, a sentence designed to demonstrate society’s abhorrence of whipping up the mob.  That term was far too long for a single comment, however nasty, which was removed within hours. She is spending more time in prison than many offenders who have committed crimes of violence or sexual abuse.  She has even been placed on a 23-hour lockdown, confined to her cell with no privileges for an offence that, given her good behaviour, could be dealt with in an open prison or with home detention. The Court of Appeal rejected a recent attempt to rule the sentence excessive and expedite Mrs Connolly’s release.  The punishment for a crime is deprivation of liberty. It has been a long time since prisoners were subjected to additional, condign privation. Yet Mrs Connolly seems to have been treated especially harshly. Last week, she was manhandled by half a dozen prison officers and moved to a wing that houses the most dangerous inmates. Richard Tice, the Reform MP, visited her in Peterborough jail and reported that bruises on her wrists from handcuffs were still apparent.  If the judiciary and penal system are being recruited to treat a particular prisoner harshly to cover up the state’s failings then that is unconscionable. Furthermore, if the aim is to discourage others from doing the same it is backfiring. Instead of being denounced for a crime she admitted she has become a martyr to injustice."

Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 on X - "It's being widely reported that Lucy Connolly, the young mother serving a severe political prison sentence for a deleted social media post, has been attacked by prison staff!"

The mistreatment of Lucy Connolly in prison is deeply sinister - "It comes to something when a senior British politician has to visit a person in prison, not only to show his support but to try to protect her against further harm. Yet that is exactly what happened when Richard Tice, deputy leader of Reform UK, met Lucy Connolly at HMP Peterborough on Tuesday morning. I had informed Tice that, last Thursday, Lucy says she was manhandled by up to six prison officers to a wing which houses the most volatile and dangerous prisoners.  “Five days after the incident, the bruises from the handcuffs on Lucy’s wrists are still significant – yellow. It was obviously horrible what she went through,” Tice told me just after he emerged from the jail. “On Thursday, she was mistreated without provocation. Full force was used with no justification. She was starved of food, with no lunch or dinner, after the incident. She was denied enhanced accommodation to which she was entitled and they gave her, frankly, the Nutters Wild Wing – full of druggies and violent offenders.” Previously, Tice has been outspoken on the case of the Northampton childminder jailed for an exorbitant 31 months after posting one horrible tweet on the evening of the Southport massacre of little girls. Demonised as “Tory councillor’s racist wife”, Connolly became Sir Keir Starmer’s “political prisoner”, insisted Tice. She was made an example of to deter others from speaking out on illegal migration, and to distract from the Government’s own failure to provide information that they held about mass murderer Axel Rudakubana which experts say could have prevented the riots that Lucy Connolly was accused of inciting. Tice’s hour-long meeting in jail with a “calm, thoughtful, impressive”, although clearly shaken Lucy, confirmed his suspicions... When I started writing about Lucy Connolly’s case it was hard to imagine it getting any darker – well, it just did. Here we have a political leader, likely to play a senior role in this country’s next government, insinuating that the state – via prison officials – might try to silence and compromise a woman whom many think should never have been sent to jail in the first place... The 42-year-old was given 14 days on Basics – no TV, no privileges. She can’t even go down to the canteen to have her meals – food is brought to her cell. “You got 14 days on Basics, Lucy, that’s insane”, one of the Bronx girls marvelled. Funny how the asylum inmates are saner than the warders, isn’t it?... Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, approved the prosecution of Lucy, who should have got bail and then community service for a first-time offence committed online and swiftly deleted. Lord Hermer, bear in mind, was not minded to seek to increase lenient sentences given to sex offenders. Because Northampton housewives who collect Emma Bridgewater china, pose more of a threat to the public, obviously. Why was a woman of previously exemplary character, well-liked by many prison officers and prisoners whom she has helped and befriended, treated by HMP Peterborough as if she was a knife-wielding maniac? Meanwhile Rudakubana, who slaughtered three little girls, is allowed access to a kettle and boiling water he can allegedly throw over prison officers; no kettle for naughty Lucy Connolly... With just two months till her release date on August 21 (Lucy will have served 40 per cent of her sentence), it feels like the authorities want to provoke a violent reaction from their infamous inmate, as if to vindicate their cruel treatment of her. Or maybe to give them a reason to justify draconian conditions attached to her being freed? They need Lucy Connolly to stay demonised, to be the “far-Right” thug Starmer imprinted on the public imagination, the Myra Hindley of Twitter – how else are they going to explain the fact that Lucy has been denied the basic human rights afforded to every heinous and scary jailbird? Since November, Lucy has been entitled to apply for temporary leave on licence with Holly who is struggling without her mummy, and has been suspended several times from school where she vents her distress. (Ray, bless him, is struggling with a daughter going through puberty who becomes a teenager in a few weeks.) Despite repeated requests, and well-argued letters to the governor, Lucy has not been granted ROTL (Release on Temporary Licence) or home detention curfew wearing a tag. How can a woman of previously impeccable character, a childminder with glowing references from several immigrant parents who committed one “hate crime”, be denied those elements of rehabilitation normally considered so essential in a civilised society? Many within the system are uncomfortably aware that Lucy is being shockingly mistreated. According to Ray, one woman prison officer expressed distress about what was done to her on Thursday. Lucy’s probation officer said he was under the impression that, by now, Lucy and another woman scheduled for release, had been signed off as “Open” – living in a house on their own, getting ROTL to aid reintegration with their families, even allowed to have a small job in a caff or a charity shop. Again, according to Ray, the probation officer said he was concerned to discover that the Offender Management Unit at Peterborough had “knocked that plan on the head”. The reason given for forbidding Lucy a chance to enjoy the normal conditions leading up to release was “media interest”.  Ian Acheson, the prisons expert, told me on a previous occasion that a prisoner’s notoriety should not have any impact on their right to temporary leave, or rehabilitation. But it’s not Lucy that justice officials are trying to protect from “media interest”, is it? Lucy is perfectly capable of eloquently telling her story to the press and the public, and that’s what they are afraid of. “I think they would keep me in here for a hundred years if they could, Allison,” Lucy said to me, half joking, half despairing. My fears for her grow by the hour. Huge thanks, then, are owed to Richard Tice for using his political power to protect Starmer’s political prisoner... Lucy told Ray on the phone that she had been refused the enhanced wing because she had failed security checks.  Truly, we are living through what George Orwell wrote. Lie after obfuscation after lie so the rotten system protects itself at any cost. “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.”... What an indictment of Starmer’s Stasi Britain. Normal people like the Connollys have to rely on principled public officials to take a stand and protect them against an increasingly authoritarian state, which turns a blind eye to frankly racist Pakistani rape gangs (to protect its voter base); who got away with destroying the lives of tens of thousands of white girls, while harshly punishing a basically decent white woman who, in her sorrow and her rage, lashed out in a “racist” tweet."
Of course, if you're a "minority", you may not even go to jail because your children need you

Richard Tice calls for ‘Lucy’s law’ to free mother jailed for Southport tweet - "Lord Hermer declined to review “unduly lenient” sentences given to a rapist, a paedophile and a terrorist fundraiser, despite signing off on Connolly’s prosecution.  The three criminals all received softer sentences than Connolly. At the time, Mr Tice claimed the findings suggested Lord Hermer considered a “nasty offensive tweet” to be a more serious offence than rape, paedophilia or terrorism."

Chris Rose on X - "In the UK we have:
3 Iranian “asylum seekers” arrested for plotting a terror attack
A knife crime epidemic
Shoplifting so bad that Greggs will put sandwiches behind the counter
1 rape reported every hour in London
Be assured, we’re all “safer” with Lucy Connolly behind bars."

Lucy Connolly to be guest of honour in Parliament after early release from prison for Southport social media post - "In prison, she was unexpectedly moved to a wing housing the most violent inmates, where she faces 23-hour lockdowns in conditions Tice called "inexplicable" for someone with an "immaculate record in prison".  "I genuinely fear she is essentially a political prisoner, held effectively at the behest indirectly of the Prime Minister. It’s so inexplicable. If you can’t understand something, you’ve got to ask what else is going on?" Tice warned."

Engineer given half Lucy Connolly’s sentence for near-identical tweet - "Joseph Haythorne, 26, posted “Go on Rotherham burn any hotels with those scruffy b------s in it” on Aug 4 last year as violence erupted in the South Yorkshire town.  At Sheffield Crown Court on Wednesday, the engineer from Surrey, who admitted inciting racial hatred, was jailed for 15 months.  His jail term is less than half the 31 months handed to Connolly, a mother of one who is married to a Conservative councillor. Critics claimed the sentence was “a clear example of two-tier justice”.  She was jailed in October last year after posting an online message on the day of the Southport murders, that read: “Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f---ing hotels full of the b------s for all I care, while you’re at it take the treacherous government politicians with them.”... Her husband, Ray Connolly told The Telegraph: “He can thank his lucky stars his partner isn’t a Tory councillor.” Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary said: “There are a lot of inconsistencies in sentencing. A rapist recently received only 28 months and the Attorney General, Lord Hermer, refused to allow that sentence to be reviewed.  “It cannot be right that Lucy Connolly got a longer sentence for a tweet than someone convicted of rape.”  Speaking about the sentence handed to Haythorne, Richard Tice, the Reform UK deputy leader, said: “Another ludicrous jail sentence. Fifteen months for a nasty offensive tweet lasting 17 minutes.  “On this basis, if justice is consistent [and] not two-tier, then Bob Vylan could face being jailed for over five years for his vile singing at Glastonbury.” Lord Young, the general secretary of the Free Speech Union, said: “No one should be sent to prison for a tweet. This is not a good use of valuable prison spaces that should be kept for thieves, muggers, stabbers and drug dealers.  “How can it be right that a Labour MP who repeatedly punched a constituent, knocking him to the ground, received a suspended sentence, but a 26-year-old should be jailed for 15 months for one ill-advised tweet?  “It’s a clear example of two-tier justice and risks undermining public confidence in our criminal justice system.”... the judge chose to significantly reduce Haythorne’s sentence after hearing that he suffered from clinical depression. He also gave him credit for his guilty plea and other personal mitigation."

The hypocrisy in defending Lucy Connolly - "There is something profoundly depressing about the case of Lucy Connolly, the childminder sentenced to 31 months in prison for an inflammatory post on social media after the Southport attack last year and the riots that followed. Yet it does not really concern the issues of free speech claimed by her supporters, let alone her ridiculous claim that this person – who sought to stoke murderous arson attacks against asylum seekers in a newspaper interview after her release – was a political prisoner thrown behind bars by the prime minister. Instead, her lionisation shows how much the hatred promulgated by the far-right infects public debate while exposing the corrosive and toxic tribalism that pollutes our country... There is valid argument that Connolly should not have been sent to prison – like almost all other women behind bars in a creaking judicial system. Most committed non-violent offences far less serious than her provocative agitation, posing no threat to society, yet if handed custodial sentences are more likely to re-offend than if given good community punishments. A majority have mental health or addiction issues; many have experienced trauma such as domestic violence. They are more likely than men to self-harm while cooped up in cells – and like Connolly, often have dependent children who suffer when their mother disappears. Yet many similar arguments apply to male inmates – as proven by far more effective systems abroad, such as in Norway with its humane prisons, focus on rehabilitation and low recidivism rates. Our prisons are costly, overcrowded and often ineffective, stuffed with damaged citizens failed by care, health and school systems alongside the gangsters, killers and rapists who deserve severe punishment. We have the highest per capita jail rates in Western Europe. And as former Tory justice minister David Gauke said in his recent government review, this is partly due to “prison populism” as politicians push for tougher sentences. So guess who are the worst culprits today? Yes, the same right-wing headbangers who are complaining about Connolly’s sentence while demanding longer jail terms and more prison places, with Farage making puerile threats to be “the toughest party on law and order… this country has ever seen”. Similar hypocrisy lies behind the free speech furore as warriors of the hard right fulminate over Connolly’s supposed martyrdom. Yet most stay silent when people are branded antisemites for protesting atrocities in Gaza or demonstrating against the Palestine Action terror ban... Ultimately, it is playing with fire to flirt with the far-right in such an angry, broken, and tribalised nation."
Left wing logic - two tier justice to crush the "far right" shows the hypocrisy of the "far right", because if you want murderers and rapists to be jailed, you're a hypocrite if you don't want those who say mean things to be jailed too. And of course, the "solution" is to jail as few people as possible.
Clearly, being branded an antisemite is the same as being jailed and you cannot oppose one without opposing the other, or you're a hypocrite. Similarly, Similar hypocrisy lies behind the free speech furore as warriors of the hard right fulminate over Connolly’s supposed martyrdom. Yet most stay silent when people are branded antisemites for protesting atrocities in Gaza or demonstrating against the Palestine Action terror ban.sSupporting terrorist groups is exactly the same as saying mean things.

Lucy Connolly: I was Starmer’s political prisoner - "In an exclusive interview with Allison Pearson, the Telegraph journalist who led the campaign for her release, Mrs Connolly also accused the police of being “dishonest” in allegedly misrepresenting her views on immigration and threatened to bring a legal claim against them... “I think with Starmer he needs to practise what he preaches. He’s a human rights lawyer, so maybe he needs to look at what people’s human rights are, what freedom of speech means, and what the laws are in this country.” She described Sir Keir’s speech, which she complained had sealed her fate, as “very divisive”, adding: “It [the speech] was very much… if you are bothered about children being murdered, you’re Right-wing. You know, you’re far-Right.”... She believes she was singled out in part because her husband Ray, an engineer, was also a local Conservative councillor and that authorities wanted to make an example of her... In her interview with the police, she says she told officers she was well aware of the difference between legal and illegal immigration, but told The Telegraph that her comments made in the interview were “massively twisted and used against me”. She told officers: “I’m well aware that we need immigrants… I’m well aware that if I go to the hospital, there are immigrants there and the hospital wouldn’t function without them.” But her concern was for illegal immigrants who posed a threat to national security and a “danger to children”. Police and the CPS subsequently released a statement – later corrected – that Mrs Connolly had “told officers she did not like immigrants and claimed that children were not safe from them”. Mrs Connolly told The Telegraph she was now considering taking legal action over the statement put into the public domain."

Links - 27th August 2025 (2 - Migrants: UK)

Suspend ECHR to pave way for migrant deportations, Blunkett tells Starmer - "The former Labour home secretary urged ministers to consider the “radical” approach in order to give them time to “get a grip” on the crisis amid a growing backlash over the use of some 200 hotels to house more than 32,000 asylum seekers. Speaking on BBC Radio 4, Lord Blunkett said the Government should follow the example of countries such as Germany and suspend parts of the ECHR for a temporary period, possibly six months, in order to be able to clear the backlog of asylum seekers’ appeals... “The Germans have done it, but only for three months. We may have to do it for six months in order to get a grip, to ensure the appeals process is not abused and to help the Government accelerate still further the number of people that are returning to their country of origin and getting them out of the country.” Lord Blunkett’s proposals go further than measures already set in train by Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, under which judges would face curbs on their application of articles three and eight to restrict their ability to reject asylum seekers’ appeals against deportations. However, they do not go as far as the Tories, whose leader, Kemi Badenoch, has commissioned a review into leaving the ECHR altogether and is expected to set out her plans at the party’s autumn conference."

Meme - Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon: "If we leave the European Court of Human Rights we could be tortured and enslaved like the New Zealanders, Australians and Canadians!"
Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist: "If you want to "leave" the ECHR, which of these rights do you want to give up for yourself and your family?"
"the right to life (Article 2) freedom from torture (Article 3) freedom from slavery (Article 4) the right to liberty (Article 5) the right to a fair trial (Article 6) the right not to be punished for something that wasn't against the law at the time (Article 7) the right to respect for family and private life (Article 8) freedom of thought, conscience and religion (Article 9) freedom of expression (Article 10) freedom of assembly (Article 11) the right to marry and start a family (Article 12) the right not to be discriminated against in respect of these rights (Article 14) the right to protection of property (Protocol 1, Article 1) the right to education (Protocol 1, Article 2) the right to participate in free elections (Protocol 1, Article 3) the abolition of the death penalty (Protocol 13)"

Thread by @carto_graph on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Britain in 1997 was a barbarous time. Slavery was a way of life. Censorship was rife. Habeas corpus was unheard of. The tyranny of John Major suspended elections, and locked up and prosecuted people in kangaroo courts for made-up crimes.  Oh wait.
To everybody pointing out we were signatories to the ECHR in the 1950s:  Yes I know. It’s called a joke x There is a more serious point though: the ECHR only started seriously influencing domestic law when it was incorporated in 1998."

First Labour MP calls for withdrawal from ECHR - "A Labour MP has become the first in his party to call for Britain to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).  Graham Stringer, the MP for Blackley and Middleton South, urged Sir Keir Starmer to leave the convention, which has been blamed for the scale of the current asylum crisis.  Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, is reviewing how Article 8 of the ECHR – which guarantees the right to family life – is being applied by immigration courts.  But the Government has repeatedly ruled out the prospect of leaving the ECHR altogether and calls to do so have previously been confined to Tory and Reform MPs... Mr Stringer told BBC Radio 4’s World at One: “What you’ve got to remember is most of the people crossing the Channel are young men, they have destroyed their papers before they get here, they’re coming from a completely civilised country in France.  “They’re paying international criminals to get here and the courts are saying they have a right to stay under the refugee convention, I assume, and possibly other conventions. That doesn’t seem reasonable to me.”  Pressed to confirm whether he was suggesting the UK should withdraw from the ECHR and the Refugee Convention, Mr Stringer replied: “Yes.  “Clem Attlee, who was prime minister when the Convention on Human Rights was signed, agreed to it on the basis that it didn’t apply to the UK and the same with the Refugee Convention. Europe was in a mess. It applied only to Europe at the time.” Mr Stringer said asylum laws were “very good” back when they were introduced, but added: “They have extended their remit, and we need laws that apply to the current situation.”  The Labour backbencher also called for Sir Keir to take a zero-tolerance approach to the Channel crisis after small boat crossings reached a record high during his first year in power. Mr Stringer added: “I think people who come here illegally, and they are funding international criminals, should not be allowed to stay.  “What happens when they’re allowed to stay? They’re getting priority beyond my constituents who need to be housed, who need access to the health service and need access to dental services.”  As well as the first Labour MP to publicly declare support for leaving the ECHR, Mr Stringer becomes only the second Labour parliamentarian to back this position. Lord Glasman, a Labour peer and the founder of the socially conservative pressure group Blue Labour, listed Britain’s exit from the ECHR as one of his policy demands of the party... In June, Shabana Mahmood, the Justice Secretary, called for the ECHR to “evolve” or lose public trust in an acknowledgement of public discontent with some of its consequences. But just a day later, Alain Berset, the head of the Council of Europe, slapped down Labour’s calls for change and said he was “not calling for reform” of the convention."

Labour to trial AI facial recognition technology to test whether migrants are really children - "There have long been fears that some of those who cross the Channel in small boats - who often don't carry official documents such as passports - are wrongly claiming to be children. Unaccompanied minors are more likely to be granted asylum than adults, with some suspected to be faking their ages in a bid to boost their chances of staying in the UK. In the first half of 2024, a total of 1,317 migrants claiming to be minors at the border were later judged to be adults."
Weird. We used to be told that dental checks were an unreliable indicator of age. What more facial recognition?

Meme - arctotherium @arctotherium42: ""We have ancestral racial grievances against you" is a reason to keep you out, not to bring you in."
"The English invaded more than half the world. Of the countries that they ruled, how many languages do the English speak?"

Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦 on X - "My once liberal views on immigration shifted dramatically after witnessing pro-Palestine protests in London, where I regularly saw individuals spewing hate on our streets, people who didn’t share our values. I challenge anyone to see that and not rethink their stance"

Chris Rose on X - "A whopping 116 charges have been brought against 51 “asylum seekers” living across three hotels near Bournemouth seafront. Madness. You’re labelled as “far-right” if you dare to get angry about this."

Manchester City of Sanctuary on X - "When your work gets targeted by right-wing commentators, you know you’re doing something right. #RefugeesWelcome 🧡"
Charlotte Gill on X - "Oh really. Like working with a charity that gets children to create Valentine’s cards for asylum seekers?"

'Laughing' Syrian asylum seeker who stabbed boy, 14, to death was motivated by 'Islamic terrorism' : r/gbnews - "It’s already happening  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crgyggw4z05o.amp  Last year in Hartlepool… stabbed a random 70 year old pensioner for ‘Gaza’ didn’t get much news coverage… I imagine if a Brit stabbed a random asylum seeker simply for being an asylum seeker we wouldn’t of heard the end of it.."
"I remember the stabbing in the news initially but absolutely no follow on story from it. Wasn't aware of this at all."
"  Most people aren't tuned into politics. The average person still thinks net migration is around 70K, not 700K.  You see how much discontent the small boat issue is creating, and that's just a fraction of the inflow. It's no wonder these things get swept under the rug as quickly as possible, and why you've never heard of them."

Patrick🕸 on X - "Teen died in care after imposter staff member left her unsupervised before fleeing the country"
Harriet Sergeant on X - "The man used fake documents and a fake name and has now returned to Ghana. The UK seems clueless to the fact whole industries have grown up in the developing world to provide phoney anything in order to bamboozle the UK authorities."

Lisa Nandy accused of prioritising Islam over other religions - "The Culture Secretary is facing criticism after she appointed the boss of a Muslim charity as an adviser to a new civil society project but no one from Christian, Jewish or other specific faiths.  Lisa Nandy has made Fadi Itani, the chief executive of the Muslim Charities Forum (MCF), a member of the steering committee of her Civil Society Covenant... In 2015 the MCF was stripped of £138,000 of government funding after a Telegraph investigation reported alleged links to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood... The group was founded in 2008 by Dr Hany El-Banna, who was awarded an OBE in 2004 and remains a trustee of MCF.  In 2020 he posted a video on X of a lecture he gave in which he described the Yazidi people – thousands of whom were massacred by Islamic State terrorists – as “devil worshippers”."

Lisa Nandy accused of prioritising Islam over other religions : r/europe_sub - "'A spokesman for Insight UK, the Hindu and Indian advocacy group' was the one who criticised this. Couldn't make this shit up. Foreign interest groups complaining that another foreign interest group was chosen and not them."
Lisa Nandy accused of prioritising Islam over other religions : r/europe_sub - "I guess the Hindus are now far right white supremacists, shame."

Robbie on X - "Judge Sarah Przybylska (pictured) gave Amar Jabar a two-year suspended jail sentence after he was convicted of stabbing a man repeatedly. She said Jabar "will be better rehabilitated in the community than in prison" and “You will not be subject to automatic deportation"."

‘A direct result of the irresponsible mass immigration’ – 40% of all violent crime suspects in German schools are foreigners, over 2 knife attacks a day : r/europe_sub - "  All these people are stuck in their little echo chambers in Bristol and Bath (personal experience) another such universities and think that the reality of Britain is whatever migrants they see in their expensive private universities.  They are sort of touch with the average person it’s insane"

Pictures of anti-immigration protests outside migrant hotels across England following multiple sexual assaults on schoolgirls. : r/europe_sub - "They're barely reporting this in the UK, and when they do it's generally that the "far right" are organising and there's going to be "disorder"."

Pictures of anti-immigration protests outside migrant hotels across England following multiple sexual assaults on schoolgirls. : r/europe_sub - "There is evidence of asylum seekers being involved?
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/685559d05225e4ed0bf3ce54/National_Audit_on_Group-based_Child_Sexual_Exploitation_and_Abuse.pdf
Page 86 of Baroness Casey’s audit -
   While the future outcomes of these investigations remain unknown, and the number of live, open cases we had access to was limited, this audit noted that a significant proportion of these cases appear to involve suspects who are non-UK nationals and/or who are claiming asylum in the UK."

Why is it at the migrant hotels it's always indian / asian security? : r/gbnews - "72% of Somalis live in social housing"
"Source?"
"The government.  https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/ethnicity/articles/somalipopulationsenglandandwales/census2021/pdf#:~:text=Of%20those%20who%20identified%20as%20Somali%2C%2072.0%25%20lived%20in%20social,group%20or%20national%20identity%20questions"
Time to import even more to pay for pensioners' benefits. It's the only way to keep the system sustainable

More small boat arrivals under Starmer than Sunak, despite ex-PM being in power seven months longer - "If the current rate is sustained, by the end of 2025 more migrants will have crossed the Channel under Sir Keir than the number that did under Boris Johnson, despite Mr Johnson having been prime minister for more than three years."

Exposed: Labour’s plot to silence migrant hotel critics - "A secretive Whitehall “spy” unit has been used by the Government to target social media posts criticising migrant hotels and “two-tier policing”.  The Telegraph can reveal that officials working for Peter Kyle, the Technology Secretary, have flagged videos with “concerning narratives” to social media giants including TikTok, warning that they were “exacerbating tensions” on the streets. Emails recovered by a US congressional committee show that civil servants have complained to tech firms about content mentioning asylum seekers, immigration and two-tier policing.  The dossier has emerged as ministers battle claims that the UK is censoring social media with the Online Safety Act, including from allies of Donald Trump, the US president.  The disclosure reveals that members of the Government’s National Security and Online Information Team (NSOIT) complained about a series of posts that were critical of mass migration and asylum hotels in August last year during the Southport riots. The team, based in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, was previously known as the Counter Disinformation Unit and was used during the Covid pandemic to monitor anti-lockdown campaigners. The exchanges are likely to fuel claims that Labour is seeking to silence criticism over its continued use of asylum hotels... critics have said they amount to Government censorship of free speech online. The emails were revealed by Jim Jordan, chairman of the US House of Representatives’ judiciary committee, which issued a subpoena to TikTok to hand over messages “regarding the company’s compliance with foreign censorship laws”.  Mr Jordan said Labour ministers had censored posts that were critical of the Government’s policy on asylum, warning critics of Sir Keir to “watch out”.  He said: “In recent years, UK citizens have become increasingly fed up with the double standard in the UK. Mean tweets get you a longer prison sentence than many violent offences.”... the emails have prompted fresh scrutiny of the secretive disinformation team, which was criticised during the pandemic for using the government’s “trusted flagger” status to report critics of lockdown and child vaccinations. A spokesman for the Big Brother Watch campaign group called for an immediate investigation into the team, warning that an “unaccountable and secretive Government unit is spying on speech that is critical of the police and Government policies”. “Legitimate concerns about racism and violence must not become a blank cheque for the monitoring and censorship of controversial speech, absent of any oversight or scrutiny,” they added.  Labour was recently criticised over the “cover-up” of a secret resettlement programme for Afghans affected by a data leak in 2022. Officials were worried that the announcement would create a “risk of disorder”."

Put Navy and drones in Channel to stop boats, says Labour peer - "Lord Glasman told the Prime Minister he should “just turn them back to France” as he set out his proposals to curb the worsening Channel crisis... Speaking to Tom Swarbrick on LBC, the peer said the current scale of illegal migration was “completely out of order”... Sir Keir struck a deal last month with Emmanuel Macron, the French president, which means Britain will detain illegal migrants and send them back to France in return for taking a similar number of asylum seekers.  But the evidence suggests that the “one in, one out” scheme is already failing, with 50 per cent more migrants crossing the Channel since the deal than in the same period last year."

‘British women and girls are paying the price for Labour’s lax immigration laws’ - "Most European countries use detention centres. Britain puts undocumented men in accommodation, in the heart of communities, that many taxpayers can’t even afford for themselves and then sends them the bill. We don’t know who they are, we don’t know what their criminal history is and we have no way to check. That unknown presents a huge risk to the public. Any responsible government would take that into account when deciding where to place them. Ours does not.  That is not just incompetence. That is a failure of basic safeguarding. It is British women and girls who are being put in harm’s way as a result... This government and the last one have shown they will take more steps to monitor your social media posts than they will to monitor the unvetted men they house at your expense. Labour claim to care about women’s safety online, but offline, in the real world, they don’t. They will use the language of “protection” to pass censorship laws like the Online Safety Act but ignore the real-world risk of placing unidentified adult men next to children and vulnerable women. There is no serious plan to deport foreign rapists or sex offenders who shouldn’t be here. No plan to stop placing anonymous adult men in residential areas. No interest in facing the real-life consequences of their policies  Instead, Labour are attacking Reform for pledging to scrap the Online Safety Act as if that legislation is the last line of defence for women. It isn’t. It’s a cover for censorship, and an excuse to hand unelected regulators sweeping powers to silence views they don’t like, while doing nothing about the real crimes happening on our streets."

How the gig economy conquered Britain and stoked the migration crisis - "two in five delivery workers stopped in random searches in 2023 were working illegally, according to statistics from the Home Office. The figures applied to all takeaway riders stopped, not any one app... “If you want to design a market so that immigration would undercut wages, you couldn’t do better than this,” said one source who works in the industry. “You have very lax right to work checks combined with no minimum wage, combined with algorithmic pay. Put those three together and you’ve got this perfect environment for migration to pull down wages.”"

Afghan TikTok migrant filmed ‘how to kill your wife’ video

‘You don’t see many locals at anti-migrant protests’: Kent residents work for community cohesion : r/unitedkingdom - "“We have to give these guys stuff or else they become involved in the drug dealing underworld”.  So the charity is required to avoid criminality… yikes not a good look "
‘You don’t see many locals at anti-migrant protests’: Kent residents work for community cohesion : r/unitedkingdom - "“Everyone’s like, ‘Oh look at Dover, everyone’s coming here’ – they’re really not,” - proceeds to talk about everything they’re doing for everyone that’s coming here"
‘You don’t see many locals at anti-migrant protests’: Kent residents work for community cohesion : r/unitedkingdom - "I've watched a right few of the protests and it generally the other way about.  Its the local women organising them on facebook while the counter protesters having been organised by the unions."
‘You don’t see many locals at anti-migrant protests’: Kent residents work for community cohesion : r/unitedkingdom - "Didn’t they say this about the Southport rioters and then their addresses in court were from the area"
‘You don’t see many locals at anti-migrant protests’: Kent residents work for community cohesion : r/unitedkingdom - "And I've read other places and seen comments from videos from the protesters that buses of pro-refugee people organized by unions are sent into their towns to oppose their protest."
As usual, the unions are hijacked to push the left wing agenda

Robert Jenrick: Migrant hotel protests show British public has snapped - "The shadow justice secretary declared “enough is enough” as he attended a protest on Sunday against the continued use of a hotel by asylum seekers in Epping... In July, an Ethiopian asylum seeker staying at the hotel was charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old schoolgirl days after arriving in Britain.  A Syrian man, also living in the hotel, appeared in court last week charged with sexual assault after being accused of kissing a man on the neck... “In the last 100 days alone, there have been almost a dozen serious sexual offence allegations. This problem has been going on for six years – 170,000 people, mostly undocumented young men, have broken into our country.  “Each one of them is going to cost us half a million pounds if they stay. This has to come to an end, and I wanted to come here today to show my support for the fair-minded patriotic people here who are out protesting every weekend... Susan Hall, the leader of the City Hall Tories, was also in attendance. She told The Telegraph: “Most of the people campaigning are local people who are concerned for their safety. They’re not political activists, they are local people.  “That’s why they asked me to come and speak. This was my first demonstration – this is the first time I’ve actually been to one, because I’m standing up for Londoners basically."

Asylum seeker shares videos of guns… then evades Home Office checks to enter UK - "In a series of publicly available Snapchat videos, the man shared footage from Yemeni capital Sanaa of himself and arms including AK-104 assault rifles, handguns, knives, ammunition magazines as well as bundles of cash... It has now emerged that the man was referred to Prevent and Essex Police for investigation following an intervention by the local MP, former Home Secretary James Cleverly... In its report, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) said: “We were concerned to find that there was no effective legal power to seize and examine mobile telephones or other electronic devices from irregular migrants to search for evidence and intelligence.”... In its OIC report published in May, HMICFRS found border officials don’t have access to the police national database (PND) or facial recognition technology to screen migrants who arrive on small boats.  It also found that intelligence gathering when migrants arrived in the UK was “neither effective nor robust enough”."

Revealed: The 2,000 schools where more than HALF of pupils don't speak English as their first language... so is YOUR child's one of them? - "English is no longer the first language for the majority of pupils at more than 2,000 schools, MailOnline can today reveal. No children at two primary schools – one in Tower Hamlets and another in Kirklees, West Yorkshire – have English as their mother tongue. Our statistics, obtained exclusively under Freedom of Information (FOI) laws, show nine in ten pupils don't speak only English at home at 107 schools. The full results of our audit, covering all 22,000 state schools, can be viewed in our search tool below... In total, English is no longer the first language for the majority of children at 2,039 schools. This includes deaf schools, where pupils' first language is BSL.  Nationwide, English isn't the first language of 1.8 million pupils, or one in five pupils. Fuelled by immigration having spiralled to all-time highs, this has risen from 1.1 million ten years ago. The soaring numbers have raised concerns among critics that the slew of different languages can be incredibly disruptive in classrooms... 'Multi-language classrooms are hugely problematic. They inevitably sap the precious time of teachers who are forced to devote additional attention to those with a weaker grasp of the language at the expense of those who only speak English.  'The resources used will be lowest-common-denominator teaching devices that provide little from the individuals to excel.  'They also foster long term division, with little incentive for those who do not speak English to improve their fluency.  'It is time for a sink or swim approach in which state funding for translation costs are stripped across the board, encouraging adult migrants and parents alike to devote greater attention to improving this pretty basic skill.'  Schools have had to pivot their limited resources to provide for the needs of pupils who struggle with English. Strain has been placed on their tight budgets due to providing translated versions of resources, adding subtitling and voiceovers, as well funding in-class interpreters. Teachers have previously said schools were under mounting pressure from mass immigration and called on ministers to fund them properly to cope with the array of different languages that pupils speak."

The African Concept of Time

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 "What if I told you that for many African societies, the concept of the future doesn't exist and that instead of time moving forwards, time actually moves backwards. 

This was the work of John Mbiti, one of Kenya's and Africa's greatest philosophers. And in 1969, he wrote something that completely reimagines the way we think of African time. 

Mbiti says, "Time is a two-dimensional phenomenon with a long past, vibrant present, and virtually no future." 

Using Swahili words, he describes the two dimensions of time. The first one being sasa, the now, the recent past and the immediate future which can be experienced. The second dimension is zamani. Zamani is the vast endless past where all events eventually go on to live forever. 

But the future? In African thought, it barely exists because time is made up of events. Time has to be experienced in order to be real. 

So because we can't conceptualize events tied to the distant future because they haven't been experienced yet, then therefore the future cannot constitute part of time. And this is why according to Mbiti African languages (at least the East African Bantu languages that he studied) don't have a word to describe the distant future. 

In African time according to Mbiti, events create time. Seasons, ceremonies, a conversation: those moments produce time, and people produce as much time as they need. 

An example that Mbiti uses from the communities that he studied is that a year is measured based on four seasons. Two dry seasons, two wet seasons. So a year is only over when those four seasons have taken place. So a year could take 365 days, 390 days. It doesn't matter the number of days in a year. What matters is that the four seasons have taken place. 

And this is in contrast to the Western view towards time where time is a commodity, something that can be spent, saved, wasted or lost. 

And according to Mbiti, this is why if foreigners come to Africa and they see people uh sitting under a tree, they would remark that, okay this, why are these people wasting so much time? But in African thought that sitting under a tree, it's not wasting time. It's either waiting for time or producing time 

For me, I think this western idea of time as a commodity is what drives this western obsession of 'progress', 'development' and some promised future. And this difference shapes everything from politics, economics to how we live our daily lives. 

Because in African thought, the golden age isn't in the future. It's actually in the zamani. According to Mbiti, the future is only a shadow until it comes to the present and then it flows into the zamani. So in that way time moves backwards. We are not the ones who move forward into time. 

So of course wrote Mbiti this from a theological point of view because he was trying to explain the nature of African religion. But my main takeaway from the parts of the book that I've read is that unlike western cultures and religions with end of the world myths, African time has no end. 

Seasons, years, birth, marriage, death, it's all a cycle.

Asante kwa kutazama, tafakari hayo and I'll see you in the next video."

 

Clearly, colonialism, racism and white supremacy are why Africa and/or black people lag behind in terms of 'progress' and 'development'.

Comments:

Bartleby on X - "“We cannot conceptualize events in the future because they have not been experienced yet”
This explains so much"
EJ on X - "lindynap Its crazy because like. Squirrels do it."

Links - 27th August 2025 (1 - General Wokeness)

Larry Sanger on X - "Hey @elonmusk, as a critical co-founder of Wikipedia, I find disturbing the influence that Wikipedia has over the Community Notes on X. Why not ask the people, “Should Wikipedia be banned as a usable source for Community Notes purposes on X? Vox populi, vox Dei.”... Somebody needs to tell the bots and the drunk people that *I know* Wikipedia has issues...I started telling the world about them back in 2004, and never stopped."

Jarvis on X - "What's the mood on Bluesky today?"
Stephen L. Miller on X - "Jimmy Fallon is a Nazi who needs to be assassinated by a firing squad."

Trump Tracker on X - "Who remembers when republicans used to mind their own business?"
Paul on X - "I was doing that until you turned the place I lived into Somalia."
M. Meyers on X - "I used to mind my own business, too, when it came to politics. Then, as a long-time preschool and kindergarten teacher, I needed to stand up and speak out when the Democrats started "transing" kids and putting deeply troubled students into our classrooms and calling it "inclusion.""

Collin Rugg on X - "Liberal creators are fuming that conservatives, specifically Charlie Kirk, are not fuming over South Park making fun of them.
> South Park makes fun of Charlie Kirk.
> Charlie Kirk laughs it off.
> The Left gets triggered that Charlie Kirk is not triggered.
Remarkable."

Meme - "Dailygondor
Why it's not quite the time to panic about the world of men falling to darkness
Marra Goldnuggetgobbler
How to think about increase of Orc raids, pillaged villages and why this may be good thing for you and your family, explained by experts
Frantic explosion of horizontal mobility is one of the biggest benefits of Orcishness
Orc raids may be a thing now and it's hard not to let a little bit of worry to creep in, but most deaths in Gondor occur due to stress, according to learned scholars, which means Orc raids are (statistically) safer than lifestyle choices"

Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕 on X - "The genetic distance between a wolf and a dog is smaller than the genetic distance between a sub-Saharan African and a western European. Feel free to ask your favorite LLM"

Tear gas, smashed windows, and a burning trash can at Montreal Rad Pride march - "Montreal police (SPVM) used tear gas on Rad Pride marchers as windows were smashed, and a garbage can was set on fire on Saturday night. The third annual event, billed as an “alternative pride event,” began at 9:30 p.m. at Place Émilie-Gamelin on the western edge of The Village in Montreal’s Ville-Marie borough. SPVM report that at around 9:50 p.m., participants started to walk towards Sainte-Catherine Street and were blocked by police. They then pushed against police and began throwing objects at officers, spokesperson Manuel Couture said. Police then used tear gas to disperse the crowd. A trash can was set on fire, and several windows of the National Bank on the corner of Saint-Hubert and Saint-Catherine streets were smashed... “Unlike the official marches supported by sponsors and monitored by the police, Rad Pride advocates a direct, community-based, and unregulated approach," Rad Pride said in a news release. “It follows in the tradition of the Stonewall riots and all radical queer resistance movements.” The Rad Pride call to march rejects “the corporate and state co-opting of queer struggles, wishing to celebrate a festive and radical pride rooted in revolt, memory, and solidarity.” Rad Pride says the official Pride organization only serves “the whitest, cis and most affluent” portion of the communities... “More and more people are taking a stand against co-optation and for a return to the militant roots of our history,” said trans activist Camille in the news release"
Naturally, left wingers claimed that it was the police's fault, even though they're basically branding this as a violent protest. From the video it seemed like it was a "pro-Palestinian" protest too, so violence was par for the course

Policing catcalls doesn't make women safer - "Undercover jogger – no, not the name of a character in Liam Neeson’s new The Naked Gun, but an actual police role announced earlier this week. Female officers in Surrey went out for a run aiming to ensnare cat callers from their vehicles and give them a good telling off. The pilot scheme has allegedly resulted in 18 arrests for harassment, sexual assault and theft.  Catcalling may be unpleasant, but it’s not illegal. Of all the serious issues facing women that the police have hitherto failed to get to grips with – from shoddy rape reporting to the infamous failures relating to grooming gangs – catching catcallers is hardly high up on our list.  I can’t believe I’m about to defend the right to catcall, but this all feels a bit like police overreach...  the idea that there’s a clear and distinct line between wolf-whistling and rape is just nonsense, as if men simply slip from loutishness to extreme violence and all it takes is a few undercover officers to set them on the straight and narrow.  The argument against is a little trickier to make, as women who aren’t that bothered by catcalling are often told they are simply cursed with internalised misogyny.  But like all human sexual behaviour, catcalling has its grey areas. There is not much to be said for a man who thinks it’s okay to shout at a strange woman on her run, but if the context was switched to a boozy high street on a Friday night, both parties might feel differently about the interaction.  To suggest that all unsolicited male attention is always bad is to pretend that men and women don’t sometimes indeed behave badly and – whisper it – enjoy it. But the better argument in favour of telling the police to leave us alone is that playing the knight in shining armour for women does more harm than good.  When sexist men behave like pigs, they are not doing it in the hope of a date – no one could be that stupid. What they are doing is asserting their power and dominance over what they believe to be an afraid woman. This means that the only way to really fight back is for women to refuse to be painted as constantly in fear.  The undercover jogger approach is safetyism writ large – the idea that women need someone watching over their shoulder in order to go about their daily lives. This not only infantilises us, it also cements the very sexist notion that these men tend to have: that we are damsels in distress... The most common crime affecting women, joggers, and indeed anyone at the moment, is theft. Getting a handle on that would make women’s lives a hell of a lot better – not least because we like to text and run."

UK: Undercover police officers pose as joggers to crack down on men catcalling female runners. OP: The government and society appears to be at war with men and boys. : r/MensRights - "Also Women: "Why don't men flirt with us anymore?""
UK: Undercover police officers pose as joggers to crack down on men catcalling female runners. OP: The government and society appears to be at war with men and boys. : r/MensRights - "Pedo gangs are left alone while so much energy is put into this and censoring the internet"
UK: Undercover police officers pose as joggers to crack down on men catcalling female runners. OP: The government and society appears to be at war with men and boys. : r/MensRights - "The United Kingdom, where the serious is taken trivially, and the trivial is taken seriously.  Orwell would be aghast to see what its become."
UK: Undercover police officers pose as joggers to crack down on men catcalling female runners. OP: The government and society appears to be at war with men and boys. : r/MensRights - "So, after they catch all the catcallers, the tv license dodgers, the butter knife carriers, and the offensive twitter posters, will they tackle the issue of rampant gangs dedicated to raping and sexually enslaving little girls? Or they are too busy for that?"
UK: Undercover police officers pose as joggers to crack down on men catcalling female runners. OP: The government and society appears to be at war with men and boys. : r/MensRights - ""'These behaviours may not be criminal offences in themselves, but they need to be addressed,' a spokesman for the force said about the patrols."
In other words, police officers are spending resources for something they can't do anything about."
Anarcho-tyranny strikes again

Liquid that ‘smelled like urine’ was thrown at Jewish groups in Montreal Pride parade : r/canada - "“racism just wasn’t a thing for most of my life” is a pretty bold statement that I’ve never heard from any Black, Indigenous, or other visibly non-white person of any age."
"Some non-White friends who went to university here said that about their time here and compared it very favourably to other countries they'd lived in (both western and non-western)"

Lilley - The Toronto Red Star found someone who has the last... | Facebook - "The Toronto Red Star found someone who has the last name Dundas but who isn't related to Henry Dundas whom everything is named for, to explain why she doesn't mind streets, subway stations, parks, roads and other public spaces being renamed. This is ridiculous."
As a Dundas myself I’m ok to rename Toronto’s Dundas station

Im starting to think the uglification of women in videogames is not part of some bigger conspiracy theory. : r/KotakuInAction - "Its just a natural outcome of more women in gaming studios. As we see with the whole Sydney Sweeney debacle, nobody fears attractive women more than ugly fat women.  Ugly fat women get in studios and throw a panic attack and cry if any female character is attractive. Maybe its not blackrock after all. I think Blackrock is more responsible for raceswaps if anything.  Anyways, in conclusion: not gatekeeping our hobbies was a huge mistake"
"While what you are saying is also true, there is evidence that it is enforced at a system level. See Microsoft."
"It was never a conspiracy theory and it is not exclusive to women. The uglification of people in media is a byproduct of the Marxist/modern feminist ideology that a certain segment people at these types of companies have been following for the better part of two decades.  Being perceived as pretty means you're at the top of the Marxist paradigm oppressing the "ugly," and in order to achieve equity, you need to give the "ugly" more exposure, as they are perceived as a marginalized minority. There is also the factor that modern feminists HATE men and everything they like.  The only real conspiracy regarding this subject matter, as they have not yet outright said this was the case, as far as I know, is that it was done to make [subject matter banned on this subreddit] feel more included.  The good thing is that this type of stupid thinking is slowly being reversing back to normal, as companies lost a metric shit ton of money from putting ugly people in ads."
""You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge" - George Carlin"
"The uglification of women in video games is due to:
Ugly and/or fat women in the video games studios, and also the ones on social media complaining
Feminism
Misandry / man-hating
I would even say that it's not just the ugly fat women. Even average-looking or attractive women in the video games studios want to make female characters ugly. The main reason on why they do this is to take attractive female characters/women away from straight men, .i.e. misandry. That is and has always been their goal. It isn't and never was about "diversity" and "representation", otherwise we would get the hot, big-boobed blonde female character reappear due to this type of female character being underrepresented for over a decade in Western games."
"Actually 1, 2 and 3 are all the same thing. In a lot of ways, feminism is just a platform to artificially inflate fat/ugly women's status in the social chain so they can get access to chads. Dudes below that threshold are their trauma dumpster when they can't take up their issues with chads. All the misandrist venom is reserved only for men they see as beneath them, while they chase the Jeremy Meeks of this world."
"In my country, there is a TV show in the evening called Dancing with the Stars. It's basically ballroom dancing with celebrities paired up with real dancers. When the latin style dances are performed, the female dancers tend to be scantily-clad. There are always complaints from people (women) about this. But guess what? The same people complaining are always drooling over the male dancers (or if it's a tall handsome male celebrity) who are topless and with open shirts. It's the same s**tty double standards."

How did everyone change so much in such little time? : r/KotakuInAction - "I remember when movies like American pie, superbad and even sausage party as controversial as they were were classics people memed about and watched with their friends to have a laugh.  I remember games like blood Rayne, wet and lollipop chainsaw being normal.  I remember when anime like prison school, high school dxd and golden boy were beloved classics overwhelmingly.  What the hell happened, where did all these people go? a few days ago i saw a short on the scene where sue storm goes naked in the fantastic 4 silver surfer movie. and i expected the comments to be nothing but jokes, you should've seen the horror i realized it was people virtue signaling about the directors kinks, objectification blah blah.  It makes no sense that people change this drastically this quickly, r were people always prudes?  I'm not even insinuating everything has to be sexual but when did everyone become a nun?"
"Social media has reached a critical mass of rewarding people for being the pettiest scumbags imaginable.  It used to be said, "Different strokes for different folks." Not everyone has the same tastes, and that's fine. Now though we have a large number of terminally online people looking for the smallest thing to rag on, attract others to rage about that too, and then get it canceled. It gives such people a perverse sense of power to be able to use their social media accounts as virtual censors against anything they personally don't like.  So either the entertainment has to be as bland as vanilla pudding, or it get verbally firebombed by social media addicts.
"Social media grandstanding/clout chasing/Puritanism has ruined the internet"
"For all their talk of 'respecting diversity', they are fanatically intolerant of anyone who's different to them"
"To them, "diversity" is quite literally only skin deep."
"The issue is, the very same people that complain and kick up a fit about things like the Sue Storm scene OP mentioned are typically the kinds of degenerates pushing their own kinks into the public square. What they deem "heteronormativity" Or as normal people would call it, normal, is what they view as problematic. While divergent fucked up degeneracy is pushed as some sort of universal good.  Sexuality itself isn't being repressed by these people. Normal sexuality is, in favor of the degenerate."

How did everyone change so much in such little time? : r/KotakuInAction - "  How did everyone change so much in such little time?
Feminism constantly peddling MeToo, 1-in-5/4/3/2, muh misogyny, objectification, "toxic masculinity", muh patriarchy, the dreaded "Male Gaze", men are bad, etc. all over the place for over a decade. It was always going to condition society into the cancer it is now.
   were people always prudes?
No they were not and are still not now. The people you see complaining about Sue Storm in the movie only have an issue when it's nudity of women; they will praise and joke if it's nudity of men."

Donny's Doners London Fields apology statement after backlash - "Donny’s Doners, a new ‘DJ owned’, ‘neighbourhood’ kebab shop in Hackney’s London Fields, has released an apology after receiving major backlash to its premise and its prices – as criticism towards gentrification in London brands the entire premise as completely tone deaf. The backlash came hard to Donny’s Doners after its creator Simon – self described “white guy” – was branded tone deaf for opening the place in Hackney, an area already renowned for its authentic Turkish food and home to one of London’s largest Turkish and Turkish-Cypriot communities...   Su sarcastically says “It’s really nice to have an authentic diner kebab shop, because they don’t really exist in London.” Louis joins the tone saying “it’s a gap in the market I guess. We just love Turkish food so much and there’s unfortunately a lack of that in the city. Why not use our DJ skills and social media prowess to give the people what they want.” It’s hilarious, you have to admit."
Of course, Turks who open kebab shops that are essentially identical to existing ones are performing a welcome service

Difficult exams are ‘discriminatory’, say junior lawyers
Thread by @CptHastings1916 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Of course exams are discriminatory, that is literally the purpose of them.  It's amazing how people don't understand that learned professions are always going to need some form of quality control of their members. If you make it impossible to do that openly via rigorous meritocracy, you will instead get hidden, informal, secret judgements being made. The deeper problem here of course is the equality regime itself, the abolition of meaningful exams is simply the outworking of the logic behind the Equality Act and its whole family of legislation going back four or five decades. The students behind the demand are simply being consistent in following the principles they have been taught since they first started school. To steelman a bit here, the argument seems to be that the exams demand "cultural-social background knowledge" that not all students possess. But this seems like quite a big claim, & implausible on its face. I'd have to see some good clear examples before I believe it. I just find it very unlikely that in 2025 the questions on English solicitors' exams contain coded references that only privileged whites can reasonably be expected to understand. It fails the smell test as an assertion."

Daniel Hannan on X - "Talking to a group of pleasant, clever socialists last night, it hit me that the defining characteristic of the Left is not compassion; rather, it is the conviction that compassion is unique to their side, leading to a grotesque misunderstanding of what the other side thinks."
This is why they keep going on about "compassion", "empathy" and "kindness". But of course their idea of those things is weaponised and highly contingent
The left have so much empathy that they are unable to understand any other point of view

Meme - evan loves worf @esjesjesj: "So fascism"
Giga Based Dad: "My political views are whatever this is"
*White man and pregnant white woman on bed with 6 kids*
Left wingers like to claim that people's existence cannot be political, but white people existing is fascism

Meme - Lamar @E_Supreme: "Exactly why most people don't say pedo anymore , they just say white men."
Mostly Peaceful Memes: "Child Molestation by Race. Per Capita (Statutory Rape Discluded)."
"Non-Hispanic Whites (-22%), Blacks (+59%), Hispanics (+76%)"
"https://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/rsorp94.pdf
https://www.census.gov/prod/1/pop/p25-1130/p251130.pdf"
Mariah Huntley: "I'd love to know where these stats came from. Anybody can make a chart."
Machu Heyword: "My fav replies are those demanding "sources?!?" When it literally shows the source just below the graph. So, is it the "reading" part or the "comprehension" part for these people?

Andrew Fleischman on X - "The Roman empire literally had universal citizenship by the 3rd century AD, and emperors from Syria, Illyria, Iberia etc etc etc. The United States of America had universal manhood suffrage by the 1870's, open borders until 1880's. Imported 50 million people from 1870 to 1920."
Roman Helmet Guy on X - "It's funny how leftists will describe the Roman Empire as either fascist or a multicultural utopia depending on which supports their immediate rhetorical goal."