It is frightening how the Islamist-terror killing of Sir David Amess has been erased from the modern British political memory - stabbed to death at a church-based surgery. And this type of midwit commentary on political violence & gun ownership is treated by some as insightful.

It's clear that African leaders are tired verging on livid with Western elites for their hypocrisy and sense of superiority. You hear it in almost every country. Meantime, we respond by saying they're being fooled by Russian misinformation and Chinese debt trap diplomacy... 1/2

The UK foreign policy elite long since left the British Isles, rushed beyond planet earth's gravity well, and currently seem to be on the verge of puncturing the Termination Shock given their apparently rather distant view of terrestrial reality.

Say what you like about this but it takes a lot of courage to do it less than ten years after Christians murdered twelve satirists over blasphemy. x.com/Harry__Faulkne…

Here is how The Guardian covered a speech than anyone with above room temperature IQ can see is a masterclass in geopolitical analysis and is obviously world historical. The press is populated with incompetents that are not so much anti-intellectual as they are sub-intellectual. 🤤

I am sobbing watching this. And I have seen a LOT of male violence against women. It is particularly distressing because I didn't think men's violence could be any further normalised and legitimised. That is what this shitshow is: x.com/seaningle/stat…

What miserable news. A man who at times in the 90s seemed on a solitary mission to keep up the spirits of England cricket fans. RIP

Brilliant.

1971: Highbury's housewives welcomed the return of the football season. Women from the local area discussed the benefits of getting the menfolk out of the house.

Superb piece by Blue Labour’s Jonathan Rutherford. “For the first time in our national history, people are living alongside others with radically different civilisational values.” Completely true. And the political class has no idea how to navigate it. newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

A question I've been asking for a few days now. Happy to read that at least one man whose title is journalist still fits the description.

Have to say, one of the most spot-on, perceptive pieces I've read about how Labour should (but probably won't) reflect on deep roots that led to recent civil unrest etc. Really gets under skin of dynamic of national populism. Well said, Jonathan Rutherford & The New Statesman

"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."

An essay for UnHerd prompted by a visit to the excellent Norman Cornish and L. S. Lowry exhibition at The Bowes Museum unherd.com/2024/08/the-no…

Slightly concerned a police force is creating its own ‘cop-show’ videos, complete with serious dramatic music. This is the force who couldn’t locate a wanted lunatic wandering around their town before he murdered three people.

Late to this, as back from holidays. Piecing together the coverage of the UK riots in retrospect, this by Peter Ramsay is still the best thing I've read on them so far.

“He has the ‘anti-colonial’ historians bang to rights on his point that they use morally-laden language without realising it, and then criticise Biggar when he consciously does the same.” ⁦No need to be a theologian to betray Christian assumptions… engelsbergideas.com/reviews/unpick…

Labour’s plan is to apply this model to a ‘renewables revolution’. Madness. Our idiot media tells the public this is what ‘financial responsibility’ looks like.

“For Sahra Wagenknecht, there is no contradiction between being economically left-wing and culturally conservative; rather, the two things go hand in hand”. My latest: thomasfazi.com/p/whos-afraid-…

The Rest is History is undoubtedly the greatest podcast.