Earlier today Dane Baptiste posted a public death threat to a female, Jewish comedian and I am convinced he’d have received more backlash from the comedy world if he came out as a Tory.

This style of politics is why I could never vote Labour nowadays. It's claiming an opposing politician is *dangerous* and must be stopped (thereby effectively justifying vigilante action against them).

Highly dishonest and irresponsible. And this from a Labour 'centrist'.

This is Labour trying to get its base out to vote. It's not a message of 'vote for us to be better off', or because Labour is delivering some strategic vision.
It's pointing a finger and crying 'Racist', and deploying the favoured buzz term of Islamist lobby groups.

One of the most tragic meaningless things in the world is when we think we are being amusingly original by repeating a quip that's been told 1000+ times already.

It's quite simple. We need to put the rights of children lying in bits in mortuaries or maimed for life and their wrecked families above the sensibilities of a disconnected human rights boss class.
More stop and search. Fewer knives. Fewer funerals.
That's 'proportionality.'

I've been reading about East Germany lately and this is exactly what you had to do there. You had to attend classes and concur with what was taught in them in order to gain certain employment and promotion.

Result: free-thinkers fled to West Germany if they could.

I read in a newspaper earlier Rishi Sunak say that extreme violence 'has no place on our streets.' To which the answer, obviously, 'yes it does, every day'.

Another example of how politicians think in set phrases, slogans. Doing politics in the way politics is done.

This is exactly right & very few are connecting the dots. The classroom is a key battleground for Islamists seeking to gradually bend society to their vision & the delegitimisation campaign is slightly more open & pronounced in France, as I wrote here:
newstatesman.com/world/europe/2…

It's also all about appearance rather than performance: someone can't be in office because *it wouldn't look right* to my tribe. It's simultaneously superficial and extremist, in effectively barring a certain religious group from power and representation.

The Post Millennial From the river to the sea, please send us KFC

People don't read books about the stuff they care about, then ask 'why' it is happening as it is.

France.

Pretty good to be fair.

This party is going to be a lot of fun.

I wrote for The Critic about how schools are increasingly appearing as battlegrounds, especially in the light of Islamist pressure: and how there are no good options for policymakers in confronting it. thecritic.co.uk/the-school-as-…

Looking through the EURO 2024 fixtures list brings the opposite of excitement: the expanded tournament means a plethora of uninteresting games in the group stages. uefa.com/euro2024/news/…

In the case of re-nationalising railways, I think a little backward-looking might be appropriate.