In Japan, a stabbing scene works differently. Let me describe it without pride. A koban officer reaching a knife incident has one trained reflex: secure the blade, secure the bleeding. Who insulted whom is a question for detectives, tomorrow, at the station. The wounded man is not yet a suspect or a victim. He is a casualty. We have our own police failures — plenty of them. But I cannot imagine a Japanese officer telling a dying man "don't think you've been stabbed, mate" because the other party raised a social accusation first. Not because our officers are better people. Because nobody trained them to rank grievances at a crime scene. Training is a choice. Who made Britain's?

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Our Prime Minister and other leftists are more upset about jejune "witch" jibes than years of "globalise the intifada". Even after Bondi. They shame our nation. In fact, they imperil our nation.

This is a glorious, evocative restaurant review. Forgive me for salivating.

Mind boggling: village in Angus, Scotland’s East coast, where in 1970(!) many villagers had to rely on communal public loos, their houses lacking them.

"Despite the many mistakes made by churches," Cleese wrote, "for centuries, British people have been influenced by Christ's teaching. If these values are replaced by Islamic ones, this will not be Britain anymore." Well Said and he is very correct as well. 👏👏👏

As a Bishop, I cannot stay silent. I have today drafted and sent an open letter to His Majesty King Charles III, the text of which reads as follows: To: His Majesty, Charles III, King of the United Kingdom and the Realms, Supreme Governor of the Church of England, Bearer of the ancient title Defender of the Faith. Your Majesty, I write to you neither as a politician nor as a commentator, but as one of your loyal subjects who, as a bishop of Christ’s Church, cannot remain silent while the Christian foundations of this kingdom are steadily dismantled. Sir, there are moments in the life of a nation when silence becomes a form of betrayal. If I refused to speak to Your Majesty now, this would be such a moment. For more than a thousand years the Crown of this realm has stood in solemn covenant with the Christian faith. The laws of this land were shaped by it. The liberties of our people were nurtured by it. The conscience of our civilisation was formed by it. From the abbeys of medieval England to the parish churches of our villages, from the preaching of the Reformers to the missionary zeal that carried the Gospel to the ends of the earth, the Christian faith has not merely influenced Britain — it has defined her. Yet today that inheritance is being quietly but deliberately eroded. Across the institutions of this nation there is a growing hostility toward the faith that built them. Christian belief is mocked in the public square. Christian morality is dismissed as intolerance. Christian institutions are pressured to surrender doctrine in order to conform to the ideology of the age. Within the very Church that bears the name of England, voices have arisen that appear more eager to mirror the spirit of the age than to proclaim the eternal truth of the Gospel. Meanwhile, beyond the walls of our churches, powerful political movements openly speak of removing Christianity from its historic place within the life of this nation. What would once have been whispered is now proclaimed openly: that Britain must become a post-Christian state. It is in this context that I write to you, Your Majesty. For the British Crown does not stand apart from this crisis. The Sovereign of this realm bears a title that is not merely historic but sacred in its origin and meaning: Defender of the Faith. Those words are not decorative. They are a charge. They speak of a monarch whose duty is not merely to preside over the ceremonies of the Church, but to stand as a guardian of the Christian inheritance of the nation. Yet many among your subjects now ask, with increasing anxiety: “Who will defend that inheritance today?” They see a nation drifting from its foundations. And they ask whether the Crown will remain silent while that inheritance is dismantled. Your Majesty, may I be so bold as to observe that your coronation oath was not a poetic formality. It was a solemn vow made before Almighty God to maintain and preserve the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law. Those words bind the conscience of the sovereign. They remind the Crown that its authority is not merely constitutional but moral. The monarch is not merely a symbol of national continuity, but a custodian of the spiritual inheritance that shaped this realm. History records moments when kings and emperors were confronted by the Church and reminded that their authority was accountable before God. In the fourth century Ambrose of Milan stood before the Emperor Theodosius I and reminded him that even the ruler of an empire must bow before the moral law of Christ. That tradition of prophetic witness has never disappeared. Nor should it. For when rulers forget the foundations upon which their authority rests, the Church must speak — not with hostility, but with holy clarity. And so, I write to say this, Your Majesty: The Christian character of this nation is under profound and accelerating assault. If the Crown does not stand visibly and courageously in defence of that inheritance, history will record that the guardians of Britain’s institutions watched in silence as the foundations were removed. The issue before us is not nostalgia. It is civilisation. Remove Christianity from the story of Britain and you do not create a neutral society — you create a moral vacuum. And history teaches us that moral vacuums are never left empty for long. Your Majesty now stands at a crossroads that few monarchs in modern history have faced. For the erosion of Britain’s Christian inheritance will not ultimately be judged by speeches made in Parliament or debates in the press. It will be judged by whether those entrusted with the guardianship of our ancient institutions chose to defend them — or merely preside over their quiet surrender. You may preside over the quiet dissolution of Britain’s Christian identity. Or you may rise to the ancient responsibility entrusted to the Crown and speak with clarity about the faith that built this kingdom. The first path requires little courage. The second will require a great deal. But it is the path that history honours. Your Majesty’s subjects are not asking for religious coercion. They are asking for leadership. They are asking that the sovereign who bears the title Defender of the Faith remember what that title means. They are asking that the Crown hear the growing cry of anguish from Christians across this land who feel that the spiritual inheritance of their nation is being surrendered without resistance. And they are asking whether the Crown will stand with them. For the faith that shaped Britain is not merely a cultural ornament. It is the wellspring from which our laws, our liberties, and our moral imagination have flowed. If it is cast aside, the nation will discover — too late — that it has severed itself from the very roots that sustained it. Your Majesty, to many the Crown is a symbol of authority. But before God it is also a symbol of stewardship. And stewardship carries with it the duty to defend what has been entrusted. May Almighty God grant Your Majesty the wisdom to discern this hour, and the courage to fulfil the sacred duty entrusted to the Crown. Yours faithfully, Bishop Ceirion H. Dewar FSHC Missionary Bishop Diocese of Providence Confessing Anglican Church @PhilHs10 @RevBrettMurphy @revwickland @BishopRobert1 @GBNews @TalkTV @danwootton @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @LozzaFox @BackBrexitBen @RupertLowe10 @KemiBadenoch @JohnCleese

I've plotted the most expensive McDonald's burger and the least expensive MacBook over time. This analysis projects that the most expensive burger will be more expensive than the cheapest laptop as soon as 2081

Classic Bill Murray

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: “It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones. “There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion. “If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice! “Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”

Grace Tame has devolved from an advocate for survivors of sexual assault, to an advocate for terrorists who use sexual assault as a weapon. She amplifies calls to 'globalise the intifada'. October 7th is what an Intifada is. Mass murder, rape, mutilation, kidnapping, torture. She should be stripped of her 'Australian of the year' award. She is a disgrace to this country.

Genius. Pure genius.

A classic from the archives

The former Prime Minister of Finland, Sanna Marin, explains that the only way the west can avoid decades of war with Russia is to assure that Ukraine pushes Russia completely out of Ukrainian territory, including Crimea. "There isnt any other choice"

Never forget who was in charge @AlboMP @SenatorWong @Tony_Burke Failure at the top preceded the worst terrorist attack in Australian history #auspol

this was scott adams’s favorite dilbert comic you shall live on forever in your body of work, sir 🫡

Ms Dyer @instanterudite, Why do you & others of your ilk typically fail to mention Abdel-Fattah's sickening & sinister advocacy for 'an end to Israel' with its horrific implications? Similarly, why is there seemingly no acknowledgement of the menace in her statement that people like me, who believe that Israel must exist as a homeland for the Jews (aka a Zionist, a non-Jewish Australian Christian one in my case) 'have no claim or right to cultural safety' ? Why do 'writers' seem not to be alert to the possibility that people who are easily influenced by polemics might, after the terrorist massacre at Bondi, be emboldened and blur the boundary between culture safety and physical safety? Why?

This is wonderful: the left is turning on itself

It is wonderful to see that there is a Minister within Albanese's Labor government with a backbone and moral clarity. Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King has thrown her support behind the Adelaide Festival board's decision to boot Randa Abdel-Fattah from the Adelaide Festival. King said: "“I’ve seen the comments that the author in question made. To be frank, in my own opinion, I’m surprised she ever got an invite to the Adelaide Writers’ Festival." Well done Minister King! 👏