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With so much going on in the world it’s easy to miss the EU’s stealthy power-grab. Fortunately the indispensable Thomas Fazi has alerted us to it. unherd.com/2026/06/von-der-l…
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It is absolutely right and proper that people are more incensed by a crime committed by an immigrant than by the same crime committed by a citizen. The latter are the unavoidable cost of the variety of human nature. The former are outrages visited upon us by people…
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Jun 9
…who are here in the first instance as guests, who owe the people who gave them shelter respect. Their crimes repay generosity with contempt, which makes them ten times more contemptible. Not to see the difference I think is a species of moral cretinism.
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A lot of men up in arms over the attack in North Belfast who have absolutely nothing to say femicide levels in NI, the most deadly place to be a women in the UK and Ireland.
Whipping up rage and anger because an immigrant is involved tells you everything about their motives.
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May 28
The report doesn’t say this, but doesn’t this research show the Boriswave was a triumphant success on its own ignoble terms, i.e it’s depressed wages to a level where only superkeen/ desparate migrants will take the jobs? express.co.uk/news/politics/…
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May 28
This just popped into my inbox. No 4 is the telling one. The govt. really thinks an ethical outlook on life can be conjured by getting people to fill out forms.
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May 28
If even Aaron Bastani is losing his optimism we really are in a mess.
May 27
Very common. I’ve seen whole carriages where every single window is smashed.
British transport police basically don’t exist anymore. If you want more people to use trains this stuff should anger you.
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May 24
There’s a particular kind of middle-class silliness, enabled by having a bit of surplus money and a rosy, left-liberal view of life. It’s exemplified by a story I heard recently from a nice woman who thought it would be fun to buy a second home in the Alsatian town of her birth..
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May 24
She thought it would be super-cool to buy in the ‘edgy’ bit of town where the immigrants live. Unfortunately it turned out to be all-too edgy. The area now swarms with North African drug dealers, life there is hell, and she can’t sell her flat at any price.
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May 17
I didn’t mention the letter of support for Harriman was signed by (among other worthies) Greta Thunberg, Juliet Stevenson and Jolyon Maugham. Three red flags.
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May 15
The revelation that the South Bank chairman is the son of a billionaire is almost as delicious as the revelation that a Green candidate pushing Britain to pay trillions in slavery reparations is descended from a Nigerian royal family that traded slaves. slippedisc.com/2026/05/the-i…
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May 14
Wrong-think not welcome at the EU.
May 14
EU staff told they cannot criticize the EU, even in their free time, and anon accounts will be investigated
“EU and national investigations capabilities exist”, staff at the European Commission were told last week in relation to anonymous/pseudonymous social media accounts
From my newsletter this week:
EU staff were invited to a training session, hosted by one of the staff unions and the head of DEI, on what they can and cannot say in their private life.
The webinar title singled out “UKRAINE-GAZA-IRAN-VACCINES-POLITICS”, as touchy subjects, but they didn’t dare mention gender, even though it is by far the most toxic topic inside the EU bureaucracy.
Here’s some proof: at the exact same moment that the webinar was ongoing, there was a street protest by EU staff against Commission’s policy towards Gaza and Israel, on Place du Luxembourg in Brussels. I happened to walk past it, and I approached the protestors to ask if they knew they were probably breaking some rules. They said that they hadn’t heard that there was any interdiction on their very loud, very critical, very regular, and very EU-branded protests (and bake sales, and marathon participation, and so on…)
The Commission tried to ban all internal talk of gender a couple of years ago, and eventually fired me a few weeks ago for it. There is nothing in this world more sensitive among the elites than the sex-erasure issue. Not even Israel-Gaza.
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May 14
I suppose this is meant to be cute but it makes my skin crawl.
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May 13
Me on a quirk of current orchestral concert programming telegraph.co.uk/music/classi…
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May 12
reality denial is absolutely the last quality we need in government right now.
May 12
In the name of public service, and as ex-economics editor of BBC Newsnight, I offer to do a zoom call, tonight, with any Labour MP who wants to understand why bond markets do not "fall into line" with governments. 1/
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May 11
😂
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May 10
Lefties simply can’t help themselves. They damn anyone who sees the world differently instinctively, the way a cat kills birds. No nuance, no pause for that ‘seeing things from the other side’, which one might reasonably expect, from the chair of the Southbank Centre.
May 9
Chair of the @southbankcentre Misan Harriman has some thoughts on the surge of Reform at the elections this week. He compares it to the Holocaust. This is truly DISGUSTING.
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Orwell was right. There’s a certain sort of Englishman that reserves his best sneers for his own people.
You certainly implied that. Cheap. You really should get out more. You do not know your own country.
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