Author of The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister, Adviser to Lady Thatcher, NR's Editor at Large, and Commander of the Order of the British Empire
This is a warning. People have no idea of the sacrifices that will be required of them in lifestyle changes as well as in higher taxes and higher energy prices to meet Net Zero targets. And they won't like them.
Nonsense. The term "globalist" has been used in international affairs for decades. It describes those wanting power transferred from nation-states to supra-national bodies such as the EU. It's a vicious libel to claim it means Jews. Neo-nazis are a handful of cranks with no power
This is an important point. What the sick minds on the receiving end of his vile transmissions hear is “JEW”. This is why Neo Nazi’s believe they are ascendant in the age of Trump. Pretending that isn’t reality doesn’t mean that it is not happening.
Hate is now an weasel word that doesn't mean hatred but signifies policies or political attitudes that the speaker dislikes. Oddly, the very people who employ the word "hate" in this way usually seem to be full of hatred and bile and even an evident wish to harm. Watch, listen.
Was Obama's main achievement postponing a democratic surge in Iran from June 2009 to today? Set on a deal with the Mullahs, he treated the 2009 protesters against their election rigging with chilly silence. Riots now spread across Iran. So much for being on right side of history.
Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets in cities across the country to protest, with many people shouting anti-government and anti-regime slogans
Mark Steyn is a great man and the best-all-round journalist now living. The court's treatment of his libel case, creating complexities to avoid finding for him and constantly kicking the can down the road, is an outrage. The conservative world owes him full and loud support.
Mark Steyn has been a brave and courageous voice for many years. He has suffered several cardiac incidents since taking the jabs and appears to be white in the hair and confined to a wheelchair. This is very sad to see and I hope he can recover.
So as not to put their students from multilingual backgrounds at a disadvantage for a few months, teachers in the Rutgers University English Department have decided to put them at a disadvantage for the rest of their lives.
Rutgers University English Department will not teach grammar rules "so as to not put students from multilingual, non-standard 'academic' English backgrounds at a disadvantage."
This is a straightforward demand for the Bar to introduce political tests for membership which is tantamount to denying employment to qualified lawyers with conservative views. It shows the totalitarian mindset of leftist lawyers.
After disgracing her office as Attorney General and twice disgracing her office as Home Secretary, the Bar Standards Board should now consider whether Suella Braverman’s hateful, divisive rhetoric and record of undermining the rule of law is compatible with membership of the Bar.
As an argument--Taylor Swift as envoy for Trump--this Guardian editorial is absurd. As a threat--Swift must denounce Trump or be damned--it's sinister. Everything is politics and silence is not enough, it says, conformity is required too. Can it be a joke?
Well, for the better part of three years he was falsely accused of being a Russian agent by a coalition of Democratic law-makers, heads of the US intelligence agencies, NYT and WPO editors and reporters, and assorted Never Trumpers who have yet to apologize. I'd call that unfair.
@TheAnchoress
Trump complains about how "unfair" people are to him to a much greater degree than either Bush or Obama (or Clinton, for that matter) ever did. And the contempt he displays to the entire rest of the political world has no peer.
Sir Philip’s public attack was plainly an attempt to oust Ms. Patel. He will have support from colleagues. Today’s higher civil service is ideologically hostile to the Tories, Brexit, and the current drift of British politics. And so are most judges. That’s why he must lose.
“It’s worth considering that, if all Sir Philip was trying to achieve was redress, he would have resigned and quietly instructed employment lawyers” Sir Philip Rutnam’s real agenda was surely ousting Priti Patel
Fascinating. So all the denunciations of Brexit and Brexiteers for risking peace in Ireland were based on a false premise. It was Remainers who falsely threatened it. I now expect apologies on the scale of the apologies of those who falsely accused Trump of being a Russian asset!
Er... Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar confident some special arrangement can be found to keep border in Ireland invisible in a no-deal Brexit via
@bpolitics
This is trivial logic-chopping and thus deeply misleading. NATO allies owe each other the duty of meeting their agreed obligations. A handful do so; most don't. That undermines their promises of mutual defense and means the US bears undue responsibility for it.
More than a year in office, Trump still doesn’t understand how NATO works. NATO allies don’t “owe” the US anything and no one is “delinquent.” The NATO goal is for each country to spend 2% on its own military, which most have not met. But the money doesn’t go to the US or NATO.
Odd that the advocates of a multi-cultural society don't realize such a society will have several cultural traditions in radical conflict with each other. So when they run up against people with different moral views, they demand the heretics be expelled.
Imagine Williamson had held much less radical pro-life views, merely thinking abortion an act of murder but not one that shd be punished w execution or even prosecution. Would it have been ok with female coworkers who'd had abortions to know he merely considered them murderers?
When a movement in either religion or politics becomes convinced that it is morally pure and that its opponents are evil, it will sooner or later develop totalitarian features and seek to repress them. Social liberalism in Europe and America reached that point a few years ago.
The dam is breaking. Those who really understand the world's need for cheap reliable energy and the dire results of preventing its supply realize that Net Zero is an absurd recipe for the collapse of living standards worldwide.
Shell's new boss has said that cutting oil and gas output would be bad for consumers. “I am of a firm view that the world will need oil and gas for a long time to come. As such, cutting oil and gas production is not healthy,” he said.
#CostOfNetZero
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My bid: Tories withdraw candidates in 44 seats where UKIP was 2nd to Labour in 2015 & Nigel puts candidates nowhere else, costing Tories almost none of the 44 seats & gaining them far more. If Boris refuses, who’s to blame for a defeat? Nigel should stick to 44 challenges anyway.
If you need to educate yourself on Churchill’s supposedly racist views, then you can’t know if or how they’re racist. Your apology is thus a surrender to a bullying that is itself materially ignorant and bigoted.
Did not mean to offend by quoting Churchill. My apologies. I will go and educate myself further on his atrocities, racist views which I do not support. My point was we need to come together as one nation. We are all Americans. That should transcend partisan politics.
Criticism of the media, whether organized or not, is one expression of the constitutional right of free speech that protects the freedom of the press. This Facebook VP seems to realize this better than his journalism professor critic.
There is an organized campaign to discredit the mainstream press in this country, led by the president. And this Facebook VP is either unaware of how it works, or cavalier about participating in it.
But you're not changing your mind. Your mind is set in concrete. What you're trying to do is to change other people's votes. And the rules are that you get to do that only when their votes have been implemented and can be judged.
I swear to God I'm trying not to bang on about
#Brexit
but for FUCK'S SAKE, every time I come out of my writing room and look at the news some more dumbassery has been committed. THE WHOLE POINT OF DEMOCRACY IS THE FREEDOM TO CHANGE YOUR OPINION WHEN THE CIRCUMSTANCES CHANGE.
Theresa May is such a shameless liar that watching her lie is unsettling. It undermines one’s everyday sense that reality is unavoidable. That feeling is aggravated when Ministers, MPs & Remain hacks nod along asshe claims her policy is a last/only chance to get Brexit. Weird.
Peter Berkowitz, a philosopher with political experience as director of Policy Planning at State Department, explains why journalists no longer respect truth & impartiality but embrace partisanship & bias. They've drunk too deep of ideology to see reality:
Andrew Sullivan's criticism of Jon Stewart is not only well-argued--I take that for granted--but also supported at every point with solid evidence from the social sciences. More, he shows that Stewart's position is rooted in bigotry and racism in light disguise. Read him.
I really don’t want to hear from “Brexiteer” MPs until I read they have announced their support for a motion of no confidence in May and, if necessary, the government. And astonishing to report, almost every Tory voter and activist I talk to feels the same.
Thank you for your example. We owe a huge debt to Poland which like our own country, was one of the four nations that fought in WWII from start to finish & one of two nations on the right side throughout. We have a double debt to those Poles who stayed & became our countrymen.
In an act of brazen cussedness I am hanging the Polish flag outside my house this
#VEDay
, as a reminder of the cause for which Britain went to war in 1939, and of the huge contribution of Polish servicemen to the Allied victory in
#WW2
.
Don't call the caravan "invaders" because they're "people"? Well, invaders are invariably people. We don't call animals who stray over borders "invaders" because they're not part of our world of states & borders. The caravan is a non-military invasion but a real one nonetheless.
@Harlan
So follow the process. Just drop the appalling language about foreign ‘invaders’. It’s disgraceful. They are people.
Anyone would think this is all last minute button pushing with an election coming up
"There are arguments for remaining in the EU and arguments for leaving. But there is no case whatever for giving up the benefits of remaining without obtaining the benefits of leaving. Yet that is exactly what the government is now proposing." Former BoE Governor, Lord King.
Claire Fox has some ideas with which I disagree, but my goodness she understands what democracy is and what it demands of us. She likes ordinary Brits. She’s clear-minded. And she doesn’t try to bamboozle or wheedle us. I’d vote for her.
You're helping to back the Left into the extremist position that corporate discrimination against ordinary citizens, exercised mainly in private and without public justification, is justified if its victims hold "right wing" views. That's foolish and, I think, odious too.
Farage, sensing the government is terrified of him and has the over powerful right wing Brexit press is backing him , now wants the NatWest board to resign. This is wild, over-the-top and beyond reason. He is being allowed to transmute into a national messiah. Lets get a grip.
Everything you think you know about the people who voted to leave the EU is snobbish, condescending, and wrong. Here's an accurate picture. It explains why Brexit was not a momentary spasm but a clear conviction rooted in people's dislike of living in an undemocratic polity.
"Contrary to rumour, Brexit was supported by a broad and fairly diverse coalition of voters; large numbers of affluent conservatives; 1 in 3 of Britain’s black & ethnic minority voters; almost half of 25-49 year-olds; 1 in 2 women; 1 in 4 graduates"
Yoram Hazony's picture of a Marxist revolution disguised as an anti-racist one is confirmed by events in Democrat-run US cities and in Whitehall, UK. But both conventions show the revolution's disguise is wearing thin and popular resistance to it growing:
I'm calling on Theresa May to apologise to Boris Johnson for calling on Boris Johnson to apologise for his legitimate criticism of the burka as a symbol of female subordination while upholding the right of women to wear it if they freely wish. Plus it was a cheap & nasty smear.
Michael Caine says it's worth getting richer more slowly if Britain is to be a fully self-governing democracy. Why is that foolish? Democratic sovereignty has value in itself. And Greeks, suffering the dire results of government by others, might think it economically prudent too.
This is crazy stuff. The referendum was included in the Tory manifesto & passed by Parliament after long debate. Remain, including HMG, massively outspent Leave. Polls showed a large Out vote for decades. It won because people wanted the UK to be a self-governing democracy again.
As the son of such an "immigrant" I think you may be underestimating the social reality that Ireland & England were part of the same country until 1922 and of the same travel area & (mainly) culture afterwards. Consider the media careers of Conor Cruise O'Brien and Terry Wogan.
The extent to which Irish immigration into England is just…ignored is pretty amazing when you look at the numbers.
Around 75% of scousers have Irish heritage. 1 in 5 Liverpudlians was Irish in 1850s. Places like Manchester & Bradford mushroomed with Irish labour.
Don’t ask me to play “Hearts and Flowers.” They weren’t set up to spy on presidential campaigns, to falsify evidence, to undermine presidents they disliked, and to obstruct the implementation of their policies They wrote the script; let them face the music.
This is the start of potentially a massive breakthrough. Without its Scottish & working class strongholds, and losing moderate Remainers to the Lib-Dems, Labour can't win. If the Tories allow May to throw away this chance by diluting Brexit further, they'll lose--and deserve to.
Daniel is making a mistake. If May's deal goes through, the Tories will own the catastrophe that follows--something called Brexit that isn't Brexit, that subjects Britain to EU rules indefinitely and leads to endless controversy. See today's Survation poll for the first fruits.
Trump said nothing of the sort. He said that votes could not be cast after the election. That has happened--and decided US presidential elections--in the past, famously in 1960. It may be happening in Pennsylvania now. There are signs of it. If so, SCOTUS will end up deciding it.
What's happening here is a large social advance disguised as a modest legal restraint. Lawmakers are now saying and doing things that the best and brightest told us until recently couldn't be said or done. Of course, it's only a start and it will be resisted, but . . .
BREAKING: Missouri legislators have introduced a bill to abolish the DEI bureaucracies in all state institutions, including the public university system.
We will not stop until we have defeated the ideology of left-wing racialism and made colorblind equality the law of the land.
I'm so tired of people who are so tired of old white men as if they were boldly challenging a powerful establishment consensus instead of echoing one in tired old terms.
It's long been known--see the work of Oxford's David Coleman--that immigration increased GDP overall but not GDP per capita which is a pointless exercise--but these figures show that immigration is now producing a decline per capita. Yet both parties support it and lie about it.
Going through the OBR autumn report, it is hard not to be struck by the huge gap between GDP growth overall and GDP per capita. Overall growth in the current year, 2023, actually turns into a decline per capita.
That's where those huge migration figures show up.
He also wanted Britain to remain inside the ERM when we were hemorrhaging our reserves and hiking our interest rates in a futile attempt to defy the currency markets. His main problem is a contempt for reality.
Heseltine has contempt for democracy. He never wanted a vote while selling us down the river to Brussels and he opposed giving us a say on the Euro... but now he wants another vote on the thing we already voted for!
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The deal isn’t weak, Iain. It lets the EU make our rules, regulations & tariffs without our having either a say or a right of exit. It represents stronger EU control & less UK sovereignty than membership. These things can’t be wished away for a quiet life & party unity.
@TheScepticIsle
@gt_carter
@JohnOSullivanNR
possibly - but the myopic fixation on the weakness of this deal is bizarre. Most of those now against it I remember being in favour of something much softer five years ago. It's almost as though they prefer opposition and complaining?
Not to mention her massive under-funding of defense, her frivolous cancellation of nuclear power (leading to the highest energy prices in the EU), her persecution of Greece, her single-handed creation of the migration crisis, and her reduction of the CDU to minority party status.
Twitter full of Remainer attacks on Boris and Britain over Russian links but it’s their beloved Merkel who presided over Germany becoming massively dependent on Russian energy. That dependence is the number one weakness in the West’s response to the invasion of Ukraine.
The Economist “Intelligence Unit” admits it was too pessimistic about the prospects for the UK after the Brexit referendum. But blames business/consumers for failing to understand the full implications of leaving the EU. So companies kept on investing, people spending.
I love this clip. You can see Mrs. Thatcher trying to suppress a smile as she listens to the question, obviously thinking to herself "I can hit this one out of the park." Then she does just that.
One of Australia's most distinguished political writerss, Paul Kelly, demolishes the Victoria State Appeals Court judgment against Cardinal Pell in a coolly-reasoned forensic analysis. A miscarriage of justice for Pell; a grave crisis for Australian law:
If so, the caravan, its organizers & supporters, inside and outside of the US, bear a far greater burden of responsibility for provoking anger than its critics. How can you imagine that an open threat to overrun US borders and settle this country illegally would not anger people?
Johnson's Brexit policy has 3 mandates: the 2016 referendum mandate; the 2017 electoral mandate when Tories won on No deal is better than a bad deal; and a legislative mandate, backed by almost 500 MPs, that if a deal didn't happen, Brexit would happen automatically. Happier now?
@JohnOSullivanNR
Attlee prorogued because the Lords blocked something for which he had an electoral mandate. Johnson is proroguing to push through something which has NO electoral mandate.
Since higher energy prices are the result of deliberate government policy, there's no reason at all why we should get used to them any more than we should get used to the governments that deliberately increased them.
Tories and Brexit Party supporters alike should turn out everywhere cheering Farage to tell Boris and Central Office to stop denouncing him, come off their high horses, talk, and reach some sort of electoral deal.
When a government which included Heseltine entered the European Economic Community without either a referendum or a manifesto mandate, it held a raft of celebrations, including a South Bank concert with a Fanfare for Europe. He forged enthusiasm then, he seeks to suppress it now.
Tory MPs should propose a motion of no confidence in May. If Corbyn and Labour MPs vote for it, fine. They’ll be voting for a Tory motion that, if passed, would benefit all. Just get rid of her. She’s Typhoid Theresa.
Let me get this straight. Mrs May has ignored 80% of her party opposed to a Customs Union to ally with an anti British Marxist zealot plus the support of 10% of her Parliamentary party & a minority of her Cabinet before grovelling back to the EU.A disgraceful shambles
#MayMustGo
I would expect a similar age gap among Brits. The self-flattering belief of Remainers that they are more intelligent than Leavers reflects, as here, the rise of a college-educated lumpen-intelligentsia that knows less than high-school graduates in earlier generations.
Americans 65+ are the most informed, but have the least formal education. They crush every other age group in knowledge of U.S. History and civics.
The least informed are those with the most formal education (under 45) where just 19% can pass the U.S. Citizenship test. 🤔
Fed up with an undemocratic Remainer parliament? Elect a Leaver one. But major parties obstruct that. So: 1. Vote for other parties. 2. Change the composition of major parties either by deselection or with independent Tory or Labour Leavers. And now is the time to start.
He gave his life for a stranger and now rests in peace. It is we who now need his prayers, And it is for us to give thanks for his life and his sacrifice.
This is Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole
He was 20 years old.
Yesterday, he gave his life to save the life of a complete stranger who fell from London Bridge.
Rest in peace you brave young hero.
In 1945 the Allies made Germans, esp. officials and Nazis, visit death & concentration camps to see their handiwork. Some went home & killed themselves. Israel & Western governments should invite West's Hamas supporters to see the evidence of atrocities they encourage & deny.
Tortured them first…raped them…mutilated and burned them. This was even worse than what we have come to define as terrorism. This invasion was conducted by a death cult.
My long-held assumption is that the NYT is perishingly close to imploding but has enough power & public reputation never actually to implode. But this retraction, the1619 project, and Don McNeil's agitprop confession make me wonder. It's looking cruel, unprofessional, and silly.
The
@nytimes
just retracted its January 8 report that claimed Brian Sicknick was killed by a Trump supporter using a fire extinguisher. Not only is the original story untrue, they lied about the anonymous sources linked to the story. My update here
The final act of Brexit betrayal is upon us; it must never be forgiven: 'Theresa May will ask Cabinet to agree Brexit deal that keeps UK in customs union' via
@Telegraph
First Anna Soubry drives people out of the Tory party with her anti-democratic hostility to Brexit, then she tries to stop them rejoining because they are stronger supporters of Tory policy than she is. It doesn't seem a very promising electoral strategy.
It is the MPs who should apologize, first for breaking their election pledges on Brexit, then for denouncing as irresponsible those who complain about their broken pledges. MPs created the "fractious times" which they now use as an excuse to shut everyone else up.
In these fractious times, it’s vital that politicians use language that’s responsible, measured and doesn’t inflame discord or hatred. Farage isn’t stupid, he knew exactly what he was saying today and how his words would be heard. If he cares about his country, he’ll apologise..
Those of us born in England in the war years owe an immeasurable debt to Mr. Dixon and others like him who volunteered to fight for our freedom. I pray his funeral will be well-attended by grateful mourners. After his long struggles in life, may he rest in peace.
The establishment seems to have lost its mind. Either the Electoral Commission will find nothing suspicious,; if so, the Brexit Party will look like a victim of intimidation. Or it will find something suspicious; if so, the Brexit Party will look like the victim of a stitch-up.
Hilarious & data-rich takedown by Steve Sailer of the David Brooks column arguing that white Americans owe their prosperity to the presence of immigrants. You'll be laughing all the way to the Diversity & Multiculturalism Re-Education Center:
It's hard to exaggerate how naturally and easily these leftist journalists evolve into totalitarian censors when their party is in the driving seat. It must be something in the ideology.
HMG needs to enact the full Online Safety Act now, no more consultations. They should call the two (!) execs of UK Twitter in to explain why their CEO is personally boosting hate speech, incitement and disinformation - and pull the plug on the service unless this stops. 1/
The argument that aliens who entered the country illegally and against opposition were in reality invading the United States gains force with every protest that demands (with menaces) the rights and liberties that the US Constitution reserves for citizens.
BREAKING: Harris supporters and Illegal Aliens are turning out in MASS PROTEST in the nation’s capital to demand the “right” to vote in U.S. elections.
This is what Kamala’s job as “Border Czar” was really all about.
This article is well-informed commonsense. It rightly predicts an energy disaster--thus an economic one-- if we don't change course. It warns we won't change course unless we confront & disprove the false irrational social mood that we must atone for modern civilization. Read it.
👀"I don’t like poverty, I don’t like artificial limits on human aspiration and potential, and when you don’t have enough energy you get a lot of both."
⬇️A superb article on
#CostOfNetZero
by
@DavidGHFrost
:
Calm down. Her Majesty has read out Churchillian, Edenite, Macmillian, Homian, Wilsonian, Heathite, Callaghanite, Thatcherite, Majorette, Blairite, Cameroon, Mayite, and Johnsonian propaganda in the Queens Speeches of her reign as the electorate has decreed. It’s Democracy 101.
I'm not a royalist but Her Majesty The Queen is a sacred part of our national identity.
To see her forced to read out Brexit propaganda lines from 2016, on the orders of a man whose previous instructions implicated her and the Crown in unlawful action, made me sick.
#QueensSpeech
This is the EU Withdrawal Deal without the Backstop. Merkel, Macron, Juncker & his successor repeatedly say it ultimately means a European Army. Britain's most distinguished soldiers & spooks say it threatens UK national security. When will the media & Tory backbenchers notice?
This video by the EU explains how some of its powerful new military control structures work.
The exit deal would keep us in all of this and more, legally locked in before the structures reach full power.
So WHY are ministers only talking about the Backstop?
#NotJustTheBackstop
Columnist Yasmin alibhai-brown warns that tomorrow's backlash against Muslims in response to the murder of three gay Brits by a Libyan asylum-seeker shows the lack of tolerance in Britain. Variation on an old joke.
Notice that these mock-xenophobic tweets from Remainers greatly outnumber any actual xenophobic tweets from Leavers. It's desperately important to Remainers that their opponents should be xenophobes and they their opposite. Sad.
Theresa May's statement today is clear: she will force Chequers through at all costs. We knew she would rely on Labour votes to do so: the Whips are already talking to them. Tory MPs who hesitate will be lost. Send in the letters asking for a confidence vote. Nothing less works.
No, we didn't. We would have voted for permanent vassal status in the EU. Every time we sought to oppose a new EU law, strike a trade deal elsewhere, or change a regulation, a coalition of domestic Remainers, multi-national corporations, and EU obstructionists would frustrate it.
This is a pointless and unconstructive tweet but I just want to say to a sizeable proportion of my fellow Brexiteers:
You utter idiots. You total fools. You had Brexit within your hands and you - through your bone headed idiocy - threw it away.
This is an extremely important story. It exposes the Remainer Cabinet's strategy of creating hysteria with a Project Fear campaign that lies about a No Deal Brexit in order to stampede its own foolish deal through.
“Britain should not sign a permanent treaty under duress. The Withdrawal Agreement has been proposed in a vengeful spirit, and the biggest surprise in Brussels has been Theresa May’s readiness to accept it.”
@DanielJHannan
#StandUp4Brexit