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2 months

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be

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Doug Stokes

@profdws

2 months

A 53-year-old woman, the primary carer for her husband, who led a "kind and compassionate lifestyle". Sentenced to 15 months of prison time for a quickly deleted FB post. As she was convicted, she replied, “Thank you, your honour". Just awful. .

Judge jails ‘keyboard warrior’ who wrote Facebook post calling for mosque to be blown up

Julie Sweeney, a ‘quiet’ 53-year-old wife from Cheshire, is sentenced to 15 months after pleading guilty to offence under online safety laws

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Doug Stokes

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The decline of London due to casual mugging, stabbing and general lawlessness, is nothing new. I grew up in Hackney, East London. Born in 72, left in 97. I've been stabbed, witnessed and been subject/agent of more acts of violence than I care to remember. Seen the aftermath

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Madness 100s running amok in Regent Street.

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Doug Stokes

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8 months

This cannot be true. All pre industrial civilisations were gardens of Edens where everybody lived in equality, harmony and plenty.

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Deposit of remains from the Crow Creek Massacre, in present day South Dakota. Dated to about 1350, this deposit of at least 486 victims - men, women, and children - represents the largest pre-Columbian massacre with an archaeological record. Virtually all the victims were scalped

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Doug Stokes

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23 days

Wasnt this the same guy that broke parliamentary convention to allow a vote on Gaza due to Islamist threats against MPs? The sneering sanctimony. Let’s destroy free speech and lock up grannies for a FB post but nay a word about actual murders and credible threats.

BBC Radio 5 Live

@bbc5live

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🗣️ Commons speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle told @MattChorley that “no misinformation, threats or intimidation” should be allowed on social media. We asked X for a reply, and we received an automated response that simply said: “Busy now, please check back later.”

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Doug Stokes

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3 months

The estimated cost of 10,000 EDI jobs in the UK is £557m—almost twice the number of EDI workers in the UK than in any other country. The shock should not be the numbers or the sheer cost to UK taxpayers but how the Tory strategy to deal with this consisted of ‘anti-woke’

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Doug Stokes

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1 month

A government source said: “We make no apology for pausing the Tories’ hate speech charter.” Free speech is hate speech. War is peace. Ignorance is strength. Welcome to the Brave New Britain, comrades.

Minister accused of caving in to cancel culture on free speech act

More than 500 academics have written to the education secretary to demand the act be reinstated

www.thetimes.com

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Doug Stokes

@profdws

9 months

@BDSixsmith I owned a signed print of that piece for years.

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1 year

Important to remember that the civilians in Gaza also have to live under the rule of Hamas, whose leaders drive Mercedes cars and who often live in luxury in countries such as Qatar. Their crimes against humanity this week will now lead to terrible suffering for these already

Corrected Media

@correctedmedia

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Gazan Mother criticizes Hamas: "Hamas officials' children drive in luxurious cars, but I have 4 unemployed sons. All Gaza is unemployed bc of Ismail Haniyeh & Yahya Sinwar..." Steals billions of $ in Gaza aid to launch missiles to Israel - @LizaRosen0000

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Doug Stokes

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4 months

The downstream effects of the West’s disastrous ‘great awokening’. Billions for DEI commissars + activist research. ‘Decolonised’ science to stop ‘white, Eurocentric’ research. Suicidal in an age of great power competition. A few warned and paid a price.

China has become a scientific superpower

From plant biology to superconductor physics the country is at the cutting edge

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Doug Stokes

@profdws

1 year

Coming in August 2023. Following the killing of George Floyd in 2020, a moral panic gripped the US and UK. To atone for an alleged history of racism, statues were torn down and symbols of national identity attacked. Across Universities, fringe

Against Decolonisation: Campus Culture Wars and the Decline of the West

www.amazon.co.uk

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Doug Stokes

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5 months

Kemi Badenoch is right; slavery did not create Britain’s wealth, and to the extent we are concerned about helping drive global prosperity, we must concentrate on what did: markets, freedom and the rule of law. ⁦ @KemiBadenoch ⁩

Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth | Doug Stokes | The Critic Magazine

In a recent speech, Britain’s business and trade minister, Kemi Badenoch, sent the collective left into meltdown. It “worries me”, she argued, “when I hear people talk about wealth and success in the…

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Doug Stokes

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6 months

@Johntheduncan Where did you grow up, John, and go to school?

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Doug Stokes

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3 months

The furore over the attacks on @KemiBadenoch 's position on gender ideology reveals a more profound philosophical schism at the heart of the conservative party. Conservatism seeks incremental changes to social order and its institutions and is pragmatically realist: It takes the

Kemi Badenoch

@KemiBadenoch

3 months

I will not shut up. I will not be silenced by men who prioritise applause from Stonewall over the safety of women and girls. A rich, lefty, white male celebrity so blinded by ideology he can’t see the optics of attacking the only black woman in government by calling publicly

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Doug Stokes

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1 year

This naivety is common to post-colonial / decolonial thinkers. For example, Michel Foucault’s left-wing romanticism with third-world revolutionary movements extended to Khomeni’s Islamist revolution. Although an openly gay man, he eulogised the 1979 Islamist revolution in Iran

Capel Lofft

@CapelLofft

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It is a very odd feature of modern politics that a majority of the Left identifies so strongly with Palestine over Israel, given the weight contemporary progressives ostensibly place on issues such as gay rights, women's rights, being against the death penalty.

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Doug Stokes

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Too much of this drivel. Full grown men acting like man babies given endless ‘it’s the systems fault’ free passes. Often a tiny minority of these types in poor communities that manipulate empathy of liberals whilst robbing their own. Yes, need off ramps but we are being played.

Channel 4 News

@Channel4News

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Steven Quinn was released from Brixton prison today as part of the government's early release scheme to free up space in UK jails. In total, he says he's spent 27 years of his life in the prison system and he has little hope that he will be able to stay out again this time.

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Doug Stokes

@profdws

3 months

On nearly every metric the US is in a much better position than any European state.

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The UK and the EU need to be ready for the potential collapse of the US as a functioning state

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Doug Stokes

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4 months

The Labour Party’s manifesto for the July Election commits it to introducing a “landmark Race Equality Act” designed to “enshrine in law the full right to equal pay for Black, Asian, and other ethnic minority people, strengthen protections against dual discrimination and root out

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@epkaufm

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This could be the most important part of the Labour Manifesto, even if the media ignores it

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Doug Stokes

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2 months

It is frequently missed, but @bphillipsonMP 's destruction of the academic freedom bill now clears the way for deeper CCP penetration of UK unis. In an era of great power competition, this is a grave national security threat. A few of us have warned of this for years.

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2 months

Has the new British government opened the doors to renewed Chinese Communist Party influence on campus? This is what I'm asking myself as I chew over the news that enforcement of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act has been paused.

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Doug Stokes

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Interesting example of this in the UK is Azadeh Moshiri who is now a senior journalist for BBC World News. Without the John Schofield Trust, a charity whose goal is to promote social mobility and greater diversity, she stated her career would never have happened. Her father is

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

@Ayaan

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Kamala grew up in comfort. Her parents were academics, her father a Jamaican economist, her mother an Indian biologist. Her political career was not distinguished. Yet, thanks to the prevailing identity-based DEI mindset prevalent within the Democratic Party, she was picked as

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Doug Stokes

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These proceedings are of the highest constitutional importance. For almost 350 years, the governance of this country has rested on a golden premise: ministers of the Crown may not set aside the law made by Parliament.

Government faces High Court showdown with its free speech tsar

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson plans to shelve a clampdown on university ‘cancel culture’ led by Prof Arif Ahmed

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Doug Stokes

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3 months

@KemiBadenoch Well said, Kemi.

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Doug Stokes

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6 months

I hope the MoD sends in a crack DEI recon team to fix Ewan's biases ASAP.

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Doug Stokes

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1 month

The deep irony of this cultural phenomenon is it robs non western cultures of historical agency. So much of what passes as progressive orthodoxy is little more than Eurocentric narcissism. A garbled historical mishmash of soggy elite guilt and personally costless posturing.

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"What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture." Thomas Sowell

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Doug Stokes

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2 months

On average 60,000 UK citizens die each year from cold. Labour will save £1.3 billion by cutting winter fuel allowances from senior citizens. Not all is lost however as there’s over £11 billion now being sent overseas in ‘climate aid’. Funny old world. 🤡

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@Keir_Starmer

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My Labour Party will always be on the side of pensioners let down by the Tories.

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Doug Stokes

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The Senedd grant is 13% higher in Wales per capita than in England. Educational attainment is the lowest in the UK. The Welsh NHS is an embarrassment. Wales deserves so much more than nannying, a perpetual historical pity party and an ever growing state.

Wales ‘haemorrhaging’ money as holiday let tax backfires

Tourist areas hit hard by exodus of second homeowners unable to afford rocketing bills

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Doug Stokes

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1 year

@atensnut Paglia has been a trailblazer for decades. A fearless intellectual rock star.

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Doug Stokes

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9 months

The postmasters’ bad luck is that they, the best of Britain, were persecuted by the worst of Britain: the overpromoted corporate-bureaucratic class, the useless apparatchiks of Britain’s Kafkaesque bureaucracies, the unaccountable arms-length bodies.

Middle England has been betrayed by Britain’s feckless new establishment

Ordinary, hardworking people no longer expect to be treated fairly by a venal new establishment class

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Doug Stokes

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3 months

Populism is, among other things, the re-politicisation of issues the progressive consensus deems too important to be left to democratic choice.

The plain-speaking appeal of Nigel Farage

Voters are turning to the Reform leader because he tells a story that chimes with their lives.

www.newstatesman.com

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Doug Stokes

@profdws

4 months

“Adults are little children. They cannot do basic things and are not responsible for anything and have no agency. Evil tories hate the little adult children that I care about. Vote for me to save little labour adult children from evil tories”.

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Every day I meet people who have no ID who are worrying about their vote. Every single one has been aged between 60 and 65 so don't have their bus pass yet. If Rishi is going for this vote he might very well be stopping them voting

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Doug Stokes

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11 months

In this latest piece, I argue that modern academic 'decolonisers' are using the tragic events in the Middle East to ventriloquise their anti-Westernism. A form of elite progressive anti-imperial cosplay.

The dangers of ‘decolonisation’

Why the academic left has sided with Hamas's anti-Semitic barbarism.

www.spiked-online.com

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Doug Stokes

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3 months

@NickCohen4 On nearly every metric the US is in a much better position than any European state.

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Doug Stokes

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4 months

It amazes me how out-of-kilter political culture is on 20th-century totalitarianism. We draw the appropriate lessons from the industrialised racism of Nazism but not the industrialised enforced equity of socialism. Millions were murdered to 'make a fairer society'.

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Socialism isn’t a dirty word. It’s simply about wanting to make a fairer society

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Doug Stokes

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5 months

“In a new age of great power competition and civilisational decline, it is increasingly important that we move beyond the indulgence of London-centric ‘groundhog day’ narratives of Western self-loathing, to rediscover a sense of purpose and belonging."

Acclaimed BBC series Civilisation is given a warning over outdated attitudes

Corporation website carries alert of outdated attitudes as Lord Clark’s 1969 work is broadcast again

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Doug Stokes

@profdws

11 months

“Did you think decolonisation was just a metaphor?”

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Future of World...

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Doug Stokes

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9 months

@KonstantinKisin My time in Bosnia, just after the war, really brought that home to me. It doesn't take too much to break things, and the utterly irresponsible way, mostly privileged and comfortable people and institutional custodians can denigrate the precious bonds that bind.

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9 months

This is an astonishing thread on how far DEI has corrupted the critical civilisational logic of merit, competence and human agency inherent to the West. Data shows that the UK has seen a 58 per cent increase in diversity and inclusion roles since 2015, most of which are at the

James Lindsay, anti-Communist

@ConceptualJames

9 months

Let's have a close look at Boeing and DEI! Boeing's corporate filings with the SEC reveal that in beginning 2022, the annual bonus plan to reward CEO and executives for increasing profit for shareholders and prioritizing safety was changed to reward them if they hit DEI targets.

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Doug Stokes

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1 year

@Hanifkureishi @michael_hal I never read your books but did watch the TV adaptations of Buddha and My Beautiful Laundrette that were fantastic. I wish you the very best on your recovery.

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1 year

Globalisation and the Managerial Class As the political economy of the Anglophone West changed in the 1970s, a new managerial class emerged. In an early analysis of these new elites, Barbara and John Ehrenreich termed this new elite a Professional-managerial class (PMC) who

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1 year

It’s impossible to overstate the importance of this case for academic freedom protection under UK employment law. Please support!

The Free Speech Union

@SpeechUnion

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The FSU is launching a legal Crowdfunder for our member, ex-law lecturer at the Open University, Dr Almut Gadow!! Dr Gadow deserves justice for the egregious way she's been treated. Please read her full story, RT — and if you can, pledge your support!

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Doug Stokes

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Deep structural shifts in the global economy. A weakening US. War in Europe. Mass migration and a technocratic elite that has consistently ignored the clearly expressed democratic will of the people for decades. Oh. And INCELS. 😂

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We were all warned about the rise of the far right and INCELS. The attack on Woke feeds into this dangerous rhetoric. The surge in support for the far right across Europe is a warning for us all. Farage & Reform some Tories should be nowhere near power

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The OU VC @TimJBlackman has deployed the Obi-Wan Gender Mind Trick ""We apologise unreservedly to Professor Phoenix for the hurt and distress this has caused. This is not The Open University we want to be." Remember: these admissions are never freely given but forced out at

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Statement from @TimJBlackman @OpenUniversity "We apologise unreservedly to Professor Phoenix for the hurt and distress this has caused. This is not The Open University we want to be."

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There has always been some censorship in Britain, but until recently, it was artistic and cultural, not political. We prided ourselves on being a free country where we could speak freely. We cannot say that now.

We can no longer say that Britain is a free country

Laws criminalising certain opinions are now having a chilling effect on freedom of expression in the UK

www.telegraph.co.uk

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3 months

“We will soon need hinterlands where we must ruthlessly diagnose, strategise, and map the vectors that will allow a reversal of the decline of the West. Its embers are now almost smothered; its hearth keepers are few and scattered”. My latest piece.

Guardrails of civilisation | Doug Stokes | The Critic Magazine

Rooted in philosophical ideas from postmodern philosophers, the “Great Awokening” has come to define the cultural politics of the Anglophone West. The sacralisation of historically marginalised…

thecritic.co.uk

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9 months

One of the most damaging elements of the DEI cult in our universities and beyond is the introduction of a form of Conceptual Apartheid. What do I mean? The DEI agenda rests on an odd assumption but one common in the social justice movement. In what we might call a

Professor Alice Sullivan

@ProfAliceS

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EDI/DEI is a hot topic following the resignation of Claudine Gay at Harvard. UK academics should be paying close attention. Our institutions have mindlessly imported many of the problems generated in elite US institutions.

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NHS England has an ever-growing annual budget of £160 billion and is largely independent from the government. In the face of consistent failure, it simply employs more bureaucrats. Shovelling ever greater sums into a closed-loop non-correcting system is simply not working.

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Rishi Sunak claims that his plan is working for the NHS. Today, a local resident sent me this. Someone who arrived at York A&E at 10am this morning won’t be seen until 2am. Tell us again how everything is fine @RishiSunak ?

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In a recent speech, @KemiBadenoch stated that it “worries me when I hear people talk about wealth and success in the UK as being down to colonialism or imperialism or white privilege or whatever”. How accurate is her claim, and did slavery make Britain rich?

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The ECB imposed austerity measures on the Med economies, especially Greece, which saw 50% unemployment rates for those under 25. Italy's Berlusconi was removed by ECB fiat and replaced with Mario Monti. The treatment of Hungary is par for the course. I am amazed that this is not

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This is crazy. Brussels is preparing to potentially start a run on Hungary’s currency (!) if it doesn’t agree to Ukraine aid deal.

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Grant Shapps: Woke extremists are rife in Army

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@SarahLudford Wonderful!

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My latest piece: Why has looting returned to London? In a city plagued by disunity, raw power reigns.

Why looting has returned to London

In a city plagued by disunity, raw power reigns

unherd.com

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Too many comments to answer, so I hope this little summary is useful: Why is the US in such rude health despite appearances? Europe: Europe faces a potential decline due to its heavy reliance on energy imports and stringent net-zero policies. Its ageing population and low birth

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On nearly every metric the US is in a much better position than any European state.

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For anyone with a shred of awareness of human history it should be clear how unbelievably irresponsible it is to build a system that aims to become an authoritative compendium of human knowledge but which actually prioritizes ideology over facts.

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I'm done with @Google . I know many good individuals working there, but as a company they've irrevocably lost my trust. I'm "moving out". Here's why: I've been reading Google's Gemini damage control posts. I think they're simply not telling the truth. For one, their text-only

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Civilisation is built on fragile norms. Gender ideology has undermined the apex norm of the protection of women and children rooted in a demonstrable disparity in sexual violence and pushed in the safe spaces of uni lecture halls and public sector bureaucracies. Shameful.

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If a man threatens to rape a woman, he is unlikely to know if the victim is born a woman or a trans woman. That behaviour should logically be seen as misogynistic. Again, this aligns with existing legislation protecting people from abuse motivated by prejudice. This is not new.

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No. We need to ask how many politicians have actually ever done or achieved anything outside of their PPE, wonk/union, MP sinecures? Stop the regulatory rentierism that enables armies of useless busybodies. Want growth? Get out of people’s lives and stop punishing the doers.

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“Every time a politician says they want more economic growth, we need to ask: growth of what & for whose benefit?” Spot on from ⁦ @jasonhickel ⁩. We won’t solve the huge crises we face by using the same economic model & thinking that created them👇

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And then developers will hit bureaucratic snakes and ladders doom loops and risk aversion. American capital will invest and the tech, teams and talent will move to the States. Time and again the UK develops incredible products and the state regulatory regime kills them. Sad.

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I think the UK might genuinely become the first country to solve nuclear fusion. I'm studying for a Physics MSci degree. I've been watching and attending various lectures and symposiums on the topic, and believe you me, we are much further ahead on this than the public realises.

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As authoritarian technocracy grows, the Conservative party should lead on new constitutional reforms that reboot the primacy of freedom, equality before the law and human dignity. Take back control! @TheCriticMag

Starmer and the blob | Doug Stokes | The Critic Magazine

Many of the burning frustrations that many (former) Conservative voters feel towards the party are rooted in its failure to reform a deeper administrative state and constitutional settlement left...

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Our academics are attacking the whole concept of knowledge | The Spectator Nice review of the new book, available very soon.

Our academics are attacking the whole concept of knowledge

The first problem about decolonisation is the word itself. Colonisation is the process of establishing control over a foreign territory and its indigenous inhabitants, by settlement, conquest or...

www.spectator.co.uk

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“Universities should not adopt institutional positions on contested issues,” their launch statement said. Most university websites read like XR/Momentum manifestos. Uni executives should be neutral: freedom, plurality and the radical pursuit of truth.

Academics join forces in war on university cancel culture

London Universities’ Council for Academic Freedom will defend free inquiry, intellectual diversity and civil discourse

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The authors conclude that the use of the term ‘Islamophobia’ has become wider, less coherent and at times inflated to a remarkable degree. The threat to freedom of speech could not be more clearly signposted.

A definition of Islamophobia? - Policy Exchange

Download Publication Online Reader Policy Exchange today shines a light on how the term ‘Islamophobia’ is being regularly misused to silence open debate about contemporary issues, with a series of...

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Doug Stokes

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Great to see such eminent minds oppose ⁦ @bphillipsonMP ⁩ attack on the capacity for beleaguered academics to defend their academic freedom. A shameful repeal to keep VC’s bonuses and the 🇨🇳 CCP happy. Will have many more repercussions. Sad.

Nobel laureates join campaign to save university free speech act

Seven Nobel prizewinners write to the education secretary Bridget Phillipson urging her to rethink plans to scrap laws tackling ‘cancel culture’ on campus

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Hard to see how this wont exacerbate the perception of two tier policing. Many faith communities have views that could be easily defined as extreme misogyny. Educators are already fearful of accusations of racism and weak backup from cowed coppers.

Yvette Cooper vows to crack down on promotion of ‘hateful beliefs’

Home secretary orders review to identify gaps in system to tackle extremist ideologies including extreme misogyny

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As the world returns to great power competition, the West heads further down a path of 'decolonisation' and we face a brutal clash of values between Israel and its enemies, we must be careful what we wish for.

PROFESSOR DOUG STOKES: Celebrities are threat to Western civilisation

PROFESSOR DOUG STOKES: Many celebrities have condemned Israel, oblivious to the fact that it is on the front line of a broader conflict of values.

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1 year

The Ottoman Empire ruled over Greece for nearly 400 years, from the mid-15th century to the early 19th century. During this period, the Greek populace experienced various degrees of hardship, discrimination, and oppression, although it's also worth noting that there were

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Not in the slightest. Greece has been a crossroads between Asia, Africa and Europe since the Minoan era. These hordes who came and went only made us smarter, stronger and more interesting.

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@RichieMcGinniss @MrMaitra Telling that he had to be anonymised.

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@Martin_Durkin I am just watching it now: , but I can confirm my search does not pull it up.

Climate The Movie

Featuring some of the world's leading scientists discussing the absurdity behind climate alarmism. I have a small role in the movie as well.

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It’s easy, almost facile, to say that pulling out of the ECHR would be a remedy. The real problem is the network of laws that the Tories allowed to surround the government, where activists could challenge their every move. It is perhaps the biggest single reason why they failed.

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The opportunity costs of the endless over regulation of human agency is enormous. Is the country any freer, more prosperous or happier given the growth of the administrative state and its offshoots? Endless risk aversion and nannying for what are often very simple processes.

Stargazer

@oddstargazer

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@AliceSLondon @KirstieMAllsopp I had to do a full curriculum plan for my after school childminding. Two hours when all they needed was a bit of tea and to play outdoors and unwind after a day at school. It was nuts. Not to mention the huge self assessment document. Nobody read any of it.

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This is what happens when ministers issue “guidelines”. They are not statutory so any public body can simply ignore them and are often advised to do that by the lawfare blob. Ministerial headline chasing at the expense of strategic change. Weak.

Schools defy ministers to let children change gender behind their parents’ backs

Analysis of more than 600 school equality and trans policies reveals that up to three-quarters misrepresent laws protecting sex and gender

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@profdws

4 months

History rhymes….

Cyrus II of Persia

@ShahanshahCyrus

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Leftist woman putting pro-Khomeini manifestos on people’s cars in Tehran, 1979

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How successful was the Tory self-own “Culture War”? The party didn't adopt @miriam_cates ' ready-made bill regarding the parental right to see RSE materials. This now falls to Labour SoS to decide upon draft guidance—an abject failure. Draft (non-statutory) RSE guidance - a

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Our Parasitic New Elite Despises the Working Class. Culture Wars & The Decline of the West. - YouTube Was a pleasure to sit down with the @NewCultureForum to discuss my latest book. Thank you @prwhittle

Our Parasitic New Elite Despises the Working Class. Culture Wars &...

On today's #NCFWhittle we are joined once again by Professor Doug Stokes, Professor of International Relations at the University of Exeter, and author of the...

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@profdws

2 months

@jfwduffield Perhaps we should all say maaattteee a couple of times?

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1 month

Had a number of people ask: what is ‘regulatory rentierism’: a situation where a state-quangocracy extracts economic rent through regulatory power rather than through productive activities and that is incentivised to expand power/rents. Often justified through moral policing.

Doug Stokes

@profdws

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No. We need to ask how many politicians have actually ever done or achieved anything outside of their PPE, wonk/union, MP sinecures? Stop the regulatory rentierism that enables armies of useless busybodies. Want growth? Get out of people’s lives and stop punishing the doers.

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As I predicted in my op-ed last week, Sunak couldn't even get this over the line. I'm disappointed but sadly not surprised.

Abhishek Saha

@ObhishekSaha

2 months

Bridget Phillipson stops the commencement of the HEFOSA, and prepares to repeal it. A ghastly, shameful, tragic decision.

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It also weakens one of the most important barriers to chaos and social breakdown: that of shared collective norms. Open criminality with zero costs creates an escalatory normative free for all. Today’s nike trainers will be tomorrow’s murderer.

Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

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The violence of shoplifting isn't simply physical. Criminal impunity puts fear into retail staff and shuts down small shops unable to cope. It demoralises communities with little in the first place. If the driver is addiction our wrecked jails are the worst place for them. 1/

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The fight for free speech in universities | Students set up speakeasy to open debate. Great to see these flowers bloom and now backed by the new Academic Freedom legislation with @andrewdoyle_com

The fight for free speech in universities | Students set up speakeasy...

Andrew Doyle is joined by Omar Loubak and Jack Barwell who set up a university 'Speakeasy' movement to open the debate on contentious and difficult topics.Ke...

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@profdws

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@guardian I hope the reincarnation of this SWP front organisation takes female safeguarding far more seriously this time. In 2013, the SWP's 'Kangaroo court' whitewashed severe rape and sexual assault allegations against former Rock against Racism director Martin Smith ("Comrade Delta").

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Once again, @bphillipsonMP and Labour side with Uni executive overlords. The legislation made it free for persecuted students/academics (mainly GC women) to defend speech rights. At the moment Judicial review = 80k+! A shameful betrayal of minorities hounded by Uni fat cats.

Professor Alice Sullivan

@ProfAliceS

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This government response to a letter from over 500 academics concerned about the repeal of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act is disappointingly partisan and ill-informed.

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Baraba, Burnley's battered sausage gold cup winner, supports Labour: "We all know that gender is not something that one is; it is something one does, an act. A 'doing' rather than a 'being.' Only Labour will deconstruct heteronormativity and the tyranny of the gender binary."

The Labour Party

@UKLabour

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Elton John supports Labour. This is why 👇

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The problem is less ‘decolonisers’ but the vast majority of academics who seethe but do nothing. They watch as the fragile values of reason, freedom, rational adjudication and the pursuit of truth, are destroyed.

Wanjiru Njoya

@WanjiruNjoya

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@profdws Can you show where the decolonizers read your book and engaged with your arguments? It would be a great shame if they just ignored your book and carried on decolonizing, wouldn't it?

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Some argue that even as young ravers are butchered in the desert by Hamas operatives, it is the victims' fault. How can we account for the decolonial/postcolonial narrative that erases non-Western agency and where all evil ends up at the door of the West? Pascal Bruckner argues

Stefan Andreasson

@StAndreasson

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@profdws It could be expanded on at great length, but suffice to note that there's also a heavy dose of condescending "they can't help themselves" thinking underpinning Western romanticisation of violent movements in other parts of the world as well.

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@profdws

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Delighted that ⁦ @BorisJohnson ⁩ and ⁦ @trussliz ⁩ have endorsed our ⁦ @LegatumInst ⁩ paper calling for Canada to join AUKUS that launches today. Helps mitigate critical mineral vulnerabilities and deepens new alliances between friends.

Boris Johnson backs Canada joining Aukus military pact

Former prime minister says additional member would strengthen 'West’s collective defences' against Russia and China

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Doug Stokes

@profdws

9 months

Happy Christmas. In the first few centuries of Christianity, five major centers, known as the Pentarchy, were recognized as the principal sees of Christendom: Rome, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch. Each of these cities played a crucial role in the development

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3 months

@OldRoberts953 "They make a desert and call it peace." Tacitus.

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@profdws

1 month

Dont forget folks. Free speech = hate speech.

Ian Pace

@ianpacemain

1 month

If this is correct, it’s atrocious. The lobbying action by university managements against HEFOSA was about protecting their relationship with authoritarian regimes, fear of implementing free speech on foreign campuses, and declaring foreign donations.

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The prospect of tightening restrictions – including on visas, citizenship and bringing relatives to the country – made Sweden unappealing, he said, particularly among highly educated people from countries including Somalia, Iraq and Syria.

From ‘open hearts’ to closed borders: behind Sweden’s negative net immigration figures

Record low asylum applications ‘surprising’ when global displacement is at all-time high, with aid agencies blaming fear and far-right rhetoric

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@profdws

4 months

Just returned from Butterton in the Peak District. A theme in the village was the phrase ‘doubly thankful’. It was only when I visited the church that I learnt that in both World Wars all the village men returned and the phrase stuck. Lovely spot and very ‘old’ England.

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And that seeks to push a tribal / ethnic war collective guilt narrative against majorities. This may be permissible amongst silly academics on campus but super dangerous in the real world. People will not stand idly by and watch their history and nation denigrated and destroyed.

Patrick Porter

@PatPorter76

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When radical wings of postcolonial activists refer to nation-states as "so-called", it is clarifying. The revealed goal isn't justice/equality within the country, but via its removal (formally or not). Replacing it with narrow tribalism of morally ranked groups.

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@naomirwolf A strong class dimension here. Gender ID activists exist in a relatively safe, bourgeois bubble world. Easy to destroy norms around female safety in a #BeKind culture of polite manners. Outside the bubble, it's a very different world. Social norms are a fragile first defence.

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@SwipeWright @elonmusk My new book “Against Decolonisation: Campus Culture Wars and the Decline of the West” argues exactly that. It shows how “decolonisation” links a politics of western self hatred to broader shifts in geopolitics. Dangerous times! May be of interest.

Against Decolonisation: Campus Culture Wars and the Decline of the West

www.amazon.com

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@profdws

11 months

This is Sunak positioning himself post election. A nod to the Davos circuit. Think he’d even likely fit very well with the Tony Blair institute.

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As you watch this video celebrating the 'martyrs' on King's College campus, ask yourself, how did this come to pass? At the end of 2019, then King's Vice-Chancellor Ed Byrne signed an agreement to 'decolonise the curriculum' throughout King's. He also set up a new King’s

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@profdws

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Rwanda can only take 200 migrants and British taxpayers have already paid over £120 million. The Tory party is strategically inept. No plan or values. The worst of both worlds: performative culture war 💩 and cosplay governance whilst spaffing billions.

Rwanda flights: Jeremy Hunt says they may not take off next year

His remarks come amid questions about the timeframe for the Rwanda plan, which has been ruled unlawful.

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“Right now there are only two questions: what went wrong, and how we ensure it never happens again. If the next Conservative leader doesn’t understand that, they cannot possibly hope to build a better country.” Well said ⁦ @KemiBadenoch ⁩

The next Tory leader should have one focus: the straitjacket on government

“Winning was easy, young man. Governing’s harder.”This line from the musical Hamilton rings true today as it slowly dawns upon Labour that running the country requires much more than just not being

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Keele University’s Decolonise network has been a leader in the decolonisation process. Its network argues, this is not simply the “token inclusion of the intellectual achievements of non-white cultures. Rather, it involves a paradigm shift from a culture of exclusion and denial

Academics For Academic Freedom

@AFAF_freespeech

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Goodbye to Socrates, Aristotle and other great thinkers. This seems like a made up story, but it's not! @timcrowley_ @Casey5122dark @PiersBenn @DolanCummings @LivingFreedomUK @acadofideas @Philosophy_the @profdws @ASCphiled @AFFSUK @StudentAFAF

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@SpeechUnion Wow. Great settlement.

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@triggerpod @jimmycarr There is no "gun problem" in America as commonly understood. In 2020, the worst 5% of US counties contain 47% of the population and account for 73% of murders. But even within those counties, the murders are very heavily concentrated in tiny areas. Much of the US is like

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@profdws

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“The Committee concluded that the core mission of the College was to achieve educational excellence and that diversity and inclusion were inseparable from that.” A faith based assertion based on intersectional theology that infects the administrative priests of academe. Amen.

The Free Speech Union

@SpeechUnion

2 months

ACADEMIC FREEDOM UNDER THREAT AT CAMBRIDGE! Early career Research Fellow Dr Nathan Cofnas has had his affiliation with Emmanuel College terminated over a controversial blog post he wrote about race and IQ. Dr Cofnas is challenging this expulsion, which

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