We must take over the whole of Birmingham, the whole of the West Midlands, the whole of the UK… we will not be taken for granted, and we will win.
– Iqbal Mohamed MP, Jezbollah Party er, I mean “Your Party”
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November 10th, 2025 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
 It seems like only yesterday that I posted this in 2021 :“The background and motive of yesterday’s attacks were unclear”. And here we are again. It has been hours since the mass stabbing on a train travelling from Doncaster to Kings Cross. There were many witnesses. Two men have been arrested. No other suspects are sought. I find it hard to believe that the background and motive of yesterday’s attacks really do remain unclear to the police, the government, or the press. But they certainly have not been made clear to the public. The Home Secretary has urged the public to “avoid comment and speculation at this early stage”. There are times when this is good advice. This is not one of them. “Nature abhors a vacuum” is never more true when the vacuum is one of information about a crime that makes millions think, “That could be me”. Did you learn nothing from Southport? The only thing that will dissipate the hurricane of speculation is to replace it with facts. It is not as if your strategy of politically correct evasiveness is working. It hasn’t worked for years. Update: one of the arrested men was innocent and has been released. The only suspect for this crime has now been named as Anthony Williams, aged 32. This development makes the slowness of the police to release any details worse, not better. Williams is black. Those who were inclined to believe that the authorities were trying to avoid saying that the two suspects were Muslim are not going to say, “Oh, how foolish I was” when it turns out the only suspect is black. Furthermore official tardiness meant that an innocent man was under a cloud for long after it should have been clear that he was innocent. What were they playing at? November 2nd, 2025 | 41 comments - (Comments are closed)
Apartheid in South Africa: From 1948 until the early 1990s, apartheid in South Africa was a legally codified system that entrenched white minority rule over the black majority. It was characterised by: • The removal of citizenship and voting rights from black South Africans; • Legal racial classification of every individual, determining where they could live, work, go to school and whom they could marry; • Enforced residential separation, with large‑scale forced removals to poor, remote “homelands”; • Segregation of public facilities including hospitals, schools, beaches, transport and parks; • Criminalisation of interracial relationships; and • A web of pass laws controlling the movement of black South Africans. This was an explicit racial caste system designed to preserve white supremacy. The Situation Within Israel’s Recognised Borders Inside Israel’s internationally recognised borders, about one fifth of the citizens are Arabs. They: • Have full voting rights and are elected to the Knesset, sometimes holding ministerial positions; • Serve as judges, including on the Supreme Court; • Use the same hospitals, transport systems, beaches, restaurants, shops and parks as Jewish citizens; • Have Arabic recognised along with Hebrew as an official language; • Send their children to state‑funded schools and universities; and • Operate political parties that campaign openly, including against government policies There is no legal system of racial segregation. Social or residential clustering tends to be the product of history and community choice, not forced separation by law. The West Bank and Gaza: The governance of the West Bank and Gaza is more complex. Palestinians in the West Bank live under Israeli military law, while Jewish settlers there are under Israeli civil law. This dual legal framework is the result of the unresolved status of the territory and long‑running security concerns, not a codified system of ethnic superiority. Gaza has been under the control of Hamas since 2007. Israel withdrew its settlers and military in 2005. Since then, security blockades have been imposed by both Israel and Egypt to restrict the smuggling of weapons and the movement of militants. The political and legal conditions in Gaza are dictated by an armed conflict and separation of governance, making the apartheid analogy inapplicable. International Comparisons: Other states have systems of ethnic preference or sectarian limits without being described as apartheid regimes: • Malaysia privileges ethnic Malays through the *Bumiputera* policy, giving preference in education, business ownership and civil service; • Saudi Arabia and several Gulf states impose restrictions on non‑Muslims, including on religious practice, political participation and property ownership; • Lebanon denies many rights to Palestinian refugees, restricting their employment opportunities and property rights; • Myanmar has persecuted the Rohingya Muslim minority, involving mass killings and expulsions; • PRC suppresses Uyghur Muslim religion and culture through detention, forced labour and restrictions on family life; and… None of these are routinely called apartheid states. The label is selectively applied. October 20th, 2025 | 25 comments - (Comments are closed)
The following is the Wikipedia entry for the Ma’alot massacre:
October 7th, 2025 | 45 comments - (Comments are closed)
A few minutes ago Rachel Moiselle tweeted this,
She was referring to this:
I, too, wonder what happened, and I’m not just talking about the name of today’s attacker. Britain did not used to be like this. I have seen many condemnations of this act of terror from prominent Muslims and other supporters of the Palestinian cause. I think most of them are sincere. But they must confront the fact that hatred of Jews has long been commonplace among British Muslims and is now rampant. From another angle, it has also long been commonplace to mock those who say that their “thoughts and prayers” are with the victims and the bereaved whenever there is a mass murder. I do not share this view. If you pray, please pray for the congregation of Heaton Park synagogue tonight. And whether you pray or not, think about them. Think about what we can do to protect British Jews in a country that they once thought would be a safe haven. Unlike many, I do not think that censorship of hate speech – note the absence of scare quotes – will help. When I was growing up there was no censorship and nor were there any guards outside synagogues. Let the people who recently chanted “From Manchester to Gaza, globalise the Intifada” be heard. Let them hear themselves. October 2nd, 2025 | 71 comments - (Comments are closed)
“Britain has a de facto blasphemy law, but it only protects one religion”, Michael Deacon writes in the Telegraph.
September 28th, 2025 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
Sir Keir Starmer has announced the UK’s recognition of a Palestinian state. Several other countries have done likewise. I think the consequences of this will be very bad. There will be even more Muslim terrorism worldwide. It evidently works. There will be more use of tactics like taking hostages and livestreaming murders and torture for political effect by non-Muslim groups and states, too. These tactics evidently work. Those people who think that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians still won’t get to see what actual genocide looks like, but Israel will be more willing than before to kill Palestinian civilians in order to destroy Hamas. Israel has lost a major motive for restraint. The less likely it is that Israel will defeat Hamas, the more it is in its interests to use other, cruder methods to deter and/or physically prevent future attacks from Gaza. These methods could include annexing some or all of the territory and expelling the inhabitants, or finally flooding the entire network of tunnels with seawater, only this time with no concern for ecological damage. The ecological damage would be the point. It is hard to secretly build military infrastructure in a barren desert, or to hide among civilians in a depopulated land. Contrary to Sir Keir’s main motive for doing it, his government’s recognition of Palestine will cause even more British Muslims to change their vote away from Labour in favour of Islamic identitarian parties. As Osama bin Laden said, “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.” This formation of an explicitly Muslim power bloc will in turn cause even more non-Muslim British people to move from merely opposing further Muslim immigration to Britain (that sentiment is already practically universal) to wanting to get rid of the Muslims already here. I do not wish for any of this. I just think it is what is likely to happen. September 22nd, 2025 | 57 comments - (Comments are closed)
“There is no ‘right’ to undo another nation’s existence. There is no international principle that compels one people to surrender sovereignty so that their state can be destroyed — a state created as a haven for a people nearly annihilated, and after a defensive war they won. Until the Palestinian leadership abandons this claimed right of return, there will be no peace and certainly no two-state solution. Because the refusal to abandon this made-up ‘right’ means they don’t want two states. It means they want one. And they want the Jewish state to vanish.” For those interested, I can recommend this overview about some of the issues from a pro-Israel, but not uncritically so, writer – Noa Tishby. Another book by two authors, Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf, dissects, in painstaking detail, how the “right of return” claim lies at the heart of why two-state solutions to the Israel/Palestinian conflict have foundered in the past. Here’s a review of that book. September 4th, 2025 | 26 comments - (Comments are closed)
Yesterday the Green Party announced that Zack Polanski (who used to say he could enlarge women’s breasts by the power of his mind) had been elected as its new leader. The party also announced that “two high-profile local councillors had been elected as co-deputy leaders. One of these deputies is Mr Mothin Ali, formerly a local councillor in Leeds. If he is a dab hand at the mental embiggening of ladies’ boobs, he has not mentioned it, but he has said other things that might prove equally controversial. The video to which I link was posted by “Howli! Now” in May 2024, with the title “Leeds city council member Mothin Ali shares thoughts on events of October 7th” and the caption, “Mothin Ali is the Green Party councilor who shouted ‘Allahu Akbar!’ as he was elected to the Leeds city council. This is what he had to say on October 7th:” The video includes an automatically generated transcript. I “cleaned up” some obvious errors in that transcript to produce what follows:
Edit: I got so involved in doing the transcript that I forgot the whole point of the post. It is this: I support Mr Ali’s right to justify terrorism, not least because I want to know what people like him are saying. But given that Hamas was proscribed as a terrorist organisation in 2021, meaning that, in the words of the gov.uk website, “members of Hamas or those who invite support for the group could be jailed for up to 14 years”, when can we expect Mothin Ali to be treated as Graham Linehan was? Second edit: On a different tack, these lines from Mothin Ali’s speech jumped out at me this morning:
Leaving aside the question of whether Jews or Arabs have the better claim to be regarded as “the native population” of Israel, has it never occurred to Mothin Ali that the arguments he uses above to justify Palestinians violently attacking Israelis could also be used to justify White British people violently attacking British Muslims? September 3rd, 2025 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
August 13th, 2025 | 24 comments - (Comments are closed)
When Israel struck Iranian targets on June 13th, something strange happened four days later—thousands of Twitter accounts tweeting about Scottish independence just… stopped. That silence? It wasn’t just suspicious. It was evidence. In this video, I walk you through how a digital blackout in Iran exposed one of the largest Iranian disinformation operations targeting the West. Working with Cyabra, we tracked over 1,300 fake accounts—AI-generated personas pushing division in the UK, attacking the BBC, and praising Iran. And when the lights went out in Tehran, those bots vanished too. Then they came back… parroting entirely new propaganda. This is a masterclass in how modern influence warfare works—how state-sponsored actors weaponize your feed and how even silence can be a signal. July 26th, 2025 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
The Urban Dictionary defines a “wedgie” as
I hereby add to this definition. A “wedgie” also means an artistic performance that is woke and edgy done as an act of dominance over the audience, which is presumed to consist of white, straight, cisgender, bourgeois, uptight people – tighty-whities, one might call them – who will be shocked but who will not dare to object. The opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics, which took place a year ago today, was a wedgie. Now jump back another three years. Four years and ten days ago, I was excited to post about a series of thirty-five tweets from a then-unknown podcaster called Darryl Cooper, a.k.a. “MartyrMade”. The title of my post was a phrase from one of the tweets that I thought then, and still think now, exactly captured the nature of the loss of trust in institutions that divides my political life into the time before and the time after it happened. Here is the post: “Many Trump supporters don’t know for certain whether ballots were faked in November 2020, but they know with apodictic certainty that the press, the FBI, and even the courts would lie to them if they were”. So perfectly did that series of tweets resonate with the spirit of the moment that, unknown to me, at the very moment when I was writing my post about them, Samizdata Illuminatus was also posting about the same topic. Time moves on. I have recently added the following note to my post from 2021:
What has this got to do with a tedious LGBT-whatever parody of Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper”? Because the thing that made it finally sink into my consciousness that Darryl Cooper is a Nazi fanboi was this now-deleted tweet from him about that opening ceremony:
I took the screenshot of the tweet from this post on Instapundit in which Ed Driscoll discusses the “woke Right”. In case the picture succumbs to link-rot, in the essay to which I link above, John William Sherrod describes it thus:
July 26th, 2025 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
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