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 Fahrenheit 211 on the peculiar cowardice of the establishment when it comes to ascribing blame for the German Pride terrorist:

But what could be the cause of the need for armed police to be required to guard a massive festival of LGB people? What is the nature of this ‘hate’ and the ideology behind it and where is the ‘division’ coming from? Is the generic and un-explainable ‘hate’ that is the cause? Is the threat coming from a few mentalist Methodists or murderous Mennonites? No it’s coming from Islamic extremism and our cowardly media and political classes and the Establishment LGBT wallahs really do not want to mention that. This is because to mention this specific threat to LGB people and their allies would pull out a keystone of the whole ‘identity’ and ‘diversity’ ideologies.

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Longrider on the former Prince Harry's petulant whinging:

"This ridiculous man-child has a total lack of self awareness. He quit the job. He chose to spend the last few years trashing not only his family but the country. He and his harridan of a wife accused us of being racists. So, damn right we shouldn’t have to foot the bill for his security. We owe him nothing. If that makes him distraught, then in the fine words of BSM Williams, oh dear, how sad, never mind."

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 Perry at 'Samizdata' on the slow dawning of reality that you're on the wrong side of history:

"But then in late July for an entire week, the RAF and USAAF filled the sky over Hamburg by day and by night. And although Hannelore did not know it at the time, it was called Operation Gomorrah. She told me that on one night in particular, her father called the whole family outside. It was bright as day, the entire skyline to the south a line of incandescent light. By morning, white dust entirely covered their home and farmland, with a constant rain of ash still falling from the sky. 40,000 people had burned to death in a firestorm in a single day in Hamburg. And only then, our friend’s grandmother said, did they finally realise everything was not going to be alright and the war had been a catastrophic mistake. Only then, and from then onwards, did everything they read in the newspapers or heard on the radio ring hollow."

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 Fellow blogger James Higham  from Orphans of Liberty on the selective outrage of the Left: 

"The question for us is which were lies and which plain truth? Which were focussed upon, which allowed to slip by ... and by whom? Who is sufficiently "apolitical", not just kidding themselves that they are so, pursuing all the wrongdoing with equal fervour? 

Who would pursue Kerry, Chappaquiddick and Obama with the same fervour that they'd pursue Nixon and Colson?"

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 Bucko on the most bizarre take on a subject by the Guardian, one which also puzzled Tim:

"Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the whole purpose of Britains version of ICE was to single out non-white, foreign born workers? Ok, fair enough, I'm sure there are many white illegals in this country, but if you're looking for illegals in an Indian restaurant, you're not there for the Albanians"

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Farenheit 211 on the suggested 'Freedom Portal':

"There’s not much yet on this Freedom Portal site apart from a graphic that ripples to reveal the word ‘freedom’ and an animation of a rider, presumably a reference to Paul Revere who, during the Revolutionary War, carried news of British troop movements to American Patriot forces prior to the battles of Lexington and Concord. There’s little indication on the freedom.gov site as to how this site will work but the fact that this site was created in the first place is of great consequence. It’s a sort of declaration of war by America not on Britain as a sovereign nation, but instead against an authoritarian political current that for various reasons has gained significant influence in places like the United Kingdom and other European and Anglophone nations."

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 David Thompson is puzzled once more by the US University contingent: 

"The question “what is queer food?” is, we’re told by Professor Elias, “a question that’s coming up a lot lately.” If only among academics desperate for an angle, an excuse for claiming a salary and wasting other people’s time. Academics much like Professor Elias.

Elias said she does not have a definition for what “queer food” is, but wants “recognition” it exists.

Welcome to the bleeding edge of human mental activity."

 

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 Bucko on how government can screw up the best things private industry come up with:

"Someone invented a safety system called 'Antilock braking' It was good, so car manufacturers started adding it to thier cars

The government saw it was good and decided to get involved. 

They said, if you have ABS brakes on your car, the system has to work correctly, so it's now part of the MOT 

The MOT testers said, we can't check that without taking the car out onto a track? 

Someone else invented the ABS sensor, which checks if the system is working, and provides a computer generated fault if it is not 

Good job, trebles all round 

Now cars are regularly failing their MOT because of an ABS fault. 999 times out of 1000, the fault is not with the system, but with the sensor, so the sensor has to be replaced People who make the sensor, sell a lot of sensors, while everyone's ABS systems continue to work correctly 

Intervention by the government caused a problem where none exists 

Meanwhile, the lefties see the number of cars failling on an ABS fault, and tell us that the free market is not working, because private industry keeps making faulty ABS braking systems that are putting lives at risk 

Something should be done, etc..."

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Christopher Snowden suspects less-than-rigourous-scientific-methods:

The authors of that paper are actually quoting some British academics who have seen which way the wind is blowing and are treating gambling like a "public health" issue. Their study is one of many that makes the apparently shocking discovery that people will use arguments favourable to their cause when seeking to persuade others (sample line: "Focus on so-called ”black markets” is part of a wider industry “playbook” whereby companies deploy strategies to resist regulation and to undermine public health initiatives." Blah, blah, blah.)

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 Nick Drew at Capitalists at Work on the immediate collapse of Starmer's small boats 'solution': 

"As our friend Mr Hēméra kindly pointed out BTL yesterday, my vision of a single small-boater being recycled endlessly between France & Dover & back to gain credits for the Frogs under 'one in, one out', may have come true almost immediately. The Beeb led with the story yesterday, although the Graun kept it off their front www page altogether: we can imagine which approach goes down better with ministers ..."

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 Nick Drew on Ukraine's veteran problem: 

"If Zelensky has dropped any balls at all, the biggest has been his failure to crack on with a proper conscription plan: so Ukraine has been fighting the war with men (and women) predominantly of age 30+, some a lot older still, when everyone knows that (infantry) warfare is a business for 18+. Those 30+'s have fought magnificently - much, much better than the Russian rabble** they have faced - but there is a limit. Meanwhile, back on the home front, a large percentage of the remaining male population has been (a) bribing the local commissar to keep themselves out of the recruiting office, and/or (b) skipping abroad. There is only so much that can be delegated to a fleet of drones, across a battlefield as large as Ukraine's."

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Jonathan Pearce at Samisdata on Lewis Goodall's attack on inherited wealth and the supposed societal problems it causes:

"Another structure for we lesser mortals is the trust. These are creatures of the English Common Law, and are extensive in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and biggest of all, the US. Trusts remain an incredibly useful tool for ensuring orderly transfer/control of assets by families. If people such as Lewis Goodall are worried that inheritors become spoiled brats and lose a work ethic (if that is his genuine concern, it is a fair one to have), then trusts can, or could, be structured so that a beneficiary only receives payouts from it if certain terms and conditions are met."

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David Thompson on the weird proclivities of the LGBT+ crowd, and their determination that a private life should instead be a public one:

"Madam apparently needs us to know that she is “part of the LGBT+ community,” as if we should not only care but be endlessly fascinated, and insists that she needs “to find a workplace that is LGBT+ community friendly.” Quite what this might mean, practically, is not altogether clear, though the implications that come to mind are somewhat limited in their appeal.

 

As there are only so many ways in which tales of one’s sex life can be shoehorned into workplace conversation,I’m assuming Madam expects those around her to continually acknowledge some boutique complications of her all-important “identity” – fabulist pronouns, an imaginary themness, or something similar. Something very much about her, rather the task at hand."

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 From David Thompson, who skewers the progressives' hypocrisy on a daily basis, this:

"It must be quite strange to inhabit a milieu in which the normal meanings of words are either ignored or inverted. By people who aspire to be professional writers. Communicators of ideas."

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LegIron has been hors de combat with bronchitis:

"There really should be a website called SickAdvisor where you can rate your illnesses. I’d give acute bronchitis 1/10- definitely would not recommend. It gets the one point because it didn’t kill me and because it saved an absolute fortune in tobacco. The NHS suggests you don’t smoke if you catch this, which only goes to show how little they understand smoking. If you catch this thing, no matter how dedicated a smoker you are, you will struggle to get through a cigarette a day. It’s the most likely thing I’ve ever come across that could convince me to give up smoking."

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Bill Sticker ponders woke hysterics while battening down the hatches for a storm in the Emerald Isle...

Funny how it’s mostly the womenfolk who feel this way. Like that stupid Episcopalian who chose to turn a church service into an emotional rant about ‘trans kids’ and suchlike. Frankly all her expressed fears (On behalf of people she’s never met) about them being ‘frightened’ was an exercise in rank hyperbole. Team Trump want free and open debate on these matters. And perhaps that’s what all these silly wokeists are afraid of, free and rational debate, because that means they can’t force the rest of humanity to believe what is palpably arrant nonsense.

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Bucko on Labour promises on welfare spending:

"And this is why I don't believe a word that any of the buggers utter. Fourteen years ago we had a new Conservative coalition telling us that hard choices needed to be made, but we never saw any meaningful austerity then, or in fourteen years of a 'Conservative' Government having the ability to do so

And now Labour are saying the same tired old shit. Nothing changed before, and nothing will change now, but some in the Labour party are loosing their shit anyway, just at the thought of something sensible being done to tackle welfare spending"

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John Wall at Harry's Place on Kier Starmer: 

Starmer is basically a technocratic middle manager who decorbynised Labour but attracted criticism for dumping the Corbynite policies he’d previously endorsed. Many expected him to emulate Kinnock by doing the necessary dirty work, losing an election and being replaced.

Well, give it time... 

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Bill Sticker on the mystery that is modern feminism:

"Some feminists have even been quoted as saying that women do not need men at all. First they deride the men they reject as ‘involuntary celibates’ and virtually ensure that they will have an equally barren life and run the risk of ending up as elderly cat ladies writing green ink screeds against their ‘oppressors’. They rail against the notion of feminine attractiveness as a primary tool of control, forgetting how much power it actually gives women. Then we see TikTok videos of young women demanding to know where ‘all the good men are’."

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Fahrenheit 211 has some advice for Reform:

"As I said earlier, this is one of those ideas that sound good and which will get a lot of attention but might end up either being a total failure or bring a whole host of problems for Reform. For what it’s worth my view is that rather than target Tory councillors, which might for reasons listed above, backfire, Reform should be going full on for former Labour voters or voters in traditionally Labour areas or those working class majority areas which have been shamefully left behind both politically and economically by the Labour and Conservative Parties."