Let me put this plainly: it is unheard of for a working-class boy from a stable family to commit a horrific knife crime because he saw stupid stuff on the internet. The reality of who is committing youth knife crime in Britain is far more discomforting.
Move over, Israelophobia, there’s a new bigotry in town. Ukraineophobia is the prejudice du jour of right-wing hotheads on the internet.
It was the most delicious spectacle. Europe’s arrogant overclass put through the wringer by the millennial ‘hick’ from the White House. Thank you, Mr Vice-President.
We need to talk about this treachery of the progressives, this betrayal of Jews by the self-styled anti-racists of the bourgeois left.
Identity politics, gender ideology, the death cult of net zero, the dogma of ‘open borders’ — every defining belief of the 21st-century technocracy has been executive-ordered out of existence.
Political correctness can be funny, but it can also be lethal. Look at how British authorities repeatedly refused to look at or name the scandal of immigrant gangs preying on poor young white girls.
The keffiyeh crew spends every weekend raging against ‘genocidal Zionists’, then feigns astonishment when there’s a spike in hostility towards Jewish people. Sorry, that doesn’t wash.
Judging by the Foreign Minister’s response to the ICC’s outrageous issuing of arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, she adheres to a different moral code to most folk.
This is the revenge of the deplorables, a revolt of people of all races against the sneering wet leftists of the establishment. It’s a revolt that will have huge ramifications. For a spectre is haunting the West – the spectre of a working class that is not woke … but is certainly wide awake.
In protecting you from insulting words, the government insults you in a far worse way. It’s taking away your liberty to hear and decide for yourself. That’s far more annoying than Owens’s shtick.
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