Anthony Vander Elst

Theatre/Egyptology. Philosophy (London). Humanist. Objectivist.

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

Around 40% of the residents of Saint Denis are 1st generation immigrants. Ie they came over themselves. How can anyone believe this is anything other than a recipe for total breakdown and civil war?
It began with leftist politicians actively seeking to reshape their society totally, year-zero style. Now it is self perpetuating and it’s hard to see how any govt can restore any kind of balance. France faces a terrible, bloody future

[Sir 𝕏 @SirAfuera]

Javier Milei se lâche dans les colonnes de Le Point sur la gauche et la dette :

"Si la gauche française manifeste contre moi, je l’en remercie : c’est une médaille. La dette est profondément immorale. La dette n’est rien d’autre qu’un impôt différé.

Cela signifie que vous faites payer vos fêtes d’aujourd’hui par vos enfants, vos petits-enfants et des générations qui ne sont même pas encore nées et n’ont aucun moyen de se défendre.

Regardez l’Argentine : à notre arrivée, la dette consolidée atteignait 100 % du PIB. Elle est aujourd’hui sous les 40 %. Notre déficit était de 15 points de PIB. Nous sommes à l’équilibre strict.

Les médias sont corrompus, littéralement corrompus. Dès mon arrivée, je leur ai supprimé la manne de la publicité officielle. Alors, évidemment, ils me vouent une haine viscérale ! Ils me haïssent parce qu’ils sont majoritairement de gauche." (Le Point)

[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

"The welfare state is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism." - Ludwig von Mises

[Milton Friedman Daily @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman:

“Wherever the free market has been permitted to operate, the ordinary man has been able to attain levels of living never dreamed of before.”

“Nowhere are the rich richer and the poor poorer than in those societies that do not permit the free market to operate.”

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

Capitalism is so successful at eliminating common human problems like hunger, disease, and poverty that people now have the free time to complain that capitalism isn’t perfect.
The late Prof. Walter Williams explains it here 👇

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

🔥 International lawyer Natasha @HausdorffMedia rips into Macron, Burnham, Sánchez, Wong and Erdoğan for their lies and hypocrisy on Israel.

World leaders used the UN podium to put Israel on trial.
UN Watch brought brave British barrister Hausdorff to put their claims on trial.

[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

The West is in the process of destroying itself from within - and Oswald Spengler saw it coming a century ago.

In The Decline of the West (1918), Spengler argued that civilisations rarely perish from external conquest alone. They collapse when they lose faith in their own identity and begin to take pleasure in their own disintegration. Instead of confidently transmitting their traditions, values and achievements, they turn against themselves. They treat their history as a catalogue of crimes, their institutions as systems of oppression, and their core principles as sources of guilt. At that point, they become culturally defenceless.

The modern West displays these symptoms with disturbing clarity. Large parts of its elite actively participate in the vilification of Western civilisation. Western achievements in science, law and liberty are reframed as sources of shame. Mass immigration from incompatible cultures is often presented not as a policy to be managed, but as a form of historical atonement. Criticism of this process is frequently treated as morally illegitimate.

Spengler observed how late-stage democracies tend to become weak and sentimental. They struggle to defend their borders or uphold their own values because doing so conflicts with their self-image as open and non-judgemental. This creates a dangerous asymmetry: while the West engages in relentless self-criticism, other cultures remain far more assertive about preserving their own identity.

Spengler did not believe this process was easily reversed. Once a civilisation loses the will to defend itself, it has already entered its final stage. We are running out of time to prove him wrong.

[Matthew Elliott @matthew_elliott]

When the Prime Minister meets businesses leaders this afternoon, I hope he bears in mind the important words of his predecessor, Sir Winston Churchill:

“Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is, the strong horse that pulls the whole cart."

https://t.co/XB4Dr1xaVX

[Chris 🇺🇸 @Chris_1791]

- The post shares a meme contrasting Greta Thunberg, a teenage activist who gained massive media coverage for climate alarmism, with climatologist Judith Curry, who has over 130 peer-reviewed papers but receives far less attention for her skeptical views.
- Curry accepts that the planet is warming and humans contribute via CO2 emissions but criticizes IPCC overconfidence, model projections, and apocalyptic narratives, arguing instead for emphasis on uncertainties and pragmatic risk management.
- The meme argues this disparity exemplifies media manipulation that amplifies non-scientist activists while sidelining experienced researchers questioning the dominant climate crisis framing.

[Bruce Hamill - Daily Update @BruceHamill_DU]

Here’s what I think is really bothering the establishment about Reform UK.

They’ve started playing by the establishment’s own rules.

The £36 million donation from Ben Delo? Under the rules Parliament created, there is no limit on the amount a permissible donor can give to a political party. The donation still has to comply with the checks and reporting requirements, obviously, but £36 million itself doesn’t suddenly become illegitimate because Reform received it.

Then look at 7th May.

People went to the ballot box under the electoral system the establishment created. Reform won 1,454 council seats across England and took 23.8% of the vote, the largest share of any party.

Nobody hacked the system.

Nobody changed the rules halfway through.

Reform simply turned up and started winning under the existing rules.

For years, it sometimes felt as though Reform were being asked to play football with a flat ball while the established parties owned the stadium.

Now Reform have got onto the same pitch with serious funding, a national organisation and millions of voters behind them.

And suddenly everyone wants to talk about whether the rules are fair.

That is the interesting part.

Because the problem for the establishment isn't that Reform have broken the rules.

It's that Reform have learned how to play by them.

And on 7th May, using those rules, they finished top of the electoral scoreboard.

Funny how quickly people start discussing changing the rules when the wrong team starts winning.

#ReformUK #NigelFarage #UKPolitics #PoliticalDonations #Democracy #Westminster

[Anthony Vander Elst @A_VanderElst]

A small child beaten with a cane and chucked around a Mosque as if he were an animal...

[Libertario 🟨⬛ @QuotesforGoal]

"El socialismo, inevitablemente, erosiona la libertad y da lugar a la tiranía"

Friedrich Hayek

[Voices of Liberty @FreedomVoL]

Why do intellectuals gravitate toward socialism and collectivism in general?

Many intellectuals, Hayek argues, vastly overestimate their ability to direct society, treating people as if they were pieces to be moved on a chessboard.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Satellite images reveal the colossal scale of our water planet and its endless oceans.

All the oceans, lakes, rivers, and glacial ice combined occupy 75% of the Earth's surface. It is the brooding inertia of the oceans that forms the ancient engine room of global climate—a massive fluid flywheel that dwarfed human industrial activity long before our first chimneys began to smoke.

The oceans have an average depth of 2.3 miles and weigh 1,000 times more than the atmosphere. Deep ocean currents dictate levels of water vapor and cloud cover across 68% of the skies at any given moment, while the interplay of seas, landforms, and latitude drives the trade winds and storm tracks.

Crucially, the oceans hold 86% of the world's carbon reservoir and 91% of its mobile heat energy, which currents transport toward the frigid poles to temper the planet’s cold extremes. The thin envelope of atmosphere above holds only a fraction of a percent of each.

Because of this tremendous thermal capacity, the oceans don't react on political timelines; they absorb, smooth and delay thermal changes over centuries, acting as a planetary buffer against rapid atmospheric shocks.

We live in an ocean-dominated, ice-age world. Earth is still technically in the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, which began 34 million years ago with the glaciation of Antarctica. Roughly 10% of the world's total land area remains permanently capped by glacial ice—spanning 15 million square kilometres.

Antarctica alone holds roughly 90% of global ice volume and stands as the largest single source of freshwater on Earth. Spanning 14 million square kilometers—8.3% of the world's land surface—its ice sheet extends up to 4.8 kilometers (3 miles) deep.

All human civilisation, agriculture and technological progress—every written word, every skyscraper—unfolded within the past 11,700 years of the warm Holocene interglacial period. This brief warm period is merely one episode among more than 30 glacial and interglacial cycles over the broader Quaternary Glaciation of the last 2.58 million years.

Today's modest warming of 1.1°–1.4°C over 250 years is an incremental drift within a vast geological system. The world is not enduring stifling heat reminiscent of past hothouse peaks; instead, we inhabit a benign global average temperature of 15°C—well below the 18°C to 26°C baselines that characterised most of Earth’s biological history. Deep time puts modern atmospheric alarm out of sync with physical reality.

Yet, ignoring this vast planetary flywheel, global policy over the last four decades shifted from managing tangible conservation to attempting economic micro-management of the atmosphere itself. Led by an alignment of unelected powerbrokers, financial institutions, and corporate leaders, the narrative demanded an immediate, total restructuring of human infrastructure.

Nations were urged to replace energy-dense coal, oil, and gas with intermittent wind turbines and solar collectors. Yet after 40 years of heavy subsidies and mandates, hydrocarbon fuels still supply 81% of all global primary energy, while wind and solar account for just 6.5%.

Attempting to engineer a complete retreat from high-density fuels while ignoring the sheer physical scale of the earth system carries a staggering cost. The predicted price tag to transform the global grid and force this transition stands at $275 trillion (McKinsey, 2022)—roughly 2.5 times total global annual GDP.

It represents an unprecedented financial commitment to re-engineer civilisation, driven by an economic plan that continuously underestimates the vast physical realities of the planet it seeks to control.

[Handre @Handre]

Property rights and honest money built Singapore. That single fact explains everything the politicians won't.

Look at the numbers today: Singapore's GDP per capita sits around $88,000. Malaysia's hovers near $14,000. Same region, same colonial inheritance, independence granted within years of each other. The divergence isn't accidental.

Lee Kuan Yew made choices Malaysia's political class refused to make. He enforced contracts. He paid civil servants market wages to reduce corruption, rather than moralizing at them. He kept taxes low and tariffs lower. He told foreign capital: your property is safe here. Investors believed him because the courts backed it up.

Malaysia went the other direction. The New Economic Policy (NEP), introduced in 1971, redistributed wealth along ethnic lines rather than generating it. Bumiputera quotas distorted business formation. Petronas revenues (billions of ringgit annually from nationalized oil) subsidized consumption rather than building institutional quality. When you tax productive activity to fund patronage, you get less production and more patronage. The math on that never changes.

Singapore had no oil, no agricultural hinterland, no natural resource cushion. Scarcity forced discipline. Free market thinkers have long argued that resource abundance breeds political laziness, and Malaysia spent fifty years proving them right.

Critics call Singapore authoritarian, and they're not entirely wrong on the civil liberties question. Authoritarianism alone doesn't produce prosperity. Zimbabwe was authoritarian. The variable that moved was economic freedom, not the political iron fist.

What Lee built was closer to a rule-of-law commercial republic than anything else in Southeast Asia. You respect property, you enforce contracts, you keep the currency sound, and capital flows toward you. Malaysia is still learning that lesson.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

The amazing @lalshareef explains how Israel removed Jews from Gaza in 2005 to get peace, leaving behind greenhouses worth millions of dollars.

The Palestinians looted the greenhouses, and Gaza was turned into a terror fortress.

This must go viral.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Most people are economically illiterate, and it’s destroying Britain.

We think we’re a top-tier rich nation, but on a per capita basis, we’re not even in the top 20.

Instead of arguing and further dividing the country over how to slice a shrinking pie, we need to focus on what actually creates wealth and productivity because taxing wealth won't fix a nation that has stopped producing it.