David Graham 🇬🇧

Writer/journalist; British Guild of Travel Writers; likes skiing (slowly these days) plus travelling, fine food and frolics

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

What’s living in the UK like? I’ll tell you. In the last week alone we have had to process:

-an attempted beheading by an illegal migrant from Sudan in Belfast
-while still trying to make sense of a boy, Henry Nowak, being stabbed to death while police were more anxious about allegations of “racism” than trying to save his life
-then we learn children in Scotland were assaulted by Bulgarians while the police didn’t believe them either
-while reading that a vulnerable 18-year-old was r*ped by an asylum-seeker from Pakistan
-while an asylum-seeker from Iraq got only 6 years for r*pe
-while an Iraqi national, was found guilty of eight counts of r*pe and grooming children as young as 12
-and his friend from Iran who arrived illegally skipped bail and is on the run
-and now we learn that a teenage girl has been stabbed in the neck by no doubt “a local man” in Burnley.

That’s one week in the UK. Oh, and the Left say talking about all this is “divisive”, they blame social media and Elon Musk, and local councils have told us not to fly our national flag because it might “intimidate” migrants. One week. The UK. 🤡

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Please remember that you must not express your feelings about the Belfast atrocity until the political establishment has told you exactly how you are supposed to feel. That's how it works now.

[Pat Condell @patcondell]

Nobody ever got stabbed when I was a kid. I had a hunting knife when I was in the boy scouts. I wore it all the time.
We all had knives in the scouts. Nobody ever thought of stabbing anyone.
Of course we had the advantage of being civilised.

[Rafe Heydel-Mankoo @RafHM]

The Bank of England DELIBERATELY FIXED the fake "public vote" to remove ALL historical figures from bank notes & replace them with nature images

Freedom of Information requests by the Telegraph reveal the decision to remove historical figures was based on a "focus group" of a mere 119 people

The Bank LIED because it previously claimed the decision was based on a "public vote".

In truth, however, even this vote was FIXED. Instead of having HISTORY v NATURE, the bank deliberately split the "history" category into 3 sections: historical events, historical figures, architecture & landmarks.

That was the only way that "nature" could win.

However, of course bank notes always combine at least two of those history categories. For example: Churchill & Parliament or Wellington & Waterloo.

The Bank's actions are indefensible and questions should be asked in the House.

The Bank of England has clearly been captured by progressive woke ideology. A visit to the Bank of England with its permanent exhibition on slavery makes that clear

This is part of the wider war on British history. It's an attempt to create a NEW BRITAIN, based on ridiculous myths that "Diversity Built Britain" and that Britain has always been multicultural.

Remember: the Bank of England issued a 50p coin (held aloft by Rishi Sunak) which was imprinted with the nonsensical statement: "Diversity Built Britain"

Anyone who lived behind the Iron Curtain will find all of this eerily and scarily familiar.

The pulling down of statues, the renaming of streets and schools, the rewriting of history, denigrating heroes, changing bank notes etc....these were all tactics of the communists.

Severing the connection between a people and their history is the best way to demoralise a society and prepare them for the imposition of new myths.

Me on @GBNews:

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The West has created an utterly evil state religion where an accusation of “racism” is the gravest offense that can be committed, even worse than rape or murder!

So if police show up at a crime scene and a British boy is bleeding out and an immigrant says the British boy is racist the cops will cuff the dying British boy.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Replacing Churchill With a Puffin: The Quiet Erasure of Britain

The Bank of England has made its decision. Churchill goes. Turner goes. Jane Austen goes. Alan Turing goes. In their place, wildlife. A stoat, perhaps. A puffin. A hedgehog. The consultation found it popular. The anti-counterfeiting argument was sound. And so, without a parliamentary debate, without a public vote, without anyone in authority pausing to ask what it means to remove the faces of the people who built and saved this country from its own currency, it was quietly done. This is how erasure works. With a consultation and a press release.

Churchill's face on the five pound note is not decoration. It's a daily reminder that Britain has a history worth being proud of. That the people who shaped and defended this nation deserve to be remembered. And that national identity is something real. Hand over a fiver for a coffee and catch a glimpse of the man who stood between Western civilisation and Nazi conquest. The man who refused to negotiate when every pressure was on him to do so. The man who defined British resolve at its finest hour. Replace him with a puffin and you have made a statement about what Britain now thinks of itself. You have made it to every man, woman and child in the country. Without a debate. Without a vote. Without asking anyone.

That is the pattern. It's always quiet. It's always administrative. It's always defended on its own terms, as common sense, as progress, as a neutral technical decision. Statues fall to angry mobs and the establishment calls it a moment of reckoning. Street names are changed by council committees and it's called sensitivity. The curriculum is rewritten by academics and it's called balance. And now the currency is stripped of the faces that connect a people to their past, and it's called anti-counterfeiting policy.

Individually each decision is defensible. Cumulatively they form a pattern that is not accidental. The institutions entrusted with stewarding British identity have been captured by people who regard that identity as a problem to be managed rather than an inheritance to be protected. The long march through the institutions that began in the universities and the civil service fifty years ago has reached the point where it makes decisions about whose face appears on your money, and nobody with the power to stop it seems minded to try.

The consequences are not abstract. A population severed from its history, its symbols and its heroes loses the connective tissue of national identity. It cannot defend what it no longer recognises. It cannot demand loyalty to values it has been taught to be ashamed of. Lebanon's Christians believed their country was too civilised, too plural, too decent to fall. They were right about the decency. They were wrong about what decency alone can protect. Britain is making the same error by different means. You do not need armed factions to hollow out a nation. You need a Bank of England consultation, a university diversity committee, and fifty years of patience.

Churchill understood what was at stake when identity and resolve were under pressure. He said so, repeatedly, in language that would today be considered inflammatory by the very institutions that once celebrated him. The irony of removing his face from the currency of a country he saved, in an era when the threats he warned against have taken new forms, is apparently lost on the people who made that decision.

A stoat will never evoke what Churchill evoked. That is not sentiment. That is the point. The replacement of meaning with the merely decorative is not a neutral act. It's a statement about what a nation values, made quietly, by people who were not elected to make it, and cannot be held to account for having done so.

If we cannot defend the face on a banknote, we will not defend what that face represented. And the people dismantling it, piece by piece, consultation by consultation, know that perfectly well.

[Tim Stanley @timothy_stanley]

Obviously I don’t want to feel angry about the death of a boy as that would make me the tool of the far-right, so it would be helpful if the Government could tell me how I should feel. Annoyed? Irritated? Mildly anxious?

[Baroness Foster DBE #FreeIran🦁❤️ @jfoster2019]

My speech 🎤 on the rise of antisemitism & the rise of Islamic extremism..worth a listen !

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

So impressive that they can do this, what with all the genocide and famine going on around them. The struggle is real ✊🏻

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

@ZackPolanski, a few corrections before the substance.

On apartheid. Arab citizens of Israel vote, sit in the Knesset, serve as judges on the Supreme Court and hold positions in every profession in the country. Israeli Arabs have more civil rights than citizens of any Arab state in the Middle East. The West Bank and Gaza are disputed territories whose status is the subject of ongoing conflict and negotiation, not sovereign Israeli territory. The apartheid label requires ignoring all of that and applying a definition that no serious legal scholar has successfully sustained before an international court.

On genocide. There are approximately fifteen million Jews in the world, 0.2 percent of the global population, surrounded by fifty three Muslim majority states and a global Muslim population of over two billion, of whom approximately 1.6 billion are Sunni. The Palestinian population has grown from approximately one million in 1948 to over five million today. Life expectancy and literacy have increased across that period. The legal definition of genocide under the Genocide Convention is the deliberate destruction of a group as such. A population that has quintupled over seventy five years does not meet that definition by any serious legal standard. The International Court of Justice has not ruled that genocide is occurring. It issued provisional measures requiring Israel to prevent acts that could constitute genocide, which is a fundamentally different finding. If fifteen million Jews surrounded by two billion Muslims are committing genocide it is the most remarkable David versus Goliath story in human history. Worth noting that in the original, David was the Jew.

On the death penalty legislation. The bill you are referring to passed a preliminary reading in the Knesset and faces significant opposition within Israel itself, including from senior legal figures and members of the governing coalition. Presenting a contested preliminary vote as settled policy is not accurate.

The Knesset, in which Arab Israeli citizens sit as elected members, serve on committees and hold positions of influence, is the parliament of the apartheid state you are describing. That is an apartheid that allows the people it is supposedly oppressing to help make its laws.

On the broader framing. It's worth noting that the Metropolitan Police received the first request to organise a national march against Israel at 12:50pm on October 7th 2023. Hamas militants were still actively killing and kidnapping civilians at that moment. The Nova music festival massacre was still ongoing. Israel had not declared war. It had not conducted a single retaliatory strike. The infrastructure of protest and genocide framing was deployed before Israel had done anything. The narrative you are advancing was ready and waiting before the response it claims to be reacting to had begun.

You lead a party whose activists described Jews as an abomination to this planet. Whose autumn conference is preparing to vote on a motion endorsing armed struggle against Israel. Whose co-leader retweeted a post attacking the officers who stopped a terrorist attacker hours after two Jewish men lay in hospital, prompting the Metropolitan Police Commissioner to write to you personally. The word extremist is doing considerable work in your post. It might be worth examining where it actually applies.

"If fifteen million Jews surrounded by two billion Muslims are committing genocide it is the most remarkable David versus Goliath story in human history. Worth noting that in the original, David was the Jew."

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Exercise Turnstone: What the Government Knew and Wouldn't Tell You.

Peter Kyle went on television this morning to tell us to relax. Enjoy your beer, he said. Enjoy your meats. Enjoy your salads. This from a minister whose own government has been war-gaming, under the codename Exercise Turnstone, a scenario in which Britain's carbon dioxide supplies collapse to 18% of normal levels by June. A scenario in which chicken and pork disappear from supermarket shelves. A scenario in which competition rules are suspended and emergency legislation is rushed through Parliament within days. The war in Iran is the convenient explanation. But convenience and truth are not the same thing.

Britain did not arrive at this moment of food vulnerability because of events in the Strait of Hormuz. It arrived here because of choices made in Downing Street and the Treasury long before a single missile was fired. The Iran conflict is the match. This government built the bonfire.

Start with the land. At the last count, ground-mounted solar panels already cover an estimated 52,000 acres of British countryside. The government's own target requires solar capacity to increase to nearly three times its current level by 2030, with up to 65% of that coming from large-scale ground installations. CPRE analysis shows that 59% of England's largest solar farms sit on productive agricultural land, with almost a third classified as the nation's best and most versatile farmland. Fields that grew wheat are being sealed under panels for up to 60 years.

Rewilding compounds it. Hundreds of tenant farmers across England, Wales and Scotland are being removed from land their families have worked for generations, replaced by carbon credit schemes, ESG funds, and institutional investors. The National Trust has plans to rewild 250,000 hectares of its estate. One farmer walked away from land he had worked for 30 years after being told to cut his livestock by 85%. The government's own land use targets earmark 760,000 hectares, nine percent of all agricultural land, for full conversion to non-food use by 2050. Nine percent. Gone.

Then there is what the Chancellor has done to the economics of farming and food production. The April 2025 National Insurance hike and the minimum wage rise, up 40% since 2020, have driven costs through the entire food supply chain from field to shelf. Food inflation hit 5.1% by August last year. The Food and Drink Federation forecasts it will reach at least 9% by December, and that projection was made before the Iran conflict added further pressure. These are not global commodity prices at work. Analysts are explicit: the current round of food price inflation is domestically driven, a direct consequence of fiscal decisions made in the October 2024 Budget.

The IMF has already said Britain faces the worst economic hit in the G7 from the Iran conflict. That is partly because we are more exposed than we needed to be. A government serious about energy security would not have banned new North Sea licensing while Norway, drilling from the same sea, reached a 16-year production high and sold us £20 billion worth of oil and gas last year. A government serious about food security would not be converting prime arable land into solar parks and rewilding estates while war-gaming CO2 shortages in secret.

Peter Kyle said the public should be reassured. Reassured by what, exactly? By a minister telling them to enjoy their salads while Cobra plans for the shelves to empty? The government does not have a food security problem caused by Iran. It has a food security problem caused by itself. The war simply made it impossible to hide.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

No, Prime Minister.

You could have banned hate matches.

You could have banned pro-Iranian regime groups.

You could have deported disgustingly antisemitic imams.

You could have cracked down on mosques spewing Jew hatred.

Instead you introduced an “anti-Muslim hate” definition.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Do you see that tiny RED dot? That’s Israel, the only Jewish state in the world.

They want you to believe that the tiny RED dot is the oppressor and colonizer, and that the GREEN Muslim countries surrounding it are the oppressed.

Do they realize how ridiculous they sound?

[Alex Phillips @ThatAlexWoman]

I have just seen the unedited footage of the October 7th attacks. Please read:

What I saw was young men chopping off heads, shooting everything in sight, slaughtering little crying kids calling for their mummy, throwing grenades inside houses and cars and shelters, maiming bodies, playing with them, setting humans on fire, looking like it's the happiest day of their life.

They call their relatives to celebrate how many they have killed. The parents back in Gaza are thrilled. They cheer and ask for more.

"Bring back some heads for the people to play with" - asks a commander. The savages wilfully oblige, using flick knives to remove the skulls from slaughtered bodies like butchers carving up a carcass.

"Bring some home for the people so we can crucify them in the square" the Hamas leaders order.

The mangled, blood soaked bodies of hostages were paraded through the streets. The Gazan crowds cheered and filmed, celebrating or coming to spit on the terrified youngsters in the back of pick ups.

The young Hamas brutes with their ecstatic grins, taking selfies, shouting Allahu Akbar, looked like so many of the young men in dinghies. Trendy clothes, modern phones. Energy and conviction.

The first wave of attackers on October 7th were Hamas soldiers.

The second, amateur conscripts.

The third, Gazan civilians delighted to join in.

What even are these monsters.

I am forever changed, seeing what I have seen. And it isn't fake. It's footage Hamas shot themselves.

Israel must live with that right next door.

I fear we now have it, in hotels and houses around the country

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Britain Pays France £662 Million to Stop the Boats. It Has Also Designed the Perfect Magnet to Attract Them.

In Koksijde, Belgium, asylum seekers sleep eight to a room on camp beds separated by curtains. They receive eight pounds a week. They eat sloppy rice in a former barracks. For every fifty men, there are seven or eight toilets. Those who wait two years for a decision and receive what they call a negative are removed. The regional governor of West Flanders, Carl Decaluwe, says he can only dream of receiving the kind of financial support Britain gives France.

Across the Channel, the picture is rather different. Asylum seekers in Britain receive forty-nine pounds a week. Three meals a day. Free toiletries, free healthcare, free legal advice and free entertainment. Three and four star hotel accommodation in many cases. Almost everything, provided by the British taxpayer.

Decaluwe does not need a criminologist to explain why boats are leaving his beaches for Britain rather than staying in Belgium. In the last five years there were one or two departures from West Flanders in total. This year alone there have already been twenty-nine launches and the crossing season has barely started. The governor has convened emergency meetings. He is bracing for an explosion in numbers through the summer. He cannot close the border with France because Brussels will not allow it.

Meanwhile, Britain has just signed a new three year deal with France worth six hundred and sixty-two million pounds, paying for drones, helicopters and additional riot police. This is on top of the five hundred million already paid to fund French patrols and surveillance. Crossings have hit new records every year since Britain began paying France to stop them. The governor of West Flanders, asked about the value of the arrangement, was unequivocal. You get nothing, he said. Nothing. If you see the results, year after year, record numbers arriving on British shores.

The French have been photographed smiling and pointing as dinghies leave from under their noses. Last year they were witnessed putting migrants on free public transport to departure points. Migrants landed in Kent on the same day the new deal was signed. The Home Office has quietly built in a provision to withdraw funding after a year if results are not delivered, which suggests even ministers do not believe the arrangement will work.

Labour scrapped the Rwanda scheme on taking office, describing it as expensive and ineffective. Rwanda had not yet removed a single person and the cost projections were significant. The six hundred and sixty-two million pounds now committed to France, producing record crossings year after year, apparently meets a different standard of value for money. Several European countries are now reportedly exploring Rwanda-style third country arrangements of their own, having watched the problem grow.

The pull factors driving this crisis are well understood. They are a policy choice. A country that accommodates asylum seekers in hotels, pays them six times what Belgium provides, and offers free legal assistance to delay removal for years has built a system that functions as the most powerful magnet on the continent. Paying France not to intercept the people drawn by that magnet is merely a subscription service for managed failure.

Starmer promised to smash the gangs. The gangs are expanding their operations, opening new fronts, and sending as many boats as possible simultaneously as a deliberate tactic to overwhelm coastal surveillance. Two hundred thousand undocumented young males have entered Britain by small boat. The crossing season has not yet reached its peak.

The boats will not stop until Britain stops making itself the most attractive destination in Europe. Every other question is secondary to that one.

[David Graham 🇬🇧 @DGSilverCoyote]

@EssexPR HE, HE, HE . . . HA, HA,HA!

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

🌎 it’s EARTH DAY today. I thought I’d show you this!

The FV Margiris, one of the world’s largest supertrawlers. It catches 250 tonnes of fish per day,

Since Brexit, Britain has had the power to stop ships like this from plundering our waters, but we haven’t.

The government says there’s no definition of a “super-trawler,” …. while continuing to let these giants destroy marine ecosystems.

They tax us more to “save the planet” while helping to destroy it 🤡

[Laila Cunningham @policylaila]

What’s the point of security vetting if failing doesn’t stop you getting the job? If it isn’t disqualifying, it’s not security. Why would an ally trust us with secrets now?

[Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons]

Hang on, so we DO have riot police! After years of Gaza rallies, I thought they'd been retired.
Turns out they still exist, but only when people march against the gang rape of a woman outside a church in Epsom.

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

If you hits the streets because of gang rapes = riot police

If you hit the streets in masks, call for jihad and chant for terrorist groups
= regular police