Judgey

Keen runner, keen on politics, keen on economics, keen on history. Just an overall keen person

[Judgey @MartinJudge10]

Where Germany goes, Europe follows.

[Wolfgang Munchau @EuroBriefing]

Our lead story this morning is on the progressive collapse of the German car industry. This is not a macroeconomics story. This is a typewriter-vs-computer story. It is not just batteries. The area that worries me the most is autonomous driving. All the key technologies of the future car are American or Chinese.
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[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

The biggest myth about socialised healthcare is that Britain had no healthcare before the NHS was founded in 1948. But Britain had a thriving extensive healthcare system long before the NHS - built on private practice, mutual aid and charity, rather than the state.

The backbone of medical care for ordinary people was the friendly society movement. By the late Victorian period, millions of working men and women paid small weekly subscriptions into these mutual organisations and in return received access to a doctor and medicines, and often sickness benefits as well. These societies often contracted local doctors on a capitation basis, giving working families a degree of security without relying on charity or the Poor Law.

For those who could afford it, there was a thriving private medical market. Doctors competed for patients, and many working-class families paid directly for treatment when needed. At the same time, a large network of voluntary hospitals and dispensaries provided care to the poor, funded through philanthropy, subscriptions from the middle and upper classes and donations. Hospitals such as Guy’s, St Bartholomew’s and the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary treated large numbers of working-class patients, often for free or at very low cost.

While the very poorest sometimes ended up in the often harsh Poor Law infirmaries, the combination of friendly societies, private payment and charitable hospitals meant that organised medical care reached far more people than is commonly acknowledged, long before the state took over.

Britain was also a world leader in medical science during this period. British researchers made major advances in public health, surgery and tropical medicine, with several Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine awarded to British scientists in the early 20th century for work carried out in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Far from being a healthcare desert, pre-NHS Britain had a dynamic, decentralised system that combined mutual aid, private enterprise and philanthropy to deliver care to millions.

[Claire Fox @Fox_Claire]

This week I spoke in the Lib Dem debate in the Lords on foreign interference and dis/misinformation. Not sure they were too happy when I traced back the weaponisation of these concepts to 2016, when they were used to explain away and discredit Brexit voters. The elite war on misinformation is now being turbo-charged as panic sets in to contain a turbulent public who won't just acquiesce to PR versions of policies or be bullied by name-calling.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Thank you Germany 🇩🇪 and UK 🇬🇧 for heroically sacrificing your economy to save the planet 💪
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[Judgey @MartinJudge10]

Again, hardly known in the Anglo-Sphere

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

In the final days of June 1944, the largest battle ever fought in the history of the Nordic countries exploded on the Karelian Isthmus, and tiny Finland made its last stand.

Days earlier the Red Army had taken the city of Vyborg with shocking speed, and a massive Soviet offensive was rolling forward to knock Finland out of the war once and for all. The Finns were outnumbered and out gunned on a staggering scale.

So they gathered everything they had left and dug in at a narrow stretch of forest and lakes near a place called Tali-Ihantala. If the line broke here, the road into the heart of Finland lay open.

What happened next became the stuff of legend. The Finns had quietly received new weapons from Germany, including anti tank rockets that let small teams destroy Soviet tanks at close range.

But their real masterstroke was their artillery. Finnish gunners had perfected a system that let them rain the fire of dozens of batteries onto a single point in minutes. They shattered Soviet assault formations again and again before they could even reach the lines.

Against overwhelming odds, the Finns held. The great Soviet offensive ground to a bloody halt in those woods and could not break through.

That stand saved the country. Unable to force a collapse, the Soviets eventually agreed to terms, and Finland came out of the war battered but never conquered and never occupied. One of the only nations to fight the Soviet giant on its border and keep its freedom.

[Jordan Taylor @Jordan_W_Taylor]

I want the Severn tidal barrage to get built, not because it's great value for money.

But because I want a 10 mile long, motorway supporting megaproject with a two century life that generates electricity out of pure contempt for nature.

[Sith Daddy @sithdaddyx]

Let's celebrate the resignation of Keir Starmer with this wonderful song. Bye-bye, Keir! We will remember you as the biggest wanker of all UK leaders. Donald Trump and his band are performing this song for your pleasure. The Spotify version is coming soon.

[Judgey @MartinJudge10]

The university environment has changed beyond recognition in the last 3 years.

Not just demographics: the realisation that a degree has lost its economic value is compounding the change.

[Pete North @FUDdaily]

You have to understand that a very large contingent of the British people do not experience "diversity". Insofar as they do experience it, it looks like it does in the brochure. Go to a city like York and you'll see a diversity of foreign tourists, and on campus you'll see a diversity of educated middle class foreigners, with whom the middle class has more in common than your average Reform voting pleb.

Their wealth, safety and access to healthcare and housing is not threatened by diversity - therefore, it costs them nothing to stay aligned with the high status corporate narrative that diversity is good. It is no coincidence that cities like York are "sancturary cities".

As such, for voting patterns to change, middle class white collar bureaucrats have to experience actual diversity first hand, which is coming sooner than any of them imagine. In the not too distant future, some young woman will be dragged off a leafy cycle path on the outskrts of campus by a brownoid from a newly seeded HMO, raped, and dumped in a ditch to die.

The students will still vote for the idiotic woke Rachel Maskell, and will still roll out the red carpet for sexually incontinent feral Africans but the PAYEpig functionaries will quietly change their vote to Reform even if they don't admit it to their colleagues. It will happen gradually, then all at once. Once the shires get a taste of real diversity, that's when you'll see poltical change.

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

If Vladimir Putin changed the voting system days before an election to stop his opponents winning, every British journalist would call it what it is: rigging the rules.

Tonight, Labour rammed through a last‑minute switch in the Lords so that if Andy Burnham wins Makerfield and quits as Greater Manchester Mayor, his replacement won’t be chosen on a simple first‑past‑the‑post ballot, but on the supplementary vote system instead.

Why now?

Because Labour knows the race to replace Burnham would be a straight two‑horse fight with Reform UK – and under FPTP, the candidate with the most votes wins, no second chances, no back‑room redistributions, no “stop Reform” stitch‑ups.

Under SV, Labour gets a second bite of the cherry: if their candidate can limp into the top two, they can hoover up second preferences from every other party and magic a “majority” on the second count, even if Reform tops the poll on first preferences.

This isn’t “modernising democracy”. It’s the governing party using its Commons majority and the unelected Lords to hurriedly doctor the rules of one specific contest because it’s terrified the voters might choose someone else.

When the establishment preached to the world about “rules‑based order”, they forgot to mention one thing: in Britain, the rules are “based” on whether Labour thinks it might lose.

[Robin Nitot @Rnitot]

1685 : Louis XIV révoque l’édit de Nantes. En Normandie comme dans d’autres régions, de nombreuses familles huguenotes fuient la France.

1944 : trois descendants de ces familles se retrouvent face à face, sur leur terre d’origine. Il s’agit de Rommel, Montgomery et Patton.

[𝔃𝔞𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔞𝔰 𝔰 @OrdinariateUSA]

>the Croatian team is the only European team that is 100% European

>the Croatian team is 100% Croatian Catholics

>the entire Croatian team attended Holy Mass together before the tournament

>half of England’s team is Muslim and/or African

If you aren’t rooting for Croatia today you simply aren’t on the team

[Judgey @MartinJudge10]

@skybluesarchive He should have been on the pitch from the start!

[Maven Politic @MavenPolitic]

I spoke to a software dev at one of Britain's biggest brands & major employers this week. He said they were still being banned from using AI tools in their dev stack.

In 2026, this is like banning using steam engines in 1850.

British employers are in for a violent awakening.

[Judgey @MartinJudge10]

No chance of this in the British parliament.

Brawo Polska!

[Wojciech Pawelczyk @WojPawelczyk]

Earlier today, the Polish parliament observed a moment of silence in memory of the murdered Henry Nowak and all victims of anti-white racism.

You can always count on Poland.

[Maven Politic @MavenPolitic]

I hate to break the news to everyone, but the prots in NI have been setting fire to people's homes and chanting "foreigners out" for at least a hundred years.

The targets last night were more foreign than usual, but locally it wasn't that out of the ordinary.

[Benonwine @benonwine]

Jeff Banks is continuing his campaign to secure a minute’s silence for Henry Nowak before England’s opening World Cup match.

He is now calling on the editors of every national newspaper to get behind the proposal and encourage their readers to support it.

His argument is simple and a fair one, if football can unite to remember tragedies and victims from around the world, then surely it can take a moment to remember a young English lad whose death touched the hearts of so many people across the country.

PLEASE SHARE AND COMMENT WITH YOUR SUPPORT! 🙏🇬🇧❤️👏✊

[Judgey @MartinJudge10]

The UK government is in denial of the global outrage at Henry Nowak's murder.

This banner in Spain speaks that outrage.

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

Seen in Malaga, Spain. 🇪🇸🇬🇧

[📸 - @CarlosEugenioCD]

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🚨BREAKING: Demonstrations for Henry Nowak are happening across Germany

All of Europe is furious. 🇩🇪🇬🇧

[Judgey @MartinJudge10]

Muchas gracias

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🚨BREAKING: Miguel Bosé, the biggest Spanish-language pop star of the last few decades, has just released a video taking a knee and putting his hand over his heart in honour of Henry Nowak

This has now spread like a wildfire. Europe has never been more UNITED! 🇪🇸🇬🇧

[Christian Peterson 🇸🇪 (English) @christianpet_]

A silent minute is being held right now in Stockholm for Henry Nowak.

Crowds pause. The city stands still in remembrance of a life lost to mass migration.