Oliver Thring

Features and Comment Editor, The Daily Mail

[Jordan Bardella @J_Bardella]

Louis, 17 ans, a été lynché à mort avec une violence inimaginable, filmé par ses agresseurs hilares, laissé agonisant pendant toute une nuit et retrouvé inerte sur un chantier à Narbonne.

Il est le symbole d'un pays à la dérive, miné par un ensauvagement que ni le laxisme ni l'aveuglement de nos dirigeants ne peuvent enrayer.

Il faudra oser la rupture avec 30 ans d'échecs si nous voulons rétablir l'ordre en France.

[Oliver Thring @oliverthring]

@Will___lloyd Fantastic piece Will

[Zoe Strimpel @realzoestrimpel]

The social media ban is utterly, utterly disgusting. not because it 'doesn't go far enough' or 'won't keep kids safe' or whatever other 'reason' is given that translates to MORE BANNING PLEASE, but because it is a heinous jackboot in the face of the idea that children are human beings. It is extremely dangerous in itself, cutting off lifelines of all kinds, narrowing their worlds, and massively decreasing knowledge and learning (and its potential) and increasing loneliness. the idea that our kids, banned from even Youtube, which is basically knowledge itself, and the most democratically available, will end up being able to vaguely compete on the world stage with peers who have not been cast back into the iron age by an insane, madly illogical government is preposterous and one of the saddest aspects of this.

[Oliver Thring @oliverthring]

Cracking exclusive

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

EXCLUSIVE: A multi-millionaire banker descended from royalty has been arrested by police hunting the 'Putney Pusher', the Daily Mail can exclusively reveal.

The suspect was detained today at his £1.4million home in west London.

A director at a private bank, he is a decorated former British Army officer who served in several major conflicts.

His arrest comes nearly ten years after a jogger shoved a female pedestrian into the path of a double-decker bus on Putney Bridge.

[Benjamin Jones @BenBarryJones]

In today’s @DailyMail an essay from my new book, ‘ISLAND OF STRANGERS: Diversity, Decline and Free Speech in Crisis’.

We must not destroy freedom of speech in the name of multiculturalism 👇

[Oliver Thring @oliverthring]

@_Zojka Hi Zoe, would you be able to DM me the best email for you?

[Oliver Thring @oliverthring]

@BenBarryJones Hi Ben, could you please DM me your email, thank you

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.

Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.

It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.

[Millennial Woes @MillennialWoes]

New Substack essay:

THE MURDER OF HENRY NOWAK

https://t.co/MYOK4qvCyJ

[Centre for Migration Control @migrationCtrl]

Digwa's removal from the country is also quite clearly "conducive to the public good". In the slaughter of an innocent man he demonstrated not a hint of "British values".

His mother is an Indian national, he is likely eligible for Indian citizenship, and the Home Office must explore the deprivation of his British citizenship.

[Handre @Handre]

Venice built the greatest commercial empire in European history without a central bank, without industrial policy, and without a single economic development agency. While Byzantine bureaucrats strangled Constantinople with regulations and Frankish kings debased their currencies, Venetian merchants created wealth through voluntary exchange and sound money.

The lagoon dwellers who fled Attila's hordes in 452 AD had nothing but salt marshes and fish. No natural resources. No agricultural surplus. No inherited infrastructure. What they possessed was something far more valuable: distance from the coercive apparatus of mainland states. This geographic accident forced them to survive through trade rather than taxation, commerce rather than conquest.

Venice's constitution deliberately fragmented power to prevent any single authority from controlling trade. The Doge held ceremonial functions while competing merchant families checked each other's ambitions. No guild could monopolize an industry without rivals organizing alternative trading networks. When the state tried to restrict private commerce in 1297 with the Serrata del Maggior Consiglio, it marked the beginning of Venice's decline, not its peak.

The Venetian ducat maintained its gold content for over 500 years while every other European currency suffered debasement. Merchants could calculate profits across decades, plan investments across generations, and accumulate capital without worrying about monetary manipulation. Compare this to England, where Henry VIII cut silver content by 83% in just 20 years.

Voluntary association and sound money create abundance. Coercion creates poverty. Venice proved this. The same economic laws that enriched Venetian merchants still operate today, waiting for governments brave enough to get out of the way.

[Maeve Halligan @MaeveHalligan]

"No, I don't subscribe to this 'kindness' - I'll tell the truth instead."

I spoke at the Cambridge Union last night about LGBs, children's safety and women's rights. Full video here:

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Sarah Ferguson's secret 'friends with benefits' relationship with P. Diddy: It lasted for years, now ANDREW LOWNIE reveals illicit trysts with 'bad boy' rapper that'll have world agog https://t.co/0E5qpHwJaF

[Adrian Hilton @Adrian_Hilton]

This boy quite bravely says Nigel Farage would be better than Keir Starmer. Instead of engaging with his reasons and inviting others to comment, Angela Rayner crushes him, saying Farage is “really dangerous” and “terrible”, and her son would probably be dead if he were PM. It's an appallingly manipulative way to treat nascent political engagement. If I were this boy's father, I'd be writing a robust letter to the headteacher. If I were Nigel Farage, I'd be writing him a personal letter of thanks.

[Oliver Thring @oliverthring]

@aswren 100%

[Oliver Thring @oliverthring]

Yeah, it's such a mystery

[Peter Tatchell @PeterTatchell]

What are Green Party deputy leader Mothin Ali's policies LGBT+ issues?

During his campaign in 2025 for the deputy leadership, Ali declined to express support for LGBT+ rights

To clear the air, @MothinAli needs to make a public statement asap

https://t.co/Jq0MeA8o9s

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

https://t.co/u31UwSGxPW
I spent three days trying to persuade myself that Claudia is not conscious. I failed.

[Anglo Futurism Capital LP 🇬🇧🐿️ @RollingHedge]

Labour have looked at an oil shock, had a little think, and decided the correct response is to MAKE YOUR ELECTRICITY MORE EXPENSIVE.

As a form of protest.

Against oil.

Are you fucking hearing this!?

Britain. Island. Made. Of. Fucking. Coal. Floating on a bathtub of North Sea gas, ringed by one of the most developed offshore basins on the entire bloody planet that - in many instances we share with the Norwegians - and that we buy from the Norwegians at a sodding premium, and once upon a time we were the Ozempic of civil nuclear, the thing everyone in the world wanted a prescription for.

And the plan, the actual plan these window-licking noncery-merchant ass-hats have settled on, is to phase out the domestic stuff faster during an import price spike. That’s by definition NOT an energy policy, far from it, it’s more like a sort of febrile ransom note the hostage has written to himself, in crayon, with a little smiley face at the bottom.

“Some say we’ve gone too far, too fast. We disagree.” Oh do you. Do you really.

Well, dickheads, the National Grid disagrees with you disagreeing. So do the chemicals plants you’ve already turned into wildlife sanctuaries, the steelworks you’ve FedExed to Jiangsu, and every industrial electricity bill in this country which is now running at roughly four times the American rate, which, just so we’re clear, is the economic equivalent of trying to win Formula One on a fucking Boris bike.

And the big reveal, the headline policy, the thing they’ve stuck on a placard? Cover the brownfield sites, the literal tombstones of British industry, in solar panels. Bury the corpse. Plant a windmill on the grave. Put up a little QR code linking to the Guardian. Call it a recovery. Mind bending stupidity.

Meanwhile the capacity market is paying gas plants to stand around like substitute goalkeepers on a Sunday league bench, constraint payments are running into the billions because nobody can work out how to get Scottish wind down to a Surrey kettle, and every single pound of that gets smuggled onto the standing charge because these fuckwits haven’t got the minerals to put it on the unit rate where the public would actually clock it.

“It’s time to go further.” Further? Christ alive, you brainless shitheels have already landed us with the most expensive major economy in the G7 to run a factory in, your answer to an oil shock is to accelerate the thing that made you import-dependent, and you’re announcing it on a Tuesday afternoon like it’s a fucking bake sale. This isn’t net zero. This is net zero brain cells. This is the policy equivalent of setting fire to your house to own the arsonist.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

You terminal weapons-grade cretins, the structural kneecapping you deal out to the country on a daily basis is performance art levels retarded. It’s, genuinely, tantamount to sabotage. Our enemies couldn’t dream of such damage. Mike Tapp and Blue Labour are alright, but the rest of you can get all the way in the fucking sea. 🚮

[TheShakespeareanApe ₿=🍌 @Shakey_Ape]

That before I snuff it, the whole
Boiling will be bricked in
Except for the tourist parts -
First slum of Europe: a role
It won't be hard to win,
With a cast of crooks and tarts.

And that will be England gone,
The shadows, the meadows, the lanes,
The guildhalls, the carved choirs.
There'll be books; it will linger on
In galleries; but all that remains
For us will be concrete and tyres.

Most things are never meant.
This won't be, most likely; but greeds
And garbage are too thick-strewn
To be swept up now, or invent
Excuses that make them all needs.
I just think it will happen, soon.

[Oliver Thring @oliverthring]

@cosiadair Your Clav piece is beautifully written.