The Northern Star

Sovereignty, Democracy, Inter-nationalism #BrexitfromNATO

[The Northern Star @TakingControl]

British politics is running on empty: lifeless parties lacking vision for the future, angry citizens with nowhere to turn. If Brexit was about 'taking back control', why has so little changed?

Our new book, TAKING CONTROL, has the answers. https://t.co/5YEmX7asiR 🧵(1/13)

[The Northern Star @TakingControl]

Surveys show that, overall, British women want more children than they are currently having.

@peteray21 argues that following the death of patriarchy, the relationship btwn motherhood and women's freedom has changed. And that we have a strong national interest in understanding this.
https://t.co/Q0pkVvqOO1

[Lee Jones @DrLeeJones]

Brilliant. Best thing I've read in months. Really important reckoning with gender ideology, gender equality, and the need to create the "freedom to" have families through far reaching reforms.

[The Northern Star @TakingControl]

New on TNS. A long read for the weekend on a vital question of national interest that is largely overlooked: the fundamental relationship between women's freedom, motherhood and nation-building.
https://t.co/B8tXwNs5LI

[The Northern Star @TakingControl]

New on TNS.

@peteray on women's freedom, reproductive stagnation and the national interest.
https://t.co/B8tXwNs5LI

[The Northern Star @TakingControl]

New on TNS @peteray on women's freedom, reproductive stagnation and the national interest.

It's a long read but in brief, he argues that the British nation has an interest in its own prosperity and survival and this requires us to increase not just productivity but reproductivity.

To increase Britain's very low birth rate the state will have to take measures to expand women's freedom and equality, and these will require a new politics of nation-building that honours and rewards motherhood and childcare for the great public benefit they are.

https://t.co/Q0pkVvqOO1

[The Northern Star @TakingControl]

New on TNS.

@peteray on women's freedom, reproductive stagnation and the national interest.
https://t.co/B8tXwNs5LI

[The Northern Star @TakingControl]

Orban's defeat in Hungary is a boost for the EU's clapped-out technocracy, and further proof of the limitations of populism.

As @peteray21 wrote on TNS in the wake of the Iran fiasco:

"Trump’s failures still seem only likely to benefit the Democrats who show few signs of having learned much from their own earlier failures. The all-too likely failure of Reform will similarly help to prop up the fragmented and intellectually exhausted old order of the Uniparty. The worst aspect of populism is its potential to reinforce political cynicism among those citizens whose interests have not had a look in for decades.

We need to get beyond the loudmouth showmen, who are good at articulating popular discontent but have nothing else in the political tank, and who are quite as venal as the old order when it comes down to it. We are urgently in need of a new political paradigm that can break out of this dead end. The politics of national interest require us to get beyond the culture war shouting and to distinguish nation-building from populism by articulating a programme of real investment in the nation."
https://t.co/awYlmx4rg1

[The Northern Star @TakingControl]

Orban's defeat in Hungary is a boost for the EU's clapped-out technocracy, and further proof of the limitations of populism.

As @peteray21 wrote on TNS in the wake of the Iran fiasco:

"Trump’s failures still seem only likely to benefit the Democrats who show few signs of having learned much from their own earlier failures. The all-too likely failure of Reform will similarly help to prop up the fragmented and intellectually exhausted old order of the Uniparty. The worst aspect of populism is its potential to reinforce political cynicism among those citizens whose interests have not had a look in for decades.

We need to get beyond the loudmouth showmen, who are good at articulating popular discontent but have nothing else in the political tank, and who are quite as venal as the old order when it comes down to it. We are urgently in need of a new political paradigm that can break out of this dead end. The politics of national interest require us to get beyond the culture war shouting and to distinguish nation-building from populism by articulating a programme of real investment in the nation."
https://t.co/awYlmx4rg1

[The Northern Star @TakingControl]

New on TNS...the Iran War shows us that populism leads nowhere. https://t.co/iagVyiCweJ

[The Northern Star @TakingControl]

After the Iran War, Britain finds itself in uncharted waters.

Statecraft is needed and neither the old globalist Uniparty nor its populist challengers appear to have what it takes, argues @peteray21. https://t.co/iagVyiCweJ

[The Northern Star @TakingControl]

After the Iran War, Britain finds itself in uncharted waters.

Statecraft is needed and neither the old globalist Uniparty nor its populist challengers appear to have what it takes, argues @peteray21. https://t.co/iagVyiCweJ

[The Northern Star @TakingControl]

A nostalgic non-starter.
The old nation failed…that’s why we ended up here.
It was destroyed by free-market fanatics like Lowe.
We need to rescue what we can from the ruins, and build a new nation.

[The Northern Star @TakingControl]

This is why Reform will fail. Farage has no grasp of national sovereignty.

First he makes liberal noises about Trump's discounting of international law rather than emphasise the unprovoked attack by the USA on Venezuela's sovereignty itself.

Second he entirely misreads the geopolitics of sovereignty. Trump's action is little short of an invitation to China invade Taiwan.

Farage lacks the politics to end the domination of Britain by foreign interests.

[Nigel Farage MP @Nigel_Farage]

The American actions in Venezuela overnight are unorthodox and contrary to international law — but if they make China and Russia think twice, it may be a good thing.

I hope the Venezuelan people can now turn a new leaf without Maduro.

[The Northern Star @TakingControl]

Who's behind the burqa?

There is an important insight in this Telegraph piece by @baylissbaghdad: Pakistanis and their children wearing the niqab/burqa in Britain is less a marker of Islamic faith than a marker that the wearer, by visibly rejecting the norms of British society, does not regard themselves as British.

Moreover, Chris Bayliss is astute to suggest that a burqa ban would serve to cover up "one of the more obvious signs that Britain’s largest ethnic minority is travelling in the opposite direction to contented assimilation into the national mainstream".

But it is essential to keep in mind that in signalling this hostility to Britain, and an unwillingness to integrate with the national mainstream, Muslims of south and west Asian origin are in fact demonstrating their loyalty to the political programme of our ruling class, the programme of Global Britain, a programme that is disintegrative of Britain as a nation. The niqab's performative hostility to Britain takes its cue from the revulsion of the Yookay's own elite at the thought of having to "assimilate into the national mainstream" themselves.

That is why the Muslim kids' fake revolt is already indulged in the Yookay's elite universities, and soon it will no doubt be celebrated by leftist academics who will find in this reactionary chic a heroic expression of anti-capitalist agency much as they did with trans activism's revelling in womanface. Being burqa'd-up will give the wearer an edge as they slither up the ancien regime's greasy pole.

Bayliss notes that a ban would probably be uneforceable. In the final analysis that is because the existing state institutions lack the will to enforce a ban because the transnationalists who occupy those institutions would have no interest in enforcing one.

The fundamental problem lies not with young people of Asian origin, but with our political class, with the transnational interests that it serves and the sectarian identity politics that it promotes in doing that service. We cannot get rid of reactionary Islamism without ridding ourselves of the globalist blob.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

✍️ 'Nanny state proponents cannot seriously claim it would be an affront to liberty' | Writes @baylissbaghdad

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