Michael Wade

My novel: Pilate's Magician: A Novel of the Resurrection is out on Amazon. And yes, it's quite good.
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[Michael Wade @execupundit]

France Is in an Early Battle for Western Civilization https://t.co/igvM6AjSWz It's time to hold fast.

[Sarah Knafo @knafo_sarah]

« Il y en a assez de passer son temps à faire l'apologie de la tradition », dit Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

Monsieur Mélenchon, nos villages, nos vignes, nos fêtes et nos clochers n'attendent pas votre permission pour exister.

Vous appelez ça le passé. Nous appelons ça la France.

[Winston Marshall @MrWinMarshall]

The mostly peaceful riots for better lycées in France have made their way to Bilbao, Spain

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“The indigenous working class has been put out of mind, even overtly disparaged by the media & the political class. All attempts to give voice to their anxieties over immigration, globalization & the spread of liberal[ism] have been dismissed or silenced.”

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: Brazil’s electoral court president, Kassio Nunes Marques, says there was no rule authorizing the two-hour voting extension.

“Never, in the history of the TSE, has there been ANY extension.”

[Tom Bevan @TomBevanRCP]

New Gallup poll asks "which values the country most needs today?"

Out of a list of 12 values, Republicans put "patriotism" #1, for Dems it ranks dead last - by a lot.

Dems say "equality" is most needed, Republicans rank it 11th out of 12.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Imagine believing that what’s happening in Europe has to do with young people wanting a better education. I’m sure this guy would rather be at home reading Homer.

Many of the greatest minds in history (Ben Franklin, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln) had almost no formal schooling whatsoever. Ben Franklin literally figured out how many calories he needed to live on in order to spend the rest of his money on books. Abraham Lincoln walked miles to beg to borrow books. He committed to memory unbelievable amounts of Scripture and Shakespeare. Frederick Douglass got a copy of one book, the Colombian Orator, and read it over and over and over.

These clowns are not interested in education.

[Marine Le Pen @MLP_officiel]

La civilité, c'est le contraire de subir la musique à plein volume, le harcèlement de rue, d'enjamber des gens couchés dans la cage d'escalier.

Je rappelle ce principe que je ferai appliquer : en France, on vit comme des Français !

[Michael Wade @execupundit]

France Is in an Early Battle for Western Civilization https://t.co/igvM6AjSWz It's time to hold fast.

[Joel Engel @joelengel]

Thanks for the heads-up.

[Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx]

🚨 BREAKING: Steve Hilton announces plan to cancel High Speed Rail, turn it into the Government Failures National Monument.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

BRITAIN AND FRANCE — some thoughts.
British and French politics are now moving in different directions.
Macron destroyed the French centre-left/right parties in the 2017 presidential election. They have never recovered. But Macron’s centrist movement hasn’t filled the vacuum.
Nor, even as his failures multiplied over almost a decade, was there a renaissance of the centre left/left but the rise of more extremes — Mélenchon’s LFI on the Left, Le Pen’s RN on the Right.
Latest polls indicate they will juke it out in the presidential 2nd round next May — with Le Pen the easy winner.
In Britain the rise of Reform on the Right and the Greens on the Left since the 2024 election + the collapse of Labour/Tories in the polls suggested, if not a Left/Right polarisation like France, then a new politics of multi-party democracy.
But 2026 brought a major correction — it’s been a dire year for Reform and the Greens, whereas Labour/Tories (but especially Labour under Burnham) have enjoyed something of a renaissance from their polling nadirs.
So, as French politics increasingly becomes a choice between populist Left and Right, the mainstream centre left/right has become once again the story in British politics.
With the most recent polls showing Labour in the lead, the Tories second, Reform third (and still slipping), Greens nowhere (along with LDs).
At the moment Labour must be favourite to win an election (at least end up the largest party).
Of course Labour/Tories are still a long way off their former dominance in share of the vote. But they are, at least for now, on the way back, which is more than can be said for their French counterparts.

[Adrian McKinty @adrianmckinty]

tomorrow, as I'm sure you know, is the feast of Crispin

you'll like this unless you're a gentleman of England now abed holding his manhood cheap

[Ian Miller @ianmSC]

I just don’t think anyone realizes how important school conditions in France are to college age adults in Barcelona

[Joel Engel @joelengel]

The @nytimes, ladies and gentlemen. Your paper of record. (And not a word about the riots in all the other European cities. Remarkable.)

There are two ways to lie in journalism: commission and omission. NYT is the gold standard for the latter.

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

When I started @xx_xyathletics 2 1/2 years ago, I could never have predicted that people would respond this way.

I just wanted to provide a brand that actually stands up for women instead of the pretend nonsense Nike and all the others do.

I'm still stunned every single day that a statement of fact -- there are two sexes (therefore women deserve their own sports & spaces) -- produces this kind of mob rage. It's truly deranged.

[RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa]

Italy. Milan now. Italian Army Folgore paratroopers patrol the city. Trained for war, now protect citizens, shops and our streets.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Indeed Bernie. Bodies lying all over the place here in Europe.
No, wait. The 32,000 is not an actual body count. It’s the result of modelling by Imperial College on the basis of several dubious assumptions.
People did die of heat this summer. They usually do when it gets v hot e.g 1976, 2003. The exact number is not clear.
But even if 32,000 was a real figure we know for sure many, many more will die of cold this winter. They always do.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

As villages lose their soul, loneliness is spreading like an epidemic. Reach out to your friends and family❤️