Joel S

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

The most vomit-inducing subspecies of professional victimhood crusaders is the privileged PoC woke brigade.

You've seen some familiar archetypes. The Brahmin Indian transplant, born at the literal top of the caste pyramid where they’ve been stepping on untouchables for generations, who parachutes into the West and immediately starts cosplaying as some brown skinned underdog railing against “systemic oppression." Meanwhile, their family still runs half the tech visas and corner store empires back home.

Or the Gucci-clad son of a Turkish multi-millionaire, living off generational wealth from blood money LARPing as a revolutionary firebrand against capitalism.

And now, lo and behold, that New Yorker writer who pens glowing essays about “micro-looting” Whole Foods. Of course she grew up in a goddamn mansion. Of course her parents were running a full-scale human trafficking operation that turned Filipino teachers into indentured servants - predatory loans at 60% interest, deportation threats, the works. $2.8 million in stolen visa fees, luxury resort bribes for school admins, the whole predatory grift. DHS literally ruled it was “a severe form of trafficking in persons.” Her family got caught and had to forfeit the mansion and the Mercedes fleet, pled to conspiracy, and got off with 3 months’ probation and a slap on the wrist.

Remember also Lydia Mugambe, that UN judge with an Oxford law doctorate, the “human rights” warrior who spent her days pontificating about protecting the vulnerable… who was caught literally enslaving her own housekeeper in a modern slavery racket? LOL

These people are the worst kind of frauds. Loudly protesting their “oppression” while perched on piles of unearned privilege and family exploitation. It’s the exact same energy as the rapey male feminist. The lady doth protest too much, methinks - Shakespeare nailed it centuries ago. That over-the-top virtue signaling is always a cover for the skeletons in their own closets.

Never trust them, not for a second. The louder they cosplay the oppressed, the harder you should look at the mansion, the trust fund, the parents, the FRAUD, and the housekeeper they’re probably underpaying in cash.

[Joel S @josin]

@elonmusk release the files on the flight of Hess to Britain in 1941

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

The scrapping of an Eton-backed free sixth form in Middlesbrough tells us more about Labour than any manifesto ever could. A project designed to educate the brightest children from one of the poorest parts of the country was not stopped because it failed, cost too much, or lacked need. It was stopped because it threatened to succeed. And success, when it cannot be controlled, is intolerable to this government.

This was not a fee-paying outpost or a vanity scheme. It was a free school, approved under the last government, partnered with a proven academy trust, aimed squarely at deprived pupils with high academic ability. The offer was simple: take children who show promise and give them an education equal to the best in the country. That should have been uncontroversial. Instead it triggered hostility, suspicion, and finally cancellation. Not because of what it would have done, but because of what it symbolised.

The real offence was a four-letter word: Eton College. That name short-circuited reason. Local Labour figures spoke of "elitism" while opposing a free school for poor children. Ministers talked about surplus places and SEND funding while quietly abandoning a project already designed to address a regional attainment gap that everyone admits exists. None of it holds up. The explanations came after the decision, not before it.

Look at the facts Labour prefers not to dwell on. The North East lags badly behind London on A-level results and university entry. That gap has widened, not narrowed. This school was explicitly designed to deal with the A-level drop-off that has trapped bright pupils in the region for years. Its location was central, its funding secure, its academic model tested. Scrapping it did nothing to help SEND pupils and nothing to raise standards elsewhere. It simply removed an option that would have worked.

What happened in Middlesbrough fits a pattern we have already seen. When schools succeed by insisting on discipline, knowledge, and high expectations, the response from Labour is not curiosity but suspicion. Not imitation but obstruction. Katharine Birbalsingh and Michaela showed what happens when deprived children are taken seriously. Instead of being celebrated, that success is treated as a problem to be managed. The lesson is the same here: excellence outside the approved model must be neutralised.

The Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson, claims the money could be better spent elsewhere. That argument collapses on contact with reality. Identical Eton-Star colleges have been approved in other Labour-run areas. The money exists. The model is acceptable. What differed in Middlesbrough was not need, but politics. Local ideological resistance was indulged, and bright children paid the price.

This is the quiet cruelty of modern Labour education policy. It speaks endlessly about disadvantage while dismantling the very ladders that allow people to climb out of it. It treats aspiration as a threat and excellence as exclusion. It would rather keep everyone inside a failing system than allow some to rise beyond it, because rising exposes the lie that background is destiny.

We are told this is about fairness. It is not. Fairness would mean expanding opportunity wherever it appears. What Labour practices instead is levelling by denial. If not everyone can have something, no one should. If a school might allow working-class children to outperform expectations, it must be stopped in case it embarrasses the system.

Middlesbrough did not lose a school. It lost permission to excel. A message was sent to its brightest children: know your place. That is not compassion. It is control. And until Labour grasps the difference, it will keep dressing envy up as justice and calling restraint care. Ministers will feel nothing. Children will pay the price.

"Bridget Phillipson, claims the money could be better spent elsewhere. That argument collapses on contact with reality."

[Joel S @josin]

I'm on the waitlist for @perplexity_ai's new agentic browser, Comet: https://t.co/8E77bBNqW3

[Joel S @josin]

@MarkThompStuff @triggerpod Oops - should have listened to the end!

[Joel S @josin]

@MarkThompStuff @triggerpod Albion’s Seed is the clear source of his thesis. Surprised he did not acknowledge it.

[Joel S @josin]

@AllisonPearson Pointless referencing this as it is behind a paywall

[The Free Press @TheFP]

The serial rape of thousands of English girls went on for many years. Few in power cared.

Then Elon Musk started tweeting.

@DrDominicGreen on the biggest peacetime crime—and cover-up—in British history: https://t.co/lfYaMDZrAX

[Joel S @josin]

@nickdixoncomic Gonad vs. Ruffian - Dixon for the win!

[Joel S @josin]

@TheHousecarl @TheMonologist Lt-Col. Fairbairn presumably

[Joel S @josin]

@moveincircles We’re all Soviets now

[Joel S @josin]

@NatalkaKyiv What a disgusting advertisement. The Russians like to talk about the depth of their souls - some of them are very black indeed.

[Joel S @josin]

@NatalkaKyiv My wife’s cousin was killed outside Avdiivka two months ago. A very brave man - in his forties, living outside Ukraine, and with no obligation to serve, he returned in the first days of the war and enlisted. He left behind his wife and young child.

[Niall Ferguson @nfergus]

I first pointed out that we’re in Cold War II back in 2018. But it only recently struck me that in this new Cold War, we—and not the Chinese—might be the Soviets. 1/13 https://t.co/Zwxj3ChLLb

[Joel S @josin]

@simonmontefiore Yitzhak Rabin and King Hussein - strange to think they were more optimistic times

[Joel S @josin]

@chinarhyming I remember the ceiling of the banking hall - what a tragedy that was not preserved.

[Joel S @josin]

@edwest A bit long in the tooth - The Enigma of Japanese Power

[Joel S @josin]

@TheRestHistory You omitted to mention that the headmaster at Wellington College who had barbed wire put on top of cubicles to prevent “beastliness” was Edward White Benson who subsequently became the Archbishop of Canterbury

[Joel S @josin]

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