Phillip Blond

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[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Chaque fois que je parle de l'avenir de la France, on me fait la même réponse. « C'est trop tard. C'est foutu. Le pays est fini. »

Je ne suis pas d'accord. Je suis même profondément optimiste. Et je vais vous expliquer pourquoi, calmement.

Le premier problème, c'est qu'on pense de manière linéaire alors qu'on vit sur une exponentielle. Notre cerveau projette le futur au rythme du passé. Si quelque chose a mis vingt ans à se dégrader, on suppose qu'il faudra vingt ans pour le réparer. C'est faux. Le monde accélère. Ce qui prenait des années prend des mois. Ce qui prenait des mois prend des semaines. Une équipe de dix personnes équipée d'IA livre aujourd'hui ce qu'une administration de dix mille agents ne livre pas en dix ans.

Le deuxième problème, c'est qu'on s'est habitué à la lenteur. Et cette lenteur n'est pas une loi de la nature. C'est un choix.

Un principe explique tout : la loi de Parkinson. L'historien britannique Cyril Northcote Parkinson l'a formulée en 1955 dans The Economist : le travail s'étend jusqu'à occuper tout le temps disponible. Donnez dix ans à une administration pour construire un pont, elle mettra dix ans. Donnez-lui deux ans avec une obligation de résultat, elle trouvera un chemin. Le délai ne mesure pas la difficulté d'un problème. Il mesure le niveau d'exigence de ceux qui le traitent.

Nos projections sont donc faussées dès le départ, parce qu'on les fait avec le rythme actuel. Et le rythme actuel, c'est celui d'un pays qui tourne depuis cinquante ans sur un software socialiste. Un système qui récompense la conformité plutôt que la performance, la procédure plutôt que le résultat, l'ancienneté plutôt que le talent. Un système qui promeut la médiocrité à tous les étages. Quand la médiocrité devient la norme, la lenteur devient la norme. Et on finit par croire que c'est ça, le réel.

Ce n'est pas le réel. C'est un logiciel. Et un logiciel, ça se change.

Imaginez demain à la tête de l'État une équipe qui sait construire. Qui sait mettre les bonnes personnes aux bons endroits. Qui pense en systèmes plutôt qu'en communiqués. Qui sait orchestrer, arbitrer, trancher. Qui fixe un cap et s'y tient. Des gens qui ont créé des entreprises, livré des produits, tenu des budgets, recruté, échoué, recommencé. Pas des gens qui savent paraître. Des gens qui savent faire.

Avec une équipe comme ça, je suis convaincu qu'en six à vingt-quatre mois, l'essentiel peut basculer.

Vous pensez que je rêve ? Regardez ailleurs.

Le Salvador était l'un des pays les plus dangereux du monde. Les gangs tenaient des territoires entiers. En quelques années, Bukele a fait s'effondrer le taux d'homicides et transformé le pays en l'un des plus sûrs d'Amérique latine. Tout le monde disait que c'était impossible.

L'Argentine était le cas d'école du naufrage socialiste. Inflation délirante, déficits chroniques, un pays riche ruiné par des décennies de péronisme. Milei arrive avec sa tronçonneuse, et en à peine plus d'un an l'inflation mensuelle s'écroule et l'État dégage son premier excédent budgétaire depuis plus d'une décennie. Tout le monde disait que c'était impossible.

Et la France part de beaucoup plus haut que ces deux pays. Une épargne parmi les plus élevées du monde. Des ingénieurs parmi les meilleurs. Un parc nucléaire. Une langue, un patrimoine, une culture que la planète entière envie. Un siège permanent au Conseil de sécurité. Nous ne sommes pas un pays pauvre. Nous sommes un pays riche mal géré. Et un pays riche mal géré, c'est la meilleure situation de redressement qui existe.

Reste la question que tout le monde a en tête : l'immigration.

Là aussi, je suis optimiste. Parce que la France a déjà la réponse. Elle l'a même inventée. Ça s'appelle l'assimilation.

Le deal historique de la France n'a jamais été le multiculturalisme victimaire. Ce n'était pas « reste ce que tu es, et la France te doit réparation ». C'était « viens, deviens français, et la France t'offrira tout ». La langue, l'école, l'égalité devant la loi, la possibilité de devenir n'importe qui. Ce deal a fait des Français de millions d'Italiens, de Polonais, d'Espagnols, de Portugais, d'Arméniens, de Maghrébins, d'Africains. Des Français qui aiment ce pays parfois plus fort que ceux qui y sont nés.

Il y a aujourd'hui des millions de Français issus de l'immigration qui sont la preuve vivante que ce deal fonctionne. Ils doivent beaucoup à la France, et la France leur doit beaucoup. Médecins, soldats, profs, entrepreneurs, ingénieurs. Ce sont eux les premiers trahis par le multiculturalisme victimaire, parce qu'il les enferme dans un rôle de victime alors qu'ils ont choisi d'être français.

Le vrai problème, c'est un État qui a cessé d'exiger quoi que ce soit, et une petite minorité violente qui l'a parfaitement compris. Remettez de l'autorité. Appliquez la loi sans trembler. Rendez à l'école sa mission de transmission. Assumez à nouveau de demander l'adhésion à la France. Cette minorité se calmera bien plus vite qu'on ne le croit, parce que l'impunité est un carburant, et qu'un robinet, ça se ferme.

Alors non, ce n'est pas foutu. Ce qui aurait pris quinze ans au XXe siècle peut prendre un ou deux ans au XXIe. La pente se remonte, et elle se remonte vite, dès qu'on arrête de confier le volant à ceux qui l'ont descendue.

La France a tout pour repartir. Il ne lui manque que des bâtisseurs aux commandes.

Ils arrivent.

[Alexandre Devecchio @AlexDevecchio]

Les habitants des banlieues ne se résument pas aux jeunes gens qui jettent de l’acide, cassent des camions de pompiers et se cagoulent pour manifester. Il y a aussi des lycéens dont les parents se lèvent tôt et qui font des efforts essentiels.

Si je suis très hostile au mouvement en cours et à la manière dont il est mené, c’est aussi parce que je suis sincèrement soucieux du sort de ces quartiers-là. Les militants professionnels qui gravitent autour d’eux ne font que les desservir et les invisibiliser.

[Phillip Blond @Phillip_Blond]

Will become an increasingly popular sentiment and solution

[Ben Raho 🇪🇺 🚲 @BenAntRaho]

Europe is now full of millions of young men, who are economically useless, resentful, lack any civic culture, education, self reflection or empathy, raised on TikTok pranks, sports gambling, Gangsta rap & victim culture.

Indiscriminate violence against society and its institutions has become the only means to break out of the monotony of poverty and every day misery. So any opportunity and exuse - Palestine, football matches, school funding, whatever - will be used to destroy things.

The state has poured significant resources into them, and while the Left always argues it wasn't enough, it never will be enough, because - on average - they largely completely lack the skills, mindset and interest to break out of the cycle of misery & violence. In the worst of cases, this propensity for random violence is then funnelled into Islamism, organised crime etc. further tearing apart society.

Sure, social work, education, will help a little - but the only thing that will realistically improve the situation will be state force and long term mass-incarceration, for the protection of the rest of society.

[Phillip Blond @Phillip_Blond]

The mob is aways at the door of civilisation but we opened it

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Young second and third-generation migrants film a French firefighter after setting him on fire during the school protests in Bordeaux

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[The Spectator @spectator]

Last October, a man named Wayne Broadhurst was stabbed to death by an Afghan migrant in a quiet street in Uxbridge while walking his dog.

It was precisely the sort of random, senseless killing of an innocent member of the public that would once have prompted weeks of discussion and national soul-searching. It emerged that the migrant had lied about his age, but had – inevitably – been given asylum and free accommodation.

Yet the murder wasn't prominently featured in many newspapers; nor was it mentioned in the Commons that week. To date, Broadhurst has only been mentioned once in parliament, by shadow home secretary Chris Philp commenting on the government's silence.

Part of the problem is the media itself. The BBC often covers these stories only very belatedly, or as a minor local item. This matters because the BBC website is by a wide margin the country's most-read online news source so its sluggishness has an outsize impact on awareness.

However, there is also a sense of profound weariness among the public when confronted with obvious indicators of national decline. If they've heard of these things at all, many perceive reacting to them as either 'low status' or not worth the effort.

✍️ Madeline Grant

Article | https://t.co/ePvMbKPAam | @Madz_Grant

[Steven Edginton @StevenEdginton]

EXCLUSIVE: Tan Ikram, deputy chief magistrate, is an adviser to a Pakistani organisation that referred to “so-called ‘grooming gangs’” and called Suella Braverman’s comments about British-Pakistani gangs “reprehensible”.

My investigation reveals:

• He targeted Bradford to encourage Pakistani lawyers to become judges: “[Bradford has] lots and lots of Pakistani practitioners… I specifically went there to reach out to that particular group of lawyers.”

• He is listed as an adviser to the British Pakistan Foundation, which attacked Braverman over her grooming-gang comments and condemned the “collective punishment of the Palestinians” following October 7. Ikram spared three women punishment for a terrorism offence involving paraglider images.

• Grooming gang survivor Fiona Goddard called his association with the foundation “deeply concerning”, asking: “Why is a senior judge connected to such a partisan group?”

• He helped organise a meeting between judges and senior imams at the Old Bailey.

• He sits on the Judicial Appointments Commission and has helped edit the guidance judges use on race and cultural differences.

• He said he used his ethnicity as “a bit of an advantage” in his legal career. He also said his mother “today doesn’t really speak English”, despite coming to Britain in the early 1960s.

I’ve examined his speeches, interviews, links to Pakistani and Muslim groups and rulings.

Read the full investigation:

https://t.co/jkFpOedxZ6

[John Ivison @IvisonJ]

The behaviour of the Irish football team against Israel today is not the first time they have courted political controversy. In 1939, the whole team gave Nazi salutes when they played the Germans.
https://t.co/VvEgtSZOwE

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

A new low. Shameful, moronic, negligent, inept, naive, cynical self destructive, legalistically lethal & ideological capture suicidal sanctimony.
Brilliant reporting @Gabriel_Pogrund @thetimes as with other cases recently by brilliant legacy media which unlike tainted tv-news is doing admirable service. Hamas terrorist given visa & anonymity then gathers arms to plan attacks on Jews. Who made these decisions? This isnot just this inept cynical Labour govt (see recent comments on ‘underdogs’ & ‘doing good’) but also recent Tory govts & civilservice all captured by a pious legalistic ideology that doesnt reflect reality and uses our law & kindness against our national security and the safety of civilians and our own poeple.

UK gave citizenship to Hamas chief’s guard, then he ‘plotted terror’

https://t.co/JlO1MavgSG

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

This is a proper WTAF story. This country has a death wish. Stop letting in Islamists and people likely to support them. It’s really not terribly complicated.

In this case a judge gave a Hamas man 100 years of anonymity before it was challenged by the Sunday Times. Utterly retarded. The courts are a conspiracy against the nation.

Indefinite leave to remain granted under Theresa May as Home Secretary. Ye Gods.

Read it and weep

[Diridol_ @Diridol__]

La revolución francesa asesinó a más mujeres solo por ser religiosas en 3 años (cientos de ellas) que todos los procesos de brujería del santo oficio español en 300 años (6).

[Sohrab Ahmari 🇺🇸 @SohrabAhmari]

Why Texas is at war with Islam.

This is the sharpest analysis of the Lone Star culture war I’ve read anywhere.

https://t.co/5EbxLSSTlI

[Intercollegiate Studies Institute @ISI]

“Fault Lines” came to Villanova! Students gathered for a watch party of our latest debate, featuring @CurtMills and @Phillip_Blond on the resolution: “Empire Is Bad for America.” It was a great evening of students engaging with competing ideas about American power, foreign policy, and the role of empire in the modern world.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

No one asks for reparations from, say, China (which did not abolish slavery until 1910) or Ethiopia (1942) or Saudi Arabia (1962). You know why? Because they don't encourage the shake-down artists.

[Intercollegiate Studies Institute @ISI]

Is empire bad for America?

In this installment, @CurtMills and @Phillip_Blond debate whether America's global power and network of alliances protect American prosperity and security or entangle the country in costly wars and commitments that no longer serve its interests.

Moderated by @sarahhgustafson.

(0:00) Opening Highlights
(0:37) Opening Remarks
(1:07) Curt Mills: The Case Against Empire
(4:16) Phillip Blond: The Case for Empire
(7:01) Is American Empire Bad for Americans?
(11:58) Liberal Hegemony vs. Empire
(15:06) Does Empire Preserve Peace?
(20:46) Isolationism, Autarky & Christianity
(25:19) Can America Opt Out of Empire?
(30:58) Pax Americana & the Power of Allies
(35:25) Nationalism vs. Empire
(40:30) Do Alliances Make America Stronger?
(46:03) Greenland & American Hegemony
(49:16) China, Taiwan & a Multipolar World
(55:23) Venezuela, China & American Power
(1:01:20) Can America Confront China Without Allies?
(1:05:32) Should America Leave Russia & Iran Alone?
(1:10:39) Ukraine, Iran & the Politics of Intervention
(1:13:02) Is Taking Greenland Imperialism?
(1:15:37) Is Ukraine a Necessary War for the West?
(1:20:45) Was America Founded as an Empire?
(1:23:57) Empire, Political Liberty & the Administrative State
(1:30:25) Closing Remarks

[Phillip Blond @Phillip_Blond]

Largely true

[Amir Tsarfati @beholdisrael]

Victor Davis Hanson is not Jewish. He is a renowned American classicist, military historian, author, and senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution - making his fact-based defense of Israel all the more significant.

In one of his recent interviews, Hanson gave a fascinating analysis of four accusations repeatedly made against Israel - apartheid, settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.

His conclusion was clear: These slogans collapse when confronted with historical facts.

Apartheid?

Approximately two million Arab citizens live in Israel with the right to vote, serve in parliament, study at universities, practice their religion, and participate throughout Israeli society.

Meanwhile, many of the countries accusing Israel of apartheid officially privilege Islam and severely restrict religious conversion, minority communities, and basic freedoms.

Settler colonialism?

The Jewish connection to the land of Israel is supported by nearly 4,000 years of historical, archaeological, linguistic, and biblical evidence.

The Jewish people did not arrive in their ancestral homeland as foreign colonizers. They returned to the land from which foreign empires had repeatedly expelled them.

Meanwhile, Arab armies conquered enormous portions of the Middle East and North Africa. The Ottoman conquest transformed Hagia Sophia - once the greatest church in Christendom - into a mosque. Yet those historical conquests are rarely described as settler colonialism.

Ethnic cleansing?

Where were the demonstrations when Turkey expelled Greeks from northern Cyprus and moved Turkish settlers into the occupied territory?

Where was the outrage when Azerbaijan drove more than 100,000 Armenians from their ancestral homes in Nagorno-Karabakh?

Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani were remarkably quiet.

Genocide?

When Israel was established, approximately 170,000 Arabs remained within the country. Today, around two million Arab citizens live in Israel, and the Arab share of its population has increased rather than disappeared.

Genocidal regimes do not cause the population they supposedly seek to eliminate to grow dramatically in both number and proportion.

As Hanson explained, many of those accusing Israel are projecting the sins of their own nations, movements, and histories onto one tiny, democratic Jewish state.

Why is Israel judged by a standard applied to no other nation?

The answer is becoming painfully clear - because Israel is predominantly Jewish.

Accusations may travel quickly, but historical facts still matter.

[Intercollegiate Studies Institute @ISI]

Tonight at midnight, ISI releases the third episode of its new debate series, Fault Lines. Watch on YouTube and X.

The debate:
Empire vs. Restraint: What's Best for America?
@Phillip_Blond vs. @CurtMills
Moderated by @sarahhgustafson

[Phillip Blond @Phillip_Blond]

Lucid and largely true

[Both sides of the Tweed @Dr_W_E_Bulmer]

Most European nations had a wave of romantic nationalism in the C19th, resulting in liberal-national constitutionalism, and then a wave of reactionary nationalism in the C20th, which ended in death, torture and tears, from which liberal-international constitutionalism arose. 1/

[Neil O'Brien @NeilDotObrien]

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[Dan Hitchens @ddhitchens]

To understand why the assisted suicide bill failed, start with this exchange between Danny Kruger and Kim Leadbeater.

Again and again opponents pointed out the disturbing consequences of the bill, and supporters just tried to avoid talking about them:

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

My father was in and out of mental health wards during his final years, often under a section. His treatment was sometimes terrible, especially by certain staff. The worst moment was seeing this once proud war correspondent begging my mother, in tears, not to complain again because he was always punished afterwards.