Last night, I read the entirety of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. It's a novel told in the form of letters written by a demon to another demon instructing him on ways to manipulate his "patient" to do evil.
This one quote sounded familiar.
Bloody hell. As @UnderSecPD reminds us, British MPs responded to the George Floyd protests by CALLING FOR AN ARMS EMBARGO on the US. The double standards are completely off the scale.
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Describing Islamists as conservatives is somewhat of a misnomer in the Western world. They have no interest in conserving Western traditions or civilisation. If anything, they’re Eastern theocratic revolutionaries.
This was the end of common sense and respect. The ridiculousness of this is beyond compare. Virtue signalling for a violent career criminal in the US. Starmer took the knee, the police knelt in front of often violent mobs, our historic statues ripped from the ground and tossed into rivers, our venerable ancient institutions showed cowardice and caved to woke liberals
Martin Luther King: “I have a dream that one day my children will not be judged by the colour of their skin.”
British police: “I don’t think so, mate.”
- @TheAliceSmith
Police actions aside - why is it that we had to wait for a doctor in Poland to see the autopsy report and evidence for someone to say that the handcuffing might have killed Henry Nowak?
Where are all the British medical experts on this high-profile case?
Ethiopia was never colonized.
For much of its history, it was one of the poorest countries on the continent.
Meanwhile, Vietnam was colonized by the French, devastated by decades of war, and is now on its way to serious economic prosperity.
If colonialism were the answer to why Africa is poor, Ethiopia should be rich and Vietnam should be broke. Neither is true.
Can we please retire this excuse?
This is one issue that is causing the problems with police officers. Anyone who is good or has normal views on stuff gets kicked out in favour of mad zealots or mindless drones who will blindly adhere to the whims of the mad zealots.
A thoughtful take by Tony Sewell. Most people just want fairness. The job of the police is to catch criminals and prevent crime not to address historic social harms
One of the things I think that's getting lost in the current "two tier" discussions is the growing perception that the police are more interested in culture than crime...
So five armed officers go to arrest a comedian getting off a plane (one of the few places you can be confident your "suspect" won't be armed)
Heavy handed responses to what people write on X rather than dealing with violent shoplifting
People getting shorter sentences for the worst crimes against children than for "hate" speech
Allowing pro Palestinian marches to go through Jewish communities but restricting Reform marches
Then we have politicians agitating about the "far right" when for the most part it's people saying r@pe gangs should be properly investigated and illegal immigrants shouldn't get a better standard of living with luxury hotels and same day dental care than British citizens do
Until @UKLabour recognises the real anger is because people increasingly feel the criminal justice system and so many aspects of the way the state interacts with them has become essentially unfair the anger will grow
It doesn't need stoking. People aren't angry because @Nigel_Farage told them to be. They are angry because the state isn't working and when they complain, the government essentially calls them Nazis
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