the sentinal

enjoying life. a new chapter.

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

The fact he had never heard of Rhiannon Whyte is a disgrace.

But not surprising.

Labour are totally out of touch with the country.

[5Pillars @5Pillarsuk]

Ladybird Books has published a Happy Pride image on Instagram featuring a Muslim woman in hijab.

Ladybird is one of the UK's biggest children's books publishers and its books are read by kids as young as two.

The image features a Muslim woman in hijab carrying a baby alongside another woman.

A caption reads: "Everyone should be free to be themselves, no matter who they are or who they love."

Homosexual acts are strictly forbidden in Islam.

[Helen Dale (not on your team, but always fair) @_HelenDale]

Everything about this is objectively hilarious.

Popcorn, please.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

“George Floyd looked like me.”
David Lammy.
But those of us who look like Henry Nowak aren’t supposed to mind police programmed by the Lammy class treating white person with disdain in his dying moments?

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

What the hell is @ZackPolanski doing wearing a shirt to free the Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti who murdered 5 civilians. This is TOO FAR.

h/t @habibi_uk

[the sentinal @youseethisguy]

@visegrad24 This is true. Per grok.

Context shows common practice with tension: Street prayers happen when crowds exceed mosque capacity, but they spark debate over blocking public roads versus religious freedom, as seen in past Philly events and similar incidents elsewhere.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

🇺🇸 Muslim worshippers praying on the streets of Philadelphia

The city is home to around 82 mosques and Islamic centers. It is sometimes referred to as the “Mecca of the West.”

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

DC liberals complain that they miss the old color of the Reflecting Pool (algae green):

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

16 year old Mernda Aussie teen Declan was hunted by a Sudanese youth gang then stabbed 56 times and he received 66 blunt force injuries.

One of Declan's African killers was released because he was deemed too young to take responsibility for murder.

In 2025, the animal took part in an aggravated home invasion in Gladstone Park, Melbourne that saw a 60-year-old man stabbed countless times, shot in the arm & bashed repeatedly with a hammer.

[GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE @GOP_is_Gutless]

🚨 SOCIALIST SEATTLE MAYOR CRIES as Largest Bagel Franchise OFFICIALLY Shuts Down For Good! 🔥 👉

After 25 years and serving over 7 million bagels, Blazing Bagels — Seattle’s iconic local chain with 5 locations — has collapsed. Employees were stunned when they received a sudden email Thursday night: effective immediately, all locations closed, no warning, no severance.

The family business survived recessions and a pandemic, but couldn’t survive Seattle’s crushing $21.30 minimum wage, skyrocketing taxes, and anti-business policies. With downtown office vacancy at a record 35.6%, more restaurants are shuttering while Mayor Katie Wilson responds to fleeing businesses with one word: “Bye.”

Hardworking employees are now jobless, and communities are losing beloved institutions.

Is this the final warning for Seattle’s economy?
#SeattleCollapse #BlazingBagels #SocialistFailure

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Lewis Hamilton has called for a wealth cap despite being one of the highest-paid athletes in sport, having an estimated net worth of £412 million, and living in Monaco, where he avoids UK taxes.

[the sentinal @youseethisguy]

Also, to respond to ‘get a grip’ who posts and blocks….

That’s an impressive amount of academic-sounding prose, but it largely sidesteps the central question: how much of Nordic success is actually transferable?

You accuse me of misrepresenting your argument, yet your entire essay rests on the assumption that Britain can meaningfully improve outcomes by importing selected Nordic policies. The burden is on you to demonstrate that those policies are the decisive factor rather than one factor among many. Pointing to a correlation between Nordic institutions and Nordic outcomes does not establish causation.

You dismiss culture, social trust, family stability, and civic norms as “static explanations,” but nobody claimed they were static. The point is that they are real and powerful variables. The Nordic countries consistently rank among the highest-trust societies on Earth. That matters. Welfare systems are easier to sustain when people broadly trust each other, trust institutions, work at high rates, and comply with social norms. You acknowledge these factors, but then repeatedly return to policy as the lever that matters most. That is an assumption, not a demonstrated fact.

You also downplay the significance of immigration and integration problems. Nobody argued that immigration alone explains every social outcome. What was argued is that rapid demographic change, when poorly integrated, can place pressure on social cohesion, schools, housing, welfare systems, and public safety. Sweden’s gang violence problems did not emerge from nowhere. The fact that Nordic countries still outperform Britain on some aggregate indicators does not mean those challenges are trivial or irrelevant.

More fundamentally, your argument suffers from survivorship bias. You highlight Nordic successes while largely ignoring their advantages that Britain cannot easily reproduce: smaller populations, historically cohesive societies, lower population density, different constitutional traditions, and in Norway’s case enormous resource wealth. If those factors matter—as you admit they do—then confidence in policy transfer should be much lower than your essay suggests.

And this is where your position becomes contradictory. Whenever Nordic success is discussed, policy receives the credit. Whenever Nordic problems are discussed, the explanation suddenly becomes “complex” and “multifactorial.” Success is attributed to institutions; failures are attributed to everything else. That’s not analysis. It’s a tendency to privilege one explanation when it supports your preferred conclusion.

Finally, spare me the lecture about anonymity. If your argument is as strong as you think it is, it should stand on its own merits. Resorting to insinuations about motives and anonymous accounts is usually what happens when someone wants to attack the person because the argument itself isn’t carrying enough weight. The facts either support your case or they don’t. The identity of your critic is irrelevant.

[the sentinal @youseethisguy]

That’s not what I said. The claim was not that the Nordic countries are homogeneous today. The claim was that many of their institutions, social norms, and unusually high levels of social trust developed during long periods when they were far more culturally and ethnically homogeneous than Britain is now.

Sweden’s recent immigration levels actually strengthen my point rather than refute it. The reason immigration, integration, segregation, gang violence, and social trust have become major political issues in Sweden is precisely because the country has changed dramatically from the society that originally built the Nordic model. Even many Swedish politicians, academics, and journalists acknowledge that integration has become one of the country’s most difficult policy challenges.

More importantly, no serious scholar argues that Nordic success is explained solely by welfare spending. Researchers commonly cite a combination of factors: strong family structures, high social trust, low corruption, civic norms, educational attainment, work ethic, and effective institutions. The debate is about how much these cultural and historical factors matter—not whether they exist.

Calling this “nativist nonsense” is an attempt to shut down the discussion rather than engage with it. One can support immigration while still recognizing that large-scale demographic change creates integration challenges and can affect social trust, housing demand, school performance, crime patterns, and public services. That isn’t a right-wing talking point; it’s a mainstream observation acknowledged across much of Europe.

The irony is that if diversity and immigration levels are completely irrelevant to social outcomes, then they cannot be cited as evidence that the Nordic model is easily transferable to Britain either. You can’t simultaneously argue that Nordic success is a product of policy choices alone and dismiss any discussion of the historical, cultural, and demographic conditions under which those policies evolved.

[Amy Mek @AmyMek]

Islamization of America...

"Halaltramck", Michigan: America's First City Conquered by Islam – Now a Full Sharia Enclave on U.S. Soil

Once a classic American working-class town, Hamtramck has been completely conquered by Islam.

It is now ruled by an all-Muslim, all-male City Council and Mayor Adam Alharbi.

Every key position - mayor, council, city manager, police chief - is held by Muslim men.

Arabic is the dominant language in streets, police recruitment, traffic signs, public meetings, and campaign materials.

The department posts “Eid Mubarak” with officers in hijabs.

Massive Eid carnivals, Ramadan lights, and proclamations celebrating the Yemeni Revolution dominate city life.

They even renamed part of Holbrook Avenue to “Palestine Avenue.”

Businesses run as a parallel Islamic economy - stores, pharmacies, and offices function almost exclusively in Arabic.

Taxpayer-funded halal operations and religious animal sacrifices are now the norm.

This is civilizational jihad: parallel governance, parallel culture, parallel law enforcement, and a parallel economy flying foreign flags on American soil.

Hamtramck is no longer an American city.

It is a fully formed Sharia enclave — the direct result of unchecked Islamic migration and total refusal to assimilate.

Wake up, America.

This is OUR future if we don’t stop the invasion!

[H A Y L E Y @Gruodis80]

On a Instagram live yesterday Bobby Singh confirms he stands with Henry Nowak’s killer because he’s Sikh and that’s code of conduct in the Sikh brotherhood. No different to the Muslim terrorism & rape apologists. Religious tribalism above country and what’s morally right.

[Rafe Heydel-Mankoo @RafHM]

The Bank of England DELIBERATELY FIXED the fake "public vote" to remove ALL historical figures from bank notes & replace them with nature images

Freedom of Information requests by the Telegraph reveal the decision to remove historical figures was based on a "focus group" of a mere 119 people

The Bank LIED because it previously claimed the decision was based on a "public vote".

In truth, however, even this vote was FIXED. Instead of having HISTORY v NATURE, the bank deliberately split the "history" category into 3 sections: historical events, historical figures, architecture & landmarks.

That was the only way that "nature" could win.

However, of course bank notes always combine at least two of those history categories. For example: Churchill & Parliament or Wellington & Waterloo.

The Bank's actions are indefensible and questions should be asked in the House.

The Bank of England has clearly been captured by progressive woke ideology. A visit to the Bank of England with its permanent exhibition on slavery makes that clear

This is part of the wider war on British history. It's an attempt to create a NEW BRITAIN, based on ridiculous myths that "Diversity Built Britain" and that Britain has always been multicultural.

Remember: the Bank of England issued a 50p coin (held aloft by Rishi Sunak) which was imprinted with the nonsensical statement: "Diversity Built Britain"

Anyone who lived behind the Iron Curtain will find all of this eerily and scarily familiar.

The pulling down of statues, the renaming of streets and schools, the rewriting of history, denigrating heroes, changing bank notes etc....these were all tactics of the communists.

Severing the connection between a people and their history is the best way to demoralise a society and prepare them for the imposition of new myths.

Me on @GBNews:

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Top British attorney Natasha Hausdorff dismantled the Palestinian narrative with cold historical facts.

There was never a sovereign Arab state called “Palestine.” The British Mandate of Palestine was simply British administration over the historic Land of Israel after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

Jews lived continuously in the land for centuries — including under Ottoman rule, when they formed the majority in Jerusalem. Before 1909, Tel Aviv was empty desert legally purchased by Jews, who built it from nothing. No Arabs were displaced.

After the British handed the mandate to the UN, the Arab world rejected the partition plan and launched a war to destroy the Jewish state. Arab armies and local militias tried to “push the Jews into the sea.” At the same time, Arab countries ethnically cleansed their ancient Jewish communities, forcing nearly a million Jews to flee to Israel.

During the war, Arab leaders ordered local Arabs to evacuate combat zones so their armies could annihilate the Jews. Many of those who left later became permanent “refugees” under Egyptian and Jordanian control.

Israel has never committed genocide — and never will. By defending itself, it prevents another holocaust.

Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Islamic regime of Iran are the real obstacles to peace in the Middle East.

Retweet if you support Israel’s right to exist and defend itself.

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

Two days after Henry died Hampshire Police secretly recorded Digwa in a police van speaking Punjabi to his brother. Digwa admitted stabbing Henry. Discussed claiming self defence. Made zero mention of racial abuse. Not one word.

Hampshire Police had that tape.

They knew Digwa was lying about the racist attack. They had the evidence. They had his own words and then tried to smear Henry as the aggressor anyway.

Three days after his death their statement read “it was reported two men had been assaulted by an unknown man.” Henry was the unknown man. The boy bleeding out on the street. They flipped it.

Family complained. Statement changed. Then police told the family their NEXT update would again infer Henry was the initial aggressor. His family had to fight them a second time. While grieving their murdered son.

Then during the trial Hampshire tried to issue a statement telling the public to stop talking about it online. Calling it disinformation. The CPS had to step in. Told them they were about to collapse their own murder case.

This is the force that handcuffed a dying boy. Missed the murder weapon twice. Had a secret tape proving the killer lied. And still tried to bury Henry's name.

That's not incompetence. That's a machine protecting itself. At the expense of a dead boy's reputation and three officers are still on active duty. Not suspended. Treated as witnesses. To their own actions.

Hampshire Police didn't just fail Henry on that street. They kept failing him for six months after he died.

- @Banksycat

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

British police have failed their own people for far too long.

Here is one shocking example:
During a pro-Hamas terror rally in central London, a British police officer threatened to arrest a visibly Jewish man — ordering him to leave the area immediately because his Jewish identity might “upset” the Muslim protesters.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

When I was little, my mother pointed to a policeman wearing the old-fashioned helmet and said I must always find a PC if I was frightened or in trouble.
How many parents today would recommend their kid trust a police officer?
What a tragic decline thanks to a mad DEI cult.