...looks like another 'Guardian' article trying to drum up sympathy for criminals might have inadvertantly provided us with the answer:
Nicol and Mooney grew up in a chaotic household in London. Their mother had six children and, Mooney says, terrible taste in men, who were unreliable at best. Her and Nicol’s father was from Saudi Arabia and left their mother when she was pregnant with Mooney. As a family, they stood out: “We were all different colours. Me and Tommy are brown, we have a white sister and the dads of my two younger brothers and sister are Jamaican.” They moved from home to home, sometimes living in refuges, escaping the violent men in their mother’s life.
And yet, despite similar upbringing, the two couldn't be more different.
Mooney lives with her husband and two boys in a stylish, modern house, but asks me not to disclose the location because she has been attacked in the past for her campaigning. She looks around and says it couldn’t be more different from her and Nicol’s childhood. Her husband, a marketing executive, has done well for himself. As has she. Mooney taught nursery and primary schoolchildren before becoming an education adviser and academic.
She's a campaigner for her brother, the recidivist career criminal who the courts finally lost patience with and imposed a 99 year sentence to give the public some reprieve from his petty crimes.
She thinks about the life Nicol could have led. “That’s what makes me so angry. The education system, the prison system; it’s all geared towards damaging the most damaged.”
As usual, no sympathy for the victims of her brother's depredations.
Alt-media boggers and vloggers have hobbyhorses which seize on parts of the truth … there’s no argument once you look at the accumulated cases, but then they quietly skip past an inconvenient part that doesn’t suit their own current high horse, it’s not part of the zeitgeist of that group or that side of politics.
An example some days back was Dutch “shieldmaiden of the right” Eva Vlaar’s speech in Budapest to a conservative forum, reported west-wide in alt-media.
Immediately this lost the left libertarians who didn’t wish to face that bit of the truth. Right libertarians were still onboard though because she spoke of The Great Replacement, which Yousaf found to his cost that the people of these isles are no way going to brook.
However, Elon’s not interested in that aspect, being a former leftist, now increasingly redpilled, not unlike Donny. But … still resisting the inconvenient, unpalatable part, he pointed to a different aspect … just as correctly, mind, it’s just as much the truth … but missing a huge chunk of the whole picture by skipping past what Eva Vlaar said, here reported by Americans for Limited Government ...
No argument about birth rates among the young, soft Millennials and Zoomers … but why is it so? Ahh … here we get to the chicken and egg … which came first? Bad parenting … or something long before that, decades before? Planned.
Well one of the answers, seldom spoken of, is below here in a video saying many different things, some from a guy, with his hobbyhorse, some from a gal, Melanie, with hers, with clips along the way from some female hedonist singer, away with the Woke fairies.
But … put all the bits and pieces together … all the observations … not just the bits people like … and the picture does start to radically alter. Bear with it, it’s amateur … but I for one trust the amateur more than the slick, with big money behind it.
And they do go on and on … nature of amateur vlogs I’m afraid …
It’s not just the ultrahedonistic modern woman wanting constant fun fun fun at breakneck pace, zero shackles on her feelings-based “reality”, her moral compass set to accept “Only Fans reality” from childhood now … but it’s also men’s reaction to it.
The man in the clip goes on about the constant assault on men but he does not address the new class of feckless male exploiters of hoe culture which ask the question … why marry THAT when there’s easy meat to poke everywhere you want now?
Why marry at all?
Well … because a society which values marriage and the brakes it puts on human behaviour sees all sorts of things start to happen within that society … from stability between the sexes … not in the deathcult way with women in binbags among the invaders but in a middling way as it was once becoming in the west … including real protections under the rule of law.
But more than that … and this is where this post loses those who won’t accept even the slightest curbs on their me me me … would they buy this part? 👇🏻
… I’d say many would flatly reject the next …
That’s right where we are now. Formerly, there was at least underlying lip service almost everyone but the communists paid to the ideals underpinning the west, the heritage … love thy neighbour, faith, hope, charity etc. etc. … most said yeah right and continued to live relatively freely, but the very nature of westernism involved all sorts of elements, including TS Eliot’s unpopular reminder.
If you ditch any part of those elements, e.g. classical learning, sense of history, freedoms which we support at OoL … you lose westernism.
Which comes back to Eva Vlaar and the Great Replacement PLUS the rabbit-like breeding rate of the invader since the 50s, accelerating of late. When that’s only exacerbated by the things said in that video … then the demise comes upon the west far more suddenly.
As Elon and commentators say … it’s just mathematics.
Were the young marrying and breeding because society once again coerced them to through incentives … two parents in their affordable home, two or more children … some exceptions of course, natch, but on the whole if it were the paradigm … then the west would not be swamped in one generation but maybe only after two or three, by which time things may have been righted.
You think they can possibly be righted whilst the hoe culture is still right out of control and children are being taught all this in primary school? Plus rainbow culture, pronouns, body mutilation carried out by Tavistock whilst Planned Parenthood wreaks its own hell with baby murder as a lifestyle choice.
This girl below, of exactly the age which might be marrying and creating families … is one of the lone voices today amongst late Millennials-early Zoomers … at least she still has access to YT and the net. She rants on and on as vloggers do, oft repeating her thoughts … but everything she says though … to my mind is a very large part of the truth … a most inconvenient truth.
The next question is how to put it into practice? How to reverse the malaise?
After the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge last month, it fell to Baltimore’s mayor, Brandon Scott, to explain the disaster and outline the next steps. But as online clips of the 39-year-old Democrat in his city of Baltimore varsity jacket began circulating, the conversation around the bridge collapse shifted from Scott’s emergency management strategy to his skin color. “This is Baltimore’s DEI mayor,” read one viral X post panning Scott, who is Black. “It’s going to get so, so much worse. Prepare accordingly.”
Before long the Maryland governor, Wes Moore, and port commissioner, Karenthia Barber, were also attacked as DEI agents and blamed for what maritime authorities have repeatedly described as a shipping accident.
“The far right has really taken these ideas to an extreme and are not really worried about seeming racist,” says Natasha Warikoo, a sociologist at Tufts University and researcher of racial and ethnic inequality in education. “They are loud and proud of their views.”
DEI – short for diversity, equity and inclusion (or as has been said on Twitter: "Didn't Earn It") – has become the latest dog-whistle term in the conservative war of words to frame basic egalitarianism as a net negative.
The word DEI follows in the ignominious tradition of progressive vocabulary that has been weaponized against the left, with its original ideas and context replaced with a familiar theme – white replacement theory.
Progressive vocabulary doesn't really have a tradition to traduce, does it? Since it seems to be one long whine about 'unfairness'. And the effect it's having on those who gained their position through merit is undeniable:
“Ben Carson was one of the all-time great surgeons,” crowed Floyd Brown, Senate campaign chair for the Republican firebrand Kari Lake. “Yet now, because of DEI, when you see a Black surgeon, you get a question in your mind. What you want, is you want the Blacks that are on top, that do succeed, to be there on their merit.”
That's indeed what you should want. So why try to muddy the waters?
Not expecting this to go down well, even with the antiWoke ... we're still talking deportation. Why?
They'll only return, plus the punishment needs to be commensurate with the crime. This crime below was always capital ... not stealing food, not hurty words ... this is not even bestial ... at least beasts have their own codes.
Look at the punishment the deathcult itself metes out ... you've seen the cages and the fires.
Too early? All right, yes, it turns us monstrous, agreed. However ... consider the millions who've invaded and who are vastly outbreeding us. It's not just for Biden or Starmer to have more votes, this thing ... it's the nucleus of the globo-psycho army, innit? Remember the pogroms of Darfur, under UN "observers' " eyes.
By all means reject this action for now. When events suddenly change, I'll suggest it once again.
Emma Beddington takes issue with US celebrities having the temerity to ... enjoy a visit to the UK. Yes. Really.
What do they see that we don’t in this island where ecologically dead rivers run with sewage, three in 10 children live in poverty and 1 million experience destitution? A Ukrainian woman returned to her “very dangerous” war-torn home town to access adequate dental treatment. It’s not like our problems are well-hidden. Surely Parker read the New Yorker’s depressingly comprehensive recent piece about 2024 Britain: the “worst period for wage growth since the Napoleonic wars”; stalled life expectancy; the return of rickets. How can you be “deeply in love” with that?
Because it's my country right or wrong, Emma.
It’s easy to be charmed by difference, I suppose. When my American friend visited, she got the full baptism of British fire: LNER trains, weather, heart-in-mouth driving on rough, single-lane roads, a bizarre encounter with some Richard III, erm, eccentrics and unwelcoming pubs peopled with ominously silent men. She loved it (except our road collision with a “garbage can”).
What a pity you can't. Or won't.
Crucially, too, A-list anglophiles can live in a perfect British bubble they have the means to maintain: Ted Lasso’s London of charming stuccoed houses and chirpy pub-goers; country idylls in Cornwall or the Cotswolds. Their 1% experience has little – basically nothing – in common with life for households on the UK’s average income of £32,500.
We are truly in the pit of national despair, understandably, and I wonder if it’s helpful to see through their eyes that there are good bits of Britain: Rob Delaney calling the NHS “the pinnacle of human achievement”, say, or Parker being thrilled by London’s diversity.
I think personally I'd choose very different 'good bits' to those.
It’s hard not to fixate on how awful everything is, so I appreciate being reminded that there are still things worth fighting for, if only because that is a more productive feeling than hopelessness.
It seems you like to wallow in hopelessness, though.
On the British Commonwealth ANZAC Day (April 25th), there’s a flood of issues washing over and past us … this is one affecting the UK as far as trade and govt agreements go … guess one of the evil Brit muvvers working towards this? Yep, Pigboy Dave, Grand Chatham House Rejoinist.
As X becomes the premier news and views exchange platform for those not tik-tokked or whatever else the young lefties use, so X comes under heavyweight fire and certain layouts and practices have crept in, been introduced, including shadow banning, outright banning and if opposed, as it’s a big player, then when reinstated, it’s minus 600k followers (in the case of Radio G).
My explanation is that it might be Musk, maybe not. His focus is on many things, inc. Space X and Brazil, and so someone or something like AI deputises. Much was made of 70% plus of the Dorsey Woke departing but that still leaves 30% and the Dorsey rump are not in the menial areas.
It makes treatment of issues in any serious way difficult and this is one of those:
It’s a drop in the ocean whilst we’re distracted by another drop in the ocean … five illegals killed yesterday by fellow illegals, all who paid money on the French side of the channel for a place in a dinghy … the dinghy racket allowed and abetted by both UK and French govt, using the help of the navies, plus bodies such as the RNLI, volunteers with CEOs and HQs on big money … fake charities.
The redacting reorganisation at X does not help bring any issues in depth … rather news “bites” … which people then base views on in lieu of something in more depth.
Given the sheer number of issues we’re flooded with, is it any wonder many slip by unscrutinised, esp. on four or five person blogs where the main redactor has the same overall sleep issue as many others do.
As must be fairly obvious, either from my photo, or my Online Name, I am a Pensioner. And as a Pensioner, I watched, with some perturbation, as the time drew close towards the latter part of last year, when the calculations are made which determine what kind of rise the normal State Pension would be.
As it turned out, the increase was calculated to be just over 8%, which made a significant bump in the Pension payments to people such as myself.
And lo and behold, as from the 1st of April, the 8% extra small but significant slice came automatically into my bank account. For which I am duly grateful.
But here’s the ‘Suspect’ bit. I shop at only one supermarket, and my purchases, these months and weeks, tend to be much the same in most minor things, with the occasional bump when, say, an appliance needs replacement. I also, possibly because I had to check on the spending on major contracts when still working, keep a very simple spreadsheet of my monthly spending.
Now we all, or most of us, are aware of the need to allow or account for inflation, especially for those of us on limited incomes; as we are constantly reminded by this so-called Government, that they are ‘winning’ the battle against inflation. But checking, as I can do on my basic spending, I came across something which I do feel can be labelled “Suspect”.
Since the last week in February, my weekly outgoing spending on basic necessities, has slowly but remorselessly increased to level off at 7.95% above that February total.
While the new policydoes not yet apply to all Tesco locations, employees and shoppers took to the store's Reddit page to call out the "sneaky charge being imposed".
One user said: "So, was in Tesco today, got some swimming clothes for the kids and my wife got a dress."Went through the scan as you shop and paid, went to get the tags taken off and was told it’s 10p for a clothes hanger.
"Now I work at this store, and I’ve never heard of this. I’ve also never seen anything around the store or around the clothes section.
"So either someone is trying to earn some extra dosh or it’s a sneaky charge being imposed on customers. Has anyone else had this?"
I shopped in Tesco at the weekend and obviously my local isn't in the trial, but you know what I DID see? A box where you can donate unwanted hangers for recycling.
One person responded: "Tesco charging 10p if you want to keep their hangers now! Next there will be an entrance fee."
Please don't give them ideas!
However, some agreed with the new rule with one user writing: "It’s a trial. They are trying to discourage people from taking hangers as they usually just get chucked anyway.
"If Tesco can keep them they can reuse them and therefore don’t have to produce more. Little planet-saving steps."
Then what's wrong with the box for you to leave them in?
Tesco said only a small number of stores are taking part in the trial with the brand yet to announce how many more locations will implement this idea.
They'd be mad to, it's only going to alienate customers. What the hell is wrong with retail owners these days?
Assuming that by now the stories are all known, of St George, of St Edmund, of Alfred, of Arthur, of Ethelred … assuming all that, and if not, why not … then why use a saint like George, particularly as other countries such as Sicily also do?
The answer might be that for a start … it’s a ripping story, it can galvanise, as much as can a song by an C18th English mystic:
And brave people have fought and died for her … and here’s a tale of one of those, one of the stalwarts at site N.O., Steve, retired army, inc. special units:
Recalling St. Georges Day at my junior school: the corridors and assembly hall were festooned, the national flag of England displayed on a thousand pieces of bunting. Additionally the flagpole at the centre of the quadrangle would fly the Cross of St. George for the day - the flag of Union would take the day off - and go for a wash.
