I'm getting predictably wound up by stupid attacks on the UK as failing. People who can't remember endless strikes, over 3 million unemployed, rampant football hooliganism, crime rates a multiple of current levels, desolate inner cities, pensioner poverty, actual race riots need some perspective 1/
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Happily re-learning the value of expertise, courtesy, and humour after the barking years.
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It makes you rethink connections, too - a station like Farringdon was a very occasional stop but is now essential for connecting to other lines.
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And here's the full-on text of JD Vance's Jul 4 weekend speech at the Claremont Institute, offering an unrestrained vision of authoritarian ethnonationalist future America that rejects the Declaration of Independence. americanmind.org/salvo/americ...
American Statesmanship for the Golden Age
We should demand that our people, whether first- or tenth-generation Americans, have gratitude for this country.
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Brexit was an attempted counter-revolution against many of the changes this country has gone through since 1945. It has turned out to be a failure with elements of farce. This has driven many people on the Right completely mad.
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Congratulations to Nottingham Forest, who have just been awarded the Community Shield by UEFA.
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The government may need to look into proscribing X if Elon Musk can not contain calls for terrorist violence
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Karl: The transformation has been gradual and unmistakable.
By February, some golden urns on the mantle.
April, gold adornments appear on the walls.
By July, it's gold everywhere.
Just this week more scaffolding popped up, even more new gold trim appeared.
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The same number was run in the US in 2024 to draw away votes from the Democrats, playing on people's emotions to get a result entirely at odds with what they want.
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What unites all factions on the Trumpist Right is the belief that a “leftist” revolution has already taken place, the radical “Left” has taken over the major institutions of American life. As there is nothing left to conserve, nothing short of a radical “counter-revolution” can save the nation.
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