THIS, my last ‘TCW week in review’ of 2024, looks back on a year that has given cause for anger as well as for celebration. Sir Keir Starmer is getting away with a ‘cultural revolution’, a Maoist-in-all-but-name attack on the remnant middle classes. His decision last week to deny WASPI women compensation was but his latest cruelty.
As a reader’s email last week underlined: ‘I am a WASPI woman. The 17th of December was my birthday. In one year’s time I can collect my pension for the first time. Meanwhile, my husband has had his winter fuel allowance removed. We were told he could get pension credits but he can’t. Guess why. (It was the DWP that told me this.) He can’t have pension credits because I am not yet in receipt of a state pension. Work that out! Because the lockdowns shattered his business we are spending this Christmas in a cold house. We only have heat in the room we are working in. We do not put the central heating on. The rest of the house is freezing. Recently, the vicar gave me some food from the food bank. That’s how bad it is.’
Bad. Like war time deprivation. Also bad is the latest distressing ‘two-tier’ treatment of Tommy Robinson. It was not enough for them to sentence him to 18 months solitary with no daily access to fresh air or exercise, for a civil offence based on their determination to silence him in the first place. Now they have come down on his only psychological succour – communication with the outside world. His ‘admin twitter’ feed reported on Friday that any citizen journalist who visits him in prison from now on will be made to sign a gag order.
I assume this follows Dan Wootton’s visit last week. His report of Tommy’s conversation about Axel Rudakubana’s religious privileges in gaol as he awaits trial and their conversation about what Starmer and co knew all along about the real affiliations of this ‘Christian’ obviously didn’t go down too well with those on high. Yet Wootton ‘censored’ his own report to comply with ‘contempt of court’ rulings. So why this blanket order? We all know. The truth must never be told.
Tommy has now survived two months of solitary and this is where he will spend Christmas. One TCW supporter asked me to ask you, our readers, to pray for him and his family – especially over the Christmas period, which can be a bad enough time for loneliness without being in prison, cut off from freedom, family, friends and normal communication.
That wasn’t the end of ‘two tier’ justice. It was Mark Steyn who coined the term ‘diversity killings’. But last week it was an incensed and dismayed Laura Perrins I had on the other end of my email saying she had to write about the Sara Sharif case. She did. Why was Sara’s sadistic father not stopped, she asked.
Her analysis leaves no room for doubt. Sara Sharif would still be alive if the authorities and their foot soldiers had not genuflected to ‘multiculturalism’. Actually let’s be plain – if they did not fear facing up to Muslims or being accused of Islamophobia. If they had not been taught they dare not ‘interfere’ in another culture.
Another email came from Laura later in the week: ‘It is genuinely hard to keep up, remember this – woman murdered and another attempted murder on Bournemouth beach?’ Well yes, I did. You can remind yourself here. I did. Another case, all but forgotten, had finally come up in court too.
I found myself writing back, ‘Check the name of this “criminology student” and look at his photo and don’t tell me he wasn’t as high as a kite.’ That, cannabis psychosis or being stoned, is the other great unmentionable the authorities and the newspapers won’t go into let alone come down on.
I am well aware drug abuse is a home-grown problem too. Check out the drug-addicted depravity behind this second vile and brutal murder of an innocent child, in court this week. The Government won’t. Nor will their liberal progressive mouthpieces in the MSM. No, they are too busy bothering about ‘misgendering’, ‘hate crime’ and ‘misinformation’ – all of which they spend ££££s on. That’s what they spend their time watching out for. Not for the terrified and terrorised children like Sara and baby Isabella at risk from sadists and drug addicts.
This government is worse than blind. Maybe they take active delight in rubbing our faces in it? The MSM too. The report of the convicted terrorist last week who sued a pub for its ‘deeply offensive’ sign shouted out at me. Another weird sort of gaslighting. Why’s he here in the first place, was my immediate reaction. But not the paper’s. Where was the outrage or campaign to deport him? Nowhere.
I am praying for even a bit of the Tom Homan effect to arrive here. He doesn’t suck it up, no siree. If you haven’t seen this Tucker Carlson interview with Trump’s new ‘border czar’, premiered last week and titled ‘Plan to Destroy the Cartel Empire, End Child Trafficking, and Secure the Border for Good’ you have a treat in store. One tough and clear-thinking man. He will shut that border down. We don’t even try.
Which brings me to the full beam of Trump’s headlights thrown across the world. Still a full month away from taking office yet he has already shifted the tectonic plates of politics out of recognition. Not since one Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill back in 1939 have we seen how one man with courage, confidence and certainty can change the political culture and public mood.
My ‘review of the year interview‘ with Die Weltwoche stressed that. It was published last week. Next week on TCW. I will, by the way, get round, as promised, to writing up and linking to President Vučić’s speech. But TCW work this week has been non stop. Though celebrating Trump’s second coming, I did stress in the interview that the resurgent Right – the anti-globalist, pro-nation-state European parties – still have a long way to go. The woke virus has dug its roots deep; so while this is a time for hope it’s also a time for wariness. Note the Big Tech millionaires suddenly thronging to Trump as they smell where the power lies. ‘Beware Greeks bearing gifts’, Donald.
Here in the UK too the whiff of changing power dynamics is in the air – Farage and Reform on a veritable roll. Their biggest mistake too would be to get courted into becoming a Conservative Party Mark 2. I trust they won’t. Like Trump, Farage is a genuine ‘deplorable’. Neither should forget his years of being demonised and marginalised by a ruthless establishment – and by those, like the supercilious Peter Mandelson, who called them names.
Forever cautious – I have learnt to be – I am still upbeat for 2025. Uplifted too, I am happy to announce, by the safe delivery of my third grandchild on Friday. A boy, and for Christmas! What better gift?
All it rests for me to do now is to warmly thank you for your loyalty and generosity over the last year and to wish you a Merry – or restful – Christmas and a Happy New Year – which I pray will be better than this last.
