IT IS an ill wind that blows nobody any good. It’s also a very big thank you to the many kind readers who wrote to me after my last week’s review on the risks posed by the Online Safety Act. I thought opprobrium was going to be heaped on me, but no, I received understanding and sympathy. Like Dave Hipperson’s email to me:
‘Correct tactics I think, withdrawing the comments section, even if only temporarily. You are in the crosshairs right now; we don’t want to make it worse. A perfect tactical withdrawal as indeed alluded to by the first two ‘Letters of the Day’, which is also a positive and useful addition.’
And so, it has proved! I don’t know why I didn’t think of a ‘Letter of the Day’ before. Granted, it’s less immediately reactive than a comment, but letters are what we always used to do.
In fact, only one reader accused me of caving in without a fight, and only one said that it had finished him with TCW! But I have long learned that old adage: you can’t win them all.
It’s been hard to find any other bright spots this week. It has to be our writers continuing to shine light on the truth. The brutally satirical Daniel Jupp exposed the clowns that the EU’s rulers are, as was his take this week on Starmer’s ‘Coalition of the Willing’.
They are very dangerous clowns too. The evil Keir Stürmer (Mark Steyn’s sobriquet for him) is happy to risk our troops in Ukraine yet refuses to clarify the rules of engagement (he can’t of course – see Part 2 of Paddy Benham-Crosswell’s Ukraine reality check today). Underneath that fake combat gear, he has nothing but contempt for our armed forces; a man happy to use the European Courts to prosecute British Veterans and throw the SAS under the bus. You can read Paddy on that particular travesty of justice in these pages a few weeks ago.
Two tier Keir shouldn’t expect any ‘willingness’ from spat-upon young British white men, nor from any of the male adolescents, some already military age, he has been busy demonising in Parliament. I am talking about Wednesday’s exchange with MP Anneliese Midgley (who is she? No, me neither!). She stood up in Parliament to take full advantage of the recent Netflix show ‘Adolescence’ (the TV drama that’s been all over the ‘salivating’ news about knife attacks committed by adolescent boys) and to call on Sir Stürmer to support the TV program in order to ‘counter toxic misogyny’. Yes, that hoary old feminist meme.
Starmer agreed, of course. The make-believe film was a ‘very good documentary’, he said. He claimed that adolescent knife attacks are an ’emerging and growing problem’. Where has he been? They are endemic and normalised. School children I talked to the other week about their stabbed classmate told me it was ‘OK’. I had nothing to worry about. It’s part of their life that they accept. We at TCW have been reporting this vile aspect of modern culture since 2015. See this early report of the stabbing of a Bradford teacher.
Predictably the solid evidence of ‘toxic misogyny’ that Keir Stürmer didn’t mention at all or the press as far as I have seen, is the culture-specific sort. The ‘adolescent’ Southport girl killer knifer sprang to my mind, though apparently not to Starmer’s. If you want an example of misogyny squared, that was it.
Unlike many of the people up in arms over this, I agree with Starmer thus far. There is very worrying evidence of widespread ‘toxic misogyny’ in the UK. The culture specific sort, represented not by knives but by institutionalise rape, drugging and torture. Have people forgotten the Muslim rape gangs that we’ve been denied a public enquiry on so soon? The issue which leftist progressives and feminists deny. That he and Anneliese are so conveniently blind to. No, it doesn’t count.
I didn’t notice Sir Keir worrying about the fact that it is girls who account for a growing number of knife cases in the UK, either. Yes one-fifth of all knife arrestees, according to this Daily Mail Report. Anti-male misandry is not a phrase you’ll hear in the mother of parliaments,
Facts are unpalatable. Like the reasons some boys (and girls) are dangerous. They come from dysfunctional backgrounds where one or other parent has inflicted psychological harm; with cannabis involved. Just google ‘killer used cannabis’, and see the unending list of court reports citing this. The combined effect of a traumatic childhood and early sustained cannabis use. Ignored. But honesty is not a quality I associate with most politicians.
Don’t expect any about the judge who shamelessly bottled it yesterday when he refused Tommy Robinson’s bid to challenge his ‘segregation’ (their euphemism for solitary confinement). The MSM’s reporting of Thursday’s hearing that I read was a textbook case of State-controlled reporting. It left me wondering whether I had been sitting in the same court. The report I filed on the hearing yesterday covers the disparities.
The Government’s counsel’s fake facts listing of Robinson’s ‘privileges’ and the repeated use of this fake concept is misinformation. A newspeak lie. These so-called ‘privileges’ are the fabric of deceit (we are being kind and thoughtful) that shroud the actual illegality of solitary confinement for a civil offence prisoner; that transform in this conjuring trick the stripping of the legal rights of a civil offence prisoner into an apparent ‘bespoke’ consideration or virtue.
Then there was the specific press targeted disinformation – which we didn’t even hear fully in court (a series of excuses for why Robinsonhad to be removed from Belmarsh is just one example) – that his presence was what risked violence. No report mentioned the elephant in the room, that the Government is all too happy to exploit in the case of Tommy, but they won’t admit to, which is that the UK’s prisons are out of control and run by Islamic gangs. Their golden excuse to lock Tommy up in a hole, as Ezra Levant put it. Next time, I want to see the cowardly or indoctrinated members of the press presented with list of these lies in clear bullet points by Tommy’s KC.
It’s hard. I know. A real challenge for both citizen journalists and right-minded lawyers to take on that enemy of the people that is the mainstream media. This is what I hope the ill wind of Tommy’s continued incarceration will bring: the realisation that we must step up our game and get smarter.
I refuse to be bowed down though, and thanks to one of my daughters-in-law, I did end the week on a laugh. Grandchildren tucked up in bed and asleep, me slumped in a chair after a four-hour childcare stint one day last week, my daughter-in-law, sailed in back from work, with a concerned look at me, asked, ‘A drink, Kathy?’ ‘Gin and tonic, please!’ (I’d already seen the gin bottle). At the rueful expression that crossed her face, I cried ‘What, no tonic?!’
So yesterday, she sent me this. No Tonic.
Do watch, but it summed my week up.
