REMEMBRANCE Sunday today marks the end of another awful week. We can only pray it will be the start of a better one.
Beginning with another ‘isolated incident’, according to Shabana Mahmood, our revered Home Secretary (she couldn’t wait to tell us it wasn’t terrorism), a week later it has all but disappeared from the news. I am talking about the horrific stabbing attack on a train approaching Huntingdon that left ten people injured, one reported in a critical condition. So soon after the Manchester attack and yet the BBC brushed it under the carpet as a ‘knife’ problem, as Simon Caldwell reported.
He wrote: ‘The behaviour of the BBC goes to the heart of a deeper problem which must be addressed with great urgency. It is the willingness to be honest about the threats we face because if we cannot face the truth about such fundamental issues then we cannot defend ourselves and the people we love.’
But even as we approach November 11th this year there is no sign that any of today’s politicians are going to do so. Not a hint.
That’s why I will not be watching the hypocrites standing in front of the Cenotaph today, making a mockery of everything that the Second World War was fought for and insulting the veterans and true patriots behind them. Alec Penstone, a 100-year-old WW2 veteran, nailed how thousands if not millions in this country feel – certainly I do – that the fighting wasn’t worth it. He told viewers of Good Morning Britain: ‘I can see in my mind’s eye those rows and rows of white stones and all the hundreds of my friends who gave their lives, for what? The country of today? No, I’m sorry – but the sacrifice wasn’t worth the result of what it is now.’
If programme host Kate Garroway had been less busy with her would-be reassuring platitudes, she’d have paid Mr Penstone more respect by following up on all that is indeed wrong with this country today, including the MSM of which her own TV station is part. The increasingly tyrannical speech- and thought-control state that hosts hostile subcultures that have taken over more towns than Birmingham, that welcomes unvetted asylum seekers from countries which hate us into the heart of communities, that condones Jew-hatred and scapegoating, and that is causing the economy to collapse, thanks to a generation of spoilt globalist career politicians. That from the freedom we fought Hitler for, we are treading a 21st century road to serfdom. How that ‘never again’ has dissipated into thin air.
My parents (my father, an RAF padre for the duration of the war, and my mother, a London radar technician) would be turning in their graves not just at our capitulation to evil here but in Germany too. Just one example is the German town of Overath where this year’s Christmas market has been cancelled because the cost of protecting visitors from potential terrorist attacks exceeds the organisers’ budget, mirroring the West Midlands police banning Jewish fans from the Maccabi Tel Aviv-Aston Villa football match. I think they would be comparing the eruption of mass Islamo-fascism on display in Birmingham to Mosley’s Blackshirts.
That’s why for me, like Janice Davis who writes elsewhere on today’s pages, the official Cenotaph commemoration is increasingly hard to digest. The sight of King Charles and the politicians ‘paying their respects’ I will find too nauseating to watch. A King who is so keen on ‘reconciliation’ watches the banning of Jews from a football match in Birmingham in silence, while Starmer and Mahmood’s short-lived condemnations were followed by a complete capitulation.
Why could they not put the Army in to protect the Jewish fans if the corrupted or hopeless West Midlands police were incapable? That would have been a clear statement about British values, standing up to terror and incitement to violence. And where was Mahmood’s or the CPS instruction to arrest Ashrar Rashid, the radical Birmingham-based cleric who is patently guilty of inciting violence, prior to a deportation charge? The venomous ‘Islamic ruling’ that he handed down, stating ‘we will not show mercy to Maccabi fans’, which he then doubled down on, surely met the conditions for arrest under a terrorism charge? But no, instead a British Government allowed Jews to be herded into a cage.
The obvious comparison made Tommy Robinson’s trumped-up arrest for terrorism even more egregious. The contrast suggests one of two things, or both. The Government shares Ashrar Rashid’s political stance, or they fear it.
Robinson for once got a fair trial, that is true. But the state’s targeted lawfare assault on him has not stopped, though the next charge he is up for – allegedly ‘harassing’ two journalists – is also specious. You would have to be blind not to see a pattern that has him permanently on one charge or another.
Meanwhile last week the parents of Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, slaughtered by Axel Rudakubana, had to suffer (and now endure) the knowledge that his mother and father provided the money he bought a machete with, the father receiving its delivery. It is hard not to agree that the killer’s parents must be brought to account for the part they played in this terrible crime.
As British citizens and Christians, we should be as angry as the bereaved parents. For me this is what Remembrance Day should now be about. There should be no more clichés about reconciliation, justice and peace disguising the wickedness and evil that surrounds us once more. An evil that the BBC sickeningly perpetuates even while filming the commemoration at the Cenotaph.
Last week’s revelations that the BBC actively ‘doctored’ President Trump’s January 6 speech laid its propaganda and political activism totally bare. The Corporation is ‘pathologically incapable of recognising or acknowledging its own bias’, David Keighley wrote in TCW. It should herald its demise.
The only good news at the end of this baleful week is that Donald Trump is not having any of it. He’s going to war with the ‘fake news’ BBC.
I hope he brings them down!
I am back in the saddle from today. My big thanks go to Steve Doughty and Simon Caldwell who’ve so brilliantly been covering for me. TCW‘s output has been sensational – articles by Francis Pike, Robin Fellow, Bernard Carpenter and Bruce Newsome are of a quality of writing and honesty you won’t see anywhere else. Yet, as I checked last night, only 746 of our literally thousands and thousands of readers regularly support us with a monthly donation. To survive next year we need to double that number at the very least. We do think we are worth at least £5 a month!
