Jake Hepple had a plane fly over the Etihad stadium with a White Lives Matter banner which drew condemnation from across the UK, but if Black Lives Matter then shouldn’t White Lives Matter also? This is the problem with subversive identity politics, if one group wants to claim they
Note: Since I wrote this Sir Mark Sedwill has resigned as Cabinet Secretary and from his other post as National Security Advisor. Both effective from September. With Boris Johnson showing ever more signs of strain, he appears to be losing his grip and the political antenna that was Dominic Cummings
Some people, it seems, are smarting from ‘white guilt’ and looking ahead in hope – of course through pink-lensed spectacles – to a chardonnay-infused, post-colonial future. One such anonymous person, considerably younger than me I must admit, wrote an open letter to his or her old private school via
[Editor’s note]: There have been questions raised about the original source of the following letter doing the rounds on Facebook. For the purposes of discussion of the points made in the letter, I have reproduced it below. Given the rude tone of the letter, I think that it is
The government stumbles from one mistake to another as we all wait for the daily corrections and U-turns on policy. It has all the hallmarks of Boris Johnson making policy up on the hoof much to the anguish of his cabinet. Johnson still looks ill, lacking his normal bounce
Conservative British commentator and activist Katie Hopkins has been permanently banned from Twitter for alleged “hateful conduct.” Hopkins, who had more than 1.1 million followers, has been banned from the social media platform to “keep Twitter safe”, the platform said. According to the Guardian, Hopkins, who often retweeted Donald
The ferocity and vicious stupidity of the New Cultural Revolution just keep snowballing. Not content with smashing statues and banning books and tv shows, the New Red Guards have turned their sights on…gravestones. The headstones of two music hall singers at a cemetery in the UK have been covered
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Andreas Fulda University of Nottingham Global attitudes towards the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are hardening. In 2019, the European Union declared the PRC a “systemic rival” amid rising trade tensions. In May 2020, the White House published a paper that described the US’s competitive approach to the
So now Google has officially DELETED Churchill but kept Hitler and Stalin. Let that sink in. pic.twitter.com/qn6llQpUKX — Avi Yemini ???? (@OzraeliAvi) June 14, 2020
In view of the anti-statue uprising now taking place in the UK I thought we could start with a little quiz about statues and whether we should destroy them. 1. This statue is to be found in Parliament Square and the person honoured was responsible for the death by
Information Satire Golf record attempt. Later today the beloved national leader of New Zealand will make an attempt on the world record for the numbers of holes in one in a round of golf. She is hoping to improve on the record of 18 shots, currently held by our good
“One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could learn it from books. Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets – anything that might throw light upon the past had been systematically altered” – George Orwell, 1984. Ingsoc is real. Airstrip One is falling ever-further under the
Yesterday I wrote in The BFD about the impossibility of policing the multicultural chasm opened up by the Black Lives Matter movement. It was subsequently announced that the Minneapolis City Council intends to disband the Minneapolis Police Department altogether, and hand policing over to ‘community groups’. Nine of the 13
This has been a difficult comment to write, not because of writer’s block but because of the difficulty of deciding what to leave out. So much is happening in the UK that I will try and give a view on the undercurrents rather than what has been directly reported
British Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel is regarded as the father of modern policing. His Metropolitan Police Act received royal assent in 1829, and the Metropolitan Police Service in London was formed in September of that year. The first modern and professional Police force in the world, its founding was
