Chris Watling

“To be happy you must eliminate two things: The fear of a bad future and the memory of a bad past.” — Seneca

The Free Speech Union’s latest investigative briefing reveals that ALL FIVE members of the Government’s working group tasked with defining “Islamophobia” — now rebranded as “anti-Muslim hostility” — have troubling links to Islamist organisations. These include the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) and Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND), which successive governments since 2009 have refused to engage with due to their extreme views. Baroness Gohir even tweeted in support of Hamas in 2014. Another member stood for the far-left, Islamist-supporting Respect Party. In a free society, no religion should enjoy greater protection than others — nor be shielded from legitimate criticism and challenge. Parliament abolished blasphemy laws in 2008. This Government risks reviving them for Islam alone, via the back door. This group was stacked with members already sympathetic to such a definition. With the Government yet to appoint a new Islamophobia tsar, there is deep cause for concern. Watch @Katie_Lam_MP’s video below 👇

🚨 ORBAN SNUBS STARMER Viktor Orban was happily shaking hands and warmly greeting world leaders as they arrived at the European summit in Budapest. But when Keir Starmer showed up, he was completely ignored and left standing there completely alone. Starmer is now a global embarrassment. No one respects him on the international stage. What a humiliating moment for Britain.

BREAKING 🚨: Eggs Egg Prices have now collapsed by more than 97% from their March 2025 all-time high and are now trading at the lowest price in over a decade 🥚📉🥳

One of the best quotes I’ve ever heard.

Breaking News🇬🇧: "UK energy prices is SEVEN times more expensive than China and FOUR times more than America, how can we compete on a world stage at these prices? We are floating on a North Sea full of oil and gas...madness. We are told that it's a declining basin but the Norwegians are drilling like Billyo". From the once prosperous city of Aberdeen Scotland, Reform Scotland Leader Malcolm Offord torches the lunacy of the 'net-zero' zealots from the SNP, Labour, Greens, Libs and Tories for destroying Scotland and the UK's energy infrastructure. @reformparty_uk @TiceRichard @Malcolm_Offord

In 1871 a man sat at a desk and wrote fifteen letters. ⚽🇬🇧 Nobody knew what those letters would become. His name was Charles Alcock. Secretary of the Football Association. Former pupil at Harrow School. He remembered something from his schooldays. A knockout competition between houses. Every team plays. The losers go home. One winner. He thought: what if we did that. But for the whole country. So he wrote fifteen letters. The clubs that wrote back: Barnes. Civil Service. Clapham Rovers. Crystal Palace. Donington School. Hampstead Heathens. Harrow Chequers. Hitchin. Maidenhead. Marlow. Queen's Park of Glasgow. Royal Engineers. Upton Park. Wanderers. Fifteen clubs. Out of fifty who were eligible. Most of them thought it was a nice idea. Some of them didn't bother replying at all. Three withdrew before they even played a match. Twelve clubs actually competed. Thirteen games in total. The whole thing played out across a few months in the winter and spring of 1871 to 1872. The final was held on 16 March 1872 at the Kennington Oval. A cricket ground. There were no stands. Two thousand people stood around a rope in the cold March afternoon light to watch. The Royal Engineers were overwhelming favourites. Physically imposing. Tactically advanced. 7-4 on to win. Ten minutes in... One of their players broke his collarbone. No substitutes existed. They played on with ten men. Wanderers scored. One nil. Final score. The man who invented the competition played in it. He captained the winning team. He lifted the cup he had created. Charles Alcock. The only man in history to invent a competition, play in its first final, and win it. 🏆 That competition still runs today. One hundred and fifty five years later. The semi-final draw was made just days ago... Manchester City vs Southampton. Chelsea vs Leeds. The oldest national football competition on earth. And every football cup competition that followed, every domestic cup in every country, follows the same format. The knockout bracket. Every team plays. The losers go home. One winner. Britain invented that. In fifteen letters. From one desk. In 1871. 🇬🇧 Every story on this channel is available in full at proudofus.co.uk If you want to help us keep these stories alive: proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

Spot on! Was just thinking about that earlier. Intellectuals (many/most) seem to so easily forget that growing the pie is (probably) THE (or at least one of the) most important things (for a society). Socialism undermines that 'pie growth' (bats against itself). Hence why it always ends up failing. Always!

“A civilization is not destroyed by wicked men; it is destroyed by weak men who cannot defend what is good.” — G. K. Chesterton

“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.” — Milton Friedman

@TheFigen_ This Swan is living its Best Surfing life.

They didn't wait for the government. They didn't wait for anyone. 🍺🇬🇧 Centuries before the NHS, ordinary British working people built their own system. In secret. In pubs. Every week they pooled their pennies. If you fell ill, they paid your rent. 🏠 If you died, they buried you. ⚰️ If your family starved, they fed them. 🍞 No government. No institution. Just British working people looking after each other. By 1800. Four million members. 🇬🇧 They called them Friendly Societies. The NHS. The trade unions. The co-operative movement. All of them started the same way. In rooms like this. With people like these. And almost nobody knows this happened. Britain lost its story. We're taking it back. Story by story. Name by name. Nobody is coming to do this for us. If you want to be part of making sure this country remembers who it is: proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

BREAKING: Dated Brent (physical oil) prices hit $144.46/bbl, a new all-time high.

In the aftermath of WW2, Hong Kong was a bombed-out British colony of 600,000 refugees, with no natural resources and a per capita income lower than many African nations. But by the 1980s it had become one of the richest places on earth. The man most responsible was John Cowperthwaite, Financial Secretary from 1961 to 1971. Cowperthwaite refused to plan the economy. He cut taxes to a flat 15 %, scrapped tariffs and subsidies, rejected industrial policy, and even stopped collecting detailed economic statistics - lest civil servants use the numbers to meddle. “I did very little”, he said. “All I did was to try to prevent some of the things that might have been done.” Government spending stayed below 15 % of GDP. Markets, not ministers, decided what to produce. The result was explosive growth: poverty collapsed, skyscrapers rose, and Hong Kong’s income overtook Britain’s. Today, most Western governments still strangle their economies with taxes and regulations, ignoring the lesson Hong Kong proved: the surest path to prosperity is to get out of the way.

THIS IS THE CHART THEY WILL SHOW IN DOCUMENTARIES. A 94% CRASH. $4.3 BILLION IN LOSSES. ZERO ARRESTS. AND A DINNER INVITATION. Look at that chart. $48 to $2.81. A 94% collapse. That is not a bear market. That is a liquidation event disguised as a political movement. The $TRUMP token launched January 17, 2025. Three days later he was sworn into office. Within weeks, 810,000 wallets had lost a combined $2 billion. By 2026, total retail losses crossed $4.3 billion across nearly two million wallets. For every $1 insiders earned, retail investors lost $20. The Trump family and affiliated entities collected over $600 million through fees and token sales. Trading fees alone generated $100 million in the first 19 days. Exchanges banked another $172 million. And 94% of the token supply sat in just 40 wallets from the start. This was a memecoin where the creator became the President of the United States, then dismantled the SEC's entire crypto enforcement division, closed every active investigation, paused every pending case, and then hosted an exclusive gala dinner for the biggest holders at his golf club while protesters outside shouted "Shame." 43% of the guests at that dinner were underwater on their investment. Now there is a second gala planned for April 25 at Mar-a-Lago. The token hit an all-time low of $2.73 the day they announced it. And there is still $2.7 billion in insider tokens locked until 2028. That is not a vesting schedule. That is a countdown to the next wave of selling pressure. Meanwhile the MELANIA token is down 99%. No regulator intervened. No enforcement action was filed. The one agency that could have acted had its crypto division gutted by the very administration that launched the token. A bill was proposed to ban officials from issuing memecoins. It went nowhere. In any other context this would be called a pump and dump with presidential immunity. Instead it got a dinner invitation.

Charlie Munger: "If you're a pure socialist, you're a nutcase. An absolute nutcase. And not a modest nutcase — a real nutcase." "You can be a perfect nut with a high IQ." "If we want a productive society, we can't help but have these personal incentives to handle your own affairs — and if you do that, you get unequal wealth outcomes. The price of plenty is that you can't have socialism."

What a sight!!! 😍

Possibly the most technical goal in football history

Percentage of world population that is Muslim: 24% Percentage that is Jewish: 0.2% Number of Nobel Prizes in science, medicine, and economics awarded to Muslims: 4 To Jews: 194*