Frank Furedi

FROM DECOLONIZATION TO ISLAMISM: CIVILIZATION UNDER SIEGE?, by @Furedibyte open.substack.com/pub/frankfured…

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FRANK FUREDI: Starmer's 'summit' is nothing but a coup... mol.im/a/15702389 via @DailyMail`,

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Clear and on point on the medicalisation of childhood, by @Furedibyte @stellaomalley3 @AshleyAFrawley

A flag without a demos is just a managerial logo. Bill Durodié joins John O’Brien to expose the cavernous gap between EU security rhetoric and a public that has no stake in the project. Real security starts with the nation, not the "alphabet soup" of Brussels agencies.

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A Parliament of Charity Workers and Lobbyists. In a Time of War. Of 238 new Labour MPs elected in July 2024, 72 worked in the charitable sector, 72 were political employees and 70 worked in communications or lobbying. Roughly ninety percent have never worked in defence, manufacturing, engineering, medicine or law enforcement. A parliamentary source quoted in the Sunday Times put it plainly. If only we had the same number with defence or military experience, maybe we'd be in a different place. Maybe. But the problem runs deeper than defence spending. It runs to the question of what kind of person ends up in parliament, what professional formation shapes their instincts, and whose interests they are constitutionally equipped to represent. Charity sector workers are trained to see the world through the lens of vulnerable groups, international obligations and institutional compassion. Political employees are trained to manage narratives and avoid uncomfortable truths. Communications and lobbying professionals are trained to advance the interests of whoever is paying them. Not one of those professional backgrounds prepares you for the question of how to defend a sovereign nation, manage a border, hold a foreign state accountable or protect a citizen from an Iranian proxy group that is firebombing Jewish ambulances on British streets. The parliament that responded to the Golders Green firebombing by debating the language used to describe it is a parliament staffed by people whose entire professional lives have trained them to manage perception rather than confront reality. The government that rolled out an anti-Muslim hostility definition while twenty Iranian backed terrorist plots were being planned on British streets is a government whose instinct is accommodation rather than accountability. The thirty six MPs who wrote to the Parliamentary Commissioner demanding Nick Timothy's investigation were not all acting from professional instinct. Several have documented histories of antisemitic language or associations. Others represent constituencies where the Muslim vote is the primary electoral consideration. The Sunday Times source suggests the problem is defence spending priorities. It is that. But it is also the Trafalgar Square response, where Keir Starmer reached for Tommy Robinson rather than engaging with a theological argument he knew he could not answer. It is the Attorney General deploying his Jewish identity to provide cover for a false equivalence he knew to be false. It is the parliamentary machinery mobilised to silence the people naming what is happening while the people doing it operate without consequence. All of it flows from the same source. A political class whose professional formation is compassion, accommodation and message management, governing in a moment that requires clarity, resolve and the willingness to say plainly what the evidence shows. Britain is not short of intelligence assessments. MI5 has thwarted twenty Iranian plots. The Walney report documented Iranian influence operations in the charitable sector. The security services know what is happening. The problem is not knowledge. It is the absence of the professional formation, the instincts, the language and the willingness that would allow the people in power to act on what they know. Ninety percent of the new Labour intake came from charities, political offices and communications agencies. They were never going to see it coming. And even now that it has arrived, on the streets of Golders Green, in the WhatsApp groups of the Green Party, on the Embankment where death to America was chanted on a Sunday afternoon, they are still reaching for the tools their professional lives gave them. Compassion. Accommodation. Message management. And the instruction not to take the bait. "Ninety percent of the new Labour intake came from charities, political offices and communications agencies."

Jim Chimirie drives home the dire consequences of being stuck with 'a political class whose professional formation is compassion, accommodation and message management, governing in a moment that requires clarity, resolve and the willingness to say plainly what the evidence shows'. I am afraid I am less restrained and forgiving of the invertebrate militant compassion tendency who are paralysing government and getting incredibly rich, in perhaps most cases. This is mainly due to what I have observed in Scotland over two dismal and disastrous decades. Venal, incompetent and semi-gangsterish charity sector was used by the SNP in Scotland to hollow out Scottish democracy. This NGO world of troughers has become one huge slush fund into which billions (no exaggeration) of tax-payers money is channelled for party warfare under the guise of concern and compassion. @DeanMThomson 's new book 'Scotland Undone: Nationalism, Dogma, and Decline in the Devolution Era' reveals the scale of the malfeasance. Now right in front of our eyes is the evidence that the same crowd, who combine acute selfishness with attachment to a sociopathic form of cultural communism, dominate the Labour parliamentary party thanks to Rishi Sunak throwing the 2024 election into their lap.. After only 20 months, they have wreaked havoc - de-industrialisation, open borders, no jury trials, assisted suicide, postponed elections, trans-genderism in all seasons, permanent urban unrest via first Palestinianism and now ayatollism. Jim Chimirie assumes that most of the intake from the professional world of care and compassion are knaves rather than outright villains. Perhaps he is right. But if England and Wales avoid a violent reckoning despite these hundreds of Labour horrors, it increasingly looks as if it will be nothing short of a miracle.

In recent decades the sentiment of Hope has been hi-jacked, rebranded, politicised and packaged as the Politics of Hope. Those who advocate this rebranding exercise seek to harness the inspirational qualities of hope to support their political project. One of the advantages of the rhetoric of hope is that it is an empty political vessel, which can be filled with whatever meaning or sentiment that is required to appeal to the public. Hope as stand-alone phenomenon that is not attached to any specific aspiration is an ‘apple pie and motherhood term’ designed to capture what is left of society’s feel-good factor. frankfuredi.substack.com/p/the-politics…

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