James Thompson

Why is it that Denmark can ignore the ECHR and deport ALL migrants with a conviction of a year or more WITHOUT APPEAL, yet the timid UK remains a frightened rabbit in the headlights of the wretched ECHR?🤔 Ignore it or scrap it!🤨

Is any woman safe in the UK now? A 21 year old student decided to walk from home a birthday party in Glasgow in February 2025. Mohamed Mageed saw her and started to talk to her as she walked home. He was asking where she was going and what she had been doing. She fabricated having a boyfriend so he would leave her alone and started to walk more quickly, crossing the road. He fell behind but when she opened her front door he barged in behind her and knocked her to the ground. Mageed then proceeded to rape her. She screamed and fought and a neighbour heard and disturbed him, so he fled. Who is Mohand Mageed? He is a 26 year old refugee from Syria, who left his wife in the country and had not seen her since 2023. He was staying at the Alexander Thompson Hotel for the homeless and was granted leave to remain in the UK 6 months before the attack. He has now been found guilty of the rape and jailed for 8 years and put on the sex offenders’ list. The Judge said: “Your risk of further sexual offending is assessed to be above average.” And yet, in just a few years he will be out wandering the streets of Scotland again.

What in the world did we just see! The 2 hour marathon barrier has been broken. Three guys went under the old world record... Sabastian Sawe just ran 1:59:30 with crazy negative splits, closing the last half in 59:01....faster than the American Record in the half. One of the most mind blowing performances we've seen. How did we get here? Every breakthrough is a mixture of belief and progress. It takes folks daring to see what's possible, surrounding themselves with a quality team and doing the work to give themselves a shot. You've got to bet on yourself in a big way. When asked whether he believed he could run a sub-2-hour marathon before the race, Sawe answered with one word: "Yes." Let's get the obvious out of the way. Performance enhancing drugs are the legitimate question mark to every breakthrough. So Sawe did as much as he could about taking that off the table. He and his team asked to be tested all the time. His sponsor put up 50K to the Athlete Integrity Unit. The tests are run independently, no advance notice. Over a 2 month stretch, he went through 25 drug tests. There's always a doubt. There has to be given what we know. Hopefully there's transparency in the results. But hats off to Sawe for addressing it: "I want to prove that I am clean when I set foot at the start line." But how'd we actually get here where two guys went sub 2 in the same race? 1. Shoe tech We've had a revolution in shoe technology that boosts running economy. For years shoe companies said their shoe would make you faster and was mostly marketing. Until 2016, when it actually did. Initial research showed a 3-4% saving in economy, while subsequent work has shown it's highly variable. Now, it's a matching game. Find the perfect shoe for your form and you can get a big boost. Normally, it takes years of lots of miles and strength training to boost economy. But now we get that instant boost that not only helps boost performance but often leaves us feeling less beat up in the later stages of the marathon. So we get a little bit less hitting of the wall... 2. The fuel For a long time, fueling was limited by biology. You can only take in and process so much. Then in the 2000s, researchers found if we mixed sugars, we can boost intake because they're processed differently. Then recently, Maurten found if you use a hydrxogel, you boost utilization without GI distress anymore. We've gone from pushing 60g/hr to 120g/hr in a few decades. Again...less bonking. 3. Depth A few decades ago, you spent your career racing on the track and then once your speed started to fade a bit you went to the marathon. Now, many skip right to the marathon. That's where the money is. And with the economy boost from the shoes, you can make that jump quickly. More depth of talent means more competitors in their prime pushing barriers. 4. Belief Even with the shoes and tech, a few years ago sub 2 hours seemed a long way off, until Kipchoge pushed that barrier in a series of time trials. Yes, they weren't official races and had contrived pacing. But it absolutely shifted everyone's thinking on what is possible. A generation of runners saw Kipchoge go for it. Our prediction of what is possible changed. It's mind blowing how far we've come in such a short time. What once seemed decades away, just got smashed twice in the same race. Hats off to Sawe, especially for addressing the scourge of doping and showing folks what is possible with a lot of hard work, some crazy belief, and some fortuitous advances.

Common law was a greater achievement. Closer to the reality of human nature.

Er, “must become” is autocratic, and Britain and Europe made the modern world by being fiercely competitive and independent. Try this plan somewhere else

My boss's boss is like 42, never married, no kids. Earns $275-300K per year. Goes on a minimum of two international vacations a year w/ his girlfriend. 10+ days, all out. Eats the best food, stays in top notch accomodations. Excursions, tours, nicest beaches, etc. Great guy, I'm happy for him. But what I've realized is that without kids, you end up chasing a lifestyle that has to continually be topped in order for you to be satisfied and find happiness. What he and others like him don't understand is that when you have children, seeing THEM experience life's most basic things and watching their eyes light up at all the "firsts", brings greater pleasure and joy than any vacation or travel experience ever could. Seeing THEM try blueberries for the first time is greater than dining at the best 5 star restaurant in Europe. Seeing THEM learn how to walk is greater than walking the Great Wall of China or strolling along the most picturesque beach. Watching THEM giggle uncontrollably at "peek-a-boo" tops any A-list comedian act. Seeing THEIR excitement when building a fort out of cardboard boxes and making a door big enough for daddy is superior to staying at 5-star resorts. Flying kites with THEM far outweighs excursions like parasailing or helicopter rides. Seeing THEM perform a recital on stage for the first time is more rewarding than watching a Broadway show or top notch symphony orchestra. ----------------- When you have children, all of a sudden you realize that life's greatest joys are not in the pursuit of things or pleasure or travel, but rather in the LOVE and bond you share with your very own image bearers. Seeing the beauty and magnificence and wonder of life all over again for the first time through THEIR eyes and expressions gives you something the world simply cannot offer, nor even come close.

Older than the Incas Older than the Aztecs Older than the Maori in NZ Older than the Zulu in SA Older than the Lakota Older than Islam in India But the English are not officially considered "native" to England.

Моя любимая краткая история СССР. Как только умер Ленин, оказалось, что второй человек в партии, товарищ Троцкий - предатель. Каменев, Зиновьев, Бухарин и Сталин свергли Троцкого и изгнали из СССР. Но через пару лет оказалось, что Каменев, Зиновьев и Бухарин тоже враги и вредители. Тогда доблестный товарищ Генрих Ягода их расстрелял. Чуть позже Ягоду, как вражеского агента, расстрелял Ежов. Но через пару лет оказалось, что и Ежов не товарищ, а обычный предатель и вражеский агент. И Ежова расстрелял Берия. После смерти Сталина, все поняли, что и Берия тоже предатель. Тогда Жуков сверг и расстрелял Берию. Но вскоре Хрущев узнал, что Жуков враг и заговорщик. И сослал Жукова на Урал. А чуть позже вскрылось, что и Сталин-то был врагом, вредителем и предателем. А вместе с ним и большая часть политбюро. Тогда Сталина вынесли из мавзолея, а политбюро и примкнувшего к ним Шепилова разогнали честные партийцы, во главе с Хрущевым. Прошло несколько лет и выяснилось, что Хрущев был волюнтаристом, проходимцем, авантюристом и врагом. Тогда Брежнев отправил Хрущева на пенсию. Вскоре Брежнев умер, и выяснилось, что он был маразматиком, вредителем и причиной застоя. Потом было еще два маразматика, который никто и запомнить не успел, потому что дохли, как мухи. Но тут пришел к власти молодой, энергичный Горбачев. И оказалось, что вся партия была партией вредителей и врагов, но он-то сейчас все исправит... Тут-то СССР и развалился. А Горбачев оказался врагом и предателем.

Elon Musk just exposed the one lie every modern nation tells itself. Musk: “In 1969, we were able to send somebody to the moon.” Rotary phones. Computers the size of rooms. Slide rules. We put a human on the moon with less processing power than your watch. Musk: “Then the space shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit.” The most advanced nation in human history went from footprints on the moon to zero capability of leaving the atmosphere. That is not a funding problem. That is civilizational decay dressed up as a policy decision. Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves… it will, by itself, degrade.” That sentence should keep you up tonight. We treat progress like gravity. Like it pulls us forward whether we try or not. It is the opposite. Progress is a boulder on a hill. The second you stop pushing, it rolls back over you. And it never announces itself. Musk: “You look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that.” They did not run out of stone. They were not conquered. They got comfortable. And the knowledge bled out so quietly that nobody noticed until it was already gone. That is the real threat to everything we have built. Not a nuclear flash. Not an asteroid. Not some dramatic Hollywood collapse. A quiet forgetting. Every chip we fabricate. Every rocket we launch. Every data center we power. All of it held together by a thin fraction of the population working at a pace that would break most people. The moment that fraction gets tired or outnumbered by people who believe the machine runs itself, everything dissolves. And here is the part nobody wants to say out loud. We are not special. We are running the same operating system as every civilization that came before us. Comfort is the sedative. Complacency is the flatline. One generation that stops fighting is all it has ever taken. You do not lose the future in a war. You lose it in your sleep.

Rape Gang Inquiry update. Our team is currently going through our draft report to ensure that all is legally sound for publication. The plan is straightforward. I intend to use parliamentary privilege in the chamber to name a number of the worst perpetrators/officials who we believe have escaped justice. We will then use private prosecutions to pursue those individuals through the courts, and eventually put them in prison. These are incredibly dangerous scumbags. It is an national network of organised crime - it is not simply disparate gangs. This is a comprehensive criminal network that is capable of the most evil acts. I will be informing the police, parliamentary security and the Home Office beforehand of who I intend to name and why - I also now have private security for the first time in my life. But do not underestimate the danger of these networks. It is organised crime of the very worst kind. We started this inquiry not to just talk, but to act. The report will be published after the elections as I want this to be a cross-party effort, and party politics should not interfere with any of our activity. Numerous Conservative MPs have been supportive, as have the Northern Irish and even a Labour MP attending the hearings. I want this to go beyond petty party politics. We still have a significant amount of money from the crowdfunder, and that is ready to privately prosecute. This is where we are. This is the plan. Thank you to everybody for your support.

Incentives explain outcomes. Actually eliminating hatred would end the existence of “anti-hate” groups, so groups like SPLC amplified hatred instead to get more donations.

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At 12 minutes past midday on Friday the 28th of March 2025, the last Vauxhall Vivaro van rolled off the production line at the Luton plant. The factory had been making vehicles, in one form or another, on the same site since 1905. The plant gates closed at the end of the same shift. 1,100 people lost their jobs. Stellantis, the European conglomerate that owns Vauxhall, gave the official reasons. The UK's Zero Emission Vehicle mandate had imposed a regulatory burden the Luton site could not absorb. The economics of small-van production in Britain, given the cost of energy and the cost of compliance, no longer worked. Manufacturing of the Vivaro would be transferred elsewhere in the Stellantis network. The Ellesmere Port site in Cheshire would receive £50 million of investment by way of partial consolation. Luton becomes the latest in a long line. Honda Swindon closed in 2021. Ford Bridgend closed in 2020. MG Longbridge, which is the site on which the British motor industry, in many respects, was invented, closed in 2005, after a century of continuous production. Each closure was, at the time, presented as a regrettable but understandable consequence of forces that nobody in the country quite controlled. But these forces are, in fact, entirely controllable. They are the policies of successive British governments. British industrial electricity prices are, on the most recent published comparisons, the highest in the developed world. They are 50% higher than the equivalent prices in France and Germany. They are about three times the equivalent prices in the United States. Those prices are paid in every component of every vehicle assembled in this country, and they are paid in addition to a regulatory regime that requires manufacturers to sell an increasing proportion of zero-emission vehicles every year on the threat of a £15,000 fine per non-electric sale above the cap. That regime was introduced without serious consultation with the industry it now governs, and was enforced before the supporting infrastructure - the charging network, the grid capacity, the consumer demand - was anywhere near ready to make it commercially viable. The result is the exactly the moves Stellantis, Honda, and Ford have already made. Production moves to jurisdictions where the costs and the rules permit it to continue. British workers who built the cars are out on their ear, forced to do other work, somewhere else, for less money. The towns that grew up around the plants, like Luton, lose the industrial spine that made them what they are. And the country that invented the modern motor industry, the country of Austin and Morris and Jaguar and Bentley and Rolls-Royce and Aston Martin, becomes, in the space of two political generations, a country that imports its vans. We need a policy of industrial excellence in this country. We need to ruthless prioritise re-harnessing our still-rude technical capacities to a new productive spirit. Forty years of the political and bureaucratic class have not considered British manufacturing part of its job description. They've treated the workers who do it as a regrettable inheritance from a vulgar bygone age. They are wrong. And they can be replaced.

Mon coco, c'est touchant de voir quelqu'un rire de ce qu'il ne comprend pas. C'est même presque attendrissant. Mais comme la réalité a cette fâcheuse manie d'exister indépendamment de ton fou rire, on va quand même la regarder ensemble. Voici la courbe. Une seule. Celle qui devrait clore le débat pour toute personne ayant un minimum d'honnêteté intellectuelle. En 1820, 84% de l'humanité vivait en extrême pauvreté. Pas dans un studio sans clim à Paris. En extrême pauvreté. Famine, mortalité infantile à 40%, espérance de vie de 30 ans, pas d'eau courante, pas d'école, pas de médecine. Aujourd'hui ? 8,6%. Et ça continue de baisser chaque année. Cette chute n'est pas tombée du ciel. Elle a un nom. Elle s'appelle le capitalisme, l'industrialisation, la division du travail, le commerce, l'innovation, la propriété privée, l'État de droit. Bref, exactement ce que ta copine Castets veut démanteler. Quelques exemples concrets pour les esprits qui préfèrent les faits aux slogans. Chine, 1978. Deng Xiaoping prononce une phrase que Castets ne pourra jamais comprendre : "la pauvreté n'est pas le socialisme." Il décollectivise les terres, ouvre aux marchés, libéralise le commerce. Résultat : 800 millions de personnes sorties de la pauvreté en 40 ans. La plus grande réduction de pauvreté de l'histoire de l'humanité. Pas grâce à un Comité Central. Grâce au marché. Corée du Sud, 1960. Plus pauvre que le Ghana. PIB par habitant inférieur à celui du Sénégal. Choix du capitalisme, de l'export, de la propriété privée. Aujourd'hui, 12e économie mondiale, Samsung, Hyundai, K-pop. Pendant ce temps, la Corée du Nord, qui a fait l'autre choix, mange de l'écorce. Vietnam, 1986. Doi Moi, les réformes de marché. Taux de pauvreté à 70%. Aujourd'hui sous les 5%. Même schéma. Même cause. Même résultat. Inde, 1991. Manmohan Singh libéralise. 270 millions de personnes sorties de la pauvreté en trois décennies. Pologne, Estonie, République Tchèque post-1989. Choc capitaliste. Convergence accélérée vers les niveaux de vie occidentaux. Pendant ce temps, la Biélorussie et la Russie de Poutine, qui ont gardé leurs réflexes dirigistes, stagnent. Tu vois le pattern, Jules-Maurice ? À chaque fois qu'un pays embrasse le capitalisme, ses pauvres deviennent moins pauvres. À chaque fois qu'un pays s'en éloigne, ils crèvent. Venezuela, Cuba, Corée du Nord, Zimbabwe de Mugabe. La liste est longue. Le capitalisme n'est pas parfait. Personne ne le prétend. Mais c'est, factuellement, mathématiquement, historiquement, le seul système qui ait massivement extrait l'humanité de la misère. Tous les autres ont échoué. Tous. Sans exception. Alors quand Castets déclare que tout le monde devrait être anticapitaliste, elle ne tient pas une position morale. Elle réclame, en toute sincérité je veux bien le croire, que l'on remette 84% de l'humanité dans la merde où elle a passé 99% de son histoire. C'est ça que tu trouves drôle, mon coco ? La réalité est dure à accepter quand on a construit son identité politique sur un mensonge. Mais elle est là. Têtue. Documentée. Sourcée. Elle ne s'efface pas en mettant cinq emojis qui rigolent. Cite-moi un fait précis qui est faux dans ce que je viens d'écrire. Un seul. Avec une source. Je t'attends.

🚨 China just built a coal system that makes electricity without burning coal. Read that again. Instead of combustion, it converts carbon’s chemical energy directly into electricity using an electrochemical fuel cell. No steam turbines. No conventional heat-engine limits. Potentially much higher efficiency. Even wilder CO₂ is captured at the source and turned into useful chemicals. If scalable, this doesn’t just improve coal it may redefine what fuel is. Maybe the future of energy isn’t burning matter… but extracting energy through structure. Could fossil fuels become electrochemical resources instead of fuels? Follow me I track where physics becomes technology.

For all the people who seem confused about the fact that the English exist and are a people, let me add a personal touch to help explain why they do, and why it’s important… When I’m in Fulham I feel a great tie as half of my family lived there from the time it was a small Middlesex village until the 1990s. When I go to Kent I think of the other side of my family who used to work in the shipyards whose graves we can still go and see today. My favourite branch of the armed forces will always be the Navy, the vocation of more than half of my great-grandfathers; some of whom were sunk on the same ship. When I see the rolling hills of Wiltshire I think if the eleven generations of my ancestors who were Lords of the Manor at Bromham—the Bayntuns. I’ll be in Fife next week, and I’ll be thinking about the side of my family who have in Dunfermline for generations. No doubt I’ll be searching for Burrell tartan in the novelty gift shop. I’ll remember the tales my grandmother used to tell me about Robert the Bruce and the spider in the abbey. And every time I drive over Putney Bridge (and it’s often) I think of my great-grandfather arresting the serial killer, John Christie, under it on the towpath. One of the most decorated policemen in southwest London. Being part of a nation is more than a passport, and it’s more than just ourselves. It’s a story of men and women living their lives and that leading to you. We inherit the land and ethics and faith that they had. As an Englishman I have a duty to preserve and restore that. Nobody who has been here for a generation or two could have that claim or that loyalty.

The core argument of critical race theory is quite literally that any bad thing Blacks or other minorities do is white people's fault. The core argument of later-wave feminism is quite literally that any bad thing women do is men's fault. I can point you to chapter and verse here, if you want - i.e., Kendi (2020: 12). These are stupid and untenable ideologies.

It is insane to think about how much the term 'rape culture' was thrown around when I was at school in reference to occasional sexist remarks made by male students. Now we have migrants literally using their culture to justify sexual assaults and rape, the same people who considered remarks to be 'rape culture' are silent. It's a perfect example of the danger of watering down language, as well as authoritarian ideology causing extreme cognitive dissonance.

Paul Weston: "The eastern half of Europe that suffered real communism is now preserving Western civilisation, while the western half that believed itself free has succumbed to Marxist subversion and is sleepwalking toward confrontation or collapse."

Fear of being called racist is getting us killed. And we're called racist anyway. The inquiry into Axel Rudakubana’s crimes has revealed that his parents knew he was a danger and didn’t stop him. On the morning of the attack his mother discovered empty knife packaging, realised he'd left the house for the first time in 2 years - and went back to bed. But more worryingly, a teacher raised concerns about Axel Rudakubana - and was then accused of racism. There's a culture in British institutions of fear of racism. And it’s getting young people killed - not just on this occasion, but also in the Manchester Arena bombing and in Valdo Calocane's rampage in Nottingham. How did "racism" become seen as worse than "letting little girls get stabbed to death"? Also, what even is racism? We've got the concept of "diversity", which means people have different cultures and backgrounds - but those differences are only ever positive? That's not mathematically possible. It's perfectly acceptable for BBC presenter Amol Rajan to mention his children's Indian “civilisation that’s in their blood”. But if someone suggests a lack of civilisation could be in someone's blood, they're committing a racist hate crime. Well, which is it? Are traits carried in people's blood or not? We're told that the overrepresentation of black men in the criminal justice system is proof of "racial bias" in our institutions. What if there's a more obvious reason? The racial bias in our institutions is anti-white. Black men like Valdo Calocane and Axel Rudakubana are freed to kill; if they were white, the authorities would have no qualms about locking them up. Nobody would be tiptoeing around, minimising their threat out of fear of being labelled "racist".