
From the same march: Real Iranians on one side waving the Lion and Sun flag. White privileged leftists waving the islamic regime flag on the other side. The progressive Left wants Middle Easterners to be oppressed. You can't make this shit up.
Jonny Dixon-Smith
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From the same march: Real Iranians on one side waving the Lion and Sun flag. White privileged leftists waving the islamic regime flag on the other side. The progressive Left wants Middle Easterners to be oppressed. You can't make this shit up.




Two London Protests in May 2021 - during lockdown measures, covid jab rollout and mandates - prior to being 'granted freedom' in July 2021, both attended by hundreds of thousands of people. I need to say this again; unapologetically, and without dilution. A slightly emotional moment here, anyone who lived it will understand... others just want to forget. To the people who stood up in 2020 and kept standing when it would have been safer, easier and more convenient to acquiesce - you matter more than history will ever properly record. This one's for you, the un-'vaccinated,' the early freedom fighters. Anyone who 'woke up' and spoke up in 2022 or later will never understand what it was like. They cannot. There has been nothing - not before, not since - that compares to the psychological warfare, the social exile, the professional destruction, the coordinated humiliation of those years. It was singular. It was relentless. It was designed to break people. And still, you stood. You were mocked as irrational. Painted as dangerous. Deplatformed. Censored. 'Fact-checked.' Threatened. Arrested. Some of you were physically assaulted. Some lost careers, friends, reputations, family. The hostility didn’t just come from institutions, it came from neighbours, colleagues, strangers in the street. From the self-proclaimed 'compassionate.' From the enforcers of 'safety.' From police who forgot restraint. From citizens who forgot humanity. I know. Because I was there. I was arrested - sometimes violently - beaten, charged and convicted. Multiple times. Arrested as a terrorist and placed on a watch-list as a 'prolific anti-vaxxer.' They tried to outlaw your speech - literally. They tried to erase your questions. They wanted silence... total, obedient silence. And you refused. History has a pattern: the people who are first to speak are always punished hardest. It is only later - when the dust settles and the narrative softens - that others cautiously admit what those early dissenters endured. But those of us who were there know. We know the cost. We know the fear. We know how alone it felt. And we also know this: without those stubborn, 'crazy,' humanitarian, brave souls who refused to comply, who tried to inform others - the damage would have been worse. The injuries. The deaths. You were not reckless. You were resolute. You were not selfish. You were principled. You were not insane. You were early. And whether the world acknowledges it or not; lives were saved because you would not be intimidated or coerced into silence. That kind of courage doesn’t disappear just because the headlines move on. It remains. And it matters. Still. If you survived that. If you did not acquiesce. If you kept fighting... I know I’ll see you soon. Because that time was not just a test of compliance for the masses, it was a test of endurance. And you passed. Now, get ready... once again. We warned about what's looming, too. And we cannot afford to be 'vindicated' in the same way again. We must stop it in its tracks. But this time, the army is larger. The truth has spread farther. The awareness is greater. And our strength - tested, forged, unyielding - stands truly fucking steadfast. Thanks to @OracleFilmsUK for making sure history - and the truth - was captured and preserved.



Rupert Lowe addresses young White men: “There is nothing wrong with being White, there is nothing wrong with being a man, there is nothing wrong with being straight.” NO MORE WHITE GUILT.






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The scrapping of an Eton-backed free sixth form in Middlesbrough tells us more about Labour than any manifesto ever could. A project designed to educate the brightest children from one of the poorest parts of the country was not stopped because it failed, cost too much, or lacked need. It was stopped because it threatened to succeed. And success, when it cannot be controlled, is intolerable to this government. This was not a fee-paying outpost or a vanity scheme. It was a free school, approved under the last government, partnered with a proven academy trust, aimed squarely at deprived pupils with high academic ability. The offer was simple: take children who show promise and give them an education equal to the best in the country. That should have been uncontroversial. Instead it triggered hostility, suspicion, and finally cancellation. Not because of what it would have done, but because of what it symbolised. The real offence was a four-letter word: Eton College. That name short-circuited reason. Local Labour figures spoke of "elitism" while opposing a free school for poor children. Ministers talked about surplus places and SEND funding while quietly abandoning a project already designed to address a regional attainment gap that everyone admits exists. None of it holds up. The explanations came after the decision, not before it. Look at the facts Labour prefers not to dwell on. The North East lags badly behind London on A-level results and university entry. That gap has widened, not narrowed. This school was explicitly designed to deal with the A-level drop-off that has trapped bright pupils in the region for years. Its location was central, its funding secure, its academic model tested. Scrapping it did nothing to help SEND pupils and nothing to raise standards elsewhere. It simply removed an option that would have worked. What happened in Middlesbrough fits a pattern we have already seen. When schools succeed by insisting on discipline, knowledge, and high expectations, the response from Labour is not curiosity but suspicion. Not imitation but obstruction. Katharine Birbalsingh and Michaela showed what happens when deprived children are taken seriously. Instead of being celebrated, that success is treated as a problem to be managed. The lesson is the same here: excellence outside the approved model must be neutralised. The Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson, claims the money could be better spent elsewhere. That argument collapses on contact with reality. Identical Eton-Star colleges have been approved in other Labour-run areas. The money exists. The model is acceptable. What differed in Middlesbrough was not need, but politics. Local ideological resistance was indulged, and bright children paid the price. This is the quiet cruelty of modern Labour education policy. It speaks endlessly about disadvantage while dismantling the very ladders that allow people to climb out of it. It treats aspiration as a threat and excellence as exclusion. It would rather keep everyone inside a failing system than allow some to rise beyond it, because rising exposes the lie that background is destiny. We are told this is about fairness. It is not. Fairness would mean expanding opportunity wherever it appears. What Labour practices instead is levelling by denial. If not everyone can have something, no one should. If a school might allow working-class children to outperform expectations, it must be stopped in case it embarrasses the system. Middlesbrough did not lose a school. It lost permission to excel. A message was sent to its brightest children: know your place. That is not compassion. It is control. And until Labour grasps the difference, it will keep dressing envy up as justice and calling restraint care. Ministers will feel nothing. Children will pay the price. "Bridget Phillipson, claims the money could be better spent elsewhere. That argument collapses on contact with reality."

I'm a psychologist. The problem with Adolescence, as brilliantly acted as people report it is, is that essentially it gives us a blank slate model of violence. This blank slate view of violence pervades the worst pseudo-research in forensic psychology advocacy as well (although there is good research as well in the field). The blank slate assumption is wrong, just factually wrong, and leads to the conclusion that all boys are potentially dangerous, and can be placid one year, and dangerous the next with the wrong influences. In actual fact, there is likely a large genetic component of sociopathy and callousness in violent youth, as well as cultural components, such as fatherlessness, and is not the case that crimes typically happen in the way shown in program. I don't think non-violent boys, with fathers present, are dangerous powder kegs. Boys should be treated with good expectations, great decency and respect. I think about 3% of men and boys are dangerous due to violent callousness, and will have shown prior signs of that since childhood. Nevertheless, the dangers of the internet are real, with warping influences. That is true. Knife crime in the UK does not tend to emerge primarily from stable homes like the one in the show. Evidence from systematic reviews, public health studies, and official statistics shows it is strongly associated with unstable family environments and gang involvement.


@KirstieMAllsopp You surprise me, Kirstie - I thought you were made of sterner stuff.