Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...
And, by "boss" I mean Big Dubai Money who seem to have their hand in everything from GB News on the "right" to the new UK prime minister on the "left":
Ex Lammy adviser Ben Judah explains that Andy Burnham is well known to the ruling elites [dictators] in Qatar & the UAE & they view him very favourably (he means this as a good thing)
Tell us again how Andy Burnham is going to dismantle 40 years of neoliberalism. pic.twitter.com/Kp2xbgHSTC
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) July 20, 2026
Indeed.
And, this in from the delusions department:
The test of any Prime Minister is: do you leave your country in a better place than you found it?
I'm proud that the answer is yes. pic.twitter.com/BMiapBQbEI
— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) July 19, 2026
Um, okay.
I particularly enjoyed the bit where he was talking about "protecting women" with B-roll of him standing beside a woman in a hijab.
Is it any surprise then that - even as he exits the stage - his deputy is trying to conceal information that would actually protect women if acted upon?
Ministry of Justice taking legal action to avoid publishing conviction data broken down by nationality.
They know the damage they've done to our country, and now they're covering it up - just as they did with the grooming gangs. pic.twitter.com/46XRZ4p0Hd
— S A M M Y Woodhouse (@officialsammyuk) July 20, 2026
Surely, Lammy wouldn't embark on this if the new boss wasn't also on board?
[UPDATE: Lammy out.]
As Mark previously observed:
..."Immigrant" in crime statistics is a term of art. As in the BBC's insistence that the Algerian stabber is as Irish as Val Doonican, a migrant who acquires a German passport is as Teutonic as Goethe. So, if you stab Fritz en route to your naturalisation interview and then stab Heinrich after you've signed all the paperwork, you'll be entered in two entirely separate categories. Nevertheless, the average German is four times as likely to be attacked by an immigrant as by a fellow citizen.
According to the latest rape numbers ...well, tell you what, let's not even bother with common-or-garden rape. Without wishing to go all Whoopi Goldberg and start drawing distinctions about "rape rape", let's cut straight to gang rape, which the Germans define as rape by more than one perpetrator: last year, in the country's most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, it was up by forty-three percent to 246 - which is roughly one gang-rape every working day. "We can do this!", as Angela Merkel likes to say - and she's right, if by "do this" you mean the fourteen-year-old girl walking home from school: You can do her with impunity, as that court verdict makes clear.
And this is in a country where the rape of local women by soldiers of the Soviet occupation lingered in the folk-memory for half-a-century - because gang-rape in particular was understood as an act of war and the spoils of victory. And yet the present epidemic cannot be addressed with any honesty.
The chairman of Germany's police union thinks those latest statistics will be a game-changer: "What many have always suspected has now been proven," he says. "There is no more room for whitewashing."
But, as those German judges and psychiatrists make plain, western officialdom is too heavily invested in the whitewashing to stop now. There is a sense - which the rape gangs certainly pick up on - that European societies are now entirely unmanned. The most vulnerable among us - small groups of infants in an Annecy park or outside a Dublin school, thousands of girls in every medium-sized town up and down the spine of England - are routinely preyed upon by monsters. As my Mark Steyn Cruisemate Eva Vlaardingerbroek says, "European girls are fair game. Sold out by our establishments."
And if, as in Dublin or Romans-sur-Isère in recent days, "far-right elements" are minded to object, the state cracks down on them far harder and faster than it does with the gang-rapists of that poor fifteen-year-old. Because they're the real problem, aren't they? In Limerick, Fianna Fáil councillor Abul Kalam Azad Talukder says the Dublin rioters should be "shot in the head".
Oh, they would be if the authorities thought they could get away with it, Councillor. In the meantime, the Irish government is content to pass an anti-speech law that will decrease further the likelihood of being able to talk openly about migration, crime or any other public policy that matters.
So I'll take those fellows on the street any day over a ruling class that demands we sacrifice our innocents on the altar of multiculturalism. And I would welcome a little more such righteous anger when the alternative is a "justice" system that in Germany marches ever closer to making explicit its disregard for the victims of the state's mad experiment: You can't make a diversity omelette without breaking a few chicks. To modify the apocryphal advice of Queen Victoria and Lady Hillingdon, lie back and think of the multiculti utopia.
Such a society does not deserve to survive. And, indeed, will not. Our present official delusions are a mere interlude.
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