Ostracism is all the left have left. By Jennifer Sey.

It’s now “right wing” to be willing to talk to people who hold different political beliefs.

Much of the left just cuts anyone out of their lives who questions any one tenet of the Democratic Party’s platform.

Matt Van Swol:

I’ve gone to the same gym for almost 4 years now. Good friends with nearly everyone there.

One day a guy who used to make small talk with me, just stopped. Didn’t think much of it, but it went on for weeks. Found out later he’s a liberal and someone showed him my X account and he just won’t talk to me now.

This has happened many many many times since becoming publicly conservative. I’ve lost many friends and even many more acquaintances. They won’t even discuss us. Won’t even look at me.

It’s bad for me… but it’s 10,000x worse for my wife. Liberal women are genuinely EVIL to conservative women. It’s on another level. Pure evil.

No one talks about this enough but the public shaming of people who are openly conservative is extremely intense and unless you have a lot of mental fortitude and surround yourself with better people quickly…

I can understand why many find it is not worth saying anything at all. But that doesn’t make it harder for those of us who speak up… because we are the few.

Happened to Joanne and me when we publicly pointed out that the carbon dioxide theory of global warming was exaggerated rubbish. Got better friends now 🙂

Feminists perfected the art of bullying though ostracism. Now it’s all that remains for the left, who have not debated issues for over a decade now — instead relying on shut-uppery via media dominance, snark, reputational damage, cancellation, and cheating with voting to overcome their opponents. Physical violence (including assassination) is also creeping back into the left’s repertoire. At some point the left will have to concede that their party of patronage — which is only a rump of 10% of the population — is not sustainable. in a democracy. They will ether have to launch naked authoritarian rule (aka Chinese social credit and digital currencies, with Islamic enforcers) or they will have to concede the jig is up.

Climate Change has become electoral poison. By Joanne Nova.

Too late, the socialists have realized they’ve lost the working class

Not only did the British Labour Party get humiliated in the last few days, but ten thousand miles away, so did the Australia conservatives where they suffered a catastrophic 30% swing to One Nation. The unthinkable is happening. Unelectable Climate Deniers are romping home politically, and the workers are voting “far-right”.

Climate change and the core left-wing totems are not just failing to reach voters, they’re actively turning them away. It’s the same in the US where voters have already elected the antichrist of Climate Action (and three times already). It’s slowly dawning on the socialists that it is not a momentary blip.

Things are getting so bad, the New York Times warned Democrats to “Forget climate change” and talk about something else.

 

lmao

 

Why are the globalists losing? Immigration of course, but there’s also this (via Craig Kelly):

Can you pick on the graph when Rudd was elected and Labor started to subsidise all these “cheap” renewables?

 

Greg Sheridan in The Australian:

Here’s a critically important take-out from the Farrer by-election. Almost 65 per cent of all voters chose parties that explicitly reject net-zero emissions targets. Yet for how long have we been told that it would be electoral death for any party to oppose net zero in principle? …

Farage is utterly contemptuous of net zero commitments and just won very big. Farage and the Conservatives combined score just under half the popular vote in Britain. They, and a couple of smaller parties, now thoroughly oppose net zero. Even Tony Blair says the Labour government should ease back on net zero, as so many other developed countries are doing, either pulling back their official targets or quietly going for more fossil fuel development and power generation.

Across Asia this is undisguised. In much of Europe, it’s happening a bit more shamefacedly.

Almost the last true-believing net-zero governments are Keir Starmer’s Labour government in Britain and Anthony Albanese’s in Australia. Britain, in all its mess, is probably Australia’s future. …

When will the Australian Liberals get courage?

I mention all this because it goes to the heart of the Liberals’ contemporary dilemma. The Coalition has renounced net zero. But having done so, Angus Taylor and the Liberals almost never mention the fact. It seems they quietly try to reassure country electorates that they’re done with net zero, but do so in such a sotto voce way that they hope city electorates such as Wentworth and Kooyong won’t notice they’ve changed. …

Changing a policy then not campaigning on it doesn’t win you the support of those who hated the policy, nor does it win you the acquiescence of those who support the policy you’ve abandoned. As my hero, GK Chesterton, observed, it’s the willingness to die fighting that gives the brave soldier a chance of surviving a terrible battle, where the coward has no chance at all.

Maybe it will only be a few more years until the world is ready to hear what is wrong with the climate models, and why decarbonization was always rather pointless. Still a bit early though.

Taxpayers despair at forking out for ISIS brides. By Flat White in The Spectator.

Opposition Leader Angus Taylor offered two numbers that represent taxpayer-funded support.

• Pensioners: $31,309
• ISIS Brides: $46,889

Taylor presented these figures in a social media video where he says: …

‘Someone who has been working hard all their life, paying taxes, gets access to less than the so-called ISIS Brides. People who have supported a death cult — a terrorist organisation. This is wrong.

‘And I’m calling on the government to permanently ban these ISIS sympathisers from getting access to welfare benefits. Australians expect their taxes to go to those who really need it. Not to Islamist extremists.’

This sentiment is well-represented within the wider Australian community. Not only is it commonly recognised that welfare is unfairly distributed to services such as the NDIS over pensioners or struggling homeless young people, many believe those who leave the country to join an organisation that seeks violence against Australia should be permanently excluded. …

Globalist BS:

The current Labor Party has repeatedly filled the headlines with excuses about being bound by the law to explain why the latest batch of ISIS Brides cruised into Sydney and Melbourne. This ignores the obvious reality that politicians in Canberra write the laws and, if they so wished, could write laws in contradiction to international agreements just as other nations do when acting in self-interest. …

Local media will have a fit if welfare is stripped from those within the Islamic community, even if they are associated with potentially illegal extremism. …

While the government probably hopes the arrest of some ISIS Brides will calm the outrage (this is a long way from conviction and serving time for any alleged offences), many fear nothing will change. Nothing changed in 2019, 2022, and 2025. So far, none have served jail time with only one conviction.

It has not been lost on the wider public that there appears to be no punishment whatsoever for joining a terrorist organisation despite a law existing saying that there should be. …

One Nation:

One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson would never have let anyone associated with ISIS into the country. Of that, we can be pretty confident, if her press releases are to believed. …

‘…Labor’s politically motivated, fear-driven coddling of Islamic extremism was complicit in the rising antisemitism which led to the Bondi massacre…’

Harsh words for a government that has commissioned an expensive, and arguably meandering, Royal Commission that has guidelines insisting on maintaining social cohesion instead of the obvious threat of Islamic terrorism. …

‘This ideology has no place in Australia. It goes against principles on which our nation was founded: the rule of law, freedom of speech and religion; secular democracy. This ideology has no room in the world for anyone who doesn’t submit to it. Labor has submitted without even realising it.’

Opposing radical Islam is a shared value between the warring factions of conservative politics, although the limitation on the words used for this opposition sit within the usual restraints of each party. Liberals will wink and nod, the Nationals lean forward to the camera. One Nation tempts retaliation in the Senate, often from their fellow conservatives. Who can forget the censure motions against Pauline herself in the leadup to the Bondi massacre?

Who knows, maybe a 50-year automatic conviction upon return might have stopped ISIS supporters from returning without the need for all this legal complexity…

What sort of country have we become?

Australians are more likely to go to jail for a mean tweet about whatever the trending Woke talking point is than flying to another country to join a terror group. Think about how utterly broken our legal system is.

Are Covid Jabs Causing Personality Change? By Jacqui Devoy.

An increasing number of people are reporting noticeable changes in the personalities, moods, and cognitive functions of friends and family members who have received multiple doses of Covid mRNA injections. While neurological side effects from these injections have been widely acknowledged in medical literature for several years now – including headaches, Guillain-Barré syndrome, Bell’s palsy, transverse myelitis and other inflammatory or demyelinating conditions – observers are now highlighting what appears to be a parallel rise in mental and behavioural alterations. These include mood swings, irritability, depression, anger, spitefulness, reckless behaviour and dementia-like forgetfulness.

Many describe loved ones who seem to have aged dramatically – looking 20 years older in just a few years – alongside new serious physical illness such as cancers, heart issues, brain tumours and mobility problems. Anecdotes circulate of previously responsible individuals engaging in impulsive reckless actions, such as a friend arrested for drunk driving who had never shown such tendencies before, or others becoming forgetful to the point of exhibiting signs of early dementia, or turning uncharacteristically bitter and difficult to be around. Some poor souls have felt tortured by paranoia and suicidal thoughts and sadly a few have gone onto taking their own lives as a result.

It is now common knowledge in certain medical circles that mRNA injections can trigger neurological complications. Reviews document a range of central and peripheral nervous system effects, including encephalitis, myelitis, cranial neuropathies and paresthesia. One analysis of neurological adverse events noted symptoms like paraesthesia (56%), fatigue (46%) and cognitive impairment (36%) in affected individuals, often following mRNA formulations. …

While many events are described as rare or transient, cumulative reports suggest they are not negligible, especially with repeated jabs. The more jabs a person has, the more likely they are to develop these problems.

The media and health bureaucracy might go there, but only after acknowledging that the the US 2020 election was rigged, and the carbon dioxide theory of global warming was always overblown nonsense. (That is, not in our lifetimes.)

hat-tip Peter S.

Tested and Found Wanting. By David Archibald.

Ben Roberts-Smith:

I expect that I am one of the few people in Australia who has read the Brereton Report in its entirety. I read it on the day it came out. Nobody who has read the whole thing could take it seriously after getting to page 120. …

Class warfare:

Now comes his current trial. There are interviews with other SAS troops on the internet. It turns out that it was the judge in the defamation trial was selective about what he accepted as evidence. He accepted the story of one bloke who hadn’t seen Ben Roberts-Smith shoot anyone, but had a feeling, and did not accept the evidence of the colonel in charge of the regiment who had been on site at the time and said that nothing had happened.

So the judge had been in error, at best. Not impartial. He had wanted Ben Roberts-Smith to go down. Some $300 million has been spent on the persecution of Ben Roberts-Smith to date. The persecution had four blokes who had committed war crimes and traded those four for a shot at Ben Roberts-Smith. We have not been told what the four did. They have been told that if they perjure themselves, they won’t go to prison. None of the four have a public profile as a hero.

Getting a conviction on any of them won’t suit the persecutors’ interest, which is kulturkampf against authentic Australian culture and the notion that Australia is worth fighting for. Which is the same reason that Cardinal Pell was persecuted. …

 

 

Testing, testing:

From time to time we have moments that test us. For Australia’s political parties, it was the Farrer by-election. where each party had the opportunity to weigh in on Ben Roberts-Smith.

Only One Nation passed that test. Remaining silent wasn’t an option. If you couldn’t see that a perfectly fine, almost flawless Australian was being persecuted by evil people with an unlimited budget, then you know nothing about how Australia is being run now. The political parties that did not come out in support of Ben Roberts-Smith have disqualified themselves from government by their silence. …

Anybody can rabbit on about migrants and economic management and change their mind once they actually get into government, as Julia Gillard did with the carbon tax. But only those who have the right values — shared, common, decent Australian values — will do the right thing in government because it is the right thing to do.

The details of the Ben Roberts-Smith case are mostly irrelevant to what is really going on. Woke Australia wants to tear down traditional Australia, and BRS is a hero and defended traditional Australia. It’s the same as defacing statues of Captain Cook, or persecuting Cardinal Pell over made-up sexual charges.

It’s class warfare conducted by the woke ruling class, against the deplorable rest of us. Notice how everyone almost immediately knew which side they were on? None of the ruling class wondered out loud about whether BRS was in fact guilty or whether it was a witch-hunt — no, they screamed “guilty” and wanted to prosecute him, straight away. And the rest of us knew immediately that something was off about the whole exercise, even before any details of the case came out.

Like the prosecution of Cardinal Pell, the details and what actually happened do not matter. BRS and Pell, like the statues of Captain Cook, are our symbols, so they want to denigrate them to make the new woke ruling class look better.

Major political realignment underway in the US.

Fugitive Caesar:

Leftists feel despair because their patronage networks are being dismembered piece by piece.

Trump supporters feel despair because they were locked out of career development by DEI racial discrimination and suffered 18 years of decline since 2008.

Porkypine:

The modern radical-left Dems have maybe 10% of the country as true-believer supporters. Maybe less. Then there are Blue-Bubble herd followers, who get them to maybe 35%. In a good Dem year low-info moderates who swallow the Dem lie du jour bring it to maybe 45%. Then if cheating can make up the rest, Dems once again control all that sweet grift. It’s been working for decades now.

The obvious conclusion is, the Dems are vulnerable on several of those points, and Trump is indeed working those angles hard. The longer-term conclusion is, the US system rewards two leading parties vying for the center, and punishes all others. But the Dems can’t compete for the center anymore (other than by lying) because any move that way is anathema to the lefties who’ve taken over.

So yeah, they now have to try everything, legal or otherwise, except centrism to win. And they’re desperate because they’re beginning to perceive their likely future as a rump radical 10% ignored and marginalized by some new two-centrist-parties national realignment. Desperate people steeped in violent revolutionary tropes… It’s gonna get ugly until they finally internalize that they’ve lost.

It’ll get far uglier if we do let them win — no tyrant worse than one who’s just had a good scare. Best we don’t let this crowd win national power again, ever.

Glenn Reynolds:

Due to an “accidental error” in the 2020 census, blue states got more seats in the House — and more electoral votes — than they were entitled to. When that “error” is fixed, the situation will be worse for them. Then there’s the flood of refugees from blue states to red, further expanding their Congressional majorities….

Meanwhile, the Trump Administration is choking off the flood of taxpayer money that has kept leftist organizations and institutions afloat, buying votes with taxpayer dollars. And the federal workforce has shrunk 10% with more “draconian cuts” on the way.

It’s a bit like Winfield Scott’s “Anaconda Plan” to choke off the Confederacy — which worked once it was actually employed. (And Trump is doing something similar with Iran, choking it off gradually rather than going for a swift coup de main, which is disappointing some people but which will work at a much-reduced cost in lives. But that’s another essay.)

This is why the Democrats, and the left, but I repeat myself, are unhappy. They feel it happening. …

It’s also the case that many on the right don’t know what winning feels like, because there hasn’t been that much of it. Oh, there have been election wins, but those mostly wind up in legislative and administrative paralysis. The political world is full of midwit blather about why you can’t do things. The right used to believe that blather, but now the administration has realized that you can just do things regardless of the blather.

Modern McCarthyist:

I don’t think people understand just how much of an existential crisis Democrats are in. If they don’t gain control of the House, Senate, Presidency, pack the Supreme Court, re-mandate racial gerrymandering, and give illegals mass amnesty by 2032, they will all but die as a nationally competitive political party.

With the VRA being overturned we will net at least 15 seats and the census will give us like a dozen more, as well as forcing democrats to redraw their seats being bolstered by illegals, making them more republican. This will make the house all but impossible to win for Dems.

Then the senate will become increasingly hard for them to win as states like Nevada keep shifting red and republicans slowly keep picking better candidates.

And the nail in the coffin? The census will make it all but impossible for dems to win the presidency unless they win the popular vote by at least 6 points.

We’re witnessing the last gasps of the satanic ideology known as leftism. We will win.

 

The American Left has created a permission structure that says it’s basically OK to wantonly murder wealthy whites, Zionist Jews, Republicans, and others who refuse to get in line with their plans to remake the country.

This is a big problem. https://t.co/tYEpkbuiL2

— Jesse Arm (@Jesse_Leg) May 9, 2026

 

How long before Australia copies it? It usually takes 5 – 10 years for Australia to copy a major US trend, but given the 40% vote for One Nation on the weekend, perhaps it will be sooner.

Bombshell Evidence About the 2020 Election Is Coming. By Matt Margolis at PJ Media.

Something big is on the horizon — and the people saying so aren’t fringe voices on a podcast. They’re senior Trump administration officials.

Monica Crowley, the U.S. government’s chief of protocol, dropped a significant claim on Wednesday: hard evidence that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election is coming, and it’s coming soon. “He did win in a landslide, and we will soon be able to give evidence about that,” Crowley said.

Now, she didn’t lay out a timeline or spell out exactly what the evidence would look like, but the message was clear.

According to the Washington Times, she offered no further details on the nature of what’s being prepared. … [However] her claims track almost perfectly with what FBI Director Kash Patel told Maria Bartiromo last month.

As PJ Media previously reported, Patel appeared on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo and announced that arrests are coming over the coordinated effort to rig the 2020 election.

“We are going to be making arrests, and it’s coming, and I promise you, it’s coming soon,” Patel said.

Two senior officials. Same message. Same urgency. That’s not a coincidence.

Their argument — and they’re not alone in making it — is that a coordinated effort to undermine the 2020 election results led to Joe Biden being declared the winner.

Globalists:

You’ve heard all the liberal arguments that no fraud was actually found, and courts confirmed the election was entirely above board, but that’s simply not true. Every legal challenge filed after the 2020 contest was rejected, not for lack of evidence, but for lack of standing. …

You better believe Democrats are sweating over this.

The establishment media will dismiss all of this as election denialism, but the fact is that the 2020 election was never properly investigated. Instead, we were told to trust the results of the “most secure election in history,” and if you dared to question the results, you were mocked, censored, or demonetized.

But a reckoning is coming. There are now search warrants, grand jury subpoenas, and federal prosecutors involved. The truth will come out.

Google downranked this site six days after the 2020 US election, because we were publishing material about Democrat cheating. Our views went from 50,000 per day to less than a thousand, and we’ve had almost no traffic from Google ever since.

One Nation wins Farrer by-election with 40% of the vote. By Noah Yim, in The Australian.

One Nation candidate David Farley won the 2026 Farrer by-election, marking the first time One Nation has won a seat in the House of Representatives.

Two-Party Preferred: One Nation 57.3% vs. Independent 42.7%

One Nation: David Farley 39.4%

Independent: Michelle Milthorpe 28.4%

Liberal Party: Raissa Butkowski 12.4%

Nationals: Brad Robertson  9.7%

Some say it was because of the economy, which is safer moral ground because it is what the uniparty would prefer you focus on. But the main issue was immigration, though many are still too shy to say so.

Tenneal Hutchesson, a daycare educator, said she had voted all her life for Labor but chose to vote One Nation in the by-election.

“I like what Pauline Hanson says on TV, her opinions, how strong she is about it,” she said.

She said she had not ordinarily cared about politics but she was very interested in this by-election.

And the issue that resolved her?

“Immigration,” her partner offered.

“It’s the ridiculous amount of immigrants in every town,” he said.

“I left Queensland, Moorooka, the whole street got bought up by African stores. Just completely changed in 12 months.”

It wasn’t the local One Nation candidate David Farley that convinced her to vote for the party but rather, Pauline Hanson, Ms Hutchesson said.

The couple said they had seen a lot more of Senator Hanson in the past year since her hijab stunt on the floor of the Senate, they said.

“Yeah – that’s stupid,” they said. “But it got everyone’s attention”.

“Even if she knows she’s going to get backlash, she stands for what she believes in.”

And down the road, a group of family and friends was enjoying lunch by a playground and said they had mostly voted for One Nation.

The clincher for them, they said, was the immigration issue and that Barnaby Joyce had joined One Nation.

“Immigration — only because of the work and the housing,” one said.

The lifelong Liberal voter said he had voted One Nation this time around.

And the group began talking about Barnaby Joyce’s defection to One Nation.

“I haven’t got much time for Pauline, but Barnaby Joyce … he’s caring, the way he’s approaching, he cares about everything he’s talking about,” he said.

“And he’s got a brain in his head,” Jenny offered.

Liberals bomb. By Kos Samaras in The Australian.

The Liberals’ campaign in Farrer was almost perfectly designed to remind voters why they should not vote for them.

Rather than offering anyone in Deniliquin, Hay or Tocumwal a reason to believe their economic future would be different, the campaign was built on culture-war cosplay, attack ads branding Michelle Milthorpe a “teal, not a real independent”, and a sustained barrage designed to delegitimise the One Nation candidate over old Labor links, migrant comments and party infighting.

The strategic premise was that voters in inland NSW would be moved by who the Liberals’ opponents were rather than by what the Liberals themselves stood for.

Then Angus Taylor took the stage on Saturday night and once again managed to talk about regional Australia without mentioning what was actually happening to its economy. Nothing about wage stagnation, the hollowing out of main streets, the leakage of young people, the cost-of-living pressure on the families he still presumes to represent. It was a speech the perfectly summed up the demise of his party.

The Liberal Party, in government, contributed to both the poor economy for inland NSW (ever-increasing government money is lavished on the cities, where the immigrants are) and mass immigration. The Liberals cannot really talk credibly about either issue without a mea culpa.

Chanting ‘intifada’ is a dangerous act that shortens the distance to violence. By Henry Ergas in The Australian.

It took scarcely a moment, once “Globalise the intifada” began to be chanted on our streets and campuses, for its champions to insist the phrase meant nothing of the sort. Intifada, they patiently explained, simply meant struggle; the slogan was no more than a plea to “internationalise the cause”. According to the Palestine Action Group and its Islamist allies, who rallied in Sydney earlier this week, to claim otherwise is to misread the Arabic.

The defence is not merely intellectually dishonest; it reveals why “it is only words” is among the most dangerous sentences people permit themselves to believe.

As an Arabic noun, intifada does indeed possess an old, generic sense: a shaking, a dusting off. That is hardly unusual: holocaust once meant nothing more than a burnt offering; pogrom, in Russian, mere devastation; nakba, in Arabic, a misfortune ranging from mishap to calamity.

Words such as these begin life as ordinary common nouns. But each was claimed by a particular event: from 1945, the Holocaust; from 1987, the intifada. After that, the generic sense survives only in the dictionaries. It does not survive in the public mind.

Linguists call the process “prototype entrenchment”. The mind, hearing a word, reaches for the most vivid, most repeated, most emotionally charged instance and treats that as what the word stands for. Once the historical event has acquired that role, the bare definition recorded in the dictionary can no longer be peeled away from the moral, emotional and political charge the word has come to convey. To hear “Globalise the Holocaust” in 2026 and think “proliferate the supply of burnt offerings” is to misunderstand spoken English. 

Exactly the same is true with intifada. Its prototype, in the global imagination, is not struggle in the abstract: it is two uprisings whose iconography, indelibly embedded by the violence that broke out in September 2000, includes suicide bombings of buses, restaurants and a Passover Seder. That is what the word now carries, not at its margins but as its core. …

Plausible deniability?

Implicature [is] the part of communication that travels not by what one says but by what one obviously means.

To remark “I am not going to call him corrupt” is to inform the room that he is corrupt. The structure is double-jointed: tested under cross-examination, the speaker retreats to what was literally uttered and accuses the critic of putting words in his mouth.

The implicature does the work; the deniability provides the shelter. “Globalise the intifada” provides a textbook case. …

No, the denial is dishonest:

Pressed in a courtroom, the chant is glossed away as “internationalise the struggle”. Chanted from a stage on a Saturday afternoon, it means burnt buses, bombed cafes, murdered children.

The audiences who hear it — on both sides — hear that second meaning with perfect clarity. A slogan that everyone really took to mean only “internationalise the struggle” would hardly stir emotions; what does the stirring is precisely the violent imagery the speaker can also deny.

Words, especially from crowds, preface violence:

The genuinely dangerous moment, however, is not the slogan in isolation; it comes once the slogan begins to repeat. …

Victor Klemperer, the Jewish philologist who retained his sanity during the Third Reich by recording its language in his diary, observed that the regime’s most powerful instrument was its vocabulary, not its decrees: a handful of words, drilled into daily life, did more to remake ordinary Germans than any speech. “Fanatisch”, once unambiguously pejorative, became under repetition a term of praise. “Aktion” became the bureaucratic veil behind which mass shootings disappeared — to incite an aktion was to incite the slaughter of millions of Jews, without actually saying so. Those shifts required no argument, only iteration. …

Slogans are the instrument that does the tuning: and they are, as Canetti observed in the rise of Nazi antisemitism, the tool that drills in the hatred.

Put these mechanisms together and the result is not innocent speech but the manufacture of an atmosphere. A word historically captured by a violent prototype, dressed up in a deniable paraphrase and chanted by bodies whose private hesitations have been switched off -– that is the recipe by which a society talks itself into permission.

It tells one group who it is by telling it who its mortal enemy is. And it tells “the other” — nowadays “the Zios” — that they are no longer part of the moral community. It hardens the shouters against dialogue and compromise. And it thickens the air with the sense that violence, when it comes, will have been only the natural conclusion of what everyone already knew.

The historical record is unambiguous: where crowds are taught to chant a word that already names a massacre, the distance between word and violence, speech and act, never grows: it shortens.

Repetition is, in short, normalisation: hear a phrase once and it can shock; hear it for the 200th time and it has become part of the air we breathe. The extreme becomes ambient; the ambient, obvious; the obvious, embarrassing to question. Thus, each repetition of “Globalise the intifada” wears the menace in rather than out. The cost of saying it falls while the cost of objecting rises. What was once unsayable becomes ever easier to say.

Repetition does its most lethal work, however, not on the solitary newspaper reader but on bodies in a crowd. Slogans are designed not to be murmured but to be chanted rhythmically in unison. Once a phrase enters a crowd, it ceases to function as communication and begins to function as synchronisation. Voices align, breath aligns, sometimes feet align. Individuals shed the small frictions of doubt and hesitation that, in private, would have given them pause.

Very well articulated.

Voters are tired of Broken Britain and its failing administrative state. By Daniel Hannan in The Telegraph.

Voters are fatigued at the administrative failings of the state. Taxes rise and public services decay. We give more to idle working-age adults than we take in income tax from working adults. Our young entrepreneurs are relocating to Dallas, Dubai, even Dublin, their places taken by illegal entrants from backward lands.

English voters expressed their frustration by switching to Reform and (to a lesser extent) the Greens. Reform also advanced in Wales and Scotland, but the clearest way to signal contempt for the administrative machine there was to vote for candidates who wanted to break away from it. …

Labour’s policy of neglecting its old electorate to court minority voters has resulted in the loss of both groups. The party’s failure is embodied in the person of Starmer: flat-footed, robotic, incapable of either outlining his vision or adapting to circumstances.

Britain’s on the way down, Argentina’s on the way up. What would happen if they refought the Falklands war now?

Archibald Prize reflects Australia’s descent into ideological mediocrity. By Craig Kelly.

The Archibald Prize was once considered the pinnacle of portraiture in Australia. But like so many of our Institutions it’s been captured and perverted by leftists.

Historically, the award recognized talented artists who could capture the spirit of their subjects through mastery of paint, composition, and form.

Today, however, winning entries are no longer chosen for their artistic merit – but for political correctness, their ability to check all the leftist social boxes. …

Today, works that fail to adhere to politically correctness are unlikely to win acclaim, no matter how skilful or moving they may be.

The implicit message to artists is that success depends less on mastery of their medium and more on their willingness to align with leftist ideological currents.

True artistic freedom — with its risk of offending, challenging, or diverging from orthodoxy — has been quietly replaced by a demand for virtue signalling cloaked as creativity.

 

Decline?

 

In turning away from greatness, modern art has become an echo chamber of decline disguised as progress.

There, fixed it:

Argentina is recovering under Milei, no longer living off printing money and calling it social policy. By Martin Varavsky.

After more than two years of Milei, the international press still does not understand what is happening in Argentina.

The narrative abroad is “shock therapy, social pain, fragile coalition.” That frame misses the actual mechanism.

Argentina did not have a budget problem. It had a printing problem. From 2003 to 2023 the central bank financed deficit after deficit until the peso lost 99 percent of its value against the dollar. Annual inflation hit 211 percent in 2023. Half the country was poor. That was the floor. …

The fiscal deficit was eliminated for the first time in 16 years. Monthly inflation fell from 25 percent to low single digits. The central bank stopped printing to fund the Treasury. Country risk dropped from over 2,500 basis points to a fraction of that. Argentine sovereign debt, which used to trade like a default option, began behaving like normal emerging market paper.

Critics say poverty rose. It did, briefly, because removing price controls and subsidies revealed the real prices of energy, transport and food that the state had been hiding with debt. Once measured honestly, poverty has been falling fast. Real wages are recovering. Mortgages in pesos are reappearing, something that had not been possible in a generation.

Take note western governments, which are  increasingly going down the old Argentinian path:

This matters beyond Argentina. It is the clearest live experiment in whether a developed-style economy can be rebuilt by pulling the state out of places it never belonged.  Spain, Italy and France should be paying attention.

A country does not get poor because it lacks resources. It gets poor because its political class learned to live off printing money and calling it social policy. Argentina spent 80 years proving that. It is now spending two years proving the opposite.

Losers:

Milei dismantled the apparatus that fed millions through the subsidy route, the ghost jobs, and the activist posts. That sector isn’t going to be happy about an adjustment that cuts off their income. Milei’s merit is that the majority put up with it anyway.

Still turning around:

The recovery is uneven — formal sectors are rising, while informal ones and small SMEs are still down. The honest indicator isn’t the average; it’s the median in people’s pockets. The hard part is still missing: getting the adjustment to turn into private investment that pulls salaries up.

Commenters:

Milei’s policies is the shock therapy that Finland, France, Spain and several other European countries need. Its not reported, because its diametrically opposed to what politicians want to keep doing: increasing the size of the state. …

Our politicians as well as the puppet masters are scared shitless. So they prevent any positive news on Milei.

Starmergeddon — It’s a bloodbath for The Uniparty Blob in the UK elections. By Joanne Nova.

Turns out, when they have a choice, the Brits don’t want Net Zero or Mass Immigration

The English Council Elections won’t change the UK parliament, but they are the largest most significant poll of the mood of Great Britain. …

Nigel Farage’s Party — Reform UK — have stormed into more than 1,300 councilor seats in England (out of about 5,000), taken from Labour as well as the Tories. The Conservatives haven’t recovered. The Green wave didn’t happen. …

Restore Britain, is new party launched by ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe, and endorsed by Elon Musk. They are so new, they only stood in 10 seats, but won all of them. Where Reform UK wants to stop the boats and deport illegal migrants. Restore UK wants to reverse mass immigration.

Overall vote:

Reform 27%
Conservatives 20%
Labour 15%
Greens 14%
Lib Dems 14%
Others 10%

Converting the results to seats in the British Parliament if a national election were held now:

 

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party won, but Rupert Lowe’s Restore Party did really well despite what Farage would like you to believe (via Basil the Great):

Nigel Farage said Rupert Lowe wouldn’t win 1% in Great Yarmouth.

Instead he LANDSLIDED the ELECTION and won ALL TEN SEATS.

Nigel Farage said Rupert Lowe wouldn’t win 1% in Great Yarmouth

Instead he LANDSLIDED the ELECTION and won ALL TEN SEATS

Amazing result pic.twitter.com/1NjMi9oozi

— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) May 8, 2026

 

39 Muslim councillors elected. By Elham Asaad Buaras in The Muslim News.

An estimated 134 Muslim candidates stood in England’s local elections on May 1, with 39 winning seats …

• Labour, including its Co-operative wing, fielded the most Muslim candidates — 49 in total — of whom 12 were elected. …
• The Conservatives ran 37 Muslim candidates, eight of whom were successful …
• The Liberal Democrats selected 16 Muslim candidates, half of whom won seats …
• The Greens put forward seven Muslim candidates, with one elected, while Reform UK saw notable success: two of its three Muslim candidates were elected …
• Independent Muslim candidates fared particularly well. Of 12 standing, seven were elected.

“Far right” is the new normal. By Northern Barbarian.

When I hear someone being dismissed as “far right” these days, I think, oh, you mean normal.

Ben Graham:

That moment was a genuine turning point for me.

When ordinary British citizens were immediately framed as “far right” in the aftermath of the 3 young girls from Southport being murdered, I realised something had gone badly wrong in this country.

It was the moment I started questioning how the government views and treats its own people.