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It can be striking to consider just how rapidly a country’s – or even much of the world’s – society and culture can change, and often largely owing to the influence of a single individual. In most cases these transformative figures are warriors: Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Napoleon. In our own time, the man who is ushering us into what feels like a new era – namely, Donald Trump – is not a warrior but a peacemaker, albeit a peacemaker who’s deeply familiar with the ancient wisdom that the best way to establish peace is to be prepared to the hilt for war.
Not only has Trump overseen the Abraham Accords as well as brokered peace between India and Pakistan, Israel and Iran, Cambodia and Thailand, Egypt and Ethiopia, Serbia and Kosovo, Azerbaijan and Armenia, and Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His firm action on illegal immigration and his outspokenness about freedom of speech have given strength to Western Europeans who have heretofore been all too timid to speak up boldly about these issues. And his string of successes have helped empower Western European parties that share his agenda, more or less, among them the AfD in Germany, the National Rally in France, and the Freedom Party in Austria.
At home, the backlash to radical woke-ism that made Trump’s decisive 2024 victory possible has begun to alter the cultural landscape in ways both big and small. Companies and universities are giving up on DEI. In place of clothing ads featuring morbidly obese models we have the sexy actress Sydney Sweeney promoting American Jeans. Low-rated Trump-haters like Stephen Colbert are losing their TV gigs. Howard Stern, the sometime King of All Media, who ruled the airwaves with a daily audience of as many as twenty million only to turn off his core audience with his irrational hatred for Trump (once a frequent guest) and his mindless embrace of woke ideology, is reportedly being dropped by SiriusXM Radio after his numbers have dropped through the floor.
But for me one of the biggest headlines of the last few weeks is this. In Britain, Tommy Robinson, the people’s hero whose uncompromising stance on Muslim rape gangs not very long ago made him persona non grata on mainstream television and a frequent victim of a policing system that arrested critics of Islam while letting Muslim rapists run free, seems to be well on his way to being treated by at least some segments of the British establishment with the respect he deserves, thanks in large part to the fact that Jordan Peterson interviewed him amiably a year ago (garnering 2.7 million hits) and Elon Musk praised him earlier this year on X. In recent days Tommy has not only been accorded a long, sympathetic interview by the English podcaster Dan Wootton but has also been granted a full three hours on the highly influential Triggernometry podcast – whose hosts, Konstantin Kisin and Frances Foster, had for years considered Tommy beyond the pale, but who now accorded him the respect he deserves.
This is not to say that the UK itself is undergoing a huge metamorphosis. The other day, six months after the Munich speech in which J. D. Vance called out our European allies – the UK in particular – for their disregard for freedom of speech, a report by Trump’s State Department repeated the criticism, focusing on British legislation that, among other things, “limit[s] speech around abortion clinics.” The report came in the wake of the UK’s new Online Safety Act, which forbids “harmful content” (that ambiguous term) on social media and requires Internet users to share credit-card information and photographs of themselves in order to access many sites. Then there are various local ordinances in places like Thanet, a town in Kent, where it’s now actually illegal for more than two people to talk together in a public area.
Even more appalling, the UK’s execrable Labour Party prime minister, Keir Starmer, has joined the leaders of France and Canada in promising to reward Hamas’s October 7 butchery by recognizing the so–called “Palestinian state.” This after more than a year during which pro-Hamas mobs have been given wide berth by police even as brave, lone souls carrying British or Israeli flags have been treated like thugs. At times it has seemed that every major public institution in Britain is already in the hands of Muslims or of their compliant, cowardly allies. Every week seems to bring with it a fresh example of cringing official appeasement: on August 14, for example, the City Council of Birmingham – where it’s forbidden to display the Union Jack (but OK to fly the Pakistani flag) – announced that the municipal library would be lit “in green and white to mark the eve of 77th anniversary of Pakistan’s independence day.” Things were bad enough under Queen Elizabeth, but since Charles took the throne, he’s led the way in publicly – and nauseatingly – eulogizing the Religion of Peace.
Still, there may yet be a slim hope for Britain’s recovery from this madness. There are signs that the nation’s insanely polite and passive multitudes – who are politically far more to the right than either Labour or the Tories – may finally have been pushed to the limit of their tolerance for leftist tyranny and their willingness to bite their tongues when it comes to the subject of their country’s ongoing Islamization. If the months after October 7 were marked by frequent rallies (and riots) in support of Hamas, recent weeks have seen ordinary Brits gathering to protest outside the luxury hotels where illegal immigrants are being housed. It is widely assumed that Nigel Farage, the father of Brexit and the founder of the Reform UK Party, will be the next prime minister – a remarkable turn of events in a country where the alternation of power between the Tories and Labour goes back a century.
Not that Farage is the ideal candidate to lead Britain back to sanity. He’s a longtime friend and supporter of Trump – but he’s no Trump. London and many other British cities are so packed with illegal aliens – and with legal Islamic immigrants who have long histories of criminal violence – that the safe, orderly cities of yore, populated by painfully polite and law-abiding natives, are ancient history. But Farage says that deporting any of these foreigners en masse is off the table. A quarter of the country’s Muslims admit to supporting sharia law, but Farage isn’t about to ship any of them home, either. Indeed, many of his party’s leading supporters – and its chairman – are Muslims.
In short, like GB News and Talk TV, which were purportedly established to be right-wing alternatives to the consistently left-leaning BBC, ITV, and Channel 4, Reform UK has proven to be far less of a genuine alternative than was originally expected. Like those new media organs, it appears to be run by people who – afflicted by the most English of weaknesses – are desperate to be “respectable,” to be clubbable, to be embraced by the establishment. A Reform government may well prove to be a marginal improvement over the Tory and Labour regimes of recent decades. But real change can’t happen unless a party gets into power that is prepared to pull a Trump. That party may be Advance UK, which was founded this year by Ben Habib, a former member of Reform, and which Tommy joined last month.
“I don’t believe there’s any hope in Reform,” Tommy told Wootton, condemning Farage’s refusal to criticize mass immigration, censorship, two-tier policing, transgender ideology, and (not least) Islam – among much else – and contrasting his pusillanimity with the boldness of leaders like Trump and the Netherlands’ Geert Wilders. Still, Tommy feels that a Prime Minister Farage would be an improvement over Starmer, provided that he’s succeeded, soon enough, by someone who’s got the guts, character, and vision to do what’s necessary to rescue Britain from Islam – assuming, of course, that it’s not already too late. How wonderful it would be if Farage’s successor were Tommy Robinson himself. At the moment such a development sounds extremely unlikely. But then again, so, at one time, did Donald Trump’s election as president.
I am an Indian. It is not correct that Trump brokered peace between India and Pakistan. He might have pressurised Pakistan to halt war but India ceased fire on her own terms.
Fuck india.
Trump daddy saved your arse.
Make the once Great Britain great again!
I have been a Tommy Robinson fan since his English Defence League days. The British establishment has been deathly afraid of him because he is a truth teller, so they jailed him, harassed him and did everything they could to silence him. And look at the condition of the UK now. The Muslims have practically overrun the UK unchallenged.
There are wisps of backlash starting to surface in the UK, but still not enough to really make a difference yet.
PM Starmer continues to become more and more unpopular. And Nigel Farage is the only politician making a difference. He should team up with Robinson.
I’m stuck in Manchester this week and just like every other major city in almost all of Europe, normal white people are a minority, we’re going to have to be diverse, my grandchildren are going to be forced to get along with the immigrants, I am not going to call them refugees because they are not fleeing from tyranny or war.
The UN and its cronies have flooded the west with migrants and they have done it deliberately to undermine everything western because we’re killing the planet and the wonderful minorities are the victims that need help. That’s what the dumb UN believe.
Almost every white male in Manchester is a fag and so many whit women are tattooed and fat with red/pink/blue/purple hair shaved at the side or removed completely.
It’s no wonder the immigrants have dominated Europe, if they do anything wrong the police send out some woke ugly bitch in a uniform to be laughed at, but a white man will have the force of the law bought down hard.
None of this accidental.
Manchester now has dozens, of huge apartment blocks rising into the sky and just about all the old cultural buildings are lost under them, and these have been built in the last four or five years.
FOUR or FIVE years ago we were FORCED into UN recommended lockdowns, THIS IS ALL PLANNED.
Sorry about the negativity, I was hoping for a positive story about Tommy, but the moment he was released from solitary confinement he was charged with another offence.
September 12th in London will be interesting if the police allow the free speech protest to happen.
Rise like lions after slumber,
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew,
Which in sleep have fallen on you….
Ye are many, they are few,
That is a great poem. Thank you. Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1819 it’s title is The Masque of Anarchy.
This the final verse
I’m saving it for inspiration.
For those interested you can read the whole poem here:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/percy-bysshe-shelley-the-masque-of-anarchy
Let me help colonizers and replacement genocide.
Call them what they are: invaders.
I think we should also add Alex Belfield to the small list of patriots who have been standing up to the tyranny of the commies who have insinuated themselves into our nations bloodstream. Alex was sentenced to 5 years in prison for words, that someone claimed he said.
That’s weird… I just watched that podcast about an hour ago…then just opened this article. Tommy’s had to walk through the fires of Hell just to exercise his God-given right to Free Speech. A true modern day hero of Freedom of conscience and self-defense.
I want to add that years ago, I watched every interview with Tommy Robinson and discussions he posted on Youtube, even with an Imam from Iran. He NEVER exhibited ‘racism’ and never made ad hominem attacks. He was well researched, although, sometimes he became passionate. Of course he was yelling. He was witnessing first hand a holocaust against white, lower-class girls of Christian heritage.
I have come to realize that Tommy Robinson’s true crime is wanting to have a political voice in the UK while being white, male and lower class. The elite were perfectly willing to sacrifice the lower-class girls to their mythical promise of “multiculturalism”. It had no impact on their personal lives whereas confronting radical Muslims would end their careers.
I remember how John Sweeney and the racist, far-left bbc tried to stitch-up Tommy Robinson. But it was hilarious to see how it back-fired and shortly afterwards Mr Sweeney was fired from the racist, far-left bbc.
Why do I call the bbc racist? Because they have advertised jobs and stipulated that only non-whites should apply. Isn’t that an example of racism?
The Rothschilds barely exist as an economic force; you just hate Jews.
Rothschilds were the most powerful force in Europe for a lengthy time. To be merely seen with them was a gift. In fact after they asked a person who did a large favor for them how he’d like to be repaid, he said to paraphrase, can you put your hand on my shoulder and walk along side me today.
I don’t know if Hitler and the Nazi’s caused the family to lose everything in the war and later their power and influence dissipated as a result. I really doubt the family did not recover after WW2. I’m pretty sure arrangements were made to go to America and England with a lot of connections in America.
Here is less supposition
Reconstruction and recovery: The Rothschild family businesses, particularly the British and French branches, were rebuilt and adapted to the changed economic and political landscape of the post-war era. They continued to be major players in finance, investing in various sectors like industrial development, infrastructure, and later, merchant banking and wealth management.
Philanthropy and cultural patronage: The Rothschilds have a long history of philanthropic endeavors, particularly in support of the Jewish community and various social causes. This tradition continued after the war, with contributions to education, healthcare, and the arts.
Support for Israel: Baron Edmond James de Rothschild played a significant role in the early development of Jewish settlements in Palestine, which later led to the establishment of the State of Israel. The family’s philanthropic foundations continue to support projects in Israel today.
Restitution: Efforts to reclaim property and art confiscated by the Nazis continued after the war. In some cases, art and other assets were returned to the family.
Modern legacy: The Rothschild name remains associated with wealth and influence. While their collective wealth has been divided among many descendants over time, they continue to be involved in various financial and business ventures worldwide.
I’d like to see the great Tommy Robinson on Guttfeld’s show
The Islamization of Europe is an international problem that a few outspoken critics will not change. It’s gone on for too long on too large a scale. I hesitate to think Tommy Robinson can do anything of consequence about it, but I wish him luck. Such an international disaster doesn’t just happen without being engineered and supported by powers in the shadows. Until we address that aspect, nothing will change. Nevertheless, my best to Mr. Robinson. And may God protect him.
I think that you are wrong about Farage. He’s controlled opposition and is a selfish chancer always out for himself. Tommy doesn’t want anything to do with him and claims to have the receipts on him which I firmly believe.
It would indeed be awesome if Tommy Robinson succeeded Farage! Why wait England!
I’ve been watching TalkTV every day for almost a year. I can’t agree with Mr. Bawer’s assessment. I don’t find them seeking acceptance from the “mainstream” media, the liberal government or leftist voters. I don’t think being fair, on matters of importance, is kowtowing to any particular ideology.
Mike Graham, Jeremy Kyle and Kevin O’Sullivan point out the absurdities of both the Labour and Tory parties and the individuals who populate them. The BBC is often help up for ridicule due to its propensity to whitewash everything Hamas and Palestinian. If they are seeking to curry favor with the “establishment” they are doing one hell of a poor job.
I often agree with Mr. Bawer’s viewpoint but, with all due respect, I think he has missed the mark on this one..
The key takeaway is they defend the slimes and are somewhat enthusiastic about the colonizing and genocide to continue.