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Flaccid Media on Britain’s Riots
The X screen grab (below) is from Bolton, where Muslim men turned out yesterday in hundreds, perhaps thousands, to defend their turf as rioting and street battles erupted across England.
In Northern Ireland, the unthinkable: Catholics and Protestants marching arm in arm to demand no more “asylum seekers”.
Entirely predictable, though, has been the reaction of the establishment media and the policies it serves. At Spiked, Brendan O’Neill writes:
Something extraordinary happened in the UK this week: the murder of three working-class girls was turned into a moral panic about working-class communities. Ruthlessly, with something approaching relish, the media elites dragged the public gaze from the frenzied stabbing of girls in a seaside town to the supposed frothing bigotries of the seaside town itself. In elite circles, angst over the evil visited on the children of Southport gave way to a foreboding over what lurks within Southport. In those terraced houses, with their white…
We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
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The September 2024 issue of our magazine is now available via our website and in newsagents. You can click here to view the contents. Digital subscribers can enjoy the PDF and online articles now, and print subscribers will receive their hardcopies in the mail.
Sep 02 2024
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The Society of Jesus mourns the death of Father Gerald (“Gerry”) O’Collins SJ AC. Fr O’Collins died in Melbourne on Thursday 22 August at the age of 93. He had been a Jesuit for 74 years and a priest for 61 years.
Aug 31 2024
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