Western Civilization is doomed, unless the core weakness of suicidal empathy is recognized and actions are taken that are hard, but necessary for survival

Build a wall one brick at a time make progress when momentum is very steady #tankathursday #tanka

I’m rather fond of quirky old fashioned words. Here are some of my favourites: Skedaddle Nincompoop Highfalutin Malarkey Comeuppance Skullduggery Kerfuffle Flummoxed Thingamajig Tomfoolery Shenanigans Hoodwink Blethering Hullabaloo Curmudgeon Whippersnapper Bamboozled

Countries mentioned by the next Mayor of America’s largest city: Yemen Mexico Senegal Uzbekistan Trinidad & Tobago Ethiopia Countries not mentioned by the next Mayor of America’s largest city: America

46 years ago today, with the backing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the benediction of Ayatollah Khomeini, a group of “students” seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held its diplomats and staff hostage for more than a year. Apologetic disinformation about the causes of this assault continues to linger. If you want to understand how and why this happened, here are the results of my archival research: persuasion.community/p/why-a… @brosen1501 @rockysickmann @KevinHermening @HostageAid @StateDept_NEA @USEnvoyIran @USABehFarsi @FreeNizarZakka @XiyueWang9 @anneapplebaum @FukuyamaFrancis

Like everything else, Healthcare, Teaching... not funding things, not recruiting enough staff and making wages so bad hardly anyone has worked in the prison service for more than 6 months, has created this mess.

This comment contains one key untruth ie 'focussing on climate change rather than reading and writing'. Here is how AI read the report.

Our regime imports terrorists, gives them passports, calls them ‘British’, then says ‘oh he turned out to be a violent terrorist but he’s British so this has nothing to do with immigration, diversity is our strength, you’re racist if you disagree’. Most voters think this is mental but it’s been *cross party consensus* for 25 years like prioritising rights of foreign murderers over Britain’s safety in law. It will continue for years. If you get killed the MPs will babble ‘thoughts and prayers’ but leave the laws in place

What we have become Part 2 today: Nigel Farage’s Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English The party’s candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’ bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n…

Government says poppies aren't covered by Irish Sea border rules after all - after initially accepting that they were The Secretary of State says remembrance poppy sales are not covered by EU rules under the Windsor Framework, after the government initially accepted that they were – but argued it wouldn’t be a “priority” for enforcement. app.newsletter.co.uk/story/5…