Mark Steyn brilliant as always.
1) WHAT MATTERS IS THE HOME FRONT: America and the wider west are sliding off the cliff. Assume for the purposes of argument that Saturday night did indeed set back the Iranian nukes "twenty years". I don't quite buy it myself: From the discovery of nuclear fission in 1938 to Hiroshima and Nagasaki was seven years; even in Pakistan, from the inauguration of the programme to the first successful nuclear test was a mere decade. But be that as it may...
In another ten years, it won't matter if the weirdbeards go nuclear. By then, most of what we used to call Christendom will be demographically past the point of no return, and certainly its capital cities: Brussels will be Greater Molenbeek, Paris will be Greater Clichy-sous-Bois, London will be Greater Tower Hamlets. Even the craziest mullahs are not going to be interested in nuking incoming members of the dar al-Islam.
He is right.
George W Bush liked to say that "they envy us our freedoms". But "government of the people, by the people, for the people" is a tougher pitch when it appears to be serving the interests of an entirely different bunch of people - as it's doing in, say, the average federal courthouse. What precisely is supposed to be the selling point of "democracy" in an open-borders world? Say what you like about Chairman Xi, Crown Prince MBS, Ayatollah Khamenei, Fatboy Kim, Tsar Vlad, Your Strongman Here, but none of them let a thousand Somali jihadists and a thousand sex traffickers from MS-13 (on the Rio Grande) or Albania (on Dover beach) walk into their country every night.
And in light of that piece, this from the Daily Mail is a reminder of how utterly useless the feminists have been at stopping the importation of foreign men who commit acts of violence against women and girls. We have enough of our own rapists without importing more.
“Three Slovakian men have been convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl repeatedly over three days after they lured her from an Asda car park.
Kevin Horvath, 26 and Ivan Turtak, 38 spotted the youngster in Dover on August 11, 2024 and encouraged her to get in their car.
They drove the girl in Horvath's Skoda to Turtak's flat in Dover, Kent, along with third defendant and cousin of Horvath, Ernest Gunar Junior, 27, after promising to give her a cigarette, the court was told.”
And also a commuter killed for doing nothing, reported here.
Dublin v London.
If you want to appreciate the genius of London, spend a weekend in Dublin.
Still no metro from the airport nor can you go contactless, much to the irritation of my husband.
“Contactless payments across Dublin’s bus, tram and railway public transport networks will not be fully operational until 2029, Darragh O’Brien has told an Oireachtas hearing.”
As I tweeted and I agree with me, “politicians in Ireland are not interested in making life better for Irish voters. They like to grandstand on the international stage even though no one gives a flying fuck what they think.”
Italia 90. Great Irish success brought to you by the Boys in Green who were born and bred in Britain.
Jack Charlton, manager from Ashington, Ray Houton from Glasgow, Andy Townsend from Maidstone, Tony Cascarino from St Paul's Cray and David O’Leary from Stoke Newington.
The great goalkeeper Packie Bonner was Irish born and bred. He was born in Donegal. He earned 80 caps for the Republic of Ireland after making his debut on his 21st birthday. Commonly known as Pat or Packie, he also played Gaelic football for his native Donegal county team.
We go there, they come here. The Virtuous circle makes us all better.
John McDonnell's misinformation
The Labour politician John McDonnell MP was on the telly last night making out that the Irish who go to Britain are exactly the same as refugees who hop into the small boats, head over the Dover and break into the UK illegally to claim asylum.
Have a great weekend!
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