School shootings are once again in the news. There were two last week. When the pundits in the media and online talk about school attacks, a false narrative often emerges that it is a uniquely domestic “American epidemic,” fostered by widespread firearms ownership and insufficient firearms regulation.
St George’s Day is a moveable feast: this year marked by the political world on its traditional date, rather than on the day next week chosen by an increasingly irrelevant Church of England. But it also shifts in terms of its meaning. A year ago, I remarked that the ghost of English ethnic nationalism, so often fearfully invoked by its detractors, was remarkable mostly for its dormancy. Yet other interpretations are available: just a few months later, Northern England was shaken by its most violent ethnic riots in decades, casting a cloud of doom over the new Labour government from which it has never yet emerged. Today, the country is in an unhappy state, the air heavy with the pressure of a storm about to break. Mild-mannered Telegraph columnists write anxious premonitions of approaching civil war, while the nation’s second city slips beneath the basic expectations of First World governance. Civil war may be unlikely, but that the very idea can be seriously entertained by credible people demonstrates a growing fissure entering British life, one which will take serious political reform to avert disaster: requiring a capacity, and appetite to undertake that the Government does not appear to possess. Translating the nation’s febrile atmosphere to an American audience, the writer Dominic Green observes in the Wall Street Journal that “The mood in England today is eerie. The government can’t govern. The police menace law-abiding people for speaking their minds. The borders are open. The country feels as if it is one Islamist bombing away from eruption.”
England is so fecked.
TORONTO — Before NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh even arrived, some people were thinking about his exit.
Several dozen NDP supporters gathered in a park on Thursday, waiting for Singh to arrive in what will be one of his last campaign stops in Toronto.
In the heart of Canada’s largest city, voters here elect progressives.
But the group standing around tonight knows that on Monday, voters will not be choosing NDP.
The arsonist rode into the car park at Valence prison in southeast France on an electric scooter after nightfall on April 14.
After looking at the 16 vehicles there, he targeted two, both of them owned by guards on night duty. The intruder, who was masked and hooded, doused them in petrol, set them alight and filmed himself.
He did not seem to be in any hurry, spending 15 minutes at the site. The police, though, were even slower. By the time they arrived he had ridden away.
The high priest of globalism’s resignation confirms the death of the old order.
On Easter Monday, World Economic Forum (WEF) founder Klaus Schwab resigned as chair of its board of trustees. He stepped down amid swirling internal allegations that he misused funds and manipulated the WEF’s research to curry favour with governments. We don’t yet know if these charges are true, but manipulation certainly goes with the territory of the WEF. Indeed, manipulating the media and political culture to embrace the outlook of the global elites has always been one of its central aims.
With the end of the election campaign in sight, I asked David Coletto, the head of the polling firm Abacus Data, what stood out for him. His answer, given the exceptional political and economic turmoil in Canada, was a bit surprising.
“As much as this election has been interesting,” he told me, “not a lot has happened during the election — which is really interesting.”
There were no moments of drama as in 1984, when Brian Mulroney challenged Prime Minister John Turner over making a raft of political appointments. (“You had an option, sir, to say no,” Mr. Mulroney said, jabbing his finger, in a debate that many believe brought him to power.) Nor was there anything like the rerun between the two men four years later, when Mr. Turner said of Mr. Mulroney’s free trade deal with the Reagan administration, “You have sold us out.” (That time Mr. Turner was the one to jab his finger.)
This way Carney and his Eco-Loon Wife Leads …
Last week, a team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge professor Nikku Madhusudhan announced that they had found tentative evidence for a ‘biosignature’ embedded in the light from a distant planet. Scientists and non-scientists around the world tried to interpret the results. Was this it? Was this the moment when humanity could finally claim it had answered that ancient question: are we alone?
As an astrophysicist involved in the search for life beyond Earth, I can tell you that the results were not that moment. But that doesn’t make them any less exciting.
Last month, investigators “found a layer of human ashes and bone remains several centimeters thick, measuring approximately 460 square meters” at “depths of 80 centimeters to 1.50 meters” just outside Hartheim Castle near the Austrian city of Linz. The crushed and incinerated bodies were victims of the Third Reich’s T-4 euthanasia program, which ended the lives of between 70,000 and 20,000 people that the Nazis deemed “life unworthy of life.”
Hartheim Castle, which is now a memorial site, was one of the eight centers where Nazi doctors murdered people with disabilities, mental illnesses, and other people categorized as “useless eaters.” Between May 1940 and November 1944, around 30,000 people were murdered in gas chambers, burned in a specially constructed crematorium, and dumped in a tributary of the Danube, or, we now know, on the castle grounds. The victims also included Dutch Jews as well as prisoners from Spain, Poland, and France.
AC/DC’s Thunderstruck is blasted when Mark Carney walks into rallies and events.
Odd song choice for an expensive suit trying to portray the image of a solid, steady banker whose economic brilliance will rescue Canadians from the wreckage caused by the Liberal party members he leads, endorses, and advised for years.
"Tax avoidance: Mark Carney's firm in litigation against the Canada Revenue Agency"
"Brookfield accused of tax avoidance on large sums by the Canada Revenue Agency"
"According to court documents obtained this week, the tax authorities accuse Brookfield of orchestrating a… pic.twitter.com/7jjJIFQrGD
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) April 25, 2025
As Canadians prepare to go to the polls on Monday, they are being bombarded with misleading rightwing content on US social media platforms that has fuelled concerns about their potentially damaging role in the general election.
A Financial Times analysis of more than 350,000 posts on X related to the election, gathered since the snap poll was announced in March, revealed a network of co-ordinated accounts pushing content to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish his counterpart, the Liberal’s Mark Carney.
Evidently it’s right-wing foreign interference to point out that Carney is a globalist eco-scammer who profits from government policy and has suspect links to Communist China.
At least one of the threats of violence that prompted alleged teen murderer Karmelo Anthony and his family to flee their gated community home was carried out by kids with water guns, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Anthony, 17, is accused of murdering teen track star Austin Metfcalf, also 17, during a track meeting earlier this month in Frisco, Texas.
The details remain murky, but the attack centers around a fight that began when Anthony, a student at Centennial High School, went to sit under the rival school’s tent.
We are finally at the watershed that everyone agrees is one of the most important elections in Canadian history. I realize that regular readers would already be familiar with my opinion of the merits of the contending parties and to some extent I’m putting old wine in a new bottle while, in a scandalous melange of metaphors, preaching to the choir. The Liberal campaign is a gigantic fraud. It pretends that since they have a new leader, though that leader is up to his eyeballs in the failed policies of the debunked Trudeau regime, it can simply slink out of its responsibility for the clangorous Gong Show of misgovernment of the last 10 years. It pretends that it has the ideally qualified candidate, when he has never been in active politics, has never actually run anything except a central bank, and in that capacity in Canada he tinkered with the interest rate while Finance Minister Jim Flaherty navigated Canada through the financial crisis of 2008-9, and he was a catastrophic failure as governor of the Bank of England. He was almost tarred and feathered as he left London’s Heathrow Airport. He represents now that he warned the British about the dangers of leaving Europe and that they now regret that decision. He tried to terrorize the country into remaining in the EU, which Britain had never voted for, (they voted for a common market, not a European government), and his projections of disaster have not occurred. The British left Europe and have shown no disposition to return and despite an unprecedented six successive incompetent governments in ten years, Britain has performed better economically than the EU.
The Biden regime colluded with the ADL and LGBTQ org GLAAD to secretly labeled American citizens “extremist hate groups” because we believe in biological sex. https://t.co/QTvevGwAKm
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 25, 2025
John Duffy, the late political strategist and author, began Fights of Our Lives, his lively and encyclopedic account of the federal campaigns that shaped this country, with a simple premise — one always worth returning to at moments like this.
“Elections matter,” he wrote.
Writing in 2002, Duffy was pushing back against what he saw as the lazy cynicism of “academics, journalists and political dissenters of various stripes” who had “worked very hard for many years to convince voters in democracies that elections are inconsequential or, even worse, rigged, so that this or that social group maintains dominance no matter what happens at the polls.”
After spending the last 30 days telling Canadians that he would fight Trump and that Trump was trying to annex us..
..sources have now leaked to CBC that Carney grovelled to Trump, praising him as a “transformative President” who “respected Canada’s sovereignty” pic.twitter.com/p2FmFeK7wa
— An Oil Exec (@CanadianOilExec) April 25, 2025
This woman believes Zelensky is the leader of the Democratic Party and would happily vote for him.
Maybe she’d like to leave the US and move to Ukraine?
illiewelson pic.twitter.com/Ik5xGJ6vXG
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 24, 2025
