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The nation must start paying proper attention to the tragic disintegration of Birmingham. There was a time when the city’s canals promised to make it a Venice of the North. It was the engine room of the UK, a town of a thousand trades producing everything from guns to buttons.

Even as industry began to crumble, it showed promise to pivot into a cradle of innovation. Not only was it the birthplace of heavy metal and the Odeon cinema chain, it was also once the crucible for creative giants, from J R R Tolkien to Robert Plant.

Today it is the poster child for national decline. The mention of the city evokes images of striking binmen, rats as big as cats, “no-go” Islamic enclaves, “slum” neighbourhoods and a stillborn city centre strangled by a ring road. The city is a cautionary tale in the perils of Left-wing complacency and the follies of progressive utopianism – one the nation must heed to move forward.

Al Qaeda, Hamas and Islamic terrorism have all become politically acceptable.

In 2025, Hamas and Hezbollah flags became regular sights on Ivy League college campuses, a Muslim immigrant who embraced an unindicted coconspirator in bombing plots in New York City became its mayor, presidential envoys chatted with Hamas and an Al Qaeda leader who used to have a $10 million reward on his head visited the White House and met with the president.

Sara Sharif was murdered by her father and stepmother after a professional may have “feared causing offence” and failed to question why she was wearing a hijab that hid her injuries, a damning review has found.

The report, commissioned by the Surrey Safeguarding Children Partnership, found that “race was a bar to reporting possible child abuse” and “professionals never explored how [her Pakistani heritage] impacted on Sara”.

Like Decarlos Brown Jr. reportedly saying “I got that white girl” just after he stabbed Iryna Zarutska to death completely out of nowhere definitely not being a crime borne of racial hatred or an anti-white attitude but a “mental illness” problem, so are the actions of a Syrian migrant who apparently yelled “Allahu Akbar” as he attacked and beat four random people on the streets of Dresden, Germany.

A 31-year-old Syrian has been committed to a psychiatric facility in Germany after attacking four people at random in Dresden on Wednesday morning.

Three women — including one with a toddler — and a man who intervened were beaten, before the attacker was overpowered and… pic.twitter.com/B9t2p5VC50

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) November 12, 2025

A decade has passed since the night of November 13, 2015—the night when the heart of Paris was pierced by a wave of coordinated terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of 130 people. Among the bloodiest of these was the massacre at the Bataclan concert hall, where 90 concertgoers were gunned down in cold blood.

A single photograph from that night has stayed with me over the years. It was taken just minutes before the attack began—an image of joy and abandon. The crowd is ecstatic. Arms are raised. Smiles are everywhere. The atmosphere is electric with freedom, pleasure, and anticipation. The American rock band Eagles of Death Metal is on stage, and the audience, caught in the height of their performance, appears to embody everything modern Western nightlife claims to be: liberated, exuberant, carefree.

The Guardian has a very thoughtful pictorial – France commemorates victims of Paris attacks 10 years on – in pictures

Though it would appear Europe has lost its spiritual battle… This is Satanic

Please tell me this isn't real. @fancypants_s https://t.co/VT2UBCZVJw

— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) November 14, 2025

h/t Patti Jo

France will commemorate on Thursday the November 13, 2015 terror attacks in which more than 130 people were killed and over 400 were injured when militants loyal to the so-called ‘Islamic State’ (IS) group attacked several sites in Paris.

“The 10th anniversary is here and emotions and tension are everywhere for us survivors,” said Arthur Denouveaux, president of victims’ association Life for Paris. “That kind of shields us from the world in a way, because we’re so focused on the grief and on remembering those who lost their lives.”

When a British judge last week ruled that criticism of Islam counts as a “protected belief”, it seemed paradoxical: the Equality Act, long accused by the political Right of stifling free expression, was suddenly upholding it. For some, this appeared to confirm that the law is self-contradictory, a statute designed to protect minorities which is now defending the right to criticise religion. Yet perhaps the contradiction lies not in the Act itself, but in a society that has lost the moral compass to distinguish between the fair criticism of ideas and outright discrimination against people.