Killing a Kingdom

Britain is great no more.

I dreamed the other night that I was wanted by the British police. And in the dream I wasn’t even in Britain. I was in New York, where I’d attracted the attention of British authorities by putting up a political poster, or something like that. But even though I was outside of their jurisdiction, the British police were after me. They were going to arrest me, put me on trial, and have me jailed for my opinions. I was apparently facing two to three years in the hoosegow. Such, in my dream, was the reach of British “justice.”

It was a nice dream to wake up from.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK

The invasion of America’s cringe academics

We don’t want their cowardly cosplayers

Many of us born post-1945 have wondered at some point how we might deal with an approaching fascist threat. Luckily, we have three preeminent American scholars of fascism to help advise us. And the answer from Professors Jason Stanley, Timothy Snyder, and Marcia Shore seems to be: run away.

Stanley, the philosopher-author of How Fascism Works, says he is leaving the States for Canada because of the oppressive political climate. Historian Shore, who writes about totalitarianism and is married to fellow historian Snyder of On Tyranny fame, pronounces herself “heartbroken at what has happened to my own country”. All three were at Yale, and soon will be at the University of Toronto; safely away from Trump’s targeting of DEI policies, and the recent slashing and burning of university funding. His rationale, insofar as anyone can discern it, is combatting antisemitism on campus, though what the exact connection is supposed to be is not entirely clear.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome, WTF?

When Left Is Too Left in a Canada Rattled by Trump

As Canada faces an election defined by President Trump’s threats, its progressive party, the New Democrats, finds itself losing support and confronting an existential crisis.

The pain of having teeth pulled and gums prodded for denture fittings was followed by relief at the payment counter: The $4,000 worth of work would cost Ron Brydges nothing under Canada’s new national dental care program.

“This dental plan being free was just a godsend,” said Mr. Brydges, 84, a retired industrial mechanic in St. Catharines, Ontario.

For that, Canadians largely have the leftist New Democratic Party to thank.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025, NDP

Russell Brand is charged with rape: Star accused of rape and sexual assaults against four women over six years

Actor and comedian Russell Brand was today charged with rape, indecent assault, oral rape and two counts of sexual assault against four women.

Detectives began an investigation after 50-year-old Brand was accused of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse by several women in a joint investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4 Dispatches in September 2023.

The Metropolitan Police have now charged Brand – who lives in Florida – by post with one count each of rape, indecent assault and oral rape, as well as two counts of sexual assault, relating to four different women, and issued a court summons.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Le Pen Backers to Protest in Paris on Sunday

French Left condemns march for democracy as “fascist threat”

France’s right-wing Rassemblement National (RN) has called for a demonstration in Paris on Sunday, April 6th, in support of Marine Le Pen. The planned protest—which follows Le Pen’s conviction, prison sentence, and disqualification from running in the 2027 presidential election—has provoked the anger of the Left, which called it a “fascist” threat. Despite this, the RN, supported by a public statement from Donald Trump, claims that its membership has exploded in the space of a few days.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMarine Le Pen

SNELL: Rogan confirms Canadians’ worst nightmare — malevolence in Ottawa

Internationally recognized podcaster Joe Rogan, who has more viewers than most American mainstream media outlets combined — says he won’t return to Canada even though he thinks Canadians are “f—ing lovely.”

Rogan called-out the communist-like seizure of Canadians’ bank accounts without due process during the COVID-19 Freedom Convoy — later ruled illegal by the Federal Court of Canada, during an episode of the The Joe Rogan Experience.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

All the Ukrainian Known Knowns

Aside from the rhetoric, there is a growing consensus among Western diplomats, military analysts, military officers, heads of state, and even much of the media about how to end the endless Ukrainian war.

A proposed peace will see a DMZ established somewhere along an adjusted 1,200-mile Ukraine-Russia border. Tough negotiations will adjudicate how far east toward its original borders Russian forces will be leveraged to backstep.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Pierre Poilievre has a problem with women. Mark Carney has a problem with men

It is nearly impossible to win a federal election unless you are able to attract two key constituencies of “swing voters” — blue collar workers and new Canadians.

This formula has been the key to the Liberals’ success and the Conservatives’ failure in the last three federal elections and has reshaped how all parties campaign.

This time around, however, it appears another cleavage in federal politics could be even more important in determining the outcome.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

Carney and Poilievre have very different ideas for a new deal with Trump

Every political leader in Canada has declared U.S. President Donald Trump an unreliable partner who is reneging on the USMCA trade deal that he signed, so you have to question why the leading election contenders would rush to negotiate a new deal with him.

Liberal Leader Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre both now say they would launch negotiations immediately after the coming election, not just on trade but on the broad defence and security relationship, too.

Yet those two leaders have very different ideas of what a new deal would be.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2025, USA

Trump has finally ditched Macron for Marine Le Pen

It’s official, the bromance between Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron is over. It had always been a rocky relationship but on Thursday it ended in a spectacular fashion.

The French president, reacting to Trump’s decision to impose 20 per cent tariffs on all EU products, announced: ‘Investments to come or investments announced in recent weeks should be suspended until things are clarified with the United States.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMarine Le Pen, President Trump

Canada and NATO allies asked by Rubio to increase defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP

Canada and other NATO allies were met by a request from the Trump administration to massively hike defence spending at the military pact’s meeting of foreign affairs ministers Thursday in Brussels.

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, who attended the meeting, declined to say whether she thought Canada could increase military expenditures to reach 5 per cent of gross domestic product, as Mr. Rubio requested. “I’m not into speculation,” she said in an interview.

Canada currently spends about 1.37 per cent of its annual economic output on defence and has pledged to reach 2 per cent by 2030. No NATO ally has so far committed to increasing 5 per cent, although Mr. Rubio said Thursday the United States plans to do so.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNATO