Keir Starmer Is Correct: Things Will Only Get Worse
This Week In Media | 26th August - 8th September, 2024
It’s the second week of September. Here’s this week’s newsletter. Thank you to everyone who said hello at March For Life UK in Westminster yesterday!
In the last fortnight, we’ve seen more Islamic terror attacks in Germany, and an electoral response, with the AfD making significant gains. (And the containment merchants in establishment media rushing to denounce them as “Far Right”.)
I investigated the return of non-crime hate incidents to public consciousness, with the news that record numbers were recorded last year; and the Muslim activist network seeking to criminalise criticism of Islam with a nebulous definition of “Islamaphobia”.
Also, I interviewed Ben Habib on Reform UK’s election campaign; Toby Young on Keir Starmer’s war on the presumption of innocence; and Paul Morland about birth rates and the role of the state in reversing demographic decline.
The most egregious story this week concerned the blocking of an inquest into the murder of aspiring Marine Tom Roberts in 2022, by illegal Afghan migrant, Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai.
Abdulrahimzai had previously shot two migrants with a Kalashnikov rifle in Serbia on the 31st of July, 2018. He fled from the double homicide charges to the UK, arriving on the 26th of December, 2019. He applied for asylum, lying when giving his age as fourteen. He was nineteen. No assessment was carried out. His fingerprints were taken, and he was found to have travelled through Norway and Italy — but neither country was contacted to request further information.
‘On January 29 2020, his foster carer reported that a dentist said Abdulrahimzai was older than he had indicated and while it was felt an age assessment was needed, it was not done because the authorities felt a mental health assessment was needed first.’
Abdulrahimzai was placed into a secondary school in Bournemouth, Dorset, before being expelled for carrying a knife. He was then enrolled in another nearby. From December 2020 - 2021, teachers raised alarm on several occasions that Abdulrahimzai was carrying a knife — including chasing another pupil at his school with a knife.
In May 2021, he assaulted another student at school. In July 2021, he tried to headbutt his foster carer. In September, after being rehoused, he was accused of assaulting another child. By March 2022, Abdulrahimzai was living in hostels.
In January 2022, after Abdulrahimzai had been found “bringing females back to his placement” and refusing to attend school, authorities confirmed an age assessment would be carried out. They neglected to do so until the 11th of March 2022, when Abdulrahimzai stabbed Tom Roberts to death in an argument over an e-scooter with Roberts’ friend.
Abdulrahimzai’s fingerprints were not shared with Interpol until after Roberts’s death, in September 2022, which revealed the homicide conviction (in absentia) in Serbia.
Despite this, Rachael Griffin, senior coroner for Dorset, ruled on Wednesday the 5th of September that the Home Office need not be subject to an inquest about whether or not Tom Roberts’ death was preventable, had the state done its job — according to Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Everyone's right to life shall be protected by law. No one shall be deprived of his life intentionally save in the execution of a sentence of a court following his conviction of a crime for which the penalty is provided by law.
Because, if Griffin admitted it was, then the entire asylum system as operated would violate Article 2 of the ECHR — possibly overriding the Article 8 appeals used in asylum cases — and would thereby implicate every liberal state for knowingly endangering their indigenous populations with it permissive immigration policy.
As Dolores Wallace-Roberts, Roberts’s mother, said:
“The Home Office don’t want to engage with us. They are accountable and there is negligence there but they just block any attempts to find out more. [...] Everything is wrong in this country and it will continue to happen again.”’
I covered this story on the Podcast of the Lotus Eaters this week.
Also, on the 52nd anniversary of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre — the Palestinian terror group Black September murdered twelve people, including five Israeli Olympic athletes, before being killed by police — Austrian-born Bosnian, Emrah I, fired at the Israeli Consulate in Munich with a WW2 rifle.
He exchanged fire with German police, before being shot and killed. Fortunately, it appears nobody else was injured, as most of the staff at the Consulate were away that day.
According to BILD, Emrah had been reported to Austrian authorities in 2023, on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist group. Authorities found ISIS propaganda on his phone. We have yet to know why he was not charged and imprisoned for this.
But is it any surprise, when such terror attacks and violent crimes have become a frequent occurrence in Germany, that Gen Z is voting for the AfD?
Crime rose by six percent in Germany in 2023. Foreign nationals (not counting second-generation immigrants and new German citizens) comprise fifteen percent of the population but committed forty-one percent of all crimes in 2023. Crime committed by foreign suspects rose by 23 percent in 2022 and by 18 percent in 2023.
Is it any wonder that German youths — who do not feel the paranoia that any love of family, nation, history, and culture morphs ineluctably into Nazism that Boomer Germans do — are voting for mass deportations?
In last Sunday’s elections, the AfD received 33 per cent of the vote in Thuringia, up nearly 10 percent points in five years; and 30 per cent in Saxony, up 3 percent. 38 per cent of those aged between 18 and 24 voted for the AfD in Thuringia, and 31 percent in Saxony.
One in three Germans under the age of 34 voted for the AfD.
For analysis as to why, you can read my essay in The European Conservative from June; and watch the above segment on the Podcast of the Lotus Eaters.
Starmer’s War on the Presumption of Innocence
On Deprogrammed, we spoke to Toby Young of the Free Speech Union, about his legal challenges against the Labour government for attempting to illegally block the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 — after it passed both Houses of Parliament.
We also discussed his attempt to hold the Home Office to account for prejudicing the course of justice for those arrested and charged for social media posts or partaking in protests following the Southport massacre.
By declaring everyone arrested to be ‘criminals’, Young argues that the Home Office and Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, have knowingly spread false information online, leading to measurable real-world harms (such as causing innocent people to plead guilty, presuming they will not be extended the presumption of innocence).
Do listen for more details for how the Free Speech Union are taking action against Two-Tier Keir for his unilateral application of the law against his political enemies.
Speaking of: Starmer gave a speech in the Downing Street Rose Garden, stating
‘A mindless minority of thugs – who thought they could get away with causing chaos.
Smashing up communities and terrifying minorities.
Vandalising and destroying people’s property.
Even trying to set fire to a building – with human beings inside it.
And as if that wasn’t despicable enough.
People displaying swastika tattoos.
Shouting racist slurs on our streets.
Nazi salutes at the cenotaph –
The very place we honour those who gave their lives for this country.
Desecrating their memory….
Under the pretence – and it is a pretence – of ‘legitimate protest’.
Now they’re learning that crime has consequences.
I will not tolerate a break down in law and order under any circumstances.
Curiously, he didn’t feel it necessary to deliver a similarly passionate speech after two people were murdered at Notting Hill Carnival. But this is because, for anyone non-White, and non-British, this is to be expected. Imported violence is the price for assimilation into Starmer’s — and Blair before him’s — redefined Britain.
As I cover in the above segment, and in my recent piece for The Critic:
Labour can tolerate sectarianism, feeling good about themselves for respecting a “community”, while also believing in the ineluctable power of “British values” to dissolve any tribal priors from their deprived homelands. This is a tolerable state of affairs, because they’re in the process of adding all the ingredients before hitting blend. We are on the precipice of being one large glass of undifferentiated, infinitely interchangeable human biomass; of returning to the hypothetical state of nature which predated civilisation.
When Keir Starmer, John McTernan, and David Lammy condemn “Far Right racists”, they are condemning the indigenous populations of the British Isles who refuse to have their identities liquidated by liberal egalitarianism, and who refuse to allow their country to be conquered by Labour’s cultural revolution.
But indigestible foreign diasporas are afforded “community” status, and special legal privileges. This is because they have a 700-strong activist network agitating for their interests in the Home Office; in turn, funding various NGOs to pressure Parliament to criminalise criticism of their religion.
This week on Tomlinson Talks, I investigated the legislation and guidance behind non-crime hate incidents: the Orwellian black marks on the permanent records of members of the public, which require no evidence, and which cannot be expunged. These thought-crime brands were developed in 2014, to incorporate the 1999 recommendations of the MacPherson Report, which (without evidence) condemned the Metropolitan Police as ‘institutionally racist’.
Ever since, the College of Police has advised officers in forces across England and Wales to record >11,000 of these non-crime hate incidents — which anonymise the accuser and require no evidence to be lodged against the accused — every year.
This will only get worse, as Labour works to adopt a purposefully vague definition of Islamaphobia, either in law or “guidance”, created by the All Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims (APPG):
‘Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness.’
Examples of Islamaphobia given include:
‘Calling for, aiding, instigating or justifying the killing or harming of Muslims in the name of a racist/ fascist ideology, or an extremist view of religion.’
‘Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Muslims as such, or of Muslims as a collective group, such as, especially but not exclusively, conspiracies about Muslim entryism in politics, government or other societal institutions; the myth of Muslim identity having a unique propensity for terrorism, and claims of a demographic ‘threat’ posed by Muslims or of a ‘Muslim takeover’.’
‘Accusing Muslims as a group of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Muslim person or group of Muslim individuals, or even for acts committed by non-Muslims. Accusing Muslims as a group, or Muslim majority states, of inventing or exaggerating Islamophobia, ethnic cleansing or genocide perpetrated against Muslims.’
‘Accusing Muslim citizens of being more loyal to the ‘Ummah’ (transnational Muslim community) or to their countries of origin, or to the alleged priorities of Muslims worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations.’
‘Denying Muslim populations the right to self-determination e.g., by claiming that the existence of an independent Palestine or Kashmir is a terrorist endeavour.’
‘Applying double standards by requiring of Muslims behaviours that are not expected or demanded of any other groups in society, eg loyalty tests.’
‘Using the symbols and images associated with classic Islamophobia (e.g. Muhammed being a paedophile, claims of Muslims spreading Islam by the sword or subjugating minority groups under their rule) to characterize Muslims as being ‘sex groomers’, inherently violent or incapable of living harmoniously in plural societies.’
‘Holding Muslims collectively responsible for the actions of any Muslim majority state, whether secular or constitutionally Islamic.’
As I document in Tomlinson Talks, some of the members of the APPG have unwittingly liaised with organisations which employ individuals who run apologia for Islamic terrorists.
This law will undoubtedly criminalise sensible critics of Islam, Islamic terror, and the Balkanisation of British politics into pandering to foreign causes and colonial settlements within British cities.
Can We Avert Demographic Collapse?
Last Thursday on Deprogrammed, Harrison Pitt and I discussed demographics, birth rate decline, and manufacturing consent for mass immigration with our friend, author of No One Left, Paul Morland.
We locked horns over Paul’s optimism as to whether or not human beings can rationally re-order their priorities to overcome women’s natural (and understandable) desire to date hypergamously.
Although Harrison and I are fortunate enough to be spoken for, we expressed concern on behalf of other men our age that women in their twenties, afforded education and employment opportunities (and legally-enshrined privileges) over men will cause their expectations to escalate well beyond what men their age can provide.
Paul, using his own experience as an exception, hopes that the couples listening can work this out between themselves, and take practical steps toward having the children they want.
Can Reform UK be… Reformed?
I will be attending the Reform UK Conference on Friday the 20th of September, to interview attendees and friendly faces.
Ahead of this event, I spoke to former Deputy Leader of Reform UK, Ben Habib, about the general election campaign, the subsequent change in leadership, and whether or not Reform are making the right moves ahead of their attempt to win a 2029 general election.
Ben was candid, and I am grateful he sacrificed his time to appear on Tomlinson Talks to provide his unique insight.
You can watch the full interview here.