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A short piece on what is going wrong in European cities, mass migration, why ragebait videos are not helpful. Link in reply
I will write a longer piece on this perhaps and compare something like Paris or Rome which I do believe remain very much alive despite attempts to destroy them ; with theme park cities.
Why are young people so angry? Perhaps a better question to ask is why older people are so complacent. Me in the Telegraph:
✍️ I wrote about how to tackle London's enormous housing crisis, whilst simultaneously making the capital a more beautiful and pleasant place to live. Instead of expanding the city further outwards, built-up areas within London should be completely redeveloped upwards 🧵
Really happy to see someone talking about London’s sprawl problem. Beyond Zone 3 London is ugly and inefficient YIMBYs think you’re an anti-human retard for not wanting to abolish the green belt and build barratt boxes in Bromley… but it’s obviously better to build up!
✍️ I wrote about how to tackle London's enormous housing crisis, whilst simultaneously making the capital a more beautiful and pleasant place to live. Instead of expanding the city further outwards, built-up areas within London should be completely redeveloped upwards 🧵
Something to note is that, although the UK gov budget is massive, there’s very little flex in it. Once the economically & politically necessary things are paid for (education for future workers, transport and roads that enable commerce, medical care for the sick, money for local…
The asylum spend on this one hotel is £11m per *year* Compare to the Stretford mall regeneration which will redevelop an ugly 27 acre space and deliver - 800 new homes - 140,000 sqft of commercial space - entirely new streets Enabled via £17.6m of funding. Decline is a choice
The British state essentially enforces a kind of emotional labour on its citizens in which you are expected to maintain a kind of stiff upper lip and not 'give in to hate' when faced with stories like this- politicians and liberals think of themselves as engaged in a kind of…
If the state was consistent about dishing out extremely harsh sentences to make examples of people to avoid rioting, it would be locking up this guy for decades, not Facebook mums. This kind of stuff is 100x more incendiary than any social media post.
If the state was consistent about dishing out extremely harsh sentences to make examples of people to avoid rioting, it would be locking up this guy for decades, not Facebook mums. This kind of stuff is 100x more incendiary than any social media post.
Channel migrant who sexually assaulted teenage girl with special needs in broad daylight is jailed for 14 months trib.al/fIGwgJg
“The whole ethos of the British state needs reorienting to the view that it has a primary obligation towards the welfare of the British people” — @lucaajw addresses the problem of internationalism thecritic.co.uk/british-elites…
✍️ I wrote, in light of the Afghanistan cover-up, about the true motivations of Britain’s ruling class, which aren’t borne of a hatred of Britain, but a misguided sentimentality from which they extrapolate endless obligations for the British state to the world.
.@lucaajw explains how politicians often seem to care far more about people living on the other side of the world than British citizens thecritic.co.uk/british-elites…