What interests Politically Homeless
Articles, videos and more that I have consumed this week
18th November 2024
I hope everyone had a lovely weekend. Here are some of the articles and videos I have been reading / watching this week.
Article: Tim Stanley for the Telegraph discusses the opening salvos of the Democratic blame game
This is another masterpiece from Tim Stanley. He perfectly captures the shock, horror and frankly complete snap from reality that the Democrats are undergoing now.
“Harris did not do the alpha bro Joe Rogan podcast. She did say yes to a sex-positive podcast named Call Her Daddy – had them travel to Washington where she reportedly rebuilt their set in a hotel room for a six-figure sum. Democrats campaign as they govern: wastefully.”
“The analogies with UK Labour are powerful: a money-flooded party, staffed by the over-educated, playing at being normal, claiming spurious firsts (the first woman to bomb as chancellor can give a high-five to the first woman of colour to lose the White House). Globally, the Left is torn between emphasising identity or class.”
“Running through these complex debates is the assumption that the Democrats are the party of the people – hence defeat has to be a matter of error or betrayal, rather than a comment upon the Left’s organising philosophy (because folks just love higher taxes and mass migration). Arrogance has infected the brand.”
Read it here: Tim Stanley on the Democratic blame game
Article: Philip Cunliffe in Unherd says that national renewal is the only rational response to Trump 2.0
Philip correctly in my view calls out the decaying state of globalisation and Western integration which have robbed our societies or their sense of self and strength. The Trump 2.0 administration will have no interest in historical claims or relationships and so we must look to ourselves for strength and that means national economic and political renewal.
“The EU functions by leaching power from the nation-state without suborning it to any greater political authority. With no institutional core, the EU functions as a political pinball machine, ricocheting responsibility from one supranational agency to another, from one country to another.”
“The reason they fear Trump is because they know that he has something they lack: national democratic legitimacy, built on the wishes of the marginalised and the politically excluded.”
Read it here: Professor Cunliffe calls for European national renewal
Article: Ben Sixsmith in the Critic calls out the centrist podcasters who missed Trump 2.0
Ben rightly calls out the utter hopelessness of the centrist podcasters who just couldn’t bring themselves to admit that Trump was likely to win. It would be less serious except they have hundreds of thousands of gullible and desperate people avidly follow them in an effort to hide from reality.
“Podcasts like The Rest Is Politics and The News Agents indulge their desire to believe that managerial liberalism will prevail amid “populist” nonsense — that the firm good sense and basic decency of soft-left centrism will prevail once the Stewarts, Campbells and Maitlises have talked it into shape.”
Read it here: The Critic on the fall of the liberal podcasters
Article: Matthew Syed in the Times turns his guns on European elites who have left the old continent borderline collapsing
Syed absolutely nails it when he attacks our elites and wider establishment which has left us so exposed to a Trump 2.0 administration. What is interesting is the way he throws in our main economic self harms into the same bucket as defence. He clearly draws a correlation between the two and where we are now. The rage is building everyone - something is going to give very very shortly.
“Politicians in the supposedly “respectable” middle ground have presided over the insanity of open borders, crippling regulation, ever rising fiscal deficits, woke overreach, administrative corruption and the escalation of welfare-triggering mental health conditions now so rife that it is rare to find someone not suffering, particularly in the UK where the cost of disability and incapacity benefits will soar to £100.7 billion this decade.”
Read it here: Matthew Syed despairs at the state of Europe
Tim Stanley in the Telegraph sums up the COP farce and Labour’s net zero fantasy
Tim once again demonstrates why he is a national treasure with his regular sketches on the farce which is the British political class. Starmer and Labour appear to be pinned between their own ridiculous rhetoric, Millivolts religious fervour and their own mental activist base and a British public who are rapidly turning off net zero because they can see where it is leading.
“The PM told a sparse audience things of minimal global interest – Scottish Power is creating jobs in Hull – in a voice that sounds like Dot Cotton reading the gospel. Baku is welcome to him; he’s such a downer. The man hangs over Britain like the gas cloud that fogs downtown Baku, tempting even patriots to consider emigration. Valencia looks more appealing than the UK right now.”
Read it here: Tim Stanley on the COP out
Article: Brenden O’Neill attacks the pathetic liberals leaving Twitter in response to Trump’s win
Brenden O’Neill absolutely smashes it out of the park with this witty but on the money piece about the reaction of the liberal classes to the Trump’s win. They really have lost it and it is glorious to watch.
“The X-odus is ridiculous and pompous. I’m loving it. But something serious, even borderline historic, is at play too. The old ruling ideologies are creaking and cracking under the weight of populist dissatisfaction. The old guard is in retreat, fearing the cries and ridicule of an amassing army of doubters and cynics. Is their dangerous nonsense defeated? Nope. It’s wounded, though. And that’s a start.”
Read it here: The reaction of the liberal class to Trump’s win
Video: Martin Wolf on how extreme capitalism will destroy democracy
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes
Martin Wolf has done more than most to push this form of hyper-globalisation that has caused the political reactions across the West. So it is good to see him finally realise its dangers even if it has come only after his side started losing from the political blow back which is gathering force.
From Twitter: Dangerous jobs from around the world
Puts my own comfy job to shame
See it here: Dangerous jobs
Picture of the week: Enough said - all men have been here
That is everything for this week
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