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I am not sure why but I am very, very saddened by the murder of Charlie Kirk, though he had only been a name to me before his death.
I am also horrified by the murder by Trump of the people in the Venezuelan boat. (This is not whataboutery.)
And by the Israeli attack on Doha. I do not know if Donald Trump is to blame for that.
'The depressing thing about our being half American these days is that we're expected to know who all these people are.' So wrote a British Facebook friend about Charlie Kirk and I agree though I did know his name.
He sounds a nice man, an idealist, a patriot and a good Christian.
He sounds a nice man, an idealist, a patriot and a good Christian.
So many books of mine have been stolen, including Stanley Payne's book on the Franco government, but Charlie Kirk's death reminds me of that of José Calvo Sotelo.
That triggered the Spanish Civil War.
As Douglas Murray said, sometimes a flare goes up and we see where everyone stands. The aftermath of this awful assassination is one such moment.
As Douglas Murray said, sometimes a flare goes up and we see where everyone stands. The aftermath of this awful assassination is one such moment.
According to social media quite a few people rejoiced that he is dead.
The President-elect of the Oxford Union has been accused of something like that.
Charlie Kirk used to argue with students at universities. His catchphrase was Prove Me Wrong and he came to England to argue at the Oxford and Cambridge Unions in May.
Her tweet was said to have incited violence and that would always have been a crime at common law before restrictions on free speech began in 1965.
But in fact she said "set fire to all the hotels... for all I care." It cannot possibly be incitement to say that you don't care if people do something.
He told the Oxford Union: “Free speech is a birthright that you gave us, and you guys decided not to codify it and now it’s – poof! – it is basically gone.”
That is true.
He told the Oxford Union: “Free speech is a birthright that you gave us, and you guys decided not to codify it and now it’s – poof! – it is basically gone.”
That is true.
So is this.
“The same people that told us Iraq was a big threat, that the Taliban was a big threat, are the same people telling us Iran is a big threat.”
And this is what he wrote about Oxford and Cambridge undergraduates.
"In the US, an ideological transformation has swept almost every campus I visit. Five years ago, I’d typically meet a wall of hostility like the one I found at Cambridge. But in today’s America, college-age students have moved toward Trump more heavily than any other demographic. The decline of religiosity among young people has halted and may be in reverse. On dozens of campuses in the past year I’ve met thousands of young people refusing to passively accept the decline of their civilisation. In contrast, at Oxbridge I found the dominant outlook to be a depressed and depressing near-nihilism. They were students who hardly cared their country has less free speech than 50 or 100 years ago. They were appalled that a person might think life begins at conception, but not that their own country is being steadily Islamicised. They loved the abstract fight for ‘democracy’ in Ukraine, but find the actual outcome of democracy in America very icky. That fixation on America says it all. There’s more interest in moralising about the bad man across the Atlantic than in salvaging their own declining country.
"In Britain at large, a very different attitude prevails. I spoke to everybody I could while there, from drivers and blue-collar workmen to journalists and the shockingly large number of people who recognised me in the streets. What I heard from them was clear. They’re angry at Britain’s net-zero-driven energy stagnation. They’re furious at the Biden-esque levels of immigration inflicted on them by their ‘Conservative’ government in the past decade. Over and over, they told me they were ready to smash the British party system to bits and elect a Reform prime minister. The great turn in Britain is coming. And when it arrives, the students of Oxbridge will be the most surprised of all."
“The same people that told us Iraq was a big threat, that the Taliban was a big threat, are the same people telling us Iran is a big threat.”
And this is what he wrote about Oxford and Cambridge undergraduates.
"In the US, an ideological transformation has swept almost every campus I visit. Five years ago, I’d typically meet a wall of hostility like the one I found at Cambridge. But in today’s America, college-age students have moved toward Trump more heavily than any other demographic. The decline of religiosity among young people has halted and may be in reverse. On dozens of campuses in the past year I’ve met thousands of young people refusing to passively accept the decline of their civilisation. In contrast, at Oxbridge I found the dominant outlook to be a depressed and depressing near-nihilism. They were students who hardly cared their country has less free speech than 50 or 100 years ago. They were appalled that a person might think life begins at conception, but not that their own country is being steadily Islamicised. They loved the abstract fight for ‘democracy’ in Ukraine, but find the actual outcome of democracy in America very icky. That fixation on America says it all. There’s more interest in moralising about the bad man across the Atlantic than in salvaging their own declining country.
"In Britain at large, a very different attitude prevails. I spoke to everybody I could while there, from drivers and blue-collar workmen to journalists and the shockingly large number of people who recognised me in the streets. What I heard from them was clear. They’re angry at Britain’s net-zero-driven energy stagnation. They’re furious at the Biden-esque levels of immigration inflicted on them by their ‘Conservative’ government in the past decade. Over and over, they told me they were ready to smash the British party system to bits and elect a Reform prime minister. The great turn in Britain is coming. And when it arrives, the students of Oxbridge will be the most surprised of all."
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