Quotations

"Something must be done. This is something therefore this must be done." I heard Michael Stewart say that to the House of Lords.

".... today, Phnom Penh once again has a population of about 2m, as it did in 1974 before the Khmer Rouge. However, 80 per cent of these people are “newcomers”, with no ancestral, cultural or generational link to the old Phnom Penh. The original population that was kicked out in 1975 has never truly returned.
Setting down my beer, I started taking notes, hoping to find a way to illustrate this astounding change. I wrote the lines “imagine if this happened to London, if most of the population was replaced in two generations, how incredible it might… And then I stopped. Because I realised that actually has happened to London. In 1975 the white British population of London was about 85 per cent. Today, fifty years later, it is just 37 per cent, and falling." Article in today's Daily Telegraph by Sean Thomas

“When it comes to anti-fascism in most of Western Europe, there would appear for now to be a supply-and-demand problem: the demand for fascists vastly outstrips the actual supply.” Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

"The word antisemite used to mean someone who didn't like Jews. Now it means someone whom Jews don't like." I forget where I read this. It might be true. Jeremy Corbyn, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie and others come to mind. I remember being told that George HW Bush and Barak Obama were antisemites. Jews are accused accused of antisemitism ("self hating Jews"). Gilad Atzmon especially, though he protests that it's not true. Of course there are real antisemites and their number no doubt has grown in the last two years.