Quotations

"Now people say that the toughness of Ukraine's investigation of corruption shows what a great country it is. Yet people had to take to the streets to stop Kiev's anti-corruption squads from being muzzled by the current govt."


Peter Hitchens yesterday on X. And these investigations are caused by decisions in Washington DC.

"In order to impose peace terms, you first need to win the war. That fundamental principle seems, for the moment, to elude Ukraine’s European allies. Donald Trump, on the other hand, has taken the more pragmatic – some would say more cynical – view that Ukraine will never defeat Russia and therefore needs to make the best of a bad lot."


Owen Matthews in today's Spectator. I can't see anything cynical in it.

"Have you noticed one ‘respectable serious mainstream grownup’ SW1 character reflect on a) the fact that it’s turned out Tommy Robinson was more right than ‘the mainstream’ on the gangs — more right than’Professors’ like ‘Professor’ Portes and ‘Professor’ Ansell, more right than the BBC Political Editors, more right than the TV anchors, more right than the Today program, more right than 99% of MPs, more right than the NPC pundit network paid to ‘explain’ politics to the plebs, and b) the implications of this for trust in ‘the mainstream’ at a time when Insiders are all desperately asking each other ‘how do we restore trust?’? I haven’t seen anything, if you noticed any honest reflections from that crowd please post link in comments.

"Remember, when the grooming gangs hit the news again in January, after decades of these gangs operating, the official line from No10, repeated by the regime media, remained that ‘the real story here is the tech oligarchs spreading disinformation and the spread of the Islamophobic far right’."


Dominic Cummings,, July 25 2025, A talk on regime change. Don't let the regime media rent space in your head if you can help it.


"You’d think that by now people who reject Catholicism would calmly ignore its teachings as old and irrelevant superstitions. After all, the Church has none of her old political power, adherence is now totally voluntary, and she has enough trouble getting her own children to listen to her.

"But Catholicism still has a strange moral authority, and many people are unable to achieve a calm and assured disbelief. They are still driven to discredit the Church — perhaps for the same reason so many of us believe in her."

Joseph Sobran