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3. Dontcha juss luv a good rant

Northern Variant on X, on Brummieland HERE:

It’s a shithole. Almost every white British adult recognises it as such. An increasingly dangerous, dirty slum. There are only three groups of people who describe urban slums as vibrant and diverse…

Foreigners, young people and politicians. Foreigners like it regardless because it’s better than whatever shithole they came from, politicians praise it because they could never admit they turned it into a shithole, and young people, students especially enjoy the adventure, the convenience and the nightlife where they can test their mettle.

I certainly enjoyed Leeds in my younger days, and latterly inner city Bristol. But everyone grows out of it eventually. People start to need familiarity, safety, predictability and kinship. That’s why almost everyone moves away from “vibrant” areas when they can.

But then you get perpetual student types like Alice Roberts who never grow up. It’s the liberal Peter Pan syndrome. As we’ve seen from other commentary from her in recent weeks, she peaked intellectually in 2008, and it was not a high peak. She remains, at heart, a wide-eyed lefty teenager, which is almost endearing, but not now she’s knocking on into her fifties.

Our cities are filled with these types. Bristol and Brighton especially. Kidults who don’t really follow politics to any level of sophistication, whose opinions are calibrated for maximum social convenience among other braindead urbanites. They effortlessly drift from one fad to another, be it climate, gender or Palestine.

The Palestine cause is especially valuable social currency to them because it gives them a way to demonstrate to their exotic Uber driver that, though they’re whiter than AC Grayling hair, they’re a true ally to brown people.

Seeing as she’s done quite well for herself, Ms Roberts is largely insulated from the worst aspects of diversity even if she chooses to live among it. The last fifteen years of rapid demographic change hasn’t registered with her, and because she’s programmed to see urban squalor as “vibrant”, she lacks the language to call it what it is.

Deep down, though, she knows it’s a dangerous shithole and will still take all the necessary precautions when going out with her girl pals – but to remain on “the right side of history” she has to pretend the grooming gangs, the knife crime, the organised crime is all just part of the rich fabric of vibrant and diverse modern Britain. Since none of it affects her directly, or is likely to intrude on her life, it’s just the backdrop the exciting simulation she lives in.

As far as she’s concerned as a wealthy urbanite, “diversity” is largely consequence free. What you can be assured of, though, is when it starts to get hairy, Ms Roberts will be the first to cash in her chips and move to a nice leafy white suburb (if she hasn’t already), where she doesn’t have to set eyes on the piles of rotting refuse or see any brown faces.

She’ll never have to wonder if her daughter is being preyed upon by Moslem perverts, and she won’t be worried about her personal safety. When she says Birmingham is “vibrant, diverse and wonderful”, she means… from a distance.

2. An Xer posted this

“The leftist caught encouraging attacks on ICE agents, challenging Trump supporters to physical fights, and threatening tribunals against the current administration is, in fact, a convicted felon who is now a radical left-wing activist online. Meet Jason T. Brooks, a man who was sentenced to 32 years in prison for running a $10 million Ponzi scheme out of Colorado. He ended up serving only 10 years — just enough time to get out and rebrand himself as a leftist digital warrior.”

There’s a post including it at OoL:

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/10/in-plain-sight-in-film.html

1. DAD at 1170

a) The crisis of French politics continues. There has been so much ‘kicking things into the long grass’ that there is not much more room left.The outgoing Prime Minister presented his conclusions to the Head of State. The situation allows Emmanuel Macron to appoint a Prime Minister “within the next 48 hours.”

b) The collapse of the Lecornu government in the French National Assembly, the fourth government to fail in the last year, raises disturbing resonances of the parliamentary chaos of the previous four French republics.

c) The French Republic is lunar and morbid. While more than 250,000 human babies were legally massacred last year under the abortion law….

d) European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde has expressed clear frustration with democratic processes that she believes are obstructing her efforts to introduce a central bank digital currency.