Camp Of The Saints

In the build-up to the 2024 Tory leadership election, Kemi Badenoch declared that ‘not all cultures are equal’. Her argument – that we can be a thriving multi-ethnic nation while expecting everyone to adhere to British cultural values – was met with fury. For some of Badenoch’s critics, the mere suggestion that certain foreign value systems are inferior to those of a western liberal democracy was beyond the pale. All the usual buzzwords were deployed: racist, fascist, far-right. Labour MP Dawn Butler shared a social media post deriding the Tory leader as ‘white supremacy in blackface’.

I don’t know how familiar readers are with the term ‘accelerationism’. It is generally used to describe a tendency on the left, though is increasingly heard on the right too.

The basic idea of accelerationism is that there are certain flaws in the societal structure which if pushed could bring things to their inevitable conclusion more quickly.

It is why there are so many people on the left of politics who say that sustainable government spending should be discouraged. It is not just because they are economically illiterate. What they really hope is that a speeded-up financial disaster will expose the ‘underlying contradictions of capitalism’, and we’ll all realise that Karl Marx was right and promptly vote for Zack Polanski or similar at the next election.

A 22-year-old Somali small boat migrant stabbed an asylum hotel welfare officer with a large kitchen knife ‘multiple times’, a court has heard.

Abdifatah Yusuf Adani knifed Aaron Gomes at the Stanwell Hotel in west London at around 6.30pm on Saturday, August 15.

Armed officers from Surrey Police rushed to the hotel and found Mr Gomes, a man in his 30s, suffering from life-threatening injuries.

Over eight in ten British voters believe that the left-wing Labour Party government is not doing enough to prevent illegal immigrants from reaching English shores, potentially spelling trouble for recently installed Prime Minister Andy Burnham.