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US jibes at Royal Navy are uncomfortable because they have substance

While Pete Hegseth has mocked the ‘big, bad Royal Navy’, the First Sea Lord has sounded the alarm about its readiness

The US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, had his tongue firmly in his cheek when he singled out the “big, bad Royal Navy” in a recent press update on the US-Israeli war against Iran.

Hegseth’s sarcastic comment was the latest in a long line of jibes against the capabilities and readiness of the British Royal Navy.

However, less political figures have also warned of the perilous state of the UK’s naval warfare force, including the First Sea Lord, the highest-ranking naval officer on active duty.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK

Britain Will Not Be Ruling the Waves Again Under This Political Class

It was a painful wake-up call for Britain. When, last month, the United States and Israel launched an air assault against Iran, it wasn’t long before French President Emmanuel Macron announced he would be sending a powerful armada to the Eastern Mediterranean. The justification for the impressive deployment, which involves about half of France’s entire surface fleet and the country’s sole aircraft carrier, the magnificent Charles de Gaulle, was a series of Iranian drone attacks against EU member state Cyprus. Yet it wasn’t really Cyprus itself that was attacked, but the sovereign British territory of RAF Akrotiri. Nevertheless, even as Paris dispatched a potent naval force, Starmer’s Britain announced only the deployment of HMS Dragon, a Type 45 class destroyer — to add insult to injury, the British vessel malfunctioned en route to Cyprus. What is happening with the once-feared Royal Navy?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK

London on alert for teen mob chaos: Met deploys more police over fears of fresh Easter holiday ‘linkups’

Scotland Yard has deployed more police amid fears teen mobs will once again descend on town centres in a repeat of last night’s chaos in Clapham.

Today, senior Conservatives demanded ‘mass arrests’ after hundreds of teenagers flooded into the plush south-west London neighbourhood as part of an Easter holiday ‘linkup’ promoted on social media.

More than 300 teenagers gathered on the Clapham Common baseball courts before swarming the High Street to steal from shops, attack police and fight amongst themselves – as terrified families barricaded themselves inside supermarkets.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK, WTF?

King Charles’s state visit to US will be ‘humiliation’ amid Iran war

King Charles will go ahead with a state visit to the US in April, Buckingham Palace has confirmed, despite some politicians saying the trip will be a “humiliation” while Donald Trump’s war with Iran is ongoing.

MPs have privately expressed concerns there is potential to embarrass the king if the US president continues his criticisms of the UK’s armed forces before or during the trip.

The chair of the foreign affairs select committee, Emily Thornberry, is among those who have said there should be a delay while the war continues, although the Foreign Office has said it is intended to mark the 250th anniversary of US independence.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK, USA

Britain Adopts a ‘Back-Door’ Blasphemy Law

There’s nothing like a good old-fashioned blasphemy debate to get the blood pumping and temperature rising.

After all, you got the incendiary mix of religion, politics, and free speech all rolled into one messy debate. In Great Britain, the debate revolves around whether the nation can be made safe for “Mohammedans,” as Winston Churchill charmingly referred to Muslims. (Referring to Muslims as “Mohammedans” is not a slur. It’s an adjective. And if I can’t use an adjective as a “charming” descriptor for Muslims, I will turn myself in for violating America’s blasphemy laws. Just as soon as Congress passes one.)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK, WTF?

The betrayal of white working-class boys

Five years on from the publication of the landmark report from the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, the lead author, Tony Sewell, is still angry. Successive governments have ignored his warnings that England’s schools are failing white working-class boys. This week, Lord Sewell will tell Keir Starmer that ‘boys from the poorest homes are still stuck at the bottom of the class’ and are outperformed by every other group.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Anti-White Racism", UK

‘Sympathy is always for the migrant – never for the people paying for them’

All across the West, immigration is consistently named as one of the most pressing concerns of our time. Mass migration has transformed societies. Illegal migration has made a mockery of national citizenship. A populist backlash is upending our politics. And yet, artists and intellectuals have shied away from an honest reckoning with this. Migration is only ever portrayed positively, and the growing public discontent against it is framed as a nativist, racist or even fascist peril. Lionel Shriver’s new novel, A Better Life, dares to ask the forbidden question: what happens when migration isn’t entirely positive for the people on the receiving end?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, UK

Unseen by Orwell, ‘everlasting’ England on her deathbed

GEORGE Orwell’s 1941 essay England Your England, written at the height of the Blitz and at a moment in English history when it was not unreasonable to think that the nation and its distinctive culture might not survive, contains the following sentence:

‘The Stock Exchange will be pulled down, the horse plough will give way to the tractor, the country houses will be turned into children’s holiday camps, the Eton and Harrow match will be forgotten, but England will still be England, an everlasting animal stretching into the future and the past and, like all living things, having the power to change out of recognition and yet remain the same.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGeorge Orwell, UK

Why the nation of Churchill is no more

The “special relationship” between Britain and America is currently on life support. US President Donald Trump is furious with the British Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, for refusing to join the US and Israel in the war against Iran.

He is furious with others in the west too for similarly refusing even to help defend the Straits of Hormuz, the “chokehold” waterway which the Iranian regime is currently threatening to attack. As a result, traffic through the Straits has dwindled to a handful of tankers and the price of oil has soared.

As Trump has pointed out, the refusal of Britain, Europe and others to help defend the Straits is particularly egregious since they are vastly more dependent on the oil coming through there than is America.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK

Donald Trump says he is ‘not happy’ with Keir Starmer for refusing to join the war on Iran saying UK should ‘enthusiastically’ help US clear Strait of Hormuz

Donald Trump today said he was ‘not happy’ with Britain and ‘very surprised’ over its response to the Iran war as he launched a fresh attack on Keir Starmer.

In his latest broadside, the US President said the UK ‘should be involved enthusiastically’ with helping American forces reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Tehran is blockading the vital sea passage out of the Persian Gulf, stemming the flow of oil and gas from the Middle East and pushing up energy prices across the globe.

End of NATO?

More … Trump upset as key U.S. partners shun call for Hormuz warship escorts

More Again … ‘This Is Not Our War’: Europe and U.K. Push Back Against Trump’s Demands

h/t patthedog

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK, USA

The Fall of Britain — and the Warning for America

Britain’s retreat from its history and identity offers a cautionary tale for an America approaching its 250th birthday.

For reasons too dull to disclose, I didn’t become an American citizen till age 26, 20 years after arriving in the U.S. from Cuba. I had to drive from Washington to Baltimore with a good friend, Tom, who would testify that I was worthy of the honor. The two of us sat outside the immigration office waiting for Tom to be called in first. I was already a rock-solid conservative by then, more so than my buddy, and we got into a deep political argument. When the immigration officer popped her head out and called for Tom, he looked at me and said, “I don’t know now.” Of course he endorsed me. But that’s how challenging it was back then to become a U.S. citizen. Today, you probably don’t even have to speak English.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK, USA

The UK’s collapse to Islam is accelerating

News broke the other day that Winston Churchill’s image will be removed from the United Kingdom’s banknotes.  (American Thinker’s Andrea Widburg did a splendid job covering that and all its implications here.)

Evidently flora and fauna are less “controversial” so we will see flowers and hedgehogs on their currency instead.  That’ll work until the institutional left finds something objectionable about flowers and hedgehogs, but here we are.

Of course, any nation is free to redesign its currency at will, but this choice is consistent with the U.K.’s recent string of decisions to willingly, even lustily accelerate their own civilizational erasure.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

40% of New UK Homes Could House Migrants by 2030

New analysis from the Conservative Party warns that nearly four in ten newly built homes in the UK by 2030 may be required to accommodate incoming migrants. Drawing on projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the report estimates that net migration between 2026 and 2030 will reach almost 1.2 million people, creating demand for roughly 500,000 additional homes.

The OBR projects that around 1.34 million new homes will be delivered over the same period, meaning that 37.1% of all housing could be allocated to new arrivals, with the proportion rising to nearly 40% by 2030.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, UK

Britain’s Islamic Takeover Accelerates: Armed Sharia Vigilantes on Horseback Terrorize Manchester While Starmer’s Cops Refuse to Intervene

In a scene straight out of a dystopian nightmare, self-styled “Sharia patrols” on horseback charged through Manchester’s streets on March 4, 2026, chasing down peaceful demonstrators celebrating the end of Iran’s brutal Islamic Republic regime.

More: The true story of the ‘horsemen of the Ayatollah’ who rode to defend pro-Iranian supporters in Manchester – sparking claims of a ‘sharia police patrol’

They were Pro-Ayatollah out to protect Mullah Regime acolytes.

h/t Blackgriffin

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "US Israel Iran War", Islam, Islam and violence, UK