I read your pieces a lot and I always enjoy what you have to say and how you say it. More importantly, I revere the fact that you DO say something.
Looking at recently released video of this poor man, I see another soul who felt he had to say SOMETHING, that he wouldn’t be able to look in his mirror if he didn’t stand up for what he believed in. To me, such men & women are the real heroes of our time. I hope to god I can emulate their strength & bravery.
In times past, this man would have been a spokesperson, a councillor, a union rep. He would have stood up as an ordinary working class man and he would have represented his people. It’s how Kier Hardy started the Labour Party, speaking his truth for his people. The ‘Democracy’ that this represented has long since gone. Swept away by globalists, lobbyists, business interests, donations, and all the rest of the greed, thievery and corruption that has stolen our lives & freedoms. Brave men from their communities are no longer an asset to a thriving society, they are a risk, a threat to the venal, corrupt & criminal classes that have stolen our homes, our freedoms, our jobs, our safety, our health, our happiness, our country, our birthright.
We have been dispossessed. Partly it was our own fault. We took our foot off the pedal & our eyes off the ball, mesmerised by cheap holidays & consumerist trash.
We turned on the tv, went down the pub, went on a cheap week to Benidorm and we forgot, we forgot that our new found freedoms came only through bravery, tenacity and sacrifice, not through 14 pints of cheap lager, a kebab and a night in front of Eastenders.
We have to come back from this. We will come back from it. But we need to start paying attention. Peter Lynch was paying attention, bless him. You are paying attention, Frank. We are getting there, through time, effort, trouble and fora like this. We are getting there, but it’s a long hard journey.
So tragic. Words are not violence. That man was of the generation which was taught that words can never harm you. Because they can't. You can be offended by words or upset by them but that's physically harmless. How absolutely disgusting that our country is now run by such conmen and shysters who have infiltrated everywhere. A confident country run by confident people would have no issue with people saying anything they wanted to.
you mean "democracy" don't you? the sort the bbc is so keen to protect with all the verification it does nowadays. the sort hillary clinton is so keen to protect by ensuring the internet is mostly silent. not the sort of democracy where ideas can be openly discussed and rude insults can be hurled.
Oh yes, my mistake. Practically all the terms of description require scare quotes, being a travesty of the facts to which these labels are attached. Sorry.
My heart goes out to a brave man who has been killed by the Police State.
His only crime was to speak the TRUTH !
His only crime was to take a stand against alien invasion !
My name is George Tzamouranis and I was born in Athens, Greece, in 1965.
My grandparents in Nazi-occupied Greece, in 1941-1944, had looked up to the British as the most civilised nation on this planet.
Today Britain has become the laughing-stock of the whole world. What's gone wrong ?
Where is Winston Churchill's finest hour ? Where is the fighting spirit of the blitz ?
I truly admire Nigel Farage, and I truly admire Tommy Robinson, for their boldness and courage in speaking THE BLUNT TRUTH !
I guess I'm an immigrant, in the sense that my parents decided to move from Greece and to settle in Wimbledon, back in 1970, when I was just FIVE years of age and my sister was just SEVEN years of age, but THERE WAS A REASON for my dad's arrival in the UK with his family : he was a journalist and he had been stationed in London as the correspondent for a Greek newspaper.
The problem today is that ALL THE TRASH AND THE DREGS OF SOCIETY FROM THIRD-WORLD COUNTRIES are arriving in the UK, WITH or WITHOUT money, WITH or WITHOUT permission, and WITH or WITHOUT any reason for BEING here !
We are seeing a breakdown in the NHS, in housing provision, in schooling, in law and order, because THE UK HAS BEEN FLOODED with gangsters and criminals.
We are also seeing a rapid Islamification of ALL our inner cities.
I'm WITH you, Nigel Farage, I'm WITH you, Tommy Robinson, and I have repeatedly voted for Brexit and for Reform. We must KICK OUT the Albanian and Romanian gangsters, the Gipsy beggars, the West African and Vietnamese heroin-mules, the Arab trash of various nationalities, and we must make Britain beautiful again, the way this land was MEANT to be !
Here in the US, hate speech is alive and well--as long as it's directed towards the targets of the Regime. Say anything against White men, Christians, and conservatives and it will not be an impediment to career advancement. In fact it's de rigueur in order to hold tenure at university or a job spouting political analysis on teevee.
However, it is ALWAYS hateful to point out who commits violent crime at a disproportionate rate. And any criticism of one nation in particular will get you smeared as a bigot. There is also only one incident in history that is strictly forbidden to investigate, lest you find yourself in the same basket of deplorable to which Hillary Clinton consigned half of America. Why is that???
What to do? Keep noticing. Keep talking. The Regime depends on self-censorship to get by until official government-sanctioned censorship is enthroned. The more we talk about "forbidden" topics, the more mainstream they become.
We’ve seen it all before. Far right, conspiracy theorists etc are all variations on the old Bolshevik vocabulary, notably « counter revolutionary «
The reason is plain: even the most horribly repressive regimes dare not simply say I will destroy you because you threaten my power. A moral excuse is needed.
We the oppressed have our own claim : we are the good the fair the just and they are the savage the cruel and the unjust.
I'm an American Anglophile and have always wanted to visit Great Britain. Considering what is happening now, I'm not so sure that would be wise because I'm not the best at withholding opinions. We have the 1st Amendment (so far, unless John Kerry et al have their way and I hope they never do) protecting speech as long as we FIGHT for it. Can an American be jailed in England for "offensive speech" if he's just visiting? I have a niece visiting Scotland right now for her destination wedding. Is this happening there, too?
Use your approach/avoid instinct and you’ll be fine. Direct confrontation of the authorities with wordviolence is probably not on your agenda. Scotland is great, you will love it.
I hope one day to go, we shall see. The exquisite Lady Diana married that man in 1981 the summer I was 10. I got up at 0300 to watch the pre-wedding festivities and on till 1100 when they boarded Britannia for honeymoon. I've been hooked ever since (oh and a voracious reader or Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie thanks to the Bookmobile).
Well if you do decide to come, let me know and I’ll do you a little itinerary. Plenty of marvellous things to see and enchanting places to wander, despite the madness. It isn’t everywhere that’s turned into nowhere - far from it. We have a beautiful archipelago and I’d be delighted to point you at its treasures.
Most people will kill you. I’m talking about your neighbours your colleagues maybe your spouse maybe your children. Try, see what happens; Show this article to them, see how that goes!
They won’t say they are glad he killed himself, people don’t say that out loud. But quietly, they’ll think he got what he deserved. Lawfare, yes, Trump, yes, how many people were happy. You, maybe?
No no no no no no no, can’t let ya off the hook that easy; This is exactly how we work; This is exactly how human beings work.
Nah, most people won't kill you. Some will. Most civilised people freeze at the sight of deadly violence. Being able to tell the difference helps. You can't always tell, and I have been lucky at least once. I often speak more bluntly in reality than on here.
There are a lot of basically decent people in the world. This sort of thing horrifies them, because it is horrible to realise the people you see on the telly are this cruel.
Will some people feel satisfied that others suffer more? Of course they will. I think the inability of the innocent to imagine the reality of evil a great helpmeet to harm. There is plenty of tragedy in the human condition, but we are not all villains - and that is part of it.
If I gave 3 - any 3 - of your articles to 10 of my family and friends, I would be disowned by 8 of them.
Disowned, ok, my mistake, “killed” was hyperbolic, but I stand by my statement. Low information people are by definition indoctrinated people and presented with your arguments, please, they would short circuit and it would stick to me. I would be written off.
My real point is about the isolation that comes with honest inquiry. People will never forgive you for going against their beliefs. We all know to be careful; Every one of your readers knows to be careful. This information would split families and end friendships.
It’s just how we work.
God help anyone that gives your stuff to their 20-year-old kid. Our kids are owned by the machine, they have been trained and prepared, warned of the eventual necessity to reject their parents. The school has pre-Bunk’d your objections to the fantasia with your children. It’s part of the curriculum.
I’m telling you schadenfreude, half your fellow countrymen will have taken quiet delight in the suicide of this “wrongheaded, reactionary, racist, hateful” man. That would be very easy to elicit from them, they would say it right out loud.
I was being a prick, it’s in our world, everywhere, that’s what I was saying to your readers, that’s the point.
When people believe things to feel less bad about themselves, then contradicting them makes them feel terrible. It removes their consolation prize, which is a lie.
So you become the enemy for turning on the light. If we are all in the dark, no one can tell the difference.
This is the same sort of thing which happens when you catch people in certain socioeconomic conditions committing crimes. They accuse YOU of causing the problem, because if you did not see them committing crime, there would have been no crime at all.
I have spent some time doing criminal reform with these socioeconomic conditions.
A lot of chaps I met when I was playing dress-up-dollies were in their 20s. They were not brainwashed, more creatures of post-saturation. Some are lost, some are used to the constant shower of drivel-sensation. In short, propaganda has left them if not jaded, then detached from its emotional mechanisms.
There is a living subaltern discourse in the mass-media-hip post-ironic youth. They have an "incredulity toward Grand Narratives". This was "cool" when it was Lyotard and Derrida talking about Western norms from a post-Marxist standpoint. Now it is terrifying to power, because the Grand Narratives at which the kids raise their eyebrows are all the lies on which the power system is built.
Indoctrination in schools also produces a Streisand Effect - it pushes people away from all the material that is mandatory. This begins with boredom, but crystallises into a suspicion (correctly held) of every term and condition of regime "reality".
There are casualties, there are survivors, there are those who are lost and those who are finding their way out of the mind-maze. There is also a significant cohort who have suffered this assault and become anti-fragile. Exposure does not always result in fatality or debility - infection can and does build immunity in some.
I am an optimism-compatibilist. I can see the legions of doom, but also the divisions of lol. I have met these people, young men and women, hungry for reality.
We live amidst a great disenchantment. The liberal system has dissolved, and its indoctrinaires have been schooled to adjust to a world that is vanishing. To believe in its fairy tales is to be voluntarily handicapped, and this is now obvious. To the kids, in a hard nosed normless world of self and advantage, it is simply a practical matter.
Generally, a great appetite for the real is growing, from a starved population bereft of meaning. This is good, because reality is where we thrive, against the industry of lies required to maintain the world of illusion.
This isn't going to resolve itself. There will be a fight. Is there anything worth fighting - or dying for - or are you content with shopping and rutting? The big questions are back, because the old answers are dead in the water.
The spectator class is always there. They watch what others do, jeer the losers, and applaud the winners. The question of power is not what is told, but who tells the stories.
Most men go to hell willingly. I think we have a duty to give them better dreams.
Oh wow, Frank!
Thank you for articulating so well how we all feel. What a country we now inhabit!
It’s a tragic story but I’m glad you think I helped. I do try, and it is very encouraging to hear I have not failed in this case. Thank you LuLu.
I read your pieces a lot and I always enjoy what you have to say and how you say it. More importantly, I revere the fact that you DO say something.
Looking at recently released video of this poor man, I see another soul who felt he had to say SOMETHING, that he wouldn’t be able to look in his mirror if he didn’t stand up for what he believed in. To me, such men & women are the real heroes of our time. I hope to god I can emulate their strength & bravery.
In times past, this man would have been a spokesperson, a councillor, a union rep. He would have stood up as an ordinary working class man and he would have represented his people. It’s how Kier Hardy started the Labour Party, speaking his truth for his people. The ‘Democracy’ that this represented has long since gone. Swept away by globalists, lobbyists, business interests, donations, and all the rest of the greed, thievery and corruption that has stolen our lives & freedoms. Brave men from their communities are no longer an asset to a thriving society, they are a risk, a threat to the venal, corrupt & criminal classes that have stolen our homes, our freedoms, our jobs, our safety, our health, our happiness, our country, our birthright.
We have been dispossessed. Partly it was our own fault. We took our foot off the pedal & our eyes off the ball, mesmerised by cheap holidays & consumerist trash.
We turned on the tv, went down the pub, went on a cheap week to Benidorm and we forgot, we forgot that our new found freedoms came only through bravery, tenacity and sacrifice, not through 14 pints of cheap lager, a kebab and a night in front of Eastenders.
We have to come back from this. We will come back from it. But we need to start paying attention. Peter Lynch was paying attention, bless him. You are paying attention, Frank. We are getting there, through time, effort, trouble and fora like this. We are getting there, but it’s a long hard journey.
I think you make one good point after another in your consistently perceptive analysis of where we were and how we got here.
There is nothing for the ragged trousered philanthropist in todays Labour movement, which is now the beneficiary of our civilisational impoverishment.
Never, ever forget what these filthy traitors have done. RIP Peter Lynch.
So tragic. Words are not violence. That man was of the generation which was taught that words can never harm you. Because they can't. You can be offended by words or upset by them but that's physically harmless. How absolutely disgusting that our country is now run by such conmen and shysters who have infiltrated everywhere. A confident country run by confident people would have no issue with people saying anything they wanted to.
Free speech is a danger to democracy for good reason, given the danger presented by “democracy”.
you mean "democracy" don't you? the sort the bbc is so keen to protect with all the verification it does nowadays. the sort hillary clinton is so keen to protect by ensuring the internet is mostly silent. not the sort of democracy where ideas can be openly discussed and rude insults can be hurled.
Oh yes, my mistake. Practically all the terms of description require scare quotes, being a travesty of the facts to which these labels are attached. Sorry.
and nancy pelosi, she feels "our democracy" is under threat
My heart goes out to a brave man who has been killed by the Police State.
His only crime was to speak the TRUTH !
His only crime was to take a stand against alien invasion !
My name is George Tzamouranis and I was born in Athens, Greece, in 1965.
My grandparents in Nazi-occupied Greece, in 1941-1944, had looked up to the British as the most civilised nation on this planet.
Today Britain has become the laughing-stock of the whole world. What's gone wrong ?
Where is Winston Churchill's finest hour ? Where is the fighting spirit of the blitz ?
I truly admire Nigel Farage, and I truly admire Tommy Robinson, for their boldness and courage in speaking THE BLUNT TRUTH !
I guess I'm an immigrant, in the sense that my parents decided to move from Greece and to settle in Wimbledon, back in 1970, when I was just FIVE years of age and my sister was just SEVEN years of age, but THERE WAS A REASON for my dad's arrival in the UK with his family : he was a journalist and he had been stationed in London as the correspondent for a Greek newspaper.
The problem today is that ALL THE TRASH AND THE DREGS OF SOCIETY FROM THIRD-WORLD COUNTRIES are arriving in the UK, WITH or WITHOUT money, WITH or WITHOUT permission, and WITH or WITHOUT any reason for BEING here !
We are seeing a breakdown in the NHS, in housing provision, in schooling, in law and order, because THE UK HAS BEEN FLOODED with gangsters and criminals.
We are also seeing a rapid Islamification of ALL our inner cities.
I'm WITH you, Nigel Farage, I'm WITH you, Tommy Robinson, and I have repeatedly voted for Brexit and for Reform. We must KICK OUT the Albanian and Romanian gangsters, the Gipsy beggars, the West African and Vietnamese heroin-mules, the Arab trash of various nationalities, and we must make Britain beautiful again, the way this land was MEANT to be !
A really good article Frank. What an unbelievable episode this is. How tragic.
We all inhabit this tragedy, in one scene or another. How to act is the matter. I’m for civic disobedience and the restoration of sanity.
You’re so right. I’m with you.
Here is an explanation of Civic disobedience, including tax strikes and community organisation to replace the state in policing and maintenance.https://frankwright.substack.com/p/civic-disobedience?r=18ihr9
That is a brilliant and important article. Thank you for the link. The image of Christ is genuinely arresting.
What have we done to deserve this government I don’t know. I shall remain strong and do my bit. Thank you again.
Oh you're welcome. The hour is late but the clock has not yet stopped.
You’re right, it hasn’t. I will do my bit.
Here in the US, hate speech is alive and well--as long as it's directed towards the targets of the Regime. Say anything against White men, Christians, and conservatives and it will not be an impediment to career advancement. In fact it's de rigueur in order to hold tenure at university or a job spouting political analysis on teevee.
However, it is ALWAYS hateful to point out who commits violent crime at a disproportionate rate. And any criticism of one nation in particular will get you smeared as a bigot. There is also only one incident in history that is strictly forbidden to investigate, lest you find yourself in the same basket of deplorable to which Hillary Clinton consigned half of America. Why is that???
What to do? Keep noticing. Keep talking. The Regime depends on self-censorship to get by until official government-sanctioned censorship is enthroned. The more we talk about "forbidden" topics, the more mainstream they become.
Thank you Frank for bringing this to our attention. A dreadful, dreadful thing.
Thank you for this Frank. With gratitude for Peter.
We’ve seen it all before. Far right, conspiracy theorists etc are all variations on the old Bolshevik vocabulary, notably « counter revolutionary «
The reason is plain: even the most horribly repressive regimes dare not simply say I will destroy you because you threaten my power. A moral excuse is needed.
We the oppressed have our own claim : we are the good the fair the just and they are the savage the cruel and the unjust.
I'm an American Anglophile and have always wanted to visit Great Britain. Considering what is happening now, I'm not so sure that would be wise because I'm not the best at withholding opinions. We have the 1st Amendment (so far, unless John Kerry et al have their way and I hope they never do) protecting speech as long as we FIGHT for it. Can an American be jailed in England for "offensive speech" if he's just visiting? I have a niece visiting Scotland right now for her destination wedding. Is this happening there, too?
Use your approach/avoid instinct and you’ll be fine. Direct confrontation of the authorities with wordviolence is probably not on your agenda. Scotland is great, you will love it.
*your niece will love it
I hope one day to go, we shall see. The exquisite Lady Diana married that man in 1981 the summer I was 10. I got up at 0300 to watch the pre-wedding festivities and on till 1100 when they boarded Britannia for honeymoon. I've been hooked ever since (oh and a voracious reader or Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie thanks to the Bookmobile).
Well if you do decide to come, let me know and I’ll do you a little itinerary. Plenty of marvellous things to see and enchanting places to wander, despite the madness. It isn’t everywhere that’s turned into nowhere - far from it. We have a beautiful archipelago and I’d be delighted to point you at its treasures.
You're on! But I'm buying the Laphroaig.
Frank, what's the painting with the angel called?
I don't know Graham. Sorry.
So so sad. God rest his poor soul.
The world does not respect weak countries, England is a joke and we all can see it.
Most people will kill you. I’m talking about your neighbours your colleagues maybe your spouse maybe your children. Try, see what happens; Show this article to them, see how that goes!
They won’t say they are glad he killed himself, people don’t say that out loud. But quietly, they’ll think he got what he deserved. Lawfare, yes, Trump, yes, how many people were happy. You, maybe?
No no no no no no no, can’t let ya off the hook that easy; This is exactly how we work; This is exactly how human beings work.
Nah, most people won't kill you. Some will. Most civilised people freeze at the sight of deadly violence. Being able to tell the difference helps. You can't always tell, and I have been lucky at least once. I often speak more bluntly in reality than on here.
There are a lot of basically decent people in the world. This sort of thing horrifies them, because it is horrible to realise the people you see on the telly are this cruel.
Will some people feel satisfied that others suffer more? Of course they will. I think the inability of the innocent to imagine the reality of evil a great helpmeet to harm. There is plenty of tragedy in the human condition, but we are not all villains - and that is part of it.
Well said.
If I gave 3 - any 3 - of your articles to 10 of my family and friends, I would be disowned by 8 of them.
Disowned, ok, my mistake, “killed” was hyperbolic, but I stand by my statement. Low information people are by definition indoctrinated people and presented with your arguments, please, they would short circuit and it would stick to me. I would be written off.
My real point is about the isolation that comes with honest inquiry. People will never forgive you for going against their beliefs. We all know to be careful; Every one of your readers knows to be careful. This information would split families and end friendships.
It’s just how we work.
God help anyone that gives your stuff to their 20-year-old kid. Our kids are owned by the machine, they have been trained and prepared, warned of the eventual necessity to reject their parents. The school has pre-Bunk’d your objections to the fantasia with your children. It’s part of the curriculum.
I’m telling you schadenfreude, half your fellow countrymen will have taken quiet delight in the suicide of this “wrongheaded, reactionary, racist, hateful” man. That would be very easy to elicit from them, they would say it right out loud.
I was being a prick, it’s in our world, everywhere, that’s what I was saying to your readers, that’s the point.
Oh yes - there is good reason to be cautious.
When people believe things to feel less bad about themselves, then contradicting them makes them feel terrible. It removes their consolation prize, which is a lie.
So you become the enemy for turning on the light. If we are all in the dark, no one can tell the difference.
This is the same sort of thing which happens when you catch people in certain socioeconomic conditions committing crimes. They accuse YOU of causing the problem, because if you did not see them committing crime, there would have been no crime at all.
I have spent some time doing criminal reform with these socioeconomic conditions.
A lot of chaps I met when I was playing dress-up-dollies were in their 20s. They were not brainwashed, more creatures of post-saturation. Some are lost, some are used to the constant shower of drivel-sensation. In short, propaganda has left them if not jaded, then detached from its emotional mechanisms.
There is a living subaltern discourse in the mass-media-hip post-ironic youth. They have an "incredulity toward Grand Narratives". This was "cool" when it was Lyotard and Derrida talking about Western norms from a post-Marxist standpoint. Now it is terrifying to power, because the Grand Narratives at which the kids raise their eyebrows are all the lies on which the power system is built.
Indoctrination in schools also produces a Streisand Effect - it pushes people away from all the material that is mandatory. This begins with boredom, but crystallises into a suspicion (correctly held) of every term and condition of regime "reality".
There are casualties, there are survivors, there are those who are lost and those who are finding their way out of the mind-maze. There is also a significant cohort who have suffered this assault and become anti-fragile. Exposure does not always result in fatality or debility - infection can and does build immunity in some.
I am an optimism-compatibilist. I can see the legions of doom, but also the divisions of lol. I have met these people, young men and women, hungry for reality.
We live amidst a great disenchantment. The liberal system has dissolved, and its indoctrinaires have been schooled to adjust to a world that is vanishing. To believe in its fairy tales is to be voluntarily handicapped, and this is now obvious. To the kids, in a hard nosed normless world of self and advantage, it is simply a practical matter.
Generally, a great appetite for the real is growing, from a starved population bereft of meaning. This is good, because reality is where we thrive, against the industry of lies required to maintain the world of illusion.
This isn't going to resolve itself. There will be a fight. Is there anything worth fighting - or dying for - or are you content with shopping and rutting? The big questions are back, because the old answers are dead in the water.
The spectator class is always there. They watch what others do, jeer the losers, and applaud the winners. The question of power is not what is told, but who tells the stories.
Most men go to hell willingly. I think we have a duty to give them better dreams.
So sad. Thank you for writing about this, Frank. We need writers like you more than ever. 🙏