David Frum is a former speechwriter for George Bush and coined the term ‘Axis of Evil’ during the Iraq War, which he was a staunch advocate of. Nowadays he is a weird ideologue and troll on Twitter
Below: What David Frum loves about modern life
David Frum not being ‘thin-skinned’
David Frum has been eating insects for decades
David Frum loves the smell of his own swamp. I assume he is peaking metaphorically
David Frum being a creep to Megyn Kelly
David Frum ‘growls and snarls’ thinking about threats to democracy
“Waabababaa”
Frum tweeting like a literal troll
David Frum runs his nose up and down people to sniff for fascism. I assume he is speaking figuratively
Probably he thought this was quite clever, but it just makes him seem really weird and goblin-like
Here is David Frum ‘gnashing his teeth at the nerve’. They are talking about the Hunter Biden tapes which later, of course, turned out to be real
David Frum has trouble with his skin regularly shedding and seeks advice
David Frum denies blinking sideways
Weird flex
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BBC Journalist asks Danish Politician how Denmark is able to maintain trust in its Democracy - “Give voters what they want. If they want lower immigration lower it”
Advanced Techniques for Expert Democracy-Heads (Experts Only) to maintain trust in your Democratic System
• Release all data for transparency, even if the findings are uncomfortable
• If voters want lower immigration, lower immigration
• Don’t allow foreign ghettos to form
In the C19th and 20th large numbers of Nepali workers were settled in the Himalayan Kingdom of Sikkim, over time becoming a majority - this demographic change providing the impetus for the eventual dissolution of the historic Sikkim state 🧵
Sikkim, once a sovereign Himalayan kingdom, saw its tenability as a state dramatically contested by waves of Nepali migration - initially as labourers, but then as dominant political actors who transformed the state’s demographic and political character, eventually dissolving it
Old Sikkim was a Buddhist kingdom ruled by the Namgyal dynasty (1642–1975). The political system was feudal - led and upheld by the royal and spiritual authority of the Chogyal (king), with power shared among Bhutia aristocrats and local Lepcha chiefs under a theocratic-monarchy
I recently visited Leicester - one of the cities in Britain most transformed by immigration and the infamous location of a recent series of intercommunal riots between its Hindu and Muslim communities - to see what it looks like today 🧵
Leicester received more migrants before other British cities because of its textile industry and an influx of Ugandan Asians, creating chain migration incentives. Aside from its infamous community unrest also in recent years Richard III’s body was discovered under a carpark here
Leicester is one of Britain’s first majority minority cities, in 2021 41% white of which 33% are white British. This is very reflected at street level, very visible - you will see white British people but the vast majority of people will be from other ethnic backgrounds
Impressions from recent visit to Tbilisi and the ways in which the city is and is not changing in the 2020’s 🧵
This is not a complaining thread, more just to describe Tbilisi as it is today and the extent to which Tbilisi is or is not changing. ‘TLDR’ - Tbilisi is an underrated city where issues affecting the rest of Europe are still novel, politics is more balancing EU & Russia influence
Georgia is ‘The Very Edge of Europe’ Europe, Europe but not quite - uncanny valley Europe with some extra exotic motifs, the mythical Colchis, ‘almost European’. Gun to my head would draw the cultural borders of Europe (maybe you could say Christendom) near here or maybe Armenia
Impressions from recent visit to Prague and the ways in which the city is and is not changing in the 2020’s 🧵
This is not a complaining thread, more just to describe Prague as it is today and the extent to which Prague is or is not changing. ‘TLDR’ - Prague is a fun Basically Fine city but it can suffer from overtourism. A very limited number of guest workers are now starting to arrive
Mostly enjoy Prague as a city, don’t think it will blow anyone away but it is a fairly liveable place, Basically Fine. It remains a largely Czech city with by European standards a sober population and is a good example of ‘Moderate Euromodernism with Visegradian Characteristics’
Impressions from recent visit to Belgrade and the ways in which the city is and is not changing in the 2020’s 🧵
This is not a complaining thread, more just to describe Belgrade as it is today and the extent to which Belgrade is or is not changing. ‘TLDR’ - Belgrade is a tidy and organised city in an ongoing construction boom. It is a very overtly nationalistic place without much migration
Belgrade is very clean, rare to see trash on the floor. Some parts of the city are a little shabby but mostly in the sense of decaying communist era architecture. There is a big buzz of new development, apartments, skyscrapers, shopping malls being built along the city’s waterfront