"This country has to protect itself against a new and insidious menace (which has) one object and one only: the forcible destruction, at first by secret methods and then by open methods, of our liberty, our Constitution, our laws, our religion, and our heritage.”

Those words were written by the Deputy Director of MI5 in 1933 on the threat posed then by British 'useful idiots' - Britain's Stalin enthusiasts.

Today, 90 years on, the same might be said about their political heirs and those they cynically ally themselves. Here is the full text 🧵 "This country has to protect itself against a new and insidious menace. Not all our enemies work in the light of day. Those most dangerous to our public security and peace today are doing evil work in the dark.

They evade our laws, while working secretly to destroy those laws by force. At the same time they appeal to those laws for their personal protection.

The Church of England wants to appoint a 'Deconstructing Whiteness' officer as part of its new 11 person £440k pa plus West Midlands Racial Justice team.

What is the 'whiteness' they feel they so urgently need to deconstruct? In the words of academics and church activists...

It is “a malignant, parasitic-like condition [which] renders its hosts' appetites voracious, insatiable, and perverse.”

It is “a powerful fiction enforced by power and violence"

"It is a psychosis, hallmarked by a distorted view of reality."

Really? Yes, this is what they believe and the CofE is appointing someone who believes this malign fiction about white people and white/British culture so that it can be eradicated in British church.

Read on for the detail of these and other quotes, beginning with the secular academics and then the liberal activists who have now infiltrated the western church🧵 In June 2021 an article in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association called whiteness "a malignant, parasitic-like condition."

In the article, the author wrote that "white people have a particular susceptibility" to the "parasitic" condition, which he claims "renders its hosts' appetites voracious, insatiable, and perverse."

He explained he believed whiteness establishes "entitled dominion" that enables the "host" to have "power without limit, force without restriction, violence without mercy," and increases one's drive to "terrorize." newsweek.com/research-artic…

The Great Terror began in August 1937, 86 years ago this week. The start was signalled by the infamous order No. 00447, signed 30th July by NKVD boss Nikolai Yezhov. It set quotas for executions and arrests for each region of the USSR. In 18 months almost 700k would be dead. 🧵 This is a page from Order 00447, with a translation. Region by region, the 1st column lists the number to be shot, the 2nd to be send to the Gulag & the total in the 3rd. An extract from a later page gives the number for the Leningrad and Moscow regions.
Mass murder by quota.

“You shall have no other gods…”
Punch Feb 1930 on Stalin’s mass arrests of priests & rabbis, destruction of churches/mosques & persecution right down to icon painters and Jewish butchers. As the yr advanced the news became even worse… 🧵 The Soviets, deciding to ‘liquidate’ a whole class of (mostly 🇺🇦) peasant smallholders, deported 1.8m incl intellectuals and believers to gulag camps in Siberia and the Far North.

https://twitter.com/gilesudy/status/974221513279836160

EU regulations now require every customer with an EU bank account to declare their
Total annual income after tax
Total taxes paid
All mortgages & loans paid p.a.
Value of all property, shares, deposit accounts.
Sources of all income.

If not supplied, your cards are cancelled Here it is chapter and verse.

Lynch's TV technique is very slick - and slippery. He deflects every difficult question with a smokescreen reply. Yet their Asst Gen Sec Dempsey has said the @RMTunion is 'trying to create a culture of civil disobedience in this country'.

Dig deep & there's a lot more to this 🧵

https://twitter.com/danbloom1/status/1602585777489297409

The collective leadership of RMT are overwhelmingly Marxist or one sort or other. Interviewers raise it but never explore WHAT that means - eg mass nationalisation & overthrow of parliamentary system. The detail is alarming. This 🧵explores that & shows how deep their ties are

So many fascinating takeaways from this article which shows that Putin’s gambit in 🇺🇦 has been a massive blunder which looks like tanking the 🇷🇺 Russian economy, defence capability, and arms export industry.
Do read it.
cepa.org/article/its-co… from the American point of view “US spending of 5.6% of its defense budget to destroy nearly half of Russia’s conventional military capability seems like an absolutely incredible investment.”

The drought is bad but sloppy journos are taking licence with dramatic photos. Example 1: Daily Mail - "The river Rhine is pictured with low water ... threatening German industry."
Its a small tributary leading into the Dutch Waal. NB the barge in background on the main river🧵 Yes you could stretch the point, the Waal IS a Rhine feeder river but the dramatic bike is not in the dried up Rhine. Here's the river in winter flood (Dec 18) and an aerial view of the backwater the Mail photo implies is the Rhine. It isn't.

Honestly… it ended in 1739. The lordly prelates of the church would have delegated most of their financial affairs to secretaries. Even then bishops were lamenting the suffering of slaves. 🧵
Can we please move on?
Sound bites and ‘laments’ ignore the context & nuance.

https://twitter.com/gbnews/status/1537691673328865281

Here’s Bishop Fleetwood in 1711. Doesn’t fit the narrative. Slaves were ‘equally the workmanship of God [with slave owners] who thus use [them] cruelly’.
No not every bishop got it but the implication they deliberately mandated capture and transport of slaves is divisive & wrong

And CofE isn’t racist anyway. Individual racism yes, just like bullying (which seems far more common) but ‘institutional’? No.
People need to look past emotions to the stats.
The % of BAME ordinands matches U.K. BAME %. Bishops don’t but there’s a reason... 🧵
@calvinrobinson

https://twitter.com/calvinrobinson/status/1526669051610669071

It’s quite simple. Say you become a bishop after c30 years. Ordained at c25 yrs old means born 55 years ago c.1967. Left school late 80s
Point 1. What % of immigrants were there in UK in the 60s/80s? NOWHERE NEAR the % today = the pool was smaller.

Once in an isolated town in N Siberia I met an old former zek (gulag inmate). I was introduced as British, whereupon he said how nice it was to finally meet a Brit - because he had been sentenced to 10 years in the mines for being a British spy.

https://twitter.com/francska1/status/1510904907620093953

🇷🇺 has long held weird paranoia about Britain. In 1927, after HMG expelled Sov diplomats for spying their charge d’affaires stopped to meet Warsaw Sov Ambassador. A monarchist assassin shot Ambassador. In retaliation Sovs shot over 100 White Russians prisoners…
As British spies

Ignorant antiracist historians overlook a crucial aspect the 18th century. It was an age when the influence of the Classical world was strong - hence neoclassicism in art & architecture. Roman history & the Latin classics were well known, as was the history of the servile wars 1/

https://twitter.com/_SaveOurStatues/status/1487712192346558464

the three terrible uprisings of slaves against the Roman state. People then *knew Roman history* (in 1821 Voltaire wrote praising Spartacus, leader of the 3rd war) & abolitionists greatly feared a repetition. They believed that immediate emancipation 2/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servile_W…

Today 4pm candles will be lit to commemorate the #Holomodor of 1932-33, Stalin's enforced starvation of Ukraine. 5m+ died. In 1932, USSR exported 1.73m tonnes of grain, 1.68m in 1933 when reserves were 1.8m tonnes. Human life counts for little when building the Communist utopia. As Orwell put it - 'there's something wrong with a regime that requires a pyramid of corpses every few years ... All people who are morally sound have known since 1931 that the Russian regime stinks.'
But British pro-Soviet enthusiasts denied anything really serious was going on.

And how…
So much of my research mirrors this. One influential speech last year to a group of British Caribbean-origin churches in U.K. inflaming them against the CofE was based on so many sheer inventions, I cannot let it pass. 1/

Ht @G_S_Bhogal Honestly I’d be the last to defend the CofE on so many grounds but Prof Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice Chancellor of the Uni of West Indies, leader of the Caricom reparations campaign, & an eminent knighted historian, accused the CofE of the following serious charges, all untrue: 2/

Arthur Koestler on the psychology of conversion. Be it Corbynism, Critical race theory 'antiracism', XR, Nazism or Communism, once the convert has 'seen the light', life takes on meaning. And the fear of losing that deafens the new recruit to all challenges to his new faith. An intellectually closed word... a universal method of thought ... a cure for all that ails man ... which deprives him of his critical faculties.
You cannot bring a convert back to reality by objective argument. Just five minutes of Twitter proves that.

Reading Churchill on Stalin's betrayal of the Poles during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, it is impossible not to share his anger. His account of events as they unfolded, giving the context for this quote from Sept 4th 1944, follow in the thread. #WarsawUprising The Soviets (and now Russians) deny they deliberately provoked the Warsaw Poles to rise up - with the intention of engineering the destruction of all those who might form a post-war anti-communist resistance. WSC was in no doubt that was Stalin's intention.

Communism wants destroy the traditional family. Its love & mutual loyalty hinders the advance of the socialist collective society. It must redirect that love to the state.
Don’t believe me? Here is Trotsky & another Soviet writer from the 1920s (my thread has more quotes) Martyn Liadov, rector of the Sverdlov Communist University: “Is it possible to bring up collective man in an individual family? No. The sooner the child is taken from his mother and given over to a public nursery the greater is the guarantee that he will be healthy.” (1925)

Labour's insistence yesterday that there was no proof of Russian wrongdoing, in the face of abundant evidence, is strikingly familiar.

Bear with me, this might be a long thread...

In 1929-31 1.8m Stalin deported 1.8m Russians in cattle cars to the gulag. 250k never returned. 30k were shot before they got to the trains. Of the 1.8m, 250k were sent to the gulag camps of NE Russia to cut timber for the export market. Dumped in the snow, their primitive logs & turf huts gave little shelter. 20,000, mostly children, died there in the first year alone.