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Redbeard the Ruthful
@RuthfulThe
I, who raised a scaffold / Around the house I never built.
Apr 27, 2025 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Sunderland riots retrospective by the City council: we shouldn't have told the Home Office to stop sending asylum seekers and the football team shouldn't have stopped taking the knee. Image The Council was "blindsided" by the university's turn to West African students to stave off financial collapse Image
Dec 21, 2024 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
"The asylum seeker" is not a bearer of sympathy but of legally-enforceable rights. Have Europeans become noticeably more empathetic? No. But between c.1958-1989 European lawyers created the single most powerful (and dynamic) legal order to have ever emerged in world history. Americans are ill-placed to understand this. Phrases like "lawfare" imply some neutral 'field' on which two sides vie for supremacy over this or that claim. But it is the creation of the very 'field' itself (as a "neutral" space) which is the insidious euro-achievement.
Jun 17, 2024 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
10 facts
1. The EC(t)HR emerged out of the interwar French far-right. It was invented & proposed at the Hague Congress by a group of Catholic fascists to end parliamentary democracy - they had previously written to Hitler to praise him for having put an end to liberal democracy. 2. Holocaust memory played zero (0.00000000) role in its creation. This myth was invented in the 1980s to cover up the Convention's "impure origins".

There were no "noble intentions" behind it; the Convention has no "pristine history". Image
May 14, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
An Italian social worker tries to secure an asylum claim for an African man; she's frustrated that the system expects him to conform to the Western concept of time, which for "an African men is unthinkable... For them, time does not exist as we understand it". Image The headband girls at the Home Office won't admit a male asylum seeker who claims to have had sex with his neighbour aged 8 - unless the claimant is able to articulate the emotional journey behind this sexual awakening.
(Take wins where you can get them, eh...) Image
Mar 10, 2024 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
A veil pulled back, perhaps, on another mechanism by which the state 'controls spontaneity'.

I peer in the rabbit-hole – hold me tight, Marianna... SAT was founded by Travis Frain (alongside Brendan Cox), a student injured in the 2017 Westminster attack. It campaigns for state funding for families affected by terror (fair enough) – but this is a cuddly front for its secondary purpose, "fighting hate and ensuring unity". Image
Feb 8, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
By implying that there is something tragic about these comics (mocking the country into oblivion etc), they ironically reproduce the Blairite discourse of fatal inevitability that is their supposed target ("You might as well debate whether autumn should follow summer" etc). Image The meme's 'tragic fatalism' is that these policies were all 'organic outcomes' from "within"; perhaps, but we Historians of New Britain also know they were largely decisions made in the 90s by a handful of politicians after lobbying by another handful of NGOists.
Jan 4, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The Telegraph mob just don't Get It.

A lot of the change in law and policy was due to NGO lobbying (mostly Aegis, ironically part of the Holocaust Memorial Centre), as a result of which we are obliged under "International Law" to comply with this. Aegis even get to sit on a suitably obscure Blob Stakeholder Committee ("War Crimes Community Involvement Panel") to work out "best practice" for referrals.

The awe of these journalists at Bad Things Happening is like an Orangutan after a card trick. Image
Dec 26, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Irish & West Indians each made a claim at having 'built Britain' in the 20thC: evidently the exaggerated demand for status/insiderdom from a half-ashamed, half-spurned outsider. The former's was a last defiant act prior to near-total assimilation INTO the English nation.

The latter's (fanciful, even childlike, in comparison) would achieve, through an historic quirk of fate, no less than the wholesale assimilation OF the English nation.
Nov 7, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
The simultaneous Americanisation and universalisation of the Holocaust was another phenomenon peculiar to the post-Cold War, End of History chapter.

As it unravels, the British ruling class (the world's most thoroughly Americanised) cling ever more tightly to its ephemera.
Image No surprise, as Britain was also remade in that precise period, undergoing a revolution (constitutional, ideological, demographic, institutional) comparable to 1688.

Crucially the governing party, Labour, was reforged in this moment; the Tories would then be remade in its image.
Mar 7, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Anglo-Irish George Canning (future PM) ran a Tory journal, 'Anti-Jacobin', featuring Gillray cartoons, his own satiric poems, etc.
A poem from 1798 ('The New Morality') reads like a charge sheet of modern liberal pathologies. Image Here he inveighs against 'French philanthropy', concerned more with the fate of universal man (or Peruvians...) than the plight of one's compatriots. Image
Jan 18, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Aurel Kolnai's 1949 essay 'Privilege and Liberty' worth a read.
Speaks to an age when the Liberal state permits no values, institutions or allegiances outside 'the One all-determining central consciousness', or in contradiction with the ' "indivisible" will of the Republic'. Reading it, you get a sense of what we are waking up to, the 'stifling atmosphere' or 'totalitarian aspects' of liberal democracy.
(He anticipates the modern desire for 'representation').
Nov 12, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
The most politically incorrect statement on this topic is, in fact, that a people incapable of the bare egoism to defend itself deserves to go extinct.
What might my old friend Leopardi have said... Mar/Apr 1821:
'Ancient cities, even if they were as small as modern ones were, however, much more powerful because of the supreme power of illusions that ruled them, and which, by supplying great incentives and rewards, though illusory, was sufficient to produce great virtues...