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"If Prevent is now expected to cope with everything from Islamic State fanboys to adolescent incels to anonymous networked ‘com’ edgelords, backed by a Whitehall drive on cohesion and values, then it is not a counter-terrorism programme at all. It is a sprawling national therapy and behaviour‑management service in which the security imperative is only one – and not obviously the dominant – concern. The committee even flirts with the idea that ‘counter‑extremism efforts should not exist only as part of counter‑terrorism efforts’, as if the answer to a bloated security scheme is to bolt on an even wider non‑security one."

It's unclear at this time whether this was after listening to his records.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15699007/fleetwood-mac-legend-lindsey-buckingham-attacked-woman-threw-unidentified-substance.html

*Unless you're unattractive

Biblical-like sandstorm in Greece

Beautiful shot of The Albert clock, Belfast, steeplejacks erecting scaffolding at the top of the clock on the 4th of April 1946.

Courtesy of the National Museums of Northern Ireland.

Those feral mobs in Clapham are a disgrace. This is what happens when we fail to punish bad behaviour. Fare-dodging, shoplifting and phone-snatching are all virtually legal in London now. We have given a green light to lawlessness, says Brendan O’Neill

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/04/01/clapham-how-our-weak-society-emboldened-the-mob/

Wary of signing international treaty commitments, but I like the idea of embodying some of these principles in British law. Using the recognised treaty principles to offset inevitable complaints and to declare for ourselves the globally recognised special rights that come from indigeneity.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/763034

Treaty: https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/indigenous-and-tribal-peoples-convention-1989-no-169

Rights: Governments must consult indigenous peoples through their representative institutions whenever legislative or administrative measures are being considered that affect them directly. Governments must recognize the rights of ownership and possession over lands which indigenous peoples traditionally occupy. When applying national laws, governments must have due regard for the customs or customary laws of the peoples concerned. Governments must ensure that appropriate agencies are established and funded to administer programs affecting these peoples.

Another good detailed analysis from Prof David Betz https://youtu.be/FPlRtqnHbU0?si=

This is a good essay with plenty of food for thought.

https://archive.ph/mULKr

Spain readies itself for Easter

Life is good for the perpetual student in Germany. He'll be so competitive when he leaves university in his forties, everyone will snap him up.