The majority of protesters deplore violence and vandalism – some even went to the length of putting themselves in harm’s way to stop a minority of marchers attacking the police. 

Yet the unrepresentative extremes of the movement are being amplified by a media that cannot help but feed the beast, and emboldened by a sense of general lawlessness. If things carry on this way the country will reach a breaking point and it will not be pretty … 

writes Tom Harwood, who continues …

Black people are tired of being stopped by police for what seems to be little more than suspicion of the crime of ‘walking while black’. Though stop and search is a vital tool in the fight against knife crime, less than a quarter of police stops of black people have been over the suspected possession of offensive weapons. 56% on the other hand, are over suspicion of drug offences. There is no evidence to suggest black people use drugs more than white people, yet black people are overwhelmingly more likely to go to prison for drug use. As of 2019, just 1.2% of police officers were black, compared to 3.3% of the general population.

Yet despite these evident problems, this week we chose to enter the mad house.

In order for things to change, as they must, level heads need to prevail. Structural discrimination must be stamped out, and in order for that to happen THIS UNBEARABLE US-STYLE CULTURE WAR MUST BE KICKED BACK ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.

ON THE BLOODY VIOLENCE OF DEALING DEATH

When anyone sins and pollutes his own limbs with bloodshed, who by his error makes false the oath he swore spirits whose portion is long life for thrice ten thousand years he wanders apart from the blessed, being born throughout that time in all manner of form so for mortal things, exchanging one hard path of life for another. The force of the air pursues him into the sea the sea spews him out onto the floor of the earth, the earth casts him into the rays oft he blazing sun.

Empedodes’ vision of evolution and change also assumed that ours is the age of extinction that is to say the time of strife or hatred precisely because of the killing that we cannot seem to stem and our aversion or abuse of the bonds or constraints of love.

NetflixFilm@NetflixFilm·38mThe posters for DA 5 BLOODS have an incredible history behind them — @SpikeLeeJoint was inspired by Emory Douglas, the former minister of culture for the Black Panther Party. We spent time with both to uncover how the aesthetic of that movement informed the film. https://pic.twitter.com/pG0n4QWyVEReplying to @NetflixFilm and @SpikeLeeJoint

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year

‘Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech … A truthful look at today’s most divisive issues’ – Jordan B. Peterson

‘[Murray’s] latest book is beyond brilliant and should be read, must be read, by everyone’ – Richard Dawkins

‘How can you not know about The Madness of Crowds? It’s actually the book I’ve just finished. You can’t just not read these books, not know about them.’ – Tom Stoppard

Conversations: Featuring Douglas Murray https://youtu.be/qYaYk09kEDs via @YouTube

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year

‘Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech … A truthful look at today’s most divisive issues’ – Jordan B. Peterson

‘[Murray’s] latest book is beyond brilliant and should be read, must be read, by everyone’ – Richard Dawkins

‘How can you not know about The Madness of Crowds? It’s actually the book I’ve just finished. You can’t just not read these books, not know about them.’ – Tom Stoppard

In his devastating new book The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century’s most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals the astonishing new culture wars playing out in our workplaces, universities, schools and homes in the names of social justice, identity politics and ‘intersectionality’.

We are living through a postmodern era in which the grand narratives of religion and political ideology have collapsed. In their place have emerged a crusading desire to right perceived wrongs and a weaponization of identity, both accelerated by the new forms of social and news media. Narrow sets of interests now dominate the agenda as society becomes more and more tribal – and, as Murray shows, the casualties are mounting.

Readers of all political persuasions cannot afford to ignore Murray’s masterfully argued and fiercely provocative book, in which he seeks to inject some sense into the discussion around this generation’s most complicated issues. He ends with an impassioned call for free speech, shared common values and sanity in an age of mass hysteria.

FOR THE RECORD, I AM NOT A NEO-CONSERVATIVE OR ANY SUCH POLITICAL LABEL OF THE LEFT OR RIGHT BUT THIS BOOK RAISES URGENT QUESTIONS ABOUT THE UK SUMMER 2020 … AND THE WEST!