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Sweden’s tax system is not designed to be racist but that is its effect.

The trials of the dead continue, with the governing body of Oriel College, Oxford, stated its desire to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes, under pressure from its pampered and privileged body of students. The words of the statement are: “The Governing Body of Oriel College has today (Wednesday 17th June) voted to launch an independent Commission of Inquiry into the key issues surrounding the Rhodes statue. They also expressed their wish to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes and the King Edward Street Plaque. This is what they intend to convey to the Independent Commission of Inquiry.” How any of this does anything to improve life for anyone alive today is not explained. If Oriel College and its students are embarrassed by its endowment, they should renounce their claim on the income from the Rhodes endowment. Students who are suffering from guilt ought to give up their studies and get themselves involved on the ground. Virtue signalling is meaningless if it is not backed up by pra...

I wonder if this will bring a bigger audience than the blog?

Händelser i USA har ledit till protester och skrik av rasism. Men brutalitet har alltid hittats bland med militär och polis. Detta handlar om makt och våld. Att skylla på rasism är att missa poängen. I Sverige är svårighet med assimilation först och framst ett problem som uppstår från socialism. Sveriges stora företag och offentliga sektor kultur och ekonomi gynnar inte invandrare, oavsatt sina ursprung, språk, religion, osv. Traditionellt sätt trivs untlänningar som egetföretagare (skräddare, snickare, torghandlare osv). Då blir rasism ett icke-problem. Om varorna och priserna tillfredställer efterfrågan, ingen bryr sig om ras. Jätteföretag som Tesco, Marks and Spencers grundades vid slutet av 1800-talets av fattiga judiska torghandlare som flydde från Ryssland och Polen; i dåtiden ville icke-judar absolut inte anställa judiska invandrare som knappast kunde engelska. I idags Sverige blir småföretagare trakasseras och straffas av myndigheterna, särkilt skatteverket. Problemet är ...

In the Daily Telegraph this morning. The Government may have to give up on reforming some terrorists, says its advisor on anti-terror laws, as it emerged high-security prisoners have refused to join a flagship deradicalisation programme. Data released under freedom of information laws has revealed 15 inmates at high-security prisons including HMP Belmarsh, HMP Wakefield and HMP Frankland have refused to enrol on the Government’s main deradicalisation programme since January 2018. Jonathan Hall, QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said it would be wrong to overstate the significance of the disclosure in terms of the risk to the public because of the uncertainty over the effectiveness of schemes like the Healthy Identity Intervention (HII). But he said: “We may have to accept that some offenders  and I emphasise some - [can never be reformed] although that doesn’t mean reform should be discounted for others.” He said it was right to expect prisoners...