There have been a lot of changes in the second Trump administration, as we all know. But there was one change from the very beginning that hasn&#8217;t gotten nearly as much attention as it should. It&#8217;s when Trump stood up during his inauguration speech and invoked the idea of Manifest Destiny, which is of course deeply rooted in the idea of American exceptionalism.
For the first time in many generations, a U.S. president felt no shame in proclaiming that America is the greatest nation on the planet. And crucially, Donald Trump didn&#8217;t make this proclamation as a platitude. He wasn&#8217;t seeking to get a quick sound bite out of it, by reminding people of history class when they heard terms like &#8220;Manifest Destiny&#8221; and American exceptionalism. Instead, Trump meant it, in a practical sense. We&#8217;re the best nation, he said. And therefore we can do what we want. We can impose tariffs and force everyone to the negotiating table. We can deport criminals and ignore corrupt judges who tell us otherwise. In a matter of weeks, we can eliminate bureaucracy, talk about acquiring Greenland, and become energy independent — which is no small thing when the entire continent of Europe teeters on the verge of a blackout.  We can do all of these things because, in very real terms, we are unique. Period. We have a fighting spirit that no other nation on the planet can match.
If you attended college in the last 50 years, you&#8217;ve probably been conditioned not to say things like this. You&#8217;re told it&#8217;s gaudy, or a relic of colonialism or something like that. But it happens to be true. And every day, we&#8217;re reminded it&#8217;s true. We can see, right out in the open, that other nations are inferior to our own. Look closely enough, and you&#8217;ll see that they&#8217;ll admit it. They are preoccupied with their own destruction.
Let&#8217;s start with the UK, which is allegedly one of our closest allies. A couple of weeks ago, you might remember, we <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg3G_P1jO_c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">talked about</a> the Netflix show &#8220;Adolescence,&#8221; and how it&#8217;s essentially taken over the entire country. 
&#8220;Adolescence&#8221; is a mini-series in which a white 13-year-old boy named Jamie stabs a girl to death after the girl rejects his advances. The &#8220;hook,&#8221; if you can call it that, is that the show blames online culture for the killer&#8217;s actions, at least to some extent. The victim had bullied the 13-year-old boy on Instagram, for example. He had been called an &#8220;incel&#8221; and so on. The point of the show is that &#8220;male rage&#8221; is fueled by online misogyny and bullying, and that children are liable to become murderers at any moment, even if they live in a loving, stable two-parent household. That&#8217;s the message the showrunners wanted to convey, even though it flies in the face of common sense and every data point we have. Beyond that, there wasn&#8217;t anything very interesting about the show. The cameraman is doing more interesting things than any of the actors, since everything is supposedly shot in one take.
So it was reasonable to assume that, after the initial hype died down over this mini-series, that the UK would move on pretty quickly. That&#8217;s the normal trajectory that shows like this tend to follow. And indeed, that&#8217;s what many in my audience said would happen. I received dozens of comments on my last monologue on &#8220;Adolescence&#8221;, where several people who live in Britain explained that, actually, the show isn&#8217;t that popular over there to begin with. Additionally, as we discussed, there was an infamous interview broadcast on the BBC, where the anchors grill a conservative politician about the fact that she hasn&#8217;t seen the show. They were stunned, for the entire interview, that she hadn&#8217;t watched it. And no matter how much the politician tried to explain to these anchors that the show isn&#8217;t real, they kept doubling down. When we played that footage two weeks ago, it seemed like it was safe to assume that the obsession over this show had officially jumped the shark. It seemed too absurd to continue. Everyone, even fans of the show, would certainly walk away slowly and find something else to fixate on.
But that hasn&#8217;t happened in the UK. Instead, &#8220;Adolescence&#8221; isn&#8217;t simply dominating political discussions anymore. Now the show is being used to justify new legislation that would dramatically curtail free speech rights in the country — almost as if that was the point of the show all along. In fact, the show&#8217;s creators just testified in parliament to demand this new legislation. Yes, the government held an entire hearing on a fictional television show, in which the show&#8217;s writer testified as an expert before the government&#8217;s &#8220;Women and Equalities Committee.&#8221; That is the very dire and hopeless state of the so-called United Kingdom at the moment.
We&#8217;ll start at the beginning of the hearing, when a member of parliament named Sarah Owen begins questioning Jack Thorne, who&#8217;s the creator and executive producer of &#8220;Adolescence.&#8221; And this member of parliament is very interested in knowing more about Jamie, and why he snapped and decided to kill a girl. But there&#8217;s a bit of a snag, because the politician clearly doesn&#8217;t understand what the creator of the show was getting at, which leads to this mildly amusing exchange. Watch:
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There&#8217;s a couple of layers of embarrassment here. First of all, of course, they&#8217;re talking about a fake person as if he&#8217;s real. He&#8217;s saying it would take him &#8220;nine years&#8221; to unpack the brain of a fictional character named Jamie, who, because he doesn&#8217;t actually exist, does not therefore have a brain, or a history, or emotions. And for her part, the politician — who apparently chairs this committee in parliament — keeps pressing for more information about this fictional individual. She&#8217;s really determined to understand what makes him tick, even though he doesn&#8217;t exist. This went on for something like two hours, by the way. The hearing was full of moments like this.
As it went on, it became clear that Jack Thorne is especially concerned about &#8220;conspiracy theories,&#8221; as he calls them. And at one point in the hearing, Thorne elaborated on the term &#8220;conspiracy theories.&#8221; It turns out that — stop me if you&#8217;ve heard this one before — a conspiracy theory is something that&#8217;s completely true, but highly inconvenient for the political Left. Watch:
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That&#8217;s his response, when he&#8217;s asked about the race-swap in &#8220;Adolescence.&#8221; He&#8217;s asked about a conservative politician who pointed out that, unlike what you see on Netflix, white kids from stable households are not stabbing many people in the UK. That&#8217;s the truth. It&#8217;s kids from broken homes, along with jihadists, who are doing most of the damage. And in response to that point, which is obviously true, Thorne states that the conservative politician must be &#8220;consuming&#8221; the wrong content online. The implication, of course, is that anyone who tells the truth about knife crime in the UK — and violent crime in general — should be censored. You&#8217;re required to think that it&#8217;s young white kids from loving two-parent households that are knifing everyone, and you&#8217;re supposed to ignore the literal jihadist with an Al Qaeda training manual in his backpack who murders young girls at a dance studio.
Again, this is the state of the UK — a country that we once had a lot in common with. But this is what they&#8217;re reduced to. I want to show one more clip from this hearing, because it just kept getting more and more comical as it went on. Eventually Jack Thorne left, and he was replaced by a bunch of self-described &#8220;experts&#8221; and government officials who — supposedly — would provide some hard evidence in support of more online censorship. 
But then, a funny thing happened. 
When they were asked for evidence that misogyny is on the rise in the UK, they didn&#8217;t have any data. They couldn&#8217;t point to any objective, verifiable information about all the young white men who are going out and killing women because of Andrew Tate or whatever. Instead — and I&#8217;m not making this up — the experts turned around and cited the show &#8220;Adolescence,&#8221; and the testimony from Jack Thorne. Watch:
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So they don&#8217;t have any data, actually. They just have the show &#8220;Adolescence,&#8221; and the testimony from its &#8220;executive producer.&#8221; According to the government expert, that qualifies as &#8220;evidence&#8221; in the UK. Time to pass a law eliminating free speech on the internet, I guess. But the point here is not to mock the UK, as entertaining as that would be. The point is that this kind of embarrassing spectacle is not very surprising for them. There aren’t very many people left in that country to speak out against it. There isn’t much of a &#8220;right wing&#8221; in the UK, or almost anywhere else in the western world outside of the United States.
And if you don&#8217;t believe that, look at the election that just <a href="https://barsoom.substack.com/p/post-mortem-for-the-canadian-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">took place</a> in Canada. After ten years of destroying Canada&#8217;s economy and opening the borders to hordes of foreign nationals, the Liberal Party was just re-elected. Voters once again handed the Liberal Party control of government, even after the Liberals froze the bank accounts of peaceful protesters, arrested journalists in the street, trampled old ladies with horses, disarmed the entire population, and effectively banned independent journalists from posting their content on social media platforms. Canadians saw the government declare martial law over a bunch of truckers who didn&#8217;t want to be compelled to take an experimental shot, and they said, &#8220;we want more of that.&#8221; And also, of course, they want more taxes so that they can stop the weather from changing.
I&#8217;m not going to pretend to be an expert on the ins-and-outs of Canadian politics. If you&#8217;re interested in a more granular breakdown, there&#8217;s a Substack <a href="https://barsoom.substack.com/p/post-mortem-for-the-canadian-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> from someone named John Carter that goes into some detail about what happened in this week&#8217;s election. Here&#8217;s how it begins.
<blockquote>Have you ever noticed how election results are regularly broken down geographically, as well by the demographic categories of age, sex, and – depending on the country – race, yet we almost never see the results separated into taxpayer vs tax-eater status? &#8230; It is absolutely no surprise that Ottawa voted solidly for the Liberal Party of Canada, whose base consists of three primary groups: migrants, public sector workers, and baby boomers, all of whom are regime client groups, and all of whom are tightly packed into the nation’s capital. Perhaps it’s that it’s tax season and I’m in a grumpy mood because I just got the bad news, but I can’t help but wonder about how electoral politics would change if only taxpayers were allowed to vote.</blockquote>
That&#8217;s a useful framework to look at what just happened in Canada, especially as you hear a lot of people blaming Donald Trump and tariffs and so on. In Canada, very few young people can afford homes. There aren&#8217;t many good jobs. The only really viable aspects of Canadian society are the public sector — which is sustained through taxes and borrowed money — and retirees. The public-sector employees are the ones who celebrated when truckers were beaten by the police in Ottawa a few years ago. They resent the working-class. Their only interest is seeing their pensions vest. Meanwhile, older Canadians have made their money, and they don&#8217;t seem to care about what happens to their country going forward.
Take a look at this chart, which is making the rounds:
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It shows the &#8220;most important factors&#8221; in people&#8217;s votes, broken out by age. It&#8217;s from Abacus Data, which is a Canadian polling firm. Notice that, for most young people under the age of 44, &#8220;reducing the cost of living&#8221; is the top issue. But for Canadians over the age of 60, the top issue was &#8220;dealing with Donald Trump.&#8221;
In other words, Canadian seniors are not even pretending to be interested in the internal affairs of their own country. They&#8217;re not concerned about the fact that young people are overdosing at increasing rates, or that many of them are well into their 30s, sharing tiny apartments with roommates just to make ends meet. What they care about, instead, is &#8220;dealing with Donald Trump&#8221; — an elected official from a different country, who hasn&#8217;t caused a single ounce of the misery that Canada has been enduring for the past decade.
In this country, by contrast, older voters were mostly <a href="https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/government-elections/info-2024/election-analysis-older-voters.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">concerned</a> about the economy in the last election. In Michigan, for example, the AARP found that &#8220;24 percent of older voters cited the economy and jobs, and another 24 percent cited inflation, as top concerns.&#8221; So nearly half of these voters are interested in things that every American should be interested in — which is creating a stable and functioning economy so that people can buy homes and raise children.
But in Canada, as in the UK, the priorities are different. That&#8217;s why these countries are spending their time talking about Netflix shows, and electing globalists who promise to send mean tweets to Donald Trump or whatever.
It&#8217;s a sobering realization, but it&#8217;s true: These countries, which are supposed to be great allies who we have a lot in common with, do not have a functioning conservative movement at all. One that respects the sanctity of life from the moment of conception, one that values the importance of economic growth for everyone, and one that understands the distinction between fiction and reality. With every election that takes place in Canada, and every humiliating hearing on &#8220;Adolescence&#8221; that the UK is subjected to, the truth becomes clearer by the day. It&#8217;s time to admit it, because it&#8217;s unavoidable at this point: The future of conservatism, and thus of Western civilization, is in our hands — and our hands alone.

“Adolescence” Special Screening – Arrivals

UK Parliament Hosts Incredibly Embarrassing Hearing Over Netflix Show ‘Adolescence’

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A child between the ages of 3-4 was suspended from a British state school two years ago after being accused of being “transphobic.”
“Department for Education (DfE) data show the child, aged either three or four, was suspended from a state school in the 2022-23 academic year for ‘abuse against sexual orientation and gender identity,’” The Telegraph <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/31/toddler-kicked-out-of-nursery-for-being-transphobic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“It beggars belief that schools are suspending children as young as five for breaching their ‘transphobia’ policy. I would have thought that if your ideology is so rigid it justifies you punishing toddlers for not complying with it, that’s a powerful argument for discarding it in favor of something less dogmatic,” Lord Young, the director of the Free Speech Union, told the media outlet, which added that “statistics show that 94 pupils at state primary schools were suspended or permanently excluded for transphobia and homophobia in 2022-23.”
“This is totalitarian insanity,” author JK Rowling stated on X. “If you think small children should be punished for being able to recognise sex, you are a dangerous zealot who should be nowhere near kids or in any position of authority over them.”
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This is totalitarian insanity. If you think small children should be punished for being able to recognise sex, you are a dangerous zealot who should be nowhere near kids or in any position of authority over them. <a href="https://t.co/IZI0sP58ss">https://t.co/IZI0sP58ss</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1906640869932839025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Every once in a while, the extremes of gender ideology throw up a story that seems too crazy to believe, and a toddler being suspended from nursery for so-called ‘transphobia’ or homophobia is one such example,” Helen Joyce, director of advocacy at Sex Matters, reacted.
“Worse still, this is not an isolated case,” she continued. “Apparently, 13 four and five-year-olds were suspended or permanently excluded from school for the same reason. Teachers and school leaders involved in this insanity should be ashamed of themselves for projecting adult concepts and beliefs onto such young children. It’s unforgivable for children’s vital early education to be so traumatically disrupted by school leaders who prioritize activists’ demands over their charges’ wellbeing.”
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the British Department for Education <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/34151209/toddler-kicked-out-nursery-transphobic-homophobic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated,</a> “All pupils and staff should feel safe and protected at school and should never face violence or abuse. The Education Secretary has been clear that she expects school leaders to enforce good behaviour and we are committed to a comprehensive programme of behaviour support for schools. Our Plan for Change sets out our relentless focus on making sure every child gets the best life chances, no matter their background&#8230;”
“In 2022, a Church of England school in the Isle of Wight warned a six-year-old boy&#8217;s parents that he might be deemed &#8216;transphobic&#8217; if he were to question another pupil wearing a dress,” <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14553181/toddler-kicked-nursery-transphobic.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mail</a> pointed out.

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer&#8217;s latest promised effort to combat violent crime has so far only resulted in him taking a virtual beating on social media.
Starmer announced via X that he was going to make good on his promise to ban ninja swords, and critics were far from impressed.
&#8220;Knife crime is at epidemic levels and is ruining lives across Britain. As Prime Minister, I&#8217;ll crack down on sales of these lethal weapons once and for all. When I announce a ban, you’ll get a ban,&#8221; Starmer posted in late January of 2024, along with an article from The Sun stating that ninja swords would be included in such a ban.
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Knife crime is at epidemic levels and is ruining lives across Britain. 
As Prime Minister, I&#39;ll crack down on sales of these lethal weapons once and for all. 
When I announce a ban, you’ll get a ban.<a href="https://t.co/ducB1yikwu">https://t.co/ducB1yikwu</a>
&mdash; Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) <a href="https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1750065542180880877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Confirmed: Ninja swords will be banned by this summer. When we promise action we take it,&#8221; Starmer posted on Thursday.
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Confirmed: Ninja swords will be banned by this summer.
When we promise action we take it. <a href="https://t.co/gjJEQIMI10">https://t.co/gjJEQIMI10</a>
&mdash; Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) <a href="https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1905238067843150186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The Daily Wire&#8217;s Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro shared a &#8220;Kill Bill&#8221; clip showing actress Uma Thurman wielding such a blade, adding the comment, &#8220;If you tried this s*** in America.&#8221;
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If you tried this s*** in America <a href="https://t.co/ShVDveDFyp">https://t.co/ShVDveDFyp</a> <a href="https://t.co/bmSbi9hc9F">pic.twitter.com/bmSbi9hc9F</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1905277413451313339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;At last, Britain&#8217;s nagging Ninja problem has been solved,&#8221; David Burge posted.
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At last, Britain&#39;s nagging Ninja problem has been solved <a href="https://t.co/6HDJC0o0mO">https://t.co/6HDJC0o0mO</a>
&mdash; David Burge (@iowahawkblog) <a href="https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1905274072079974470?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Pictured: a young King Arthur moments before being imprisoned for life for possession of a bladed weapon,&#8221; another said, sharing a frame from Disney&#8217;s animated version of &#8220;The Sword in the Stone.&#8221;
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Pictured: a young King Arthur moments before being imprisoned for life for possession of a bladed weapon <a href="https://t.co/V2i3H20UTC">https://t.co/V2i3H20UTC</a> <a href="https://t.co/9D2JPszwSD">pic.twitter.com/9D2JPszwSD</a>
&mdash; Magills (@magills_) <a href="https://twitter.com/magills_/status/1905266045595586714?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Great news everyone! They’re tackling the ninja epidemic,&#8221; another said.
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Great news everyone! They’re tackling the ninja epidemic. <a href="https://t.co/HV83iM8BBx">https://t.co/HV83iM8BBx</a> <a href="https://t.co/WYf4AzzorT">pic.twitter.com/WYf4AzzorT</a>
&mdash; Gill, womb haulier and gorgon 🇮🇱🐍 (@Gillian_Philip) <a href="https://twitter.com/Gillian_Philip/status/1905300728869990911?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is beyond stupid. Will you ban cricket bats, sharp sticks and sharpened hunks of metal? You need to lock up the criminals and allow the decent folks to arm themselves against such attackers,&#8221; Chris Loesch said.
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This is beyond stupid. Will you ban cricket bats, sharp sticks and sharpened hunks of metal? You need to lock up the criminals and allow the decent folks to arm themselves against such attackers. <a href="https://t.co/GxDOzOY7C8">https://t.co/GxDOzOY7C8</a>
&mdash; Chris Loesch 𝕏 (@ChrisLoesch) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisLoesch/status/1905267626546176198?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Musician Zuby went straight to the heart of the matter, saying, &#8220;Maybe one day, they will address fatherless homes, masculinity crisis, loss of faith, soft on crime policies, unchecked mass immigration, abandoned communities, and other pertinent stuff. But until then &#8230;&#8221;
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This is the UK version of the way the USA skirts around the gun violence issue.
Always targeting the individual TOOLS instead of having a serious conversation about the state of society, and why there are so many lost, violent young men.
Those conversations could offend people.
&mdash; ZUBY: (@ZubyMusic) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZubyMusic/status/1905269262500982905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is the UK version of the way the USA skirts around the gun violence issue. Always targeting the individual TOOLS instead of having a serious conversation about the state of society, and why there are so many lost, violent young men. Those conversations could offend people,&#8221; he added.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer Gives Speech On Plan To Cut NHS Waiting Times

Britain’s Prime Minister Promises To Axe Ninja Swords, And X Is Having A Field Day

Britain's Prime Minister Promises To Axe Ninja Swords, And X Is Having A Field Day

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An Iranian woman who opposes the Islamic despotic regime in Iran, as millions of Iranians do, and was to engage in dialogue about Iranians connecting with Israelis, was prevented from speaking at an event in England when pro-Palestinian demonstrators screamed and would not let her speak.
Faezeh Alavi, an artist and PhD candidate at the University of St. Andrews, was speaking at a forum titled “From Conflict to Connection, Israelis and Iranians in Dialogue” at King’s College in London on Thursday night. At one point, Alavi spoke of Iranian dissidents who had raised the traditional lion and sun flag of Iran, not the Islamic flag that the theocratic regime had put in its place.
As she spoke of the flag, a pro-Palestinian activist started yelling at Alavi, shouting, “How can you talk about the flag being changed when you align yourself with Israelis?” The activist then launched into screaming, abetted by her cohorts, who joined with her in bellowing about “Palestine.”
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Tonight at King&#8217;s College, I felt as if I were under Islamic regime occupation again.
At an event where I, as a Muslim Iranian, voiced Iranians&#8217; will for regime change, a pro-Palestinian mob shut it down when I mentioned Iran Lion &amp; Sun flag.
Unacceptable in the UK academica. <a href="https://t.co/qBJlz1Qw6A">https://t.co/qBJlz1Qw6A</a> <a href="https://t.co/5TeFYiwdiN">pic.twitter.com/5TeFYiwdiN</a>
— Faezeh Alavi (@SFaeze_Alavi) <a href="https://twitter.com/SFaeze_Alavi/status/1895225112485593482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A large percentage of Iranians despise the Iranian regime, which is a prime supporter of the terrorist groups that are bent on eliminating the state of Israel, such as Hezbollah and Hamas.
The Persian nation, which predated the Islamic regime, had an intermittent history of being friendly to the Jewish people; the Persian emperor Cyrus, who was known for his tolerance, permitted the Jews to return from exile and build the Second Temple in Jerusalem roughly 2,500 years ago. Jews have lived in Iran (Persia) for roughly 2,700 years.
President Donald Trump <a href="https://2017-2021.state.gov/the-islamic-republic-of-iran-a-dangerous-regime/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> in 2018, “The future of Iran belongs to its people. They are the rightful heirs to a rich culture and an ancient land. And they deserve a nation that does justice to their dreams, honor to their history, and glory to God.”
Six days after the barbaric Hamas massacre of more than 1,200 people in Israel, the Atlantic Council <a href="https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/iransource/israel-hamas-iran-views/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted:</a>
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Anyone familiar with Iranian society knows that anti-Israel attitudes have mostly failed to go beyond the most vociferous supporters of the regime despite years of attempted indoctrination. On October 8, the day after the attacks, as Tehran’s Persepolis FC faced Gol Gohar in the city’s iconic Azadi soccer stadium, some pro-government figures tried to raise the Palestinian flag from the stands. The backlash they faced was immediate. Thousands of fans started shouting a slogan formulated in the rowdy and rude tone of soccer fans everywhere, “Shove the Palestinian flag up your a–.”
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“Iranians oppose the Islamic Republic’s destructive policy against Israel, just like they oppose its other interventionist goals,” the Atlantic Council noted. “They are asking a basic question: why waste Iranian resources on terror groups in the region, which has also resulted in more international isolation for Iran with severe consequences for Iranian livelihoods? &#8230; Second, unlike the Arab world, Iran has no history of widespread antagonism to Israel.”

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Since they cascaded to victory last summer, Great Britain’s leftist Labour Party has removed portraits of two of the most famous Prime Ministers the country ever had, the Duke of Wellington and Winston Churchill, both of whom were responsible for defeating the country’s greatest arch-enemies, Napoleon and Adolph Hitler.
“Portraits of Winston Churchill, the Duke of Wellington, and more British heroes have been removed from the Houses of Parliament after Labour&#8217;s election win last summer, it has emerged,” GB News <a href="https://www.gbnews.com/politics/keir-starmer-winston-churchill-portrait-parliament-labour-party-history">reported</a>. “Since the General Election, drawings, photographs and prints of historical British political leaders and monarchs have been axed across Westminster &#8211; some of which were ‘blacklisted’ in 2020. &#8230; One photograph removed from Portcullis House &#8211; the main office building for MPs &#8211; showed the Second World War leader standing at the Cenotaph in 1945.”
The Cenotaph is a national war memorial to the dead of the First and Second World Wars and the wars that have followed. It&#8217;s the site of the National Service of Remembrance every November.
Churchill was not only the leader who led the fight against Hitler from the beginning, he also was a gifted writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953. Churchill had been warning for many years before World War II of the growing Nazi threat. “It is for his leadership through these fraught years of 1940-1941 – through Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz &#8211; that Churchill is best remembered,&#8221; the International War Museum <a href="https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-churchill-led-britain-to-victory-in-the-second-world-war">notes</a>. “Crucially, he rallied the nation in defiance of Hitler. In the words of Labour politician Hugh Dalton, Churchill was &#8216;the only man we have for this hour.&#8217; This view was shared by the overwhelming majority of the British people.”
After British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain pusillanimously conceded to Hitler in 1938, Churchill famously predicted, “Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.”
“His finest hour was the leadership of Britain when it was most isolated, most threatened, and most weak; when his own courage, determination, and belief in democracy became at one with the nation,” Churchill’s biographer Martin Gilbert wrote.
The Duke Of Wellington, who, like Churchill, served as Prime Minister twice, is still regarded as one of the greatest military commanders in history. He commanded the army that defeated Napoleon at Waterloo, and never lost a major battle.

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Since Churchill’s time, America and Britain have spoken of their “special relationship” – even if the affection has been somewhat unilateral in recent years, as the US has recognised the UK’s increasing irrelevance on the world stage as it descends into economic decay, social disintegration, and democratic suppression.
You might think this an exaggeration – and I do not intend to imply that dissenting British voices receive the same treatment they might receive in China or Cuba. But that is not the right question. The question is whether dissenting voices in Britain are free.
We have all seen the evidence that they are not. The first act of Bridget Philipson, Keir Starmer’s Education Secretary, was to <a href="https://freespeechunion.org/phillipson-tried-to-pull-plug-on-new-free-speech-law-days-after-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">try and revoke</a> the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act, even after it was passed by Parliament. That this is not merely a position, but even the top priority, of our new government is chilling. This, despite the fact that <a href="https://adfinternational.org/en-gb/news/uk-students-feel-censored-on-campus-poll-finds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly half</a> of UK students are scared to express their views.
Whether people are <a href="https://www.gbnews.com/news/christian-lecturer-sacked-from-methodist-college" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fired from their jobs</a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-64786856" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referred to terrorist watchlists</a>, secretly put on registers for “non-crime hate incidents” (<a href="https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/children-as-young-as-nine-investigated-by-police-for-hate-incidents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">even as children</a>), or even <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/article/police-criticised-over-arrest-for-gay-swastika-post-0dj6j0007">arrested</a>, freedom of speech is increasingly a luxury commodity in Britain – and saying what you think is increasingly seen as criminal. “Hate speech” is increasingly seen as a legitimate constraint – with <a href="https://premierchristian.news/en/news/article/bible-hate-speech-survey-rewrite" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1 in 4 young people</a> open to banning the Bible itself if they believed it included “hate speech”.
Yet free speech is not the only casualty of recent years. Multiple people have been <a href="https://adfinternational.org/en-gb/cases/isabel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested or charged</a> merely for praying silently in their heads in the vicinity of an abortion clinic (which, in one case, was not even open), with an army veteran <a href="https://adfinternational.org/en-gb/news/guilty-army-vet-convicted-for-praying-silently-near-abortion-facility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recently convicted</a> for silently praying for his unborn son. Thoughtcrime is no longer Orwellian fiction.
When asked if the UK should be included among other human rights abusing regimes, however, congressmen in the US ordinarily reply that “we are allies, we can’t do that”. The UK is enough of a friend to the US that it escapes any significant accountability.
But true friends do not let each other make serious mistakes without challenge: that is politeness, not friendship. So the question is: can the UK be enough of a friend to receive accountability?
We all know what tough love means: that if you really seek the best for someone, you confront them with reality, whose content or consequences may be acutely painful – but ultimately needed for our flourishing. And the reality in this case is clear: the British people desperately need a restoration of their civil liberties before we are too far down the slippery slope. If the US really cares for our country and its citizens, you must speak – and act – in favor of our freedom, whoever you offend in the process. Vance’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCOsgfINdKg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speech in Munich</a> was a fantastic start – but now action is needed.
There are many ways to achieve this, but here is one idea: the freedom tariff. The UK is desperate for a trade deal with the US after Brexit. Trade is one of the few areas where nations can be genuinely held accountable beyond stern letters or phone calls – which are routinely ignored. Freedom tariffs would provide genuine leverage over the UK with a simple addition: include a clause stipulating that insofar as the UK restricts the most basic freedoms – speech, assembly, conscience, religion, and thought – it will pay for those restrictions with tariffs.
This is hardly coercive: why should America give us free trade when we won’t give our own people free speech? We either believe in freedom or we don’t. If we don’t, we can hardly expect its benefits from others. The deal is up to us to take or not.
America imposing “freedom” on other countries has understandably come under fire in recent decades. But rather than intervening militarily in intractable Middle Eastern political disputes, tariffs are entirely non-violent. And here’s the extra good news: this tough love need not be painful at all. All the UK would have to do is stop firing, blacklisting, and arresting people for thinking and saying the wrong things. Give free speech, get free trade. It is really that simple.
Of course, this problem is not unique to the UK. In France, a TV channel was <a href="https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/french-tv-channel-fined-for-calling-abortion-the-worlds-leading-cause-of-death" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fined 100,000 euro</a> for stating that abortion is the leading cause of death worldwide, while in Finland, a sitting parliamentarian has been on <a href="https://adfinternational.org/en-gb/campaign/free-speech-on-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criminal trial</a> under the War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity sections of their penal code – launched by the attorney general – for years, simply for tweeting a Bible verse (a bishop has faced similar persecution).
The European Union’s deleterious approach to open discourse on social media has been widely publicized by Vance and Musk, among others. Perhaps freedom tariffs are benefits that can be extended beyond the Special Relationship.
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Calum Miller is a research fellow at University of Oxford and a registered medical doctor.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Far-Left British Prime Minister Keir Starmer claimed on Monday that those who are demanding that there be investigations and accountability over the mass rapes of predominately white children in the country by Pakistani rape gangs — and the subsequent coverup by British officials — were trying to &#8220;jump on a bandwagon of the far-Right.&#8221;
Starmer&#8217;s remarks come after Elon Musk has repeatedly hammered the British government for days over the scandal, pumping out posts to his 210 million followers and exposing the violence that young girls have been subjected to along with the British government&#8217;s efforts to keep the scandal quiet so that riots would not break out.
“Those that are spreading lies and misinformation as far and as wide as possible are not interested in victims, they are interested in themselves,” claimed Starmer, who appeared nervous at times.
He said that those calling for investigations were doing so because they wanted to &#8220;jump on a bandwagon of the far-Right.&#8221;
“This is actually an important point about our politics, not what about what anybody may or may not say on Twitter,” he claimed.
Musk <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1876245946348208601">fired back</a> at Starmer on X: &#8220;What an insane thing to say!&#8221;
&#8220;The real reason is that it would show how Starmer repeatedly ignored the pleas of vast numbers of little girls and their parents, in order to secure political support,&#8221; Musk said. &#8220;Starmer is utterly despicable.&#8221;
The British newspaper The Telegraph highlighted the coverup of the mass rapes by British officials who were worried that exposing the crimes could lead to mass civil unrest and disrupt social cohesion.
The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250104123556/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/04/grooming-gangs-scandal-cover-up-oldham-telford-rotherham/">report</a> highlighted extremely graphic and highly disturbing detailed accounts of the violent sexual assaults that the rape gangs inflicted upon young girls.

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The national scandal in Great Britain, where for years “predominantly Pakistani&#8221; men reportedly groomed and raped young British girls only to have the government seemingly turn a blind eye, has come to a boil, with many people, including billionaire Elon Musk, publicly calling for the resignation of Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
The Labour Party has blocked an investigation into Starmer, who served as head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). Jess Phillips, Labour’s safeguarding minister, insisted it was &#8216;<a href="https://archive.is/o/vGgYG/https:/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/20/sex-offender-assaulted-14-year-old-oldham-council-renewed-taxi/">&#8220;for Oldham council alone&#8221;</a> to decide whether to launch an investigation into alleged exploitation between 2011 and 2014,” The Telegraph <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/01/02/elon-musk-jess-phillips-oldham-council-grooming-inquiry/">reported</a>.
“In the UK, serious crimes such as rape require the Crown Prosecution Service&#8217;s approval for the police to charge suspects,” Musk wrote on X. “Who was the head of the CPS when rape gangs were allowed to exploit young girls without facing justice?  Keir Starmer, 2008 -2013. Who is the boss of Jess Phillips right now? Keir Stamer. (sic) The real reason she&#8217;s refusing to investigate the rape gangs is that it would obviously lead to the blaming of Keir Stamer (head of the CPS at the time).”
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Who is the boss of Jess Phillips right now? Keir Stamer.
The real reason she&#8217;s refusing to investigate the rape gangs is that it would obviously lead to the blaming of Keir Stamer (head of the CPS at the time).
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They oppose an inquiry, because it will show that those in power were complicit in the cover-up <a href="https://t.co/uLdWVRcEIg">https://t.co/uLdWVRcEIg</a>
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Starmer is done. Just a question of how long it takes at this point.
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These appalling rape gang cases of girls as young as 11 shame our country. Not only do the perpetrators need to be punished. So do the authorities who turned a blind eye in the name of not inflaming &#8220;racial tensions&#8221;. <a href="https://t.co/D0xG4BaoV3">https://t.co/D0xG4BaoV3</a>
— Liz Truss (@trussliz) <a href="https://twitter.com/trussliz/status/1874478696259817522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The dam appears to have broken on this most shameful chapter in Britain’s history: where children were sacrificed by politicians to “avoid inflaming racial tension”.<a href="https://twitter.com/Con_Tomlinson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Con_Tomlinson</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CourageMedia___?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CourageMedia___</a><a href="https://t.co/PoTnEbFTeO">https://t.co/PoTnEbFTeO</a> <a href="https://t.co/SqNqCjry21">pic.twitter.com/SqNqCjry21</a>
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali (@Ayaan) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ayaan/status/1875153947804959198?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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British writer Matt Goodwin <a href="https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/what-i-told-oxford">wrote</a> in November 2023: “For readers who might not know about the ‘grooming scandal,’ we are talking about tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of children being systematically raped and abused by organised gangs of men while people in power, the very people charged with protecting these children, turned a blind eye.”
In Alexis Jay’s <a href="https://www.rotherham.gov.uk/downloads/file/279/independent-inquiry-into-child-sexual-exploitation-in-rotherham">independent report</a> from 2014, which was commissioned by the Rotherham Metropolitan Border Council, she noted:
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It is hard to describe the appalling nature of the abuse that child victims suffered. They were raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted, beaten, and intimidated. There were examples of children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone. Girls as young as 11 were raped by large numbers of male perpetrators.
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Journalist Ed West added <a href="https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-tragedy-of-telfords-girls">this</a> of what reportedly occurred in Telford:
<blockquote>Here, in a town of 140,000 or so people, some 1,000 young girls were systematically raped and sexually abused by gangs of men over a number of years — and this figure has been described as ‘tame’ by a witness to a recent inquiry. The perpetrators were mostly Pakistani men, the victims were overwhelmingly poor, white and English. The girls, as young as 11 or 12, were given drink and drugs, gang raped and passed around, and threatened if they told the police. Countless such testimonies were confirmed by the authorities, and investigations here reported quite extreme and unprintable forms of sexual abuse. In this town seven men went to jail, although five were given relatively short sentences and are most likely out again. The strangest thing about this story is that this was happening in dozens of cities across England over the course of two decades before it became a national story. As many as 10,000 girls were raped in this way, and countless people in positions of authority, in children’s services and police, knew about it.</blockquote>
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Her study:<a href="https://t.co/HiRJaw1SuM">https://t.co/HiRJaw1SuM</a> <a href="https://t.co/qL8b5RbOye">pic.twitter.com/qL8b5RbOye</a>
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Some of the purported details of the scandal are absolutely harrowing:
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The grooming gangs trial summary transcripts are utterly grotesque. It’s incredible we haven’t had mass civil unrest. Media reporting guidelines helped bottle it up. Some of these people are going to walk free soon. <a href="https://t.co/nz2O0OKPwS">https://t.co/nz2O0OKPwS</a> <a href="https://t.co/e3TtyWkYsv">pic.twitter.com/e3TtyWkYsv</a>
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This is the same media that hid the fact that a quarter million little girls were – still are – being systematically raped by migrant gangs in Britain.
They are beneath contempt. Despicable human beings. <a href="https://t.co/B6ZQjqRj0m">https://t.co/B6ZQjqRj0m</a>
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1874864996397846961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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By the way, grooming gang leaders were allowed to stay in the UK when it was decided that deporting them would breach their human rights. <a href="https://t.co/pJ1WhffiG8">https://t.co/pJ1WhffiG8</a> <a href="https://t.co/YGJ8XkIEga">pic.twitter.com/YGJ8XkIEga</a>
— Sam Ashworth-Hayes (@SAshworthHayes) <a href="https://twitter.com/SAshworthHayes/status/1874103195422896449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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It is really important that more people are becoming aware of the mass rape gangs which were (and still are) allowed to operate in the UK.
The first time we interviewed a survivor I tried my best to get the mainstream media to talk more about it to no avail.
If you want to…
— Konstantin Kisin (@KonstantinKisin) <a href="https://twitter.com/KonstantinKisin/status/1874730183820796023?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Over 6 years ago now, Lord Pearson questioned the CONservatives over the upwards of 250,000 British children gang raped by predominantly Pakistani men across every major city of the UK, this century alone!
Murmurs and snarls from the others in the house ring out.… <a href="https://t.co/n1ckZsTZwc">pic.twitter.com/n1ckZsTZwc</a>
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) <a href="https://twitter.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/1875177597321015699?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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James Bond has done it all, from defeating iron-jawed foes to bedding the loveliest lasses across the pond.
He may have met his match with Amazon/MGM, and the battle over 007’s future speaks volumes about where Hollywood goes in the next decade.
So far, the signs are ominous, according to leaks shared in an <a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/media/james-bond-movies-amazon-barbara-broccoli-0b04f0db?mod=hp_lead_pos7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explosive Wall Street Journal investigation</a>. As is, it’s been a while since the British Super Spy graced the big screen. The last 007 outing, “No Time to Die,” hit theaters in 2021 following a COVID delay.
It’s now 2025 and there’s no new Bond movie script or even a story in the works. Heck, we still don’t know who will take over for Daniel Craig, who played the British secret agent for five feature films.
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It might be several years before 007 sips a new martini on the big screen. Will franchise fans wait that long, or will they move on to other action sagas?
How could Hollywood let a beloved property sit on the proverbial shelf?
It all began at the top at Amazon. In 2021 the <a href="https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a36543339/james-bond-amazon-mgm-deal-explained/">company purchased MGM</a> for a gaudy $6.5 billion, instantly acquiring the power of classic IPs like “Rocky,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “Legally Blonde” and a certain spy franchise dating back to “Dr. No” in 1962.
The deal has a unique complication, however, when it comes to the Bond saga. Amazon owns half of the franchise, while the rest is held by siblings Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson – Broccoli being the main power broker at this point.
The pair inherited the series from veteran Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli. The duo retains considerable control over all things Bond, from spinoffs to casting the next 007.
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That’s good, on paper. The Broccoli family has lorded over the franchise for decades, and they’ve treated it with great care. They’re not eager to leverage the property or lunge for a quick cash grab.
Amazon has other ideas.
They see the series as content to be exploited in the not-so-grand “Star Wars” tradition. How well has that turned out?
No matter. The oh, so modern Amazon envisions a Bond universe where a Miss Moneypenny series can coincide with new Bond adventures.
The creative tug of war reflects where Hollywood stands in 2025. Beloved IPs (intellectual properties) are the coin of the realm, be it a plastic Barbie doll or “The Planet of the Apes.” They allow studios to deliver remakes, sequels, prequels and reboots, all retaining the precious name recognition fans crave.
The “Star Wars” brand serves as a cautionary tale. We haven’t seen a new “Star Wars” film since 2019, and every few months an “announced” film project gets scrapped or sent to the back burner.
The less said about “Star Wars” TV shows like “The Acolyte,” gone after one terrible woke season, the better.
The “John Wick” saga <a href="https://deadline.com/2024/12/john-wick-spinoff-the-continental-producer-season-2-update-1236194645/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stumbled with the TV series prequel “The Continental.”</a> Next up? The Wick-ian movie spinoff “Ballerina” starring Ana De Armas.”
Suddenly, Keanu Reeves’ antihero seems less special, no? Can Bond avoid that ignominious path?
The only Bond-related project to come out since the purchase? The reality show, “007: Road to a Million,” hosted by an actor who signed on thinking he had snagged a role in a Bond film, not a spinoff project (Brian Cox of “Succession” fame).
The Broccolis have retained the core of the Bond brand for more than 60 years. They let Bond evolve over time, but only by degrees. He no longer swats the fannies of his female co-stars like Sean Connery’s spy once did.
He might rely less on gadgets today than during the Roger Moore era (1973-1985). His enemies reflect modern woes more than Cold War villains of the past.
<div id="attachment_852933" style="width: 924px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-852933" class="size-large wp-image-852933" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-110953720-914x576.jpg" alt="KINGSTON, JAMAICA - MARCH 1: Roger Moore poses driving a speedboat during the filming of James Bond film 'Live And Let Die' on March 1, 1973 in Kingston, Jamaica (Photo by Anwar Hussein/Getty Images)" width="914" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-110953720-914x576.jpg 914w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-110953720-300x189.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-110953720-768x484.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-110953720.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 914px) 100vw, 914px" />Roger Moore during the filming of James Bond film &#8216;Live And Let Die&#8217; on March 1, 1973 in Kingston, Jamaica (Photo by Anwar Hussein/Getty Images)</div>
That consistency has made Bond an icon bridging generations of fans. It doesn’t matter who portrays Bond – the rugged Connery or the suave Pierce Brosnan – the character’s enduring appeal matters most.
He’s a traditionally masculine figure who knows the risks but saves the day over and again. Yes, he’s a straight white male who kills without mercy when needed. He also rarely embraces monogamy, and that’s being kind.
All of the above drives his detractors crazy, including press outlets eager to dub Bond’s canon “<a href="https://metro.co.uk/2024/07/03/james-bonds-problematic-moments-goldfinger-skyfall-21126674/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">problematic</a>.” Even the last Bond movie director, “No Time to Die’s” Cary Fukunaga, said <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2021/09/23/james-bond-director-says-sean-connery-character-basically-rapes-woman/5826149001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Connery’s Bond was practically a rapist.</a>
So far, the Broccolis have resistant cultural pressure along the way. Even “No Time to Die,” marketed with plenty <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/woke-bond-box-office-disappointment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">of woke eye rolls</a>, stuck mostly to formula. It also made $774 million worldwide despite the lingering pandemic.
The James Bond saga represents old school Hollywood. It’s a connection to our pop culture past, a franchise that belongs on the big screen. Always. You don’t “stream” a new 007 movie. It’s not “content” based on algorithms.
It’s cinema, resisting the flavors of the month to deliver timeless thrills. Women want to bed him, while men want to be like him. Those biological norms never go out of style.
Unless 21st century Hollywood has its way.
The most chilling part of the WSJ story came via an Amazon employee considering the world of 007.
“I have to be honest. I don’t think James Bond is a hero.”
Team Broccoli has its work cut out for it.
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Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News’ Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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In December 1914, an observer flying over Western Europe would have gazed down at a most striking, and sinister, topographical feature. Two chains of deep trenches and concertinas of barbed wire slithered in snake-like patterns as far as the eye could see from the English Channel to the Swiss Alps, slicing an unsightly laceration across the blasted out fields of northern France and Belgium.
Hunkered down within these subterranean troughs amid the stench of feces, urine, decaying flesh and gun smoke, squatted the great armies of the Western Front. They glared at each other across a moonscape of water-logged shell craters, trees blown into twisted matchsticks silhouetted against a bleak sky, and grotesquely decomposing bodies of friend and foe alike left to ignominiously rot out in the “no-man’s land” between the lines.
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The big guns to the rear lobbed their deadly payloads down onto bewildered youths, many in their teens, just struggling to survive this eerily troglodytic existence; one that, considering their innocence of life just the year before, must have seemed like a nightmare from which they could not stir.
The war, just five months in, had begun as a conflict of mobility, when in August the Kaiser’s armies, distinct in their steel gray long coats and spiked pickelhaube helmets, confidently marched through Belgium to strike at the French in a drive towards Paris and victory. But the poilus and their British Expeditionary Force (BEF) allies rallied at the Marne, just 30 miles from the French capital, and threw the Germans back in a bloodletting that shocked the world.
A series of failed attempts to outflank the other sent casualties on both sides soaring, but no breakthroughs were made, and the front stabilized. In a very short time the troops settled in, burrowing deep into the ground to escape the killing power of the new technological age of machine guns and fast-firing artillery. And there they remained, stagnant, immobile, rain soaked, miserable.
And yet even in the trenches, the very monument to man’s savagery and folly, hopeful demonstrations of the better angels of our nature could occur. And so it was on Christmas 1914, that one of the most poignant scenes in the history of warfare took place.
While the men of the BEF settled into their trenches to try and celebrate the holiday as best they could, strange sounds began to drift over from the German lines. Singing. “Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht / Alles schläft; einsam wacht …”
British Private Frank Sumter recalled: “And then we heard the Germans singing ‘Silent Night, Holy Night.’ And our boys said ‘Let’s join in.’ So we joined in with the song.” At first, the British sentries weren’t sure what to make of the German activity, which included lighting festive candles on the rim of their trenches. Nervous Tommies peeked their heads up over the parapets then quickly ducked back down for fear of snipers.
But no one shot.
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Pvt. Leslie Walkington remembered the extraordinary event that followed. “And then we saw a German standing up, waving his arms. And we didn’t shoot.” Instead of a battle cry, the Germans were calling out to their British Kameraden to have a truce and celebrate Christmas together. The men on both sides of the lines eventually overcame their suspicions and climbed out of their trenches. They met out in the open, offering enemies not the cold steel of thrusting bayonets, but rather the warm flesh of extended hands.
A German Lieutenant Neimann picked up his binoculars and to his surprise &#8220;saw the incredible sight of our soldiers exchanging cigarettes, schnapps and chocolate with the enemy!&#8221;
There is a commonality among soldiers that transcends national politics or flag. By this time in the war, both sides had shared the same experiences of chronic fear, physical misery and illness, filth, mourning lost friends, and homesickness. The truce extended to parts of the French sector as well. Gustave Berthier wrote to his parents, &#8220;On Christmas Day the Boches made a sign showing they wished to speak to us. They said they didn&#8217;t want to shoot. &#8230; They were tired of making war, they were married like me.&#8221;
A common legend of the Christmas Truce of 1914 has it that the enemy combatants engaged in impromptu games of football (soccer) in the “no-man’s land” but some historians dispute the legitimacy of such claims. Although, given the Christmas miracle that occurred right in the middle of a war so terrible that author William Manchester described it as “the worst thing that had ever happened” it is not out of the question.
One can imagine the words of Thomas Hardy’s poem “The Man He Killed” on the minds of every soldier no matter the uniform, on this most magical of Christmases at the front: 
 
Had he and I but met 
By some old ancient inn, 
We should have set us down to wet, 
Right many a nipperkin! 
 
But ranged as infantry 
And staring face to face, 
I shot at him as he at me 
And killed him in his place… 
 
Yes; quaint and curious a thing war is! 
You shoot a fellow down 
You’d treat if met where any bar is 
Or help to half-a-crown.
For nearly two and a half billion Christians of every race and nationality across the globe, Christmas is a joyous celebration of the birth of Our Lord, now two millennia in the past, and yet still so powerful in its meaning and presence in our lives. One hundred ten years ago, in the middle of a grisly battlefield, in the middle of a ghastly war, the love of Christ and the affection He wishes us to bestow upon each other was alive and well amidst a scene of unprecedented violence and suffering. Indeed, on this day, at this time, enemies could lay down their arms, exchange warm greetings and gifts, and, if for a short time, fulfill the Christmas promise of peace on earth and good will towards all mankind.
But Mars is not so benevolent a god; sadly, if inevitably, the truce didn’t last.
Irate officers on both sides put an end to what very well could have been considered treasonous fraternization with the enemy. Even a capital crime.
Pvt. Archibald Stanley remembered how one of his officers abruptly canceled the informal truce in his section of the trenches. There were still a few Germans out in the open when he approached Stanley and said, “You still got the armistice?”
The grim officer then picked up a rifle, took cold aim, and promptly shot one of the Germans dead. The rest leapt back into their dugouts, and returned fire. And so the war began again.
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Kemi Badenoch, the new leader of the Conservative Party in Great Britain, ripped into the ruling Labour Party Wednesday for sending representatives to aid Vice President Kamala Harris’ failed presidential effort.
Badenoch, who was named the leader of her party just three days before the U.S. presidential election, took Prime Minister Keir Starmer to task during Prime Minister&#8217;s Questions, a weekly session where the PM faces inquiries from Parliament. Badenoch was referencing Labour Party operations head Sofia Patel&#8217;s announcement that the party would help the Harris campaign.
“I have nearly 100 Labour party staff (current and former) going to the US in the next few weeks heading to North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia. I have 10 spots available for anyone available to head to the battleground state of North Carolina — we will sort your housing.”
“Yet another reason to vote for President Trump,” Senator Tom Cotton (R-AK) said at the time.
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&#8220;I’m very sure that President Trump will soon be calling to thank him for sending all of those North London Labour activists to campaign for his opponent,” Badenoch said.
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Badenoch began by asking Starmer of Foreign Secretary David Lammy would apologize for remarks he made about Trump in 2018, while serving as a parliamentary representative for Tottenham in North London.
“On Friday, a 19-foot a ‘Trump Baby’ balloon is set to float over the Houses of parliament in London, as President Donald Trump makes his first official visit to the United Kingdom. I will be one of tens of thousands on the streets, protesting against our government’s capitulation to this tyrant in a toupee,” Lammy wrote in <a href="https://time.com/5333087/david-lammy-trump-uk-visit/">TIME</a> magazine in 2018.  “Trump is not only a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath. He is also a profound threat to the international order that has been the foundation of Western progress for so long.”
“As leader of his Majesty’s opposition, I have been taking a different approach to the last opposition by being a constructive opposition,” Badenoch said Wednesday.
“And so I would like to start by congratulating President-Elect Trump on his impressive victory this morning. The Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary met him in September. Did the Foreign Secretary take the opportunity to apologize for making derogatory and scatological references including, and I quote, ‘Trump is not only a woman-hating neo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath, he is also a profound threat to international order.’ And if he did not apologize, will the Prime Minister do so now on his behalf?”
“The Foreign Secretary and I did meet President-elect Trump just a few weeks ago for dinner about a couple of hours; we discussed a number of issues of global significance; it was a very constructive exercise,” Starmer answered.
“Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister did not distance himself from the remarks made by the Foreign Secretary, Badenoch said..
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