Robbo,

The fiction I was referring to was a photo of 1949 arabs being called Palestinians...which is quite a thing considering the reference to muslims in the region being called Palestinians didnt exist prior to 68.

However, I will give the article another read just to make sure my own internal bias didnt cloud my resentment of the lefts determination to support Hamas in their drive to eradicate Israel and Jews.

Mailman,
I don't think you can have read that Spiked article very carefully if that is the message you took from it. Here's my precis: The *British* were the colonisers; they were ejected, principally by the Jews; ergo Israel is a result of decolonisation. The lefties won't like this; it puts their Jew-hatred in conflict with their coloniser-hatred.

I don't see anything "fictitious" about calling refugees "refugees". It just means they're seeking refuge away from their homes. It isn't a comment on the legitimacy of what put them on the road. Earthquakes and floods make refugees too.

DaveS,
That's not quite as cynical as I feel about them. I hold the institutions responsible. How did such unscrupulous "scientists" ever get into senior positions? Pretty sure the institutions selected for them. The whole process is rotten.

The *most* cynical people of all would be the ethical scientists, who have watched their unscrupulous colleagues rewarded again and again for lying.

@Mailman

For politicians to keep the lid on information that they, for whatever reason, find convenient to keep under wraps is par for the course; my general view of them has not really changed (fallen any further) as a consequence of the Chinese Experience. I do, however, take a dim view of those scientists who were so determined to dismiss any notion of a lab leak. In my view they ought to be kicked out of any professional bodies to which the belong and banned from working in any publicly-funded organisation or university. They are, as far as I'm concerned, a disgrace to the scientific profession and should never be taken seriously as scientists again.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/04/consensus-97-of-the-french-academy-of-medicine-agrees-covid-came-from-wuhan-lab/

You know it feels awfully like everyone KNEW where the Chinese Death Kooties came from but decided to hide it from the world because of muh rwaaaaacism and the need to depose a sitting American President not favourable to globalist objectives.

But that would be terribly conspiracy of me to even THINK of such a thing right??

"Palestinian refugees head to Gaza, 31 March 1949."

Talk about creating a fictitious photo caption 😂😂

Yes, the Jews are totally colonial invaders in a land they have a connection with stretching back several thousand years 😂😂

Spiked online makes an amusing observation: that Israel was a result of "decolonisation".

Mailman,
Le Pen has helped to demonstrate how cosmopolitan they are now in France. No longer hung up on the fusty old liberte, egalite, fraternite shtick, they've come up with a multicultural blend of various South American regimes with smatterings of Burma to give a whiff of the mystic East.

Of course the whiff of the mystic East is something to be reckoned with.

Another good Brendan O'Neill podcast with Nick Timothy, lamenting what the Conservative and Labour open-borders attitude to immgration has done to Britain. Sounds like it has gone from bad to terrible with Starmer.

Sorry, she's been banned from political activities for 5 years.

Things that make you go hmmmmm....Marie Le Penn sentence to prison for something or another and her political party outlawed.

The EU is determined to bring the 1930's back with a vengeance eh?!