Well, it’s official: civil unrest, racial strife, and rioting has become the theme of the English summer.
But why?
And might there be more behind these ugly events than has been immediately apparent?
Well, there’s a few things I want us to look at here.
One is how much of what’s been happening resembles some of the destabilisation strategies that *we* have previously used in other countries. But we’ll get to that.
Another is the timing of these events: and whether that’s significant (hint: yes, it is).
And another is the obvious issue of mass manipulation and programming. How much controlled manipulation is going on?
Well, for one thing, everyone’s favourite patriot icon ‘Tommy Robinson’ has been a central player in these events – which automatically means a *lot* of manipulation has been going on.
But we’ll come back to ‘Tommy’. We always do. And to Elon Musk and ‘X‘.
A lot of the things we’re going to touch on here really could constitute their own individual articles: but let’s try to condense it all into one read.
I was already thinking about these things a week or more ago – in regard to earlier events, prior to the Far Right (sorry, I mean ‘patriots’) ugly hijacking of Southport.
In fact, I’ve been thinking – and writing – about this subject for years now. For anyone who wasn’t following this site several years ago, I can recommend this article – ‘Islamist Extremists & White Supremacists: The Coming Societal Breakdown‘ – for some broader context.
Things spiralled massively since Southport, with rallies or riots across multiple cities: Liverpool, Manchester, Stoke, Birmingham, Sunderland, Blackpool, and multiple others – including instances of destruction and violence, and even an attempted mass murder at a hotel.
In some places, random houses were attacked and vandalised. In one report, Muslim graves were defaced in a cemetery.
Needless to say, things got really ugly very quickly: even if many, or most, of the protesters were simply trying to express their frustrations or anger.
But I think it’s helpful to rewind back a little to the earlier incidents from prior to this week’s coordinated outbreaks.
And especially something that happened on July 27th in the center of London.
So, among other things, we had the protest/unrest in Leeds a few weeks ago.
Which seemed to somehow also be a precursor to the unrest in Manchester following a violent altercation between police and members of the public at an airport.
Then came the mass attack on police in Southport – by elements of the Far Right (allegedly including the EDL).
The day after this, mass ‘protest’ was organised in Westminster, where right wing ‘patriots’ clashed with police and even apparently attacked the Churchill statue (bizarrely).
The same day, a similar ‘event’ took place in Hartlepool, apparently a response to the Southport incident.
So, in these initial incidents, what was going on to create the unrest?
The obvious or straightforward explanation for these things is a combination of social media disinformation, far-right opportunism, and obvious accumulative cultural tensions that have been building for years.
But why were these seemingly unrelated incidents all happening at the same time?
Should we also find it strange that these things all happened only after the change in government?
It’s almost as if none of these things were going on until after the Conservative Party – from which high profile figures stoked much of this tension and division themselves – were voted out of power.
I’m not sure what that would indicate. I’ll try to come back to that, if it’s relevant.
In terms of timing, this stuff also happens to have all occurred only since parliament has been in recess.
Which is also curious.
Someone also pointed out to me that this has happened during the football off-season: implying that there’s been a higher availability of hooligans up for day trips.
I don’t know if that’s relevant or not.
But in terms of curious timing, we also need to talk about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk.
It should be very much of note that, concurrent with some of this building tension, Tommy Robinson’s big patriot rally was organised in Trafalgar Square on July 27th: which was arguably very clear stage-setting for things to come.
Though that gathering seemed to be peaceful and without incident, the timing was again curious: as if ‘Tommy’ was marking his big return to the programme.
Interestingly, in addition to obvious St George flags or Union Jacks, Ukrainian and, as usual, Israeli flags were also shown being waved at that rally. In terms of the rally’s substance, it was all centered on Muslims being the enemy or the problem.
Within days of that event, ‘patriot’ disorder/violence incidents were unfolding all across England – in several such events, ‘protesters’ were in fact shown chanting the name Tommy Robinson, as if honouring their spiritual leader.
You know, chanting an actual fake name… one of the aliases of the man who’s apparent real name is Stephen Yaxley Lennon (though we don’t even know if that’s his real name).
You know, the dude with four different passports under four different names? The guy who’s been photographed with IDF tanks in occupied Syrian territory?
The guy who’s previously been arrested for, among other things, mortgage fraud and trying to enter a foreign country with a fake passport?
Yeah, that guy.
Look, I’ve thoroughly debunked this guy before. So I’ll refrain here.
But it’s more than curious that the timeline of Tommy Robinson’s involvement in these events seems almost scripted.
Let’s look at it chronologically.
After a few years in the relative wilderness (probably since the whole ‘Free Tommy’ psy-op a few years ago), Elon Musk suddenly restored ‘Tommy’ to ‘X’ (formerly Twitter), maximising his reach; he then hosts a big rally in London, where the problem of Muslims and fighting to ‘get our country back’ is of course a central theme.
And then Southport happens and the ‘patriot’ movement is ready to immediately pounce on the tragedy, triggering off this whole domino effect of public disorder.
Notice too that various highly-placed influencers just happened to host ‘Tommy’ on their platforms just in time for these events: in particular the faux-intellectual word-salad artist Jordan Peterson (here) and the Info Wars psy-op merchant Alex Jones.
Various YouTube channels also have been posting videos with overblown titles like ‘Tommy’s Latest Address to the Nation’ every day since these events have been unfolding. It’s almost as if ‘Tommy’ is being presented as the exiled revolution leader, inspiring the foot soldiers from his secret hideaway.
His secret hideaway, by the way, is a Spanish holiday resort: which is where he fucked off to after his massive rally on July 27th.
Regardless of how organic some of the street level anger or unrest might be (though how ‘organic’ it can be when it’s been carefully cultivated by certain newspapers and media for two decades is debatable), there’s no question that ‘Tommy’ was strategically inserted at the optimum time to help drive these events.
And how coincidental could it be that Tommy’s big Trafalgar Square rally happened right before all of the public disorder started to happen?
Again, the Tommy event happened on July 27th. The Southport stabbings happened on July 29th.
If you watch any footage of that July 27th event, by the way, you’ll be struck by how well organised it was. Unlike the usual ‘patriot’ events, where there’s usually aggressive incidents or heavy police presence, for this event there barely seemed to be any police.
There was also an uncommon air of almost respectability to the event – almost a mainstream-ification. As though ‘Tommy’ and those who follow him were suddenly being afforded a type of acceptance that previously wasn’t the case. Propaganda TV broadcaster GB News covered the event with reverence.
Moreover, they obviously must’ve had permission to hold the event there with that many people. It had the atmosphere of a political rally. A giant screen in the middle of Trafalgar Square showed a Tommy Robinson film, as well as recorded speeches from various contributors.
Polished propaganda films were also published online to promote or celebrate this event. Here’s one.
The filmed footage of the event was very calculated to overly focus on the two or three black people in attendance: while some expat Iranian monarchists were present, along with a couple of Sikh or Hindu participants, all of whom were there to provide manufactured diversity optics; and to also verbally reinforce the view that Muslims are the enemy.
Of course, people should be perfectly entitled to gather for such a public event: and to express their views. Even if half of it was inane prattle about the evils of halal meat being available in schools.
Again though, the timing is interesting.
My point is that this event featured none of the unrest usually associated with such gatherings: nor any of the usual resistance or reluctance by authorities to let this large a gathering of extreme right-wing people occur.
It’s especially curious, given how incendiary some of the open language and message was on the day – again, especially towards Muslims.
Again, this was July 27th. And Tommy Robinson has probably never enjoyed such a smooth and trouble-free public event in his life.
It’s almost as if the event on the 27th was the opening ceremony for the nationwide incidents: with Southport happening two days later.
Looking at each of these earlier incidents prior to Southport, they were ostensibly unrelated as far as the apparent inciting incidents are concerned.
In Leeds, it was authorities trying to take away a child from a Romani family that led to the public unrest.
In Manchester, it was apparent police brutality that caused a riot primarily by people from South Asian or Muslim communities.
In Southport, it was the horrendous stabbing attack by a 17 year-old that resulted in the murders of three young girls.
In that case, a mourning gathering by locals was hijacked by a ‘patriot’ mob who vandalised local businesses, attacked a mosque and injured over fifty police officers.
Although all of these cases had different or unrelated inciting incidents, the aftermath had obvious similarities: violent protest, police being attacked, vehicles being set alight, etc – though in Leeds and Manchester it wasn’t the Far Right.
There are some crucial elements shared by all these events, however: primarily, the weaponisation of misinformation, and the stoking of anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant sentiment.
In the Leeds incident, right wing misinformation on social media convinced people that it was mainly Muslims and Asians that had run amok and attacked police: when in fact this narrative is in dispute, with evidence actually indicating that Muslim men were actually trying to diffuse the situation and aid law enforcement.
In Manchester, people from the Asian and Muslim community were convinced the police violence at the airport was racially driven.
The curious thing in the Manchester case is that the police held back additional video footage that would’ve shown that the victims had apparently attacked police first, including breaking the nose of a female officer.
That evidence was only made public after a few days, by which time most people were already outraged, believing that the police violence was entirely unprovoked and driven by prejudice.
Whatever the reason for the additional video being delayed – and I’m sure there’s some logical reason for it – the effect was that public unrest was allowed to unfold.
And the Far Right, meanwhile, took the opportunity to further capitalise on the image of unruly Asians, Muslims and/or foreigners running amok.
A mob of angry Muslim men did gather outside the police station: but apart from eggs being thrown at the exterior (and some very threatening language), it’s not clear that any serious criminal damage was done.
Then came Southport – a horrible and tragic event that should’ve in theory had nothing to do with the Far Right, Muslims or the culture wars.
But… not missing another opportunity, the online misinformation enthusiasts seized on the brutal murder of three children to claim that either a Muslim or a Syrian refugee had carried out the knife attack.
A false name was even put into the social media vortex and spread like wildfire.
In fact, as the police stated, the initially unnamed teenager was actually a Cardiff-born child of Rwandan migrants. Not a refugee or ‘boat person’. And no mention of his religious background.
Though I do find it odd that the only image of the perpetrator that has been released is of a junior-school-age looking child and not a 17 year-old. And that nothing has been said about what his motivation might’ve been.
Not that any stated motivation for murdering innocent children would ever make sense.
At any rate, the misinformation campaign had done its job – and a ‘patriot’ mob was bussed in to Southport to hijack the moment, attack the police, and vandalise the area.
This isn’t dissimilar to something that happened in Germany a few years ago, which resulted in Far Right and Neo Nazi rallies: specifically, a Syrian refugee was claimed to have carried out a violent murder – but this was after it had been uncovered that elements of the Far Right were plotting to stage a false-flag murder to be blamed on a refugee in order to inflame the public.
I covered that here several years ago.
According to most accounts, none of the ‘protesters’ were Southport locals – but invaders from other parts of the country, whose mission was to completely co-opt the situation and cause unrest.
As if by design, Southport immediately became both the trigger and the blueprint for ‘protests’ or public disorder all over the country.
Every day since then, mobs sprung up in various cities: and the optics got progressively worse – including, in the worst instances, racist chanting, in some cases Nazi salutes, attacks on mosques, vandalisation of businesses (even a Greggs bakery for some reason), and, most seriously, an attempted murder of asylum seekers via setting fire to a building they were being housed in.
As the unrest persisted for several days, some of the later incidents involved Asian or Muslim counter-protesters (and in some cases, outright thugs) showing up with weapons, looking to fight the right-wing mobs or even just attack white people.
This apparently happened in Stoke and Birmingham.
Evidently, the ingredients for the much desired ‘race war’ – or Elon Musk’s ‘civil war’ psy-op – were all in the pot. They just needed to keep stirring.
Again, this ‘Clash of Civilisations’ programme has been manufactured for many years now: designed to lead to conflicts like this.
Which is why I’ve been more depressed by these events than surprised.
And so for several days, England was gripped by a wave of apparent unrest and violence.
Then came the – and God bless them – peaceful counter-protesters: diverse gatherings of community members in multiple cities, who came out to protect various locations that had been put on a target-list by online agitators.
That’s the situation as of now: Wednesday evening, where the expected ‘patriot’ mobs hadn’t shown up this time.
Alright, so that was the timeline of these events.
What’s curious to me is the way this unrest spread.
What’s interesting is that these kinds of destabilisation operations are techniques we’ve used in other countries: including, for example, places like Syria and Libya.
I examined Libya in detail, for example: and the weaponisation of social media, the spreading of false information and the calculated provoking of outrage to mobilise angry masses, was all part of the playbook.
For one thing, it isn’t impossible that other states might be employing similar tactics against us.
But it’s also just as possible that elements within our own country are employing such tactics domestically. More often than not, techniques practised abroad on foreign populations are later used at home on domestic citizens.
Again, if you switch the context a little and look at it through a different lens, it does bear some resemblance to established destabilisation strategies.
And as someone who studied the Libyan catastrophe at length, the destabilisation of that country began with one or two in incidents in one or two cities: and then seemingly instantaneously was replicated in multiple cities. Police were overwhelmed, things turned violent – and, crucially, as I examined in my book on the Libya Conspiracy, one of the key elements driving everything was social media disinformation, primarily via Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
In that instance, much of this social media manipulation came from accounts being run by foreign actors, including the US military, which created scores of fake accounts to fuel the uprising and subsequent civil war.
Similar things were played out in Syria in 2012, Ukraine in 2014, and elsewhere: designed to amplify or exacerbate preexisting tensions.
Claims have been made in mainstream media that Russian manipulators have been stirring the pot on social media, trying to incite these incidents.
Interestingly, a report also indicated that significant social media accounts spreading the misinformation and stoking the flames were traced to the United States.
Both are probably true.
Foreign entities using misinformation and psychological warfare tactics to destabilise the UK is highly likely: as I said, we’ve also done the same thing to other countries, including Russia.
And things like Cambridge Analytica showed that we’ve also been doing it with our own populations on an industrial scale, be it in the US, the UK or other Western nations.
It should be borne in mind that this stuff is international in scope: encompassing not just European countries, but the US and most of the West. It’s the same online manipulation programmes, the same funding sources, etc, that are driving culture wars, social unrest, and sectarian strife.
Extreme right-wing propaganda and misinformation networks, funded by wealthy patrons, have been playing this game for years now and targeting various countries for social/cultural destabilisation (as examined here in the past).
Which is why you always see the same things causing carefully-managed outrage in multiple countries: and the same responses. And why you see, for example, British online accounts over-obsessing with something happening in Sweden or France, or German ‘patriots’ obsessing over something happening in the UK, etc.
Which explains why, to cite one older example, Donald Trump and his sons were so obsessed with Sadiq Khan and the nonsense about his ‘Islamification’ of London.
Why else would a millionaire American President and his sons have spoken so much about a foreign Mayor in a foreign city that had nothing to do with them?
Trump’s 2024 VP pick, J.D Vance also recently and bizarrely called Britain an Islamic country in one of his first public statements – for no discernible reason.
Tory MP Lee Anderson also recently claimed – with a straight face – that the Mayor of London had introduced Sharia Law in the capital and was under the control of ‘Islamists’.
I’ve been covering this online manipulation and manufactured outrage industry for several years here: including the substantial Islamophobia industry and its millionaire financial backers, as well as the role of Israel and pro-Israel organisations in cultivating these ‘race wars’ or societal breakdowns in multiple countries.
I’ve also previously covered Israel’s deep alliances with the global Far Right (here, for example), and also its obvious relationship with Tommy Robinson (here).
So, yes, the foreign element is very likely. And it probably includes manipulators in Russia, the United States and in Israel.
Similarly, the cultivation and manipulation of Muslim extremism has been largely carried out by the likes of Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States and Western intelligence agencies for many years, creating a generational crisis.
This older article examined a lot of that radicalisation network concerning young Muslims.
Another thing to consider is that some operators connected to – or loyal to – the out-of-power opposition has been engaging in some kind of asymmetric warfare to cause problems for the new government.
After all, one shouldn’t forget that, whatever the surface-level make-up of parliament or government, the British ‘Deep State’ – particularly in the military and intelligence communities – is always predominantly conservative (and royalist too, but that’s not so relevant here).
That might explain why all this stuff has come on the heels of Labour’s election victory – almost as if it was on a timer.
I’m no fan of Keir Starmer, but right-wing claims that he and Labour – who’ve been in government barely a month – have somehow caused this crisis are retarded.
Even at the surface level, Conservative and right wing figures like Lee Anderson, Suella Braverman (a Home Secretary, for fuck’s sake) and others, were openly inciting the Far Right to action in recent months – at one point, Braverman even called on ‘patriots’ to go down to London to oppose peaceful pro-ceasefire marchers.
That open move by leading political figures towards overt Islamophobic language and deliberate incitement of the Far Right months ago also seemed to happen in concert with Tommy Robinson showing up and calling his supporters down to the Cenotaph.
Leading members of government were even calling ceasefire marchers (including lots of polite middle-aged white ladies and even many Jewish activists) ‘Islamists’ and ‘hate marchers’.
In other words, the actual Home Secretary and a supposed rogue like Tommy Robinson appeared to be working in concert, at least in that instance.
So, we can talk as much as we like about foreign meddling, but that shouldn’t be used to deflect focus from domestic conspirators and manipulators.
Some of which includes politicians. Some of which includes certain media platforms, TV broadcasters and newspapers.
But a lot of which involves – as usual – the unseen manipulators and agencies that aren’t in public view or part of the public discourse.
With that in mind, again, more people need to ask why someone like ‘Tommy Robinson’ has multiple passports and names – and yet is never publicly questioned about this
Yet another strange item of curiosity is that, while all of this was going on, Tommy Robinson’s former counterpart/soul-mate was arrested and sentenced to life in prison. I’m talking about the Islamist hate preacher Anjem Choudary.
It’s strange that he was quietly sentenced – for crimes that aren’t even recent, but historical – just as Tommy’s big show was underway.
I’ve written before here about Tommy and Choudary in the same article: explaining how they were two sides of the same coin, both being used to radicalise opposing communities of young men.
That’s precisely what Choudary has been sent down for: for radicalising a number of British Muslims into terrorism over many years.
As I argued years ago, that was Choudary’s purpose – and that’s why he was given so much media coverage and platforming for several years.
Likewise, Tommy’s purpose has been to help radicalise and mobilise an opposing community of angry English men in parallel.
But again, I’ve examined all of this before and will refrain from doing it again here.
So let’s come finally to the issue of online misinformation. Twitter or ‘X’ seems to be the main culprit.
As already highlighted, Elon Musk only recently reinstated Tommy Robinson to the platform – which was a big boost to the movement and the message at exactly the right time.
What’s funny is that I have only just been kicked off Twitter/X (after 11 years without any strikes or complaints) – but scores and scores of misinformation peddlers are freely allowed to disseminate viral falsehoods on the decaying platform.
A lot of these are paid or premium accounts – which is presumably why they’re not interfered with. Elon Musk’s hijacking of the platform has resulted in an increase of misinformation: albeit under the pretext of his ‘X’ being the ‘free speech platform’.
Elon Musk himself seems to be a disinformation artist and agitator, and possibly involved in psy-ops: such as his involvement in Israeli propaganda operations with Netanyahu in Gaza since October 7th.
Again, it’s no coincidence that he restored Tommy Robinson to that platform.
Or that he himself bizarrely tweeted about an ‘inevitable Civil War’ in the UK: indicating that he himself is playing this game too.
What’s probably going to come from all this is an eventual crackdown on the free flowing of information on certain platforms: like an expansion of the Online Safety Bill.
Which will mean, inevitably, more censorship: ostensibly targeting the misinformation spreaders, but also encompassing lots of other people too.
Since I’ve already been expelled from Twitter/X by the new system, I don’t really care. But, as a target of censorship on multiple occasions myself, I obviously don’t support the idea of even less freedom of speech online.
‘X’ itself has become an absolute cesspool though.
But Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, and other platforms are all also being used to spread false information, amplify societal divisions and tensions, and radicalise various groups.
In reality, the reason most of these things haven’t been suppressed or dealt with is because, firstly a lot of money is being made from these systems and algorithms: and secondly, governments, intelligence agencies and various state actors have at various times used these very systems to influence people or to accomplish political objectives both at home and abroad.
Tools that are so effective for mass manipulation are not going to be abolished.
As for the continuing tension and societal conflict, it’s not going anywhere. Partly because the various interests and influences invested in maintaining this state of tension aren’t going to stop manipulating people.
And partly because there are legitimate concerns about immigration, social cohesion, and demographic change: along with the inevitable problems that arise from segregation or ghetto-isation in certain cities or towns.
Arresting people isn’t going to fix any of the underlying causes.
Though in a country where we just gave peaceful environmental protesters an insanely harsh five-year prison sentence, thugs who tried to kill migrants with fire should be facing much longer sentences than that.
In conclusion…? It’s all become so depressing. And so embarrassing.
And honestly, I’m sick to death of Muslims, ‘patriots’, Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism, right-wing propaganda, culture wars, ‘wokeism’, anti-wokeism, social media, mainstream media, ‘boat people’, hashtags, everything… all of it.
My advice? Get more hobbies. I don’t know, go for a nature walk or something. Take up meditation. Try origami.
Me, I’m going to do a lot more stargazing.
And get off social media. That shit’s been completely hijacked by vested interests, manipulators, and bots: and it’s rotting people’s brains.
Very good. Your conclusion is quietly echoed by many of us. As Candide says at the end of all his grand adventuring and endless mishaps “we must cultivate our garden.”
But before I go (and cultivate my own garden – it very desperately needs a strim more than anything – one thing about Twitter/X that struck me recently is the logo. I mean Musk calls everything he ever touched ‘X’ for some demented reason or another, but the logo for Twitter is actually 2 Xs superimposed (when you think about it). And that leads to a thought – a visual pun – since two Xs is also and quite literally a double cross. Is that intentional? Your guess is as good as mine, but once you’ve seen it, it’s hard to unsee. And let’s face it, Musk is the ultimate double-crosser. In fact, he’s really just an actor, who mostly pretends to be Edison (and I dislike Edison but at least he had some talent), but hasn’t actually come up with anything much at all – beyond his teenage fantasies about going to Mars.
Now, within our world of hollow appearances as in WWE, you need the prominent players to perform both sides. Some you are meant to cheer on, and others you boo. So you have billionaires like Gates and Soros ostensibly on the left (just the notion of leftist billionaires ought be hilarious) rolling out schemes mainly in the colonies and then the principle Trumpian bad cop played by Musk stirring up trouble at home. Something like that. And his new logo is really just rubbing it all in our sorry faces.
Well, those are my ramblings on Musk et al, and now back to not properly attending to my seriously unkempt backyard. Have fun with the star-gazing!
Thanks James. Wow, a double cross symbol. Genius observation.
There’s some who thinks Musk is just an act/frontman: that he’s never really invented or advanced anything, but just been given things by higher agencies and made to look like a genius. A bit like Zuckerberg and Facebook.
As for stargazing, I’m becoming obsessed with Arcturus! What a shiny object.
Wow, that’s some serious astronomy – and though some have mistaken me for an astronomer, the very fact that I’d honestly never heard of Arcturus before shows up my lack of real knowledge beyond comets (and these days even that’s a bit flaky). I’ll try to look out for it next Spring.
Meanwhile here’s an interesting and entertaining look at Musk I accidentally ran across thanks to the YT algorithm which does still throw up the occasional gem. It’s entitled straightforwardly, “Elon Musk: Everything You Didn’t Know About His Sh*tty Past”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y40RU5Nx6U
Nice. Thanks.
So brilliant, Sam