When a media company can change the words of a president for their own convenience, who s really endangering democracy? Trump, or those claiming to defend it? The BBC have been caught editing a Trump speech to make it seem he incited the Capitol riot.
00:00:09.000Ladies and gentlemen, Russell Fran actor Russell Russell Francis trying to bring real journalism to the American people.
00:00:19.000Hello there you awakening wonders today we've got a fantastic show.
00:00:22.000We are taking a deep dive into two extremely important and significant subjects.
00:00:26.000One, my native UK has been immersed in crime and some high profile people are talking out about it.
00:00:32.000And two, the BBC have been caught editing content, editing content to manage the message of Donald Trump.
00:00:39.000When a media company can change the words of a president for their own convenience, you know how powers operate.
00:00:45.000You knew that already when Trump got kicked off of Twitter.
00:00:47.000And by the way, you can say this stuff without being an advocate for Trump or believing that Trump is the solution to all the world's problems.
00:00:53.000I don't believe Trump is the solution to all the world's problems.
00:00:55.000I believe Christ is the solution to all the world's problems and that you can have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ as I do.
00:01:02.000Nevertheless, a global imperialist state that wants to replace God is a big, big problem.
00:01:07.000Both of these stories illustrate that tendency.
00:03:01.000It's been revealed that Trump edited a Trump speech in order to convey a certain story.
00:03:07.000Let's analyse that and then look at how it applies across the political spectrum and how, as always, what we need is direct control ourselves.
00:05:35.000We're gonna walk down to the Capitol, and I'll be there with you.
00:05:40.000Now, see there, between Capitol and and, that's a cut.
00:05:45.000Oh my god, you know what's terrifying about watching this is that this is made for an audience of I suppose boomers and Generation X's and people my age.
00:05:52.000And look at the level of hand-holding they need to understand this stuff.
00:05:57.000I suppose I've worked in media all of my life and been involved in content creation for a long while.
00:06:02.000I'm like, yeah, if there's a cutaway, that means that there's an edit.
00:06:06.000And that means that they're using something else.
00:06:14.000These things are obvious to people that understand media.
00:06:17.000And what's equally obvious to me, given that now we know, my God, that this is the margin, this is the chasm that we're crossing, the BBC did that for a reason.
00:06:25.000And the reason the BBC did that is whether you like Trump or not, and whether you agree with him ideologically on what you think he thinks about race or immigration or any of the subjects that can be used to stimulate you back into your numb, dumb ignorance, Donald Trump, whatever he is and isn't, isn't...
00:06:40.000is a problem to the kind of institutional and establishment interests that plainly have total control over the BBC.
00:07:04.000What will happen now is they'll say, oh, one person made that decision and we'll find the one person that made that decision and we'll get rid of the one person that made that decision.
00:07:12.000But that decision was a reflection of values that are deep within the BBC.
00:07:17.000All right, let me just ask you, who did the BBC want to win that election?
00:07:48.000Telegraph revealed that the BBC had doctored a Donald Trump speech for its Panorama program, editing it to make it appear though it had encouraged a Capitol riot.
00:07:56.000It confirmed what many people suspected.
00:07:57.000The so-called impartial establishment media are no longer chroniclers of truth, but active participants in a psychological war for narrative control.
00:08:05.000Look, man, it's hard for me to talk about something like this because I have been in a personal battle as a member of independent media with establishment media for a long time.
00:08:16.000Way before the very damaging allegations, which ultimately generated charges down the line, because none of the people involved in that documentary pursued anything criminal, there were a lot of headlines that were attacking me in a variety of other ways.
00:08:29.000So of course, I'm not impartial when it comes to the corruption of the media and the way that the media present information in order to bring down their opponents.
00:08:37.000And their chiefest opponents are independent media, because independent media inevitably leads to independent politics.
00:08:43.000If you start to follow independent media creators like me, forget me, who cares about me, or anyone, people that you barely even have heard of, then their audience share is divided.
00:08:54.000As well as hearing a lot of crazy stuff, you'll also get access to ideas that ultimately prevent you from being cuddled, curtailed and controlled by their interests.
00:09:02.000You'll start to recognize you don't need brokerage and mitigation in every area of your life.
00:09:08.000You don't need a layer of bureaucracy wrapped around you.
00:09:35.000Penalise the people that don't want to get vaccinated for not wanting to get vaccinated or simply acknowledge that you can have different types of people that want to take different types of medication or eat different types of food, that we can accommodate all of that.
00:09:48.000You don't need to assert and exert centralized control over every aspect of our lives.
00:09:52.000The scandal was not just a journalistic failure, it was a moral one.
00:09:55.000For years, legacy outlets have portrayed Trump not as a flawed political figure, but as a modern day Hitler, an existential evil against which any manipulation, any distortion becomes justified.
00:10:04.000In the process, they've done more than just reshape how politics is covered.
00:10:08.000They've helped reshape what politics is.
00:10:10.000Not a contest of ideas, but a holy war between the righteous and the damned.
00:10:15.000This kind of moral absolutism does not arise in a vacuum.
00:10:17.000It thrives in a system that depends on the creation and destruction of villains to sustain itself.
00:10:22.000The establishment always needs a monster, someone whose existence can justify its moral authority.
00:10:27.000Consider Dick Cheney, the former vice president, once reviled as the architect of America's bloodiest misadventures.
00:10:33.000For years, he was the liberal media's embodiment of evil, a corrupt war profiteer, the dark lord of the Bush administration.
00:10:40.000Yet in death, Cheney has been reimagined as a tragic hero, a principled conservative whose sole virtue, denouncing Trump, was enough to redeem a career once condemned.
00:10:50.000The same rehabilitation was extended to George W. Bush, a president whose wars killed hundreds of thousands, but who now appears on talk shows as a genial grandfather figure, embraced by the same networks that once painted him as a tyrant.
00:11:04.000You are only as monstrous as your usefulness to the narrative allows.
00:11:08.000If you can hold on to these two ideas, you won't go far wrong.
00:11:10.000One, technology now is so immersive that it can give us the kind of power of gods.
00:11:15.000And two, the state wants absolute control of that technology.
00:11:19.000You can see that they want to be God because they are using edicts and principles that only God might deploy.
00:11:24.000One, they want us to be like children, dependent on them for information and even in some cases, welfare.
00:11:30.000Two, in this instance, they are claiming the right of canonization, that they can wash away a lifetime of sin, that they can posthumously turn Dick Cheney, one of their worst monsters, into a totem of sanctification.
00:11:43.000At the heart of the transformation lies a media industry that no longer sees its role as holding power to account, but rather as defining which power deserves to be held.
00:11:52.000Impartiality has been replaced by moral theatre.
00:11:55.000The doctored panorama clip wasn't an isolated lapse.
00:11:58.000It was a symptom of a larger condition.
00:12:00.000From CNN's obsessive moralization of the basket of deplorables moment to MSNBC's relentless portrayal of half the country as domestic extremists to President Biden's battle for the soul of the nation speech with its red-lit staging and rhetoric of semi-fascism, the narrative has been weaponized.
00:12:17.000Political disagreement is no longer framed as difference.
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00:15:11.000History is leared with examples of how propaganda, fear, and selective truth-telling have been used to manufacture consent and crush dissent.
00:15:18.000The weapons of mass destruction saga remains a defining lesson in media complicity.
00:15:23.000Tony Blair's 2003 claim that Saddam Hussein could deploy WMDs within 45 minutes.
00:15:28.000George W. Bush's mission accomplished banner, the echo chamber that amplified the lies until they became justification for the war.
00:15:35.000Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.
00:16:23.000Thank you all very much, Admiral Kelly, Captain Card, officers and sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln, my fellow Americans.
00:16:34.000Major combat operations in Iraq have ended.
00:16:38.000in the battle of iraq the united states and our allies have prevailed and now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country
00:17:05.000In this battle, we have fought for the cause of liberty and for the peace of the world.
00:17:13.000Our nation and our coalition are proud of this accomplishment.
00:17:17.000Yet it is you, the members of the United States military, who achieved it.
00:17:25.000Your courage, your willingness to face danger for your country and for each other made this day possible.
00:17:33.000In the McCarthy era, communists filled the same role that fascists and MAGR extremists now occupy, a manufactured enemy so terrifying that reason and evidence could be suspended in the name of safety.
00:17:44.000Today we are engaged in a final all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity.
00:17:55.000The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time.
00:18:04.000And ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down.
00:18:12.000If there be any doubt, the time has been chosen.
00:18:16.000Let us go directly to the leader of communism today, Joseph Stalin.
00:18:22.000Here is what he said, not back in 1928, not before the war, not during the war, but two years after the last war was ended.
00:18:32.000As one of our outstanding historical figures once said, when a great democracy is destroyed, it will not be from enemies from without, but rather because of enemies from within.
00:18:47.000When Trump entered the political stage, he became the ultimate vessel for this tradition.
00:18:51.000His populism, often crude, always combative, made him an easy caricature, a perfect foil for a political class that needed a devil.
00:18:58.000But Trump's own instinct for division also poured fuel on the fire.
00:19:02.000His willingness to mock, insult, and polarize made it simple for his opponents to cast him as uniquely dangerous.
00:19:07.000Yet his supporters saw something else, not a savior, but a weapon against the elites who had long sneered at them.
00:20:17.000You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.
00:21:31.000I didn't understand what you were saying.
00:21:32.000You were saying the press has treated white nationalists unfairly?
00:21:35.000I just didn't understand what you were saying.
00:21:36.000There were people in that rally, and I looked the night before.
00:21:39.000If you look, they were people protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee.
00:21:50.000I'm sure in that group there were some bad ones.
00:21:52.000The following day it looked like they had some rough, bad people.
00:21:56.000Neo-Nazis, white nationalists, whatever you want to call them.
00:22:01.000But you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest and very legally protest because I don't know if you know, they had a permit.
00:22:39.000The same playbook repeated itself after the Capitol riot.
00:22:42.000Selective editing, loaded commentary, and censorship in the name of safety.
00:22:47.000As the Twitter files later revealed, government agencies like the FBI and DHS were quietly coordinating with social media giants to suppress dissenting voices under the pretext of fighting domestic extremism.
00:22:58.000A new kind of orthodoxy was being born.
00:23:00.000Not state propaganda in the old Soviet sense, but something more subtle and pervasive.
00:23:04.000A fusion of government, tech, and media power, all aligned in service of one moral narrative.
00:23:09.000Meanwhile, the language of dehumanization became normalized.
00:23:12.000When Nancy Pelosi calls Trump a vile creature and the worst thing on the face of the earth, she's not merely insulting a rival.
00:23:18.000She's reinforcing a worldview in which political opposition is no longer legitimate.
00:24:17.000And America's political class, aided by a complicit press, has spent years shaping a world where annihilation feels like justice.
00:24:23.000So, how do we step back from the brink?
00:24:25.000Can a nation rediscover dialogue when its institutions profit from division, when its journalists have become activists, and its public broadcasters behave like political operatives?
00:24:34.000Can a society that once prided itself on the marketplace of ideas survive when truth itself is treated as a partisan property?
00:24:41.000Perhaps the most urgent question is this: if the media, the government, and the cultural elite are willing to distort, censor, and dehumanize in the name of morality, what happens when morality itself becomes the mask for control?
00:24:52.000The Doctor's BBC clip is not just a story about a speech, it's a story about the decay of trust, the weaponization of information, and the peril of turning politics into theology.
00:25:02.000When every opponent is Hitler, every election becomes Armageddon, and when outrage replaces truth as the currency of public life, there are no victors, only believers and heretics.
00:25:12.000If the goal was to save democracy, then perhaps the establishment should ask what kind of democracy can survive when its storytellers have become priests.
00:25:19.000If you want to read that article in full, you can do on Substack.
00:25:22.000This small clip shows you enough to never trust them again.
00:25:27.000You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.
00:27:45.000What's fascinating is that the technology now exists to hold the powerful to account.
00:27:50.000As the brilliant book Revolt of the Public excellently describes, the old elites no longer have control and the new elites haven't been fully incarnated.
00:27:59.000In this liminal space, there is an opportunity for power to change in ways that are radical and interesting.
00:28:05.000Remember, we can't rely on political ideas that emerged from the industrial age.
00:29:00.000These principles will change the world much more than changing the colouring of the flags and livery of whatever centralized organization you have in charge of your life.
00:29:09.000Whether it's Facebook or Columbia, whether it's the BBC or the Republican Party, you no longer require the degree of centralization that was once beneficial for municipal organization.
00:29:21.000Now what is possible is mass subsidiarity.
00:29:25.000Some people will call it anarcho-syndicalism.
00:29:29.000But what people in positions of centralized power will always call it is dangerous because that modality ends their control.
00:29:36.000As much as Hillary Clinton may hate Donald Trump, there's no one she hates more than she hates you.
00:29:41.000As much as the BBC might hate Donald Trump, there's no one that they hate as much as they hate you, your freedom, your ability to change, and access information from outside of their narrow purview.
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00:32:55.000Be aware, be awake, be conscious vigilant, vigilant infers, if I may say, do you know a word that comes from vigilant vigilante, and what that means is you'll become so watchful and you'll start to recognize the government and institutions you're dependent upon are incapable of doing their jobs, and you have to do it yourself and, in a way, you do have to do it yourself.
00:33:18.000You can't have an intercedary force, particularly not a government, that's ultimately there to control you and exploit you and to broker, as you know, relationships between other powerful interests, while making it look like it's helping you.
00:33:31.000The government of the Uk, in particular, is not there to help you.
00:33:33.000It's there to broker deals with more powerful interests, both corporate and commercial, and bureaucratic.
00:33:39.000You know that I mean by bureaucratic, larger bodies, whether it's the EU, the the Brexit didn't really really truly happen, did it.
00:33:47.000And commercially, you know what I mean, setting up deals, for example, like the Moderna one that Rishi Sunak did while in government.
00:33:55.000That I don't imagine Kiir Starma has reneged on or undone or negated, even in spite of us being aware now that the vaccines weren't what they promised to be, that Rishi Sunak had an unusual relationship with Modern he was part of the hedge fund that set it up.
00:34:10.000So what I mean to say is, why would you trust the government?
00:34:13.000If you would become super vigilant, you would start to notice that the real criminals are not just lunatics stabbing people on a train, even though that's obviously plainly a crime, but the people that facilitate and expedite endless crime through their corruption that benefit from us being terrified.
00:35:54.000And I believe that London, England, the United States of America would be better aligned if they were governed and ruled in a total alignment with Christian principles.
00:36:05.000But my beliefs can't be imposed on an entire planet.
00:36:09.000I find it hard enough to impose them on myself.
00:36:12.000I'm not surprised that Liam Gallagher, he's always been confident publicly, is willing to publicly criticise Sadiq Khan.
00:36:19.000Other celebrities from the 90s, is that what we know, Ricky Gervais and Liam Gallagher, they're not just from the 90s, they're mainly from the 90s, are criticising Sadiq Khan because, because in the case of Ricky Gervais, he's never going to stand for censorship.
00:36:34.000And Liam Gallagher, probably everyone's just sensing we've got a shared cultural obligation to have the conversations that are necessary as a country falls apart, right?
00:36:52.000It's generating a lot of interest and a lot of intrigue.
00:36:57.000But the truth that lies behind it, of course, is that London is being badly run.
00:37:02.000Do you know that I was thinking about running for mayor myself just about 25 seconds before there was an inundation of total immersive attacks across London?
00:37:13.000Obviously, I'm not going to be doing anything like that, not when I'm facing trial in June in London for the charges that you'll be very familiar with by now.
00:37:21.000But it's clear that the UK is falling apart fast and requires radical change quickly.
00:37:27.000My personal belief is that change does not come from within existing institutions and systems because if you think about it just for a second, just for a second, those institutions and systems are the very essence, the skeletal structure that requires rigidity.
00:37:43.000It's only by changing them that you'll get anything like the kind of change you're yearning for, craving, and that these various celebrities are expressing in ways that are ultimately probably filtered through self-interest.
00:38:18.000Get your fingers out of my butt, Greg.
00:38:21.000Right, well, what I felt actually when I was watching Ed Miliband telling Elon Musk to get out of British politics is what do you mean really by British politics?
00:39:02.000Especially something like Elon Musk saying they're like, Hobbits, mate, you try wandering around like... Tolkien was writing about the Midlands, I think is what he's about to say.
00:39:11.000But if you go wandering around any northern town or town in the Midlands around Tolkien, about which Tolkien was talking, and go, you're like Hobbits, you're like Hobbits, they will cyber-truck you right up.
00:39:24.000J.R. Tolkien based the hobbits on people he knew in small-town England.
00:39:32.000Because they were just like lovely people who like to, you know, smoke their pipe and have nice meals.
00:39:39.000It's an interesting characterization, but the British are also the people of the Second World War.
00:39:42.000The British are also the people of Dunkirk and the Normandy landings.
00:39:55.000Anyway, my point is this: that the British people are potent, robust Ireland people invaded throughout their history, so ossified and accreted power is in them.
00:40:08.000Vikings, Romans, Celts, it's all just pounded into you like a kind of inuring.
00:40:14.000There's no question that we've been kind of oddly sidelined into this new tyrannical version of social democracy that appears to benefit from mass migration that's not being well managed.
00:40:27.000And perhaps the British people don't want migration.
00:40:29.000And if they don't want migration, have a referendum on it and then stop it.
00:40:33.000Because if you live in a democracy, that's what you're supposed to do.
00:40:37.000But I suppose I don't like the idea of describing us like hobbits.
00:41:49.000Here's The Guardian, a purportedly left-wing but ultimately establishment newspaper talking about, you know, violent crime.
00:41:56.000London has turned into something, is into something crazy.
00:41:59.000Is the city in the grip of a crime wave?
00:42:03.000Perception of runaway crime, partly blamed for driving away the super rich, but in reality some high-profile offences such as watch theft are falling.
00:42:29.000Possibly also people don't wear watches anymore.
00:42:31.000That might be impacting that particular statistic.
00:42:34.000With violent crime dropping dramatically over the past two decades, crime in London is up.
00:42:37.000Recorded crime has increased by 31% in the past decade in the area that the Metropolitan Police covers with violent crime up by 40%.
00:42:45.000Now, is the increase in crime as a result of migration?
00:42:50.000Let me know in the comments and chat what you think.
00:42:52.000Here's Enoch Powell, a firebrand politician from the 1970s, 60s, 70s, and even 80s, who was, they say, the best prime minister England never had, who I once famously referenced when I called Nigel Farage a pound shop Enoch Powell.
00:43:09.000Look, if you fly into Gatwick, you'll see lots of green spaces.
00:43:15.000However, if you have a country in which the population goes up as a direct result of immigration, what you find is not a shortage of green fields, if that's where you wanted to build houses.
00:43:26.000You find a shortage of primary school places.
00:43:31.000You know, we have fewer GPs per head than any other country in Europe today.
00:43:36.000You find congestion, whether it's on the roads or the London Underground or wherever you go.
00:43:42.000And what you find is that actually you're constantly playing catch-up and really the general quality of life for the massive population has gone down.
00:43:52.000So I think those comments today were wholly irresponsible.
00:43:56.000And what we've seen, I mean, it's quite interesting to think that, you know, in 1990, the population of this country was 55 million.
00:44:09.000And I think ordinary folk going about their lives are feeling it.
00:44:13.000And I think, you know, having a proper immigration policy, controlling the numbers, doing what nearly 200 countries in the world do, namely controlling the numbers that come and the type of people that come, is the answer.
00:44:35.000I sometimes feel worried about you, Nigel Farage.
00:44:40.000The reason I feel worried is because I know a lot of people are frightened in our country.
00:44:45.000I know a lot of people are feeling afraid and frustrated.
00:44:49.000And there is a sense that there is a corrupt group in our country using our resources, taking away our jobs, taking away our housing, not paying taxes, exploiting us.
00:45:18.000Nigel Farage is pointing at immigrants and the disabled and holding his nose.
00:45:22.000Immigrants are not causing the economic problems and suffering we're experiencing.
00:45:36.000As much as any of us, I enjoy seeing Nigel Farage in a boozer with a pint and a fag, laughing off his latest scandals about breastfeeding or whatever.
00:46:38.000What I mean by that is communities could vote on whether or not they want to take any migrants in.
00:46:43.000Like saying Epping, it's unlikely that people are going to have migrant communities.
00:46:47.000But based on what I read about high-profile and affluent celebrities' views on migration, many of them want to have migrants in their community.
00:46:56.000Me, I believe that charity begins at home.
00:46:59.000That means not only is my first priority to take care of my family, but that I am personally responsible for helping other people.
00:47:07.000And if I can get myself into the state where I would say, I want a refugee family to come and live with me and I want to take responsibility for them, I believe I'd be doing God's work there.
00:47:16.000But I don't think anyone should be imposing that on me.
00:47:18.000Here's Enoch Powell's defining speech, the famous rivers of blood speech.
00:47:23.000In this country, in 15 or 20 years time, the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.
00:47:39.000I sort of just like the way people talk to them.
00:47:42.000The black man, the black chap, will have the whip hand over the white man.
00:48:39.000How dare I stir up trouble and inflame feelings by repeating such a conversation?
00:48:49.000My answer is that I do not have the right not to do here.
00:48:55.000At least you can say that Enoch Powell isn't an idealist and he is true and faithful to his own principles.
00:49:03.000You don't get many politicians like that these days.
00:49:05.000My personal feeling is that the UK is now a multicultural society.
00:49:11.000My personal feeling is that Britain ought to become a Christian country, you would have to democratically and electorally instantiate a Christian government and better even than that, Christian principles at every level of government.
00:49:28.000Firstly, self-governance, then family governance, then community government, then the government of the entire nation.
00:49:36.000But not every town in Britain would probably vote that way.
00:49:39.000Some of them might vote Muslim and I'd live with that to get my community Christian.
00:49:43.000Some of them might want to be atheist and I'd live with that to get my community Christian.
00:49:48.000Some of them might want to be LGBTQ plus.
00:49:51.000They might want to have their community built around their sexual identity or who knows a thousand different ways to be a human being.
00:49:57.000I believe that God and Christ want us to be free.
00:50:19.000Literally mad as a nation to be permitted the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant descended population.
00:50:38.000It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pile.
00:50:47.000There's no point listening to me moralizing.
00:51:35.000Scenes of people looting, vandalising, thieving, robbing.
00:51:40.000Scenes of people attacking police officers and even attacking fire crews as they're trying to put out fires.
00:51:49.000This is criminality, pure and simple, and it has to be confronted and defeated.
00:51:55.000How do we have someone in government in that period, like only about eight years ago, that said, put out out that the way he said out there is such an indicator of elitism.
00:52:06.000You might as well be wearing a golden hat and have a golden penis.
00:52:10.000No one talks like that unless they've never been anything other than stinking filthy rich their entire lives.
00:52:16.000I suppose what the Tony Blair clip and the Enoch Powell clip and the David Cameron clip demonstrate is that people have always had concerns about crime and the way that crime is reported on is significant.
00:52:25.000With all media reporting, ask yourself the question, as Cicero said, qui bono.
00:52:39.000So if you're watching Bill Gates saying everyone should get vaccines, qui bono, Bill Gates benefits.
00:52:45.000If you watch Bill Gates saying, oh, agriculture, we should patent seeds now, qui bono, Bill Gates benefits.
00:52:50.000If you watch Bill Gates saying, oh, there's no such thing as climate change anymore because it doesn't suit me, qui bono, Bill Gates benefits.
00:52:56.000In fact, if you see Bill Gates, Bill Gates is just talking about Bill Gates and our to benefit Bill Gates all the time.
00:53:01.000It's actually very easy to use him as an example.
00:53:03.000When news broke of a stabbing aboard a train in Huntingdon, the government's first response, be vigilant, felt grimly familiar.
00:53:12.000The attack joined a string of recent high-profile incidents, the Uxbridge triple stabbing in October, the Southport killings of three young girls in 2024, and a surge of viral footage showing fights, robberies and assaults across British towns.
00:53:24.000Public unease has deepened to the point where comedians and musicians now echo it.
00:53:28.000Ricky Gervasi's band, Welcome to London, Don't Forget Your Stab Vest poster, and Liam Gallagher's comment that London is open for knife crime capture a mood of cynicism and fear.
00:53:40.000Is it becoming more violent or simply more anxious?
00:53:42.000The question has been sharpened by comments from figures such as Elon Musk who told Joe Rogan that small British towns were being breached by waves of migrants, conjuring Tolkien-esque images of the Shire under siege.
00:53:52.000Nigel Varage too cited disputed data to claim that Afghan males are vastly more likely to be convicted of rape than those born in the UK.
00:54:12.000You could look at migrant populations in every country.
00:54:16.000You could say, well, what are white migrants in Egypt doing?
00:54:21.000You know, I don't think it's nice to make claims that certain ideologies are more inclined towards rape, the worst of the crimes.
00:54:30.000But I think what you can say is that if a culture skews towards denigration of the value of human life, then that's going to be a problem.
00:54:40.000And in a way, any culture that's spiritual, whether it's Christian or Muslim, ought so enshrine the sanctity of human sovereignty and dignity that violent and particularly sexually violent crimes ought be anathema.
00:54:55.000Those claims feed a growing narrative that immigration and rising crime are intertwined.
00:55:00.000That violence in once peaceful communities is the inevitable consequence of unchecked borders.
00:55:05.000Yet data paints a more complex picture.
00:55:07.000While The Guardian reports that recorded violent crime in London has risen by 40% over the past decade across England and Wales, it has dramatically fallen over the past 20 years.
00:55:16.000The truth may depend less on the numbers than where one lives, what one reads and what one fears.
00:55:20.000The idea that sex crimes may occur outside of the domain of your birth is interesting.
00:55:29.000Consider how many people holiday in Pap Pong Bangkok in order to exploit sexual opportunity there.
00:55:35.000Wasn't Gary Glitter ultimately arrested in Thailand as a result of having sex with underage girls?
00:55:41.000I remember when I was a kid, I went to Thailand and I saw like older guys walking around hand in hand with what you could see were basically children.
00:55:49.000So be careful before making a claim like sexual ignominy belongs to one cultural or certainly racial group.
00:55:57.000But in the UK there is little doubt that there is a correlative between certain Pakistani populations, grooming and rape gangs.
00:56:10.000The problem that Britain has is it cannot have that conversation openly.
00:56:13.000So many people in power have a deep and duplicitous creed because they are hiding stuff, often personal stuff about their own sexuality.
00:56:20.000And even if they're not, they're usually compromised politically or financially.
00:56:25.000Whether it's something like Rushi Sunak with obviously corrupt financial connections or the deeper and more ubiquitous corruption that exists when you have people going through the Oxbridge system and the Etonian school system and ending up in government.
00:56:38.000It's a more diffuse type of corruption, but it's a compromise nevertheless.
00:56:42.000History offers clear warnings about how such anxieties can be amplified and exploited.
00:56:47.000In 1968, Enoch Powell's infamous Rivers of Blood speech turned public unease about immigration into national panic, fueling decades of division.
00:56:55.000Where of course people will look at that Enoch Powell speech and say that it was perspicacious.
00:56:59.000Tony Blair's 1990s mantra, tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime, similarly channeled public fear into a political weapon, projecting authority through moral urgency.
00:57:08.000And after the 2011 London riots, David Cameron declared criminality pure and simple, invoking broken Britain and pledging moral renewal.
00:57:17.000Fear has long been the language through which power asserts itself.
00:57:20.000The post-9-11 war on terror made this global, with governments deploying internal threats to justify surveillance, policing and the erosion of civil liberties.
00:57:28.000What began as a fight against terrorism often ended as a lesson in control.
00:57:33.000Today the conversation about violence and migration risks following that same path, there are indeed horrific crimes involving migrants and ignoring them would be dishonest, but treating individual atrocities as evidence of a national pan may transform legitimate concern into a moral panic, one that governments, tabloids and demagogues can easily weaponise.
00:57:50.000Sociologists of the 90s and 2000s documented similar cycles, hysteria over youth hoodie culture, the demonisation of video games and heavy metal after school shootings and the tabloid scapegoat-in that often obscured similar systemic failures.
00:58:05.000Later revelations from the Hillsborough disaster cover-up to the Jimmy Saville scandal showed how institutions sometimes gaslight the public, breeding the cynicism that endures to this day.
00:58:14.000When Jimmy Saville died, who we now know has necrophilia and paedophilia among his, let's call them hobbies, he was given the send-off of an emperor or a king.
00:58:22.000And he was actually friends with a king, King Charles, King of England, right now.
00:58:27.000One of the country's best-known broadcasters, Sir Jimmy Saville, has died at the age of 84.
00:58:33.000With a career that spanned 40 years, he was famous for his show Jim Will Fix It and for being the first and last presenter of Top of the Pops.
00:58:41.000Sir Jimmy was also well known for his charity work, raising more than £40 million.
00:58:46.000Well, many tributes have been paid tonight, and Prince Charles said he was saddened by the news.
00:59:16.000He was an outrageous self-publicist, but he also put his celebrity to use, raising money for charity.
00:59:22.000He ran marathons, raised £20 million for the Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Manderville, and at Leeds Infirmary, worked regularly as a porter.
00:59:50.000On one side lies complacency, the refusal to acknowledge that crime, gang violence, and social dislocation are real and worsening in some areas.
00:59:57.000On the other lies hysteria, the rush that attribute every act of violence to outsiders, feeding an us versus them worldview.
01:00:04.000Both distort the truth and in between stands a public losing faith not only in the safety in their streets, but in the honesty of their institutions.
01:00:12.000Each new be vigilant warning from the government feels less like reassurance and more like abdication, as though citizens, not the state, are now responsible for their own protection.
01:00:20.000In the end, Britain's crisis may be less about crime itself and more about trust.
01:00:24.000Trust in statistics, trust in leaders, trust in the idea that fear is not being manufactured or manipulated for power.
01:00:31.000The moral panic may not just be in the headlines, it may be in the hearts of those who feel abandoned and unheard and unsafe.
01:00:38.000Whether Britain is truly more violent or simply more frightened, the atmosphere of dread has become real enough to shape the nation's psyche.
01:00:45.000And that perhaps is the most dangerous reality of all.
01:00:48.000Anything that travels through the lens of media, in particular social media, is subject to a degree of amplification and hysteria.
01:00:55.000But what cannot be ignored is that there's a democratic crisis in the UK that needs to be addressed.
01:01:00.000And democratic crises are an expression of several things.
01:01:14.000Technology would now permit a different level of democracy, direct democracy, personal investment and involvement in the way that your community is run from every individual.
01:01:25.000And assuming that those individuals have a good relationship with God, and that's our job to ensure that they do, then these democracies or new institutions or new systems might prosper.
01:01:34.000The current institutions and systems are so corrupt, they will always lead to more violence, more corruption, and an inability to openly and transparently to discuss the root causes of those problems because the roots of those problems are not problems to the people in power.