IS SIMON Harris, Republic of Ireland Minister for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Defence, in a race with Keir Starmer to appease a grand evil and position his country to become the first officially anti-Semitic West European state since Nazi Germany?
Ireland has introduced a ban on trade with, and imports from, Israeli settlements. Starmer has stopped exports of some military products and banned two Israeli politicians from entering the UK. Perhaps Ireland’s next move on the road to official anti-Semitism will be twinning Dublin with Tehran – a political marriage tailor-made in Hell to enthral anti-Semites worldwide, and give some small consolation to an Islamic Republic of Iran reeling from the bombing of its key atomic research and enrichment facilities. Maybe Harris is hoping Ireland’s politically petty, but morally telling, anti-trade action will help to soothe the Ayatollah’s acute embarrassment about the ‘Zionist entity’ overwhelming and taking complete control of Iran’s air space; and, of course, Allah not coming to the Supreme Leader’s rescue – maybe he had gone for a long snooze and missed the Mullahs’ calls for help; after all, this plotting and positioning to overthrow Western civilisation through your earth-bound agents, and to bring all those pesky Kaffirs under the boot of Islam, must take it out of you.
Of course, one shouldn’t be blasé or disrespectful about such things, but I say them to make a point. If I can’t say such things, then we are already lost. We still live in an (almost) free society where one can use humour as well as reasoned, fact-based argument for or against any aspect of cultural life, and still have a 50 per cent chance of not being visited by 2TK’s Thought Stasi, or Lord Hermer corrupting the meaning of certain laws to skewer you on charges never meant to be covered by said legislation.
With Labour’s continuing clandestine moves to bring about a blasphemy law that will make any criticism of Islam a racist incident, my taking the Michael out of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will, very soon – if the weak-kneed politicians of zero moral fibre get their way with introducing the APPG definition of Islamophobia – get me a (death) sentence in the Islamic wing of a UK prison. It would definitely get me hanged by the neck from the nearest long-jibbed crane in Iran, or killed by a rabid street crowd in Pakistan, so you can see the trajectory we are heading on.
Are we now witnessing the death-throes of British Judeo-Christian civilisation, and is an alternative being ushered in, against our will, by those with power over our lives and futures? The demise of any civilisation is not unusual, but when your own culture is facing extinction, it becomes very personal.
Hannah Arendt’s book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, was published in 1963. The phrase she coined –‘banality of evil’ – has stayed in our culture’s consciousness ever since. I believe it has meaning for us right now, and that banality has been joined by mundanity.
Evil has become a mundane feature of society in this country. We see its presence on our streets in the cries for genocide of Jews and support for terrorists and their state sponsors; the industrial-scale murder of unborn children; the actions taken against those who oppose the various dogmas of woke; and of unbridled daily violence that makes many fearful of walking alone.
We see the banality of evil on the benches of the House of Lies: in the decades-long politically expedient bureaucratic cover-up of rape gangs; in the calls for Israel to cave in to existential danger; with the decriminalisation of the murder of unborn children up to the point of birth by their own mothers; in the promotion of a Bill that will inevitably morph into something that makes it easy to kill off the elderly, the infirm, the physically and mentally ill of all ages – the state no longer wants to spend money to help or cure you.
Am I going over the top? Well, just wait and see where we are in maybe a decade. Evil creeps and grows as if it were a self-sustaining force.
A mirror of Harris’s banal Irish bureaucratic appeasement of evil is what we see being played out in our own country: by politicians who work with it to achieve and retain power, by the police who turn a fearful eye away from it, and in our institutions which have been corrupted by it. We see it through the cowardice to confront it, and the decline of our country as evil eats away at the heart of our cultural and social fabric. The table has been set, waiting for the serving up of our culture and society to the heathen hordes of the woke stupid, humanist globalists and fundamental Islamists, all eagerly awaiting their feast.
Is there a cure for this demise, this flushing away of what is good, what is true, what is honourable? Or are we to be left with just the dishonourable, the lies, the evil – our open, free society replaced by either an authoritarian tyranny of Islamism or globalist Socialism?
Matt Goodwin recently set out his thoughts on what was required to ‘reset’ this country. It amounted to repealing many laws and removing ourselves from the gangrenous hands of the ECHR. In effect he was arguing for what the Great British Political Action Committee (PAC) is currently putting together, the Great Repeal Bill, ‘oven-ready’ for the right government to enact after the next election. But that is not enough. Nowhere near enough to root out the mundane corruption and banal appeasement of evil rooted deep under the strained vestiges of civilisation. The actions required will cut deep into society, but unless taken, our trajectory will not change. The cure for the dismal state we are in is not an easy pill to swallow.
