Tag: Keir Starmer

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Britain is about to get her sixth Prime Minister in seven years. Sir Keir Starmer announced his resignation from the highest political office in the United Kingdom from outside the famous black front door of Number 10, Downing Street on Monday, and will apparently leave in September. This is a fast-moving story, and as I write there is talk about Starmer leaving office in July if there is no leadership contest. (more…)

Nigel Farage. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

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White people and black people differ in many ways, and one of these differences is coming to the fore. The difference is one of perception. Whereas black people merely believe they have a white problem, because they are taught that they do, white people increasingly know they have a black problem, even if they are not permitted to talk about it. Black people are told, constantly, that white people are a clear and present danger to their people (despite the fact that they are far more dangerous to one another). (more…)

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Post-Henry Nowak Policing

It is highly unlikely that anyone reading this does not by now know the name of Henry Nowak. Henry was an 18-year-old English student who died in police custody in December of last year after a false allegation of racism was made by his Sikh murderer, which meant that the attending police officers treated the crime scene as a racist incident rather than the stabbing attack that it was. I covered the details of Henry’s death here at Counter Currents, but I want to look at the consequences of this racist killing, both politically and in the media. (more…)

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“I can’t breathe.”
The last words of George Floyd.

“I can’t breathe.”
The last words of Henry Nowak.

Henry Nowak was an 18-year-old Englishman, a student of Polish descent, and was studying for a degree in Accounting and Finance at Southampton University, England. (more…)

Nigel Farage.

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The term “folk-horror” has blossomed over the past two decades, being used to describe a sub-genre of horror films, novels, and TV shows set in the European countryside, where strange rural ways and rites of pagan worship become mixed up with ghosts, demons, murder, and sorcery. (more…)

Théodore Chassériau – Le Spectre de Banquo. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

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Like Macbeth in Dunsinane, Sir Keir Starmer grows isolated. The British Prime Minister (PM) is loathed by the public, certainly, but that is of no importance to Starmer’s handlers, or “policy advisers” as they are euphemistically called. When these humorless young men and women look at negative polling indicating that the public—meaning the white public—intensely dislike current government policy, they will attempt the closest that sort of person gets to a smile. (more…)

20/01/2026. Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds his weekly Cabinet meeting. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street

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Something is Rotten in the Fourth Estate

What can I know? The question was famously posed by the 16th-century French essayist, Michel de Montaigne. But his was a metaphysical question, whereas if we bring the question into our own age, it has become more straightforwardly ontological. In fact, we can even say that it has become informational. In terms of the expanded info-world in which we now live, what we can know is what we are told, and the media is often the curator of that knowledge. (more…)

Starmer attending an Iftar reception in 2025. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

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Donald Trump is always on the lookout for insulting nicknames for his political enemies. Given his current falling out with Sir Keir Starmer over the Iran War, I would like to hereby suggest the President begin calling the dismal UK Prime Minister “Sir Taqiyya” instead. If by some miracle Trump happens to be reading this article (and Donald Trump reading would indeed be a miracle) he may need some initial instruction in what this abusive moniker means, though. (more…)

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An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom. — Charles Baudelaire, epigraph to 2666

The British Prime Minister was asked during an interview to name his favorite novel, and the answer he gave was revealing. Sir Keir Starmer said he didn’t have a favorite novel. He didn’t have a favorite poem, either. This is a man who was the Director of Public Prosecutions, one of the highest appointments in the United Kingdom. I know that he had a good education because I was at school with him, although he evidently spent more time studying than I did. (more…)

Cellphone footage of the recent Clapham mob.

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What is terrorism? There have been many attempts to provide a universally accepted definition. So many, in fact, that in the 1980s a Dutch academic named Alex P. Schmid reviewed over 100 such definitions and collated them into one:

Terrorism is the use (or threat) of violence against civilians, intended to create fear, in order to achieve political or ideological objectives.

Although academically respected, Schmid’s definition has never been universally accepted into legislation, and for an obvious reason. No nation wants to commit to a definition of terrorism which might one day describe their own actions. But Schmid’s definition seems perfectly serviceable, the key points being the use of violence, the ideological nature of the objective, and the fact that the victims are civilians, although that is not always the case. (more…)

A barricade in Townsend Street, Dublin 1916. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

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On Easter Monday, 1916, after hundreds of years of living under English rule, the Irish rose up against their oppressor. What became known as the Easter Rising (also the Easter Rebellion) lasted six days, and is still a source of pride to the fighting Irish. It was a bloody affair. Most of the leaders of the rebellion, men such as Thomas Plunkett and James Connolly, were executed, and hundreds of rebels were interned both in Ireland and England. Many died in the conflict, including heavy losses on the English side. Those redcoats learned what a lot of people have learned since; if you are going to fight an Irishman, you had better be good with your fists. (more…)

Starmer attending an Iftar reception in 2025. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

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What’s the most valuable lesson a Western child can learn at school today? That they now inhabit a deliberately unfair two-tier social system, in which it’s one rule for Muslims, one rule for everyone else—a two-tier system which now runs direct from the classroom to courtroom.

It is the end of Ramadan this week, a festival of which I was blissfully unaware until long after I entered my teens. The only time I heard the term as a young child was when adults around me referred to Pakistani immigrants as “The Ramadamadingdong.” (more…)

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The British political landscape has shifted more in the past five years than it did over the preceding century. By the mid-19th century, the Whig Party had disbanded (as the American Whigs also did at around the same time) or transformed into the Liberal Party. The turn of the 20th century saw the creation of the Labour Party, and a political binary that would last for over 100 years. (more…)