Steve Harrison, genre-fluid author of TimeStorm & Blurred Vision and highly opinionated tweets.
Sydney Australia
Joined July 2014
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Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
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🚨🚨🚨 IMPORTANT 🚨🚨🚨
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Here is an important bit history none of the lying manipulative anti Israel propagandists ever tell you. This is recorded historical fact, and I hope that everyone reading this will use it and share it widely. Because this destroys ALL the lies they have ever told:
In May 1949, during the Lausanne talks, Israel offered to take the Gaza Strip and EVERY Arab living in it.
Ben-Gurion’s government approved the plan. Israel told the UN Conciliation Commission it would annex the Egyptian-held strip and grant FULL CITIZENSHIP to the people already there plus the refugees packed into it. Roughly 200,000 to 230,000 Arabs would have become Israeli citizens. Israel would have absorbed the territory and the population as part of a settlement.
EGYPT SAID NO!!!
That is the record. Israel proposed taking the land and the people. The Arab side rejected the offer. Everything that followed in Gaza happened after that refusal.
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Je viens de voter. Il y avait un couple d’Arabes devant moi. Ils avaient l’air sympa, même si la femme était voilée. Je leur ai demandé en plaisantant s’ils allaient voter Ben Gvir. La femme a ri de bon cœur mais son mari m’a regardé comme si je tombais d’une autre planète. Elle lui a dit quelque chose en Arabe que je n’ai pas bien compris et finalement il m’a souri tandis qu’elle a murmuré avec un air secret… « Makhal ». Je suis tombé des nues. Ils votaient likud. CAD Netanyahu. Même si, peut-être, ils s’étaient juste moqués de moi, j’ai aussitôt pensé: « putain d’apartheid, hein? »
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Israel has their election on Tuesday, a comparison of the the three leading candidates
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Islamo-Leftism Is Not a Conspiracy Theory
It’s an unrequited love affair
“The Red-Green alliance does not rest on covert coordination behind the scenes, but on ideological kinship, a shared enemy (Western civilization, modernity and capitalism) and a hefty dose of naivety on one side.”
“The bargain is straightforward: leftists coddle Muslims and give them preferential treatment, while Muslims respond by voting for left-wing parties.”
“What makes this love affair tragic is that it is mostly unrequited.”
“There may be ‘Queers for Palestine’, but there are no ‘Queers in Palestine’.”
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I wrote a new piece about women’s rights and whether or not I want trans people dead. (Spoiler: I don’t)👇
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There’s no guarantee that French culture and traditions will survive ceaseless attacks from discontents inside the country.
@DouglasKMurray dives into this in his recent column. Read it here: thefp.com/p/douglas-murray-f…
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Really a blessing for the Jewish People that we have people as knowledgeable and thoughtful like @havivrettiggur who can share with depth and substance to the wider world!
And thank you to @breakfastclubam for opening your show to this perspective!
He's phenomenal and kudos to @havivrettiggur and @breakfastclubam for this great interview and discussion.
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Rioting over a lack of educational resources in France, yet somehow the looters found every luxury boutique, electronics shop and footwear store while missing every bookshop and stationery store!🧐
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It's funny how the commies who constantly tout the evils of private property and the moral urgency of redistribution always sprint straight for the monogrammed handbags the moment the alarm goes off.
Personally, I find it hard to summon much sympathy when luxury stores get smashed and looted. Why? Because it's the same industry that constantly embraces third-worldist leftism, sustainability theater, inclusion quotas, and progressive signaling.
Recall that Vogue endorses Democratic candidates and majority of high fashion designers snub Melania Trump. Campaigns push all kinds of norm-busting avant garde ideas including open borders and BLM-adjacent slogans, while relying on know-nothing woke celebrities to amplify their message.
These brands have spent decades cultivating an ideology to appeal to a consumer class (like Hasan Piker lol) that treats property as negotiable, heritage as contemptible, order as oppression, and hierarchy as something to be dismantled. So when the mob turns on the glass and marble of their own boutiques, this is simply known as being hoisted by their own petard.
The Limoges town hall, on the other hand, is different. Its destruction is the loss of something irreplaceable, and I mourn it
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We will all soon know what it feels like to be Jewish. In France, they already do.
It will be our just deserts for having abandoned the Jews, ignored their warnings, turned against them, and even marched alongside their oppressors.
For three years, you useful idiots have been parading Palestinian flags, sporting keffiyehs, screaming “From the River to the Sea”, and recognizing a fictitious Palestinian state as a reward for Hamas’s October 7 massacre (looking at you, @EmmanuelMacron). You have boycotted the only Jewish state in the world, vilified the Jewish people’s right to self-determination (aka “Zionism”), and spread the “Gaza genocide” blood libel.
Did you really think that if you fed the crocodile enough Jewish flesh, it would eventually be satiated? All you have done is embolden the monster and whet its appetite.
So you were worried about “colonization”? Look around. The only thing being colonized here are our own Western cities. The Palestinian flag has become a victory banner, proudly waved amid the ruins of looted and vandalized historic buildings—a symbol of hatred for our civilization and everything it stands for.
It never ends with the Jews.
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As I said before, the contemporary Left is being absorbed by a new wave of Third-Worldism that treats anti-Israel politics as the core axis of moral meaning. Gaza has become the central symbol because it fuses every theme the activist Left needs: victimhood, colonial injustice, racial hierarchy, and global resistance. This is why figures like Greta Thunberg shifted from climate justice to Gaza without hesitation. Climate politics offered urgency but not a revolutionary antagonist. Gaza provides both.
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✈️ WATCH: Israeli Comedy Show Eretz Nehederet Turns Flydubai Terror Attack Into Hilarious “Fauda in the Skies” Parody Featuring Hero Israeli Plumber
Israel’s Eretz Nehederet has given the Flydubai hijacking ordeal the Fauda treatment. Its sketch, “Fauda in the Skies,” draws on the story of Yaniv Hayoun, the Israeli plumber who helped thwart the attack.
Comedian Eran Zarachovitz impersonates Lior Raz as a plumber turned action hero, calling for wrenches to overpower the terrorist. Then, in the middle of the airborne rescue, he announces that he needs to get a part from his car.
The show promoted the spoof with a suitably reassuring caption: “The skies have never been safer.”
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Writing by the Seat Of Your Pants
Are you a planner or a pantser?
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And does it matter?
Steve Harrison's writing blog
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There are more Gazans alive today than there were before the October 7th attack. It’s a fakeocide, not a genocide.
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Someone asked me on DM what roof tapping is. This is what it is.
Israel fires a small warning shot onto the roof of a building Hamas is using. No warhead meant to bring it down. Just the knock. Get out. Then the calls, the texts, and the leaflets.
Then, if the fighters are still in there, the real strike.
This clip is Al Jazeera, live from Gaza, a correspondent in a press vest, and the knock lands on the tower behind her while she is on air. She ducks. The building is still standing. That’s the whole point of the tap.
No other army does this. Not the Americans. Not the British. Not the Russians. Not the Arabs who spent the day firing the rockets. Hamas puts the launch sites and the commanders in the apartments, and Israel still knocks on the roof before it hits them.
Then the same footage gets played as proof of a war crime. Watch it again. The warning is the explosion.
