Trials of autonomous vehicle systems like Waymo in the US show 70–90% reductions in crash rates compared with human drivers. In other words, any efforts to ban or otherwise obstruct this technology could cost thousands of lives. humanprogress.org/dont-slam-…

The first stage of progressivism's persecution of people with a genuine Christian faith ...... and coming to Scotland and Britain soon if the SNP and Labour get theur way.

Important to realise this about modern left wing politics.

America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.

The two-state solution is dead. Banging on about it helps nobody. Sanctioning Israel doesn’t help a single Palestinian. Britain needs a policy with a chance of working. We need to de-recognise “Palestine” and start over from first principles. 1. Accountability for Palestinian hate preaching, antisemitic education, and pay-for-slay. Not a penny in aid or a step forward without that. 2. Back Palestinian emirates: local leaders with residents’ consent, willing to recognise Israel. No imposed puppets. 3. Fund jobs and schools that teach coexistence. Bring willing Arab partners in to share the bill. 4. Insist on genuine Palestinian self-government and reliable movement. Israel must ease restrictions on those areas as security improves. 5. Build community by community. Give Palestinians something worth protecting from militants who would wreck it. 6. Help Israel and Jordan cut Iran-linked arms routes. Protect Palestinians prepared to cooperate. Stop letting their would-be murderers dictate everyone else’s future. Forget about a two-state solution. Israel is not going to commit national suicide just because Ed Miliband wants them to. Time for something else instead that might actually work.

Here’s the awful truth about 9/11: the Islamists won. Twenty-five years later, our societies are bowing to the death cult of Islamism. Criticise that paranoid violent ideology and you’ll be called ‘Islamophobic’. Bin Laden is laughing, says Brendan O’Neill buff.ly/nsPS3Mb

Imagine you woke up in Britain the day after 9/11 and heard this. 25 years from now you will be living with wide open broken borders. Your government will know it is letting convicted Islamists and their supporters to enter Britain illegally, but it will carry on regardless. You will be living with unprecedented mass migration from the Third World despite never voting for it, or ever asking for it. The Muslim population will increase 151% — or 2.5 million people. Surveys will show younger Muslims are far more radical than their parents and grandparents. Between 30 and 40% will express open support for Islamist groups like Hamas. 1 in 8, equivalent to 500,000 Muslims, will show support for Islamic State — a successor to al-Qaeda. You will spend the next 25 years asking for immigration control and restrictions yet nobody in Westminster will respect you. Your government will impose all this while having absolutely no strategy at all for integrating newcomers. Even the word “integration” will be considered “racist” by parts of the British Left. Your taxpayer-funded regulators will let Islamists hijack the charity sector, and more than a few schools. Nobody in the established parties will ever develop the courage to ban Muslim Brotherhood, or root out other Islamist networks. In fact, even worse, your own leaders will impose a definition of “anti-Muslim hostility”, almost certainly influenced by Islamist extremists, to control what YOU can say about Islam in Britain. At the same time, your own state will roll out a range of Orwellian measures — hate laws, non-crime hate incidents, social media regulation, censorship — to ensure that any opposition to all this is controlled, if not squashed. Those who ask questions, those who complain, will be denounced as “far right” or “extremist”. Home Office guidance, official state guidance, will warn that mainstream conservatives and free speech activists are “on a pathway to terrorism”. There will be more than 80 Sharia courts operating in Britain. Female genital mutilation will be widespread. And the state will be paying welfare benefits to polygamous families. Senior Hamas and al-Qaeda supporters will be given taxpayer-funded council flats in the heart of your capital city. Islamists and their families will live on the welfare state, funded by you. They will call this “welfare Jihad”. There will be an estimated 20,000-30,000 Islamists living in Britain. Muslim sectarianism or clan-based voting will be mainstream, enabled by Labour and Green parties that would rather take votes than ask what is the national interest. The state will not clamp down on marches in support of Hamas but it will aggressively clamp down on protests against mass migration by working class native Brits. A British government, a Labour government, will be praised twice by Islamists overseas after rewarding Islamist terror and creating new incentives for it by recognising Palestinian statehood as Jewish hostages still lie in tunnels, and launching an economic boycott on Israel — the only democracy in the Middle East. I could go on. But just think about all that. I wonder what you would have thought the day after 9/11.

After 25 years, it is time for the West to face the true cause of 9/11. @Ayaan on how the West’s refusal to confront the cultural and religious forces behind Islamist extremism has left it vulnerable to the same threat it failed to understand in 2001. tabletmag.com/sections/news/…

Well done Parliament and congrats to all campaigners who have worked so hard for so long in defence of the most vulnerable. Now let’s fix palliative care.

Thank God for his mercy on the UK.

The suicide of our civilization..... yet more evidence.

25 years after 9/11, and deep, invincible denial about the nature of Islam and the kind of society it produces is alive and well in the elite corporate press.

The British Left spent recent years watching masked Hamas sympathisers march through London and had no issue at all. Now, they’re having a nervous breakdown because working-class British men have decided to protest non-violently, too. Notice the blatant hypocrisy?

The destruction of a proud nation that once punched above its weight like no other on the globe. Now locked into relentless decline by decisions and political culture of its own making. I fear there is no coming back.

Can’t we just close Holyrood down and agree it was all just a terrible expensive mistake? Look at the state of this — and this guy thinks he should be first minister!

The process is the punishment

British Barrister and International law expert Natasha Hausdorff explains to you exactly what is happening with Israel. Under International Law there is no “Illegal occupation” by Israel. None. Worth sharing to educate others, especially at this moment Via @triggerpod

Mid East in a nutshell: Israel is pressured to make concessions as if the Palestinians are good faith actors interested in negotiated peace, while Palestinians are simultaneously allowed to play a zero sum game with the aim of destroying Israel & with no consequences for losing.

The process is the punishment.

Giving light consequences to serious violent crime is not loving. It is deeply damaging.