By Tim Hartnett
October 7, 2026
In the old sitcom One Day at a Time single mother Ann Romano (Bonnie Franklin) is disturbed to find her teenage daughter in the very randy embrace of a paramour. Wondering what to do, she informs attorney and boyfriend David Kane (Richard Masur) of her concerns. The conversation takes place in the presence of building Superintendent Dwayne Schneider (Pat Harrington Jr.). Upon listening to Kane's plan to curtail further developments by talking to the boy, Schneider puts a blue collar spin on the idea: "That's like trying to put out a forest fire by... 'spitting'... on it."
You know the sun has set decidedly on the British Empire when the Home Office is in desperate need of wise counsel from a fictional boob-tube handyman. Many years, rapes and other crimes after an immigration tidal wave some ugly facts have been feebly grasped by bureaucratic brains. UK management has begun to notice that lots of newcomers have difficulty exercising civil restraint in the presence of birthing people. Now the government is on it. They've issued Understanding behaviours and expectations in the UK: A guide for asylum seekers, a handy handout hoping to hold back the hands - and other appendages - of the all too handsy. The booklet contains seven pages that carefully explain that female tweens and women are not public property for anyone's enjoyment. If his majesty's minions told subjects "it's the least we can do," they'd be right.
In the meantime, the same Home Office wants to bed down over one thousand far from home young men in the Oxfordshire village of Piddington. Its present population is about 350. At least 166 of the town's women aren't quite convinced the government's pamphlet will cool much ardor in all those guys. The predicament Piddington damsels hope to avoid is already fait accompli all over England as well as in Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, Holland and Germany. It isn't really news to anyone using X, Fox, The Spectator, YouTube, The New York Post, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, scores of alternative news sites or even the Babylon Bee to find out what's happening. Still, there's a large fragment of Americans with first class educational credentials who have barely heard a word about it. Immigrants to the continent and the isles don't have victims, the NYT faithful will tell you, they are the victims.
People whose primary informational source is The New York Times don't understand abandonment of traditional parties in the old countries. The worst thing editors can find going on in West Europe right now is the Alternative fur Deutschland Party. There is a Hitler haunting Europe, we keep finding out on page A-1, op-eds and the weekend Opinion section. You'll get plenty on natives wary of immigrants in these pieces, but it is all a big mystery, what the heck is wrong with the hinterwaldlers ? That frauleins find it disturbing to be amorously accosted by men speaking broken German with every pass down a strasse, doesn't reach the level of newsworthy. It's a creepy perilous ordeal that editors at 620 8th Avenue find too trivial to impose in the copy constructing their sophisticated readership's reality.
In the 2013 film, Broken City, New York Mayor Nick Hostetler (Russel Crowe) is asked if he'd seen the Times that day. "No I did not," he responds, "I read the Post, like the rest of New York." The Ochs-Sulzberger's don't have to worry about a line like that out of Mayor Mamdani. Presently we could use a survey of how many Gothamites read anything at all, in English anyway.
The famous story of Maja R., a German woman who got a harsher sentence than a rapist for calling the rapist a "disgraceful rapist pig" - one of nine who shared a 15-year-old girl in a Hamburg Park - doesn't have an NYT hit in the first 60. The New York Post is number one. Interestingly, it's the case that inspired the scenes that evoked left-wanker conniptions in Citizen Vigilante. Citing these kinds of cases to someone identifying as erudite - but yet uninformed - will get you the response "it's anecdotal." Any attempt to compensate for all the stories The NYT, The WP and The LAT along with networks find unfit will quickly exhaust the attention span and patience of a skeptic. They know what they'd like to believe. Whatever Alex Jones' many sins and shortcomings may be, "infowars" is a prescient way to describe the present discrepancies in various demographics' perceptions of what goes on.
You'd probably have just as much luck trying to convince a fake newsophobe that German train conductors in Thuringia have been instructed not to check tickets of the "foreign looking." Across Germany conductors are attacked an average of five times a day. The violence began its rise in 2015, when Merkel began offering the volk "no alternative" to the onslaught from south and east. The NYT, once again, doesn't surface in hits on the matter.
We don't have any official count on the number of imams, in England alone, demanding on video that sharia be imposed and "Islam enter every home." That sum would be zero if you relied on the Gray Lady for the addition. Suits there are too busy siccing their hounds on the scent of Christian nationalists. Labour, at the behest of the Koranic mass conscience, is toying with the idea of eliminating art, music and dance from the oppressive UK curriculum. They've already succeeded in penalizing many parts of the country for the offense of flying its own flag. Germany, meanwhile, with searing memories of the 2015 Cologne New Year's Eve riot, keeps cutting back on allowable revelry on NYE. Multiculturalism, it seems, requires the eradication of a lot of culture.
I live in Alexandria, Va. that district, along with Fairfax, Loudon and Arlington counties comprise the solid bloc of population voting density that Abigail Spanberger relied on to become governor. In the 2006 senate race, Republican incumbent George Allen conceded to Democrat Jim Webb trailing by only 0.3% of the vote long before all was counted. The outstanding tally was in those four districts. Northern Va. has a per capita rate of advanced degrees nearly double the average in the United States. It contains 6 of the 20 jurisdictions with the most educated people in the country. Arlington County has the highest concentration of advanced degrees in the US.
Venture forth into this land of vast erudition and see what you find. I am no homebody and get both coffee in the morning and whiskey at night in public places. The numbers who cannot be informed of anything their trusty sources don't report is a crisis potentially worse than illiteracy. A phone is always helpful proving a point but the effect of enlightening tends to be temporary. When you see the same people days or weeks later things are right back where they started. The established media entities of the US have a boxed in clientele. The expansion of sources the World Wide Web created overwhelms our best and brightest. Inductively asking for reasons to believe, or not believe, takes some of the most credentialed down paths they often fear to tread.
The Sunday 9-19 NYT Opinion section features "The Riddle at the Heart of Europe's Immigration Obsession" by Belgian historian Anton Jager. In it he says: "Though polls indicate that European electorates care deeply about migration and want to see it addressed, such worries outstrip [emphasis added] objective reality." "Europe," he adds in the same paragraph, "doesn't know what it is." Maybe not, but it knows what it isn't. We can begin the list with not being a place subjected to hearing the adhan five times, or even once, a day over loudspeakers.
What isn't "addressed" in his article, although Anton thinks it is, is what he means by "objective reality" ? Much deeper in the piece we get talk of a "well-publicized campaign by the [European] commission" called ""Protect What Matters." There, citizens were urged to appreciate the union's founding principles, such as "free speech," free science" and a "free press."" When we consider the case of Maja R. above - and many others like it - or the roughly 12,000 per year arrested in England for what's called " offensive speech," the matter of this commitment to principle comes into play. The Euro-prole is perfectly free to go along with authoritative diktats. It's rising up against them aloud that equals fascism and suppression of speech.
There are, theoretically, many 'fine people' - if we are allowed those two words - in the immigrant mix. Even if this is so, is it "fascist" to note the numbers arriving with hands out ? Should denizens of "old Europe," who even Jager observes are becoming pressed for resources, be expected to care for them indefinitely ? One reason "Immigration" is such a big deal is that the massive wave recently reaching shore arrives without any skills or resources of their own. Political elites inexplicably allow them to tap the productive capacity of their constituents - who are themselves desperate to keep up with economic vicissitudes. People with official titles in Brussels, Madrid and other capitals don't get it. Their buying power is comfortably less vulnerable to price fluctuations than the common herd.
On June 21, The NYT Opinion page featured "In Britain the Far Right Is Setting the Agenda" by William Davies. He complains that "Few seem willing to, for example, defend the progress made in the effort to make the police force less racist over the last 30 years - an effort the right holds responsible for Mr. Nowak's death." Well, if not his death, very definitely his handcuffing while bleeding out is "responsible." Davies fails to mention the so-called "grooming scandal" that went on for years with the complicity of both law enforcement and social services. Turning a blind eye to the cruel exploitation of children is merely a step, inadequate apparently, toward Davies' grisly vision of "progress."
The NYT and friends "agenda" is to dehumanize any party bucking the status quo while stifling chances of their legit grievances reaching mainstream print. The new demographic reality enforced with Euro-jackboots emerges almost exclusively with XY chromosomes. That would be problematic coming from anywhere. The trouble rises to horror film levels when all these new neighbors were raised in the lands of Misogynia. It is presently demonstrable that both government and media share the aim of misleading the public to obstruct citizens from acting for their own good. Does it need to go any further before we call it misanthropocracy?