Starmer’s Soviet Communist past revealed all of a sudden, Canadian Dialectical ministry asks that people not take coffee breaks for Ramadan to be in solidarity with Muslims: Links 1 for December 8, 2025

1. Comrade Starmer! As desperate Labour rakes over Nigel Farage’s schooldays, we reveal the KGB’s toxic propaganda machine and the hard-Left past Sir Keir would rather we all forgot

Sir Keir Starmer was quick to jump on claims Nigel Farage used anti-Semitic and racist language when he was at school. 

After the Guardian reported a dossier of lurid complaints from more than 40 years ago, the Prime Minister insisted the Reform leader needed to urgently ‘explain the comments, or alleged comments’.

The claims made by more than a dozen former classmates of Mr Farage at Dulwich College in South London – which he strongly denies – are deeply unpleasant. […]

 we found that a young Starmer was a driving force behind an ultra-Left publication that backed a campaign to free a convicted Marxist terror chief – and may have become a tool, unwitting or otherwise, of the KGB propaganda machine. […]

Declassified Cold War security service files in Prague about other camps show the aim was to undermine Nato by identifying young high-fliers for potential future ‘exploration’ and use. 

Security experts have suggested that Starmer’s only mistake on this occasion was youthful naivete in signing up to a venture run by a totalitarian Communist regime.

But the MoS can reveal this was by no means the only time the future Labour leader brushed up against troubling influences during a period when, according to one contemporary, his politics were nakedly ‘hard-Left’.

It centres around a magazine called Socialist Alternatives, which was launched by Starmer and a small group of friends in 1986, just a few weeks before he crossed into Czechoslovakia to join his work camp. 

The publication was the brainchild of Benjamin Schoendorff, a charismatic Frenchman whom Sir Keir had met at the Oxford University Labour Club. Schoendorff was well connected in Marxist circles and arranged for the magazine to be fully funded by the Paris-based International Revolutionary Marxist Tendency. […]

But Richard Barbrook, an unpaid contributor, has said that while Schoendorff was the leader, it was Starmer ‘who got the magazine done’. 

He got all the articles in, laid the pages out, delivered it to the printers then collected and distributed it at bookshops, he said. ‘The magazine wouldn’t have existed without him.’

Socialist Alternatives criticised the Labour Party under Neil Kinnock – which voters eventually rejected at the 1992 Election – for being nowhere near Left-wing enough. 

Its editorials called for a ‘radical extension of common ownership over wealth and power’ and argued that ‘prisoners should have much greater control over the conditions of their own imprisonment’.

Starmer’s bylined articles variously attacked ‘the authoritarian onslaught of Thatcherism’ and called for a ‘nationwide campaign of struggles’ to reduce the European working week to 35 hours.

OK So the Daily Mail, which I can tell you does indeed not publish without making sure they have their facts straight, has exposed the hard core communist nature of the British Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Prime Minister of the UK. BUT WHY NOW.

Is this the move from covert to overt communism?

2. Today’s short 1984 excerpt. We can each work out to what extent this short quote from the book reflects what has happened or does not in schools across the West today.

The family could not actually be
abolished, and, indeed, people were encouraged to be fond of their
children, in almost the old-fashioned way. The children, on the other hand,
were systematically turned against their parents and taught to spy on them
and report their deviations. The family had become in effect an extension
of the Thought Police. It was a device by means of which everyone could be
surrounded night and day by informers who knew him intimately.

3. Elon Musk earns the coveted VladTepesBlog, Ambassador to the Obvious award for this video

Of course, the people from whom Musk bought Twitter, did not agree.

4. Some Somalian doctors and engineers have found a way to try and convince the US president that they are in fact, good citizens and capable of valuable contributions to Western society. Naw just kidding. The are video taping themselves urinating on the side walk in a trivially symbolic way.

5. Canada: Federal managers in Ottawa IT department recommend 9000 workers stop coffee breaks for Ramadan

This is an important one. There is one VERY concerning aspect of what she said.