The European Riots and the Media

Now that Europe increasingly resembles a continent-wide Kristallnacht, it is instructive to look at events in various countries through the refractive prism of the media, which in informational terms are the provisional wing of government. To point out that politicians and their mainstream media courtiers are often economical with the truth is not in itself news, but the level of deception is rising. Leading the way is the diminutive French President, Emmanuel Macron, who resembles the Napoleonic figure he believes himself to be in height only.

While French cities burned and riots raged, and its media stuck firmly with the line that the rioting was caused by students unhappy with educational austerity, the country’s President made an extraordinary statement. In this re-run of 1968, after hiding out at a climate conference, a tour of Arabic states, and a Celine Dion concert, Macron finally addressed the nation. Among the pious platitudes with which he attempted to explain away what is clearly an insurrection by an Islamo-Leftist alliance, Macron claimed that some of the images of the rioting were generated by AI.

I have written elsewhere about the dangers of AI simulation. Take CCTV. If AI can produce hyper-real, cinema-quality images, then it can certainly do grainy, low-quality CCTV. This means that if the police want you at a crime scene, they can put you there, and if they don’t want Abdul at another crime scene, then they can erase him like Yezhov from the famous photo of Stalin. But for Macron to claim that scenes of rioting in Paris were AI is a desperate move from a lame-duck President. Paris is not burning because students have a beef about not having enough laptops, or a couple of schools in Toulouse need a lick of paint. It is burning because an army has been imported by design, and this obvious fact is what the media is tasked with obscuring at all costs.

At the latest count at the time of writing, regular riots are taking place in a dozen European countries. Media coverage is careful to allot different grievances to different nations in order to distract from the glaringly obvious motives for the mass civil unrest. The French, whose vestigial Jacobinism predictably started the ball rolling, were rioting over education shortfalls, and burnt down the schools they didn’t force to close in response, as you would. In Portugal, where the protesters apparently carry red carnations to symbolize the 1974 Portuguese revolution, the issue is housing. The usually placid Swiss are apparently burning down their cantons over the cost of living and military rearmament. Albanians are tearing up Tirana over government corruption and university conditions. The Spanish have two get-outs which enable the media to avoid the fact this might well be the first stage of an Islamo-Leftist takeover of Europe. The occupation of Ceuta a couple of months ago angered ordinary Spaniards, while a recent train-crash with 69 fatalities added to the mounting rage against El Presidente Fernandez.

Some countries are gradually beginning to admit the truth. In Germany, the authorities declined the AI defense and admitted that riots on Halloween were mostly caused by a combination of the “migrant community” and the far-Left. Until that rather candid admission, the German media had chosen the “cost of living crisis” as their safety-blanket. The Italians may be rioting because someone let the pasta sauce stick to the pan for all I know, but Georgia Meloni is the only European premier to have done what De Gaulle almost did in 1968 when the position of his own government was under threat from student riots. De Gaulle met with his generals at Baden Baden and almost called in the military. Meloni actually did it, proving perhaps that to rile an Italian woman is to play with fire.

The situation in Poland is different. There were no brown skins in evidence on the streets in Warsaw during recent troubles for the simple reason that Poland — along with Hungary — have actually protected their borders and paid the EU fines for doing so. They have worked out that these fines will cost a lot less than an influx of low-IQ savages who will remain unemployed and unemployable, raping your women, dealing drugs, and money-laundering in order to fill their time. Fines or Islam? The fines are a bargain. This resistance to Islamic invasion — in which Poland have previous form in the seventeenth century — may, of course, be the reason that what the alternative media are all calling an “EU coup” is underway. What is at stake with the erosion of Polish sovereignty and its potential amalgamation into Europe are its gold reserves — the largest in the EU — the integrity of its border, the national currency (the zloty, currently very strong), and the independence of its constitutional court system. Given that this coup is German-led, and its success would mean that Poland would be forced to take the same quota of Muslim immigrants as every other EU country, it is not too much of a stretch to frame this as something guaranteed to enrage Poles who know their history; a German invasion of their country.

Since I started this piece, there has been a mass shooting in Krakow. Six people died and over a dozen were injured, before a further three corpses were found at the shooter’s home. The gunman himself was injured and rushed to hospital for surgery, where he died. His name was not immediately released, suggesting the application of Coulter’s Law, which states that the longer the authorities do not release the name of the perpetrator of a serious criminal act, the more likely he is to be foreign. Two hints emerged, the first that the killer was called “Michael O”, the second that he was influenced by “far-Right ideology”. The police and media stressed that the latter claim was “still being investigated”, and press saturation certainly served to divert attention from the mass unrest in Warsaw Square, as well as the rioting across Europe, which had not gone away, and had intensified in some cities. When the media finally carried the story, there was zero evidence of any Right-wing influence on the killer, and (with the notable exception of The Daily Telegraph) they didn’t run his picture. He looks like a typical, pasty-faced, emo-type Leftist and he has pride flags on his social media. So nothing to see here. Meanwhile, the riots burned on.

Shops and their owners have borne the brunt of the rioting. Many of these small business-owners will never recover, so their lives are in the same state of repair as their business premises: in ruins. But retail outlets are just the start. Migrant rioters in several European cities have been filmed breaking into private houses. At the same time, Western citizens are being told by their governments, via the delivery system of the media, to stock up on food and water because of a potential war with Russia. In reality, the man in your house raping your wife while you look on helplessly is unlikely to be wearing a Cossack hat. It’s more likely he’ll have on training shoes and a tracksuit, what my friend used to call “West-Indian leisure-wear”, and be called Abdul or Mohammed rather than Ivan or Fyodor.

The biggest concern for the European media is the coverage of the rioting by so-called “citizen journalists”. The days of the camera crew and huge boom microphones are all but over except to record sanitized footage for mainstream media operators. While the BBC, for example, are always careful to screen out non-Whites from any coverage of rioting, many videos taken by ordinary people show who the majority of the rioters are. This is a very Maghrebian coup, although you wouldn’t know that from watching MSM footage.

In Britain, Right-leaning channels and journalists who report on subjects the state do not want brought to public attention are increasingly in danger. Patrick Christys works for GB News and has done sterling work on what is known as the “small boats crisis”. On a visit to the French coast to report on the collusion between NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) and the French police, he was routinely attacked and pelted with rocks and bottles. Back in the UK, he began to receive credible death threats. Christys has recently married a work colleague, presenter Emily Carver, and the couple recently celebrated the birth of their first child.

After the threats, the behavior of the police is exemplary of the British state’s attitude to those in the media who disrupt the approved narrative. When Christys arrived home to find the police with his wife, he was informed of the death threats. The very first information the police gave him was not the details of any protection they might afford him, but a list of the measures he was forbidden to take to protect his family, such as arming himself. Two weeks later, the police informed him that his panic button was being removed by the third-party company that had fitted it. When he arrived home to find company engineers doing just that, he asked them, quite reasonably, not to, as it was a vital line of defense. An engineer casually informed him that the device had been inactive for the last two weeks. This was news to a news presenter who is going against the grain.

The media, at least in the UK, are also colluding with the potential return of the death penalty, just by another route. There has been no criticism of the fact that the British state is showing itself quite capable of imprisoning and even killing its opponents, as the case of Daniel Thomas shows. Thomas, who is better known as Danny Tommo, founded the Patriot Platform, a collective of men who specialize in non-violent protests, as well as stressing their Christian belief. Now, the British state tolerates protests, which sometimes do turn violent, provided they are in favor of approved causes such as Black Lives Matter, Palestine and others. Patriot Platform, however, protest against immigration. These protests have included physically blockading roads leading to the premises of coach companies given government contracts to carry illegal immigrants to their hotels. The Patriot Platform members wore facemasks in order to protect their identities, as it is quite standard for British people to lose their jobs if they are recognized at a protest which is not state-approved. The UK government responded quickly by banning face masks, despite their widespread use by members of Antifa and pro-Palestinian protestors. Patriot Platform responded by using identical face-paint to disguise themselves. There have been no arrests at any of their protests, but the government are worried, because they have quite probably been tasked by the Muslim Council of Britain to facilitate Muslim immigration, and when Muslims ask the UK government to jump, the response is “How high?” Danny Thomas had already made a target of himself by starting the movement, and the state quickly got their man.

In August 2026 Thomas pleaded guilty to one charge relating to attempts to film asylum seekers who had been rescued from small boats in the English Channel. (Why would that be a crime?) Then, unwisely under the circumstances, he slashed an empty migrant dinghy in the English Channel, and was arrested for criminal damage, pleading guilty in November 2026. It is my loose understanding of the law that criminal damage has to be against both an inanimate object of some sort, and its owner. No one came forward to claim ownership of the damaged boat, unsurprisingly. But there we are. I’m not a lawyer. Thomas’s arraignment trial, rather than taking place in Kent as it should have been, was moved to Westminster, and a Muslim judge was appointed to the case. He refused to grant bail, and Thomas’s trial is set for June. The judge stated that there was “not a trace” of politics in his decision, a strange thing for a judge to say. In the meantime, Thomas is due to be relocated to a jail which anyone who knows anything about the British penal system will recognize: HMP (His Majesty’s Prison) Belmarsh.

Belmarsh is a Category A prison which holds some of Britain’s most violent criminals. Its inmates are also predominantly Muslim. The intention of the British state — which isn’t even deep any more — is clear; Thomas must die. Jihadists behind bars at Belmarsh are often serving life sentences, and so have nothing to lose by murdering Thomas. If Thomas is killed in jail by a Muslim, Britain will have crossed a shadow-line, and no one knows what is on the other side. The “message” is a central concept for the political class and their media courtiers, and that message is clear in the case of Daniel Thomas. If you visibly oppose Muslim immigration, the British state will do everything in its power to have you killed. It has all, as they say, gotten very real. Now, compare the reaction of the state and the media to Thomas and Patriot Platform to positive, street-level action from the Left.

Andy Ngo, a journalist who has written extensively on Antifa (and been hospitalized because of them), claims that Antifa members involved in extreme violence in France are working for Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s LFI (La France Insoumise, or France Unbowed or Unsubmissive). The party has consistently refused to condemn street-level violence, and one convicted Antifa member now sits in the French parliament. So Antifa are not just involved in these riots for free training shoes or for kicks. As Ngo says, they wish to create the atmosphere for those activities, but they have a far deeper and more malevolent political agenda than mere anarchy. They are part Communist and part Baader-Meinhof, and they have a network of 50 chapters across France alone. Marine Le Pen’s party, Rassemblement National (National Rally) has vowed to make Antifa a proscribed terrorist organization in France, should it be elected in next year’s general election.

This is one of the many paradoxes of the political atmosphere across Europe. The far Left both understand and demonstrably practice politically motivated violence far more than the far Right, and is far more widespread, yet it is the latter that absorbs all the media attention. Again, this illusion is media-generated. Any perceived adherence to a media source which is even unofficially proscribed by the state will result in what is now called “cancellation”. In fact, Ngo’s interview with podcaster Winston Marshall has a relevant back-story. Marshall was forced out of his band, Mumford and Sons, after the banjo-player retweeted an approving review of Ngo’s book on Antifa. His fellow band-members, rather than defending a mere retweet, promptly threw Marshall under the bus, no doubt worried about the response of their audience and record sales.

Ngo also said that Antifa tend to recruit people who, by all agreed psychological indicators, are sociopaths. Their recruitment imagery is graphically violent, with depictions of torture and murder which put them in line with organizations such as ISIS. Torture for its own sake, gruesome killings, and a non-empathic lust for violence which speaks not of politics but psychopathy. These people are the engine-room of the current European riots. When rioting on the current European scale inevitably comes to the UK, two things will be important to scrutinize. Firstly, the reaction of the media to the instigators, and secondly the reaction of the British government. Even Macron, when he wasn’t claiming the footage of the French riots was some glorified AI cartoon, did actually acknowledge the presence of the far Left in the mix. The European media, and its politicians, are still holding the line that the far Right — a largely mythical creature — are the primary dynamic.

There are two central questions concerning the current chaos in Europe. Firstly, how will the riots affect the economies of countries which are mostly on the cusp of financial collapse? Taking Paris as an example, there is a compound cost. The repair bill for the damage, the massive cost of police overtime, and the resultant loss in revenue when people decide not to choose Paris for their holidays — all this will push a country close to bankruptcy even closer. The second question is, why are the European political class deliberately importing people they know will be bent on destroying as much property as the police will allow, which seems to be an awful lot?

It is simply not feasible that the current wave of destruction raging across Europe is an unintended consequence of mass immigration. Contrary to what many midwits on the political Right still appear to believe, European governments are neither stupid nor are they incompetent. They know perfectly well that a seemingly unending stream of Muslim migrants from countries such as Afghanistan, Somalia, Albania and Eritrea is not intended to fill gaps in the employment market. They also know that these low-IQ, low-impulse control, inherently violent Muslims despise the countries they are being fed into, and therefore they knew that these riots were inevitable. I know nothing about evolutionary psychology, but the editor of this magazine does, as does Professor Edward Dutton, also of this parish, who helpfully answered an email query of mine on this question. Now, there is an unhealthy level of Muslim infiltration into European government, but the majority of the political class is still ethnically White. I am given to understand that in-group preference is hard-wired into human beings at the genetic level. How, then, has this natural in-group preference been superseded by ideological in-group preference? That is far more dangerous than any tribalism, although you won’t be reading much about that in the mainstream media.

There is a sea-change in Europe which will be recognizable to American readers. The hard Left are getting uglier in their behavior (and, in many cases, they are literally ugly). Andy Ngo has long talked of Antifa arming themselves, and with violent Africans as their shock troops, they present a formidable army. The media’s task is to distract and divert from the coming storm. For the Right, and those “normies” in the middle, there is no political solution and no one is coming to the rescue. The only possible effective response will be to fight back, and there may be one last resource at hand across Europe, what I called in the UK “Britain’s other army”.

I recently received footage from a Dutch friend of football (soccer) fans beating up Antifa members, and it may be that “football hooligans”, as they have always been known in England, may be the last line of defense for a Europe which is under attack from groups who have long planned this offensive. As the great philosopher Mike Tyson once said, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.