The State as Liar

SteynonLine ^ | July 28, 2025 | Mark Steyn

[Twotone]

Today marks the first anniversary of the slaughter at Southport - at one of those summer-resort activities you sign your kids up for, with nary a thought. In this case, it was a Taylor Swift dance-class, from which three little girls never came home: Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine years old; Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven; and Bebe King six. As Lucy Connolly could tell us if she weren't rotting in Starmer's Lubyanka, nothing is more traumatising than the death of a child. So we remember Alice, Elsie and Bebe even as Britain's "mainstream" media has chosen mostly to memory-hole them, their short lives being unhelpful to the official Ofcom-enforced narrative.

Yet, as Laura Perrins reminds us, in Southport there were many other victims, who will live with their wounds till the day they die:

One girl who a Police Officer thought was dead when he arrived at the scene, was stabbed 30 times.

At the time, I quoted this Tweeter's summation of the soi-disant United Kingdom:

#UK the British police wasted hours interrogating #TommyRobinson under the "terror act" while someone actually planned a terror attack and was able to carry it out ‼️🙄#Southport pic.twitter.com/795lO17zlr — Lilly inLondon (@Lillyin_London) July 29, 2024

Terrorism? Oh, don't be such a drama queen. As the Merseyside Constabulary and their BBC stenographers assured us within moments, there was as usual no terrorism to see here:

The attack was not terror-related, police said.

[Tell It Right]

I always hate it when the attackers yell Allahu Ackbar. It confuses the authorities on the motive.

[Texas Eagle]

Sickening.

[Organic Panic]

This is Islam. It can not be reformed.

[Lurker]

“This is Islam. It can not be reformed.”

Correct. Therefore we must destroy it utterly.

L

[sauropod]

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