<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[That's What She Said by Alex Phillips]]></title><description><![CDATA[Irreverent, offbeat and cider fuelled chat like you've never seen before]]></description><link>https://www.thatalexwoman.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mxM6!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9a7525a9-a103-4484-a1f8-9e4446d68827_784x784.png</url><title>That&apos;s What She Said by Alex Phillips</title><link>https://www.thatalexwoman.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 17:33:17 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.thatalexwoman.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Alex Phillips]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[alexphillips@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[alexphillips@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Alex Phillips]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Alex Phillips]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[alexphillips@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[alexphillips@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Alex Phillips]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[No Other Dangerous Ideology Would Get Such A Carte Blanche]]></title><description><![CDATA[Left Wing Radicalism is everywhere. And it is getting increasingly violent. The West has to get real]]></description><link>https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/no-other-dangerous-ideology-would</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/no-other-dangerous-ideology-would</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Phillips]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:07:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mxM6!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9a7525a9-a103-4484-a1f8-9e4446d68827_784x784.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve always thought it perverse that if you hold a &#8216;right wing&#8217; view, you risk losing your job, being ostracised by your peers, being denied a promotion, being debanked, demonised, cancelled or worse. How we have been so complacent and therefore complicit in what amounts to a form of political persecution is beyond me. Replace the word Brexiteer or Gender Critical Feminist with any other social cohort representing a political view or religious belief, and such rampant discrimination simply would not be tolerated. Adverts for spare rooms demanding no right wing tenants, to Zack Polanaki saying on a podcast people with conservative views must be banned from public life (by and large they already are). The long march of Marxism through our institutions has been a long time in the making. And we have enabled it. With disastrous and dangerous consequences.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.thatalexwoman.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.thatalexwoman.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>We should never have allowed foster parents to have kids removed because they vote for UKIP, or university lecturers being harried off campus for stating biological fact, or the blatant soiling of democracy after Brexit. We did so, because we felt we would win in the end, and we know in our bones that we represent the majority voice.</p><p>But what danger have we invited. A multitude of leftist organisations, NGOs, parties and activist groups have not only multiplied but become more outrageous in their views, sophisticated in their structures, heavily funded and more extreme in their rhetoric. </p><p>So extreme that followers have started firing bullets.</p><p>Not one, nor two, but three major assassination attempts against the US President. The cold blooded killing of Charlie Kirk. At what point does the &#8216;we all have to calm down rhetoric&#8217; morph into the realisation that the Far Left are very dangerous, very real and increasingly emboldened.</p><p>We are told The Far Right are the problem. Facts and events tell a harrowingly different story.</p><p>The 2020 U.S. George Floyd riots caused $2 billion in property damage, amounting to the costliest civil unrest in U.S. history, with dozens of deaths and thousands of injuries and arrests.</p><p>Antifa-linked actions in the U.S. and Europe include assaults, doxxing, and sabotage. In 2025, CSIS noted left-wing terrorist incidents outpacing right-wing ones in the U.S. In Germany and parts of Europe, left-wing activists commit daily low-level crimes and high-damage arsons, with intelligence agencies tracking violence-oriented fractions exceeding 25% in some networks.</p><p>Western governments and legacy media disproportionately frame far-right extremism as the primary domestic terror threat. In contrast, far-left rhetoric calling for "revolution," "decolonization," or dismantling institutions receives much less uniform condemnation, often instead inviting public support and promotion.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.thatalexwoman.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.thatalexwoman.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Extreme activism on campuses, mass marches, acts of sabotage and violent rhetoric is frequently downplayed as "mostly peaceful" or justified. </p><p>Hyperbolic language equating political opponents with "fascists" or existential threat is normalising incitement to aggression with real world consequences, and is increasingly found flowing forth from the mouths of elected officials. Even our Prime Minister.</p><p>So embedded in Western culture is radical left wing ideology, we are watching in real time the destruction and decay of our nations via political choice, while any pushback imperils the job prospects and in some instances, even the safety, of those who wish to tackle the problems we face.</p><p>We spent the last century very alive to the spread of toxic Communist ideology during the Cold War. Today, via social media, hostile states are able to attack our social harmony remotely via psy ops and through seed funding radical groups, to the point I fear that it will lead to civil unrest. And we are sitting back and letting it happen. Letting this greyzone warfare engulf us with a terrifying cost.</p><p>Despite the glut of foreign backing, Left-wing NGOs, unions, and activist groups still receive billions in government grants, often recycling funds into advocacy that overlaps with radical agendas. Universities benefit from public subsidies while hosting ideological programs. "Seed" funding from progressive foundations is propping up organisations that blur activism into extremism, many with murky foreign connections.</p><p>Western academia leans heavily left, with surveys showing far-left faculties and proponents outnumbering conservatives by ratios of 10:1 or higher in many fields. "Woke" ideologies such as critical theory, intersectionality and DEI mandates dominate curricula,  framing Western civilization, capitalism, and traditional values as inherently oppressive. Divisive and destructive doctrines that have spread like wildfire throughout both the public and private sectors.</p><p>Intolerance where speakers are deplatformed, research self-censors, and students face social pressure, has become the norm, with the shift to far left identification accelerating post-1990s.</p><p>Unions, that once focused on workers rights, have adopted extreme cultural left positions that now actively harm them.</p><p>Right-wing or even mainstream conservative beliefs face systemic pushback that frames mainstream political views around sovereignty and security as existentially dangerous, chilling discourse and creating a perception of persecution, where moderate right positions are tarred as "far-right&#8221; while demonising necessary actions that are necessary to protect the realm.</p><p>Meanwhile, extreme left wing ideology has infused public life with limited accountability. Essential cultural institutions from law and order, defense and even the nuclear family are under attack, breaking society apart, polarising populations and forcing rapid economic decline, as well as contributing to declining birthrates, institutional distrust, weakened national identity and very real security threats both domestically and from our adversaries. Once seemingly unhinged beliefs have become not only normalised, but forcibly pushed onto the population.</p><p>It is now perilously priced in that any government wanting to introduce immigration initiatives or engage with foreign affairs will inevitably lead to violent backlash, regardless of how imperative they are to the country&#8217;s security. I would argue it has even led to ill-judged and cowardly geopolitical decisions being driven by fear of reprisals from a fifth column of Islamists and Marxists.</p><p>Balanced policy requires consistent standards where violence is prosecuted regardless of ideology, free speech is protected, foreign funding is scrutinised, and anarchic behaviour is condemned, not condoned.</p><p>Meanwhile hyperbolic threat inflation on one side while minimizing the other fuels resentment and cycles of retaliation. Cycles that are becoming ever more violent in nature.</p><p>Where do we go from here? The madness has metasticised to such a degree that turning things around seems an impossible task.</p><p>We must surely begin by giving not just voice to concerns over the spread of radical left wing ideology, but putting in place measures to combat it.</p><p><strong>The Far Left threat must be given the same accord as any other, in fact, arguably, more so. </strong></p><p>Entities need to be defunded or proscribed, organisations exposed, and the application of their agenda prohibited.</p><p>It is, regrettably, far too late in the day at this point to execute such an approach without the risk of widespread disorder. But the bigger risk is doing nothing. </p><p>If we have already reached the point of attempted assassinations, violence against law enforcement, hate marches, attacks on Jews and pervasive brainwashing in educational institutions and workplaces, surely doing nothing will lead us deeper down a road of despair and destruction.</p><p>So, as we learn of yet another attempt to mow down Republicans in a shower of bullets, we need to ask ourselves, if not now - when?</p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.thatalexwoman.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Common Denominator Has To Be China]]></title><description><![CDATA[Communists will be Communists, after all.]]></description><link>https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/the-common-denominator-has-to-be</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/the-common-denominator-has-to-be</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Phillips]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:01:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g1E4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F33a4c141-86e8-45d7-8885-5b0a70975a0e_700x467.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What links the Upper Echelons of Labour, the Mandelson Scandal, Jeffrey Epstein, the Chagos furore and George Osborne?</p><p>Well, none would come first in a popularity contest.</p><p>But the link is clear to anyone who wants to see it. China.</p><p>First off let&#8217;s talk Labour and Beijing.</p><p>First we had the Barry Gardiner spying furore. In 2022, MI5 issued a rare public &#8220;interference alert&#8221; naming Christine Lee (a UK-based lawyer of Chinese origin) as an agent facilitating political interference on behalf of the CCP. Lee&#8217;s firm donated over &#163;584,000 to Gardiner&#8217;s office over several years, and he even employed her son. Gardiner also chaired a now-disbanded APPG on &#8220;Chinese in Britain&#8221; that Lee targeted. Now nobody says if you are the subject of infiltration you are complicit. But that&#8217;s a lot of cash, a lot of connection and a lot of coincidence that you are also part of a pro-China Parliamentary group. Not exactly a sinophobe&#8230;</p><p>Move forwards to present day and the astonishing situation where the UK government faced serious questions after a case against two men accused of spying for China collapsed just weeks before the trial was due to go ahead. Simply put, the Government refused to label the Chinese Communist Party as a threat to national security, and so the case collapsed. The excuse from Starmer? Legalese and process. As always.</p><p>Then we discover a new swathe of arrests had taken place and Labour MP Joani Reid is under investigation by the Labour party after her husband was arrested on suspicion of spying for China.</p><p>They just keep stacking up. Buckle up!</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.thatalexwoman.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.thatalexwoman.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Social Media is Bringing Out The Worst Of Humanity...and The Bible Seems To Warn Us About It]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's fascinating how much The Bible foretells. Whether you are a Christian or not, it is a book of immense wisdom and prescience. This may be my most important article yet.]]></description><link>https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/social-media-is-bringing-out-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/social-media-is-bringing-out-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Phillips]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:16:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mxM6!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9a7525a9-a103-4484-a1f8-9e4446d68827_784x784.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>Luke 23:21 </strong></em></p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em><strong>&#8220;But they kept shouting, 'Crucify him! Crucify him!'"</strong></em></p></div><p>Whether you are a Christian or not, the historical event of a baying mob calling for an innocent man&#8217;s death is one that coldly echoes throughout history.</p><p>How is it that otherwise normal humans can become complicit, even frenziedly supportive, of acts of such flagrant evil that should be so patently disgusting?</p><p>I used to ponder how so many people in Nazi Germany went along with hunting down and handing over Jewish people for slaughter. Turned their backs on gas chambers and concentration camps. Burnt books and didn&#8217;t flinch at a wailing child being dragged from its mother&#8217;s arms.</p><p>How could it have possibly happened among an otherwise unsavage nation?</p><p>For Lent this year, I gave up social media. I took the time to especially reflect upon its impact on not just me, but society as a whole.</p><p>And what came to me during that period I can no longer unsee.</p><p>This is perhaps my most important article to date. Please do read on.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.thatalexwoman.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.thatalexwoman.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Just before my break from social media, I was pondering what to sacrifice for Lent. Which thing should I give up to draw myself closer to God? What is crowding out his message, usurping humility, and poisoning me most?</p><p>I had lazily decided I would ditch alcohol and was pondering how I would navigate various forthcoming social events, reluctantly contemplating whether my abstinence would bring net benefit, as I am not a problem drinker and becoming puritanical would actually potentially be a downer at a big reunion I had organised and hosted. After all, at The Last Supper, wine came to represent the lifeblood of Christianity. Consumed together responsibly and with joy, it can be a great unifier and plays a role throughout Christianity.</p><p>But then I found myself at the mercy of an online pile-on. Having asked important questions of the implications of ethno-nationalism in politics (a subject that still keeps me awake at night) and expressing concerns about the future welfare of young advocates, all from a genuine position of sincere compassion and concern, I became the butt of abuse. Portrayed as a mad woman, a harpee, a banshee, a woman of low morals in an adulterous relationship with a party leader, a barren and deranged spinster (that one had thr effect of emotional disembowlment having recently gone through a heartbreaking separation) I was left extremely disturbed. Of course I was personally hurt. But that hurt had limitations as I know my own motivations and moral fibre. More than this, I was deeply troubled, watching people I knew and liked become part of the frothed and foaming mob. They knew me. They are surely aware of my character and nature. And yet here they were, joining in.</p><p>It became clear what seems to be separating many self-prophessed Christians from God.</p><p>And so my mind was made up. The next 40 days I would reflect upon human relations, and how these are being warped by the internet.</p><p>My first reflection was nothing new: That the in-built biological impulse to run with the pack can blot out sense even in the face of patently illogical and irrational wickedness. That the veil of anonymity that comes from disappearing in a crowd, or behind an avatar online, removes personal accountability.</p><p>I have long spoken of the harms of social media and many of the extreme phenomena that have resulted from it. Pornification leading to mass plastic surgery. A huge uptick in mental health issues. Neurological rewiring from over stimulation and affirmation seeking.</p><p>From drugging kids with puberty blockers and yelling death threats to anyone who questioned the practice, to demonising those who refused to take the knee for a dead, violent felon, beattified as though a Biblical martyr, despite toxicology reports revealing fatal levels of fentanyl at the time of death, common sense itself.had become controversial. Meanwhile quack advice, lack of real life interaction as we text instead of talk, was dangerously dilluting our natural and God given gifts of empathy and emotional intelligence.</p><p>Meanwhile, it became clear that something deeply dangerous that resides within us can become a rapid inferno when dowsed by viral algorithms online. The need to fit in.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.thatalexwoman.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.thatalexwoman.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Social media promised connection and the democratisation of information. And at times, it does also bring out the best in us. When the kernel that erupts and spreads across &#8216;the web&#8217; like myriad dandelion spores is one of kindness and charity, we get mass crowdfunding, a multitude of support and advice, a chorus of praise and celebration. Heartwarming acts of human cooperation that deliver important moral messages or even change lives.</p><p>But when - and this seems to be increasingly more present on social media - the proposition is that of public humiliation, punishment and persecution, a sociopathic myopia grips the mob, who quickly forget that a real, emotional sentient human is on the receiving end.</p><p>Social media becomes a high-speed amplifier of humanity&#8217;s darkest impulses.</p><p>It resurrects the ancient phenomenon of crowd madness. Mass hysteria where rational individuals dissolve into frenzied collectives. </p><p>From Biblical times to the 20th century to today, history shows that when people unite en masse without restraint, they are capable of astonishing evil. Social media does not create this flaw, it supercharges it through algorithms engineered for outrage, turning isolated users into digital mobs.</p><h4>The Crucifixion: The Most Famous Mob Rule</h4><p>Consider one of history&#8217;s most infamous miscarriages of justice, the crucifixion of Jesus. In the Gospels, Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor, presents the crowd with a choice to either release Jesus, whom he finds innocent, or the criminal Barabbas. </p><p>The crowd, initially stirred by religious leaders and swept up by collective copying, roars &#8220;Crucify him!&#8221;</p><p>Pilate himself washes his hands of responsibility, not wanting to condemn Jesus &#8220;<em>Ecce Homo</em>&#8221; cowed by the sheer force of the outcry, and thus an innocent man dies in the most drawn out, public, brutal and sickening way.  </p><p>At no point does anyone without a personal connection to Jesus try to stop the flogging, the torturous dragging of the heavy cross to Golgotha. Even thosr who loved him fled. No. The crowds hiss, spit, jeer and delight in the barbarism. And yet this is a man who only ever brought joy, preached kindness and was famous for healing, for preaching love, for being humble.</p><p>No single person in the crowd would likely have acted alone in the face of such cruelty. But united, they overrode reason, mercy, and evidence. </p><p>This is the madness of crowds in its purest form: individuals surrender personal judgment to the emotional contagion of the group.</p><p>Social media recreates this scene daily.  Users pile on without full context, driven by the dopamine of collective outrage. The mob forms instantly across continents, and the target, whether a public figure or not, faces digital crucifixion.</p><p>But it is not the historical event of a man called Jesus from Nazareth, so violently and wickedly slaughtered, that first provided Biblical foreboding. The warning comes much, much earlier. In the very first book in fact: Genesis</p><h4>The Tower of Babel</h4><p><em><strong>Genesis 11:9</strong></em></p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em><strong>The Lord said, &#8220;If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.&#8221;</strong></em></p></div><p>After the flood (something else that is documented globally in folklore in multiple cultures around the world - but that&#8217;s a fun fact for another article) humanity speaks one language.</p><p>United by a common tongue, they formulate a shared ambition.</p><p><em>&#8220;Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves&#8221;</em></p><p>Their technological prowess fuels a cynical godlike arrogance. But the Bible tells how God confuses their language, scatters them, and in doing so, halts the project. </p><p>The Tower of Babel suggests how unified humanity, freed from limits and individual accountability and introspection, pursues self-glorification and greatness that may become perilous to human kind itself. </p><p>It is an assertion grimly echoed in the much later book of Revelation in th New Testament where the &#8220;<em>End Times&#8221; </em>come following a system of <em>"every tribe, people, language, and nation"</em> (Rev 13:7).</p><p>Now, whether you believe the author John was a genuine prophet, describing Old Testament-like visions of divine provenance, or is providing a contemporaneous cultural critique of the ills of The Roman Empire through graphic symbolism, the thrust is the same: The Bible warns against supranationalism and Globalism or mob rule, expressed as social control.</p><p>It is a warning that echoes through the ages as empires have risen, reached for greater authority, spread and power, almost always resulting in inhumane acts, and finally fallen as a result, be it The Romans, The USSR, The Ottomans or the Nazis. And yes, The British Empire too.</p><p>Today, empires have been replaced with global organisations. I have often argued democracy is like butter. The further you try to spread it, the more meagre and thin it becomes, until it altogether vanishes. </p><p>But technological revolution has created a One World space where trends sweep across borders, where international conversation removing barriers of contact has provoked the provenance of identity politics, mass hysteria, even the repression of speech and public persecution when the exact opposite was doubtless envisioned. </p><p>Children are increasingly brainwashed. Cults and mobs have formed. Terrorism has become internationalised. Humans have started to lose their humanity, siloed and stuck to screens rather than expressing compassion and empathy through direct interaction. We now text, hollow little letters rather than eye contact and body language responsible for 85% of human connection and understanding.</p><p>Social media functions as our modern Babel. Platforms create a single digital language, where translations, memes, emojis and algorithms, bind and brainwash billions, while we become divorced from genuine empathetic reaction.</p><p>Users build virtual towers through echo chambers of shared ideology, mass action campaigns that inevitably defy nuance and eventually rationality, and global movements that demand deference and obedience, Neo-Religions that no longer need to justify themselves or appeal to sense. They just <em>Are</em>. </p><p>Indisputable even when contrary to any logical argument. </p><p>When Tourette&#8217;s suffer John Davidson shouted &#8220;N*gg*r&#8221; at The Oscars, a frenzy of faux fury errupted immediately deciding the real victims were the two millionnaire Hollywood actors on stage, who were not just expected but were <em>demanded</em> to be gravely affected by this word, despite the fact that it is ubiquitous in rap music that they will doubtlessly have been exposed to, despite the fact it was just a word delivered without cruel intent, despite the fact that evidentially there was no harm, nor injury nor suffering as a consequence, all the while grotsequely and cruelly ignoring the matter of a man who suffers from a crippling, embarrassing, life changing condition that a few moments before everyone was swooning over in order to signal to the world their inner, superior compassion.</p><p>Anyone with half a brain cell knows that the real victim was John Davidson. But an unspoken global rule of victim hierarchy, cultified through identity politics, demanded everyone instead feign horror that two grown, wealthy and privileged men be subjected to such oral violence. Inevitably, people started looking for the lamb to send to the slaughter. The wantonly reckless individual that failed to foresee such horror unfolding.</p><p>When people ask why autism is on the rise, I would suggest it is the inevitable consequence of a dearth of genuine and direct human interaction, either failing to teach emotional relationships or deeply exacerbating those with predispositions. But that&#8217;s also an article for another day.</p><p>For crying out loud, I thought about the Oscars furore, can we no longer laugh and move on?</p><p>But we are not allowed to. And we are not even allowed to ask why. Doing so itself would be an act of immoral disobedience.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.thatalexwoman.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.thatalexwoman.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>What began as far reaching connection online has fast devolved into the propagation of tribal warfare. As it always, inevitably does when humans collect en masse.</p><p>At the same time, algorithms reward the loudest, most extreme voices, just as Babel&#8217;s unity enabled unchecked ambition. The result? Not enlightenment, but confusion, polarization, and collective delusion.</p><h4>Hitler and the Nazis</h4><p>Perhaps the most striking example in modern history is Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. The regime mastered crowd psychology long before smartphones, TikTok and X even existed.</p><p>Drawing on thinkers like Gustave Le Bon, whose 1895 book <em>The Crowd</em> described how individuals in groups lose rationality and become suggestible to emotion and repetition, the Nazis staged mass rallies, used radio broadcasts, posters, and films, to manufacture consent to acts of extreme wickedness. </p><p>Joseph Goebbels&#8217; propaganda machine turned ordinary Germans into a mob that cheered book burnings, supported antisemitic laws, and eventually enabled the Holocaust. The crowd did not need facts, only a shared narrative of grievance, unity, and scapegoats. And how chillingly that echoes today.</p><p>That is not to say all mass gatherings spawn wickedness. The opposite can also be true.</p><p>But when the common denominator is negative, it is alarming how guard rails are off.</p><p>We cannot condemn mass Muslim protests, we are pre-programmed as to whom the victims must be, and who is to blame as if from Original Sin.</p><p>Social media is propaganda on steroids. </p><p>No single dictator controls it; the algorithm does. And this is even before AI reaches anything like its full potential.</p><p>It identifies grievances, feeds confirmation bias, and scales emotional contagion exponentially. Le Bon&#8217;s insights apply perfectly. Online crowds exhibit &#8220;<em>impulsiveness, irritability, incapacity to reason,</em>&#8221; and a &#8220;<em>collective mind&#8221;</em> that overrides individual ethics.</p><h4>BLM: A Neo Religion born online</h4><p>The 2020 killing of George Floyd provided a stark modern case study. A bystander&#8217;s video of American Policeman Derek Chauvin&#8217;s knee on Floyd&#8217;s neck spread rapidly around the world. </p><p>Within hours, #BlackLivesMatter exploded and was used nearly 48 million times on Twitter alone in the first two weeks. </p><p>Protests erupted in every U.S. state, then over 20 countries. Social media organised and amplified outrage, also fueling misinformation, conspiracy theories, and violence. </p><p>Peaceful demonstrations sometimes spiraled into riots, looting, and arson as the digital mob fed on graphic imagery and unverified claims, emboldened by a free pass of being on the <em>&#8216;right</em>&#8217; side to perform acts of criminality, bullying and persecution. Platforms became battlegrounds for competing narratives, while fake accounts and foreign actors joyfully stoked division. Youths gleefully attacked statues of national heroes and yelled expletives at innocent bystanders, while adherents demanded money, special treatment, prefential privileges, and retrospective demonisation.</p><p>This episode revealed social media&#8217;s power to transform even the most obscure event into a collective frenzy that multinational companies, world leaders, religious figureheads, workplaces and celebrities all instantly joined. Nuance vanished and entire institutions were condemned en masse or wholesale adopted the mantras and mannerisms of a brand new cult with feverish religiosity.</p><h4>Revelation&#8217;s<em> The Beast</em></h4><p>If you are a Christian, you probably think Revelation is the most phantasmagoric, fascinating, difficult, disturbing and challenging read in the entire Bible.</p><p>If you are not, let me explain. It prophetically outlines what the Apocalypse will look like before the Messiah&#8217;s return, through bold and weird symbolism in a flood of harrowing metaphors and nightmarish images that race like a fever dream. For a non-believer, Revelation is a definite turn off for its abject weirdness.</p><p>Some Eschatoligists (those that study The End Times) draw connections to some of the verses to events unfolding today. And the parallels are uncanny. Although many times in history this could be said to be the case. Two world wars. Atomic bombs. Again - an article for another day!</p><p>But at the heart of today&#8217;s madness are not necessarily twisted tyrants and wicked world leaders, but the algorithms themselves, morphing rapidly into an independent, sovereign overlord through AI. </p><p>Please bear with me!</p><p>Designed to maximize engagement time they disproportionately reward negative or high-arousal content. Stanford University research analysing millions of posts found that negative emotional news spreads faster and farther than positive or neutral material. Even mainstream outlets increasingly chase it. They always did through the art of the headline and front page. As the old adage goes &#8220;No news is good news&#8221;. Rage bait is hardly new.</p><p>Studies show platforms like TikTok can quadruple exposure to extreme content such as misogynistic or radical material in a matter of days by targeting vulnerabilities such as loneliness or anger. </p><p>It creates vicious cycles of users seeking validation or outrage, thirsting to receive more of it, descending into echo chambers that then breed new ideologies. Many fringe, some downright dangerous. Conspiracy theories, cancel culture, and rapid radicalisation flourish because algorithms act as invisible psy-ops operators. They are not answerable to human rationality or individual empathy. They do not even kowtow to groupthink. They <em>are </em>the groupthink, in coded form.</p><p>They do not reflect society, they shape it, turning isolated grievances into mass movements. Research links this to rising anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and even real-world violence.</p><p>Anyone with enough knowledge, or any state actor with ill intent, can manipulte masses through bot farms and by gaming the algorithm. Crazy new ideologies emerge as if overnight, from gender extremism to political cults, because the crowd rewards conformity and punishes dissent, and a crowd means footfall and footfall means profit. </p><p>Soon, the provenance may not even be from a human-linked actor but from AI itself, with dominion over all humanity. As the greater than human intelligence evolves, at what point does the child usurp the parent?</p><p><em><strong>Revelation 13:5</strong></em></p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em><strong>The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority&#8230;It was given power to wage war against God&#8217;s holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation</strong></em></p></div><p>Social media has not invented humanity&#8217;s capacity for evil; it has provided the potential for it to be industrialised, and finally released from human control altogether. </p><p>The crucifixion crowd, the Babel builders and the Nazi rallies, all reveal the same truth: When individuals merge into an unrestrained collective, reason dies and hysteria reigns. </p><p>But next time there may be a master of the masses, the manufactured monster and hidden hand that ensures the mob never disintegrates.</p><p>We cannot uninvent the technology. But we must recognise its power and potential peril. </p><p>Whether a believer, a student of eschatology, an agnostic, atheist or bystander, the Bible warns against unchecked unity in rebellion and mob justice without truth. It warns that this is an inevitable by-product of human universalisation.</p><p>The fact that Communism chalked up the greatest numbers of deaths throughout human history, with estimates of a body count of 80-100 million in the 20th Century alone, indicates that history knows the cost of surrendering to a crowd. </p><p>Perhaps the antidote lies in reclaiming individual discernment. </p><p>Take time out, or leave social media altogether. I found my fast over Lent to be utterly transformative. I would recommend everyone do the same. And not just social media, YouTube too.</p><p>Stop reaching for virtuality and reach out for real human contact instead.</p><p>Do not engage in comments or personal abuse, however much one might disagree with a sentiment. Resist the dopamine of the mob.</p><p>In a world of digital towers and virtual crucifixions, the choice remains ours.</p><p>For now.</p><p></p><p><em>If you have felt moved by this article, please do share either it, or it&#8217;s message. 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But with bold political choices, I believe significant change can be affected. And when the pendulum swings in the opposite direction and momentum is maintained, the reversal of the demographic change witnessed over the past few decades could equally become exponential. </p><p>I lay out what needs to be done.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Islamisation of Britain. Territory being claimed in plain sight]]></title><description><![CDATA[A raw account of the spread of assertive, hostile Islamist.]]></description><link>https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/the-islamisation-of-britain-territory</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/the-islamisation-of-britain-territory</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Phillips]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:29:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mxM6!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9a7525a9-a103-4484-a1f8-9e4446d68827_784x784.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Britain is falling. Not with bombs or bullets, although were kinetic war to come to our shores our resilience is very much in doubt. No. War via broadcasts, bows, and bureaucratic surrender. The Adhan is blasting in Trafalgar Square. Prayers are packing sports stadiums. Iftars are seizing royal grounds. Parks are packed with tens of thousands of extrovert worshippers. </p><p>When assembled as evidence side by side, this year&#8217;s examples make for uncomfortable reading.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Prosecution of War in Iran is Poetic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t listen to the &#8220;No Plan&#8221; doomsayers. They would have appeased Hitler. No. In fact, America&#8217;s manoeuvres scan like poetry and have been decades in the making.]]></description><link>https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/the-prosecution-of-war-in-iran-is</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/the-prosecution-of-war-in-iran-is</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Phillips]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:18:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t_8W!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa71d1a0-7761-4899-af48-ddf6fafc2dd7_3840x2160.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A novel is like a long jug of ale while poetry is downing a shot. Or words to that effect. I can&#8217;t remember who said it, or when, but it stuck with me as a strong analogy.</p><p>Something about the sheer in&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is an Islamist Fifth Column now dictating our Global Affairs too?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Was the UK's resolute refusal to support the US in taking out the Ayotollah and Iranian arms sites down to fear over domestic retaliation?]]></description><link>https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/is-an-islamist-fifth-column-now-dictating</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/is-an-islamist-fifth-column-now-dictating</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Phillips]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:00:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mxM6!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9a7525a9-a103-4484-a1f8-9e4446d68827_784x784.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The words &#8220;International Law&#8221; have rather become a parody in today&#8217;s world. Well intentioned treaties and supranational organisations designed to keep bad actors and bad acts at bay are increasingly &#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Extreme Left: Your Party. On the Extreme Right: Not Your Party?]]></title><description><![CDATA[In trying to Out-Farage Reform UK, does Rupert Lowe risk wading into dangerous territory? And what does policy based on Ethno-Nationalism look like? We deserve to know]]></description><link>https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/on-the-extreme-left-your-party-on</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/on-the-extreme-left-your-party-on</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Phillips]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:24:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gnOc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6bfa5a7e-68c1-4f53-b2ee-936ad108cf5a_904x2316.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a fastidious reader of labels.</p><p>Having been convinced by the argument that Ultra Processed Food may be injurious to long term health, I have taken to looking at the ingredients on manufactured goo&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Radical Communist Legal Cartel running the UK...and the West?]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's time we asked questions of Starmer's influential cult of Barristers. From what we already know, these people should be nowhere near power. Trouble is, they appear to hold it]]></description><link>https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/radical-communist-legal-cartel-running</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/radical-communist-legal-cartel-running</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Phillips]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:22:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Avwm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc29864ec-7d19-4887-9354-f30338189452_1920x1080.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you done any digging on the Attorney General Lord Hermer? The Barrister Philippe Sands KC behind The Chagos give away? The unelected Barrister besties of the Prime Minister who seem to wield power? What about Starmer's own past?</p><p>Well, I did.</p><p>And the &#8216;rap sheet&#8217; so-to-say, is terrifying.</p><p></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Have Been Silenced And Lied To On An Industrial Scale By The EU]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump's administration is blowing the bleedin' doors off the depths to which we are being controlled]]></description><link>https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/we-have-been-silenced-and-lied-to</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/we-have-been-silenced-and-lied-to</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Phillips]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:40:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PeNV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74995de0-9c20-49aa-ab21-f34c3e832bbc_1812x1783.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I knew they didn't like free speech.</p><p>Nor democracy.</p><p>I knew they also pursued a radical Globalist, Socialist agenda.</p><p>Even still, when you glimpse the receipts of the levels of megalomaniacal depravity exhibited by the unelected EU, it still comes as a wallop to the sternum.</p><p>We are being gaslit and gagged. On an industrial scale.</p><p>When I came across the House Judiciary GOP report into Europe's radical censorship of social media, it took my breath away.</p><p>This is the same Committee that invited Graham Linehan to testify about his dramatic arrest after flying back from America.</p><p>In February 2025, The House Committee on the Judiciary subpoenaed Big Tech to understand how foreign censorship laws are hindering Americans&#8217; free speech rights. A year later the report has landed. </p><p>It is harrowing.</p><p>Step aside Hunter Biden's laptop.</p><p>The PolitBuro in Brussels know no bounds when it comes to manipulating its public.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump slams brakes on mounting US Civil War?]]></title><description><![CDATA[You read that right. America could be under attack from the inside]]></description><link>https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/trump-slams-brakes-on-mounting-us</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/trump-slams-brakes-on-mounting-us</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Phillips]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:02:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZZqx!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4924629b-57e0-4650-b871-2f0b9ffbc679_904x1810.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You will have seen the shootings in Minnesota</p><p>You have likely come across the multiple angles and slowed down footage of the killing of Alex Pretti by ICE immigration enforcement agents</p><p>You will doubtl&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Starmer Beijing's Puppet?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK's dangerous dalliance with China is being laid bare. And it makes for alarming reading.]]></description><link>https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/is-starmer-beijings-puppet</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/is-starmer-beijings-puppet</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Phillips]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:41:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OypR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F822b3ff4-18f3-47a4-8de7-03449488acac_576x432.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OypR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F822b3ff4-18f3-47a4-8de7-03449488acac_576x432.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source 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But consensus among most intelligence officials suggests that Beijing isn't just an economic might to be reckoned with, but a growing military power forming an axis with hostile states, that not only bends the rules but breaks them with impunity and happily conducts predatory or parasitic industrial relations with nations, that corrode prosperity and weakens society from the inside out.</p><p>If anything should have woken up the world to China's capacity for malevolence and deceit, Covid was that moment. At the very least China lied about its origins and thus cost the world critical time in figuring out how to handle the pandemic. At the very worst, it was all done with intent. The fact that we cannot say for sure typefies the disturbingly enigmatic role China plays on the world stage, particularly in the context of its might and potential. </p><p>The proposition that Beijing doesn&#8217;t play fair is flagrantly apparent. I first became alive to China's cancerous presence while working in Ghana, just after living in Shanghai. The depths to which China was wilfully undercutting a third world country in its own backyard, destroying its domestic market while robbing it of resource riches, was startling to me twenty years ago. It staggers me that successive British governments continue to play with fire.</p><p>Under Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour government, the UK's relationship with China has veered into perilous territory. </p><p>What Starmer touts as "pragmatic engagement" increasingly resembles appeasement, prioritizing short-term economic gains over long-term national security and democratic values. The big question is - Is Starmer China's stooge?</p><p>I lay bare the true extent of Labour's Chinese fixation. And how dangerous this could be.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Need To Talk About Greenland]]></title><description><![CDATA[Read the UK Press and you'd think Trump was about to launch an American invasion. Europe would do better to acquiesce. Here is the context...some pragmatism, and some truth.]]></description><link>https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/we-need-to-talk-about-greenland</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/we-need-to-talk-about-greenland</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Phillips]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:03:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!22MU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0c8dd499-e338-413b-83a2-5521d52cd0c2_1120x630.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In an era of escalating global tensions, President Donald Trump has decided Reagan's old mantra of &#8216;Power Through Might&#8217; is necessary to reset the Global Order, before it slips inexorably in favour of the Anti-Western Axis.</p><p>Yet he has also found he is alone. </p><p>While America pumps money into defense and Trump has taken the world's temperature and found it febrile, Europe continues to not only self-harm through geopolitical naivety, Net Zero stupidity and open border idiocy, but have become deeply unreliable allies.</p><p>The stories of Greenland and the proposed Chinese Mega Embassy are inseparable. How can America trust a Europe that increasingly rolls out the red carpet for its enemies? That is at the heart of the Trump's new found aggression.</p><p>His renewed push to acquire Greenland from Denmark stands as a testament to his strategic foresight and unyielding commitment to security. As the Arctic region becomes a hotbed of geopolitical rivalry, Trump's insistence on bringing the world's largest island under U.S. control is not just ambitious&#8212;it's essential. </p><p>With adversaries like Russia and China eyeing the Arctic's riches and strategic advantages, Trump's vision emerges as ambitious and uncompromising decisiveness to protect freedom and prosperity.</p><p>This article takes you through all the rational reasons why Trump's bluster makes sense. And why Europe's intransigence is the thing upping the ante.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could Trump Oust Starmer?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anyone who thinks this is far-fetched is not paying attention]]></description><link>https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/could-trump-oust-starmer</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/could-trump-oust-starmer</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Phillips]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:02:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1604595704321-f24afaa2fa6e?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwzfHx0cnVtcHxlbnwwfHx8fDE3NjgxNTg4NDh8MA&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I believe Trump has run out of patience with Starmer, and could even move to facilitate his removal.</p><p>Don't believe me?</p><p>Read on to find out how.</p><p></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Big 2026 PREVIEW]]></title><description><![CDATA[Everyone's favourite Prof joins me to discuss the lot of it...Iran, Venezuela, The EU, Islam...and what the year has in store. Disclaimer: Let's not be too optimistic!]]></description><link>https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/the-big-2026-preview</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/the-big-2026-preview</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Phillips]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 20:13:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-video.s3.amazonaws.com/video_upload/post/183476140/049c07a6-897e-4446-bd49-f96e15913f0b/transcoded-00001.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being On Trial for Crimes Committed Against You]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Left's new game is demeaning and discrediting anyone who reports a crime occurring in their open door dystopia]]></description><link>https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/being-on-trial-for-crimes-committed</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/being-on-trial-for-crimes-committed</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Phillips]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:12:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Zk5x!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F822e337e-07cb-4aa3-9879-cd2d3a6971bd_1208x994.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celebrate Christ this Christmas, whether you believe in God or not]]></title><description><![CDATA[The birth of Jesus changed the world. Even if you don't believe Him the Son of God, it is important to put him at the heart of Christmas]]></description><link>https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/celebrate-christ-this-christmas-whether</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/celebrate-christ-this-christmas-whether</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Phillips]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:38:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1593193583588-66f1dcc0625b?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxOHx8amVzdXN8ZW58MHx8fHwxNzY2NTM3MTU1fDA&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dauphin of France]]></title><description><![CDATA[I spent the day with Jordan Bardella. Could 2027 signal a new Entente Cordiale with a Bardella Presidency and Farage as UK PM?]]></description><link>https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/the-dauphin-of-france</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/the-dauphin-of-france</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Phillips]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:42:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K-Vp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe101c745-5886-4687-8e5e-bc680bdb15fb_4000x3000.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K-Vp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe101c745-5886-4687-8e5e-bc680bdb15fb_4000x3000.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wickedness of Labour]]></title><description><![CDATA[Write a list of what they have done - and plan to do - and you have the composite parts of an oppressive regime]]></description><link>https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/the-wickedness-of-labour</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/the-wickedness-of-labour</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Phillips]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:08:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SJjn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60b2094e-a444-4e7a-aaa2-8b4d8d8ab4a5_399x501.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It's that time of year we talk about making lists.</p><p>Christmas cards to send. Presents to buy. A grocery shop that would make Dale Winton wince on Supermarket Sweep.</p><p>And, traditionally, the naughty and n&#8230;</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fight For The West is NOW]]></title><description><![CDATA[And Christendom had better stick together. A history of the spread of Islam - and what will happen next in Europe]]></description><link>https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/the-fight-for-the-west-is-now</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thatalexwoman.com/p/the-fight-for-the-west-is-now</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Phillips]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:30:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!adjG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc89bbc56-8a2f-46d6-a5a6-e61a4389611d_1536x864.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><strong>HOW ISLAM SPREAD ACROSS THE WORLD - AND WHAT HAPPENS NEXT IN EUROPE</strong></h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Its landlord was potentially facing a legal battle over the name of his establishment.</p><p>The Saracen's Head is one of 24 similarly named drinking holes across the country that could be facing a lawsuit following a claim against a boozer with the same nomenclature in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, for &#163;1850, for being &#8216;offensive&#8217;. Kings Langley's Saracen's Head, dating back to 1600, also received warnings that its long established moniker was rather upsetting a certain someone.</p><p>You'd immediately assume it would be a short-fringed vegan with a Stand Up To Racism placard behind the endeavour to erase the historical English pub title.</p><p>Worse still, it was a convicted terrorist, Khaled Baqa, who features in the Government's Prevent guidelines as an example of an Islamist spreading dangerous propaganda. In 2013, Baqa spent two years in prison for possession and dissemination of terrorist material.</p><p>The move to attempt to prosecute for offense is increasingly the Islamist playbook: find a grievance, reframe as the victim, and drive the attack instead painted as &#8216;retaliation.&#8217;</p><p>From cartoons of Mohamed, the war in Gaza, the notion of &#8216;Islamophobia&#8217; or partnering with the Left to promote a reversal of colonialism, the tactic remains the same.</p><p>It is a small, but important example, of the predicament The West finds itself in. </p><p><strong>Caught within a vice of Cultural Marxism on one side, and Islamism on the other, two thousands years of successful civilisation is facing an existential crisis at the hands of those who wish to bitterly erase our past, and those who wish to replace our future.</strong></p><p>Poignantly, the very existence of the pub name &#8220;Saracen's Head&#8221; reminds us that we have been here before.</p><p>I will walk you through the history of how Islam - as a campaigning religion - has usurped Christianity in parts of the world, how Europe has already fended it off once before, and what the future might look like for Britain and her neighbours. </p>
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