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The Battle to Be Nigel Farage's Successor Has Begun

Robert Jenrick's defection to Reform UK has simultaneously caused the Conservative party to terminally crash out and interrupted Zia Yusuf's automatic coronation as Nigel Farage's successor.
Is Jenrick Reform's JD Vance? Who will win the faction war within Reform to be leader after Nigel Farage? Why has Jenrick called for the Conservatives to banish Liz Truss? All that and more tonight, on Tomlinson Talks.
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Telling the Oxford Union why Mainstream Media is the Enemy of the People

On the 30th of October 2025, I argued for the motion, “This house believes that mainstream media has become an ‘enemy of the people’”, at the Oxford Union.
From covering up the grooming gangs, to taking government funding during COVID lockdowns, and gaslighting the public after terror attacks:
The print and broadcast establishment has revealed itself to be the servants of state power and liberal ideology.
No wonder they're losing their audiences to authentic, independent alternatives, and lobbying politicians for tighter censorship of social media.
But I don't think John Sweeney liked what I had to say.
Watch the speech on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRUKtBrnCm8
Watch the full debate: https://youtu.be/6v0pKmmmt-U
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Did Reform and Robert Jenrick Just Destroy the Conservative Party?

Amidst an influx of Conservative councillors and ex-MP defectors to Reform UK, now-former Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick was kicked out of the Tories by Kemi Badenoch and became Nigel Farage's sixth MP on the same day.
How can Reform destroy the Conservatives if it becomes a refugee camp for members of Boris Johnson's Cabinet?
Discussing the faction wars within Reform, and the imminent achievement of Zero Seats for the Conservatives on Tomlinson Talks.
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Is This Government-Funded Game an Accidental Advert for Rightwing Protests?

The government’s "anti-extremism" body, Prevent, has developed a new video game called "Pathways" to warn children that sharing "far right" politics and anti-immigration content online will get them referred to counter-terror programmes.
But this has backfired because its character, Amelia, implicitly promises you will meet purple-haired alternative and goth girls at remigration rallies.
I can't think of a better unintended advertisement to young men for getting involved in rightwing protest movements than "Meet your manic pixie dream girl by marching for mass deportations."
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Tommy Robinson is Making This Mistake About Immigration

Tommy Robinson has been criticised by the right for telling Dan Wootton and Liam Tufts that we wouldn’t have a problem with immigration if it weren't for Islam.
I understand Tommy wants to prevent his non-white friends from being mistreated. He's trying to draw a clean distinction between Islam and everyone else, based on ideology.
But that is a mistake. Immigration would still inflict crimes, economic costs, and cultural change on us, and cause white Brits to become a minority, even if there were no Islam in Britain.
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Why Does Reform Want Another Muslim Mayor of London?

Reform UK has appointed Laila Cunningham as their London Mayor election candidate.
So, Londoners like me can look forward to voting between Pakistani Muslim leftist Sadiq Khan, or Egyptian Muslim careerist Cunningham in 2028.
Cunningham was almost the Conservative candidate for Rotherham in 2024, hosted an Iftar event while a Conservative councillor, went on Pride marches, and has since called those who don't want a Muslim Mayor of London "the far right". 
She seems to have rote-learned platitudes about "British values" to get ahead in a party desperate not to be called racist.
We deserve better. I'll be voting for whoever the patriotic English candidate is instead. 
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Why the Blank Slate is to Blame for Mass Migration and Hate Speech Laws

In December, Elon Musk posted on X, "The Blank Slate fallacy is the root of much evil."
What is the Blank Slate? Do liberals really believe that all human beings are equal — fungible, indistinguishable, replaceable?
Here's a history of tabula rasa, and why this false anthropology is to blame for intolerable policies like mass migration and hate speech laws.
Watch this video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lSpE8bvaFo8
For more on the post-war consensus: https://connortomlinson.substack.com/p/are-zoomers-really-the-groyper-generation
Works cited:- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding- John Locke, Two Treatises of Government- Yoram Hazony, Conservatism: A Rediscovery- Patrick Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality- Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract- Emily B. Finley, The Ideology of Democratism- Clare Jambers, Sex, Culture, and Justice: The Limits of Choice- R.R. Reno, Return of the Strong Gods- John Gray, 'Why I am not a post-liberal': https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/10/how-to-save-british-liberalism
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The Reprobates Working for Hope Not Hate

Hope Not Hate operative and former Labour councillor, Liron Woodcock-Velleman, has been convicted of sending explicit texts and images to a 13-year-old girl.
Velleman contributed to the Online Safety Act: legislation supposed to keep children safe, but actually designed to censor "the far right" — myself included.
He's not the only criminal working for the organisation: former Nazi turned communist Matthew Collins once attacked women with a hammer and hospitalised them.
Hope Not Hate enjoys state funding, employs violent reprobates, and accuses their political opponents of being the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler to shut down democratic debate. They deserve to be included in the next round of sanctions by the American State Department against members of the censorship industrial complex.
My previous reporting on Hope Not Hate:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_mmrwIPrDI- https://connortomlinson.substack.com/p/the-case-against-hope-not-hate
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Why Civic Nationalists are Losing the Immigration Debate

New YouGov polling shows 36% of the public think you have to be born in Britain to be British; and that 71% of Reform voters agree that having native ancestry is "a prerequisite for someone to be truly British", and 59% see Britain as "an ethnic, not a civic, community."
This coincides with calls for Egyptian revolutionary Alaa Abd el-Fattah to be stripped of British citizenship, revealing that having a British passport is not enough to be British; and a contentious debate between Andrew Gold and ethnonationalist Steve Laws.
It's clear that civic nationalism is losing the immigration debate. But what will take its place?
If civic nationalists set a dichotomy where we either have to surrender to demographic extinction or deport every last immigrant and their offspring, then, out of desperation, people will support indiscriminate deportations. 
People want security: for their people, their culture, their country, and their children. These are reasonable requests. If you cannot offer that, they will side with someone who will, no matter how harsh or unreasonable they are prepared to be. And the worse things get, the more people will be prepared to do that.
Andrew's debate with Steve Laws: https://youtu.be/GSuXaBpGlA4
Carl's response: https://youtu.be/7i5LoL-xB4o
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Trump's State Department Deports and Sanctions British and EU Censors

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced the Trump Administration will sanction five individuals for censoring free speech on US-based social media platforms and across Europe.Former European Commissioner Thierry Breton has been banned from entering the United States.
Imran Ahmed, the CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, has hired E Jean Carroll's lawyer Roberta Kaplan to appeal the repeal of his green card, and prevent him from being deported back to the UK.
Senior officials at the State Department have promised that this is just the first round of sanctions planned for members of the censorship industrial complex, to protect Western civilisation and the indigenous peoples of Europe.
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Previous coverage of the Trump Administration's National Security Strategy: https://youtu.be/xM2TAz9_09Q
Previous coverage of the State Department's warnings to British and European governments about free speech and mass migration:- https://youtu.be/fU1PqmQ_hJc- https://youtu.be/Jozo2CGuQW4
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