I’ve been back one week and the good old US of A has never seemed more depressing

Don’t let anyone tell you the Bagel is worse off than Kabul, where three people were recently shot dead by Islamist gunmen for playing music at a wedding. No siree, people over here are shot every day and night but not for playing music at a wedding. Give New York credit where it’s due. The city is a bloody horror if you’re living way uptown, way downtown, or in the Bronx, with the rest of Gotham experiencing a level of street crime not seen in a decade. Robberies and felonious assaults are up 15 per cent in a year and gun arrests by a whopping 20 per cent. In the subway violent crime per ride is twice as high as in 2019. The rich continue to leave, taking their tax revenue with them south, the huddled masses arrive with outstretched palms expecting social justice. Street crime is rampant, Times Square is no longer a tourist trap because of the risk of getting killed. Yet the media continue to write and report on the evils of… Donald Trump.

After the George Floyd killing the mainstream media covered BLM in expected flattering terms — in spite of the lies they were telling about American cops. If you want the truth, then in a normal year like 2019 there were 1,004 people killed by the police — and as you’d expect, most were armed or otherwise dangerous. African-Americans were about a quarter of those killed by cops — which is a figure that has been pretty flat since 2015 (and is lower than what the crime figures would suggest). An inquiry into the Philadelphia Police Department six years ago found that white police officers were actually less likely than black officers to shoot unarmed black suspects.