Uncharted Thoughts.

The world is a strange place at the moment. War, genocide, corruption and risking hate crimes and that’s just this last month. I often find myself in a constant state of fear and paranoia. So much so I have decided to start prepping again.

The world watches on as Western society implodes on its own freedoms, but how much of this is true? Are we tricked by the media, or is the media just a fragment of the reality of these seemingly desperate times?

For me, a journalist, historian and barman, it seems as though the world we live in is reflected by the online world I spend too much time on.

Yesterday there was a mass stabbing on a train, last week the police accidently released an illegal migrant that was imprisoned for sexual assaults in Epping. Last month a man stabbed and killed a Jewish man outside a synagogue in my home city. The month before that Charlie Kirk was assassinated on a college campus. The list goes on and on.

But is this just the internet exacerbating the country I live in? Is the media fearmongering a nation into submission?

From my experience, no. I feel the every day presence of crime, poverty and religious conflict.

Since living in Manchester, I have seen Neo-Nazi groups, assaults, public harassment, sexual assaults, a mugging, blatant public drug use, religious preaching and protest after protest. Not to mention the disgusting levels of litter that has made a developed city look like the slums of some poorer nation.

Each night I pass through Piccadilly Gardens, an area in central Manchester renowned for its antisocial behaviour. I see the developing state of the UK crime and migrant crisis. Young South East Asian and African men linger on the memorial walls with younger, poverty stricken women. They sit all day, and into the evening, every night of the week. Lurking.

The last time I witnessed such a blatant hub for crime and debauchery was in LA, where entire streets had turned into campsites. Monuments and government buildings were used for drug abuse and dealing. Men, who were there only to commit crime, were allowed to intimidate and bully the passing public. Is this the future for the UK. As illegal migration increases, and poverty intensifies, are the working men and women of society now at the mercy of local gangs and mad men?

When did our legal system become so weak that the criminals of our society are able to reign supreme in our streets?

Kier Stamer, and the Labour party decided a couple days ago to release thousands of prisoners early to free up space in the prisons, and with a court system backlogged as far back as two years. How will this issue be fixed?

I am working on setting up a partition for the legalisation of pepper spray. As in the U.K. a citizen under attack from a criminal finds themselves completely defenceless, and with a crumpling society and the presence of criminal activity skyrocketing, I fear for every woman, child and vulnerable person.

Some suggest that crime is lower than it every has been, unfortunately I do not believe this for a moment. Rather I think crime is no longer being reported due to the frustrations of the public and the weakness of our police force.

I have been called a doomer, on many occasions, perhaps I do see things on the negative side more often than not. But, having lived in the city of Manchester for well over a year now, I can honestly say I live in fear.