In the mindless leftism department
In today’s edition of the mindless, knee-jerk leftism department, Reuters reports that Oxfam is upset that Singapore has low tax rates, apparently because this somehow creates “inequality”. Note that...
View ArticleAtlas shrugs as Sark faces the shocking truth about price controls
The island of Sark, a small, remote Channel Island, with a population somewhere around 500, part of the Duchy of Normandy and the Bailiwick of Guernsey, but almost entirely autonomous, noted for not...
View ArticleAcceptance
“Haters are not going to hate here,” asserts a young lady speaking for Scotland in this Scottish government video called “Your hate is not welcome here, Yours Scotland”. “That’s why if we see anything...
View ArticleThis new thing we have instead of respect for the elderly
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, says the Book of Leviticus, alongside other injunctions about such matters as how to sprinkle of the blood of the sin...
View ArticleMock the anointed at your peril
Then: Laws protecting a nobleman’s “honor” illustrate the importance which the noble attached to his person. Preservation of honor (i.e., reputation) was a serious matter, essential to ensure that...
View ArticleAh, happy days
“Bill Gates says poverty is decreasing. He couldn’t be more wrong”, writes Jason Hickel, an anthropologist at the London School of Economics. Prior to colonisation, most people lived in subsistence...
View ArticleLess economy of truth, please: who pays whom?
In today’s UK, we can only envy the US its first amendment, but Brits familiar with the PC narrative on race over here still find some US excesses hard to credit. Even Brits who hang out with lefties...
View ArticleMoral blindness
“Danny Baker’s excuses don’t cut it – the impact of racism is inseparable from the intent”, writes Kuba Shand-Baptiste in the Independent. Or rather her headline writer does, since the headline claims...
View ArticleIt is wrong to force a person into sexual activity
I had thought that all decent people, whatever their politics or religion, accepted that each human being has the inalienable right to refuse to engage in sexual activity, and that for each person the...
View ArticleOoh, can I be poor too?
The gullible Metro freesheet claims that 14,300,000 people in Britain are living in poverty, quoting something called the Social Metrics Commission. The current population of the UK is 66.87 million....
View ArticleA logical danger in PC illogic
(Normal service – i.e. prose – will be resumed promptly. I promised a follow-up poem about its being too easy to rebut the race scammers – or ‘race hustlers’ as is, I believe, the US term. Here it is.)...
View ArticleSocialism is socialism until it turns nasty (because if it’s nasty it can’t...
Via Instapundit, a tweet: Rand Paul: “Well if you vote for a Socialist, you might get Socialism”. Ana Navarro: “Maduro is not a Socialist. He’s a corrupt, murderous thug who is starving his people.”...
View ArticleOur ‘Stasi’ face a legal challenge –‘The right to be offended does not exist’...
A Lincolnshire businessman (and former police officer), Mr Harry Miller, has sought a judicial review of one of the more sinister aspects of current policing, the recording of ‘hate incidents’ by the...
View ArticleTwo snapshots of our times
1) Eurogamer reports, PC Specialist ad banned for perpetuating harmful gender stereotypes An advert for a bespoke PC retailer was banned for perpetuating harmful gender stereotypes of women. The TV ad,...
View ArticleEverybody gets to be racist eventually
The latest newly discovered racist is Trevor Phillips. Trevor Phillips, the former head of the equalities watchdog, has condemned Labour’s decision to suspend him from the party over alleged...
View Article“Possible equity issues”
“Coronavirus in Scotland: Parents and children left to struggle after councils ban online teaching”, Helen Puttick of the Times reports. It seems many private schools in Scotland are using video...
View ArticleThe Scottish National Party is at it again
I can think of little to add to what Andrew Tettenborn of Spiked has written about The SNP’s war on free speech: In 2017, the SNP government decided this had to change. It appointed Lord Bracadale, a...
View ArticleThe State’s lament: ‘A substantial number of people still do not feel...
Thus went the UK government’s discussion paper on increasing social distancing on 22nd March 2020. The perceived level of personal threat needs to be increased among those who are complacent, using...
View ArticlePeak Guardian in the Independent, and independent thought in the Guardian
Amrou Al-Kadhi writing in the Independent: What the white supremacist roots of biological sex reveal about today’s transphobic feminism Thomas Chatterton Williams writing in the Guardian: We often...
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Similarities between today and Ulster in 1969
Riots Claims of discrimination Calls for the police to be abolished Involvement of communists The media taking the side of the rioters The creation of no-go zones for the police Calls for the army to...
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