If you find yourself in London tomorrow, you can go on the March for a People’s Vote. On the 23rd of June, we will march to Parliament Square to demand a vote on the final Brexit deal. Join u… | Continue reading
“Liberal, democratic” is something that we’re all in favour of. It’s the definition of those words which is the difficulty. The older and correct meaning of liberal would ha… | Continue reading
My attention was drawn to an article about a harmless Australian eccentric who was unsuccessfully prosecuted by the authorities. The gentleman who was harassed, a certain Mr. Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma … | Continue reading
The EU, or at least 15 out of a committee of 25 MEPs, has voted yes to the link tax, censorship machines and meme banning bill, previously written about here by Natalie Solent. There is still a pos… | Continue reading
Most governments, whether they know the writer or not, tend to follow the assumption of the late Mr. Jeremy Bentham. They regard humans as soulless machines, not beings with free will and moral age… | Continue reading
Yesterday, the BBC 10 o’clock news covered wicked Mr Trump’s treatment of immigrant children (which, it was implied, was very unprecedented, nor ever praised by the left). The beeb̵… | Continue reading
In two days, on 20th June, the European Parliament Legal Affairs Committee will vote on the proposed Copyright Directive. By design the process by which the European Union makes laws is opaque. The… | Continue reading
Forty years ago, in 1978, 18 farmers from the village of Xiaogang in China, met at night in secret. They had seen subsistence and famine. Exhausted and emaciated, they lacked the energy to work the… | Continue reading
Even for The Guardian managing two logical fallacies in the one editorial is pretty good going. But that’s what they achieve in this one on funding the NHS. They manage both to get the Keynesian – … | Continue reading
Today Tory Christopher Chope MP blocked a Private Member’s Bill, supported by both the Government and the Opposition, that would have made “upskirting” a specific criminal offence… | Continue reading
Quite a few days ago now, Roseanne Barr tweeted this: The liberal media is an absolute joke – they no longer provide real news or information. They have made it their ultimate goal to undermine our… | Continue reading
Sometimes I think maybe I’m becoming too strict as I age. Maybe this is all a natural evolution of a technology. But I can’t close my eyes to what’s happening: A loss of intellectual power and dive… | Continue reading
Ah, the eternal question. Retired circuit judge Nic Madge has taken to the august pages of the Times to ask it anew in a way fitting to this age. Time to regulate the murder weapons in your kitchen… | Continue reading
As is customary on these occasions, I would like to express the hope that it will be over quickly, and that everybody loses. Seriously, though, if the British were serious about Brexit, they would … | Continue reading
Media breaths a sigh of relief that a raccoon climbing Union Bank of Switzerland building in Minnesota distracts public from Trump’s diplomatic success with North Korea. Next: IRS audits racc… | Continue reading
According to Lucian Armasu of Tom’s Hardware, in one week’s time I might no longer be able to link to Lucian Armasu of Tom’s Hardware and quote him like I’m about to do. Or … | Continue reading
If the Left could see themselves through the eyes of neoliberalism, they would see people whose motives might be laudable, but whose methodology is not. They are seen not only as economic illiterat… | Continue reading
What is more, if I want to hold lectures or seminars on the topic of empire, I will do so privately, since I cannot be sure that my critics will behave civilly. On one occasion recently, I held a d… | Continue reading
(With grateful acknowledgement to the Continental Telegraph’s inspiring Aunt Agatha, whose insightful replies to the many problems of British establishment figures are a comic must-read.) Dea… | Continue reading
Oxfam America, who presumably are concerned they may have to pay the going rate for white hookers if Trump’s ban on admitting starving teenage waifs from third-world disaster zones is upheld. ̵… | Continue reading
Here is a fascinating YT documentary on Liechtenstein, that remote Elysium high on the young Rhine, with a long interview with the Prince himself, starting just before 6 minutes in, and running mos… | Continue reading
Recent acts of manly valour have all come from men from traditional cultures where they’ve never heard of sexual politics. We recently watched online as Mamoudou Gassama, an illegal migrant from Ma… | Continue reading
This story, via that well-known extreme rightwing news outlet, Associated Press (sarcasm alert) ought, given the enormity of what is stated, surely lead to former President Barack Obama having his … | Continue reading
Undoubtedly you are a prima donna, but this is a good thing. Imagine if we had to depend for harmless entertainment on the likes of your mates, Nicola Sturgeon, Anna Soubry, and other pompous assho… | Continue reading
Thanks to Brexit fruit is going to be left to rot in the fields. How can we cope without a reliable supply of cheap foreign labour and zero-hours contracts to cover the seasonal summer work? All th… | Continue reading
Podcasts don’t suit everyone. Simply, for many, they tend to take too long to make their points. They have an additional drawback for me, which is that I love to listen to classical music, i.… | Continue reading
Instapundit’s Charles Glasser calls this Quillette article “nail on the head stuff”, which it is. It’s very good. But, you know: very good in a way I am now fairly used to. … | Continue reading
The Turkish cab drivers aren’t opposing Uber because it is bent. But because it is honest. – ‘Chester Draws’ commenting on the Continental Telegraph. | Continue reading
I am not entirely out of sympathy with the Francis Turner view of Tommy Robinson ‘doing a Gandhi’, but not entirely convinced either (in that Gandhi never denied he was indeed breaking … | Continue reading
Prime Minister George Grenville was the author of the 1765 stamp act – which led, in time, to the creation of the United States, but that was very far from his intent. In terms of mere formal… | Continue reading
I found this amusing… Sinn Fein also pushed back against Mrs Foster’s claims their supporters could turn to the DUP over the issue of abortion. A [Sinn Fein] spokesman told Sky News: &#… | Continue reading
Fuck off! Seriously, just fuck off. We are not responsible for what happened before we were born. My own family, for example, comes from a mix of poor Irish, French and Scottish stock. One died des… | Continue reading
If you want to understand the ongoing Tommy Robinson affair, then this article by Douglas Murray strikes me as as very good next thing to read. Read the whole thing says Instapundit, quoting a big … | Continue reading
I clicked on a link to an article about food marketing failures and came upon a notice that due to GDPR, the publisher just could not be bothered dealing with people from Europe for now. It turns o… | Continue reading
Holocaust denial is, of course, completely irrational, has no basis in historical fact, and is almost always motivated by deep-seated racism. But there are no specific laws against Holocaust denial… | Continue reading
After reading her advice to a pseudonymous reader who is clearly a MENSA member, I can only marvel at the sagacity of the suggestions. | Continue reading
In fact, Oxford has a disproportionately high number of black students, although you wouldn’t know this from the comments made by Lammy and others last week. He quoted the seemingly shocking statis… | Continue reading
A media that taught us to mock authority and culture was unprepared for the day when the audience would mock their authority and their culture. – wretchardthecat | Continue reading
Knives are too sharp and filing them down is solution to soaring violent crime, judge says | Continue reading
At the end of a week in which the House of Commons defeated Labour’s draconian plans to regulate the press, the Tories revealed their own draconian plans to regulate the internet. The culture secre… | Continue reading
Two stories related to freedom of speech are doing the rounds tonight: The BBC reports: YouTuber Alison Chabloz guilty over anti-Semitic songs Chabloz is a nasty and stupid woman, whose delusions w… | Continue reading
The cliche is that it’s personal ambition that propels most politicians. Unfortunately, I think it’s true, at least for the biggest of them. What really drives most of them round the twist is not f… | Continue reading
The paper edition of the Times that hit my doormat this morning had an interesting headline: “Hi-tech kit keeps rhinos safe from poachers”. The online version has an even more interesti… | Continue reading
How did Socialists light their homes before candles? Electricity. – Conscious Caracal | Continue reading
Recently (by which I mean about six weeks ago), I ordered a 3D printer kit to be sent to me from China. It was much cheaper to order it directly from a seller in Shenzhen than via an intermediary l… | Continue reading
Some farm employees kicked pigs and stabbed them with pitchforks. An organisation called Animal Equity who do undercover investigations with the aim of reducing cruelty to farm animals used hidden … | Continue reading
Yes. Dominic Frisby tweets: North Londoners. The next try-out of my Financial Game Show is Tuesday May 22 at @downstairskhead. Entertaining, informative, exciting. What more could you want on a Tue… | Continue reading