“Alex Salmond given part of the Stone of Scone by son of student who stole it”, reports the Telegraph: Alex Salmond was given part of the Stone of Scone, also known as the Stone of Destiny, by the son of one of the students who stole it from Westminster Abbey, newly released Scot … | Continue reading
“I stayed up last night… Not so much to welcome the new year, but to make sure the old one leaves…” – Ben David, in the comments to the previous post. Still, hope springs eternal in the human breast. 2024, here we come. | Continue reading
…real pain for my sham friends. Bring consternation to your enemies by having a splendid and productive New Year. | Continue reading
The awkward moment when you take pride in destroying civilian infrastructure and killing 21 thousand people, 70% of which are women and children pic.twitter.com/0EYA7U9ctQ — Double Down News (@DoubleDownNews) December 30, 2023 This post is reposted from a source I do not trust (D … | Continue reading
To say our elites have a blindspot where anti-Semitism is concerned is a grotesque understatement. Having spent years obsessing over fantasy forms of racism and fascism, having spent years soberly telling us that Boris Johnson was Eton’s answer to Hitler, the great and good look … | Continue reading
We also visited the sense-dulling intersection of sports, wokeness, and science journalism, via the publication laughingly referred to as Scientific American, in which we were told, “The inequity between male and female athletes is a result not of inherent biological differences, … | Continue reading
“Anglis adhuc mundum regit, sed id necessario OK non est. Tempus est vim suam cohibere?”, writes Michele Gazzola in the Guardian. Pro disertis, clara sunt beneficia — aliis, sunt ingentia gratuita. Hic viae sunt nonnullae ad boost iustitiam linguisticam | Continue reading
I’ll start. Javier Milei. Lots of space launches. And? | Continue reading
Taking a Christmas break from my customary snarkiness, I mean this without irony. I would like to make one of those motivational posters with an inspirational quotation or slogan on it. The slogan would express an idea that I actually believe strongly, only I have not yet found t … | Continue reading
Javier Milei gave a speech: Javier Milei just gave a speech announcing massive deregulation of the economy in Argentina. I liked how he opened the speech: condemning the philosophy that led Argentina to the situation it’s in today. Watch the beginning of @JMilei’s speech with Eng … | Continue reading
On the 35th anniversary of the Lockerbie air disaster, First Minister @HumzaYousaf has expressed sympathies to those who lost loved ones on board Pan Am Flight 103 and on the ground. He also paid tribute to emergency workers and others who responded in the immediate aftermath. pi … | Continue reading
My new video!How bad is Antisemitism on campus?Will Leftist college students give me money to kill Jews?!!! pic.twitter.com/32hMNAOpMO — Ami Horowitz (@AmiHorowitz) December 21, 2023 Ami Horowitz @AmiHorowitz My new video! How bad is Antisemitism on campus? Will Leftist college s … | Continue reading
Douglas Young reviews George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle How swell to at last have a major biography of that most aloof of all rock stars, George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle, by respected pop music historian Philip Norman, and how sobering to learn that the reclusive rocker … | Continue reading
Javier Milei, President of Argentina, is a very odd person. He has four dogs. Now, you may think there is nothing particularly odd about that. But these dogs are clones. They are clones of the late Conan, Milei’s first mastiff, who was named after Conan the Destroyer. The clones … | Continue reading
The point here is that if one only has a right so long as it is in accordance with the public interest, then that is tantamount to saying one does not have a right at all, because it is entirely contingent on the authorities’ view of what the public interest entails. If they have … | Continue reading
Make energy expensive so industry moves abroad, then tax the goods coming back in due to their carbon content. You pay twice. – Steve Loftus, illustrating why the Tories should and will burn to ash at the next General Election. | Continue reading
We don’t face a Brexit crisis, a migration crisis, a housing crisis, an NHS crisis, a social care crisis, an energy crisis, a productivity crisis, a deficit crisis or an education crisis — there is one universal and interconnected crisis of British politics and government. – Samu … | Continue reading
I recently read Economics In One Virus, by Ryan Bourne of the CATO Institute in the US, and an excellent account it is. (It was published in 2021.) It is a good overview of how people should think about the economic issues involved in a pandemic. The current farcical “inquiry” in … | Continue reading
The Times reports, A mosque which has been linked to the Iranian state received £372,000 from the Scottish government. Exiled dissidents claim the Al-Mahdi Islamic Centre of Glasgow has become an unauthorised base for the Tehran regime in Scotland. It is a sister outpost of the I … | Continue reading
In a Telegraph article ostensibly about the pro-Hamas protests, Jordan Peterson describes the emerging new system: If you are successful, in any guise, by any standards of comparison whatsoever, then you are a victimiser. If you are not, you are a victim. A rigid moral claim acco … | Continue reading
“Few phrases are as reliable as `my truth’ for identifying seasoned purveyors of cant and doubletalk. Truth isn’t something that can be identified or modified by a possessive pronoun. If my truth is different from your truth and your truth is different from her truth, these aren’ … | Continue reading
Douglas Young asks “Any Sympathy for the Devil?” A review of the documentary The Stones and Brian Jones (2023) With The Stones and Brian Jones, veteran English documentarian Nick Broomfield weaves a captivating collage of revealing film footage and candid interviews to paint a po … | Continue reading
“Never in the history of Britain have politicians so clearly abandoned their own policies and instincts at the behest of the technocrats. This was made plain day after day as the scientists took the airwaves and stood behind podiums, saying nothing different from the politicians … | Continue reading
In 1923 they are dealing with a highly infectious but not particularly deadly disease. It has even made the editorial pages of The Times of 14 December, parts of which I quote below. I have made some redactions to emphasise the parallels with a more recent epidemic but – so help … | Continue reading
JEREMY CORBYN MEETS KNEECAP Last week, @jeremycorbyn sat down with @KNEECAPCEOL for a quick chat about their music and the importance of artists to speaking up for Palestine. #MusicForACeasefire Just lovable Grandpa Jeremy, the one who wanted to see a “kinder, gentler politics”, … | Continue reading
David Burge explains all: Fun facts: (A) calling for genocide against Jews, if not delivered to incite a mob to violence, is 100% Constitutionally protected speech- only in the sense it can't be punished by government. (B) You are not the government, you are a cowardly colleg … | Continue reading
Now, remember. This study — and all the news reports about it — constantly reassures pharma bigwigs and depressed jab-takers that there’s no evidence of adverse effects from the random ‘nonsense proteins,’ the randomized proteins that 25% of their transfected cells are now making … | Continue reading
In a time of war, everybody makes proportionality arguments. But proportionality is a fool’s game, more suited to propaganda than to reasoned judgement. – Michael Walzer Wars are not sporting events. | Continue reading
Jobs are a cost, not a benefit. Having to direct human labour to some task reduces the amount of such human effort that can be devoted to sating some other desire – it’s a cost. So that boast is that dealing with climate change would add 380 million costs to the global economy. Y … | Continue reading
Probably the most important man of the 21st Century, if only for his potential to do good, Argentine President-elect (as I write) Javier Milei sat down with Tucker Carlson for an interview, (excerpt provided) at which he discussed the Pope, the murderous Castros and architecture … | Continue reading
I was relieved to see this article by Gaby Hinsliff in the Guardian: “Whatever your view of the Israel-Hamas war, rape is rape. To trivialise it is to diminish ourselves”. At least some on the Left have not lost their humanity. Midway through the article, Ms Hinsliff wrote the fo … | Continue reading
For any Irish readers asking themselves, “What is a victim impact statement?”, the office of Ireland’s Director of Public Prosecutions has guidance: If you are the victim of a crime you may make a Victim Impact Statement. A Victim Impact Statement is an account in your own words … | Continue reading
“At its core,” Emily writes, “effective accelerationism embraces the idea that social problems can be solved purely with advances in technology, rather than by messy human deliberation.” Your sense that technological progress has increased human abundance, and the city of San Fra … | Continue reading
The Irish government would have us believe that the most destructive riot in Dublin in living memory was not a symptom of failed governance, but the result of an ideological fringe group going on a looting spree. That is a suspiciously convenient narrative for the powers that be, … | Continue reading
Johnathan Pearce writes about the disaster that is modern higher education; the implication that once upon a time it was better – a lot better. So, being the guy who does that YouTube channel can I confirm – or indeed deny – this? The first thing to say – something that for most … | Continue reading
In the face of the endless garbage being churned out in US higher education, and the plight of Jewish students, it is good to know that new structures are taking shape: Most university departments, therefore, are now under the control of professors who are very unlikely to hire s … | Continue reading
The sad thing is that the character of the Doctor used to represent a distinctively British kind of amateur anti-authoritarianism. He took on the might of the Daleks with the equivalent of a screwdriver and a well-worn scarf. Now he surrenders to the pronoun police without so muc … | Continue reading
Douglas Young has views on the remarkable upsurge A lot of folks are shocked and mystified by all the recent open displays of hatred and even violence toward Jews on many elite American university campuses and the streets of major U.S. cities. People are also stunned at the signi … | Continue reading
“End of the line? Harry Potter train waits for ruling on Hogwarts route”, reports the BBC. Steam journeys on the Harry Potter railway line could grind to a halt if a challenge to safety rules fails. West Coast Railways (WCR), which operates the heritage route, challenged demands … | Continue reading
Tommy Robinson. EDL. English Defence League. Racists. Racism. Racist. Case closed, yes? A few years ago at a loose end – in full knowledge that the above was true – I was browsing YouTube and I came across an interview with the man. I pressed play. Almost the first thing he said … | Continue reading
If the philosopher A. C. Grayling ever had ambitions to stand for elected office, this tweet will have killed them stone dead: U of Bath study: "only 40% of people with the lowest cognitive ability voted Remain, while 73% of those with the highest cognitive ability voted Remain…p … | Continue reading
The Soviet Union collapsed when the lies of the ruling class were so obvious they became laughable. The liberal world order – with the ‘religion of peace’, ‘woman with a penis’ ‘effective vaccines’ and ‘17 months to save the planet’ is at the joke stage. – ‘Polish Housewife‘ | Continue reading
The story goes that Frank Lloyd Wright was once summoned to testify in a lawsuit. When he took the witness stand, a lawyer asked what his occupation was. He answered, “I am the world’s greatest architect.” Afterwards, his embarrassed wife told him he should be more modest. “You f … | Continue reading
“Violence in Dublin after five hurt in knife attack” reports the BBC: There are violent scenes in Dublin after an earlier knife attack in the city centre in which five people were injured It is not clear exactly what caused the disturbances – involving clashes, and reports of a n … | Continue reading
The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools. ― Thucydides | Continue reading
What is happening in London cannot be laid solely at the feet of the anti-Israel protest movement. The poison of identitarianism must assume the bulk of the blame for the cultural dismemberment of society. We have a mayor who constantly preaches difference over unity. We have a M … | Continue reading
But we can and should go further than that. We all know there’s a vast amount of investment happening in this going green stuff. Maybe that’s a good idea, maybe not, that’s for another day. But the point of what is being done is to address an externality – those environmental dam … | Continue reading