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
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
It occurs to me that there’s perhaps a bit of guilt on show here. You see those pregnant 11 year olds in Telford got in that state because the local authorities, in fear of being branded racist and… | Continue reading
Nongqawuse was a fifteen year old Xhosa girl who in 1856 had a vision in which three ancestral spirits told her that if the Xhosa people showed their trust by destroying their crops and killing the… | Continue reading
The strangest things remind the BBC of the evils of the west – and fail to remind them of the evils of socialism. If you watch through the BBC’s ‘Why mums-to-be are fleeing Venezu… | Continue reading
What I found particularly annoying is the degree to which certain commentators elevated the importance of Meghan Markle’s race. If the media hadn’t told me, and then not shut up about it for months… | Continue reading
We have heard the Rights of Man called a levelling system; but the only system to which the word levelling is truly applicable, is the hereditary monarchical system. It is a system of mental levell… | Continue reading
I give you Kaitlin Bennett from Ohio, as reported by BBC News: As a woman, I refuse to be a victim & the second amendment ensures that I don’t have to be. .@KentState puts up fliers in do… | Continue reading
I am a radical on Town & Country planning as on other economic issues. I would abolish it. To me it is offensive that the value of a man’s land is stripped from him by laws that deny him … | Continue reading
Is The Electric Vehicle Revolution Real? That is the question that Nico Metten asks, over at Libertarian Home. Metten’s answer, surprise surprise: no. His English could do with a little clean… | Continue reading
As any big city mobster will tell you, shaking down small businesses for protection money is a profitable line of work. The government gets into the same lines as the mob and every branch of govern… | Continue reading
Aunt Agatha seeks to give advice to another troubled public figure in Britain… I wonder who it could be? | Continue reading
Is a fair summary of the antics of a bunch of Cornish bureaucrats in Padstow, (a harbour and tourist attraction on Cornwall’s north coast) supported by the local MP Scott Mann, in a battle ag… | Continue reading
I’m not making up my mind on Gaza until I’ve heard what Gary Lineker and Lily Allen think – Jeremy Briar offers sage words of advice 😜 | Continue reading
Labour is now described as having an antisemitism problem. But those who talk like this are neglecting the fact that for many Corbynites antisemitism accomplishes something very important. It helps… | Continue reading
For [Adam] Smith, the dangers that natural liberty faces are not a result of the system of free markets itself, but of mankind’s flawed human nature, particularly the desire of those he called “mer… | Continue reading
Earlier today the Press Gazette reported, Guardian distances itself from ‘anti-press’ Data Protection Bill amendments which would exclude title from paying punitive legal costs Peers’ S… | Continue reading
I saw a fascinating letter in the Continental Telegraph to Agatha Antigone asking for advice. There is something about it that makes me strongly suspect I know who the man of wealth and taste seeki… | Continue reading
No, no, not eating Irish children, this is 2018 (not that I have anything against grass-fed Irish children), but rather a modest proposal to ensure national unity: As the Guardian says, we really s… | Continue reading
I found this interesting, just a mere twitter exchange relating to the Day of Freedom rally that you will never see the BBC say much (or indeed anything I suspect) about. I am increasingly willing … | Continue reading
I wanted to support the Daniel Hannan classical liberal faction within the Party as it (I hoped) took control. I have been disappointed so far. The nature of the beast is still just as I remembered… | Continue reading
Political and economic theories are never implemented in pure form, and their adherents are rarely impressed by politicians who claim to be inspired by them. That’s just par for the course. Marxist… | Continue reading
If we’ve got to apply the full nelson to get the governmental apparatus to do something obviously both morally and pragmatically correct then why in buggery would we give them more power over our l… | Continue reading
This universe has finite resources, finite. If life is left unchecked, life will cease to exist. It needs correcting. Avengers: Infinity War spoilers below. | Continue reading
Writing in CapX, Chris Deerin argues that opposition to ID cards is out of date. He seems to agree that they may solve problems including terrorism and mis-treatment of immigrants. He suggests that… | Continue reading
Whatever your views on free market principles, it is clearly dishonest to imply that those who support tax cuts, lower government spending and greater economic freedom do so in the belief that some… | Continue reading
I like this, about Jordan Peterson, in Esquire, by Wesley (good name, considering his subject) Yang: Many of Peterson’s seemingly grandiose pronouncements are, in fact, quite modest. He is often de… | Continue reading
Obviously he did on his last day, as the wolves killed him. But earlier, when he enjoyed making the villagers run at his command, did the boy who cried wolf believe in wolves? Did he tell himself t… | Continue reading
Have a great or at least an interesting Beltane, or if you prefer, have a suitably reflective Gulag Remembrance Day | Continue reading
There has been, as we know, much fuss over how Russian Twitter ‘bots backed both Brexit and Donald Trump. This is an interference with our democracy which just cannot be lived with, something must … | Continue reading
“GP accused of paedophilia by ‘fantasist’ loses fight for costs” reports the Times. A retired GP accused by a “serial fantastist” of being part of a paedophile ring was told yesterday h… | Continue reading
However, you can be sure the global elites, the media, and Trump’s ideological enemies at home and abroad will do everything in their power to downplay, ignore, or misrepresent Trump’s role in what… | Continue reading
You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The governm… | Continue reading
This video appeared in the Illuminatus’ Facebook feed recently: In it, participants line up for a running race but before they start a man lists a number of life advantages (such as having a … | Continue reading
“Armed gang pick on the wrong gran as she fires CROSSBOW at masked men who kicked down her door”, reports the Daily Mirror. A woman has told how she shot at a machete-wielding intruder … | Continue reading
And if you like the idea that a comedian convicted a making a joke in bad taste and fined £800 by a Scottish court could end up making a tidy profit, you might want to drop your mouse on this link … | Continue reading