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Generally these days ‘liberal’ means someone who supports profoundly illiberal positions. But as ‘socialist’ means someone who wants to replace social interactions with politically mediated interactions, it seems they are named after what they want to destroy. – Perry de Havilland March 12th, 2019 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
 The British political firmament as a whole is hardly blessed with a multitude of bold, original thinkers, and such figures certainly aren’t among the fabulous seven, the daring eleven or whatever number of forgettable non-entities currently comprise The Independent Group. All of which is a great pity. As this blog has noted over and over and over and over and over and over again, Britain has entered a period of political discontinuity – a time when the existing political settlement, with its narrow range of policy options, are no longer adequate to the challenges at hand. Such periods of discontinuity require politicians to think the previously unthinkable in terms of policy solutions, not to flee their former political parties in an outrage that people are actually starting to do so. March 11th, 2019 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
We don’t need to rewrite the Constitution. They need to reread the Constitution. For a bit of background, read About Diamond and Silk. March 1st, 2019 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
The problem with this article is it fails to note that becoming a Marxist because you’re young and unhappy is no more laudable than becoming a Nazi for the same reason. – Samizdata Illuminatus February 25th, 2019 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
It is a huge mistake to blame this [anti-Semitism] on Corbyn alone. This did not all appear out of nowhere, Corbyn is just the obvious pustule on a much deeper problem underpinning collectivism – Perry de Havilland February 24th, 2019 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
I have never been a great Trump fan, but I am in awe of how he drives his enemies insane. And I am not speaking figuratively, I mean literally insane, batshit moonbat loonytoons crazy. Trump Derangement Syndrome is to Bush Derangement Syndrome as Pneumonic Plague is to a Common Cold. – Perry de Havilland, as part of an on-line discussion elsewhere about ‘Out‘, a homosexual advocacy publication slamming Trump for pressuring Iran to decriminalise homosexuality. Yes, seriously. February 20th, 2019 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
“Corbyn’s first wife, Jane Chapman, told his biographer Tom Bower that she never knew him read a book in four years of marriage.” February 15th, 2019 | 21 comments - (Comments are closed)
The launch of Turning Point UK felt to me like an important moment. Douglas Murray agrees:
This is also how I now feel about the Brexit vote. The response to that also explains why it needed to happen. February 13th, 2019 | 17 comments - (Comments are closed)
“With journalism’s popularity waning and scandals raging, journalists have never been more interested in the political opinions of `stars.’ While the idea of a reporter caring what they think about matters beyond what it was like to work with some other actor or director, this wading by the make-believe set has begun to impact its bottom lines. `Stars’ are asked to weigh in, to speak out on everything, and fewer and fewer people want to hear it. It’s a business model straight out of a Monty Python skit.” – Derek Hunter, Outrage Inc: How the Liberal Mob Ruined Science, Journalism and Hollywood. Page 209. (As per usual I put in my bleat about how sad it is that the word “liberal” nowadays means something rather different than what it once did.) February 12th, 2019 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
O Lord our God arise Scatter her enemies And make them fall Confound their politics Frustrate their knavish tricks On Thee our hopes we fix God save us all – the little-used second verse of the National Anthem, quoted in a 2015 Independent article entitled “God Save the Queen lyrics: The troubling words of the National Anthem that are being ignored”. To be clear, this is not the verse dating from 1745 containing the line “Rebellious Scots to crush”. That was never official anyway. I just thought the lines about politics and knavish tricks somehow seemed appropriate to our current situation. February 10th, 2019 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
Once you give power to the government it is nearly impossible to get it back, and it will be used in ways you cannot expect. February 2nd, 2019 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
“The problem is not primarily intellectual; it’s moral. It seems that many professional academics have not been taught to develop the basic virtues of emotional self-restraint, justice, charity, and humility. They feel no need to hold in check their feelings of irritation, indignation, hatred – and fear. They recognise no obligation to be scrupulously fair to their opponents. They don’t understand that the most cogent critique is one that charitably construes the opposing case in the strongest possible terms, and only then sets about dismantling it.” February 1st, 2019 | 38 comments - (Comments are closed)
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