How to make yourself look like a prat in one easy lesson
Will Smith has expressed his view that people are essentially good, they just do bad things as a consequence of following the logical train of thought from faulty premises. Even Hitler didn’t wake up...
View ArticleThe face of the enemy
Sometimes it is worth plagiarising yourself. I was asked in a pre-interview chat the other day, about 30 seconds from live TV, “Why is the government doing this? ‘Terrorism’ doesn’t seem to make sense;...
View ArticleEchoes of the Fourth Century
I was talking to a friend this evening who noted that a bank had sent him a letter promoting a loan; confounding the pessimists who think that the days of easy credit are completely dead. He observed...
View ArticleVote green – go blackshirt
Rob Johnston has produced a very interesting essay on the true soulmates of Green Politics in Britain Forbid the purchase of corner shops by migrants Stop people from inner cities moving to the...
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Looking back in anger
It’s been twenty years since my firm belief in a better way of life was vindicated. 17th November was the beginning of the end of an era shaped by collectivism, brutality and industrialised inhumanity....
View ArticleA few thoughts on Climategate.
A few weeks ago, we were having one of many conversations on this blog about the subject of climate change. In the comments, I said the following The climate is clearly changing. There is nothing...
View ArticleIt’s not the economy…
In all the discussion about the Greek exit from the Euro I see a lot about wealth and poverty; about whether more damage would be done to the economies of Greece, Europe and the world by “austerity”...
View ArticlePiketty and the Shoe Event Horizon
In Douglas Adams famous non-fiction series on galactic economic history, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, we are presented with a description of the tragedy of the planet Frogstar B. On Frogstar...
View Article#GamerGate – the canary in the coal mine
Looking back, it’s hard to overstate the cultural significance of GamerGate: it marked when the Post-Modern Left suddenly and unexpectedly lost control of social media, right at the point where the...
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Globalisation is very weird.
The above picture is the most commonplace thing in the world. There is a gift wrapped car in a shopping mall. Obviously, this is a prize in a competition, designed to encourage people to visit the...
View ArticleDestructionism – with a few British examples
The last part of Ludwig Von Mises great work Socialism is entitled “Destructionism” and is not, formally, about socialism at all. In the main body of “Socialism” Ludwig Von Mises proves that it is...
View ArticleThe equal oppression of the laws
“… nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” (14th amendment to the U.S. constitution) Americans, especially right-wing ones, object if laws that protect them...
View ArticleOn the British National Health Service imbalance between lethargic diagnosis...
Yesterday I sent out a mass email to a list of my nearest and dearest, as many of them whose names I could remember, telling them that, just before Christmas, I had been diagnosed with lung cancer, and...
View ArticleCourage in Comedy
Courage is not just a virtue; it is the form of every virtue under test. For a kindness or honesty which is only kind or honest while it is safe is not very virtuous. Pontius Pilate was merciful – till...
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Woke hatred of free speech transitions its proteges into what it forbids you...
The problem is: I was wrong. Or, to be a bit more accurate, I got things partly right. But then, for the rest, I basically just made it up. In my defence, I wasn’t alone. Everyone was (and is) making...
View ArticleThe Americocentric delusion
I am seeing a phenomenon being floridly expressed today, but it is something I have observed for many years: nothing happens in the world, at least nothing good, unless the malign USA is driving it....
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